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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
JOHN ' YZER MORGAN

publican side, reinforced by Hoar the very day Morgan reinforced the democracy that was led by Thurman, supported by Beck Garland, Lamar, Ben Hill, Whyte and Dustis. Sherman went into the cabi- net the day Morgan came Into the Sem ate.
 his debut was the spllntering of lance against the shield of Roscoe Conkling. On Morgan's motion to refer a certain mat ter to a committee, Conkling, with his air of superlative superiority asserted that 1t was an "extremely novel propo- sition," to which the Alabamian, with that calm repose that marks the cast of We're de We're" dryly retorted, Every thing is novel here except the lazy of the land" While Conklng extorted admira- ton from every senator he had but two friends in the body-Harnibal Hamlin and W. w. Eaton, the latter a democrat and from that day Morgan was one of the most popular men on either side.
 Nobody but a senator who served with him, and capable of estimating his mental and moral qualities, knows what great man Morgan was. The labor he accom- plished was simply stupendous. It was impossible for that mind to be idle in his waking moments, and It was just as im- possible for 1t dwell on frivolity. His writings and speeches would fill many large volumes, and they will be a lamp to illumine tho page of American history if its story is ever told by as Hume or a Macnulay. Inferior to Jefferson Davis as a dialectician, he was his equal In ex- pression, and not below him as an Amer ican senator. Some thought him too vol luminous of speech, but the same was al- legged against Thurman. and both were as luminous as they were fluent Some of tho finest epigrams in congressional de- bate are to be found in the speeches Of John T. Morgan. He had imagination, too-that torch-bearer of eloquence-and he could make reason not only red hot, but brilliant.
 It was Ben Hill who spoke for the south in the sectional debates subsequent to 1877, but Morgan also bore a hand, as did
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is too difficult for him to attempt The
 nation that produced tho heroes who at tackled Port Arthur, and who swept all
 before them at Mukden and at Lioayang, has proved its manhood. If the Japanese generalship did not, in the past, prove equal to the magnifcence of the troops,
 every effort will in the future be made to do better next time.
 Japan, plantd by nature In position where attack on her home territories IS . almost impossible, is preparing 10 launch her legions at any time against any foe. She is standing for the independence of Asia. and even the alliance between our
 nations has not wholly stopped the agita- tion now going on In India, creating dis content and a longing for independence there.
 Japan is small In numbers; her neighbor, China. Is the most populous land on the
 earth One out of every four or the hu-
 man race is a Chinaman, with surplus of enough sons of Cathay to repopulate the British Islands. Forced Into line
 by the example of Japan, China Is begin
 ming to emulate the military example or her little neighbor.
 The Chinaman Is not naturally keen
 soldier. The Japanese loves fighting for its own sake and possesses upquencnaple
 spirit absolute fearlessness and great am bition. The Chinaman, on the other hand, is more a commercial man than fighter, Yet the Chinese have shown, time after time. that they present the material for the finest private soldiers in the world. Every one remembers Lord Wolseley's forecast and brilliant eulogy on the possi- bilities of the Chinaman as a warrior The man of the north, the Shantpng Chinese. who now covers the powerful provinces around the Yellow sea, Is. a
 being of great stature, magnificent phy-
 sioue and supreme powers of endurance
 He has no nerves,<he lives so simply that
 rice Is a luxury to him, and his staple
 diet is millet the seed, that. at first glance. seems only fit for canary birds to
 eat. Today China Is attempting with con-
 siderable success to make these men into
 soldiers. The Japanese are constantly
 endavoring to obtain control of this new army.
 Last autumn I had the opportunity of examining, at first hand, the performances
 of the northern Chinese soldiery. I wis. tied Paotingfu, the capital of Chili, and the leading military station in the coun- try.
 The Chinese government very kindly afforded me every facility, and l saw
 the field operations of the troops, their method of training and their barracks life fin the greatest detail. I went to Pao- tingfu expecting much, for l had heard much of the transformation made in the
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pagne, flows like water. The smoke from a thousand cigars fills the dining room v-th the fragrance of incense: the clat- tering of cutlery and plates, the clink- ing of glasses, the hissing of syphons and popping of corks only serve to add variety to the babel of talk going on. Suddenly someone shouts "drawl" and at once the cry becomes general "Drawi Drawp' The chairman begins to rap his gavel and calls for order after which he proceeds to state the rules of the draw" While the chairman is making these remarks the walters are passing around ruled cards on which to write the names of the dogs ae drawn, and opposite each name is space to record bets. Pencils are attached to each card and together they fo-A very pretty souvenir of the oc- casion.
