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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-28

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yass doesn't seem 10 be the WVr,
thing for candidate the size
Taft Baltimore Sun,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22
PASSENGERS RIGHTS

IN HE Illinois supreme court holds
that passengers of a public
II carrier are entitled to courteous
treatment and it is the duty of the
company to see that it's employees give
this sort of treatment to passengers -
A Mrs. Mahoney obtained a verdict
of $3.50 damages against a Chicago
street railway company because con-
ductor rudely elected her from car,
although she had paid her fare on
another car. She had a transfer, but
in the jam of humanity on the car
upon which her slip of paper entitled
her to ride it was brushed from her
hand. Notwithstanding the fact that
several other passengers told the con-
ductor she had transfer ticket when
she boarded the car she was forced TO
get off, after being called liar and
few other things in the same class.
Los Angeles probably has few If any
conductors of the stripe of this Chicago
rowdy. The local street railways. for
tunately for our inhabitants. exercise
care in the selection of men for these
positions. and the result Is that in no
other city in America Is the personnel
of electric car crews so admirable as
here. Once in q while some conductor
usually green hand-fnds himself
in q crouch or swells like toad with
the Importance of the authority vested
in him, but these instances are rare
and complaints at headquarters usu-
ally result in relieving the offender Of
his job. Nevertheless it will be safe
for conductors and passengers gener-
ally throughout the country to make
a note of the Illinois case One can
never tell when California court may
decide likewise.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22
LEST WE FORGET

WY HILE our minds are on the
wv economic ills from which we
w are now recovering let none of
us lose sight of the important fact
that the Dingley protective" tariff
is in large measure directly respon-
sible for them.
Let us bear in mind that since this
absurd and iniquitous law went into
effect the cost of nearly every COM
modify manufactured in this country
has been increased here and corre-
spondingly reduced for the benefit OF
the inhabitants Of numerous foreign
countries.
Let US not forget that as the OUT
come of the exorbitant and therefore
wicked provisions of this law that
protects monopoly those already made
rich from the fruits of monopoly have
grown richer, to accomplish which the
resources of the unprotected and less
fortunate Americans have been drained.
Let us not forget that practically
every wage Garner, every head Of u
family who is dependent upon his
daily physical or clerical labor for the
support of those he holds most dear,
has not only not participated proDor-
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22
AND JUST MILK

~ UPERLATIVE dairy farming in
New York state threatens to
~ wane. In the case of wealthy
dairy enthusiast at White Plains, a
short distance north of New York city,
cement COW sheds, dustless and daily
scrubbed, COWS of high degree immac-
ulately groomed, mixers pre-bathed
and clothed for their duties in white
duck, milking cans and appurtenances
of germ-proof device, pasteurization of
the product and all other features of
the work so scientifically undertaken
have combined to make the cost of
production somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of $40 per gallon. though the
highest price this philanthropist could
get for his milk was 60 cents per gal
lon. These are the figures given in an
eastern paper, but they may be an
exaggeration.
Maybe the scientific milkman's side
of the story is worth listening to,
after all.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22
EPEBATXWG RAILROADS
PROFIT BY THE DELAN Y

/, meanors must have been committed in
October. 1906. and in the first half of
November 1906 All those crimes have
become outlawed since the confessions
were made Every days delay in filing
indictments grasses more of the crimes
confessed. BY the end of November the
saving operation of the statute will have
barred the prosecution of one-sixth of
the offenses.
attorney General Webb has stated
that the cases require careful considera-
ton. as apparently there are no statutes
outlining the mode of procedure. There
are, however, no obvious difficulties. The
law defines the crime and prescribes the
penalty and the guilty persons have con-
fessed; why not draw up indictments and
submit them to the grand jury, or lodge
an information, as is done in the case
of all other crimes? The statute defin-
ing burglary does not outline a mode of
procedure, but the state, for all that,
manages to convict burglars.
"Rebating is a very serious crime, al
though clasJed as a misder eanor, for 1t
strikes at the commercial prosperity of
innumerable citizens Rebates to favored
shippers drive unfavored competitors out
of business and thereby tend to place all
the business and all the wealth in the
hands of few. 1t Is expedent, there
fore, in the public interest, that rebaters
should be punished severely. If Amer
lean merchants and manufacturers are
to retain commercial freedom, if the
small competitor is not to be swallowed
by a gigantic rival rebating must be
stopped. But how shall it be stopped If
nothing be done to enforce the penal laws
against rebaterS?'
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22
JAPANESE REBATING

