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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
WEDNESDAY. JULY 8, 1908.
HE IS OFF AGAIN.

Commahaer Peary pulled his freight" for the Pole last Monday and is now steaming in the direction of the Arctic regions No doubt he is bet ter qualified for such a venture than eyer before, and it fs safe to say that he Knows more about the frozen North than any other person now living. If no unexpected accident or disaster comes to him to bar his progress we may expect him to succeed, if such . thing Is humanly possible. If he fails 1t may be taken for granted that the thing cannot be done, at least in the present state of knowledge, and with out more thorough preparation than he has been able to accomplish.
 It is great pity, for several reas- ons, that the expedition is not as well 1tted out as Peary desired. He himself says that he is not starting as completely prepared for the trip as he wished to be. Only a few thousand dollars were lacking, and 1t does seem that with so many rich men willing to spend their money on all sorts of ven- tures the four or five thousand dollars needed to 1t out the expedition as thor oughly as the explorer desired might have been given him readily. Even If the moneyed men have no faith in the venture they could have supplied him with all that was needed without feel ing the loss.
 We say it is a pity. and 1t Is so in two ways at least. If the expedition should prove a failure for lack of sup plies or equipment Commander Peary will have good cause to say that the failure was due to lack of means; and if there should be suffering on board from lack of food, medicine or other supplies it will not be a pleasant re- dsctiop for those who could so easily have helped him. But he is off, and all of us can admire his pluck and wish him success. We do not know that anything substantial will be gained by his success, but it will be great feat accomplished by American pluck and persistency and an honor to the Amer ican people. We hope he Is provided with all the equipments known to sci ence to enable him to keep up conn munieation as far as possible with civ iIizatiOn.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
SUBSTITUTES NAMED.

The high prices at which white paper is now selling, and the increasing scar. city of paper stock Is causing those in. terests to look the field over in quest of some. substitute for the wood pulp which is now used in such immense quantities. and which is so fast disap- bearing. The New Bedford Standard thus sums up some of the possibilities offering prospect of relief: . A million and a half tons of flax stalks annually discarded in the north west. over and above what the twins makers use.
 Several million tons of cotton stalks that are burned every year in the south. besides several more million tons that are plowed into the soil but tilizer. totalling thirteen million tons
 Five hundred thousand tons of fibre that have been adhering to cotton seed sEsry . Sc g aSns it ons S1Sa to ws sh c sS. seed nor improving the seed cake that it makes c part of, but to separate which from the seed machine Is now claimed to have been invented.
 Corn stalks almost without reckon
 Thousands of acres of wild hemp grown for no use along the Colorado
 Quantities of straw allowed to waste in western wheat fields.
 Except possibly the corn stalks, all this material, it is claimed, would make good pe--- and even the corn stalks would niaa>. paper, but whether on a commercial scale ts yet to be de- termined.
 Of course nothing but sxperimenta- tion can decide which, if any. of the articles here mentioned can supply the demand for paper stock, but among them all there must be a substitute for the material now used. All who are famiIiar with farming operations in the South know that the cotton stalks are not only of practically no use but that they are in e large measure . nuisance to be gotten rid of in what ever manner is most practicable. If that waste product can be profitably used it will add many millions annually to the incomes of the planters.
 The other things alluded to by The Standard may all be found suitable for paper stock, when properly treated. Of the corn-stalk alone, it seems to us. is there good reason to feel doubtful. though there's no telling what may be done in the future. If they can be utilized 1t would require an expert arithmetician to calculate their value to farmers in every section of the country. That old saying that "ne- cessity is the mother of invention" !" applies here with emphatic force. for a substitute for wood-pulp is becoming a necessity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08

by pounding a man of straw is proof that he is fully aware that what he really seeks is not capable of public defense"
 We have on more than one occasion held to the theory that the laws should be equal and just to all. If there are laws which protect the trusts and great corporations in wrong -doing such laws should be repealed. Such . condition is not at all in accord with our theory of government. but if such conditions really exist they cannot be remedied by passing laws which will relieve la bor organizations from all obiiga- tion to be just and fair to others. Les Mir. Gompsrs and all who agree with him be prepared to do justice to others before they demand special favors for themselves.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
Mosrs nn arIsnAzzAn

