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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28
A MORNING THOUGHT
ny ). MARVIN NICHOLS.

To save my life can't understand
the moral code of this age that woulo
throw the mesh Of the ne
cappers law around nlsg ei the
"capper" go scot free. don't under-
stand why a spade should be called by
any other name. i mean the "capper
among the rieh--not the wretch wno
waits around the dark corner to lead
some unsophisticated youth into the se-
cret gambling den The man waiting
in the dark alley who gets ignorant re-
East side dive. and the man who does
the roping for the stock exchange. are
each On the block at even money. The
concessions Of "A n,ssYnE OF r was
lation. II gambling Is always wrong,
It Is Infinitely more so by the modern
willingness to moralize thabrt in pro-
ssTson The to te esDDsF ssss OF the
within year and half. built up
business OF from one TO ak thousand
shares q day--representing u profit OF
Nv salary sY was raised 5000 a year. and
! receaved a handsome cash bonus.
met quite three weeks after my sal
airy had been raised. my Arm failed. My
had on deposit. felt that ] should have
known of the crisis. and given them
chance to withdraw their funds The
ink upon the ticker announcing the sus-
stock exchange house offered me the
same salary, II cared to associate with
them.
aWhat am II Merely procurer of
gamblers. The total profits which my
firm derived In almost three years, from
the orders Of actual investors. would
not have covered the tips that hand
ed out in few months. The money I
received from my arm was merely
part Of the kitty which had procured.
The New York police have their eyes
on q class of men who hang around the
~ 'cappers,' They are In the same bus
fness that / am. but thew work for an
unlicensed game. The game of which ]
am a hireling is sanctioned by the
state. looked up to by society. l am
called . broker. manager Of . stock
you see. not 'capper.'"
Some people make much ovsr the day
nursery established In congested centers
Ia branch OF the modern settlement
work. Mrs. Jones has to work In some
long hours her baby boy Is separated
from o mothers love and care. That's
nothing. ! mean, have wondered more
about the children of the rich left to
the care OF uneducated and unreliable
rse-maids for twenty-four hours at
worse than orphans. The truth is. more
often they are the unwelconae guest In
the home. The accidental child cannot
be loved. 1t has no mother--and there
Is no other love.
A man nav be born. live out a long
and eventful career. die and be forgot
ten. while the machinery of the courts
In this country are Just being put In
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28

The man who claims to have in
vented "drunkless whiskey" is not
likely TO find It very popular. we pre-
Dict Whisky that will not make
drunk come" Is lust what most drink
ers don't want. And The Charleston
News and Courier declares that there
would be no sale for that drink in
Texas. because, It says. the men and
women in that State drink whiskey
'ebscause Il makes them forget where
they live and how much they suffer"
Now watch The Houston Post rise up
and make some remarks
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28
UNCLE SANS INCOME.
Commensurate Effort to Have Him Live
Within 1t Now.

Commensurate Effort to Have Him Live
Within 1t Now.
Baltimore Sun.
The considerable reductions in the esti-
mates of the government for the next fiscal
year bear evidence OF President raft's de-
termination to reduce the expenses Of the
Federal establishment BY his direction
the War Department has presented esti-
mates less by 3lo.oOo.ooo than the appro-
priations made by the last Congress. And
though many bureau chiefs commended that
the Interests of the navy would require at
least $4,000, 900 for the fiscal year 1911.
Secretary Meyer is expected to send in ss-
Inmates of less than s1ao. 100000. For the
fiscal year which begins the first OF next
July Congress appropriated S1ssr0oo,O 600 for
the navy.
dent believes. can he accomplished without
impairing the efficiency of any branch of
the service. Neither VIII it necessItate
abandoning the building program for the
navy as the estimates include provision for
two new battleships OF the largest type and
a number OF torpedo boats and other aux
iliaries.
Mr.. Taft has directed that the same poll
icy be carried out in other departments. He
is determined. that, so far as lies In his
power the government during his admins
tration shali live within It's income.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28
This Date in History
May 20.

l660-King George 1. of England born !;
died June 10. 1871.
16T2--Slr Richard Nicolls. one of the
early Colonial Governors of New
York died in Virginia; born
1924.
1754--Virginia militia under Major
Washington. routed a body of
French and Indians at the Great
Meadows.
kirkpatrick Henry's resolutions
against the Stamp Act passed the
Virginia Assembly.
181S-First steamboat on Lake Erie,
walk in the Water" launched
at Black Rock.
4 S63-The gunboat Cincinnati sunk by
the Confederate batteries near
Vicksburg.
1SG4-Battle at Dallas. Ga.
1S7l-Fall of the Paris Commune.
19O5--The Lewis and Clark Exposition
opened at Portland.
190S--Gen. Stephen d. Lee, Comman-
der-in- Chief of the United Con-
federate Veterans. died at Vicks-
burg: born at Charleston. s. c..
September 90. 1888.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28
This k My 6Ist Birthday
Archbishop Christie.