A MEXICAN railway operators have
n furnished to the Japanese an
IA object lesson which is being ap-
in the orient. The United States con-
sui at Dalny. Manchurla, reports that
the South Manchuria Railway company
has decided to give rebates to heavy
shippers over its lines, ranging In
value from to per cent. From
Yokohama comes the announcement
that these rebate rates appear to be
designed primarily for the benefit of
Japanese shippers. Consul General
Miller, stationed in the Japanese city
mentioned, says:
'I understand that all of the Japan
ese cotton goods shipped into Man
churia are handled by the Mitsui Bus
san Kaisha exclusively. This COM
pany. therefore, handling largely Jap
anese products, will secure the benefits
of the per cent rebate on freights,
while the smaller shippers, handling
American cotton goods in smaller and
separate lots, will be handicapped by
this regulation. The effect of the reg
ulation will most likely be to concen-
trate the business of Manchuria along
the line of the South Manchuria rail-
way in the hands of large Japanese
merchants
In this manner the government of
the mikado appears to have taken an
other step in the struggle to attain
commercial supremacy over the orient
or at least to discount the operations
of it's American rival for trade in that
quarter. Though the newly adopted
rebate schedule probably will result in
a reduction of the margin of profit
which will accrue to American traders,
so numerous are our advantages as
manufacturers and producers that the
damage to be inflicted upon us will
not be very serious.
There is nothing in the constitution
of Japan (for it has no constitution)
forbidding the granting Of rebates, it
may be remarked in passing, and these
are not secret rebates, anyway,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22
GO HAND IN HAND

nj EXT to honesty probably the most
~ important constituent essential
4 to the makeup of a public serv-
ant, if he is properly to serve the
people, is courage. He who, with the
courage of his convictions and relying
upon the final judgment Of his fellow
men, stimulates reforms amid chaos
of political corruption and private
greed is not stumbling blindly into
oblivion, as some might suppose, but
is in reality far-sighted enough to per-
ceive that the vanguards of the enemy
with all their brazenness and effrontery
conceal many weak places that are
sure to manifest themselves upon the
first courageous and fearless onslaught.
We need more men of this stamp in
public office-men of that old Spartan
type who, in the face of corruption,
with a manly heart will press forward
in their struggle for the mastery over
wrong, and say: mot how many are
the enemy, but where are they?"
We have seen some striking exam
pies of this type of public men of late.
They almost uniformly have been VIC
torious, and their names will go down
in history with as high an attribute
as the historian can give them. The
opposition that confronts them is easy
of analysis to one who has long studied
it's character 1t consists of clustering,
inspired by an exalted sense Of the
personal Importance of the individual,
who at heart is q cringing coward who
appeals for mercy and deserts his
fellow towards at the first intimation
of really determined effort at prose-
cution.
With a glorious opportunity before
them and their duties plainly marked
out by the law it is strange indeed
that some public men prefer to forego
the honor and distinction which !iisht
be theirs and to accept in its place
what eventually must be but the su-
preme contempt of their constituents
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22
BORROWED ROBES

