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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01
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St Louis Globe Democrat.
In advising China to accede to ia
pans demands. the United States
had China's interests in view. There
Is strong probability that Japan
would have made the Tatsu incident a
pretext for war II China had not re-
coded from its position. War would
have resulted in humiliation for China.
and possibly in dismemberment. The
present outcome has aroused a strong
feeling of hostility to japan throughout
gChina At Picking the United Statoy
nolds the favored place among the
Nations. That alliance of all the Asis :
tic peoples against the whites Is off
Not for years to come will the yellow
peril be mentioned again. The boy
colt in Shanghai and other Chimes
ports against American goods. so far
as any trace of the embargo is left, vii!
he lifted immedia tely.
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REASONABLE PROFITS.
II 10 Necessary TO Impose High Duties
to Maintain Themf ~

hO MAMhhthh4
Philadelphia. Record.
While obstinately maintaining prices
against home consumers in a -depress-
ed market. the tariff buttressed steel
trust has recently underbid European
competitors for a large delivery of
steel products in South Africa, not
withstanding the unfavorable rates
of ocean transportation. 1t is not
denied that this transaction was at
a reasonable profit-for a foreign free
market. The trust has also delivered
black plates to the tin works in Wales
at far lower prices than are extracted
from American consumers behind Il
protective" duty of SIS a ton. Amer
lean consumers at the same time must
pay a duty of $40 a ton on the tin
plate to afford the trust a reason
able profit" Yet 1t is an undisputed
fact that for cheap production the
steel trust Is more favorably situated
than Its English and German compet-
itors, and that its production Is cheap
er.
But with an average protection of
$40 ton and more on its products.
the steel trust has no notion that a
Republican Congress Is going 10 so
revise the tariff as to interfere with
what Its managers deem a reasonable
PiOiN' FOi eHe oV'VVV'VVV VI @A"iSi iSdu
communicable who ride on rails and
all who dwell in houses in which iron
and steel are materiais-areasonab
profit Is such only as may be earned
in an open market with the tariff
barriers thrown down. For the arch
fleets OF Republican platforms a rea-
sonable profit IL merely an empty
phrase TO deceive tine unwary. The
manifest conclusion. then. is that
there can be no honest and substan-
tial revision of tariff iniduity save
by its sworn enemy. the national
Democratic party.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01
Mobile Not in Rebellion.

MONTE herald T.; Sc
There Is no rebellion in Mobile. in
the sense of refusal to obey the law.
We think that certain laws are viola
lions of the principle Of local self gov
eminent. and certain others may be
unconstitu eional. 1t is not a crime to
denounce sumptuary laws or to test the
validity OF laws before the courts. Cow
ernor Conner set us the example OF at.
tempting to nullify certain rights of
the railroads but Mobile does not pro-
pose to follow his example. II we do
not approve certain laws We will night
them in the proper forum. II Corners
Legislature should forbid fishing on
Sunday or kissing our wives. or should
enact the entire blue code which once
prevailed in New England. we
insist that the citizen has
certain rights in the pursuit
OF happiness which even the State can
not take away from him. 1t would
be highly insulting and extremely i'm
polite for the Governor to send his
Montgomery sheriff to dragon Mobile
into submission. We are a free people.
Our foot is on our native heath and
our name is McGregor.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01

A New York special to the ST. Louis
Globe Democrat says the Hearst peo-
ple have about decided to hold their
National Convention July 81, probably
at Chicago. although New York, Bos-
ton and San Francisco have been un-
der consideration in reference to the
location OF the convention. Thomas
L. Hisgen Of Massachusetts,. who ran
for Governor on the Independence
League ticket. is spoken of as avail
able for the nomination for President
by the Hearst party. but the Popu'-
lists with whom a coalition is to he
sought seem to prefer Thos. e. Wat
son: who was a great figure in the
Democratic State campaign in Geor-
gsa IN 1895.
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What NowS

