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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
State Fair as Medium.

There cannot possibly be any better
opportunity afforded the manufacturers
of this district for the advertising of their
goods than is offered by the Alabama
State fair" said Manager G. T. Barnes
yesterday. "True this is a state fair,
yet the fair receives no support from the
state, but is backed by the merchants
and manufacturers of the Birmingham
district. This being so, let every mer
chant and manufacturer put his shoulder
to the wheel and make this not only a
magnificent fair, but the greatest in
dustrial exposition in the south. The
manufacturers of this district should
make their exhibits so that they may
be made permanent.
1.-The fair grounds for the location of
permanent manufactures exhibit are
certainly an ideal location. The great
coal, ore, iron and steel industries are
all lining up for permanent exhibits on
the fair grounds at this place.
1.-The county of Davidson, state of
Tennessee, of which Nashville is the CEN
ter, has built on the fair grounds at that
place a magnificent building at the cost
of $4,000, for the display of Nashville
made goods and Davidson county prod
ucts. 1t is very evident that BirminS-
ham is the coming city of the south and
is full of the hustle and hustle that go
to make a great city; it therefore be-
hooves the Commercial club, the Board
of Trade and the merchants and man
ufacturers to get behind the Alabama
State fair and boost it until it is the
recognized great exposition of the south.
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Dinuleyism Is lonu-Lived

The Dingley tariff law became effect
i've July "a, 1897, and it is therefore
nearly IL years old. No other tariff
bill in the history of this country has
lasted so long.
The long life of the Dingley bill has
not been due to its inherent justice and
harmonious schedule. On the contrary,
it is packed full of jobs. 1t was planned
by wide variety of interests, to all of
which the republican party had become
indebted in the first Mckinley cam
paign. These interests dictated the
terms of the bill, and for nearly IL
years they have fattened on the earn
ings of the plain people of the country.
1t has enabled the few to tax the many
numerically.
The long life of Dingleyism has been
due to a false notion bred from the
prosperity of the country. The benefi-
Charles of the tariff have been busy in
spreading the assertion that Dingley-
ism did it, and that general revision
would put an end to all this long
maintained prosperity. The story of
last October exposed the falsity of this
systematic deception of the people, and
the men that Dingleyism has system
atically robbed now see the truth. 1t
stands out now as big as a barn door.
No one now considers Dingleyism and
Prosperity mates They are not in the
same yoke. They are not in the same
class. October has opened the eyes of
the people. 1t has scattered and upset
the sophistries of the Dingleyites.
The Iron Age is inclined to think the
present time of depression is favor
able one for revision. Existing condi-
tions," it says, could not be made
worse, as buying is only being done
for immediate needs"
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WILSON DENOUNCED
BY MISS ALICE LLOYD

Louisville. March 29.-At a meeting
tonight in McCauley's theatre to o.
ganize Louisville branch of the Law
and Order league, recently formed 70
combat night riding, Miss Alice Lloyd
vigorously denounced the movement
and policies of Governor Wilson. Miss
Lloyd is a member of prominent fam
lily of Winchester. She arraigned the
Law and Order league as device
resorted to by agents and by sympathiz-
ers of the American Tobacco company
and declared that the citizens of Ken
lucky should not allow themselves -
be thus drawn into aiding trust -
cypress their fellow citizens. She de-
nounced Governor Wilson's acts as
tending solely to the favor of the
American Tobacco company.
Governor Wilson Immediately re-
replied, denying Miss Lloyd's charge.
He said that his sole care was to pre-
serve law and order and to prevent
anarchy as a result of the struggle be-
tween the Farmers trust" and the
Tobacco trust" each of which was de-
Iermined to rule or ruin.
The resolutions adopted simply de-
MED Miss Lloyds charges and called
on Governor Wilson to call out the
entire state militia and set it to patrol
ling the tobacco districts. This Gov
ernor Wilson after the resolutions
had been adopted refused to do, saying
that the depleted condition of the state
treasury would not permit of such a
heroic remedy.
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Favorable Effect.

