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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-19
rnomINExr LIQUOR DEALER.
Places Blame For the City Dives. Birmingham AEe-HeraId.

Places Blame For she City Dives. Birmingham Age-HeraId.
 Senator" Jacob Weiss of Mobile, the most widely known whfskey dealer in the State. notes the general anti whiskey wave that is spreading over
 The "Senator@ was in Birmingham yesterday. He states that the retail dealers have declared war on the brew cry agents who establish dives pro- miscuously. and consign them to- the
 These dives should be wiped out of existence stated Mr. Weiss last night. They are a menace to good society and good morals. The retail them, and it is hoped that this war may be successful. It is up to the whiskey men themselves. They can evade the danger that threatens, or ea nvss aa t wSske1 S n the refaed dyss gitimately. there is no reason why the first class saloon should be wip- ed out of the state.
 The legislature aimed several blows at the liquor interest" continued Mir Weiss. but after all. everything Is all right. If the wfiskey men come to- gether and eliminate the evil of the dive' all will be well, Had no dive isted, then there would be no anti whfskey wave today.
 ''The retail dealers recently came together in Mobile, and declared open MaT Mass S1 e SseS Rsrs IS bill was framed in the city council to prohibit saloons within thousand feet of a church or school house. This bill was aimed especially at one saloon in finally withdrawn when the retail deal CTS agreed to have the license of this object of special hatred revoked.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-19
VAGUE TALK.
Presidents' Financler visitors Do Not
 Make Object Clear. Wa elnir n.fnf1 Snacfa1 fo NaH1r Ynrlr HfNran-

Presidents' Financler visitors Do Not
 Make Object Clear.
 Washington Special to New York Even
 President roosevelt knows no more than the public about the end and aim of the railroad presidents in their much-mooted visit to the White House, advices from New York make seem i'm probable. This statement may seem strange, for, naturally. the prevailing thought is that the President knew just what his visitors wanted, and had all ready framed his answer to their re- quests. The reverse is the truth. The President has not known. save in the most general way, what his prospective callers had in mind
 There has been no particular anxiety in the White House over the projected visit. The fact Is that, out of all the visits that have been paid to the Execu- tive at different times by the represen- tatives of railroads and other great corporations, the President has been able to learn little or nothing that is definite about what his callers had in errands. Mir. Roosevelt has never been able to determine just what they meant by their talks with him, just what they wished him to do for them or just what they feared he is going to do to them. He Is grooping today after the kernel of the visits object, just as he groped at the time that he gave his callers hearings He has today nothing concrete upon which to base anything more than a surmise as to the real in tent and purpose of the call which he has been expecting to receive from Messrs Mellen. Newman. McCrea, and HuRhitt.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-19
AsEorced Run on Fi.h.

Philadelphia Bulletin.
 The quick lunch restaurant resound- cd with e rapid succession of shrill calls down the speaking tube for "Friad "A clerk, studying the menu. was about to give his order to the waitress.
 "Is the fried fish extra fine today? Everybody seems to be taking It.
 Thew calls for fried fish is fakes. . pah .Sd hs the s sr to rSs Ss boss Ssdsrs cao lated that, being Lent, and Friday at that, we'd have a rush on fish. But our trade don't run much to the relix- 9s sd # s a day Ssvsst So no@ sSla Tus %s pushing it."
 Hews that?"
 "WeIl, you see, the boss can't have all that fish left on d his Is, hands nd r,bt and We wake up the customers to the fish by shouting out fake. orders for 1t I've rung iii a. fried fish every othor orssr for the last ten s,,s mIIoteo nut or wats, on the polished mahogany table. and. with a sweep of her hand, cleared 1t of plates and glasses.
 Fried fish, one" came another call
 Fried fish, one" came third.
 'You see," the girl resumed. they are taking notice. Them orders are ed on the end. the cook knows to send 1t up. We can make people eat here what we want to get rid of most She interrupted her conversation with a loud:
 Fried fish,
 Tt ain't that there's anything wrong with the fish that we're pushing 1t, she resumed, but fish is one of them things it's hard to use over again, so 1t must 20. After Il o'clock, when the boss saw the fish was hangin' fire, he gave us his official tip to push it, and that means a rebate of two cents on don't you try 1t? Nobodys kicked about 1t.
 Fried fish. one"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-19

ecutive body. Salaries are paid to these officers, and. it is said, men of willing tQ perform service. Politics, as usually understood in municipal management. Is unknown and business principles rule.
 IL is contended by Mir. Glass that there is in this system the beginning of reform in municipal government that is destined to make an impression. and he asks How long will 1t be be- fore Alabama takes the cue from not know about if too soon, and. therefore. we arc under obligations to any one who brings 1t to public at tetntion. We defer further comment. however. until we can lay the whole article before our readers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-19
Government by CommI.sion

