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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-25
BRYAN AS A PREACHER.
1as Wonderful Hold on His Vast Au-
GiencpS.

utenCcS.
It is a good thing for the country
to have man who can gather great
audiences and hold them in close at
tention for two hours at a time while
The speaks upon the moral and ethical
duties of The citizen. Not many preach
ers of the church have this power. A
half-hour is about as long as the aver
to the average minister speak upon
the text: Thou shalt not steal,'' and
yet at recent address In Carnegie
Hall In this city Mr.. Bryan spoke upon
that text to an audience of 1000 peo-
pie. composed largely Of men and wo-
men who We're naturally opposed to
him politically. and held the rapt at
tention Of this great audience for one
hour and three quarters. Evensat the
close Of this long sermon his auditors
hear Mr.. Bryan extemporaneously an
swer questions suggested by his ad"
dress. We doubt If any man left the
hail that night without feeling that
political robbery, financial Juggling and
the perpsetration Of Injustice or the
law are mean and contemptible.
For the work of this kind which Mr..
Bryan has done in behalf of practical
morals; the country owes him genuine
appreciation does not need to take, and
In our Judgment will not take, the
form of placing him in public office, for
Which he is fitted neither by his tenn
permanent, which Is oratorical, nor by
tremely limited, This appears. too. tc
be the judgment of large majority
Of the American people. and this Is
Why they persist in refusing to CHOOSE
Mn MIN as, as the manager In chief Of theil
honor him and listen to him as an elo-
quent preacher--The Outlook
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MONDAY, MAY IS, 1905.
MIR. BRYAN ON BANKING.
Observation-Disclosures.

Turning aside from the absorbing
question of instructed delegates, Mr..
Bryan addressed the Bankers Club OF
Chicago Friday evening on THE True
Theory of Banking" In the course of
his remarks Mr.. Bryan said that all
snYrency should be issued by the Fed
eral government and loaned to the
banks. AS to this proposition we are
satisfied that. though 1t may require
more panics and prolonged hard times
to impart the necessary knowledge,
the people of America will sooner
lor later adopt a system that Will abb
solutely remove the government from
private banking or from the lending
of its money to private banks. De-
spite the 100 bills that have been in.
troduced on the question Of currency
reform, nothing has emerged Of COM
fort or encouragement to the people
except truer knowledge of what
should be the basis of issuing bank
notes and their functions when issued.
Very recently Che Times Dispatch
described the relationship between the
York and the rising stock market.
Nobody objects to the stock market
advancing, but there is a very good
ground of objection to such an unna,-
urai plethora of money as to lead al
most inevitably to wild speculation.
Until the laws are amended SO that
banks can issue notes against their
gold reserves and against commercial
paper representing actual wealth, such
as cotton or grain or coal or iron, or
bills of lading for merchandise or
other goods in transit, we will never
have a currency that will expand or
contract with the business of the
country. This country has had recur-
ring panics since 1878, which in every
instance have been intensified because
our currency system was created not
to serve the commercial interest
of the country, but to create an arti-
fetal market for government bonds.
ii is economic madness to- compel all
the people to pay interest on govern
ment bonds in order that an unsatis-
factory basis for issuing bank notes
may be provided when perfectly sat
isfactory basis lies ready to our hands
Mr.. Bryan made a mistake in not seiz-
ing the opportunity of his address in
Chicago to further clarity the public
mind on this subject, instead of add
ing to the ignorance and misappre-
hension BY calling for further govern
ment interference in the private bust
ness of banking. which would be far
better able to serve the public to-day
had the national government never in
terfered with it at all by the national
bank act.
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Many Menus to One End.

Marriage is one OF our most PRAISE
worthy Institutional pastlme in New
York, a business In Chicago and Il
sacrament in Los Angeles. Sometimes
love. sometimes profit, supplies the in
centiye. Sometimes it Is sufficient
that her hair Is beautifully red and
her eyes charmingly blue; sometimes
the fine curl of his mustache leads on
to matrimony or his pleasing accom-
plishment Of blowing expanding rings
with tobacco smoke. Uniforms arc ac-
counted great nersuaders of feminine
hearts. Automobiles ditto, An ability
to make a French dressing for salad
to wiggle either ear, or close one finger
on the palm without moving It's ex-
tended mates have heen known to
prove effective Number sin feet In
number three shoas sometimes en-
courage rnatrimony as we'll as corns.
LOS Angeles Express.
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Mcxlco's business, Futurc.

