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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-01
BETTER GENERAL
OUTLOOK FOR TRADE
Price Reductions Have Stimuz
lated Business
COLLECTIONS IMPROVING
Textile Industries Are ouieter and Re-
cent Cuts In Price of Cotton
Goods Will Aid Future
Transactions.
COLLECTIONS IMPROVING

New York, January 31.-Bradstreets to-
morrow will Say:
Trade and financial developments have
been of a rather irregular character, but
on the whole in the direction of future
Improvement at the larger centers. Con-
servatism in ordering is noted as a coun-
try-wide condition, but recent price re-
auctions have unquestionably stimulated
interest. The suspensions of four banks
at the metropolis was, after ALL only neg
atively unfavorable, these being the after
math of last autumn's financial storm.
Money shows increasing ease all over the
world, and improvement in collections IS
in many cases the result of easing money.
Dry goods distribution apparently is tend
ing to increase because of recent cuts
in prices. Lower prices for builders hard
ware are reported to have stimulated
some inquiry, and there is talk of pos
slble cutting of lumber prices.
The cancellation of orders is still a dis
turbing question in some lines, but there
seems this week to be rather more sur
prise of reinstatement of orders previous
ly rejected
Inc textile industries are quleter, out
estimates of restriction of output are not
easily obtainable. The recent cuts of
prices In cotton goods places the prices
of most grades at least 20 per cent below
year ago. Special shipments are 80 per
cent below 1907.
Hides very easy. There are widespread
reports of large numbers of unemployed
in all sections of the country, and some
southern reports point to a return by
idle city labor to tine farms.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending January 80 number
800 against 40S last week, 211 in the like
week of 1907, 22S in 1906, 29s in 1905 and PIG
in 1904.
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CHANCELLOR DAY
HANDS OUT LEMON
AciduIouS Remarks Are Made
Upon the Message
HE CALLS IT PURE RANTING
Chancellor Day Declares That the
President AssaiIs American Citi-
zens Without Warrant and
His Words Indecent.

Syracuse. N. Y, January 31.-Chancellor
James R. Day of Syracuse University.
discussing President Roosevelt's message,
said:
"Of the Presidents message. if I am
entirely honest and frank, l am COM
PEELED to say that much of it reads like
the rawlings of disordered mind; and
other portions, in which appeal is made
to class prejudice and excitement large
with the suggestion of the adroit and
cunning, the shrewd but reckless dema-
gogue.
THE whole message is his familiar
ranting against what he calls criminal
wealth. and it proceeds upon the SLAM
derous assumption that so great a per
cent of the corporate business of this
country is so corrupt as to demand special
messages to Congress, popular harangues
by the President and the entire time,
ability and effort of the Congress in a
volume of corrective legislation such as
the world has never seen.
rs is wrong, great wickedness, for
the Standard Oil company to defend it.
self, but there is no improperly in the
Presidents assailing this corporation by
name and OBTAINING it and slandering it
with all the envenomed influence of his
great office, while its cause is still I'M
decided in the higher courts
LAS I am not one of those hired
book writer's referred to, personal word
may be permitted. Not -nickle or dime
was ever offered to me by any personal
company or corporation, for a sentence
or paragraph -in print in any shape or
form whatever.
II was warned that if I wrote, my repu-
tation would be assailed by the President
and every unworthy motive would be
charged against me. 1 am now charged
with selling my character and bartering
my reputation for pay to a cause that
l know to be corrupt
"These are strange times when Ameri-
can citizens are to be assailed under cover
of a message to Congress for exercising
their inalienable right of the discussion
of the policies and acts of the adj
ministration of the country.
when President of the United States
will descend to such indecent state
ments and other assaults by innuendo
upon the honor of his fellow citizens,
whose reputation for honor and high
moral ideals are as firmly established as
his own, we are left to one of several
possible differences.
1--WE will try to take the one that
is most charitable"
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DUN g. co.'s REVIEW.
Seasonable Weather and More Fac
tories Operating Aid Trade.