Henry Clews, in his weekly review
of the financial situation, says:
Events of the past week have been
of a more encouraging character, espe-
ciallly those relating to federal and
state legislation. Perhaps the most far
reaching of these events was the de-
cision of the supreme court of the
United States in the celebrated Mime
sofa and North Carolina railroad rate
cases. This decision asserts that the
fixing of rates by legislation so low as
to be practically confiscatory is in
direct violation of the constitution,
since the latter prohibits any legis-
lation which takes property without
just compensation.
Hereafter there will be no success
full attempts by state legislatures to
nullify the guarantees of the 14t1
and federal courts will pc
enabled to enforce their DEGREES il
spite of the OPPOSITION of state of-
ficers. As already said, this is de-
cision of the highest Importance. 1t
once more affirms the fact that tn e
constitution of the United States is tt e
supreme law of the land; it guarar-
tees protection to property, and will put
an effectual stoppage upon the con-
fscatory attacks on property which
have become so popular in state legis-
latures for political or socialistic pur-
poses. Another favorable incident was
the temperate character of the Pres
ident's message"
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pans financial needs are so great it IS
considered possible that the railroads
will be leased to foreign capitalists for
a term of years. Japan is endeavoring,
in other words, to overcome the finan-
cial strain of "a great war while she
develops her resources and industries.
Taken as a whole, the people are poor,
and the immense national debt weighs
heavily upon them. Their patriotism
will prove equal to the task, but the
country needs peace throughout gen.
Grafton to come.
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FRENCH COURAGE.
Philadelphia Bulletin.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Frenchman was still pale and
trembling from his encounter with the
rough
did l not conduct myself WELL heinz"
he demanded.
Fairly well. At the same time, for one
who has fought four duels, there was a
certain pallor, certain nervousness. that
rather disappointed u.s.
The Frenchman looked mortified. Then
he tapped significantly his little glass Of
fine champagne.
But I had none of this" he said. Il
was taken unprepared. l had not the
time to-what you say-tanlS up"
"But you don't tank up for duel!'
Don't we? How little you know!
Imagine 1.-THE horror-the gray desola-
ton of the dawn-the surgeon with his
cold and glittering instruments-the wit
nesses cruelty searching you for the least
sign of fear-and all this without tank
ing up? VOLTA, my old, you are mad.
mo, mol Every Frenchman, before
duel, tanks up. A dueling field smells
like an American bar. And it is as
founding, with the thought of the duel
before you, how much it takes to tank
you. A pint, ltre sometimes, but
steadies the nerve and clears the eye for
the dread encounter
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Chief Rennett,s Fine Renort.

ST consider the work of the Birming-
ham fire department for the past year
the best in the history of the city, said
r. NJ Goodall, chairman of the citizens
committee on fire hazard. "It has been
stated that six times a much money
was spent last year as three years
ago. but this is misleading, for three
years ago the department was not inn
proved at all, and last year, under the
able direction of the chief the capacity
for fire fighting was almost doubled.
Chief Benefits report as submitted
several days ago is one of the finest
showings / have ever seen. He broke
the citys record for holding dowa
fires last year, and had it not been for
one disastrous fire that was practically
out of control before the alarm was
turned in, the losses would not have
reached one-third what they did.
II hear from all sides, and especially
tom the Southeastern Tariff associa-
ton, high commentator of Chief Ben
nett and his methods, and l am sorry to
hear of any such unjust comparisons"
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WILSON EXPLAINS VETO.
Arraiens Kentucky Legislature For
Expenditure of Surplus.