Selma Times.
batting and has believed from the be-
ginning, that 1t would result disas-
trously for the states that have in
dulged in it.
doubtedly abused the privileges they
have enjoyed. but there has been nc
call for the drastic measures which
have been passed without regard to
conditions or circumstances. There
was and is a great necessity for com
peIlins the roads to give to the public
better accommodations. safer equip.
ment and road beds The laws thai
trains. less work in the shops. more
people out of employment. dtngtel
coaches. less telegraph stations. less
ticket ofices and less heart by the -peo-
pie to complain for they recognize the
stress under which the roads are OPP
Zane methods utilized in a friendly
instead of a hostile spirit would have
brought about reforms, urgently neSoeo
and would have been of real more ben
EFT to the people generally than the re-
duction of the freight and passenger
rates to a point inconsistent with the
population of the territory or the ton
mage hauled.
Regulation but not conhscation" OF
the corporations of Alabama is the
proper manner in which to make this
State grow. The present admlnlNra-
ton has been in once nearly fifteen
months, The consumer has received
no benefit from tho reforms attempted
70 be inaugurated. immigration has
had no impetus: the highways of the
state are unimproved: education alone
seems to have been benefited and
that is indeed something to. be thank
fnI for, but. without prosperity and
progress the means for the advance
ment Of the education of the people
will be lacking. f-s
II tho Legislature could be called in
extra session and eevrything after the
enacting clause of every act passed
during the three sessions repealed. a
fresh start would place Alabama again
in the procession in the contest for
vNrAsnArifKy
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01
ErIaUETrE IN WASHINGTON.
How a Minnesota Newspaper Views Oh
DoiRgs In the Capital.

How a Minnesota Newspaper Views Our
DOinga In the Capital.
Minneapolis Journal.
Is Washington becoming monarchical?
sydney Brooks, an English correspond
ant, declares that Washington has de-
veloped a passion for the forms and
observances Of social etiouette and
manners That city he finds un-Amer-
lean and doing un- American things Pc
the banaTitfes of commerce nave been
delightfully."- banished.
Nobody is Washington talks or thinks
trade and profit. Everybody talks pol
itics and everybody speculAtes on the
precedence of politicians. Being city
Of leisure and the headquarters OF Of
ficialdom. Washington amuses itself
with the problems OF Republican court
and the mlnutiae of preeedener Snala
Senators go before cabinet ministers
Is the Admiral of the Navy higher than
the Secretary thereof? Where is the
place of the Supreme Court in the pro
cession of the Patd2
order is gradually being brought out
of the chaos which formerly surround
ed these problems and caused real
heartburnings. It has been ordained
that an invitation to lunch at tho
White House is equivalent to COM
mand, It is accepted that the Presl-
dent goes into dinner frst aud nobody
sits down until he is seated. and that
he shall always be served first.
All of these things have been SET
tied bv the great throbbing brain OF
washington. We have an etiquette
But after all it Is only partial sys-
tenn What Is the status of the un-
married daughters of the great ON.
cials? Here Is great social problem
recently sprung by the social secretar>
les Have you farmers In Minnesota
and woodcutters in Maine and miners
in Montana ever thought of that7
Have you ever stopped to consider
what a strain is puL upon your elected
and appointed servants bv the impe-
rious necessity OF solving problem
like that?
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01
Death and the Race Problem.


According to the seventh annual re.
port of the government on statisticS
of mortality for the year 1905, for eli.
ties containing as much Al 10 per cent
or over of colorod people. the death
rate. of the white population was H.
per thousand. and that of the negroes
race was IS. |. or more than 80 per-
cent higher.
In the state of Maryland. the mort
atty rate for the colored was 321 S as
compared with 1i6 / for the white. and
similar high rates of death In the no.
gro race are shown for all cities with
a large negro population. For in
stance. In Mobile. Ala. the rate for
the negro was 652.2 ?. and for the white.
2e6.2,
Here is a statistical study. Ever
since the negroes were set free the
death rate has been increasing. and
this increase has been made the basis
of a claim that determination by dis
ease would ultimately solve the race
problem
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he relied 20 keep him In power. this
authority could be universally applied
as the power granted In the Sherman
law is being negatively applied In the
case OF the steel combinations today.
As always in his suggestions for
ious to interiors with and limit the
power of the courts. At present re-
ceivers for embarrassed corporations
or individuals are appointed by the
courts. and in the case OF corpora
lions doing an Intricate business this
power Is exercised by the federal
courts. The president would have the
power divided between the courts and
himself or his commissioner Of cor
porations a most disorderiy and nm
desirable arrangement. This is the
same as saying that the federal judges
cannot be trusted to appoint receiv-
ers who will properly administer the
affairs entrusted to them. The old
plan OF limiting the use of the power
of Injunction In labor disputes is re-
newed, and also a limitation of the
power OF Judges to punish for con
tempt.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01

They have had a commission inves-
tigating the origin of the game of
baseball, and the result has been 30
establish the fact that the nrst game was
played at Cooperstown. N. T.. under
direction. of a man named Doubleday
about seventy years ago. We hadn't
Thought that the game Originated" at
all but like. like ropsy. it Just krow-
ed" However. we suppose there are
those who will welcome the outcoms
of the investigation.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01
This Date in History
April 1.