The confident predictions OF Euro
growth in wealth Of the United States
Mhen business resumes its usual
course. might we'll be applied to MeA-
lco, country abounding In resources
ana. IN the opinion of competent OBJ
servers, only a tenth. part developed.
All the work done here during the
past thirty years. though the national
wealth has probably Increased five.
1910 has been preparatory The Fed
eral government has encoura ged rail-
way construction, built portworks,
given concessions for the development
OF electrical energy (Which has nov
ed manufacturing industries, and done
thousand things in encouragement OF
wealth. creating activities. It is a re-
llarkable exhibit OF successful achieve
ment, but what has been done has
been simply making ready for the
immensely larger evolution Of the near
When The present period Of quiet
In business is ended. the country Viii
begin to push on at a rate SURPRISING
anything noted in the past three de-
cades. Thcn we shall all see the value
OF the preparatory work done up tc
Now y ON, /, Mining; manufacturing and
eiias ri1 VIII take fresh start
pan, pan values grow; Lands, mineral pro
demand shan for many years.
The next boom" here will surpass
awning ever seen in this country
IT VIII be the time of golden OPP
porftunity for al enterprising men
sance Of business tina that long ti h heads
capitalists IN Mexico are even nov
preparing. --Mexican Herald
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OLYMPIC GAMES AT LONDON.

The re-established Olympic games
Will be held with every surrounding of
splendor and success this July in Lon
don. The old Olympic games were held
only every four years, but since the re-
establishment of this great Olympic
festival in 1896, the Oympiad has been
reduced to two years.
The reduction came about in this
wise: The first revival OF the Olympic
games was held in 1896 at Athens;
then in 1900 at Paris; then in 1904 at
st. Louis. and now in 1908 at London.
In the meantime. however, magnif-
cent marble stadium had been erected
at Athens, and this stadium was USE
less without games Therefore, the
Athenians decided to hold their own
Olympic games every four years
beginning with 1906. They We're
therefore, held two years ago at
Athens, and will be held again in 1910
and 1914.
The stadium that has been erecte !
lin London will seat 10000 spectators
and the management will be under the
charge OF unpaid enthusiastic lovers
of sport. In addition to foot races,
wrestling. boxing and discus throw
ing, which made the ancient games SO
famous. there have been added pole
vaulting. high jumping, boat racing
and such modern inventions as shoot
ing and motor races. The Marathon
race will begin at Windsor and finish
in the stadium, its course lying over
Harrow, Sudbury and Wormwoof
Scrubs.
Though England Ireland and Wales
! count as one country, 1T is hardly pos
sible that the tight little isle will equal
some other countries in maximum
scores. In individual feats America
ought to be the winner. and II Rector
of the University Of Virginia, goes the
glory of establishing worlds RECORD
in an Olympic contest may well be
Virginia's.
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Voice Of the People
better Streets.

