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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20
TAKING UNFAIR ApvANrAGE.

In recent issue of The New York Times we find some details of an oe- eurrence which we think may be of in terest to most readers. It saysi
 French transatlantic liner, April 22, was departing from St. Nazaire for Vera Cruz. Just before the departure the walters, or, as they would be call ed on British lineT the table stew aris," struck for an increase or pay. The demand was, of course. in itself an absurdity, since the table steward relies for his subsistence not on hls wages. but on2tips. Moreover. 1t was agent at the port of departure found himself helpless. He had no authority to increase the pay of the walters. He informed them that he would transmit their claim to headquarters. but that the ship would sail on schedule tlme, They stayed on board, but the snip was no sooner well out at sea than the stokers made a sympathetic strlke back to port After a delay. very an moving of course to the passengers. there was a compromise reached, and the ship proceeded.
 It seems that the stokers were very ill-advised. They are registered as sailors. strike at sea on the part Of sailors is b" the French code mutfny. and very severely punishable as such. Every strike of the Socialist variety de- bends for its success upon the degree of Inconvenience 1t can infNct upon innocent third par---s. But the strik- CTS in this case omitted to consider their legal liabilities. Nobody ever saw a waiter who was affected with a public interest" But French stok- CT Is by law so affected. The sympa- thetically striking stokers were in this case thus affected, and are likely 10 rue their action. The law Is. of course. nAfA v Chief Arthur put the Brotherhood or Locomotive Engineers on a sounder footing than 1t had occupied before, the engineers had been in the habit, when a strike was ordered, of quitting their trains, whenever their trains might be when the hour of strik- ing struck, thus inflicting grave incon- venience or worse upon the passeng- CTS, who had nothing to do with their quarrel.
 The point in this case, as in many others. is that the strikers took advan- tase of time when strike would be most expensive and annoying to the owners and agents of the liner, but had no regard for the annoyance and inconvenience to which the passengers would be put by their action. If the
 
 the passengers were not in any way to blame fo- 1t, and the strike was plain ly a hold-up on the part of those en- gagged in 1t. And the stokers who Joined in the sympathetic strike" as they term it had even less defence than the walters had. It was the same kind of indefensible evil that Chief Arthur condemned in the engineers who would stop their trains when ever they happened to be when the hour ordered for them to strike had arrived, without regard to what the passengers and the public might be called on to suffer. Certainly no fair minded Union man can defend the ac- tion taken in these cases.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20
the nation deflned ana ruaraea ,n oraer

the nation defined and guarded in order that neither should encroach on the other. and neither should usurp or in- wade the rights and the powers of the other.
 That this dangerous tendency is fos- tered, encouraged and led by President Roosevelt should be plain to all who have in any manner kept themselves properly informed. For the first time in the history of our government we have man Tor chief executive who has adopted for his own the dangerous monarchial motto, T am the State" For the first time we have a President who usurps and arrogates to himself the privilege of construing the consti. of administering both civil and criminal laws ia accordance with his own de- signs, wishes or prejudIces. Is it any wonder. then, that others of less exaIt- ed station, melted and encouraged by his disregard of custom, precedent and right, should follow his example and endeavor to strengthen his hands for still further inroads and usurpations of power, and still greater inroads on the rights or the States and the people
 It would be strange If just this result did not follow the evil example of the chief executive of the Republic. Un- der the slavish and Ecophantic theory that the King can do nothing wrong there are those who seem to think that whatever Roosevelt does is not only the right thing but that it is done at the right time and in the right way. That this tendency towards power-wor- ship should make the President more arrogant, daring and conceited cannot be doubted. He is being taught by their words and actions that the people of the entire country regard him as the greatest and wisest man who has ever occupied the seat he holds. and that they will applaud and endorse every thing he does. Do they never stop to think that such greatness will ruin the country?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20
A POLITICAL MARTYR.