1406--Sultan 1imur (Tamerlane),
conqueror of Persia. died. Born 1896.
157S-William Harvey, discovorer of
the circulation of the blood, born. Died
June 3. 1857.
1723-Edward Hyde Cornbury. colon
it'll Governor of New York and New
Jersey. died in London Born about 1865.
1Sl5--Prince Otto Won Bismarck, Ger
msny's Iron Chancellor" born. Died,
July 30. 1898.
1s26-Edward A Sothern. famous ac-
tor. born in Liverpool Died in
London. January 81. 1881 --.-.....-.-.---
Is52--Eldwin. A Abbey famous Amer
lean artist, born in Philadelphia
1S85--Jobu Milton, War Governor OF
Florida, died in that State. Bern In
Georgia April 20. 1897
lS6S-Uniform rate of three cents
per letter adopted throughout Canada.
Iss5-Battleford. in. Saskatchewan.
besieged by Indiana
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01

..The days when business was a local
affair of individual with individual
were the days when people were scat.
h tsrsn no dealings with each other
outside the radius Of q few miles says
Appieton's Magazine. Then steam.
and later. electricity. came into mans
the possibilities Of trade became ex-
tended to a radius of HUNDREDS OF
miles. even of thousands Of miles vast
possibilities of international rade
ioomed up. The corporations sprans
into active being as an ineyitabie re-
suit of this expansion OF trade, Ior No
one man. no firm. no small company
could provide the capital or the organ.
ization to cope with such opportunities
ocean is the corporation the reM
cause of the corporation was not 81
much the selfish aims OF Few mep
as the Imperative necessities OF an
@The nrst stage OF corporationism
was one of confiict---the old destruct-
iva competition carried forward undcs
the new business forms. Trace c .mnn
before; and so A invaded BIS .terrltory
and B retaiiated. The lighting became
faster and more furious. and the w.
in commerce because hand ss, ,.o- niieS
with able, splendid men who fell IN the
colossal struggles. Cut rates anu
bates became the order OF the gay.
Msny railroads and many houses which
had been successful in legitimate lines
Of business went down In BANKRUPTCY.
Labor suffered and the public suffered.
The cost OF doing business s.eadiIy N.
creased: for war costs money; ~ ~.
came Imperative that sornethins pc
done to end the havoc, PFoeperv
could come until with peace. Insunc-
lively, In way unconsciousiy' men Pc
gan 70 get together--not so much tor
nrofit. az for protection; and So un-
der conditions which in the mechani.
cal development of the world. came on
as naturally as day follows nlgn., sne
great corporation came into existence
and is the live burinG issue OF TO-DAY.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01
DRIFT WOOD
NJ PnlL u. ARMSTRONG.


