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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1908-08-28
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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1908-08-28


About FIVE hundred people were
on the grounds to hear the speak
ing at Salem last Saturday. Among
I speakers was the organizer from
Rev. Newbill, of this city;
CV. Waters, of Martin; Senator F.
II McRee, Editor JEFF Newton.
jackson; ]. H. Mcdowell.
A great deal of enthusiasm was
stirred for the Obion County Farm
ers Educational and Cooperative
Union.
The dinner was very extensive
and, as usual, very important
part of the proceedings.
The first dayESaB essipeeTsSo; N,
voted to busineAr zoo nee 6ding,
participatefhe bn il q
only, .JJy,
lrAg witt
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-01
MICAWBER

A CCORDTNG to a Republican con-
II temporary a United States treas
"A ury deficit is a surplus. The
treasury is not $SO.0OO,0OO in the hole,
we are assured by Republican writer's,
but ION the crest of a wave" This
Micawberish attitude with regard to
the Republican deficit, with its con-
comitant unprecedented business de-
preston and financial panic, is an evil
dence of a campaign condition of
blithe buoyancy Of spirit.
"Have another water cracker-'tis a
poor heart that never rejoices," says
Mr.. Micawber. What If the govern
mental receipts fell far below the ex-
penditure? If the Democrats were in
power, that would be a signal of dis
aster. The nation would be in peril.
But when the Republicans are in
power it means prosperity. Don't
worry. Something is sure to turn
up"
But our contemporary, after ex-
planning there is really q surplus, be-
comes absent minded or forgetful, for
we read "The treasury might have sold
bonds to meet the deficit" This is
somewhat bewildering. There is a
deficit, and yet there is not a deficit.
"When is a deficit not deficit?" Like
the Republican government. this is a
conundrum.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-01
DOODLE DEEs

MIR. HISGEN and his undertaken
wi ishly named friends, Hearst and
1'A- Graves. yesterday entertained
the country with another solemn imi-
tation of real party function. They
called it the ceremony Of notifying
Mn Hisgen of his nomination as the
Independence party candidate for
president OF the United States" and in
sooth twas a sad and serious affair.
An editorial in Hearst paper talks
somberly of the death rattle in the
throat of the old parties. While we
admit that professional language of
this kind is naturally to be expected
in the mournful columns of the Ex-
aminers and Americans, at the same
time we must say we wish our friends
could get away from their professional
surroundings and use more cheerful
SMILES. If they must libel the older
parties let them do their libeling in
a more exhilarating way.
The only note of inharmony in the
Doodle Dee music is the name of the
presidential candidate. "Hisgen" is
odo, us true, Dut not melancnoly.
Upon experiment we find that, uttered
in a deep chest note, it las the effect
of funeral knell, but If you cannot
command a deep chest note the dis
syllable becomes simply frivolous. We
are astonished at the inconsistency of
Mr.. Hearst. In selecting Mr.. Graves
he did first rate. But Hisgen is a mis-
fit. Why didn't he dig up soma enter
prising person named Coffin?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-01
CHORUS PERIL

ME HAVE no prejudice against
w chorus girls. We know that some
of them support their families by
their perennial chorus girlishness. We
know that sometimes double-decker
families, two-generation households,
have been known to live off, or on
which is it?-the earnings of patient,
persevering old grandmas in the chorus.
But, it seems, there are chorus girls
and chorus girls, and we question
whether there has ever been more havoc
wrought in any given area within a
given space of time than by the chorus
girl marrying epidemic that afflicted
the firm of A. o. Brown & Co. Of New
York. which has failed for $2,OO0,0OO,
with assets consisting principally OF
domesticated chorus girls. The gen
eral manager had married a chorus
girl. Twelve days ago the manager
welded a professional young woman to
whom he had been attentive for years.
The head of the firm made prepara-
tions to marry an estimable lady who
had been graduated from the chorus
girl to the prima donna or actorine
class. 1t is not surprising the firm was
not able to attend to business. Yet
we repeat we cannot Justly find fault
with the chorus girls. We are sorry for
them, and hope the Brown failure will
be a lesson in economy to all chorus
girls who marry millionaires.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-01
THE sPooNERs
her we sat in a tete-a-tete.