There's Bnks, he is wearing the mantle o.
Scott
His publishers so advertise.
l really can't say if it's truthful or not,
1 haven't had time to get wise
1 fancy, however, it isn't quite so,
Tho Binksy is walking on stills,
For Scott never sported a mantle, altho'
He frequently went out in kits.
There's others who're wearing the LEFTOVER
duds
OF Byron and Shelley and Lamb.
1 dare say there's some one who's wearing
the studs
OF old Mr.. Omar Khayyam.
The collar OF Dickens IS fellows lot;
Anothers the rubbers of Poe;
And G.. Harding Wiggles is said to have go
The put-hat of Daniel Defoe.
For me care not for illustrious gowns,
l want no one's mantle In mine.
A secondhand garment will fill me will
frowns-
Such offers I'll ever decline
And If 1t so happens I take to the pen,
Like certain mechanics I've known,
/ hope at the last, when L come to 'say
when.'
They'll find that my clothes were my own
John Kendrick Bangs in Harper's.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22

tionately in the prosperity of monopoly
but in many cases has actually suf-
fered.
Let us not forget that without this
tariff which protects industrial mo-
nopoly the recent wild gambling oper-
ations, based upon the imitation OF
securities made possible by "protec-
tion," would not have occurred.
We shah suffer. more or less, from
the evils of gambling of this sort, but
through no conceivable combination of
circumstances could such savage stock
speculations have been rendered easy
and prospectively profitable in huge
degree were it not for the "protec-
tive" tariff which has permitted men
to give one dollar an ephemeral value
of ten.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22
REMARKS TO MY GREAT DANE

BY rules of fitness and of tense
By all canine precedents
o Adult Dog, the time is up
When l may fondly call you Pup.
The years have sped since first you stood
in straddle-legged puppyhood-
4 watch pup proud of your renown
Who barked so hard you tumbled down.
In Ages gain and Youths retreat
You've found more team work for your feet,
You drool a soupcon less-and bark!
There's fuller meaning to your bark.
But answer fairly, whilom pup,
Are these full proof of growing up?
I heard an elephantine tread
That jar1e ed the rafters overhead
Who leaped IN mad abandon there
And tossed my slippers in the air?
WHO, sitting gravely on the rug, -
Espied a microscopic bug.
And stalked 1t, gaining bit by bit
Then leaped in air and fell on it?
Who gal!ops madly down the breeze,
Pursuing specks that no one sees,
Then finds somt ancient boot instead
And worries 1t till 1t is dead?
! have ne adult friends who choose
To gnaw the shoestrngs from my shoes
Or eat up twine and paper scraps
And bark while they are taking maps.
Dog, you offer every proof
That stately age yet holds aloof.
Grow up? There's meaning in the phrase
OF dignity as well as days.
Oh, why such size, beloved pup?
You've grown enough, but not grown UP.
-Burges Johnson, In Harpers.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22

TTJHE San Francisco Bulletin, in discuss
ing the point raised by The Herald,
n that the statute of Limitation is re-
lieving the Southern Pacific day by Gay,
from responsibility for crimes committed
in the past, because the railroad COM
mission and Attorney General Webb are
delaying the Institution of proceedings
against the railroad for those crimes TO
which it has confessed, says:
"The attention of Attorney General
Webb is directed respectfully to the fact
that the statute of limitations is running
against the rebating offenses to which
the Southern Pacific, by its officers, con-
fessed on October 3 at hearing before
Franklin X. Lane of the interstate COM
merce commission.
Under the state law, rebating is only
mlsdemeanor, and the penal code pro-
vides that an indictment for any mis-
demeanor must be found or an informa-
ton filed within one year after its COM
misjon
Attorney General Webb and the state
railroad commission have expressed an
intention to prosecute the rebaters, but
time is moving ano nothing has been
done. The one year period of the statute
runs not from October 8, when the con-
fession was made, but from the com
mission of the misdemeanor On the 3rd
of October the Attorney General might
have prosecuted the Southern Pacific for
all the rebating offenses committed
within the year terminating on that date.
AS the relating offenses ran back for
years and were committed in the daily
course of business, some of the misde-
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22
FUNNYGRAPHs