Louisville, March Ex-Governor Will
son tonight gave a statement reciting
at considerable length reasons for We
toing some weeks ago the appropria-
lions bill passed by the legislature rs-
Gently adjourned. The principal bill
vetoed was the measure appropriatlnS
100000 for state tuberculosis sanl-
tarium. Three or four other measures
added considerably to the sum app %
priated by the Legislature. In his state
ment the governor recites that whSn
the present legislature and state OF
ficers were elected, there was nearly
a million and half dollars in tho
treasury.
This surplus, he says, the legislature
against his wishes expressed in mes
sages and vetoes wiped out and then
proceeded to pass the measures just
vetoed after the auditor had presented
TO the two houses a statement showing
that there was but $3.50 left in the
treasury. The course of the majority
in the Legislature is sharply arraigned
in the statement
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TlMlD DIAMONDS.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
The lapidary was about to cut the tail
off a tadpole-shaped yellow diamond.
THE chances are" he said, 'that this
fellow will turn white from terror when
I split him. If he does, his. value will go
up 200 per cent"
The lapidary set his steel knife in posi-
ton, he prepared to strike on the knife s
back the momentous blow.
''Wish me luck he said.
And the hammer fell, the cmputated
tail dropped into the box underneath.
and, 10, the yellow diamond that had
been split was now quite white.
1.-THE yellow faint" the cutter ex-
planned. was only in the tail Yet the
faint was reflected all through the stone,
and this made it seem of a uniform yell
low throughout Now the faint is gone
and our yellow diamond is pure white
one.
1.-THE miracle happens fairly often"
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QUEER GEORGIA EXCUSES.
Why Some Atlanta Folks Keep Sup
ply of Whisky Handy.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
When negro woman, who was ar
raigned in the police court yesterday
morning for running blind tiger, was
asked by the recorder what she was do
ing with six quarts of corn liquor in her
house she astounded the court and the
spectators by-replying:
81 hez hit, ledge Briles, ter battle
wid.''
The recorder quietly remarked that he
felt inclined to believe her, owing to the
quantity
This brings to mind the curious ex-
cuses blind tiger people have been giving
for having whisky on hand since pro-
hibition went into effect.
A negro youth was caught last Sunday
afternoon walking on Edgewood avenue
with a quart of whisky under his coat,
a half pint in his hip pocket, while in his
side coat pocket were a corkserew and
whisky class. When asked what he
meant by making walking blind tiger
of himself he replied:
''Er frind OBJ mine got on de water
Vaughn las Satu'dy an he lowed dat de
unly way he could stay up dar wus ter
git rid OBJ dis ticker, an he gibbed hit
ter me. When de perlice cotched me 1
was gwine straight ter home"
The recorder fined him $1575 and he
went straight to the stockade, minus the
whisky of his water wagon friend.
A negro man was caught selling whis-
ky and he had two jugs of corn on hand.
Hi; excuse was as follows:
"Mer hull family, Jedge Briles, hez de
scrpffler by 'heritunce, an dey is bleeged
ter take poke root bitters an hez ter
hab de Ticker ter make de bitters wid."
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Improving Every Day.

Business conditions are improving eV-
cry day, and while no one looks for such
high pressure prosperity as we had a
year ago, the situation is far better than
had been expected said a railroad Off
cial.
Looking back six months, there was
little prospect of an early revival of BUSH
ness from freight traffic point of view.
The railroads were not able to make I'M
provements and it was a question as to
keeping up ordinary repairs But the
outlook is so much better now that be-
lieve before the crops are ready to be
moved the railroads will be re-employing
the men laid off, and I am inclined to
think that a good deal of new cofstruc-
ton work will be planned by next fall.
When railroad betterments are under way
once more, there will be forward
movement in every department of the
industrial world
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.etter to the New York Time


THE cowardly and shockhgly brut-
wv al assaults upon opr distin-
guished citizen, Hon. Durham
White Stevens furnish an instructive OBJ
ject lesson for the correct estimate of the
Corean character and the Core4n method
of government. Since his appoint
ment under the protocol of August, 1904,
as diplomatic Advisor to the Depart
ment of Foreign Affairs" this American
gentleman has served the government of
Corea faithfully, wisely and honestly. He
has steadfastlys stood between the Corean
people and those who would Cypress and
plumber them, even when they had formed
Illicit combinations with the Corean rul-
ing classes. under the patronage, chiefly
procured by brides, of the now ex-Em-
peror himself What, then, is the charge
brought against him by his assassins, the
crime for which he must be done to
death? Simply this: He had told to the
inquirers in San Francisco the truth; that
the longtime abused and robbed common
people among their own countrymen were
coming to understand how the admins
tration of the Japanese residency general,
under Prince Ito. meant their economical
welfare and political protection from the
"squeezes' of their own corrupt magis-
trates; and how even those of the Yang
bans who really cared for good govern
ment in Corea were coming to the same
view.
Yet these assassins are typical pa
triots" of the. Corean type. And their
method is the traditional, historical meth
od-centuries old in Corea-of expressing
their opinions on political issues. Nor
is Mr.. stevens case an isolated or at
all peculiar experience. Last July the
same sort of men in Seoul tried to excite
the people to murder one of the most eff
ficient and tried friends of Corea among
the American missionaries. But what
crime had DR.. George Heber Jones COM
mitted for which he deserved to suffer
death? He had spoken in public print
admiringly of the moderation which the
Japanese police and gendarmes had shown
in handling the Corean mob, and in dep
recating way of the perfectly unprovoked
and cold-blooded massacre of several
scores of persons by a company of mutin-
Gus Corean soldiers.
But it is not only American and Japanese
who must look to their lives II they DO
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INDIANA REPUBLICANS.
Delegates Will Be Instructed For Mr..
Fairbanks.