The Governor of Alabama. ever fond of Biblical allusions, fed his vanity at Samson. by frequent ailusions to himself as Noses leading sthe oppressed children of Israel. He failed anywhere to develop the Canaan to which he would lead and ws are left free to feel mirth at the spectacle of the modern Moses in a frock coat and e white choker. Is the Canaan the United States Senate? Then nobody is Is to enter into its enjoyment but Moses. But Moses never lived to see the Promised Land. as the Governor doubtless re- members.
 If the Governor must have a Biblical prototype at this time, what is the matter with Beishaxzar? At a full feast of power to which he has long sat the Governor is still unsatiated. Before the feast is done. before the last course is served at his demand, strange and ominous visions appear; fearful scenes form and the shadows of portentous events darken his world.
 To the east is the corpse of Hoks smithism. slain by the people because 1t was vicious. On the invisible wall. separating Georgia and Alabama. is written: weighed and Found Want ing.'
 Mississippi Is on the west and vard- amanisrn and demagogy are the un- buried victims of 8 peoples justice. On the invisible wall between the two States the mysterious handwriting shows clear as sunlight. No Daniel is needed.
 To the south he turns and in Florida he sees Browardism freshly killed. The writing Is there: "Agitator and railroad batter. weighed in the balance and found wanting"
 To the north there is neither hope nor solacs. The landscape is marred and gloom is upon 1t. for Carmackism. brilliant but dangerous. is but lately slain, not that the people of Tennessee loved briliiancy less but safsness and sanity better. There. too, the fateful words stand clearly out.
 In his own State at his very feet there lie the dead hopes of John A. Lusk his friend and ally. killed fairly and squarely by the people, even as the Governor pleaded for their life. He sees the epitaph form over these dead political hopes. weighed in the ball. ancs and found wanting"
 Frightful scenes break the sight of Beishassar. The cry was uttered at Samson. It was an enraged wall, an agonized protest against the inevitable. The Governor may have begun as Moses. but he is ending as Belshaxzar.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
A Real Ancestor

New York Evening Post. t
 So many of our American families of wealth have found 1t advisable to buy large portrait galleries of alleged an- cestors, and are so careful to conceal the humble employments of the found- CTS of their fortunes. that 1t is gem uine surprise when the truth Is actu- ally gloried in. Clarence H. Maelkay, whose gift to the University of Nevada Is a statue of his father. has chosen e have him portrayed In the garb Of 0 familiar high boots of the pioneer. Ee was thus that he laid the foundations of his fortune by labor, and 1t was in- fnitely better that he should be pie tured thus than in the dress of the board room. of the dinner party or the yacht or in the "frock -coat of state nanship." That such men of vigorous personality, whatever their origin, can rise. remains the greatest glory of the republic; and no memorial could better stimulate the western students who are to enter the School of Mines, also the gift of Mir. Mackay, before which the monument 10 to stand. And 1t is pleas- ant to record that the artist, Gutzon Borglum. has made he most of this rarO opportunity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
This Date in History
JULY 2.

JULy v.
 11os-Death of Peter the Hermit, the preacher of the first crusade.
 I70e--Peter the Great of Russia de- cisively defeated Charles XII of Swed- en at the battle of Pultowa.
 177s--Fairneld. Conn. burned by the British.
 l7s2--Cfty of Washington selected as the Capital of the United States.
 ls3e--John D. Rockefeller born in Richford, N Y.
 Issl--iIon. James Dunsmuir, Lieu tenant Governor of British Columbia. born.
 isss--surrendsr of Port Hudson. . Confederate fortress on the Missis- sippi River.
 iss7--The Anaeer of Afghanistan. fol. lowing a rising against taxation. pro- claimed peace. amnesty. and re- mission of taxes for two years.
 18e7--Ldsbon celebrated the tooth anniversary of the departure of Vasco da Cana to discover the sea route to the Indies.
 ls07--Mayor schnnits of San Francis co. sentenced to i've years imprison- uoent for extortion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
This Ls Ny S0th Brthda,
BExJAMS L. wINcHELL.

BenAmin LaTron wincheii. president of the Rock Island Railroad system. since April 1904, was born in Palmyra. Mo-, July 6, 1858. He received his cd. ucation st the ward and high schools of his native town and began his ca reer as 6 railroad man in July 1874. snrfaaEton Jh un Kali MhonS s Nj Hann,bai m a
 Mo, two years later he was transfer- red to the Auditors ofiiee of the same railroad and in the following year was 0ffbe Of the Atchison ana NarbAsk@ Railroad, ct Atehibon, Kan. Three years later he became assistant gener- q passsriger agsnt of the Kansas City, KAnsas City and tn tsp6 general pas% senger agent of the Union Pacific, peus yer and Cuff Hailfpad. with headauavy vice president oG the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad in 1908 and president Of the system in April 1eeL
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
CONTRAST IN noL1DAYs .
Our Body-AEatmtng FOurth and Quiet
 Celebrations in Other Lands. ramk

