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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-24

Every now and then some scientist says
he has discovered that monkeys have a
language But the scientist invaria bly,
monopolizes the limelight instead of let
ting the monkeys be interviewed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-24
The Santa Claus Question.

If he's a myth, as sages tell.
Let them make this much clear:
Who is it that contrives so we'll
To see me broke each year?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-24

Richard Croker cannot be expected to
find entertainment in a country where
horse racing is at present in such slight
favor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-24

eff you wants to see de bright side
O. life" said Uncle Eben, ''you's got to
be willin' to put in a little patience an
hard work to help keep it polished up"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-24

II would be taking an unfair advan-
tage TO mislead any nation contemplate
ing trouble with this country by quot
ing the adverse critics of our navy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-24
No Place for a Poor Man.

From the Toledo Blade
Two more bankers are to go to prison
If this thing keeps up the time will come
when a poor man will not feel at
home in the penitentiary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-24
The IRONY of Fate.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
1t looks like clear case of the irony
of fate that the only war in which the
fierce war lord should have ever become
involved is one with his own people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-24
War Games.

From the Atlanta Constitution
They say Mr.. Rockefeller can beat Mr..
Taft at golf, but there are games to be
played later in which the Standard OIL
man may not be so successful.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-24

Reports from the Panama canal in
dictate that it may be desirable for Mr.
Roosevelt to administer some sort of re-
buke to the turbulent Chagres river.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-24

Night riders are again active. Compared
to some portions of Tennessee the Bal
kans are peaceful and abiding.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-24

AS a discreet diplomat Mr. WI should
be i'll no great haste to get back to the
vicissitudes of official life in China.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-24

Perhaps Mr.. Bryan will be tempted to
follow the example of Tom Watson and
devote himself to literature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-24
Tom Johnson's Backbone.

From the Philadelphia Times.
Tom Johnson may be broke. But ap-
parently his courage isn't even bent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-24

THE STAR has q regular and perma-
nent Family Circulation much more
than the combined circulation Of the
other Washington dailies. A. News
and Advertising Medium it has no
competitor.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20

Since 1860 the Southern states have
been practically eliminated from the
Federal councils and as Federal fac
tor, though it is true that from 1861 to
1868 these states were voluntarily alb
sent from those councils. During the
past half century the Southern states
have had practically no voice in shap
Ing the policies of the Federal govern
ment and have been the prey of the
other sections. Literally, the South
ern states have been the taX-producers
and the other sections of the Union
nave been the tax consumers.
For half century the Southern
states, each recurring four years, have
sent delegates to the Democratic Fed
eral conventions, and have been treat
ed by those conventions simply as a
party asset. For half century the
Southern states have. been giving ali
to the Federal democracy and receiv-
ing nothing from that democracy. For
half a century the Southern states
have been denied that full and perfect
equality with the other states of the
Union, which is their constitutional
right. The Southern states have been
exploited TO enrich the other sections,
by unjust, discriminating and dishon-
est laws, enacted over their protest
by selfish sectional majorities.
1t is time for the Southern states
to assert themselves and take their
proper places in the councils of the
Union land again as a section become
q potent factor in shaping the policies
OF our common country.
They should and will forever pre-
serve intact their state democratic or
CARNATIONS if for no other reason than
because absolute white supremacy de-
mands the solidity and unity of the
white people.
But they should attend no more Fed
eral conventions. Bound by no ties
to any candidate for president Or vice
president, elect their electors and hold
them as a balance of power to deter
mine the election of the candidates of
that party which will accord them the
entire measure of their constitutional
rights as the full and perfect equals
of the other states of the Union.
After the electors are chosen and
before the day designated by law upon
which they shall meet and cast the
vote of their respective states, let the
electors of all of the Southern states
meet at some central poin in the South
and decide for which candidates for
president and vice-president the cleo
toraI vote of the entire South, shall be
cast.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20
EMPERANCE IN ALABAMA
Jacksonville Floridian.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The DeSoto County News editor in
a recent article descriptive of trip
to Montgomery, Alabama, among other
interesting matters, says:
The work of the press and pulpit
has resulted in a higher standard OF
morals for public men. Drinking now
is under the ban. No man can hope
to long hold a place in Office if he
drinks to excess. 1t was not so 81
the days of the good old past. The
people tolerated drinking and drunk
enneSS in their favored sons. Truly,
times have changed for the better"
We may some time in the near flu
ture use this paragraph as the sub
ject for an editorial.
We are not yet converted TO the
cause OF prohibition, but it is a fact
worthy of note that the commercial in
terests CT the country are now de-
Imanding more strenuously than the
social and religious elements of life
mere temperate occupant for the va
rious positions within their gift.
The doctor. lawyer, publisher, mer
chant or business man OF any nature
or description seeking public favor,
will soon be compelled to show a tenn
perate certificate before he can get
on"
We shall only give this in horaeo-
pathic doses at present, but our read
ers may look for just little more of
it with each issue of this paper.
A man may be ever so much of a
soak" himself, but it's a cinch that
he will not go into a saloon looking
for a young man to hire for his own
place of business.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20
LET THE SOUTHERN :.
DEMOCRACY HOLD ALOOF
BY John S. Beard.