E. q. Ross Gave Decisive Vote Against
 Conviction of Andrew Ohnson'
 Philadelphia Inquirer. a., l.,
 Edmund c. Ross has just died III poverty and obscurity in Hstie Htsts ro%s uoere Announcement carries little informatlon to the ordinary reader, but 1t IS iacs that Ross Is perhaps the greatest oI American political ma, martyrs; y;sitjnn Ino into ignominy because lie dared to do ms duty in a strenuous age, lie was tho United States Senator who gave tne decisive vote against the conviction or Andrew Johnson at his impeachment trial in 1868. There were SIX ai'i otJI Republican Senators who hade preVl- ously announced their intention to suP nort Johnson on the ground or insuI- ficient evidence; but they were men of tpromin ence, who, although drlven to political coventry, were stih que to maintain themselves.
 It was well known at the last Ino- ment that everything depended on the vote of Ross, and 1t was supposed py the majority that he could pc kep. in line. He was soldier or ortune miiU, i'n as Senator from Kansas. Ills apllltleS were not above the ordinary He hao eevrything to gain and nothing to iose except his self-respect by voting TOT conviction, He was beset on all sides to so vote and waited until the last mo- ment to see if he could reconcle ms conscience to such acton. f1e was threatened with loss of position ana prestige, and with poverty if he eerV, ed his conscience. He would nave had rich rewards had he voted with the majority. But he said plainly that ne could not see that Johnson was gGiIty of crime. He hated Johnson and all his political works, but that his re- moval of Stanton was against the law he, did not believe. and 1t can be said that almost no one believes 1t now. Most of the Senators who voted for con. yiction afterward were glad tnat they did not prevail, and some openly con fessed that they had been mistaken :. But Ross got his reward of poverty and disgrace, and lived almost forty years.
 Had Johnson been convicted, Wade would have become President and would have been nominated for Vice. President with Grant, and many strange things would have resulted in politics. It was while .he clans were gathering to nominate Grant that the issue was decided and Wade lost the coveted nom- ination.
 Every important writer on the con stitutional history or law of this country agrees that Johnson with all his faults should not have been con- vieted just as he ought never to have been nominated for Vice-President in the first place, though this was done at the mandate of Lincoln. Ross did what was right and suffered. Not all statesmen have such courage, but most of them who have defied opinion have lived to be rehabilitated. Undoubted- ly Ross saved the country from great peril, and he has been almost entirely and undeservedly forgotten.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20

Some days ago he Birmingham Ledger referred to the fact that seven ty-six pieces of land In Baldwin Coun- ty were advertised for taxes on ac- count of owner unknown" and la mented the fact that so many people should own land in that coming coun- ty' which was not worth paying taxes on. We respectfully refer The Ledger to the columns of advertisements or land belonging to owners unknown" in Jefferson County, which appeared in its evening contemporary of last Saturday. The total figured up several times seventy six.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20
MONDAY, MAY 20, 1907.
wExRiNG THE COLLAR.

For blind obedience to party dIcta- ton we may take the case of Speaker wadsworth of the New York LegisIa- ture as good example. What is known as the Public Utilities bill was before that body for discussion and action. As to the merits or demerits of the bill we have no concern now, but there are some features of 1t to which MT. Wadsworth objected and he made a strong speech in opposition to the measure as 1t stood. Then a mem Der introduced an amendment remov- ing the features to which the Speaker objected and he voted against it. The Brooklyn Eagle says:
 The inconsistency of the Speaker was thus explained by him. His ut terances were expressions of his in an organized Republican obedient to the mandates of his party. The As- semblvmen, he said, were up against 1t; their action had been cut out for them. Therefore, he believerd that they shoulr subhimt to the dictates to the party machinery Some sinister people might possibly charge the Speaker with seeking to convey, the fdea that, LnereIOre, the PuDIlc UTlll- ties bill was a machine measure. But that would be unjust because all the state knows that the party machine acted only when aroused and militant public opinion forced its action
 In plain words. a man holding the important position of Speaker of the House of Representatives voted for 8 bill against which he had made a speech and voted for 1t because his party required him to do so. He was opposed to the principles embodied 1n the bill, but his party had demanded its passage and he submitted. That ! comes of wearing a collar, even In law making.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20
PARLOR MATCHES.