 There are GA entries for the Waterloo cup which means that there are 32 pairs. The draw consists in pairing the dogs and for this purpose two boxes are provided, Into each of which 32 cards are thrown, each card having the name of dog. Two drawers are appointed, one for each box, and simultaneously they draw a card from each box and present them to the chair
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YS there a Yellow Peril? Are the vel
 low man and the brown man, the \ Mongol and the Mongol-Malay, on the eve of a time when they will seriously compete with the west for the supremacy of the worldf
 Three years ago the publicist who limited at such a fear was regarded as a monomaniac. This is no longer so. To- day a wave of apprehension is passing over the world.
 Australia Is planning navy of her own, because her people realize that they are at the mercy of Japan; California Is standing stubbornly out against the CO., erclon of the American federal govern ment, and is resolved to drive the Jap anese out from her midst; the Chinese merchants, incensed by what they con- sider the unjust treatment of the Amer icans, have used the weapon of commer- cial boycott with terrible efficacy against them; America is augmentng her Pacific fleet: Formosa has been largely closed to white traders; Corea Is steadily closing, and Japanese goods enter Manchuria under favorable -circubstances that the white mercndnt cannot secure
 The command of the Pacific is passing {, to Japan, and Japan's commercial navies are waging open war with our own on various routes. China has raised the cry of China for the Chinese" and interprets 1t as meaning no more concessions for the Europeans or American.
 While the birth rate in almost every white nation Is rapidly declining, the birth and age rates are rising to an amazing degree among the Japanese and Chinese.
 The Mongols for long had their popula- ton kept down by epidemics, by ignorance and by superstition. The old type of Chi nese doctor learned his profession by walking the hills and studying the stars. He knew nothing of anatomy or physi- plogy.
 His remedies were disgusting and fan tastic mixtures, and he relied mainly for his cures on two counter-irritants--a black plaster and the making of wounds by punctures He knew nothing of asepsis or of internal surgery. He was powerless before an epidemic or before serious jll- ness The same was true at a earlier date in Japan
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NEENVERYBoDY believes in evolu-
 F tion,'' is a statement which has
 A publicly, recently and repeated 1y been made here in Birmingham, by word of mouth and in print, and in each ca,o the connection showed that the Oar w..ian evolution was intended. That the statement was the heighth of extrava- gance could hardly fail to strike tho minds of those hearers and readers who were acquainted with the origin and the history of what is called the Darwinian hypothesis.
 Let us first take a brief glance at Dar- win himself, for the personality of the ] Il Is highly interesting and instructive, especially if we view 1t in connection wlrh the work which he did.
 Charles Robert Darwin was born at Shrewsbury, February 12, 1909. His early school training he got at the Shrewsbury Grammar school. When about sixteen years of age he was entered as a stu dent at the University of Edinburg, where he spent two years, and then entered Christ's college, Cambridge where ne graduated in 1881.
 At the age of % he volunteered as nat ur.@lisc to accompany Captain Fftzroy of the Beagle in an exploring expedition around the world. The Beagle left Eng Iell4l in 1881, and returned in 1S36 During this long voyage MT. Darwin busied him. sell with matters of natural history, and
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A ND the King said unto his servants,
 A Know ye not that there Is a prince \ and great man fallen this day in i1sreal?
 The centuries that separated the lives of the Brutus who slew Caesar did not witness more changes in Rome than John T. Morgan saw in America between his first day at the bar in 1915, and his last da. in the Senate In 1907. He was of the old south that Is history and romance, honor and glory. There Is all the differ ence between the old south and the new that there is between fame and notoriety, between John T. Morgan and John T. Graves.
 Not a great while before his death ,John c. Calhoun, the profoundest thinker, the most eminent statesman, and the greatest man the cotton south has pro- duced, went on a tour of the then south west. His journey extended to the Ms sissippi river and he was at Memphis and New Orleans; He tarried some days fin Alabama, where Dixon H. Lewis had long contended for, and William R. King had just as long striven against, the doo- trines of the illustrtous South Carolinian, and in Alabama he found William l.. Yancey, who had opposed nuilihoation in South Carolina in 1880 and John T. Nor gan, then in his youth. the flower of which gave promise of the rich and gol- den fruit of his mature manhood. It was the period of the Wilmot proviso that specifically asserted that tho south had not equal rights with the north in the protection of the constitution of the United States and the laws made in per suance thereof. Calhoun conferred with both Yancey and Morgan and they fell fin with his views touching the position the south should occupy in the then politi- cal crisis. Secession would have come then but for the compromise Henry Clay patched up in 1850.
