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The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09
PENSACOLA FLORIDA SUNDAY MORNING JUNE g. 1907.
Making Men Moral
by Legal Enactment.

Under the head. "Fallacy from a
High Source" the Punta Gorda Her.
aid contains the following:
One of the most ably edited news
papers in the entire southern states Is
The Pensacola Journal. Its views,
emanating as they do from a brilliant
mind and expressed with care and
precision, carry great weight where
ever they are read. We are, there
fore, surprised to find the following
fallacy amongst the editorial para
graphs of that usually wise and pa
triOtic paper:
1T is being demonstrated over and
over again that you can't make people
honest or moral by legal enactment -
If we accept that dictum in its full
meaning, we had as web repeal all
prohibitory laws and abolIsh our jails
and penitentiaries. For the natural
conclusion TO be derived from The
Journals proposition is that, mas
much as we cannot by legislation
make men good, we should therefore
not enact any laws restraining them
from evil. But the object of law is
not to make people honest and up
right with reference to themselves,
but outwardly so in their relations -
others. You can no more thrust
honesty than you can brains into a
man, and the law is not intended for
such a purpose. Should we, there
fore do away with it merely because
it cannot change the Ethiopians skin
or the spots on a leopard?
Legal enactments, however, GER
tainly contribute towards the reform
alton of the wicked by deterring them
from evil and compelling them as far
as possible TO act as good men, even
though their hearts may be filled
with all manner of corruption The
removal by law of active evil leaves
nothing for the immoral save their
own inward sins, and the absence of
exterior evil thus created has a ten.
dency to force them to turn to what
is good for mental relief and enter
tainment. if nothing else.
We may not make men honest or
moral by legal enactment, but we can
punish them for not being so, and that
in all ages has been recognized as
right.
All of which is very entertaining
and more or less convincing. But
by what rule of logic does our Punta
Gorda contemporary assume or pre-
sumo to quote The Journal in a state
ment of absolute fact and then pro-
ceed to draw natural conclusion"
that is as foreign to the fact quoted
as Jonah was to the whales stomach?
And after all, the Herald finally
admits exactly what The Journal said
when it says, "We may not make
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09

stated, was a well known witch doc
tor, though this fact was not ELECTED
in evidence. The outcome OF the in
carnations was that two of the sons ),
Mapira and Katiwa, visited a neigh
boring kraal and accused a native
woman named Kajiwa of having be-
witched their father and caused his
death.
They demanded of the husband OF
this lady that she should undergo an
ordeal to test the truth of the allega-
tions. The husband asked for three
days grace, saying he wanted his
wife's uncle to be present at the trial.
When this space had elapsed Chitan-
dria, the husband, accompanied by
his wife and her uncle. native
named Denti, set out for the kraal at
which the ordeal was 10 take place.
On arrival the party were directed TO
small spruit below the kraal, where
the eight natives sat in conclave.
Chibanda was master of ceremonies
and sat cooking some liquid in a, pot.
When the medicine was cooked the
lady was told to take a draught It
was explained that two draughts of
this medicine would act either as an
emetic or a purgative should the
woman be a witch. Two draughts
were administered, but left the lady
undiSturbed.
Chibanda thereupon again piled the
medicine, evidently determined that
the oracle should work, and after the
unfortunate female had taken 81
doses nature rebelled and the medi-
cine acted in its dual capacity On
this five of the natives sprang up with
asseals and kerries. crying: There
is the witch who killed our father.
Let US kill her" But the husband
and uncle came to the rescue. After
some discussion the bereaYed sons
agreed TO be compensated, and as a
first instalment the uncle handed
over a kaffr hoe, telling them If they
killed his niece he would inform on
them The lady and her relatives
then went back to their respective
kraaIs Three days afterward the
two natives Mapira and Katiwa, re-
visited the lady's husband and de-
manded the witch to be handed over
TO them 10 be killed This he re-
fused TO do. and later the woman es-
capped TO the native commissioner
RhOdeSi3 Herald.
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09