Together we sat in a tete-a-tete,
The prettiest girl and l.
The light was out and the hour was late,
For time, you know. will fiyl BY Jove
How rapidly time will hyl
Together we sat in the welcome gloom,
Alone, unheard, unseen.
Though her mother was in the other room
With a thin portiere between.
I knew that the mother In ambush lay
AS mothers do, 1t seems
To carry the prettiest girl away.
Away to the land Of dreams. By Jovei
To the wonderful land of dreams.
But the cherry-like lips of the pretty miss
Alas, were a tempting sight,
And 1 ventured to beg for tiny kiss
Just one. before Good night"
But the prettiest girl resented that
In q way I'd never dreamed,
For she airiy sprang from where we sat
And what do you think7 She screamed
She certainly did-she screamed
I caught the coquette in my arns--Alack,
For such is the way of meni
And gruffly demanded OF her a smack
And then-and then-end thers-
Her mother came cruelty in with Light
And-what do you think she saidI
"oh, come. little lady. kiss daddy good
night"
And carried her off to bed, by JoveI
And carried the babe to bedi
bohemian Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-01
judicial Ways Of Kingdom
Are Most ShOcki1lgIy Rude

defended by counsel who are deemed
very skillful IN England. they did not
think OF consuming two months In
hectoring the members OF the grand
jury. six weeks in cross-examining
talesmen for the petty jury, and half
a year filing and reading affidavits
charging Mr.. Justice Phil1imore with
being prejudiced on the ground that
he was known to entertain and to have
expressed an opinion that boodlers
ought to be sent to Jail.
OF Mr.. Justice Phillimore's intense
prejudice against the accused there
can be no doubt in the minds Of menu
bers of our own upper courts in view
of the insulting remarks which he
made when explaining divei- sentences
imposed upon the convicted men. THE
court became hushed," says the Lon
don Telegraph, "as the judge pro-
In the dock, Hirst and Warren, stand-
ing side by side, as they stood, doubt
less, on many q public occasion under
very different circumstances. Two
men more out of place in the criminals
dock 1t would be hard to imagine. Re-
spectability was written all over them.
BUT THE JUDGE DID NOT SPARE
THEM. Hirst he described as the
leader of the ring, and he suspected
other contracts and contractors.
Warren, who had lent the sanction
OF his respectability to what had gone
on was sentenced last"
We know what protest there would
be IL Judge Dunno, for example, should
insult Schmitz or Ruef by dwelling
upon the Nervousness of taking bribes
as an explanation for imposing the
maximum penalty. Fortunately, Il Is
a tradition of our penal law. jealously
guarded by the upper courts. that the
grand Jurors. the trial jurors, the dis
trict attorney and the trial Judge may
be insulted. and that none of them
has any rights, but that the criminal
on trial, IL he is a respectabl, criminal
that is, II he be wealthy OF power
ful-must be treated with distin-
guished and even obsequious consider
alton, for in this country, thank God,
the peopIe rule
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-01
SUPPLIES

HNCLE SAM wishes to hear from
California on the subject OF pro-
~ posals for supplies for the Indian
service for the fiscal year ending June
80. 1909. Sealed proposals must reach
the Office of the commissioner of In
dian affairs, Washington, D. c.. not
later than p m. Thursday, September
"a. Among the articles wanted are
dried apples, dried peaches, dried
prunes, flour, tomatoes, corn meal.
Los Angeles ought to be able to enter
the competitive field with bids on all
these articles. We hope the industrial
future of Los Angeles will give her the
leadership in the preparation of dried
and candied fruits. There are numer-
Gus profitable industries connected with
fruit growing. There Is an almost end
less variety of fruit confections, and In
the one article of candied lemon peel
alone there should be future for some
enterprising manufacturer.
Los Angeles should be the principal
city in the United States for fruit man
ufactures of all kinds. There is plenty
Of raw material, and there is a steady
demand. Much of the fruit which goes
to waste in Southern California could
be used profitably In manufactures of
the kind suggested by the Indian sup
plies, while in canned tomatoes and
pther fruits" Of that description Los
Angeles should lead the world.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-01
FOR PRESIDENT
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
JOHN w. KERN
SAN PEDRO HARBOR

