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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-01-03
THURSDAY, -. JANUARY 3, 1907.

A Chicago gang of politicians sends
us batch of opinions from divers par
ty organizations, papers, etc, regard
ing urging Mr.. Roosevelt to come out
as a candidate for third term. We
are very favorably impressed with Mr..
Roosevelt as a firm and conservative
statesman, filling the Office of Presi-
dent in strong and characteristic style,
but as he is on record that on no ac-
count would he be a candidate for an
other term, we think he should stick
to the idea, and not be pursuaded to
accept it over his expressed decision.
After all it might be merely plan to
weaken the possible success Of his par
ty by making him fiuctuate in his
hitherto firm attitude and opinions.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-01-03

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valley during the holidays-a fine rec
ord indeed.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-01-03

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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-01-03
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-16
sThe One-Man Power.

Arkansas Democrat.
 The Courier-Journal animadverts upon the danger of the One Man Power in politics.
 1t is the danger that mankind has been fighting since the dawn of the spirit of liberty.
 It is the One Man Power that makes the monarchy intolerable to an enlight- ened people, and leads them to adopt the imperative necessity of getting eV- erything that shall give them oppor- tunities for the dissemination of power and to say who shall exercise it.
 The One Man Power is but another name for the centralization which caused the strife of the eos, and Is now menacing the individuality of the States in their sovereign relation to each other.
 Its most pernicious expression is found in the political world. where it enables corrupt self-seekers to build up machines that are practically infrangi- ble, and these machines gaining con- trol of the affairs of a city, county, a State. or nation. exert an influence in direct antagonism to the rights of the individual.
 Kentucky is by no means alone in this thing, for the political machine, destructive of popular rights, has been known in Arkansas and has been the bane of Memphis, San Francisco, Phil adelphia, New York, Tennessee and many other political divisions.
 The One Man Power has probably been felt as much nationally of late years as ever in the history of the country, and it has expressed itself in a coercive concretion denominaIed the Big Stick. which is only another name for a monarchial assumption of abso- lute power as opposed to the rights and prerogatives of the individuals or the elective authority.
 The One Man Power Is productive of corrupt practices and abuses of author tty. of disregard for the rights of the masses, of venal legislators. executives and even magistrates. and the subver- sion of the very Fundamentals of true representative government.
 It is the One Man Power that mu st be broken down if a nation or a com munity would prosper, and hence the imperative necessity of getting every office as near as possible to the people that they may exercise a greater cor rective and disciplinary influence over them
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-16
omInou. fin NehrAslxa.
Richmond News-Leader.

LtlCilitionu INCW5-6toaCAsN
 It is curious to observe the piteous resignation with which the Democrats of the country generally seem dis posed to accent MT, Bryan as the inev- itable candidate of their party for President next year and the practical certainty of another defeat under his leadership. All the life and spirit seem to have gone out of the party and practical considerations usually ap- piled to politics are ignored. Just one year before the Presidential election. Mir. Bryan's own State of Nebraska gives sweeping Republican majority. Yet, nobody seems to regard that fact as having any bearing. Mir. Bryan's ardent supporters in vague way de- scribe him as a great leader and a sure winner just as they did until the after- noon of the election days of 1896 and 1900. When asked where his electoral votes are to come from. they stumble and stutter and halt They seem to have the idea that Mir. Bryan, by his own eloquence and vigor, can couture ma1orities and electors from the air.
 Until the coming of the Bryan ieadY ership 1t was an accepted rule of Amer ican politics that no man should even be considered as g nominee for the sure to carry his own State. Under that leadership the Democratic party has thrown to the winds this rule and every other establishment by common sense, prudence and long experience. We go ambling along. blind, impotent but enthusiastic, chasing rainbows, dreaming dreams, dimly supposing that somehow, some way, votes will come and victory will be~achieved.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-16
A Follower of Ananias.


 There had been fight on street car in the wee sma' hours, when graves do not stand tenantless. at least in St. Louis, but when parties of jewellers homeward wend their way from the suburbs. The next morning two blue clad servants of the United States Rail ways Company, the same number or policemen and a cloud. of sable Wit"
 One loquacious colored gentleman viously in opposition to the facts in the case that the intervention of the Judge seemed necessary.
 Have you read the Bible?" asked
 "Yes. sir" briskly responded the witt ness. "I have been student of the Holy Scriptures ever since l was
 Did you ever read in the Bible of a character named Ananias" .
 ''Yes, sir. and have been trying to follow him and initiate his example for nigh onto twenty ars."sreplied
 "That will do." said the Judge. You may step down. It seems to me that S10 and costs will about flt this case"
 The witness left the chair. wonder ing what the people were all laughing was shed on the personality of the Scripture character whom he had been modestly following. A colored clergy man did the light-sh edding act. and the witness hastened back to correct what he had called the mistake of an impresson.' But the court had already adjourned.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-16
WORSE THAN ALABAMA.