semble gardeners rather than botan-
lists. We classify for convenience
rather than upon scientific basis, be-
cause, in point of fact, no such basis
or finality of mode has as yet been
discovered"
Perhaps, adds DR. Savage, there is
no need to wonder at this since
many have to be treated as Iunatics
whose brains and nervous systems
show no change whatever from the
normal course of what is recognized
as sanity. Unfortunately, the i'm
pulse TO define and classify some
times leads to misinterpretation of
deplOrable kind. Such, for example,
is the false view, as DR.. Savage
deems it. that every person of IN
sound mind is d lunatic. That. he
says, is a 'pseudo-legal" absurdity.
obviously, there are many persons
of unsound mind who are neither dan
gerOuS to themselves nor 10 others
why, therefore. regard them as
aliens?" The true difficulty. insists
this distinguished expert. is that the
disease insanity does not exist Yet
one might almost conclude from the
elaborate articles in our leading
daily journals that such a thing as
is a definitely established
fact, that it is a malady as definite
in its symptoms and origin as, say,
cancer or tuberculosis Cur.
rent Literature for June.
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09
Let Pensacola
Be Made Beautiful.

A stranger who knew of the culture
of the people of Pensacola would be
surprised on first coming here to see
how barren of beauty are the public
streets, and the stranger who has not
learned of the culture of Pensacolians
by contact with them would on arriv-
al here find it hard to believe that a
city so barren of public ornaments
could be the home of high culture,
both socially and individually.
From time TO time, Mr.. w. B. Bar
ton has written to The Journal, urg-
ing that the streets be beautified- His
suggestions are as timely as they are
meritorious. and now is the time to
begin the work
Tropical nature is such that, with
a minimum of trouble and with little
demand on art, Pensacola could be a
veritable garden among American
cities. Our wide thoroughfares, like
Palafox and Garden streets. could be
all the year like a garden of eden
o.. some fairy bower. Hand in hand
with the paving, now about to be be-
gun on an extensive scale, should be
coz. menced the systematic planting
and semi-tropical varieties, such as
would within 4 very few years ;hauge
now urattractive streets into 0eauri-
full thoroughfares, which would be a
constant delight to the residents and,
in the eyes of visitors and strangers,
a persistent reminder, by their beauty,
of the many exceptional charms of
life in this city.
To turn from the social and esthetic
asrects of the matter; nothing is a
better advertisement than beauty.
There is money many times over in
every dollar spent by a city u make
its streets attractive. Every city in
the world that has systematically
beautified itself has found that it paid
and the corollary is equally true. No
city can afford not to look its best at
all times.
II there be one thing in particular
that unfavorably impresses the
stranger within our gates, it is che
ssndipess of the streets, and It is not
difficult to appreciate that a consid-
cradle part of such croaking and
"hnccking" as is done by some of our
own people is due to those same
sandy streets. 1t is high time that the
sand itself should be made to do its
share of good, and repay the harm it
has done in the sight of strangers
and home-folk. The city administra-
ton would do well to strain a few
points, if need be, for the sake of
making use of the sandiness to trans
Form the streets into avenues of
fropic beauty, ft setting for The
womanhood with which
fate has endowed Pensacola, essen
Rally delightful city, even though I'M
necessarily lacking in the beauty of
easy establishment at light expense. |
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09
NO CARS RUNNING
FOR TWO HOURS

Street cars were ct q standstill last
night for several hours. due to the
machinery at the power plant. which
furnishes power for the cars, becOm-
ing disabled.
Shortly before O'Clock the cars on
the various lines stopped, but it was
then thought they would start again
within a few minutes. All were filled
with passengers returning to their
homes, who after waiting for fifteen
minutes decided to walk.
An hour passed without the cars
starting and il was about o'clock be
fore the machinery was in shape and
power again turned on.
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09