A ANNOUNCEMENT is made that
u whenever trade will Justify 1t,
steamship company will establlsh
q line between San Pedro and the ORR
ent, thus bringing Los Angeles into d.
rect communication with the great mar
kets of Asia and Australasia. Along
with this announcement comes the
news that work has been begun by the
board of army officers constituted by
congress to investigate the question or
Tortifying San Pedro harbor and its ap-
proaches. While of course there is
nothing unexpected In such statements,
and although they are in line with a
steady development which can be fore
told without much dangec of serious
error, yet it is gratifying to see the
history of San Pedro harbor being
worked out and unfolded in way
which is fulfilling and will continue to
fulfill the predictions and anticipations
of those who first called attention to
the existence at San Pedro of condi-
tions which made 1t THE ideal harbor
for Los Angeles and Southern Califor-
mia.
While It is not at all likely the forti-
f1cations will ever be put to test, yet 1t
is much better they should be thor
oughly prepared for emergencies, how
ever remote, than that there should be
the slightest chance, however remote,
of what may be called euphemistically
IAN accident"
In the wonderful, amazing, astound-
ing, almost miraculous history of the
little island OF Britain, not the least
wonderful feature Is tho fact that not
one of her seaports has aver been as
sailed or blockaded or bombarded sue
cessfully. "Why?" Not altogether be-
cause of the big fleet, although that is
the answer that most people will give.
The big fleet cannot be everywhere at
once. The real reason is that the ports
and coasts are fortified so thoroughly
that European enemies know that to
assail them would be a hopeless task.
resulting only in disaster to the at
tacking feet.
Let the same condition of defiant de-
Tense characterize the Pacific shores,
and the keel will never be laid th-t
will bring to them a hostile gun to at
tempt bombardment.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-01
ONLY DEFENSE OF WOMAN
WAS WRITTEN BY A MAN

NORwALK, Aug. 2S.-[Editor Her,
add: AS the suffragists have quieteu
down a bit I will venture few more
remarks, which, however, I supposs
will start the war dance again. Or VII
the answers, the one from Long Beach
was the only one that rose 10 tne gig
nifty of argument, and that was written
by man.
None but a woman would have over
looked the point of the jungle story,
which was to show that nature anu
scripture are at one as to separate
sphere, and 1t does not require an IN
tellect capable of casting an intelligent
ballot to understand that conditions IN
the Jungle are nearer to nature tnan
conditions in a city. To get natures
answer we must go near to nature.
Auntie had better taken the position
Candy did on the scriptures, that is.
reject 1t altogether, than to accept
what seemed favorable and reject what
is not. In the eighteenth century some
people thought they. were SO far anoye W
scripture times that they called 1t the
sage of reason" The French revo-
lution Is a sample of the fruit.
Auntie says woman has paid her
debt. When pay a debt expect the
principal Cancelled and the interest
stopped. Now, IL the serpent treading
prophecy is completely fulfilled, and If
other penalty imposed on woman by
the Almighty In the garden should
have been Cancelled nineteen hundred
years ago.
The scriptures, when studied as a
whole, place men and women in sepa-
rate spheres, and woman subordinate
to man, but not as a slave, though
many men may treat them so. As
this letter is getting long, will write
on the other points later. w. B.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-01
SAYS MEN CAPABLE OF DEALING
JUSTLY WITH BOTH SEXES

LOS ANGELES, Aug. So.-[Editor
Herald: IA H. D." has broken out
again in the discussion of woman
suffrage. She is again conspicuous
through her inaccuracy of statement.
She should learn to reason. She as
serts that men have never been able
to make just laws for women. Now
this is very far-reaching and would
mean that men have never been able
to frame even one just law as apply
ing to her government. Is not a wo-
man accorded protection In her prop
erty rights? Do not our divorce laws
deal impartially with both sexes. and
Is it not a fact that in the considers
ton of the woman's claims before the
law her evidence is generally favored; ;
showing that as a rule she is accorded
not only Justice but parttality and
sympathy? Why. it is an admitted
fact that man Is more considerate OF
womans rights and feelings In most
respects than are members Of her own
sex.
Man is capable of framing laws deal
ing Justly with both sexes. 1t is large
ly q question of his willingness to ac-
cord to women certain rights OF equal
ity, and this has been largely governed
by reason and O. consideration OF poll
icy. OF course history shows that al
times through the ages men nave
dealt harshly and cruelty with the
weaker sex, but neither has he been
impartial in this.
Time remedies all abuses. We snall
all in time learn to do unto others as
we would have others do unto us. and
in the interim let us in patience strive
to attain better conditions and mani
fest more kindliness. Woman's right
to the franchise Is fast being recog-
nized and viii eventually be univer-
sally granted, for it is recognized that.
generally speaking. she brings a pet
ter moral sense to bear In the, consid-
Grafton of social polity than does the
man. AS for the ability to comprehend
the merits of national issues and the
ory of government the great mass OF
both sexes is incompetent to choose
wisely, and in this respect 1t is prob
ably a stand-off. So no harm is done
as Czar Cannon regulates. II. N.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-01
AGAIN DECLARES ar. NJ"
JuM7LEs CAUSE AND EFFECT