49, 49," - - e@@St ttnn ttcNtAs
And the summer belt
"whv n man n3sut,,,u on,v IN
YOUTH asks Ells Wheeler Wilcox.
And The Houston Post replies by ask
ing IL Mrs. Wilcox regards the sissy
boy" as man?
Now, II Gillette had been hanged in
stead OF electrocuted. the Paragraph
ers might have said that rope was q
Gillette safety raiser.
crop was killed viii And the Victim Z
pretty lively corpse.
Another terrible raid and murder /"
said the man with the newspaper.
That Sos" replied the man with the
lunch basket. Kentucky or Russia9'
The Mysterious 3 ,e-Eyed Blonde
upon whom our he IL set maintains
. silence so far uiipfoken. but we
haven't lost hope. Anybody discover
ing her will receive six cords OF Drift
wood.
Open work cars.
Where like a log.
Once more doth cit
End
Seat
Hog.
I Z F..
Bloodhounds trailing a thief In Ohio
for twenty miles came to q sudden stop
when they smelled the odor Of cook
ing food.-News item.
How ", a nsarIy like .s,s q man after al is
Now once again
The time draws higher
When all will swear
At the poor umpire.
r =
Poet nor humorist are we. But with
the assistance of Frank Stanton. Frank
Phil Armstrong. Haff, Duncan Smith.
Ted Robinson and w. r. Rose. assisted
by the shears and pastepot, We have
tried to do Judd Lewis column. We
Of Heavenly Houston could have done
no more.--Houston Post
We have the Merry Widow hat
The Merry Widow gowns
In fact the Merry Widow fad
Has captured every town.
But we know q Merry Widow
So sweet and pretty too
e Key ss I %rr nsa wso az ee sses Knee
A carpet presented to married cou-
pie sixty years ago Ia still used by
s aso the @s .dy exde ms hasn't mo a
ped up the moor with.
Eve never ffetted
Ger how she was dressed
And Adam never had to
Get his trousers pressed.
A Texas man has decided to retire
from politics and run q saw-mill: A
noble example that should be emuiat-
ed.
On, yes. Clarence, sometimes IL be-
comes necessary for even a standing
army to sit down.
In Birmingham people know that
soft iced-drin<s" are not always what
they are cracked up to be-
The fsrtils lands Of the globe amount
Texas thinks most Of it is her.
A New Jersey woman is in iau for
numerically teating her husband.
That's what man gets for marrying
a woman with striking manner.
'Tis very sad
To see a peach
And reslize
She's out Of reach.
But sadder far
Conditions whan
She Is an i
ss New York Nal. Z
II q lemon
Let her tease;
Lemons were
Just made to squeeze.
The thousands Of his readers will
gladly welcome Judd Lewiss column
back In to The Houston Post and will
wtsh for the sweet singer of
Texas" q speed recovery from his
recent Illness 4
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01

New YORK TriDuns. ...L,n
form of punishment in China. This
consists of a huge vat-iike tub. with
a hole In the lid. through which the
culprits head protrudes; AZ the bot
torn of the vat Is q thick layer OF ,uh,
slaked lime and seven bricks; pnea
upon each other. As the mans nah AZ
are tied behind his back, ne can 90
nbsoiutely nothing to ease himseif IN
anv way He stands n "a ss Continues ~ mt X
thramSh the lonely night. The second
day one OF the bricks Is removed ed. from m
water. is at the same time poured into
the lime. which begins to work and
send up it's noxious fumes 70 the race:
This is repeated each day till the last
brick has been taken away and MS feet
are in the auicklime, which burns the
nesh more savaRely and with nerceE
pain than ordinary IRE would 90. win
stranguiatioff at the neck and the yer.
rible burning of the lower parts or ms
body the man dies in .excruciauns
agonies- ss-.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01
Linen Made In america.
piarcA In The World TODAY

~ .SASN 49,
A Massachusetts inventor has per-
fected a process. of Transforming max
millions to the revenue Of the American
farmer and to make possfble for the
first time the manufacture of linen H.
Der in the United states.
By the process followed abroad. IT
takes from sixteen to thirty weeks to
transform fax straw into linen. There
is first the ''retting' which, in Belgium,
is done by weighing down the dax
sun, until the wood or "shive" is rotted
away from the fiber. Then comes the
"scutching" or beating OF the dried
straw. After this 1t is hacked" by
pulling the straw through the coarse
teeth of combs for the purpose OF re
moving snarls- and tangles. The soft
enipg and bleaching processes NUMBER
twenty ave after all this has been
Is ready for market. Now comes Ben
iamin c Nudge. of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. with combin-
ed mechanical and chemical process
that makes linen out of straw in twelve
hours. In place of the European meth
od. which consists very largely of
leaving the natural rotting process to
accomplish the disintegration OF straw.
Mr.. Nudge goes at this work by ma
chipery until the raw fax flber has
heen wrested from the flax stalk. Then
the chemical process begins and / can
three or four chemical baths. Mr..
Nudge first deEums. then bleaches.
Softehs, and in the end makes a CLOS
sv. white and exceedingly tough fiber
out of what in the beginning looked like
a. mass of tangled horsehair
The. European nethcd Yields about
40 pounds Of fiber from one thousand
pounds Of straw and sacrifices the seed
crop. The Nudge process secures 250
pounds of straw after the seed has
ben saved. 1t converts the ''shiye .
wasted bv the Eurouean method. into
a pulp for paPermaktng; and also saves
the tow.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01
Guaranteed Liquor Cure