Indianapolis, March 29.-The Indiana
republican state convention will pc
held in Tomlinson hall on Wednesday
and Thursday to adopt a platform.
select four delegates at large to the
ational convention and nominate Il
state ticket. The convention will in
struct the 80 Indiana national delegates
to cast their votes for Vice President
Charles Warren Fairbanks for the
presidential nomination. Mr.. Fair
banks will not be here.
Interest in the coming convention has
been centered in the contest for the
gubernatorial nomination which has
been holly waged by Representative s
James E. Watson of Rushville, former
Attorney General Charles B. Miller of
Goshen, former Attorney General Will
liam L. Taylor of Indianapolis and
Lieutenant Governor Hugh T. Miller OF
Columbus.
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COREANS A BLOODY RACE.

not hold and express opinions satisfactory
to Corean patriots. During the spring OF
1907-the time of my residence in Seoul
no fewer than four attempts at assassina-
ton of the Corean ministers were made
by Coreans themselves These attempts
were traced to hired ruffians who had
come up to the capital city for the pur-
pose, and whose pay for their murderous
work had been furnished by subserip-
tons, as follows: Mr. Vi Yong-tai. ex-
minister of the imperial household, 100
yen; Mr.. Min Hyung-sik, vice minister
of education, 1900 yen, etc. Neither should
1t be imagined that this way of doing
the political business of self-government
is new with Coreans. Eight years ago,
when I was spending some days in San
Francisco, General Foote pointed out to
me the blood stains on his dress suit
spots made 20 years ago by the blood of
one Corean official. assassinated at the
banquet which the general was attending,
by officials of the rival party. Nor is it
for score or two of years that this
kind of patriotism has disported itself in
Corea. Its history is centuries old. Corea
has never had other than a cruel, OPP
pressive and corrupt government, and the
few, very few, really intelligent and de-
voted leaders who have arisen have al
most, without exception, persisted miser-
ably at the hands of their own monarch
or of their own countrymen. In word,
the cowardice, political ignorance, malice
and corruption of the classes to which the
would-be murderers of Mr.. Stevens be-
long. have from immemorial times been,
and are now, simply unspeakable.
That Mr.. Stevens may recover from his
wounds, all his friends, and all friends
of both Japan and Corea, will earnestly
pray But if the object lesson should in
cite the American public to inquire more
carefully into the history and character
of the Corean people, and into the nature
of the task before the Japanese protect
crate under Prince Ito, the painful Incl
dent will not have happened in vain.
May we not add the hope that these
young gentlemen from Corea will be
taught that our ways of expressing pa
triotic sentiment are not as the Corean
WAYS. and that the professional friends
of Corea, in this country and in the world
at large, will take some sympathy, If not
of completely, with the method of the
young ruffiahs in San Francisco.
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I would give all my fame for pot o
ale, and safety.
King Hnery v.
Governor Hoke Smiths Opponent