New York, January 31.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'s weekly review of trade tomorrow
will say
Seasonable weather and further in
crease in the percentage of active ma
chinery combined to improve the trade
situation, although there is still a large
number of unemployed, and dealers pro-
coed cautiously in preparing for future
business. Prices of commodities have de-
cliHed on the whole, yet products of the
leading industries are fairly well main
tanned Mercantile collections are irreg-
ular, despite the case in the money mar
ket.
More iron and steel plants have resumed
and the outlook is brighter, even railway
equipment attracting much attention.
Textile markets are still somewhat unset
tied, cotton goods having to contend with
erratic variations in the raw material in
addition to other disturbing influences In
some directions there is more activity,
but in some cases there are frequent in
quiries without actual transactions Con-
summation of much business seems to he
postponed by the question of price. Manu-
facturers have more confidence in values
and are sustained by the pressure for
quick shipment. Aside from a few bulk
orders for mems wear the wooden goods
market is still conservative, and there is
no disposition to manufacture beyond the
business in sight.
Most buyers have left the Boston shoe
market without placing customary orders,
many who have secured even fair
amount of business being the excep-
lions.
Leather is dull and weak except for
heavy stock, which is very scarce.
Some exporting Is also helpful.
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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
is VIGOROUS DOCUMENT
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ties. The line of demarcation between
federal and state authority can and
should be speedily settled by the federal
courts. The fact that the national gov
eminent has omitted to exercise the au-
thirty conferred upon it by the inter
state commerce clause of the constitution
has made the states FESTIVE under what
they deem corporate abuses and in some
cases has probably stimulated them to go
too far in the attempt to correct these
abuses with the result that all measures
which they passed, good or bad, have
been eld up by the federal courts. The
necessary equitable and uniform regua-
ton can not be obtained by the separate
action of the states, but only by the af-
firmative action of the national govern
ment'
Alarmed BY Conflicts.
This is an appeal by high state judge,
alarmed, as good citizens should be
alarmed, by conflicts over the matter of
jurisdiction, and by the radical action ad-
vocated by honest people smartng from
a sense of injury, received from corpora
tons; which injury the federal courts for
bid the states to try to remedy, while the
federal government nevertheless refrains
from itself taking adequate measures to
ly be insisted that the defenders and apol-
ogsts of the great corporations, who have
sought In the past and still seek to pre-
vent adequate action by the federal gov
eminent to control these great corpora
tons, are not only proving false to tine
people, but are laying up a day of wrath
for the great corporations themselves. The
nation will not tolerate an utter lack OF
control over very wealthy men of enor-
nous power in the industrial, and there
fore in the social, lives OF all our people,
some of whom have shown themselves
zcynically and brutally Indifferent to the
interests of the people; and if the Con-
gress does not act, with good tempered
and sensible but resolute thoroughness,
in cutting out the evils and in providing
an effective supervision, the result is GER
tain to be action on the part of the sepa-
rate states, sometimes wise, sometimes
ill-judged and extreme sometimes unjust
and damaging to the railroads or other
corporations, more often Ineffective from
every standpoint, because the federal
courts declare it unconstitutional
We have just passed through two
months of acute financial stress. At
any such time it is a sad fact that
entirely innocent people suffer from no
fault of their own; and everyone must
feel the keenest sympathy for the large
body of honest business men, of honest
investors, of honest wageworkers, who
suffer because involved in a crash for
which they are in no way responsible.
At such a time there is a natural
tendency on the part of many men 20
feel gloomy and frightened at the out
look; but there is no justification for
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this feeling There is no nation so
absolutely sure of ultimate success as
as ours. OF course, we snail sue
coed. Ours is nation of master1ul
energy, with a continent for Its DO
main, and 1t feels within it's veins the
thrill which comes to those who know
that they possess the future. We are
not cast down by the fear OF fallure.
We are upheld by the confident hope
of ultimate triumph. The wrongs that
exist are to be corrected but they in
no way Justify doubt as to the final
outcome doubt al to the great material
prosperity of the future. or OF the
lofty spiritual life which is to be built
upon that prosperity as foundation.
No misdeeds done in the present must
be permitted to shroud from our eyes
the glorious future of the nation; put
because of this very fact it behooves
MS never to swerve from our resolute
nurpose to cut out wrong doing and
uphold what is right
Administration Not To Blame.
T do not for a moment believe that
the actions of this administration nave
brought on business distress; so far as
this is due to local and not world
wide causes and to the actions of any
particular individuals, it is due to the
speculative folly and fagrant dishon-
esty of a few men of great wealth, who
seek to shield themselves from the Ell
fects of their own wrong doing by
ascribing it's results to the actions 81
those who have sought to put stop
TO the wrong doing, But II 1t were
true that to cut out rottenness from
the body polite meant a momentary
check to an unhealthy seeming pros
nerity. l should not for one moment
runtion. On behalf of all our people,
on behalf no less of the honest man OF
means than of the honest man VINO
earns each days livelihood by thaf
DAVIS sweat of his brow, 1t is necessary
~ insist upon honesty in business ana
notifies alike, in all walks OF hIe' IN
big things and in little thlnssi upon
lust and fair dealing as between man
ana man. Those who demand this are
striving for the right in the spirit OF
Abraham Lincoln when he said
"prondlv do we hope. fervently do
n,a nrav that this mighty scourge may
sneedily pass away Yet II Goa Wills
that Il continue until all the Wealth
niled by the bondsmen's 2oo years OF
rnreouited toll shall be sunk, and until
ayerv drop of blood drawn with the
lash shall be paid by another Drawn
with the sword, as was said suoo years
ago, so still it must be SAID me Jus
ments of the LORD are true ai''
eous altogether. -,
..yv;tl, malice toward none with
o,,oritv for all; with firmness In the
right. as Cod gives us to see the right,
1et us strive on to finish the work we
are in"
In the work we of this generation
are in. there is. thanks be to the Al .
mighty. no danger of bloodshed and
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Personal and General.