The Chicago Chronicle is out in jeremiad against parlor matches, which have almost entirely usurped the place light Most of us except the very young, remember the old sulphur matches. which were once the only kind to be had. They were somewhat more difficult to ignite. but they were also more difficult to extinguish by the wind Their sulphurous odor. which gave them the title of Lucifer matches. was objectionable. For all this, the matches now in use are far more dang erous and objectionable, partly because of their explosive qualities. and be- cause they go off so easily when one steps on them. or rat bites one, or in various other ways they are not altogether better than the old Lucifers. For all thes reasons The Chronicle is down on the parlor match and thinks their sale should be prohibited by law. If the State of Illinois will not stop their sale 1t believes the city should do so. ..f
 This seems to us a drastic sugges- ton. but The Chronirle is in earnest about the matter, and files a strong indictment against the little things. It wonders too. why so many of them are bought and sold but 1t should know that this is because of their cheapness. and this latter is one cause of the damage caused by them. If a small bex, containing only forty or fifty of them, sold for five or ten cents people would exercise much more care than they do, but when they can be bought at retail for about five cents a thou sand they are left scattered about the premises and accidents often follow. And we doubt if such prohibitive laws as The Chronicle desires could be en- | forced. There would be so many ways to circumvent a law of that kind that 1t would be little better ,Aan a farce, especially in a city like Chicago,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20
Today In History

15o6-Christopher Columbus died.
 1635-French and Dutch defeated Spaniards at Avein.
 1S71--David Dudley Field, clergyman and author. born.
 1S06--John Stuart Mill. political economist, born; died May g, 1873.
 1S34-France announced her inten- tion to retain Algiers permanently.
 1S59--Austrians defeated at Monte- bello.
 1S61--North Carolina seeded from
 is6s-Republican cohvention at Chi cago nominated Grant and Colfax.
 1S79--St. Patrick's Cathedral. New York city, dedicated.
 1SS0--Henry Stuart Foote, opponent of Jefferson Davis in the Confederacy, died; born September 20, 1900.
 1S95-Gen. Jose Marti, Cuban revo- lutionist killed in battle.
 1902-Thomas Estrada Palma inau- gurated first President of the Republic of Cuba.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20

The Board of Revenue of Montgom- cry County should consider the advis- ability of making good roads to the Pike County line, beyond Pine Level and to connect with the Pike County road to Troy. The Pike people are jubilant over their road from Troy to the county line and if Montgomery will only continue her roads to a junction there will be a splendid drive from Troy to Montgomery and vice versa. Think over t''~ proposition and get to work on IL.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20

Mayor Ward Of Birmingham in his annual message. recommended that sa- looms licenses be raised from $500 to s1.25o.
 We would not be surprised if his views were adopted Birmingham is not the only Alabama city where high CT liquor licenses should be required Unless it is done in montgomery we may expect a hot prohibition or dis aansary fight in the near future
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20

ated. all the present officers have had raise in salary and the monoy accuS muiated under the low rax administra- tion of Governor Jelks VIII soon become exnausted. Things are moving under Conner and you must pay for every move.
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 A Sad Commeutary. Mobile Register.
 The Southern Express Company pro. poses to close its office at Mound City MISS. negro town--because 1t cannot ma an honest negro to serve as agent IL has been robbed frequently by ita agents there. and cannot afford further Ioss. As It is negro town, no white mar man cares to live there and fill the of- nces This Indicate Anything.
 Although Captain Bankhead led tbe van Tn last years Senatorial primary, ,h nave aiways regarded 1t as some- .ning or an accident in Alabama poll. tics We should not be surprised that II when the first one or our present senators drops out, and the Legislature E caiIed on to elect, Joseph F. Johns s'oh VIII De the successor. ss ss Ss
 Public Sentiment Needed. Cherokee Harmonizer.
 Much or the evil of concealed weap- ons' Is due to failure to enforce me law against the unlawful use of wesp. ons. What Alabama and gre at many otner states need is a better public sem timent against the unlawful use of deadly weapons, and not an act to make conceallng them felony. The latter Fonense Is more likely to be punished when the punishment is rioderate. o,- in other words, when it Is left a misds. meanor. To make it felony is yIrtuaI- ly to license it.
 