In June the Georgia democrats will
hold a general primary for state as well
as national candidates. The Office of
governor is to be filed and opposition
TO a second term for Gov. Hoke Smith
has appeared in the form and person
of Joseph M. Brown, a son of "Joe"
Brown, who was governor of the state
during the civil war Joseph NJ. Brown
expects the support of Thomas e. Wat
son, who has newspaper and firm
grip on about $4,000 populist votes. A
Brown-Watson scheme might add to
the interest taken in the June pri-
mary.
In the August primary of 1906 the
candidates for governor polled the
following vote: Hoke Smith, 94,497;
R. B. Russell, 1926; Clark Howell,
21.720; ]. H. Estill, 14,214; James NJ.
Smith, S224-total, 169,951. The vote
in June will probably go to 10000,
and the winner must secure about 80
600 votes. At this distance of time
and space it is not easy to see how the
Brown Watson combine can corral that
number, even though Brown can poll
the plutoeratic vote while Watson re-
inforces him with the populists 1t is
an odd combination, and a presidential
year is not a good year for freak poll
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Samuel Gompers' Appeal.

New York, March 2s.-Samuel Com
rers, president of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, in an appeal which was
read at the Central Federated union to-
day, urges organized labor in this city
to meet in mass meeting to protest
against the recent court decisions un-
favorable to labor and to adopt resolu-
tons calling upon their representatives
in Congress to vote for the amendment
to the Sherman law, eliminating the
tabor unions from the provisions of the
law. 1t was stated that similar ap-
peals have been sent by Gompers to
organized labor throughout the coun-
try.
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A Flower Parade.

Several years ago Birmingham had a
May flower parade" said a citizen, "and
it was thing of beauty. Such a parade
should be made an annual institution,
and next May would be a good time to es-
tablish it. The early spring is filling this
valley with flowers and in May roses will
be blooming in great profusion.
when we had the parade referred to
the automobile had not come into general
use. Carriages and light traps were about
the only vehicles in line. The horses and
conveyances were gayly decorated with
flowers and the effect was picturesque and
suggestive of the sunny southland
I'm this part of the country a carnival
of flowers is inexpensive. AS we are to
have a festival of music in May it would
be well to have a floral parade in conjunc-
ton with that attraction. We could have
in line, in addition to carriages many auto
cars which would make the scene all
the more varied. Why not begin now and
organize for a flower parade in May?"
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PALARRAs cARINosIs.

BY Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
Goodnight! L have to say goodnight
To such host of peerless things!
Goodnight unto the slender hand
All queenly with it's weight of rings;
Goodnight to fond, uplifted eyes,
Goodnight to chestnut braids of hair.
Goodnight unto the perfect mouth,
And all the sweetness nestled there
The snowy hand detains me, then
I'll have to say Goodnight again!
But there will come q time, my love,
When. if | read our stars Alright,
] shall not linger by this porch
With my farewells. Till then, goodnight!
You wish the time were now? And l,
You do not blush to wish it so?
You would have blushed yourself to
death
To own so much a year ago.
What both these snowy hands! Al,
then
I'll have to say Goodnight again!
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DENOUNCES PRESIDENT.
w. D. Haywood Makes a Sensational
Address at Chicago.

Chicago, March 29.-W. d. Haywood,
f~T many years secretary of the Wes.-
ern Federation of Miners, today de-
rounced President Roosevelt, Govern ar
Gooding of Iowa and other public Of
flcials at a mass meeting of socialists.
Resolutions We're adopted protesting
against the use of troops in the strike
of miners IN Alaska.
Haywood referred to the attempted
throwing of a bomb in New York yes
terday as "the work of a deluded NOR
tai who sought to take by force VIII 1T
lie was in justice entitled to-"
The polio, were present but no az
Tempt was made to prevent The
speeches.
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TRIPLE MURDER.
Bodies of Three Men Are Found At
MiIIers Station.

Wheeling, w. Va, March 29.-The
bodies of Angelo and Tony Selvestirc
and Bernardo Dagannon were found to-
day, each with a bullet in his breast,
at Millers station, in Jefferson county.
Ohio, under circumstances which dis
close a triple murder.
The Selvestiro brothers We're fou III
in a shanty in which they lived, and
Dagannon in a field half mile away.
tDhe men were section hands and TO-
eether with Hockey George. lived in the
shanty. The object of the murder was
robbery, as the men were known 10
have a large amount of money in their
pockets, which were torn out George
has not been seen since the bodies wee
search for him.