Our Body-Maimtng Fourth and Quiet
 Celebrations in Other Lands. Chicago Post.
 Our thrashing naachines-prize flgnt- CTS. battlsships. and harvesters--are the wonder of the world, ct once mar vicious and awe-inspirins--and So as- suredly is our national holiday, the Fourth. Nothing like 1t can be found in any other country in the world; 1t Is ours, uniquely and solely ours, and no international copyright Is necessary to protect our sole proprietorship.
 The Japanese are credited with an initiative ability which enables them to reproduce by the hundred any foreign invention they oovet, from a locomotive to a camp kit, and to reproduce with an exactness that preserves the very factory number of the original. But even the Japanese never have initiated our national holiday; they. simple minded people. so to war when they wish to slay and maina.
 Within the week the first victims of our Fourth have been listed and with in the week also European nations have observed national holidays in a way that. were we not always in such a hurry, would cause us to stop and ponder the contrast afforded by the spectacle of Norway and Austria-Hun- gary celebrating their great days. In Norway 8 few days ago was oommem- orated the anniversary of the country's emancipation from the Swedish apron strings. The event was made Echtl- dren's day" and was observed with a sanity, a tranquility and freedom from mortuary lists such as no Fourth of July has ever known.
 In Vienna on Friday another great holiday was observed, the sixtieth an- niversary of the Enperor's accession to the throne. The celebration took the form of a great historical pageant in which s5,000 persons participated and which is declared to have been the most magnificent parade of modern times. And no one was killed. no one was maimed. no property was destroy cd. We can hardly imagine such q day.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
WHAT HE WANTS.

Samuel Gompers. one of the big men of the labor organizations. charges that Congress turned a deaf year to labor's appeal for relief from the most tyran- nous and intolerable situation in which the workers have been placed in a century" Big words. but what Is that "intolerable condition?" Simply that labor unions are required to obey the laws of the country instead of de- manding the right to be a law unto themselves; and that union men and organizations must recognize the rights of others beside themselves. That is what ails Gompers and his sort Tn short, they want Congress to legis- late for them without regard to others
 What is Gompers after? What he wants" says The New York Globe, "is the legalization of the boycott-some- thing that is illegal under every code of every civilized country that ever existed. He is seeking, not to have labor organizations placed within the law, but without the law-empowered to commit acts that if committed by other organizations would be visited by exemplary punishment He is under no belief that labor unions have been or are to be outlawed. What he seeks Is the abrogation of the good old American rule of one law for every body and the substitution therefor of a system of studied and deliberate in- equality. That MT. Gompers thus de- votes his verbal energy to raising dust
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
TOM yoHNsoN.

Wants Democratfc Name Abandoned
 and HadtcaI Subsfftuted. Chicago Special to Washington Post
 Tom l.. Johnson, mayor of Cleveland, will present to the Denver convention q resolution to change the name of the party of Bryan from Democratic" to Radical" st e
 .The Republicans have the conserva- tive vote" said the mayor, wnile stop crats have tn the past attempted to straddle in the hope of securing some of these conservatives. They can nev- friends of Bryan to do is to come out and fight in the open. Bryan Is a radical. Those who support him are radicals.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
Letter tO The EditOr
yOMn THOUGHTS
About School Books and Their Dis trtbu4loR Worthy Of C01AnAa~
 ernktoR.

About School Books and Their Dis
 trtbuxloR Worthy of COaAnaa-
 Editor of The AoHsSsissr: %
 Seeing so many articles in the pa- pers on the subject Of the Alabama Text Book Commission making sucn e wide-sweep on the text books which thing of the dissatisfaction In our own community, because of such change. I feel moved to put In row
 it really seems that the commis- sionsrs did make a mistake. either al the last sitting, or at the sitting of i've years ago, in selecting the Ala bama text books. If the people are to be the judge, the Commission Ave the exception of two or three books. If the last Commission is to be the judge, the Commission i've years ago did not make selection, by ninety per cent, that they would endorse. Fog the last Commission to have pleased the people, they would have cut out only two or three of the text books now in use. The people seem to nos understand why there was such Q broad sweep made on the present text books. when they could get the same class of books at much cheaper price
 This government is run by the peo: pie. in theory at least, but we hno that the people are very badly dissat isfied with the results of the last Text Book Commission. all the same. But the die has been cast, and tt really seems the least that Is said about 1t now would be for the best. unless there WIS some way by which the people could be pleased without fuT~ ther trouble and expense.
 What about the fhousansd of dol. lars worth of text books which the sub-depositories will have on hand on the first of September? Will they be relieved of their new hooks at the cost price? If they have to let them go at half price, as the people do in making exchanges. good-by to all the profits made on the sales of the aver age sub depository during the lass i've years.
 Another point, if explained. would be of interest to the sub-depositor- les or agents who are to retail thUso new text books. as the State deposit ory will be located at Birminghan The writer knew of books being ship ped from Birmingham to crenshaw County and the profits on the books did not pay the transportation chargee This would seem to be of some inter" est to the people for them to know something about the way these books will be distributed throughout the State. 5. B. s
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08

We really think those Central and South American Republics might quit revolting till our Presidenaial cam paisn is over. We have no time to look after them now.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
QenaisteptIy for Cleveland.