 Some Friendly Suggestions, Jasper News.
 We are of the opinion that if the Ala mama Legislature would give A little more attention to laws forcing the rail- roads to improve their roadbeds. build better depots and giving more efficient service generally, that 1t would be bet ter for the people, Safety to F r lives and speedy and prompt Of freight is by far of more inn than the efforts to reduce pas fares and regulate freight rates,
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 Will He Held Responsible. Tuscumbia Dispatch.
 There is one thing very sure. the fact of MT. Comer's dominating the Legisla- ture will make him personally respon- sible in the eyes of the people for the mistakes that were made All a member of the Legislature will have to do in the future when he Is being pbraided for some law passed that proved a curse rather than a blessing to the people. will be to point tho complainant to MT. Conner.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20

H o searchers for the best good place to eat! ' ts HIGH LIFE, No. Il North Perry Street. G entlemen, place will please you, H appily our price won t freeze you L adies say our place is charming, clean and neat ! getting what you order means your trade, E not you Il get it-have your order made; verythng is served so quickly. B ustling walters deftly, slickly ndertake to handle raysul that make you feel afraid rom the land and from the sea cull our store; F reshest fish and game and meats we have galore; E verything order r here it is in big larder.. nd lots and lots of other things you Dforef N ow around to HIGH LIFE once and see Q ont delay your visit or you Il sorry be C uisine? There's none that $ better A nd we Il suit you to the letter, F we've got the best of everything xperienced help and coin can bring
 il North Perry Stret.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20

Staid old Elyton objects to being a part of Birmingham and in order to prevent .t proposes her own incorpora- tion Her lines take in the Fair Grounds and the ball park. Birming- ham grieves over the impudence of the proposition bu. perhaps the Elytonites will win out in the long run.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20
MARCE CIRCULATION.

xhe Montgomery Advertiser guarantees ftD Advertisers (and makes N a part of me contract when reQuested) that it's Daily cir culation is larger than that of any morning newspaper printed in Alabama-and that its Sunday edition has the largest circulation of any edition of any newspaper printed In Alabama without exception
 Tho figures for March. printed below represent the actual net circulation. all re- turns having been deducted
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20
Win Be Held Responsible.

The papers are asking. 'Ts 1t a sin tt sell soda-water on Sunday" We wo, say that 1t certainly Is when you a one of the few young men in the lage and run into bunch of girls cry time you sneak into the drug st on a business errand.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20

The Sacramento Bee opines that %President Roosevelt is writing too much on the Mover Haywood case. Yes, he does resemble an unfortunate parrot of which we have heard.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20

One cause of railroad wrecks is spreading rails. That will no longer be the case when they get to running trains on single rails, whatever of other dangers may follow.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20
What fhe Sfafe Papers
 Are SoyIng and Doing

A worthy Act. Tuskegee News.
 The city of Taiiadega took a step wnich should be patterned after by ev- cry ether city and town in the coun- try. The City Council passed an or m.. to a. m.
 Reform Him First. Gadsden Journal. Don't marry a man to reform him. nor a woman to reform her--either one is big job. Plenty of time to marry after the reforming is done.
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 The Lacking Element. Birmingham News.
 Alfred Austin says American poetry lacks polish. Mir. Austin's poems don't seem to be particularly lacking in any thing but poetry
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 Kentucky and Prohibition. Birmingham Ledger.
 Kentucky Is much nearer a prohibit tion State than Alabama. She has 119 counties and all are prohibition, ex- cept twenty-four. We will have to locate the liquor jokes somewhere else
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 Technicality Thwnrts Justice. Huntsville Mercury.
 Too much technical law in our American courts often crowds justice to the wall. and too often out of the case
 ss as % Wait and See. Bessemer Rustler.
 Boss" Conner says that he is the daddy of the law taxing foreign loan companies and that 1t it a good one Therefore it will not be repealed for the very good reason that the Boss" has the Legislature under his thumb and they do not go against Mars" Comer's wishes.
 Lands fin Fayette Fayette Banner.
 Parties have been taking options or timbered 1ands in this county for tvs or three months past. and we are in- formed that deal has just been closed by which several hundred dollars have already been paid, and thousands more are soon to be distributed among the landholders along the Luxapalila River
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 Good. Idea Anyway. Sumter Sun. Captain Hobson's proposition to urge government aid in draining swamp lands and creek bottoms was first pro- posed in this county by MT. w. o. Wins ton of Ramsey. two years ago, and The Sumter Sun published it at the time MT: Winston Is one of Sumter's best citizens.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20