| The Southern states, the solid South
the eleven states of the South which
are always and under all circum-
stances Demccrat-have 120 electoral
votes. New York with SO electoral
votes, is pivotal in nearly every fed
eral campaign. The South with 120
electoral votes, nearly four times as
many as New York, can be the de-
termining factor in every election.
| The constitution designs that each
state shall appoint her electors and
that those electors shall determine,
after their election, in the electoral
college OF their respective states, for
whom their votes shall be cast for
president and vice-president. The pO-
litical conventions are extra-constitu-
ltional-simpIy party measures-and
have in practice reduced the electors
to mere figUreheads by requiring
them. as loyal party men, to vote for
| the nominees of the party.
| If these states will enforce the
spirit and intent of the constitution in
casting their electoral votes, the South
will again be that great power in the
Federal government that she was
prior to 1861, and which she is entitled
to be by reason of education, ability,
craftsmanship, patriotism and consti-
tutional morality.
While the Southern states believe
| in the eternal, indestructible principles
of democracy, they should recognize
the fact that political party is not
and end, but only a means to an end.
The South can enforce those princi-
pies of democracy. which had their
birth in the constitution, by holding
the balance of power. She can hold
the balance of power in the way, and
only in the way indicated.
The East and the West. with such
diverse and conflicting interests. will
soon be at each others Threats if they
have not the South as a common tar
get. They would be pretty nearly
equal in political strength. The South,
holding the balance of power, can de-
eide elections in favor of that party
or section which hewes closest to the
constitution, and which recognizes
each Southern state as the full and
tperfect equal of every other state in
1.-THE Union, and accOrdS them their
| full constitutional rights.
The South asks no more, and should
be satisfied with no less.
The South can in this way bring
the government back to the constitu-
ton OF the fathers, and again be po-
tent factor in the federal councils.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20