The basketball game which was to have
been played between the team of the
Bessemer High school and that of the
Massey Business college of Birmingham
at the Hippodrome this evening was called
off on account of the inclemency of the
weather The game will be played next
Friday evening.
Joe McDonough, who has resided in
the city for the past few years, left to-
day for Pratt City, where he will in the
future reside.
Miss Julia Stevenson of Pine Grove, KY,
who has been the guest of Mr.. and Mrs
George H. Stevenson for the past month
received telegram this morning an
nouncing the serious illness of a relative
She left this afternoon for home. Miss
Stevenson made many friends during her
stay in this city who will be sorry to
know that she was compelled to leave so
hurriedly. -, .t
Prof. j. o. Morris is able to be out again
after a severe attack of measles,
The many friends of Ellis Houston will
regret to know that he is confined to his
bed, suffering from severe attack of
grip.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Beavers was held at their hall last even
ing and several matters of Importance
came up for consideration
w. w. Hollingsworth of the Bessemer
State bank has returned from a business
trip to Mississippi
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GET To WORK ON
NEW COUNTY PLAN
Rolling Mill Resumes Opera
lions In BeSsemer Today
EVERYBODY is JUBILANT
Means Employment of Hundreds of
Men and Renewed Activity at Vari-
GUS Mines of the District.