| Bctter Streets.
Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
in 8 small way II Lee bistflct., / Wish wisl,
pre sa The sph IDEAS Papsr o T. IKE
class. E
westward, and from Broad to Main
streets, one Will find continuous mud
mole, espe ,ially at nearly }all crossings,
within these limits Many. Of these
streets are entirely void or foot cross
inss Of any description. sand IN order
t6r re-, one 70 cross over they must wade
squares out OF their way to get to
terra ~ firma r THIS Of course should
past few years, and is still being built
up rapidly to which there seems TO
be no end. Taking into consideration
SECTION mentioned either as, property
who have Our affairs in hand would
and should. do something more than
better shape. 1 notice there has been
appropriated many Thousands OF dol
lars to extend Monument Avenue out
house is rot to be seen within many
will be quite awhile before there viii
DC any we VINO i've In a more thick
~ settled section, and pay our taxes.
would not object to have few Of
these thousands so literally spent on
tho above street. put in our midst.
which, Of course, would be OF lasting
benefit to all concerned. Besides. It
would go long way towards beautify-
ing our city, Of which there Is sol
much talk. and but little action, espe-
c!ally within the section rErtrred to-
mere are a number OF improvements
that should be made as quickly ms
possible throughout this entire section
rake our alleys. for instance. and one
VIII find them In n most miserable con-
dition. There are innumerable mud
puddles, and standing water In nearly
every one of them. Which one will
IND It Impossible to drain unless our
lily Fatllars come to our assistance
with few OF their thousands and do
a lot Of work being carried on In the
Is already a fairly good drainage, and
we'll acquainted with the city that
for some little time. and the money
placed in the above section, which, he
You'd a doubt, is more in need OF i'm
provements than the old section of the
city. Should any of our City Fathers
feel inclined to visit the section re-
ferred to-. especially in wet weather, II
am sure they will find plenty OF work
that should be done at once, and which
is absolutely necessary.
ltichmond va Nav % 1oOQ
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JUSTICE TURPIN SOLVES A DILEMMA
BY offering to. lend the City Bar AS.
sociation, as its library, one of the
rooms set apart for the use of his
court, Justice Turpin has solved a
dilemma.
1t is a pity that the City Hall has
not grown as fast as the demands on
| 1t for offices of city officials. Had such
been the case there could be no con-
flict between the Bar Association and
Mayor Mccarthy as to the proper use
to make of the Mayors reception room.
II was in the Mayors reception room
that large body of citizens perfected
their plans for President Roosevelt's
reception. 1t was in this same room
that the meetings which made the Con-
ference of Charities and Correction
such signal success were held. Doubt
less these meetings could have been
held in room that had book stacks
arranged around its sides; but that
would not have been as convenient,
nor would those who attended them
have been received In manner as
worthy Of the city.
1t is doubtless an advantage to the
judges Of the Circuit, Hastings and
Law and Equity Courts to have ready
access to the Bar Associations library,
and, therefore. 1T is desirable to re-
tain those books in the City Hall for
that purpose. But the use of City
Hall is for the city officials, for the
transaction of the .city's business, not
to provide shelfroom for voluntary
associations, and, if the question had
come up sharply between the Bar AS
ISOLATION and the Mayors reception
room, the library would have been
compelled to give way-a contingency
which Justice Turpin has most salts.
factorily avoided
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M1cnoBE OF LEpnosY.
Or. Deyckc's Investigations ana inc
h nj 4l

Or. Dcyckc's Investigations and Thelr
Results.
After years of work based on chem
ical and physiological investi cations
and eventually transferred from eXper-
mental practice on animals to the SER
vice OF man, DR.. DeYcke, the late dl-
rector OF she Military School of Practl,
cal Medicine at Constantinople, has felt
sufficiently confident regarding his new
treatment to recommend It's use IN
cases of loprosy.
IN the Ilrst Instance an attempt was
made to grew the microbe found In
leprosy outside the body, but this prov
ed inpossible,i another microbe being
obtained when the attempts were made,
This was Isolated, and on us compo-
sition being analyzed It was found that
the substance which caused the body
ia react with ulcers, boils, and What
not, giving rise to the leprous condi-
ton. was carried In an apparently
harmless fat extracted from the mi
crobe called nastin.
1T may DO taken as n general rule
that a lnicrobe dies II deprived Of
nastin, though a fat itself, caused tile
disa appearances OF fat from the MI
crobes, 1t was not always successful
and further Investigation showed that
It was only when the white corpuscles
OF the blood lad be on broken down, and
when henzina was also present, n that
nastin produced its result.
It was at this stage that light shone
on the obspilrity OF the method The
microbes In the body readily take IN
1.-THE fat that Is y eculia to them. naStin
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Editor Of The TImes.pispatch.

Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Slr.-1 was surprised to see In your
ISSUE OF the 18th instant a statement
by your Marion correspondent that
Judge Mann has many friends in
Smyth county. and there is apparently
no doubt that he Is the choice OF the
party mere for the Governor OF the
State" We think the communication
gentleman who is not a resident OF
the county. and who came from the
eastern part OF the State to attend tn.
county convention. and who knew
nothing of the sentiment OF Smyth
county.
The resolutions passed by the Demo-
cratic convention and reported by your
correspondent had no significance as
to the choice OF the county for Gov
ernor. The attendance on the conyen-
tion was small. not due to lack of in
terest on the part of the Democrats
OF the county. but to the uncertainty
of the hour OF meeting. The conven-
ton only had thirty-five or forty min
utes In which to do Its work. owing to
change in the schedule of the Norfolk
the delegates had to return to their
homes. The resolutions as whole
were objected to. but were passed by
majority, present. But had 1t been
thought that the Endorsement OF Gov
ernor Swansons administration could
Mann's candidacy. those resolutions
would have found a permanent resting
place on the table.
notwithstanding Judge Mann was In
Marion on convention day as guest
of the Marion Female College, an in
stitution of which the people Of the
town OF Marion and county Of Smyth
are justly proud. the writer, mingling
freely with the people on the streets.
in the courthouse and hotel Hobbies.
did not hear Judge Mann's candidacy
mentioned. except from his own lips.
In his address before the literary So
iciety of the Marion Female College he
referred in "a facetious way to his can
didacy for the governorship. which
|caused ripple OF merrlment over the
audience, but his earnest and serious
statements as to how faithfully and pa
|triotically he would discharge the du-
ties Of that high office If the people
OF the State ntrusted him with it. did
not elicit a response from his hearers.
The silence that followed was oppres-
|sive.
Among our good people of smyth
county will be found few supporters
of Judge Mann: the valiant Harry ST.
George Tucker has some strong friends
here. but really we are not thinking
seriously OF anybody for Governor ex-
cept Henry Stuart. Outside OF the State
institution located in the town of Mar
Hon, there is little opposition to Stu
art. The county is practically solid
for him DEMOCRAT. &
saltville. Va, May 90, 1908.
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The BilIion-Do,Iar Session.

The dispatches from Washington
present In round figures the appro7-
priations which Will have been made
by the close Of the session dur
ing this week. The total falls little
short Of l,ooo.ooO,ooo, being In excess
OF the appropriations for the present
fiscal year by the last session Soon
{gress, and THIS at a time when the
government revenue is falling off and
expenditure month by month largely
exceeds the income, The deficit for
mis- fiscal Year will be above 100000
tooo AS revenues are now running, ana
on the basis of approximations being
made the deficit next fiscal year will
approach Sl50,000,000, which would
pTactically wipe out the treasury sur.
plus accumulated from the years OF
business prosperity This demons trated
inaoility OF the party in power to ad-
just the costs OF government to tho
financial conditions ssof the Treasury
and the taxpayers will not likely figure
IN the presidential campaign to the
a',hvanntage OF that party.--sprlngf1eld
Republican. $500 it E5f
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Personal AND GENERAL.

Glass telephone poles. reinforced by wire,
are being used in some parts of Germany.
Egyptian cotton land produces nearly
four times as much per acre as that of this
country.
The irrigated districts of Egypt comprise
100000 acres and support 10000 900 per
sons.
AT Kansas City Joseph Burns was sent to
the penitentiary for five years for stealing
locomotive.
The estate of David Valentine was, settled,
at Fall River. Mass. after having been In
the courts 1o2 years. 45II -,
Tho anthracite coal production of the
United States Ia confined TO PENNSYLVANIA.
Colorado, Rhode Island and New Mexico
AT least 90 per cent. OF all cases of
neuralgia headache are attributed by Dr.
Toms, an American oculist. to defects in the
eyes.
The cotton mills OF Switzerland have re-.
NAMED almost stationary for the last ten
years, owing TO foreign competition md
tariffs.
Germany's population IS increasins much
more rapidly than that OF Britain or
France This is nations greatest source
of strength
Miss Clara Martin will be candidate for
the Legislature at the election In East To-
rcnto, Can. She is Canada's first female
lawyer.
Governor John A. johnson, Democratic
candidate for the presidency, likes red neck
.iS"' "hu wears tHefn. says ANaShingtOn
correspondent of the Brooklyn Bagle
r NJ. Hubbel said to be the wealthiest
mar In Iowa, seventy years old and in good
f nea,rh ., mas as sign signed note for $4,000 IN
able ten days after my DEATH"
Miss Jean Reds bridesmaids on the &C.
easlon OF her wedding with John Hubert
Maro. brother of the Earl of Dudley, on
June sl ,, 20. VII include Miss Bessie Croker
ana Miss Mills ana Mr.. Wards nieces, Lady
G!adys honor and Lady Morvyth Lillian
ward, the daughters OF Lord Dudley.
G. G: Abbott director OF the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory. has left Wash
lnGton for Mount Wilson, near Pasadena.
CAL, where he will continue observations
conducted both in Washington and in Cali
the earth from the sun. ~
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Dun MAGNIFIcENr NETGnBon.
Shhadn's Territorial Greatness ana In
luSfrin1 Promise