small your salary you can spare that
much for the baby's sake. Keep this
up steadily until the child is twenty
one years old, and he will have over
SLIOO in the bank, to make his first
real start in life for himself If may
seem impossible for you to do this
just now with so many extra expensee
Dut try 1t for a few weeks and Won
VIII nnd 1T quite easy. If, however.
you cannot save So every month. save
TWO dollars, or even one dollar If
really does not matter much abOut
Ine amount, the one thing essential is
lhe Dank account itself BY saving
one OolIar a month Carnegie when a
BOY got his first start in life and can
now spend millions. Talk this Ali
over with the child when he is old
enough to understand and Won will
fnd MIN ready to further your efforts
and to add to his bank account when.
ever the opportunity offers itself.
How many times do we hear men
explaining their bad luck" in busi.
ness by saying, ''it is ali my parents
Iault Ihey never taught me the value
OF money was never made to save
q penny IN my life" Not very pleas
ant tor the father and mother to hear
is it? Especially if they have not
been savers themselves and are de-
pendent on this son for support.
Young father, talk this over with your
wlIe. You Will find her ready and
willing to cooperate with you. Start
a savings account today for the baby.
Lay the foundation for his future. If
there are two babies, start two ac-
counts, and in this way SOW the seed
that Will in later years enable YOU to
reap an abundant result.
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09
ArriVaIOffhe NeWBabV
The Finest Ever-The Proud Parents Start It
With a Savings Account

The new baby has Just arrived,
There it lies with its tiny bald head
cuddled closely in the hollow of the
mothers arm. II really is a fine
baby; unquestionably the finest baby
that ever was-such a plump shapely
little body-such we'll shaped head
such bright eyes that already show
unusual intelligence. The mother
fOndles its tiny fingers lovingly, and
plans great things for its future. Her
mental vision is keen, and she can al
ready follow her sons progress
through the various stages of his ca
reer. In such he is always at the
head of his class-in colleges-for of
course he will go to cOllege-he car
RES OFF the highest honors; in a bust
ness of his own he prospers and be-
comes great and wealthy man. and
last of all is sent to congress. then TO
the senate and perhaps even becomes
president. How clearly she can see
II all, and how proud she is even now
IN anticipation. Best of all. this
dream may be fulfilled-it rests en-
tirely with the father and mother in
hfe- The start is everything. Set
the little baby's feet on the right road.
guide him gently with. firm hand
and when he can walk alone, he will
not disappoint you. The best start
boy or girl can possibly have is
savings account You may have
wealth now but by the time the child
Is ready for college or business your
money may have taken wings. then
your boy or girl will lose this chance
OF doing the best possible thing for
themselves. Begin right now and put
80 in the bank every month for the
baby. This is only one dollar and
quarter week. and no matter how
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09
SUNDAY SCHOOL
COUNCIL MEETS
TUESDAY NIGHT

The regular meeting of the Pensa-
cola Sunday school council is to be
held Tuesday night at 1880 o'clock at
the Y NJ C. A. and as a number of
interesting topics are to be discussed,
it is the desire that there be a large
A paper, which Will prove of general
interest IS 10 be read, and this will
be followed by a discussion. There
will also be informal numbers.
All teachers, officers of Sunday
schools in Pensacola and vicinity are
urgently requested to be present.
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09
Binqham's Booklet.

-'''Sit0bt OOONlCl"
If the citizens of Pensacola have
any enjoyment of humor they will
certainly elect F. F. Bingham a mem
Der of the board of public works to
which position he aspires. He has
brought out little book in gray and
black and red in support of his candi-
dacy for the position. Mr.. Bingham
is a Republican. but he laughs off that
handicap with a jolly air which may
remove it. In fact, he may lauch
himself into Office Stranger things
have happened
The booklet is full of gay. rollick-
ing humOr. Every page bristles with
1t and most of the pages are illus
trated with one or two little
wood cuts each, printed in black and
red. each appropriate to the para
graph in which il is inserted, some of
them apparently original and all
about as cOmical, in the connection
in which they are displayed, as the
letter press itself
The first edition of this UNIQUE cam
paign publication was 1000 copies.
and 1t was all exhausted between Sat
urday morning and Monday morning.
ThereupOn he ordered another thou
sand. Among the comments of Pen
sacOllanS given in the second edition
the one which most succinctly de-
sribes the booklet is by w. c. Jones.
secretary of the chamber of com
merce: Il consider it gem Of Amer
lean humor. Jacksonville Times
Union.
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09
WITCH HUNTING
IN RHODESIA

y remarkable tale OF native super
stitiOn and creduliry was told at the
magistrates court yesterday morn
ing, when eight Mashona natives from
the Mirews district underwent pre-
liminary examination for committing
certain offenses under the which
craft suppression ordinance. The
eight natives were all relatives, and
the father of some OF them died re-
Gently. Not being quite satisfied that
death was due TO natural causes. ap-
peal was made to a certain native
named Chibanda, who, the prosecutor
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09
DELINQUENTS WILL
PAY HEAVY PENALTY