The real estate firm of Solomon & o. Sullivan
| had lots for sale in new suburban addition
! 'Sullvan-young, enthusiastic and Irish--wa:
writing the advertisement the national elo
quence flowing from his pen. He urged i'm.
| pending purchasers to seize the passing mo-
ment
Napoleon not only met opportunity; he ere.
ated it,
Mr. Solomon read this line in the advertise
ment slowly and carefully "This fellow Ma
poleon," he said what's the use of advertis-
ing him with our money?"-Lippincotts
What are you crying for, little boy?"
''Bo-hoo Pa fell down stairs!"
Don't take on SO, my pet. He'll get better
soon"
cts not that My sister saw him fall all
The way! 1 never saw muffin F-London An
swers.
II saw note in the paper today announcing
an elephant for sale at a great bargain-only
$4,000 I'd like to have enough money to buy
him.
''Nonsensel What on earth do you want
IT Il don't m merely mean I'd like to havs
hat much money -Phiiadelphia Press
Judge. will you do me a great fav6rs"
asked the lady WHO was about to be put upon
the stand as witness.
Certainly, miss; what Is It
''Will you please ask mo my age before
take the oath."-Sonkers Statesman.
50
Wears Wife-No. The vicar Is not in just
now Is there any message you would like
me to give him when he returnsF
Old Woman (cheerfully)-Please mum. Mar
tha Higgins would like to be buried at ?
o'clock tomorrow afternoon,-London Punch.
'How's your wife?'
.'she's having constant trouble with her
head"
Cant The doctor help herr"
''No-noBody but the mllliner '-London An
swers.
IF l lent you money how do ! know that
shall ever see II again ?"
rs the word Of an honest man not worth
anythng2'
Certainly him along. "-Illesende
Blattar-
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22
A SONG OF THANKSGIVING

I'm thankful that the years are long
However lont they be.
They still are laborers glad and strong
That ever work for me.
This rose l cut with careless shears
And wear anG cast away
Inc cosmos Wrought "a million years
To make 1t mine a day.
This lily by tile pasture bars
Beneath the walnut tree,
Long are the firse mist formed in stars,
Was On its way to me.
The laws of property are lax
My neighbol's s. farm is fine:
I'm thankful, though he pays the tax,
The best OF II is mine.
No sheriffs clutch can loose my grip
On fields have not sown
Or shake my sense of ownership
In things / do not own.
I'm thankful for my neighbors wood.
His orchard lake and lea;
For, while m. eyes continue good
own all I can see.
I'm thenkful for this mighty age,
These days beyond compare,
When hope Is such heritage
And life large affair,
We thank the gods for low and high,
Right, wrong (as well we may),
For all the wrong of days gone by
Works goodness for today.
Here ON Times tableland we pause
To thank or bended knee,
To thank the gods for all that was,
And is, and 10 to be
I'm thankful for the glow and grace
And winsonle beauty of the Near
The greatness OF the Commonplace,
The glory of the Here.
I'm thankful for mans high emprise,
His stalwarc sturdiness of soul,
The long look of his skyward eyes
That sights d far-off goal.
And so feel tu thank and bless
Both things unknown and understood
And thank the stubborn thankfulness
That maketh all things good.
Sam Waltel Foss in Success Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22
DAppYrs POCKETS

Plums from the wonderful sugar plum tree,
Apples and candies and things;
Daddy brings home In his pockets for me,
Ships that can sail a make-beieve sea,
Little tin \soldiers as brave can be,
And toys that are worked upon strings.
And run to explore them at night. for / know
Most wonderful things may be hidden below.
Sometimes it's chocolate and peppermint, too,
Or maybe dolly that speaks;
But always 1 find something shiny and new,
jack k-in-a-box that jumps out with a "boo
A little tin horn painted red. white and blue,
Or ball that Is rubber and squeaks.
So / deve in his pockets at night just to SCI
What wonderful thing has been put there fol
me.
The fairies have many strange places they say
To hide things for good little boys;
Where they put all their candles and sweet
meats away,
Where they hide wondrous things at the clos'
of the day,
Where the gingerbread horses and sugar plum
stay,
And also the brightest of toys.
And these wonderful places, so filled with de
light,
Are just daddy's pockets, search every night
Detroit Free Press.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22
THE WISE ONE

