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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27
ANrr-coRPORATIoN MANIA.

What would be thought of the mu- nicipal authorities of a town if they should set to work to provide ordi- nances and fix regulations which would prevent outsiders from investing their money inside the corporate limits? The most charitable construction that could be put on such a course would be that the authorities were so blinded by prejudice or selfshness that they were seeking to ruin their own town.
 And yet that is in effect what is be- Ing done, or sought to be done, in Alabama. Some of the legislation that has been enacted can have no other ef- feet than to drive capital out of the State and discourage outsiders from investing in Alabama. Whether such Legislation proceeds from spite, preju- dice or ignorance the result must be the same Capital already invested here will pull out and seek more liberal and just localities, and the moneyed men who have thought of coming into the State will decline to do so as long as a corporation or a man of means is looked on and treated as public enemy.
 All this talk about corporate greed is in the main the veriest brand of tommyrot. All great enterprises are now managed through corporations, and but for them there would be little ad- vancement along industrial and com merciaI lines. A corporation may be grasping and tyrannous. just as rich miser may suck the hearts blood out of his helpless victims, but why should
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27
NIT. Bryan's Announcement.

One of the many experienced ana thoroughly reliable correspondents or The Times writes from Washington that an announcement from MT Bryan is soon to appear This correspondent hints that the gentleman from NeDr s ka will send forth an acceptance or ms partv's call, conditioning 1t upon Reservation of full right to prepare the platform. ,.. ts a httob Is to come MT. Bryan Is q man or his own views. His worst poiItlcal sl . emy-Roger Sullivan of Illinois, TOT III stance-would not say that Bryan is any mans man. Thus will the candl- date outline a platform of hls own making. - NyorD,s ',
 That Henry Watterson or Nornan E Mack, or even some of the radical New Englanders will agree to hls plan for the resolutions committee seems distinctly doubtful. If leaders or thiS type reject the Bryan platform MT :; Rrvan will certainly be slow to yisld his name to a convention with views at variance from his own.
 That MT. Bryan is an honest man no one questions. That he will run m anvbody's platform save his own ts assuredly doubtful. That the Bryan platform will please the old line "bac to the Constitution" Democrat seems impossible. The problem becomes complex, the question compf.s atten- Tn In the language of the old fashioned orator of the old-time hustings, we pause for a reply.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27
Hr LAueHED.
he Governor laughed.


 The business men of Birmingham and Montgomery alarmed at the threat of the extra session. respectfully asked the Governor to change his purpose. The Governor laughed. The farmers and business men of Alabama made the States prosperity. The farmers and the business men of Aiabama pay the taxes, not the politicians. The thought of the extra session thrills and pleases the political agitator. He gets his chance to strut in the lime light Strife and class hatred are the natural clements of the agitator.
 The men who make the prosperity of Alabama know what it means for the Legislature to be In session. The Legislature has been in session a large part of the year and sufficient to the day is the evil thereof" And the prin- cipal evil has been the fright 1t has given capital and development. There are some no doubt who think that the wholesale raises in taxes which had to be made to meet the record breaking appropriations, is the most felt result, but when the full effect of the work has been felt 1t will be seen that the partial blocking of development and the fright given capital will be the most harmful results of legislative in- judiciousness.
 Now the suggestion is made again and the men who will be the most hurt raise an alarmed cry. The Gov ernor laughs.
 Business men are genuinely alarmed. That they have the right to be fearful, every man familiar with business con- ditions in the past year knows. Gov ernor Conner is quoted as saying at Tuskegee: If necessary I will call the Legislature together again and I will call 1t again and again"
 He acts as though the Legislature were his private property and certainly the Legislature has been sufficiently complaisant to his wishes. But his Tuskegee threat is little short of tyranny There is something of ty- ranny in the laugh that meets the re- spectful protest of the tax payers and business men of Alabama.
 The French King said: T am the state" The Governor of Alabama only laughed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27
NEGROES IN COMBINE.