Los ANGELES, Aug. 31.-[Editor
Herald: Now that we know where ..R.
N" goes for his scisnce it becomes
easier to understand why "R. N" is
incapable OF understandings. We can
dismiss his first three paragraphs as
entirely negligible and alien to this dis
cussion. The rest we will consider, not
with any hope of informing or convince
ing genesis scientist but for the bene-
fit of other readers.
Now, "R. NJ" not only said YOU
'jumbled cause and effect;" / showed
that you did so. The distinction be-
tween mans cnange OF mind itself and
that which caused his change of mind
VIII be easily drawn by anyone who is
not under the spell Of primitive folk
lore.
Next point: mo man ever vet
changed his mind without cause" yes.
said that, and I challenge "R. N" or
anyone else to refute 1t. Even as 4
challenge him to point to anything that
can influence a man, which Is other
than environment
Truth only should influence a. man."
says ''R. N" Should" Quothai But
does it? Does not mans capacity for
perceiving truth depend entirely upon
his heredity and environment? And Is
not our view of truth obstructed and
obscured by error from the rising OF
the sun to to its going down?
Now, If mans mind is true, how
can such q contemplate thing as a
'sneering lip change it?" asks "R. N"
Any fifth form schoolboy could tell
him that this is begging the question.
My dear "R. NJ" mans mind is not
true except just to the extent that an
infinitely mixed heredity and an end
lessly complicated and Kaleidoscope
environment have left him any power
even to grope after truth, and then as
he sees it--not having all the evidence
1T is but relative, not absolute. We
are not dealing with archangels. We
are considering fallible man, storm
tossed and befogged on the sea of life,
with a false theology and a false sys-
tenn of Jurisprudence and social ethics
to guide him. Systems that teach him
to devote to punishment and perescu-s
tion of the weaker among his fellow
mariners much of that time and effort
he should be giving to seamanship tb
bring the social craft to the harbor df
human happiness.
Then "R. N" proceeds to further
sneering lip (Which 1 had instanceId
as possible cause of mans Change
Of mind'') is an effect, not 8, cause. Let
US see.
A and B are ''at outs" The trouble
is bit involved and each thinks he is
in the right. But A, whose heredify
and environment have been such as
to incline him toward magnanimity,
recognizing that he may after all be
wrong, begins to "concede" and con-
ciliate.
Now B, whose heredity and environ
ment have been of sorts to render him
small-minded, suspicious and ignoble,
mistakes AS generous forbearance for
cowardice or at least weakness" and
his lip curls in q sneer. Quick as 6.
flash AS generous impulse feels the
rebuff. He remembers that he is at
least probably right-his opponents
manners seems to enhance the proba-
bility-and he at once changes his
mind" resumes his antagonistic atti-
tude and faces 1t out" Was not the
sneer the cause (the environment')
that made him do so?
FRANK r. STONE.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-01
REPUBLICAN FAILURE