Parties who are delinquent with
their city taxes will pay heavy penal
ties if a settlement is not made with
the city within the next five days, for
on June Is an additional penalty of
10 per cent is to be added to all
money due the city on account of
taxes.
At present the penalty upon delin-
qudnts is 3-4 per cent, upon the dol
lar and this will continue until the
18th when an additional 10 per cent.
is added, thus making a total of 13
3-4 per cent.
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09

" kept on hand a surplus stock of
five hundred million stamps The
floor of this building that ] am look
ing over has 1000 busy workers. and
hundreds of presses at work. 1 ais
wonderful sight is worth more to see
than all the exhibits at jamestown,
in my humble opinion.
Next | go to the White House, or
rather the basement This We are
permitted to wander through on the
carpeted floors, too look at furniture
and paintings, used and looked at by
Washington and mis- successOrs-the
cups and plates, the silverwaTe and
bedsteads they occupied. The presi-
dent himself was not accessible, even
had we desired TO shake his excel
lency'S hand.
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09
nhere the Accent Was.

Certainly no one who does not pos
sess or is unable to assume the Scotch
accent should attempt to play the part
of Bailie NlcoI Jarvie in Rob Roy"
Nevertheless a certain actor. who was
not Scotch and who could not disguise
his tongue. attempted at Glasgow 20
play the part in question. The audi
epce was indignant, and a man in the
gallery called out:
"Whaur's your accents"
Nothing abashed, the actor came for
ward and. gazing up at the speaker.
calmly replied:
You've got it."-Dundee Advertiser.
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09

about Armstrong. which the latter re
sented. Armstrong, who says he is
Just out of a hospital. where he was
treated for several weeks for a pistol
wound in the stomach, was convicted
OF entering without breaking 1nd
committing grand larceny He cahe
mere from Birmingham, and had been
in the city only a few weeks, when,
1t is alleged. he walked into a house
and appropriated a gold watch. He
Is to serve nine months.
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09
Fulton and Armstrong Have
FiSGcum i'm County Jail

Cary L. Fulton and Jas. REYNOLDS.
both recently convicted and sentenced
IN the Criminal Court TO thirty and
nine months at hard labor each. en-
gagged in a fight in the county Jail
Friday afternoon, and although they
We're quickly separated by the taller
and trUsty, assisted by other prison
ers. Fulton received a blow on the
nose which caused the blood 10 flow.
The fight was brought about. il is
said, by Fulton making some remark
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09
Nine. NOrdiCa'S Plan for
Great American Byrenfh

Nine Lillian Nordica intends to
establish on the Hudson. near New
York. Beyrepth in America. With a
part of her great fortune the noted
singer will erect the Lillian NOrdica
festival house which will be to this
country what the famous operatic In
sututiOn founded by Richard Wagner,
and now maintained by his widow. is
TO Europe. The site for the institu-
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09

ton was purchased last Wednesday
for 100000 and NOrdica expects
that the opera house will be ready
for its formal dedication one year
from next summer. An American in
stltuJe of music. where American
young men and women who aspire
10 operate features Will be taught by
the best teachers in the world. is in
cluded in the plans of the famous
singer
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09
Pensacola a Top-Notcher