Than this Journal perhaps no dis tinctly secular weekly newspaper in the land has had or will have a. fuller life-work of Grover Cleveland. The News has been a consistent Cleveland Journal since his advent into National prominence in 1882, and 1t feels that every line of inforrnation with regard to him is due its readers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
EndoEges the sugkesston

dQ1 1ItyL 1tysytI4u N IS,Igguty. s .. 4A 2. to parents the change in the books to be used in the public sehools of the state next session, the Sheffield Stand. ard suggest that the only way to get woman State Superintendent. The suggestion is A good one and the roInt! nation--well it's better.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08

Thursday Is the day set apart by the Georgia Populists to notify Thomas H. Watson that he has been nominated for President. Tom is sure to be eiected-iS he gets enough votes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
4 Just Trsbute.

!, Grover Cleveland will so down In hIe- tory es one of the really great men oe
 America. He was what tS termed Q self-made man. never having attended college, but he was always a student, and thought along right lines and had
 the courage of his convictions.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08

Let 1t not be forgotten that our flag should now have forty-six stars on 1t, as Oklahoma is now State and is en. titled, since July 1, to be represented on the National flag. Watch us growi
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08

If the statement is true that sixty five thousand full-grown elephants are killed every year for their Ivory alone 1t would seem that the elephant coun- try needs a game law, or we'll soon be out of elephants. just as this coun- try Is almost entirely out of buffalo Such a slaughter of the great animals can hardly be commended.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
What tte .Stafe Papsss
 Are SAyins and Doing
nedueinl.w !. sleep

Opeltka Morning Post ,,,,Sh MSisSn sayS pSSgss 1 go not sed t3o mind not to let them have it when he invented. Graphop honee.s .s.ss-.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08

majestic. or something equally as bad, when he azked Mir. Bryan to retire from the candidacy. It was an absurd. iy useless proposition. at all events.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
nnmln Ernnllnla ral1c.

They are talking about running an independent eandidats for governor of .uAo1d cor 'ucH-5 3euTE4v pISIoaD That's all stun as those who are. be- hlnd the scheme win And out when election day comes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
ai,nnllnea nTaffeen.

MobfIol ReRTBters --I--I Is 1I7 MT. Bryan says he can be elected
 without New York. Well. That slime plihes matters. :, Heretofore everybody
 has been figuring on how to carry New
 York. s
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
Second Reading Passed.

London, July 7.--The house Of conn mons last night passed the second reading of the bill under which five years hence all miners in the United Kingdom will work only eight hours daily.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
gwORN CIKCULATIoN

The Montgomery Advertiser guar .s 2 &x asvertisers (and makes 1t q part or tne confracs when rsquested1 that its daily CIT cu1ation is larger than that of any morn, ing newspaper printed m AlaoAma-e i Ehaf It's sunday edition has the largest cn- cuiation of any edition ot any newspaper printed in Alabama without exception
 Thb figures for May printed below reprs- sent the actual net circulation. ail returns having been deducted
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
Poorly BouDd BOOks.

While criticising the text book com- mission for making so many changes fact that some of the books now in use are so poorly bound that they wear ar all but the most careful pupils. The grannar and the histories of of the Phi. Jni. class of books. and there are others but little better mschanically sss ts T1ade .16 Most of my pupils have to buy two copies of these books; 5.,a and the @ second bv Younger brothers and sisters.
 If the coTnmnissioH rasds as dsaG, changes tq have no criticism to offer; for 1t will be cheaper ito parents in the end to change the new books well made than to continue to buy many of the poor books now used.
 Biit I can not justify the commission unless the new books be such as will withstand the ordinary wear and tear
 Teacher. July 6. 1908.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08

will become of Mir Bryan;s contention that he alone ts to De trusted by the progressive pecplef lt is apparent that have e lively campaign before us.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
nl. Geea Name !. seeare.

Washington Post.
 Nevertheless we are rather inclined to think that the honor of Grover Cleveland and the virtue of the Demo. cratic Party are pretty nearly as safe n the keeping of Alton E. Parker ss they are in the custody or William ! Bryan or Henry Watterson.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08

'sorover Cleveland was a Democrat all through" says William Allen White. Yes. and he was also an all around srood pemoeraN
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08

Governor Conner. of Alabama very Jones. of the federal court. The gov ernor has brought more trouble to Ala bama during his brief incumbency than any other chief executive since the war He is one Of the kind of executives who wants to run the whole shop executive. legislative and judicial-and naturally he has heen getting some painful bumps. MT. Conner Is ripe for retiracy cy-Chattanooga Times.
 The "retiracy" will come. all right enough, when the people get another chance. Their eyes have been opened.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08

The Columbia State seems to think that Herman Ridder was guilty of lese
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08

The Chattanooga Times has some pertinent comments on the efforts of the two great political parties to cons trol the negro vote. It says;