Bessemer, January 31-(Special. AN i'm
portant meeting of the New Counties club
was held this evening at the Reble hall
Judge William jackson presided, with
Walter S. Gilbert secretary.
A number of the most prominent citi-
zens were on hand and while there was a
good attendance, had the weather been
good, it is thought that the meeting would
have been the most largely attended that
has ever been held.
The possibility of the amendments to the
constitution being made party measures
was discussed pro and con, while other
features of the proposed campaign for the
ratification of the Ragsdale amendment
for new counties were gone into. A con-
stitution and bylaws for the club was
adopted which made provision for an ex-
ecutive committee of five being appointed
by a special committee of three.
This committee, composed of Messrs.
Lopez, Gilbert and Rogers. retired, and
after some minutes returned and recon-
inended the appointment of Judge Will
liam Jackson, DR.. e. P. Lacy, J. A. Estes,
John T. McInary and Thomas 7. Huey as
the committee, leaving the selection of a
chairman to themselves The committee
was unanimously elected
During the absence of the special COM
mittee, Captain Crook. Captain Booker
and DR.. Hurd made speeches, giving their
views on the primary proposition the dis
cussion ending by leaving the matter to
the discretion of the executive commit
Tbo ion lie fa of
and the executive committee will meet to-
morrow at - o'clock to formulate a plan
of action.
The Ragsdale amendment, providing for
the creation of new counties was passed
with a good majority at the meeting of
the legislature, and on its ratification de-
ponds the hopes of the people in this
section for the formation of a new county.
The advocates of the measure are making
strong claims, saying among other things
that a new county would mean the en-
hancement of property values, advancing
as their reason that property II miles
from a county site is more valuable than
the property would be or is at distance
of 80 or more miles. They claim that a
600 square mile county would mean cheap
er government, lessening the expense and
bringing the courts to the people instead
of bringing the people to the courts. Re-
ports from different sections of the pro-
posed new county in this section were re-
ceived, all of which denoted that there
was a great desire for it. That a big
fight will be made goes without saying,
and it will not be for the want of hustle
and work if the amendment does not
carry. AS stated in the columns of The
Age-Herald before, the fever for the new
county is spreading. rapidly in a good
many sections, and the people in and
around this city are confident Of sue
cess.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-01
Rolling Mill Opens Up.

As predicted yesterday morning, the
rolling mill has opened up or at least it
will open up tomorrow morning. Notices
were posted around the plant yesterday
morning requesting the men that had
formerly worked there to be on hand for
work Monday morning. However, a
change was made today and it is under
stood that a good many of the men re-
ceived official notice that the mill would
resume operations tomorrow morning. 1t
is also understood that a double shift
will be worked, and this means that EN-
ploment will be given to between 500 and
700 men. This is the best news that has
hit this city in some time, and 1t was Ger
tainly most pleasing sight when it was
noticed this afternoon that smoke was
really coming from the stacks of the mill
This is the first time that this has been
noticed by anyone in Bessemer in some
days and the effect was fine. 1t is also
believed that the other plants that have
been shut down for the past month or
more will also open up within the i'm
mediate future, and when this is done it
naturally means that work at the mines
around the city will also have to resume.
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DISASTROUS FIRE.
Eight Stores and Four Other Buildings
Are Destroyed.

Bluefield, w. Va. January S1.-A dis
astrous fire broke out in the Christie
building on Pulaski street this afternoon
and spread rapidly. On account of a de-
lay in turning in the alarm the fire de-
partment did not arrive until the build
ing was in flames and had spread to adj
joining buildings.
Eight business houses, the Railroad Y.
M C. A. building and three residences
were destroyed by the fire. A blizzard
ragged all the afternoon, rendering the
work of the firemen difficult and at one
time the adjoining wholesale districts
were threatened. The loss is estimated
at $4,000, partly covered by insurance.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-01
LOOKS LIKE GRAFT
IN HIGH PLACE
Government Printing Office Is
Subject of Inquiry
PAPER CONTRACTS HELD UP
Representative Lands Takes Up the
Matter Before the Committee On
Printing and Will lnvesti-
gate 1t Fully.