than so cents a year. With such =
contrast between the conduct of The
railroads and the individual the con-
Iclusion that the railroads are patriotic
in the matter of public education is
simply irresistible. They have no chik
dren to educate. Their stockholders
live in other states and they have
the benefit of the school at their
places of residence, yet they pay an
compIainingly quarter of a million
dollars a year into our common school
fund and raise no protest when it Is
proposed to tax them another thirty
thousand dollars annually to maintain
institutions for the higher education
of our ambitiouns boys and girls
This is what we call patriotism. There
can be no other explanation of the
silent consent of the roads. They
could Just as well send emissarieS
among us and make us believe the
public school system is an unmixed
evil and that we are being taxed to
death TO maintain the schools. Spurred
on by the high tax cry there are
plenty of us who would walk back
wards for five miles and then stand
on our heads. if need be. to vote
against a system that levies a tax on
us year after year for mere book
learning
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20
FLORIDA, MY FLORIDA.
Miami Metropolis.
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Once upon a time, in 1878 it was,
John Randolph, a respectable gentle
man from Virginia, q state on the
east coast of America, a country now
enjoying its 133d year of independ-
ence, was a member of congress. Be
fore that body of distinguished states
men, the proposition came up as to
whether Or not America should or
should not buy a certain strip of land
that looked like the vermiform appen-
dix of the northern continent of the
western hemisphere. The name of
that vermiform appendix was Florida
In relation to the matter, John Ran
dolph, esquire, arose and stated: MIR.
Speaker, / am opposed to this meas
ure. Florida, sir, is not worth buying.
1t is land of Swamps, and quaSmlres,
of frogs, alligatorS and moSquitoeSi A
man. sir. would not immigrate into
Florida No, sir, No man would i'm
migrate into Florida-no, not from
hell itself"
We can contradict this. We are in
formed tlat the only discontinued man
in hell is Floridian. And we truly
believe there are some John RAN
dolphs living i'm Miami, Fla. today.
Florida, like every other part of the
world, has it's drawbacks, but they
can be overcome. A hundred years
ago when John Randolph had that
brainstorm about Florida, he did not
know F1orida's soil was fertile. Our
John Randolphs, the John Randolphs
of today, say the same thing about
the Everglades. Old fashioned ideasi
Those who first came to Florida had
to test the soil before they knew it
to be fertile. They had to plant Or
anges, grapefruit, pineapples, man.
goes, bananas, avocado pears. onions,
potatoes, cabbage. celery, beetS, tur-
nips, carrots, berries, ETC., before they
found out whether they would grow in
Florida or not They did not sail
around the peninsula in a leaky canoe
and pronounce its useless. That the
way some people investigate the Ev-
erglaJes proposition, though their
minds are taken up so much with the
leaky canoe that they give snap Judg-
ment.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20

Probably every newspaper in the
South has taken at least one whack at
the crime of pistol-toting so prevalent
in this section and productive of so
many and other worse crimes. Some
good has been accomplished thereby.
for the press speaks for the best sentl-
ment OF this section on the subject,
but the habit still prevails to a dis
aStrOus extent and as long as il does
it viii be an issue full of menace to
our civilization. The Memphis Com
merciaEAppeal, takes a shot at this
evil which ought to have effect, and
it would if pistol-toters as a rule
were given to the modern practice OF
reading newspapers and thereby keep
ing UP with the trend of modern
thought. The Commercial-Appeai says:
There win be no effectual correc-
ton OF the pistol-carrying habit while
this teaching prevails. When men
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20

that time secretary of the treasury.
was guest of honor of the city during
the first state fair; at the second,
Vice-President Fairbanks was a visit
or; and. at the fair of last February
the Ambassadors of Spain, Italy and
Germany wee commanding figures.
The presence of such eminent men
makes Tampa, for the time being, a
center Of national, even International
interest, and Tampa has Col. Brown
to thank for bringing them here
Tampa Tribune.
Friday, the 18th, Proved UnIucky.
T. V. Schumann, very well known
carpenter of Tampa, came to his death
Friday night through an accidental
fall on the new dredge Miami, now
being constructed here for work in
the Everglades.
Schumann was on a scaffold on the
boat doing some work when he STEP
ped on q plank not heavy enough to
to bear his weight and was precipj-
tated ten feet to the deck of the boat.
A large scaIitling struck him in the
back of the head with such force as
to knock him unconscious, in which
condition he remained until death,
which occurred at S:45 O'Clock Friday
night at the emergency hospital, where
he was conveyed soon after the acct
dent occurred. The man had at the
noon luncheon hour been joking with
his companion workmen on the dredge
about an article he had read in a
morning paper about it being Friday
and the 18th of the month and a con-
sequently doubly unlucky day. He
laughed over the item, declaring that
he had no belief in such supersti-
tiOnS Miami NeWS-RecOrd
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20
INDIANA Y. M. c. A.