Pensacola still stands at the top
notch as lumber exporting port
Last month 26,694,000 feet were
shipped away. No one knows how
much now is exported cOastwise from
Jacksonville, as no official or aUthen-
tic record of il is kept here All
shippers in Fernandina, Brunswick
and Savannah report to -neir boards
of trade each vessel and cargo sent
away. And it should be initiated m
JacksOnviEle.-Jacks MetropO-
lis
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09

men honest or moral by legal enact
ment, but" etc.
Of course you can't make men NOR
al or honest by statutory law. That
IS not only a fact which few will dis
pute, but it has really come TO be a
truism accepted by the most enlight.
ened civilization everywhere.
There was a time when they did
pass laws in a mistaken attempt to
make men moral That was when
they made it compulsory for a man
to go to church and 10 do a great
many other things which could not
be forced upon people now But
those days haze iong since gone by
and the best directed sentiment now
is engaged. not in. making laws to
force men to be moral, but in max
ing laws which prevent immoral men
from encroaching upon the rights of
others OF from Haunting their immor-
ality in the faces of the moral mem
bers of the community.
We are not making John Doe NOR
al or honest by law, but we are by
law protecting Richard Roe from
John Does immortality and dishon-
esty- We are also Furnishing John
Doe if he allows his natural immor-
ality and dishonesty to harm Richard
Roe in any way.
The Journal trusts its Punta Cor
da contemporary sees both the differ
ence and the distinction between the
statement quoted and the conclusion
which it so enormously draws there
from.
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09

In a special dispatch to a Buffalo
paper from Lincoln, Nebraska, Mr..
Bryan's home town, it is affirmed that
he says he will not accept renomi-
nation from the Democratic party
providing the president is renomin-
ated. To quote the dispatch, Mr.
Bryan feels that President Roosevelt
is progressing so rapidly toward the
radical stand which he himself took
in his two campaigns that no harm
can be done the party's principles by
giving the president an unconteSted
election so far as the Democracy is
concerned. Atlanta Georgian.
The special to which our con-
temporary refers is several weeks
old and was denied by Mr.. Bryan
within a week after its publication.
The Georgian is either very poorly
posted on current events or is ami
mated by more or less of malice in
giving approval to a story that all of
Mr.. BTyan's real friends knew was
false as soon as it appeared.
The efforts of the Pensacola Driv-
ing Association to secure some good
racing events for Pensacola this sea-
son and to finish the season with a
big horse show next fall are worthy
of general support and The Journal
hopes that the public, and horse own
ers particularly, will all join in and
help make the proposition a success.
The Bay Minette, Ala, Times
wants to trade off few would-be
statesmen for some good thrifty set
tiers. Florida could well afford to do
the same thing and give considerable
boot in the bargain.
The Mobile Register is still worry
ing over that proposed L. & N depot.
We can't even get new railroad over
here, let alone such thing as a de-
pot.
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09

"As UsuaI.v
The Pensacola Journal is boosting
tobacco culture in Florida. and so
shows its usual good Judgment
Tampa Tribune.
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09
- OF PENSACOLA
AND PENSACOLIANS
b . Q 9 O 3 o o Q g . . o . . Q 4
Always Have Been

Always Have Been
Pensacola is to soon have a ten
story Office building The people of
the Escambia city are evidently be-
coming high minded.-Palatka
Times-Herald
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09
The Pensacola journal.

The Pensacola Journal ranks witt
the best OF FlOrida's daily news
papers Frank MayeS has brought
his sheet to the front in good style
Lakeland Sun.
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09
Should Have Daily Mail
Service to Choctawhatchie.

ne journal trusts that the petition
which is being circulated for the pur-
pose OF securing a daily mail service
between Pensacola and Choctaw-
hatchee bay points will receive the ap-
proval of the post office department.
There are hundreds of people scat
tered along the coast from Pensacola
to the head of Choctawhatchee, ell of
whom are remote from railroad con-
nections but whose business and
numbers all entitle them to a daily
mail service. The present three-time-
a-week service is not adequate, either
for the people themselves of for those
who do business with them, and The
Journal trusts therefore that the de-
partment will put on the additional
Cervice which they desire.
Chairman Andrews of the Escam-
hia county commissioners has enter
ed plea of guilty to crookedness.
This plea and disgrace would never
have come upon him if the county
commissioners had been printing res
receipts and disbursements of county
money-not in condensed form, but
detail.-Andalusia News.