 We had been led to suppose that Ala bama had her share of anti-prosperity freak legislation but even Alabama must yield the palm in this respect to Grand old Texas, as The Houston Post is so fond of calling 1t. Under . re- cent State law directed. as so much other recent legislation has been, against all forms of corporate and as- sociated interests. is one under which any two business men who agree on the price of anything are subject to prosecution. On this law The Hart ford Times thus comments:
 On Saturday. the Attorney General of the State filed a suit in the District Court at Austin, against the 120 mem- Lars of the Texas Mi1lers' Association, which is alleged to be trust. Penal ties of $56,250 are asked against each defendant, the total amount sued for being $6,750.000 and the State also asks for the forfeiture of the charters of the several milling companies com prising the association, cancellation of the permits to do business In Texas of the foreign concerns which belong to
  straining all of them from doing busi- ness in Texas. Es
 The members of this association are accused of having entered Into an agreement to fix and maintain prices of wheat and other grain. flour and mill products in restraint of trade: and also with having sought to prevent competition among themselves and committed other acts in violation of the antitrust laws of 1899 and 1903. The hare nh0rrad with infntnc Ntu1- liar associations in Oklahoma. Missouri, Kansas and other States in maintaining the prices for flour and grain fixed by the combination.
 mined by the result of this suit in Texas is whether it is possible to do business at all in that State. Should this suit be successful it must inevfta- bly, follow that any two or more farm CTS who agree to hold their cotton for fixed price, as hundreds of Texas farmers have been doing recently, will be subject to prosecution and fine. It will be good thing for the country at large to have the operation of this to the fullest extent. This may tend to hasten the needed amendment by Congress of the absurd sherman law.
 Now it is passing strange that such absurd, hurtful and positively suicidal laws can be enacted by men who are supposed to be competent to make laws and are also supposed to be loyal to their State and people. Whether such legislation proceeds from ignorance. prejudice or demagogy it Is all the same. It is not only unjust, unfair. but indefensible. If enforced 1t can but prove highly injurious to the State and people of Texas in the future. It Is to be hoped that the law will be de- clared void. but if not it will be one of the worst blows the state has ever received from her own people. The worst of it is that the innocent will suffer as well as will those who are guilty of putting such laws on the statute books.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-16
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 1s, 1907.
THE TAFT sUBsTDnNCE.


 The reported decadence of the Taft boom exhibits one of the peculiar phases of American politics. But a ~sT5v short while ago he. apparently held the front position in the list of Re- publican presidential possibilities oth- CTS of his party had booms, more or less infnitesimal and evanescent, but Taft seemed to have the lead. He was generally looked on and spoken of as the Roosevelt candidate and that was considered one of his most valuable as- sets. It was thought by many that whoever could command and hold the endorsement of the President was the man who would certainly be nominat- ed.
 From some cause there has of late been a decided falling off in the Taft enthusiasm. While it is true that there is no fight being made on him in his own party. for 1t is perhaps too early for that. 1t is certainly true that
 
 boosting, even among his warmest ad- mirers. There appears to be a sort of feeling in Republican circles that he is not the man to be nominated. Wheth- CT the President has really soured on him we cannot say. but it is very strongly hinted that such is the case. H- h. hspIr other man will be stronger or that he is gradually working to remove all ob- stacles from his own path. To declare that Taft is the man he wants nomi- mated would probably ensure the latter event, but to abandon his big Secre- tary and hint around that "there are others would dampen the Taft enthu- siasm very decidedly.
 It ought not to surprise any one if they should learn that Roosevelt wants Taft out of his own way. Many a man in high position has had his head turned by hattery and sycophantic lau- dation. and if that Is Roosevelt's con- dtttOn tnere IS no need 10 reel surprise. He has been so hattered and tickled and almost worshipped by those who 'crook the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawning that 1t should excite no astonishment if he has arrived at the conclusion that the country cannot get along without him as President for anotner term.
 However ridiculous we might consid- CT such an exhibition of conceit there would be nothing strange about it. He has been so grossly and so Iavishly hattered that a genuine case of big head would not be surprising, and something of the kind may be the ex- plantation of the subsistence of the Taft boom. It may not be dead but 1t Is plainly sleeping very quietly just at this writing. If Roosevelt finds that he cannot possibly get the nomination for himself he may take Taft up again, but we doubt 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-16