Baltimore Reported in Fight Against
 Roosevelt and Taft. Washington Special to The Baltimore
 Sun.
 To prevent the nomination of either Roosevelt or Taft. and the election of either should one of them be. the Re- publican nominee for President next year year, the negroes of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati ana other large cities of the country ar" reported to be organizing by wards or assembly districts.
 This statement is made by W. Calvin Chase a prominent negro lawyer Of Washington. editor of The Bee, a negro newspaper.
 The plan of campaign, as outlined by Chase, Is a complete organization of negro voters who pledge themselves not to vote for either Roosevelt or Taft and who will use their influence to pre- vent the election of delegates favorable to either It Is estimated that they control the banaire of power in New York, Illinois. Ohio Indiana, and perhaps in New Jersey and Connecticut They are to favor Knox In Pennsylvanta In a body, Hughes in New York and 4Foraker In Ohio and the South. They are going to work hard in Missouri to proven; Senator Warren from giving the dele gates from that State to Secretary Taft. and the word has gone all through the South to light the lilly whites" who are RAnAEa1ly for TA3f-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER s7, 1907.
THE EXTRA SESSION.

The extra session of the Legislature seems certainty. The Governor says as much in his letters to members of the Legislature, which were sent out yesterday.
 The call judging by the letter will contain nothing except 8 de- mand for additional railroad leg tslation. The Governor in his let ters does not take the Lesisla- ture into his confidence as to the nature of the prospective Legislation, which he has in his mind. He may not reveal it in his call in which he may deal with the subject in general terms. Until then it will not be known what railroad legislation can be enacted that has not already been put into laws.
 The Governor Is fulfilling his threat, All Alabama is anxiously awaiting the results.
 While only railroad legislation is to be mentioned in the call it is to be remembered that the Legislature can by a two-thirds vote take up any sub ject not named in the call. To that extent interests of the State other than the railroad interests are in danger.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27
Way Not HeIps

CaW H a
 Twenty-three years ago man of the name of Westmorelsnd was sentenced to a three years term in the NoIIh Carolina penitentiary. He 5eryad nit more than two years and then es- caped. From that time on he led an honest and industrious life in Nln- ston more than twenty years. ana m the meantime marrIed a wife and pe- came the father of several children His manner of living gave every eyi- dence that he was thoroughly rec formed man, devoted to his duties aH husband, father and citizen. Ihen came along somebody who recognized him as an escaped convict with still few months of his sentence to serve and he was arrested and sent hack to the penitentiary. The informer doubt less thought he had done a hne thing, especially as there is a standing re- ward for the apprehension of escaped convicts. But does it not seem that in cases of this kind there should be consideration for the poor fellow who has tried to reform and who has re- formed? Down in the depths of the heart of many a man who is honest with himself there turks the conscious ness that, but for the mercy of God and the ignorance of the grand jury, he would himself perhaps be wearing the stripes If he got his just deserts. Why, then, not let the poor devil who had fallen ,and been caught, but who has lived decently afterwards. have a chance to live on honestly and redeem his past for the sake of the conscience that cries out within us that we are all sinners?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27
No social Equality There.

Mobile Register.
 washington is the centre of Repub- licanism in the United States and 1t also contains probably the largest ne- gro population of any city in the world. if is there, too, Sambo makes his most strenuous effort to enforce his rights to the enjoyment of social equality that he conceives to be guaranteed him under the Constitution. Frequent iy, however. there is an utter collapse of his plans in that direction: This was notably the case the other day when the members of Harden Camp, Spanish War Veterans. denied the re- quest of the unattached negro camps of the District of Columbia to become amaIgamated with the white ssamp.
 The application from the negroes Is said to have produced decided sen- sation. Commander E. L. Cogan asked: .Are you going to accept the negro camps as part of your department and in an instant every veteran in the crowded room was on his feet shout ing a negative response.
 There Is no organization Comman- der Cogan declared, "fraternaI or pa triotic which accepts the negro into highest standing. only political or- ganizations treat him in this manner. and for his vote at that. protest against, and will use every effort to thwart this movement to bring them into our department"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27
MR. RRYAN FINDs HOPE.