 When secession did come Yancey and Morgan both Loyalty and grimly SUD- ported 1t. Morgan, though public man,
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heard him howllng about government by the people," He was too faithful to the constitution, which is government by the representatives of the people. That is the stuff. Our ancestors in England invented 1t; our fathers in America improved on it. It is in all the state constitutions that are over thirty years old. It is the soul of that system of government we call republic. It is the only free government In the world.N The one meaner govern ment than the Persian despotism Of Darius and Xerxes was the pure democ- racy of Athens. Midway between the two is representative government. And where Is the candid man to say that we have not been reasonably sue oessful under representative government? Why not bear the blessings we have a little longer rather than fly to fads we know not of? It is a very good constitu- ton and a very good government. We might go further and fare worse. Indeed we might.
 John T. Morgan came to the bar in 1S45, when twenty-one years of age. It was a powerful intellect with which he was en- dowed and 1t was a grand character that he made. Like all Southern gentlemen of that age Morgan devoted much study to government. He was deeply read in history, and he was a laborious and pro found thinker. He was on the stump in every campaign and leader of that peo- pie, as splendid a citizenship as the world ever saw. When the inevitable struggle came he went with his state, entered the army a private, and by his valor earned the rank of general of brigade. When de- feat overwhelmed the south it left him bankrupt in everything but manhood and character.
 He returned to his profession and again took his place as a leader of his people. The fatuous fanatics of the north thought they had made John T. Morgan, the high est type of Saxon, the subject of Jerry Haralson, cotton-field negro. The Saxon was disfranchised; the negro was sent to Congress. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes was the sagest statesmanship and holiest piety in comparison. The
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man. The card drawn from the box on the right hand of the chairman is read first, and that dog will wear the white col lar, while the dog whose name is drawn from the left hand box will wear the red collar In the naming of greyhounds it is customary to use two words. each of two syllables and even aliiteration IS favored.
 The immense dining hall, that a moment ago was a perfect din of noise and ex- citement. is now as silent as a church. The right hand drawer hands a card. Lord Ariingtons 'Saucy Beauty "-buzz, hush "against-the card from the left hand box is presented-against Earl Cliff tons Rushing River" The words are no sooner uttered by the chairman than fifty men spring to their feet and at the top of their voices begin to lay the odds. "Six to four Saucy Beauty; I'll lay six to four Saucy Beauty; sixty to forty Saucy Beauty" Take seventy to forty Saucy Beauty; I'll take seventy to forty 'Sauoy Beauty " Thus the battle wages between the packers and the layers until a point is reached at which bets are made, and then quick pencillng follows. Allowing
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burning of witches, the hanging of Quak- CTS. and the banishhent of Baptists was profounder virtuous policy It would be as easy to subject the winds to mans will, as to bend the southern white to the southern negro, Morgan knew that and lent his powerful aid to restore civil liberty to the Saxon of the south.
 He succeeded. The scepter returned to the house out of which 1t had departed in the smoke of ruin and the blood of battle Morgan was captain in that con flict of peaceful revolution and the entire south had not a stouter, or nobler and carpet-bagging, scallawagglng, and all their concomitant knavarious fell before the stern resolve of people born to rule:
 In our halls Is hung Armory of the invincble knights of old. We must be free or die who speak the
 tongue
 That Shakespeare spakoi the taith ana
 and morals hold
 Which Milton held. In everything we are
 sprung Of Earth's best blood.
 It was the design and the hope of Stew ems and Butler, of Wade and Chandler, of Morton and Logan to turn the south into a Hayti and hold 1t as an asset Of the party of Great Moral Ideas. They well might have adopted the motto em- blazoned on the vandal banner of Albert of Hapsburg: T am the friend of God and the enemy of man."
 Morgan was 5S years old when Ala bama gave him the station for which God made him. No man of our history, who reached first place in American statesmanship, was so late taking his place in the national councils Only three other men received so many commis- sons to serve in the body Morgan helped to make so illustrious-he was six times chosen a senator Sherman, Morrill,, and Allison were the others. There were giants in the senate when Morgan entered it. Motion, Edmunds, Conkling, Ingalls,, Blaine and Allison were there on the re-
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President Roosevelt, for one recognizes this; and when, not long since, friend of my own from Australia was at the White House, the President urged on him with all his force that the great problem before Australia is the peopling with white men of It's northern territories.
 Japan or China could either of them absorb Northern Australia. They are not going forever to endure meekly being kept out Many Australians recognize this, and the coming Australian navy is one result of such recognition. What Is true of Northern Australia is equally true of Hawaii and the Philippines.
 Next to the expansion of race comes the growth of arms Japan Is straining her resources to increase her navy and army. Last Autumn the Dreadnought was launched, the finest battleship in the world and the wonder of all lands. A few weeks afterwards Japan launched the Satsuma, 'greater than the Dread nought. comparison of the two ves- sells Is of iterest.