Docs the price of cigar bear any relation to it's favor7 We ask. because The New York Press has this to say about some or the articles kept at the famous sAstor House:
 The prices range from s1o to 10 cents. The $10 cigar is nearly two rect in length and carries with 1t a plush case worth something. am told teat the wrapper consists of one leaf Cuba, and the filler is as good as the wrapper. There are cigars in the TO- tunda which retail for s6, S4, 8. s2, yl-50 and $I. Sam Campbell, who is in charge, a Londonderry Irishman. tells me that, the cigar most in request IS l5 cents straight or two for a quar-
 Now. we suppose that the plebeian individuals who get their smokes at three for a nickel. or cents apiece at most. will wonder how s1o worth of value can be put into one cigar. They will also wonder If the man who smokes one of them feels any better than if he had. consumed 1o-center. Perhaps it is like the man who will pay s1o for dinner at some famous hotel when he could have gotten an equally satisfying meal at a modest restaurant for s1. The enhanced price is all for the name of the place. not for it's pro- ducts.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-16
Governor Smith ExpIains.

Savannah News.
 Governor Smith isn't pleased with the comments of =he New York World on the conference which the Governors of Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina held in Atlanta, and he wrote a letter to that paper pointing out that it hadn't acquainted itself with the facts of tb 6 subject concerning which 1t un- dertook to enlighten the public: Ac- cording to the Governor, the real pur- pose of the conference was to hit upon some plan for the adoption of uni form passenger rate in the South At lantic States. At present there is a different rate in practically every one rates are an annoying feature of in- terstate travelling. He also says that the Governors who took part In the conference are making an earnest eff fort to help work out the problem of State regulation in harmony with na. tional regulation, keeping in view the rights of the railroads and also those of the people. There has been no in- terference with interstate commerce and there is no intention to interfere with 1t.
 This is what Governor Smith has said many times, and hence there is really nothing new in his letter to The World. If the people were satisried road properties by Governor Smiths 8 policies there wouldn't be so much un- easiness in respect to the Railroad Commissions acts. There Is apprehen- sion, however that 1t is the Commis- sIon's purpose to begin a slashing of freight and terminal rates in the inter estB of a few Atlanta shippers, and in order to make good the Macon plat form declarations.
 Many people think the agitation re- specting rates is having a depressing effect upon the monetary situation. and hence would like to see it abandoned, at least until the monetary disturbance Is over and the cost of operating rail- roads has decreased. They have no ob- lection to the regulating which the commission is now doing, requiring the railroads to put their road beds in good order to run their trains on scehdule time and similar matters. be- cause those are the things the people want done. A committee of Atlanta merchants and also a committee of Macon merChapts have said much the same thing. It Is certain that the war between the people and railroads like that which is going on in Alabama isn't generally desired in this State.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-16
THE DORMANT RIGHT.
A ''Sinister Superstition" and Its E
 fecta Upon the HnmRM Mind

A "Sinister Superstitionr and Its Ef-
 fects Upon the HumRa Mind.
 pr. c. M. Gould in Medical Record.
 It took a whole generation time of experiments and mechanics to learn that the engineer must stand or sit on the right side of his engine or cab in order that he could look ahead with his right or dominant eye only, and without sticking his entire head out. as he would have to do If he sat or stood on the left side. The railroad men never learned why this is so, do not know why today, and to make the desirable change in two American left passing double track railroads, while it would finally avoid expense and acci- dents, would cost at once many mill lions of dollars. Thousands of years ago knights and men fighting on foot or horseback had to approach and pass each other on the left in order to strike or spear each other with the right hand while the shield hand held the shield or the reins. The railway engineer, civil or locomotive, does not know that the knight was his right handed and right eyed progenitor and endower.
 flood of light is thrown upon his- tory, sociology and medicine, especial ly upon psychology, neurology and psychistry. by left-handedness and it's sequels Of every million born at least 3O,0OO, probably more, are naturally left-handed. so that in the United States there are nearly 3,000,000, and in the world more than 45,000, ,000 thus handf- capped. An indefinite proportion of these have been or are being cursed by the efforts of the foolish parents or teachers to make them right-handed. Sad suggestions and illustrations of the baleful results of the work of these imnFnVaFq of ct fv. etc pie facts as that right" which should mean only dextral or right-handed, has come to mean good, moral, advisable: and, left" or sinistral, has become sinister, awkward. unlucky, to be avoided. both person and thing. ''Dex- terity" and ''dexterality." have become synonymous with expertness and ex- ceptional proficiency. whereas everybody knows that the left-handed person. if purely so, Is as cunning of hand as the rlght-handed. Even the superstition of the evil eye'-the non- dominant one teaches the same lesson. In all ages. and now surely. there are everywhere strange and unaccountable cases of
 failure in life" peculiar" odd. !" awkward" folk, cranks of a hundred types. misfits sufferers and all that. What light the displacement of the cerebral centre for speech and writing, or US pernicious double placing and maleducation and crippling by "ambi- dextralists." throws upop~ the origin and fate of many sufferers. and upon many of the ''hopelessly stupid" the laggards in school, How many of the medieval court testers and the deridedi the town fools, the kyphotics and crip- pies were the products of the "sinister" superstition of the right ht-handed ty- rants? And how many of the morbid minded and insane?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-16
"7his is My S4th Birthday''
HENRY G. DAVIS.