Story with the Moral That Few Are
 Defeated Thrice for the Presidency
 stephen O'Grady formerly of kansas City. and for many years a newspaper acnuaintance of William Jennings bry- an is in town, repeating a recent story from the lips of the Nebraskan' Which may or may not give a clue ss 70 the Tnr{her designs of the established Democratic candidate for the Presi-
 At one of the receptions given to MT. Rrvan in the West not long ago an ancient Westerner lingeree Tor - short talk with the editor of The Commoner. ,, os,,ad. Ns- Bryan of his old friend and support CT as the Nebraskan tells It.
 Lust over S0," was the reply
 That's well on," said MT: Bryan, "and I suppose you are oeglunIng 10 think of the time when you Will have well. not exactly" answered the cheerful ancient. 'I notice that there are few advertisements in the news papers of people who die after they are 80 years old ,. n..
 "Did it ever strike you, asked MT :. Bryan of the newspaper man to whom few men who are defeated three times in a race for the Presidency|
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27
SHORT TALKS BY
 HOOTHE

Occasionally I get letter like the following. Ifpeople when writ ing would only be more explicit it would save lots of guess work on my part and I don't like guess work; l want to be sure of my facts and then stick to em !; note the letter--then read the re- ply:-
 "Your letter of June 24th to hand. The Bromonia has all ready done me a world of good. One of my children aged sixteen has been ill from birth; nothing has done her any good, tell me if you think that Bromonia would cure her. Mrs. F. Ne1sh, 253 Jackson Ave-, Memphis. 7
 I replied that her letter did not state the nature of the mall ady, but if it was anything like dyspepsia, constipation, catarrh, rheumatism, general stomach troubles or run down system, if Bromonia didn't cure, the com pany would refund the money paid on return of the empty bot ties.
 Bromonia is recommended by The Exchange Drug Store.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27

The letter of Senator John J. King, of Marengo County protesting against anybody's holding him responsible for the legislation which has so disturbed and depressed business conditions in Alabama is an unnecessary assurance to those who know Senator King. They . know him to be a strong honest and clear thinking man of affairs. They know he has been one of the most val uable citizens of his section of the State and his hand has been in every important development He is the sort of man who cannot be drawn into a senseless and unreasoaing agitation. Senator Kings record in the Legisla- ture was a continued protest against it's reckless course. The Niarengo Sem ator vii, live to look upon that record as the proudest work of his public ca reer, and the people who sent him there will so regard It. if they dc not already do so.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27

corporations be discriminated against and persecuted just as though all of them were public enemies? But for corporations. largely financed by out side capital. Alabama would today be twenty years behind her present status as prosperous State.
 The most unjust, ungenerous and ab- surd of all this anti-corporation craze is that directed against railroads and railroad enterprises. To say that rail- roads are the pioneers of prosperity. and the great openers and builders of any country Is to utter truth well understood by all who have taken the i trouble to keep themselves informed. l Any one who has noted the effect pro- duoed by the advent of a railroad into country town needs no other proof of their magic power. From being a sleepy little village the place at once begins to grow and spread in a way that is a surprise to it's residents. Good houses go up. new business enterprises are started, outside capital comes in and pretty soon we have flourish ing, busy town instead of a siumbrous settlement. Not only does the town build up but the value of real estate all around advances. the farmers have handy market for their products and all the people are put into more direct communication with the outside world. In addition to all this, the taxes which the railroads of Alabama pay to the State and to the counties go a long way towards relieving the people of the burdens of government which would otherwise bear heavily on them
 And so it is that Alabama, instead of discouraging railroads and other corporate interests by unjust, discrimi- native and repressive legislation should rather enact laws to encourage outside capital to come into the State. There should be no favoritism shown towards any one< business or enterprise, but equally there should be no discrimina tion against them. All they are en- titled to is fair treatment and that is wha. they will not get in Alabama if certain extremists can have their way. Again we ask, is it not time to call halt?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27
"This is My seth Birthday''
Arthur Barclay.