Washington. January 31.-Repre-
sentative Lands, chairman of sub
committee of the joint congressional
committee on printing. which is en-
gagged in making an investigation
concerning the conduct of the Govern
inent Printing Office, today made
statement relative to development
of what members of the committee be-
lieve to be an irregularity in office.
The statement in part follows;
Under provision of the sundry civil
appropriation act for the fiscal year
1908, the public printer was authorized
to expend money in installing in the
Government Printing Office a system
of accounts. By reason of this the
public printer continued a contract
originally entered into in September,
1906, with the Audit System of New
York CITY, said contract providing that
for work as above contemplated Audit
System should receive $3.50 a week.
Attention was called to the charge that
the Audit System, in addition to this
work of installing an accountant sys-
tenn in the Government Printing OFFICE
was furnishing supplies to the Gov
eminent Printing Office in competition
with other bidders and also was fur
nishing supplies on which there was
no competition.
Il took the matter up with the pub
lie printer, and he admitted this to be
true. but stated that the matter had
not impressed him as being in any way
improper
Under the statute, the joint commit
tee on printing every year receives BIDS
and awards contracts for paper to be
used at the Government Printing Of
flee These bids were opened on jan
nary %, and yesterday the joint COM
mittee met to award the contract. A
short time before the committee met it
was informed that the Suffolk Dis
tributing company, which had put in
its bid several times, aggregating about
$15O,Ooo, Was Differed by the same gen.
tlemen who composed the Audit Sys-
tenn. 1t called meeting of the sub
committee of the printing investigating
, committee, and summoned Mr.. Willett
Raynor, who has charge of Audit Sys-
tenn work in the Government Printing
Office and took his testimony under
oath.
This testimony was taken in eXecu-
tive session and | am not at liberty to
state what it was, further than to say
that it was of such a characer as to
JUSTIFY the sub committee in holding
UP the award of all items in which the
Suffolk Distributing company was
bidder. The sub committee will inves-
tigate this matter thoroughly. A meet
ing has been called for tomorrow and
the president of the Suffolk DISTRIBUTE
ing company has been asked to appear.
will say further that in view of the
charges that have been made relative
to the purchase of supplies in the Gov
eminent Printing Office, the sub-com-
mittee shall go into the matter thor
oughly, ,deeming this fair, not only to
the government, but also to Mr.. Still
ings, the public printer"
IF WIN want fha hos, adUorffcinO n.,fs
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No REDUCTION In
PRICE TO BE MADE
JUDGE GARY GIVES OUT STATE
MENT THAT NO NECESSITY Elk
lists FOR REDUCING PRICES OF
IRON AND STEEL.

New York, January 31.-That no neces-
sity exists for a reduction in the prices
of iron and steel and that none will be
made, was the general understanding ar
rived at by the manufacturers of pig
iron, iron and steel at a meeting held
in this city today. There was no agree
ment for the maintenance of prices made
or suggested, but the belief was express
ed that a maintenance of prices would
result in benefit of the manufacturers,
to their customers and to the employees
and to business interests generally"
This understanding is the substance of
what took place at the conference of
10 manufacturers and purchasers of steel,
as given out tonight by Judge f. H.
Gary, chairman of the United States
Steel corporation
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no use for the sword. but there is grave
need of those stern qualities shown
alike by the men of the north and the
men of the south in the dark days
when each valiantly battled for the
light as 1t was given each to see the
light Their spirit should be our spirit.
as we strive to bring nearer the day
when greed and trickery and cunning
shall be trampled under foot by those
who fight for the righteousness that
exalteth a nation.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The White House. January 81, 1919.
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Piles Cured at Home By New
ABSORPTION METHOD

If you suffer from bleeding, itch ing,
blind or protruding Piles, send me your
address, and will tell you how to cure
yourself at home by the new absorp-
ton treatment; and will also send some
of this home treatment free for trial.
with references from your own locality
il requested. Immediate relief and
permanent cure assured. Send no
money, but tell others of this offer.
Write today to Mrs. N. Summers, Box
p. Notre Dame, Ind.
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UCTION! A NC TON
$50 Mules.
80 Horses.
WEDNESDAY.


FEBRUARY 9Th, 1000 A. M.
The following parties have
consignments in this sale:
Schillinger Brewing Com
pany, horses.
Alabama Brewing Company,
horses.
Brewer & Jones, mules.
Watkins & Agee, mules.
r. E. Bowden, mules.
L. Brooks, mules.
Peter Glen, mules and
horses.
Wright Bros, mules and
horses.
A real opportunity to secure
bargains.
FIES & SONS,
Sd Avenue and 10Th Street.
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Sutton Wins AGAIN.

Detroit, Mich, January a.-George SUIT
ton of Chicago tonight followed up his
victory last night over Jake Schaeffer of
Chicago at 1872 balk line billiards by
winning again at the same game tonight
at the Detroit Athletic club Suttons
score tonight was 400.
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Flat Railroad Rate Adopted.

Raleigh, N. c., January Sl.-The house
tonight passed railroad rate bill for
21a-cent fiat passenger rate. the agree
ment with the Southern railway being
omitted. 1t Is expected that the senate
will accept the house bill tomorrow.