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Today Japan has far and away the strongest fleet on the Pacific, and her sail ors are second to none in the world. A new 22000 ton warshp Is now in course of construction. The Japanese army has been working unceasingly since the close of the war to remove the weaknesses that were revealed then.
 The cavalry, Japan's poorest arm, Is being transformed, and the artillery is being re-equipped. Four new divisions are being added to the army this year, and the introduction of a two years service will before long add 50 per cent to the strength of the infantry reserves.
 Great as the additions have been dur ing the past few months, they are not sufficient to satisfy the strong military paDy in the Mikados dominions.
 There is no need to speak of the splen- did courage of the Japanese soldiers. He has revealed himself as one of the finest infantrymen on earth. He will endure any hardships with smile. and nothing
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A ND the King said unto his servants, A Know ye not that there Is & prince 4 and a great man fallen this day in
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-11-22
RIO JANEIRO's FINE WOMEN.


Beautiful and Attractive, They Are
100000 Fewer than the Men.
"Some of the finest women that grow
on this earth are to be found in Rio
Janeiro," remarked Antonio Il. Seabra,
a merchant of that city, to Washing
ton Post man. Senior Seabra is veal
thy and spends much of his time be-
tween his home city and Paris. He is
now here with A. NJ. Campos to study
conditions in the United States.
1.-The women in Rio are both beauti-
full and vivacious," he continued. '"They
are decidedly attractive IL every way,
and the fact that there are about 2OO,-
600 fewer of them thar men in total
population of more than a million
makes them all the more sought after.
When there is so much competition
among the men to win the woman the
men strive harder for success and seek
to make themselves more attractive.
While our women are as yiyacious as
the Spanish women, their manner is
more gentle They have the wit OF the
French women, and are at the same
time more constant. Family life among
us is very delightful.
THE disproportion between the sexes
is so great that I think it would be
good thing to import, say, 1OO,oOo Wom-
on from Boston, where there are many
more women than men, ana Wnere,
therefore, there are many old maids.
Our soft salubrious climate might
serve TO remind the intellectual daugh-
ters of Boston that they have hearts
as we'll as minds.
II know of no place outside Europe
where life is so enjoyable as in Rio
de Janeiro. 1t is more like Paris than
any other place | kiow. Many theaters,
which give the finest operate produc
t;ons cafes and other places of amuse-
ment are to be found on every hand.
Our ideas of success are quite dlfterent
than in the United States where man
throws his life away in order TO amass
a few more millions.
an Brazil when a man has mace
fortune of perhaps half million DOL
lars no laws aside the cares % business,
resigns the chief place to the man next
to him in authority, and gives up the
remainder of his days to culture ana
60. oniovmant You Americans
vould do well to cultivate a little more
of that spirit.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-11-22

"On my last visit to Washington I
called on President Lincoln at the
White House." said Alexander Mac
donald of Dumfries, Scotland, to a
Washington Post man. II was then a
young man, reporter on New York
newspaper, and I had been sent by my
managing editor to join the army Of the
I went to the officer commanding the
troops stationed here and asked for 8
pass to cross the river. The officer to
whom I applied sent me to another one
and the latter to some one else, until
finally I got tired of tramping around.
with another newspaper man l
strolled up Pennsylvania avenue and
sat down in the park opposite the
White House. Then the thought occur
red to me, why not ask the President
for a pass?' 1 spoke my thought to my
companion, who laughed at me, saying
that would be put out of the executive
mansion if I went there. Nevertheless,
l was determined to try, and, being Of
nerve, walked over to the door Of the
Presidents house.
Il was closely scrutinized by the
doorkeeper when | assembled the steps
and when I communicated my desire
was told that President Lincoln could
not be seen. Not discouraged, I asked
permission to go through the White
House, which request was granted;
that is, I was told l could go through
certain rooms. I went into the east
room, and as entered | saw approach
ing from the other end a woman who
seemed familiar with the place. With
an indiscretion, you might call it, born
Of inexperience, asked the lady some
questions about the White House and
was answered civilly enough. Then I
asked if 1t were possible to see Mr..
Lincoln. The lady asked me my mission
and I told her. She asked me to wait
a moment and disappeared. Presently
she returned and told me that the Pres
ident would see me- I was shown into
the Presidents private office and there
I saw a man who appeared to me to
be the most awkward and ungainly per-
son had ever seen, but when he arose
and extended his hand / saw one of
the most kindly faces it had ever been
my privilege to behold.
Before I left I thought him the
handsomest man l ever saw. Mr.. Lin
coin chatted for a few moments and
then wrote me out a pass. The lady
who had carried my request to the
President was Mrs. Lincoln. When l
left the White House and went back
to my newspaper friend, who was wait
ing IN the park opposite, he would not
believe that had been successful until
showed him my pass written in Lin
coins own handwriting"