South Bend, Ind, Nov. 19.-Delesa-
lions from all the Young Mems Christ
ian associations of the state are here
for the opening today OF the thirty
ninth annual convention. The conven-
ton here is rendered especially nota-
BILE by reason of the recent opening
of magnificent Young Mems Christ
ian association building, erected as a
memorial to the Studebaker Brothers,
the famous wagon manufacturers. Fhe
sessions will be the most notable ever
held in Indiana, the list of speakers
including DR.. Frank W. Gunsaulus OF
Chicago, Bishop Edwin II. Hughes
and other men of prominence.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20

The Murderbund in Tennessee" is
the way the Tampa Tribune speaks of
the political and social forces back OF
the slayer of Ed Carmack in that state.
And the murderbund is active in other
states as well as Tennessee. 1t is a
social problem in every community in
the South. There is just one way to
solve it and that it to make the pistol
toter the scorn of every man and wo'
man. There are times under our ne.
culiar social conditions in this section
when pistol-toters may be justified, but
If you will read the daily press dis
patches you will understand that in
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it
is not justified and the men who in
dulge in it are deliberate iaw-break-
ers, ruffians and bullies, at heart, who
haven't a shadow of excuse for their
iawlessness. The fearful aggregate of
Southern murders can be Justly
charged to this class.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20
PATRIOTIC FLORIDA RAIL
ROADS.
Starke Telegraph.


In spite of all the statements to the
contrary we are constrained to be-
lieve that in some particulars, at least,
the railroads of Florida are not half
so bad as they are painted. Instead
of being soulless they are, positively
patriotic. Were it not so they would
start an agitation for the adjustment
of the public school system and rid
themselves of the tremendous tax they
pay every year on account of public
education.
When men with three to five chill
dren to educate, and who pay no more
than 50 a year into the public school
fund for the privilege of four to five
months schooling, can be easily lead
into believing that we are paying too
much taxes for public education. il
does not seem at all improbable that
the railroads could work the high tax
cry as cunningly as they are charged
with working other schemes and have
we innocents do away with the whole
system. That they do not turn the
trick seems TO us an exhibition of I'M
Iadulterated patriotism. The roads 1T
present pay into the public school
fund Of the state more than a quaI = =
of a million dollars annually, and yet
when the proposition was made 70
levy a one mill tax for our state col
leges, which are part and parcel CT
the public school system, no protest
was heard from them. This additional
tax for education would have cost
them thirty thousand dollars a yea-,
but none of their agents or attorneys
were heard to advise the people
against ratifying the constitutional
amendment. On the other hand there
were individual taxpayers in plenty
who looked upon the amendment as a
great bugaboo, Notwithstanding that
the tax would have cost them no more
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20
The Revision
Mask Thrown Off.

The republicans from Roosevelt
down have been profuse in promises
20 revise the tariff in response to
public sentiment in the western states
where the farmers have finally discov-
cred that the consumer pays the tax.
But now that the election is over and
there is no further need to disguise
their real purposes, revision is treat
ed almost as a good joke, sharp
campaign trick that worked like a
charm"
Senator Hale, of Maine, is one of
the old guard who speaks ex-cathedra
and what he says on the subject may
be accepted -as authoritative. The
Associated Press quotes him as say
ing: "Once in while you will hear
q suggestion of revision by the next
congress, but it is clearly out of the
question and will not be undertaken -
And there you are and all the rest of
us, too.
The protective tariff is the very
stronghold of predatory wealth in this
country, the creator of that wealth, in
fact, and If the democratic party had
concentrated its forces. on that single
issue in the late campaign the result
might have been different
Our present high tariff system is
either right or wrong, and 1t ought to
be put into our politics as the chief
subject Of discussion and so thorough
ly ventilated as an economic ques-
ton to be decided by pure reason that
there would no longer be any doubt
about its worth or want of worth to
the masses of the American people.
Andrew Carnegie made three hun
dred million dollars out of IL and now
that he doesn't need it any more and
has his money in wellsecured bonds,
he says that it is a bad thing and
ought to go. He can afford to tell the
truth about it and what he says ought
to have value in putting final esti-
mate on the system.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20
The Puzzled Pianist.