Kentuckians are fond of horses, probably accounts for that dark which Is going to be entered by Henry.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20
DRIFT OOD
Carving Names.
Bx EtAAL A. AktAAsChONG.

Carving Names. Don't you remempSf d time long ago, When you walked oy a InaId With ner
 cneeKs aglow, One picnic day leath an old beech tree, Wni4e you teIt as sncep;sn and sne felt free. While the song birds earoied far over And unuer your feet was 8 green rug spread. Whi4e you rold her you loved her so ten derlY And carved her name on the old beech
 tree. Sure you remember when air was sweet With the fragrance or June Time. Oh how complete When life was all roses and life was rhyme. When the shy little maid said: T love you, l guess And you hugged her and squeezed her and made her say yes" While your soul bubbled over in ecstacy, As you carved her name on the old
 beech tre" You carved her name on the old beech Then under it cur your own. To see How well they would look together--Oh Wasn't that long and long ago1 Wash that foolish? Oh, l don't know. Don't seem so queer as we older grow. For you sigh for those days to once
 more be When you carved her name on the old
 beech tree.
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 Broken Reflections. A woman thinks she :sn't well dress ed unless there is a big Dill attached to it.
 ss ss $ Don't be too anxious to whirl through this world in an automobile; you might go so fast that you'n pass happiness on the way.
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 It's as bard for a girl to wear open work hosiery without letting everybody know it, as it is for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.
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 ss & ss Sometimes after chorus-girl marries she kicks up row st e & Alas. the flame Of love won't always cook the biscuits
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 Now is the time of year when the l D bunch of women discuss clothes.
 :s s E Heroes of Today. Why do you say he Is hero; he hasn't been to war;"
 No; but he's a drummer and fre- ouently rides on railway trains" :s sS E Redeem.ng Trait. feur?"
 Because he is always careful to run into something cheap" Head-FOremost. When you asked old Perkins for the hand of his daughter, how did you come out?'
 Just a-hying"
 fs st g John l.. Sullivan is to marry again; well, that's the kind to marry, one who is strong enough to hold his own in a fight
 The Houston Post paragrapher is an epecurian of the most pronounced type; it makes us hungry to read his clever squibs
 A writer in The New York Evening Post declares that Secretary Taft is the nations drummer. He looks more like the nations drum Houston Post. Is that an insinuation that he can be ''beat?' MT. Stead asks where are our poets?" If you direct this query to Brother stanton of The Atlanta Constitution, he'll inform you that in Georgia they're all blowing Money. when money talks, how folks bow down To catch each word it has to say No matter who 1t interrupts,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20
W w w High Txaee,

CuIIman DemOcrat-
 What have you received? High taxes and more taxes is a compelte answer. All kinds of taxes. Soda fountains. tobacco dealers, and, in fact about every avocation Is taxed to the limit and beyond it. The farmers land must be raised, the personal and real estate of every citizen must con- tribute double the amount What for Hundreds of new offices have been cre-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20
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when money talks. how folks bow down
 To catch each word it has to say. No matter who 1t interrupts,
 You see folks give it right-of-way.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20
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MT. Stead asks where are our poets?" If you direct this query to Brother stanton of The Atlanta Constitution, he'll inform you that in Georgia they're all blowing.