Drunkenness is a progressive dis
ished with two or three drinks a day,
the craving for more and more becomes
Irresistible as the disease advances;
the result Is Chronic Alcoholism.
The treatment used successfully by
thousands right in their own homes is
Orrine. 1t is sold under a positive
guarantee to effect a cure or your
money Will be refunded.
Urine No 2. is for those willing to
take the treatment Either form costs
81. Write The Orrine Co. Washing
ton. D. C. Sold by leading druggists
and in this city by e. G. Fowler
c.a u-thnn Coleman. Selma (esJ
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01
TuberculO.i. I.urks In Healthy Lungs

That the bacilii OF consumption and
pneumonia are present in the bodies
of at least 80 per cent of the human
family is a fact asserted at MontcIair.
" j.. last night, by DIR. simon Flex-
ner. of the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research. who delivered q lee
ture before the Outlook Club on The
Biological Mechanisms of Immunity
from Infectious Diseases"
BT Flexner discounted this startling
information. however. by stating that
thew did no harm unless a severe cold
or some other means of weakening the
lungs allowed them to penetrate the
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01

The Milwaukee Free Press calls hin,
Hon. j. Thomas Halpin. of Alabama. =
as a prelude to some uncomplimsn-
tary comments. II IL wanted to crit
icism him it might at least have got
ten his name right.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01

II the German scientist is correct
who says that Nature supplies man
with a new. man every sixty days 1t
seems to US that she might improve
on some that are doing business IN
prominent places.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01

The earthquake in Mexico Indicates
that this old earth is becoming rest
less again. We hope present perturS ed
political conditions have nothing to
do with it. else the whole country is
liable to be shaken up.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01

Amt the Spring poets somewhat
late about putting their MUSES. to
work. We should have had several
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01

The indianapolis Star has a group of
pictures of -four Republicans who
would like to be Governor" but we
are not given to understand that this
exhausts the supply.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01

That Sagan fellow calling Boni "a
young man quite beyond hope Of re-
form is abeut the limit The old
simile of pot and kettle doesn't near
reach the case. :
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01

We have heard nothing more from
Wharton Barker in some days and
don't know whether he has met and
resolved himself into a new party or
not.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01

The Atlanta Journal thinks 1t will
need a surveyor to tell when the now
Spring hat is on straight. and The
New Haven Register comments:
Tell when one of them is on straight
What shall mere man do when woman
herself gives up the problem. To con-
fess the truth. there isn't any straight
about the things. They aren't intend
ed to have any front or back any
starboard or port. Their purpose Is
TO Nsupersede the famous old lady OF
nursery history in the Job of sweep
per the ferceness Of the midday sun
TO the shorn lamb who pays the bills
for them, to astound the natives and
proclaim to all the earth the bound
less resource of their designers.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01

The alleged discovery by . modern
scientist that the North Pole is slow
ly shifting it's position and moving
towards Asia should hearten the Well
mans and Pearys a bit They can go
over to Asia and wait for the Pole
70. come to them.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01

outer passages Other bacfili. the iect-
ursr asserted, were foreign to the hui
man body. their presence always pro-
ducinG disease IL admitted freely. al
though many persons could bsnisb
them with no i'll effects II In SOUND
health when they were admitted.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01

Among the 100000 persons who have
in recent years come to the United
states and Canada from the British
Isles. many were Presbyterians, but IT
Is only within a month that any con-
certed effort has been made in Ameri-
ca to keep them in touch with their
own faith.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-04-01

r. B. Noble. Circulation Manager OF The
Meat geometry ADVERTISE. being duly sworn
says;
Ths foregoing statement of The Advestis.
era circulation for the month OF Fepruery
1908 10 true and correct. and compiled aftes
an returns from news boys. news agents.
spelled and left over copies have been Niev
Surtsa T. 8. E0BtsNs@
Circulation Manager
seycrn tc and subscribed before me thta
s0tk day Of March. 1908.
{eHAI, RIGA ALEXANDER.
Notary Public