Oscar ~Hammerstein has all appli-
cants for his opera companies exam.
ined by a throat specialist, says the
Washington Star. Nor till he is as
sured OF an applicants good throat
machinery does ne devote any time in
hearing him or her sing.
1T is a god idea, is it not?" said
Mr.. Hammerstein, the other day. I'm
the past ] lost many a valuable half
hour listening to worthless singing,
singing, so bad. in fact
''Well, one afternoon my pianist
turned to a tenor aspirant and SHOUT
ed angrily:
Give tried you with the black keys,
I've tried you with the white keys and
I've tried you with the black and the
white mixed. / think you must be
singing between the nicks.'"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20

Some of the brethren on the week
~ press might occasionally overcome
their modesty and express an opinion
on current events. Our exchange ed
itor whispered this to us in strict con,
1denee. Very few OF them fail To dc
SO and it is to those very few that
we address our earnest request. The
consensus of human opinion, out OF
which all truth is evolved, is certain
ly Incomplete without the SAY So
OF the country editors, for they are
as a rule, the embodiment of common
sense and they talk for the plain PEG.
pie.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20

After a quiet election full of prom
ise for the future the people OF Cuba
have selected their OFFICIALS from
president down and the government of
the island will soon be turned over
TO them. Everybody wishes them
well and that self7government may
prove a success with them, but if 1t
Shouldn't, Uncle Sam is right at hand
20 take hold of the situation again
and hold 1t some more The large
white element in Cuba will probably
save il from the degrading travesty on
decent government furnished by the
neighboring negro republics of Hayti
and San Domingo.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20

Horace Hood, the editor of that ex.
cellent paper, the Montgomery, Ala,
Journal. is a candidate for reelection
to the office of sheriff of that county,
but quite a number of opponents are
contesting with him for the honor.
Horace is much of man" anywhere
you put him and if we had any pull
in the premises it would be all in his
favor.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20

The best short story that has ap-
peared in any Florida paper for long
time is that by Peter Stanley recent
ly published in The Journal entitled
"Recollections of Colonel w. D. Chip
ley." 1t has been copied in every
leading paper in the state and ought
10 be copied all over the country. If
"pster Stanley" can hold his work I'D
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20
PENSACOLA FLORIDA FRIDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 20, 1905

to that standard he will soon ba in
demand by the magazines. Peter is a
Florida product now working on the
Gainesville Elevator, and we congratu-
late him on his success as a short
story writer. In this age of our liter
allure the short story writer has the
call
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20
Where the Stars Shoot.

Teacher-what is a meteor, Johnny
Tuffin?
Pupil-'Taint a dealer in meat, is It,
ma'am?
Teacher-Certainly not Have YOU
ever seen a shooting star?
Pupil-Have 1? Why, amt miss
ed a show at the "home o. the meller-
drama" in two years.-Illustrated Sun
day Magazine
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20
Wonderful Florida Lake.

Alachua county has one of the most
remarkable lakes in the state. II
cannot be surpassed in beauty, and its
fish supply is ineXhauStible. Fisher
men have been shipping on an aver
age of three barrels of fish from
Lake Lochloosa per day for ove-
twenty years, and they appear to be
as plentiful today as they We're when
the fishing hegan.-GNaesVille Ele-
vator.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-20
A Prize for Editors.

In order To promote interest in the
next state fair. the Tribune offers two
prizes, one of SIS, another OF SO. for
The two best editorial articles, printed
in a Florida paper, before January L,
1909. pointing out the advantages to
be derived by the state at large from
the state fair. The articles may be