Arthur Barclay, the negro President
 of the Liberian Republic. Ed@a%S Wno was Tes Tes horn horn September 27. 1851. in the Bar taken taken to Liberia by his parents; +bs It is his boast that he peddledi ih salt in cans t9e itai and so earned his living and the means to educate himself. He became a lawyer after leaving the Li6erian col. o iege. and has been conneeted wltn rs ere HuGIS r" twenty years. He assumed office as IryrasI6ent " in January, 1904. The coun. try over which he rules has about So sSo Prifisb colony of Sierra Leone to the French colony of the Ivory. coast, and and 1t stretches inland to a distance. mSe +nl m some places, about 200 miles s The rnm5er 6er about 2'00O, 6OO all of the African race
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27
Bryan in Nebraska.

Washington Post.
 William Jennings Bryan stands just as well with the people of Nebraska today as he did when he was the Demo- cratic candidate in 1896, but the Demo- crats of Nebraska do not believe he could be electeddn 1908, and hope to see some other man chosen. If President Roosevelt were nominated by the Re- publicans, there would be no need of nominating a Democratic ticket. MT Roosevelt would receive the votes of 20 per cent of the Democrats of our State notwithstanding the fact that Nebras- ka is the home of Bryan. Republicans want Roosevelt, not Taft. They are afraid of Taft, and do not think ne would be able to carry out the Roose- welt policies"
 This is the view of John r. Coad president of the Packers NationaI Bank, of South Omaha. and promir ent- ly identified with various lndustrles oi Omaha. MT. Coad is Democrat, and for that reason his views are the more significant.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27
Southern Cotton Mills.

Nashville Banner.
 rniIIinp industry in the South within the fll' la last two decades is one of the most notabie evidences of Southern pro- gress In 1890 there were 336 mills and at the close of the commercial S@a year jT just 'ts ended there were S14 cotton mills still in course of construction. Tn 1890 the takings of the then exist ea9 boIas of cotton, while for the com- merciaI year just closed the takinga of cotton mills in the South reached 2.439.1OS bales. In 1890 Northern cot ip tbe last wear 2.526, ,390 Or only about S7. GOO bales more than wera used by the Southern mills.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27
Today M History
September 27

1732-First issue of The Rhode Is- land Gazette.
 1743-Governor Clinton dissolved the New York Legislature.
 1779-Savannah, Ga.. besieged hy the French fleet and part of the south ern army. ., x.y,.t..
 Is04-The remodeling of the White House was started: ",
 1S13-General William Henry Harri- son Invaded Canada from Detroit.
 Is14-James Monroe of Virginia De- came Secretary of War
 i82a-A mill for cleaning rice was invented by Ravenel of South Caro-
 Is47-Lester Wallack made his nrst is54-Over 300 lives lost by collision of a British steamer and French park near Cape Race. -,...,,. ros,,Ita5 in tS soss of over 1000 lives.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27
MnIen 1t Funny.

Birmingham Ledger.
 When the Federal court issued an injunction to State officials to hands off in the prosecution of railroad of- f1ciais until the questions of law were decided, The Birmingham Ledger promptly advised the judges, sheriffs ana solicitors to obey the injunction. They have done so, though some thought at first that they wouldn,t Several judges and solicitors took tne occa sion to express their views or in- functions and of State rights.
 Since then there has been case m which Judge Anderson or our own Supreme Court has suspended tne nrosecution of a criminal case until inc oonstitutionality of certain stat. ute is decided. So far we have hearu 'H There is another case in which a lawyer of State wide reputation rather scolded the Supreme Court for noI seeing A criminal case as he dld' He was one of the men who was a nttIe Terce in his views of Judge Jones. ac- ton in enjoinipg the State courts :,
 These facts make 1t amusing tu consider that even lawyers and laW makers take very different views or ! case. when they see 1t from dlnerena noints. When such things occur tney make the layman doubt that the ways of the law are either clear or con sistent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27

The most curious theory we have seen-and it comes from Republican sources-is that Roosevelt is backing Burton with the hope of killing off Taft. They argue that if Burton can be elected Mayor of Cleveland it will give him boost sufficient to put Taft out of the running. Then, to carry it little further, we suppose Roosevelt would. look up some man to put Bur ton out.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27
What the State Papers
 Are Saying and Doing
A Cordial Invitation.