Mobile Register.
 The Register has received from ''The Thirteen" a literary club of Montgom- cry, a copy of a paper read to that club by Mir Frank P. Glass, one of the editors of The Montgomery Advertiser, upon the topic. Municipal Government by Commission" We regret that 1t reaches us too late to find place in this issue of The Register. It is well de- serving the attention of all who give thought to the betterment of city ad- ministratlon. We who have certain measure of government by commission are qualified to some extent to judge the merits of the proposal that all municipal government shall be by com mission. MT. Glass offers the example of Galveston and Houston, Texas. where very remarkable results have been obtained, the government of those municipalities approaching very closely the management of business enter prises. and being noted for economy in expenditures and effectiveness of meas ures. Government by commission is simplifcation of machinery placing all the powers generally exercised by mayor and council in the hands of mayor and board of four or i've mem bers, each member being a department chief. and the board as a whole being a leG1slative council as well as an ex-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-19
Scarcity of smaII RnIa

Holland, in The Philadelphia Press.
 This morning the officers of one of the banks of New York sent to the sub-treasury $100,000 in gold certih- cates of large denominations, asking that In exchange therefor bills of twen- ty, ten, five, two and one be received The reply was that the exchange could not be made. but that 1t might be pos sible to get twenty dollar bills from Washington, if there were willingness to pay the expressage. Inquiry was made of forty banks in New York. and it was discovered that every one of them is embarrassingly short of small bills. There is something like a real famine in thi scity of small bills, and, 8 learned, also in other parts of the country. The millions in small bills that were sent West to help move the crops of last summer and Fall have not been returned to this city, and reports received here from the West indicate that many of them have not been de- posted in the banks of the West. The suspicion is very strong that many persons. especially in the West, are sharing the general anxiety and dis trust of railway and other corpora tions and are hoarding the money they have been receiving for the past six or eight months. There seems to be no other explanation of this scarcity of cash In safe deposit vaults or other secure places. and it is probably safe to say that never before. at any one time, was there so much of the circu- lataiOn of the United States in the hands of the people, retained there un- til confidence can be restored. as Is the case at the present time. Meanwhile partment will seek as speedily as pos- sible to convert bills of large denoni~ nation into bills of the denomination of ten dollars or less.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-19

ton. When it shall be seen and known of all men that one can board an air ship and go in safety to whatever part of the world hs chooses to visit, this method of going about may supercede all others. but not sooner.
 We can fully agree with our New or leans contemporary, in it's conception of the horrors that would result if air ships shall even be made that will be completely under the control of man. so that they may be maintained at any height. directed In any direction desir- ed and may also be stopped and held still in any required position. War is bad enough when sail the humanities are observed and the strictest require ments of civilization are adhered to. When one waxsKip disables. or even sinks another, there is a chance of es- cape. but imagfn what must be the result if one flying ship loaded with soldiers. and lowering hundreds of feet above the air; what chance would there be for any one on 1t to escape deatb of the most horrible nature? There Woutu 1S uu Alst VI AAAUu oha "S&t<s~ ed" then, for there would be no wounded.
 But even that Is not the most horri- bie thought in connection with this method of warfare. for in such case as we have supposed those only would be killed who were actually engaged in the battle. The horror of such war would come to non-combatants. and to property. In this day of high explo- sivesNit would be easy for dfrigible balloon to carry with 1t enough such explosives to destroy any city on the earth, such balloon could drop its bombs all over the doomed city and literally blow 1t out of existence. All that would be needed to accomplish this would be moderate sized balloon that could be managed.
 It might be objected that such war fare as that would not be permitted among civilized nations, but we don't know that such an objection would hold good. When General Sherman declared that war Is hell" he put a plain truth In brutal form. While an aerial war would be worse--if worse Is possible, we do not know that it could be prevented. The object of com- banants is to do as much injury to each other ss they can and they might be forced to acquiesce in the destruction of cities. That, perhaps. would be the most certain method of driving war away from human beings. Perhaps such horrible results as would follow this kind of hostilities might bring about the time spoken of by Isaiah. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation. neither shall they learn war any more" A good time that will be, surely.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-19
A Lonw-DeInxed Cane

Manchester (N, H. lt Union.
 It Is perhaps good policy that when occur the farther 1t Is possible to get away from the period of interstate strife the better. In this view there should be no surprise that the United gagged during the week in hearing legal arguments on the question whether the State of West Virginia should be made to bear a share of tho debt of old Virginia contracted be- fore the war. It appears thatsin ante bellum days the Old Dominion con- tracted debt of about $33,000,000 in building canals, 'tufnpikes, and in pro- viding other internal Improvements, a portion of which very naturally was expended in what Is now West Vir- gtnia, but was then an Integral part of the old State.
 It also appears that there has been no unseemly haste in determining whethsr the younger State shall bear a proportion of the debt. It iS nearly forty-four years since that portion of the Old Dominion lying beyond the mountains was made separate State always held a considerable proportion of Ioyalists. and besides, at the time it was made into a State, the federal forces had control there, which was a was not in a condition to be re constructed" until some time later There was a great deal of bitterness in the days of the war, which was un- favorable to exact justice. and what ever may be the merits of this par ticuIar case, 1t is interesting to be reminded that James G. Blaine, in his twenty Years in Congress-" main- tained that Virginia was not treated with full justice when West Virginia was organized, and, as has been re- marked in this connection, MT. Blaine could hardly be accused of instinctive
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-19
NsunsetD Cox,s Satire.