A N advertising agency which comes
II into close communication with the
- leading business interests of the
United States has found in the course
of its long business experience that
nearly s3 per cent OF the families of
America--not individuals, mark you.
but famiIies--have an average income
OF less than $4O0 year. or about $50
per capita, and that the average In
come Of 21 per cent OF the families of
the United States is from $4O0 to 5000;
the income of Is per cent from 5000
to $780,
This is the wealthiest country in the
world, but the average comfort OF the
population is not as great as 1t used
to be. and there is steady increase III
what may be called the average dis
comfort or misery. The people of the
United States have lost control not
only Of the government but the re-
sources of the United States. and the
predictions Of Henry George and other
economists are being realized. The
rich, in spite of themselves. are grow
ing richer. The poor, In spite of them
selves, are growing poorer. The rich
are not to be blamed for this. It is not
their fault. They cannot help it. The
poor are not to be blamed for this. 1t
is not their fault. They cannot help it.
It is clear that the minimum of earn
ings by individuals cannot be decreased
much further without peril to the re-
public. 1t is at the danger line. and in
some of the eastern states 1t has gone
over the danger line and is in the
danger gone. This Is notably the case
In New York city, where many Of the
poorer people have been for some time
and are today and viii be tonight with
out food or shelter, unless charity
should shelter them and feed them.
Since, In spite of the fact that the
riches OF the country are inexhaustible
and its resources are abundant, large
proportion of the population is be-
ing starved and a large proper
ton is almost starved or some
times starved, is it not obvious that
the Republican administration during
long lease Of power has failed tol
keep it's promise to the plain people OF
America, which was, that economical
conditions would be produced by Re-
publican policies which would fill the
dinner pail and provide work for every
healthy man who loves to be busy and
to whom enforced idleness under any
is a punishment? Re-
publicanism is q failure, isn't it3
Surely that is obvious. 1t is time to re-
place it with a genuine Democracy,
which will practice the square-deal
it breaches.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-01
m THnY do things differently in Eng

m HEY do things differently in Eng
land, which Is notoroiusly an Of
fete monarchy, where the privi-
legged classes have everything their
own way and where the common people
do not enjoy the blessings OF that
equality before the courts which is the
proud heritage Of the poorest American
citizen.
Ten trustees, or guardians" as they
can them in England, Of London work.
houses were indicted short time ago
Tor receiving gifts corruptly," and,
after q trial of only twenty days. which
the London Telegraph describes as
tine most protracted trial that has
yet taken place In the new central
criminal court, and one of the longest
during recent years." they were found
guilty. Thereupon IMMEDIATELY
they were sentenced to serve various
terms at hard labor. Mr.. Justice Phil
limore, moreover. in passing sentence,
lectured them severely on the enormity
of their crime. More than seventy wit
nesses were examined during the trial,
and the exhibits In the case numbered
over 200. The London Telegraph es-
Inmates that the trial cost $4,000 The
convicted public officers have no ap-
peal, and in England gaol, as they
spell the word, does not mean a private
suite, meals brought from good res
taurant and automobile rides at pleas
ure, says the San Francisco Bulletin.
The horrible injustice of the Eng
lish procedure, as exhibited In the case
of these ten boodlers, will occur at
once to the sensitive minds of the
members OF our California supreme
court and Of the district court OF ap-
peal, which overturned the verdict In
the Schmitz case on the ground that
the accused was prejudiced In n suh-
dictment to allege that he was the
mayor and that Ruef was his boss.
Henry Ach, too, and his astute coll
leagues in the defense of the Doodle
cases will perceive the iniquity OF COM
pleting the trial of ten boodlers in
twenty days and sending them sum-
marily to the penitentiary. Although
the accused London guardians were
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-01

Any kind of scandal which affects
educational matters is odious and OBJ
noxious, and we hope sincerely there Is
no foundation for the grave charges
made that medical students from the
southern part of California are notori-
ously Disseminated against by the state
board of medical examiners in favor
of those from Northern California Cal
ifornia is a huge state, and in reality
consists of two states. South Califor-
mia; metropolis, Los Angeles" Some
how that sounds all right.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-01
BLAMEs PROTECTIVE TARIFF
FOR HIGH PRICE OF LIVING

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29.-[Editor
Herald: feel sure that men like my
self, who are without work and money,
should be thankful to "Economist" for
calling attention to the workings of
the protective tariff, as illustrated by
Russia.
What does all this big talk about the
blessing of high prices amount to for
the man who is out OF work and
money? Taft expressed 1t rightly when
he said "God help him." Thanks to
the way in which the tariff protected
trusts and monopolies have sent the
prices of all the necessaries Of life
kiting this is today the hardest coun-
try in the world for the man who Is
out Of work and money.
/ should think every workingman
can see this. konw can, and ] am.
therefore, no friend of the tariff or
the people who fatten on It while /
go hungry. WORKINcMAN.