There was a man in our town,
And he was wondrous wise;
He didn't do the strenuous life
Nor go the pace that flies.
He didn't hit an auto up
Until he caused wreck
From which they later picked him out
With broken bones or neck
He didn't seek the upper air
In ships that fly around
Until they drop cog and drop
Their contents to the ground
He didn't drive rapid horse
That loved to burn the road
Until 1t ran away like mad
And smashed its wagon-load.
He didn't buck the Wall street bunch
AS either bull or bear
Until he'd finished up with 1t
And left his wad down there.
He dl4nt blow his millions on
The great white way by night,
Nor mix up in the social whirl
That swipes the cash all right.
He didn't even try to skin
With Browns or Jones wife;
But bravely sought in every way
To live the simple life.
And so he lived-until one day,
Just how did not appear
street car caught MIN on the track
And ended his career.
Beneath the sod the wise one rests
We wipe our weeping eyes
And wonder, in town like ours,
Why should man be wise?
New York World
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22
CLEAR. CRISP AND CLEAN
SEE STATES PAGE FOR ALL THE NEWS
FROM YOUR OLD HOME.
WHAT ARE THEY DOING?

an November IL Railroad Commits
sioner Irwin informed a represen-
tative of The Herald that the
body of which he is a member was
preparing to take steps for the pun
ishment of the Southern Pacific COM
pany for the crime of rebating. Ten
days have elapsed and little of prac-
tical nature in this direction has been
accomplished, so far as The Herald
is able to ascertain.
If the commissioners are honestly
preparing to comply with the manda-
tory provisions of the organic law of
the state, which declares, among other
things, that they shall "enforce their
decisions and correct abuses through
the medium of the courts, an anxious
body of citizens, who for twenty-eight
years have suffered great wrongs at
the hands of the Southern Pacific with
out semblance of an attempt on the
part of the railroad commissioners to
correct abuses" would like to know
it. They have a right to know. They
do not ask that the commissioners
shall give away any secrets that will
react against them and contribute to
railroad victory. but they do most
earnestly desire to be assured that the
commissioners are actually at work
striving conscientiously to prepare a
strong case aginst the railroad.
There is nothing on earth to impede
the commissioners in their task. With
or without the advice or consent of
the attorney general, the governor or
any other official they not only may
institute proceedings against this self
confessed criminal railroad, but it is
their sworn duty to do so under that
most sacred and supreme law, the con-
stitution of California.
The people would be glad to know
whether the commissioners are actu-
ally engaged in the preparation of a
case against the Southern Pacific.
They would be very glad to be taken
into the confidence of the commission
ers to such an extent as to relieve the
popular mind of the apprehension that
possibly the commissioners are play
ing an extremely dangerous game of
bluff.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22
EASY MARKS"

NHE gentlemen engaged in the busi-
ness of burgling are intelligent
= They are shrewd. They read the
papers. They know, therefore, that a
lot Of timid people have foolishly
slowed away gold and silver and bills
in secure" places. They know by ex-
perience that the "safe" hiding place in
the home is like an open book to them.
sympathy is wasted when it is offered
to the householder who invites thief
to enter his home by hiding money in
any part of it. To get that treasure is
the veriest child's play to the ex-
perienced burglar.
Put your money in bank and laugh
at the burglars.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22

A Brooklyn pastor resigned his
charge to work In paper mill. The
pulpit does not appear to be cogent
financial argument in the city of
churches until 1t is deprived of it's
last two letters.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22

The supreme court of Mississippi has
decreed that the expression. you may
go to the place of departed spirits of
bold, bad men," is not profanity. 1t
may not be profane but it certainly is
not exactly urbane.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22

London held three kings and two
queens few days ago and not a single
American newspaper called" It's a
wise editor who knows when he's
beaten.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22

Champ Clark, the sage of Missouri,
says that all the "one gallus' voters
are either for Roosevelt or Bryan and
that the politicians are against both.
TIt where stands the Rocky mountain
cohort. which consists neither of poll
ticians nor gaiius wearers?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22

Berlin newspaper remarks that
1.-The elasticity of American economic
life makes possible sudden recovery
at moment when the financial sit
uation seems darkest" What Ameri-
can editor could have put it more
neatly?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-22

The treasury department issues a
warning that a new counterfeit one
dollar bill is "in circulation" Where?
The department should have classed
this as "local news"