Tn the March American Magazine, Ida M. Tarbell tells the story of the efforts that were made in Grants time to reduce the high tariffs that were established during the war.
 There was a pretty general frank admission that the war tariffs ought not to go on," says Miss FSroell. but if you get it for your constituents you must give it to me for mine.'" It was a phrase which gave great joy to Sunset" Cox, and he mocked at 1t in a speech long remembered:
 Let us be to each other instru- ments of reciprocal rapine." said MT. Cox Michigan steals on copper; Maine on lugnher; Pennsylvania or iron: North Carolina on peanuts; Massachusetts on New Jersey on spool threadi Louisiana on sugar and so on. Why not let the gentlemen from Maryland steal coal from them True, but a comparative of the body of the people; true 1t tends to high prices. but does not stealing encourage industry? Let us as moral ists. if not as politicians, rewrite the eighth commandment; Thou shalt steal; because stealing is right when com- mon.
 AS I am a representative of New York. and Onondaga, with the aid of the foreign solar artisan, evaporateg Onondaga? Stealing by tariffs. Mr. Chairman, is. as De Quincy proved of murder. a fine art. If everybody stole from everybody is there any reproach to anybody? If everybody is a bur glar. Is there any need for anybody to lock up houses?
 How happy we should be when we can all look each other in the face here. clasp hands, as now ! look into the face of the gentlemen from Massae chusetts. and say: God bless you, my brother; you have stolen from me, and l from you; let us love one another. Then the little unprotected pigs, who are crowded by the big. pigs,. quietly no more to be let in, for on this idea all shall be fed by swallowing each others feod; and when all arc fed, no one loses and we shall be happy"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-19

The word barbecue is said to come from the French, barbe-a-queue, mean ing from "snout to tail" Another ex- plantation Is that 1t Is derived from "berbekot," a wooden frame used by Guiana Indians for grillinE meat. Southernere are willing to accept either version, so long as the cue Is good Columbia State
 Our contemporary evidently over looks the more plausible explanation. that the word as we use it comes from the Haytien word ''barbacoa." meaning framework of sticks laid on posts or cross-sticlss, just as we often see them arranged now to cook meat on. We remember to have somewhere read that when the Spaniards landed at Hayti, they saw meat, fish and birds cooked this way, and the natives called the frame on which the cooking was done by a name which was easily changed through Spanish and English adaptation to our word barbecue. This strikes us as being a better and more probable explanation or derivation than either of those mentioned by The State.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-19
Tshe soverefwn gfatem.

The President, by wiring to the caI- ifornia Legislature, stopped the pas sage of Q measure excluding the Japs. News Item.
 The Maine Legislature was doping <
 law
 onr WIth pUnntS pidsr Sn aRf ara eide, -< Should. be. chased as temperance When the member from Moosewallow
 rose in his seat.
 And thundered dramatically, "Stayi Naouw haouw dew we know thet this
 bill oughter gol Let's see what the White Haouse'll . sayl' And that very night came a rnessaget tt "You are EnoansG5ins Siii .--R. Reafs R. win that mink The Florida soIons were acting an act Providing tax on the sweils Who prance through ootillious and
 hustle through millions, In the ormond and Palm Beach ho- When the Senator haiiing from Ever Exclaimed. Let us not go astrayI Such. measures as these seem to us
 15As just the cheese. Ss But what will the President sayT That night came wire: You're going r@ too far; That bill interferes with my peace
 plans.---T. R." The Oregon lawmakers busily toiIed, For the State was in terrible need Of laws to restrain the amount of the . And limit the .1ackraBbits, speed But Just as the Jackrahbit bill was
 about
 To proceed on it's legalized way, A member. cried. "euts, this yere law
 is immense,
 But what will the President sayr" This message that night gave the
 members jar: That rabbit bill win mean war. .-s
 Yours. T. R." James J. Montague, in New York
 American.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-19
What fhe Sf0fe Papers
 Are Doing and Saying
Doe. Away with Lama postInr.