dustrinl Promise.
regardless OF the great amount OF
derive from the feeling that foreigners
look upon the United States as America
and our assumption that the world
regards, re- The Union as about the only
IAN to agree with ]. Fl. Longley OF the
supreme Court of Nova Scotia, who
at the dinner of the Canadian Club Il
Few nights ago declared that within
very snort time we would be COM
PEELED to admit that Canada was fair
~ entitled to the distinction of being
q very considerable portion of Amer
lca, both as commercial country and
as as a factor In the affairs of the globe.
canada is making suoh rapid strides
Will not be held as representative
of nine-tenths of the continent, as is
now the case in most countries of the
world. She is rushing forward to
ers, and the Significance OF the term
which we have appropriated will me-
cessarily diminish
Territorially Canada Is greater than
The United States, which fact the
average american overlooks. True.
much of the Dominion lies too far
north to become thickly inha bited, and
is therefore unfit for agricultural and
been Canada's trade expansion, SO great
her increase In population during the
past quarter of century, and SO bright
and solid is the assurance OF her flu
ture that the time is almost here when
that country will divide world honors
with the United States. II is, no longer
a strip OF land to the north of us. SO
attractive is it that within the past
seven years something like 100000 peo-
pie have moved over the boundary line
chiefly from the middle Northwest, in o
Manitoba and the neighboring prov
inces. They We're our best class OF
citizens, too. who have migrated. and
the movement is still going on. Tween
ty-fve years ago there were 1000 miles
of railroad in Canada. To-day there
are $4,000, with three transcontinental
lines. The total trade of this part Of
the British empire has grown from
S34 100000 in 1851 to $3.50. 100000 at
present. and the great impulse has
come in very recent years. Manitoba
raised 100000 bushels of wheat In
1903. but last year the crop amounted
to s7,500,0OO bushels. While the popu-
lation Of Canada is but one-seventh
that of the United States. that country
can rightly claim to be the fairest
hover with the most glowing prospect
of any of EnSland's dependencies
Brooklyn Standard Union.
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University Advantages at Ann Arhor.

University Advantages Mt Ann Arbor.
IT is beyond question that II ordl-
nary young men had raised a riot and
destroyed property some Of them
would have gone to the workhouse.
If not to the penitentiary. In this case
criminal charges We're dismissed on
the agreement that. the students raise
$1,000 to pay damages. They got a
severe lecture from the Judge. a
proper perception of the real effect on
the college is indicated In the declara-.
ton OF the university paper of the
following Impressive results: "A repu-
tation for lawlessness, rowdyism and
entire disregard for sthe rights Of
others" "dragginG the name OF col-
lege man in the nlire," and a cost Of
the riot, morally. never to be reck-
,oned,''
These gloomy, though instructive.
reflections may be lightened by one
Ifurther-t thought, IT Is that. with all
tho penalties stated, the offending stu
dents got of much more easily than
they Notwithstanding Dispatch, I
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Gives Way to the Ladies'.
OF The Times Dispatch:

"a u, u. c." In to-
dny's paper, for her most kind refer
ence{ to my article of April 1907, call
ing attention to the fact that June g
1908. will be the centennial OF the
some time after that article was writ
ten saw 1t stated that the New Or
leans Chapter Of the Daughters OF the
Confederacy had passed a resolution
iSo7 When nv artieIe ', Vas e writteS,,
I2had never seen or heard Of the reso,
luton. sssgs Il al tjy gs q 4 .iS
= Most cheerfully and readily do
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yield to them, the merit Of the sugges-
ton. 1 am more than willing to give
way to- the noble women Of the South
who have so beautifully and faithful
.ly worn the cypress crown OF the con-
federacy, and without whose love. de-
many monuments to our noble dead
would even now remain lncomplete.
w. o. SKELETON.
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It is rather an odd thing that mere
customs and manners should have car.
rind DR.. Wood and Colonel Stewart so
far in opposite directions.