A Cordial Invitation. Elba Clipper. :. We extend cordial invitation to all to come to Coffee after their election, buy a farm and grow rich in peace. Coffee Is good thing to take when whiskey Is too much for you. Something Doing.
 Pineapple News.
 Times are picking up'' in old Pine Apple now. the mills are running full time, crowded with sorders: the gins running over time, and the cotton wait ing; the warehouses full; the cotton seed buyer fighting his competitor. and in fact there is .something doing"
 War Note Of America. Moulton Advertiser.
 The mule bray is the political war note of America, and we now hear them from every point of the compass Lit- stupid jassacks thrown in, are now pa rading before the country as unselnsn patriots. They are not confined to any section. party or church.
 The Courts Have To Decide.
 The Legislature has already had two whacks at the railroads. under GOV ernor Corners directions, ana now ter plan would be for the courts to decide the controversy, as they must finally do, no matter what additional fool laws may be passed. Alabama is not vet ready to set herself up ln ops position to the Supreme Court or tne United States.
 Don't Need To 0rganise. Andalusia News. savs 'sTax assessors are organized, says A headline in The Montgomery Adver.. tiser Returns would indicate tnas these fellows are trotting fairly gooo Tait without organizations. Assess ments are boosted a million doliars every year in Covington county Wltnl.. Wltn- out organization. The Lord only knows what will become of the ,x.. tax- nayers when the assessors get Iuity organized and In good working oroer'
 
 Cotton Money.
 N'iTPbh The farmers do not went Is cents for their cotton bad enough 10 get tt until nearly all tbe cotton has been sold. We've talked of 10 cents pelng a good price so long that It IS grainso in us, and will be for quite a while. Of course all farmers would like 70 get is cents; but they do not want It; if they wanted 1t they'd get IL, ana right in September and Octoper; the farmers wanted 1t they, could get it by simply holding off the market for less, and it would not take ten days to put 1t there.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27
n,rerent way. of Hiding.

MY Tt is related that the Little Giant" of illinois once asked the veteran MT. Marcy what he thought of his chances for the Presidency. Whereupon MT.
 Marcy is said to have told to MT.
 Douglas the following story: "A back woodsman. standing In the door of his cabin, was asked by a travel-stalned rider on a faded horse, How long will 1t take me to get to the next Village IT YOU rest a while and then ride like a Christian, you might get there in a couple of hours; if you ride so like the
 - as yoU have been riding, you'n
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27
Letters to The Editor
LauEhInK at PetItions

Editor The Advertiser:
 Laughing at petitions" was a com mon practice with English kings be- fore the revolution of the colonists The time came when 1t was not ne- cessary to petition kings. Kings were dispensed with as unnecessary to liberty loving Americans. Autocrats are no more necessary today than kings were then. and may be dispensed with. He is a reckless ruler who laughs at vot- ing Alabamians and says T am the State"
 The sacred right of petition is fixed by the Constitution and entities every petitioner to respectful consideration. If the servant Of the people who eIe- vated him to his position of temporary greatness will treat with mockery their petitions. he may yet learn that peti- tioners are also voters.
 Democracy
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-27

Here is propositionj from The Elba Clipper which is worthy of serious consideration: "The tax assessors will soon be in the field, and 1t will be we'll for them to look after and put a fair valuation on the large bodies of land that are held for speculation. Such holdings should be made to pay all they are worth. Let them pay at the price they are held for. and 1t will not be long before some of it will be on the market where men who want small farms can get them" There are thousands of acres of land in this State not under cultivation, which are held by few people and given in at a very low valuation. A very high price is demanded when purchasers desire tC get hold of any of it.