Does Away With Land Posting. cullman Tribune.
 At least there is one excellent/ fea- ture in the game law. It punishes any one hunting on the lands of another without permission of the owner or his agent. This renders 1t unnecessary to post lands against bunting
 1t Win Raise Taxes. Ozark Tribune.
 ' It suits us all right to have q tan commissioner or officials for She pur- pose of equalizing the taxes. We want to see some peoples taxes if we have to be raised along with them. We be- Heve every man should share the bur- dens of government . They'll Go if Uncle sam VIII Pay Ex<
 penses. Anniston Hot Blast. A majority of our Congressman ought to make the trip to Panama. The can but be beneficial, and then Con- gressrnen would be better prepared to legfslate with view to pushfns the work.
 Don'f Know What is Ahead. Huntsville Banner.
 If 1t Is true that under John Wal- lace's new game law the women can't wear any feathers on their hats wd don't envy him., We had rather have race than to have them after us for depriving them of their hat orna- merts.
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 The Child Labor BiiI. Anniston Star. A The failure of the Alabama Legisla- ture to pass the santi-chfld labor law Is causing considerable discussion in the State papers and lively criticism of the Legislature by many people for Its treatment of this bill which has for it's purpose the bettermenf of the com dition of the child workers in Ala bama.
 Reducing Whiskcy Consumption. Elba Clipper. s' The Legislature passed all sorts ot courts are after the liquor makers, and every way the prohibition forces are having an inning. It begins to look as if the laws might have some effect on reducing the consumption of whis- key.
 The Day of Retrfbuttou. Marion Standard.
 The man who invented and put. in operation the swindle that deprived the poor cotton mill children of Ala barna of the sorely needed protectivS legislation may be some day forgiven, but not until the manhood of the State has rubbed his political nose in the dirt. aud forced him to recant his hyp-
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 Two to Make Contract. Huntsville Tribunas 4 As 1t requires two to make a cons tract and as the railroads are ende- avoring to avoid having prosecutions follow -persecution to which they hava been subjected. in which we, believe they are wise, we take 1t that tha editor of The Cullnan Tribune had better don his three mile boots and pre- pare for continuous walking.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-19
To-day fl. History

182s.-Patent for Massachusetts sold to Sir Henry Roswell, Sir John Young and -four other associates in the yicfn- ity Of Dorchester, England"
 ticut made by Robert, Earl of War wick, to William, Viscount Say and Seal, Robert Brook and their associates. his~eommission from the Duke of York, appointing him Governor of the Prov ince of New York.
 ford Court House, where he had de- feated Greene on the 18th, leaving at the Quaker Meeting House all the wounded Americans he had t,tisS taken ai' and cers.
 Is14.-simon Snyder, Governor of Pennsylvania, rejected the bill estab- came a law, two-thirds of the Legis- iatuEe having agreed to it.
 1a2e~-Lands belonging to the Chero- rapld dIys settled by the whites. IS30sAsFhere were in Illinois four tribes of Indians, the Menominees, Kas- kaskae 1ttawatom1isfs a1 ssont nns oSa SGahippe- j., 1SSS<1S4A h explosion iIsthe Midlothian coal pits m Virginia; of fifty persons in the pitAs thirty five were killed and
 Is64s-1K rKanaas citizens voted for State ofa1Afs under the newly recon structed Government.
 1S85s2-f' resident Lincoln issued a proclamation ordering the arrest and punishment. by courtmartial of all per- sons supplying arms and ammunition to the hostile Indians.
 1S04.--GeneFal Coxey opened his army" headquarters at Massillon, O.
 190Ss--The Cuban reciprocity treaty with amendments ratified by the United States Senate by vote of 50 to 16.
 1S04S-The Hanna and Foraker men came to blows in the Twentieth Ohio Congress District Republican C0nyen tion; the convention split and each faction made Congressional nomina- tion and elected. delegates to the. Ma tiona1 Convention. In neither case were the delegates instructed.
 19o5s--Ida M TaTbell advised Kansas oil producers to fight Standard with its own weapons.
 19O6.-Standard oil surrenders to Missouri attorneys; admitted that the Standard oil owned and controlled Re- public and Waters-Pierce Companies
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-19
,state Tax Commiasion.

Marion StQnuafu.
 Under the above caption the editor of The Opelka News, a member of the State Convict Board, and close personal and political friend of the Governor, tells in plain words what is the real purpose of the new tax law. The News says:
 Now if the State tax commission provided for by the Legislature Is composed of the right kind of men, there will be a vast difference in the tax returns in short while. What is necessary is to get large tracts of farm lands in this State taxed at what they are worth--and that regardless of whether they are under cultivation or not. There are entirely too many large land owners who will neither cul- tivate nor improve their lands, nor let them out to others. The State tax Commission should see to it that such land Is taxed on the basis of what it is worth. not what the wealthy own CTS are now realizing on 1t.
 It is urged by the friends. of the measure that the purpose of the bill is to catch out the corporations who have not been assessing their prop