Henry Gassaway Davis, who was the nominee for vice-President on the Democratic ticket in 1904, was born in Baltimore, Nov. 1s. 1923. At the age of IS he obtained a position as a brake man on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road: He was quick to realize the pos abilities of what was then Western Virginia. and took advantage of his insight, so that when the Civil War broke out. he was 8 man of means He accumulated a large fortune in coal. oil and timber. In railroad building and other enterprises. He then turned his attention to politics. In 1866 he was elected to the West Virginia Legisla- ture as a Union n-Conservative, and two years later was chosen State Senator as Democrat. In 1871 he was elected United States Senator from West Vir- Rinia. and before the expiration of his second term he had become one of the Democratic leaders in the Senate. MT: Davis served as a delegate to seven of the National Democratic conventions. He was also one of the United States delegates who formulated the scheme for bringing the republics of North. Central and South America together. which resulted in the establishment of the Bureau of American Republics.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-16
PLAY FOOTBALL IN CHINA.
Rugby in That Country Is Carried on
 Like a Riot.

Rugby in That Country Is Carried on
 Like Riot.
 Minneapolis journal.
 "The first game of football I wit messed upon my arrival in China" said one of our consular representatives at home for1Aa visit recently, T mistook for very serious riot. and you wouldn't have blamed me, either"
 Tn the first place, I was not aware that the Chinese had any such game, but later found that 1t Is very popular in Northern China. It is not played as is the American game, and instead of eleven players to the side, there are fifty. These Northern Chinese are al most giants, and every man on the team will be six feet or over in height and weigh on the average 200 pounds. There are no goals, side lines or halves. The game lasts until one side Is the winner, and frequently this fs Aot ac- complished before two or three days.
 The idea of the game is to force Q small wicker basket. which takes the place of our ball, into the territory of the other side-this territory being one-half of the town-and up and down the streets the fight rages. Each man
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-16
RESPECT FOR THE COL0Rs.
Lieutenauf SanteImann's Campaign al
 Last Producing Results. and Navy TAfA

Lieutenant SanteImann's Campaign at
 Last Producing Results.
 Army and Navy Life.
 Washingtoniang who attend band concerts are rapidly adopting the TOT eign custom of arising and uncovering the head when national airs are play cd. "The Star -Spangled Banner" es- pecially evokes this mark or respecI other patriotic demonstrations At the beginning of the season Of band con- certs very few people troubled them fevyes few were sE D either S soldiers or former members of military organizations in wh ich the salute Is required. The lack of respect received unfavorable director of the United States Marine Band more than once expressed re- gret that the crowds at the concerts failed to attest their patriotic senti- ment when the national anthem was played. It was said by the director of the band that Americans prided them selves upon being the most patriotic expression. Insult the flag and you insult each of us." yet when they had an opportunity. to show respect for that that flag they let 1t slip by. Foreigners also have made sighting remarks about the attitude of the Americans when their national airs are rendered, and looked on in surprise when The Star-Spangled Banner" was played be- fore a crowd sitting or lounging aronnd on the ground. apparently list less.
 But during the past summer hum dreds of foreigners have frequented the city, and the soldiers from the Marine Barracks and Fort Meyer, Va, who are very much in evidence at the con- certs, have taught the plain American citizens respect for the colors. Their teachings have had the effect which Lieutenant Santelmann has long de- sired. When the first strains of the to leap to their feet. but civilians fol- low inmedia tely. Of course some sa- lute awkwardly, but many have learn ed to salute with as much ease and grace as to make 1t Impossible for the observer to distinguish the former soldiers from those who have never been nearer battles more real than those put on by the moving-picture shows.