The Most Rev. Alexander Christie.
Roman Catholic Archbishop OF Oregon,
90, 1S4S. After a secular education he
made his studies in divinity at the
Grand Seminary of Montreal. where he
was ordained a priest in 1877. He la
of St Paul for twenty-one years, in
which he was for thirteen years pas
tor OF church at Waseca. Mimi. and
four years pastor of St. Stephens par.
Grated June %. 1898 Bishop of Van
couver Island British Columbia. and
in the following year he was pro-
NOTED to the aRchiepiscopal see of Or.
eROn CITY
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28

N1ODllt 1tcklSLCTs
taking Of sfoo from the Contingent
fund and giving 1t to the Law and
order League. q private association of
Mobile, The Montgomery Advertiser
says;
carping or fauit-nnding, would like
to enquire by what right does the gov
ernor take hundred dollars out of
SsoSss To the s aH ~ao Give ssr to al
private corporation? There lie no dis
position to criticize the purpose or the
work of the Law and order League in
bose may e is ts pr
vate Organization to which the gov
ernor has given public funds
THE governor, endorsing as he does
worthy of commendat ton had he given
the hundred dollars from his private
funds. But he chooses to be liberal
to the organization at the cost OF the
state and with no hurt to his private
And no doubt as he says, there are
people in Mobile sowing wild oats"
But why is Mobile picked out and the
wild oats being sown in the COVER
nor's own county OF Jefferson, and be-
yond doubt by more people? For
many months Mobile has been singled
out as the particular object OF the gov
hts friends in the Law and Order
League Of that city, he not only gives
them a hundred dollars OF the states
money but he makes another pass ct
the city's good name"
We do not expect any consideration
from the governor. He has done what
he could to make II appear that the
most Of US are iawiess and that only 3
few in. Mobile as in Sodom. have re-
maihed faithful unto the Lord. This
may be true, but 1t hardly becomes the
governor of the state to dwell upon
The. governor shout take especial
care not to do any of those things
which he condemns in others; for in
of what is right and a rebuke to the
evil-doors. We would not, II we were
governor, give the states money to
private association. The constitution
does not say that he shall not make
such use of the contingent fund, but
the spirit Of the instrument is much
opposed to such use: The state shall
vate or corporate enterprise, or lend
its money or its credit TO any idividu-
al or corporation" says the constitu-
ton. Governor Conner, in his letter
to Rev. Mr.. Mcneil, says, II will send
you 500 from the contingent fund and
you may enroll the state as member
OF the Law and order League of Mo-
The purpose may justify him In his
own eyes and in the eyes of the recip-
tents OF the states 500, but we think
all disinterested persons Will say as
we do, that the money has been
wrongfuliy Inverted from the state
treasury and will burn a hole In the
strong box OF the Law and Order
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28

when win street Magnates Die.
New York Post. ~
When in the future any one shall
turn back in the records of the New
York Stock Exchange to May 10. 1908
to see what the market did on the
death of H. H. Rogers. he win md
that prices advanced that day and
during the forenoon of the next; also
that In the afternoon OF the second
da~ prices declined about as much as
they had advanesd while Lev wa he,n Ssre Il.
auidated for the departed financier.
Probably. these fluctuations were in
no way related to Mr.. Rogers death.
On the death Of Roswell + Fiowe i
iapsed. Brooklyn Rapid Transit fell
So SIS to so; American Steel and
Wire from IS IL to IS IL - Ns ansr,
HrookIyn Rapid Transit the stocks
named were all industrials." Go. Flower
had been booming the industrials, ana
was in the midst of his campaign when
No such market disturbance had
ever before been occasioned by Wall
street mans death. That Of William
Il na Hsnder importaRee man
Flower. occurred Unexpectedly, and
Wall street looked fer z panic the next
morning. On Dec, s 1885, the day of
MT yanderbilts death a,ns Me~ INK fGrk tx
it's lowest the next day was io2 Ia a
decline of only ID per cent, which
in a few hours was recovered. Jay
Gould died Dec; s+oo, lSsR ..o The high high
nc on December /. had been Sc. On
December 2, 1t touched So rs and the
stock sold at 81 the day following.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28
SHIP cRINuNALs nACK.

Albany Special to New York Evening Post
To startle certain of the European gov
ernments by returning to them en- masse
the criminals they have dumped upon this
which Cornelius V. Collins. State Superin-
tendent of Prisons, is now at work. His
and certain other OF the legislative leaders
and 1t is probable that legislation in this
direction will be proposed at the next session
Of the Legislature. The State Prison De-
partment is gathering statistics OF the pris-
on population of this State. with a view Of
presenting the facts regarding the alien
criminals. 4, n
"As 1 understand the law" said Superin-
tendent Collins yesterday, 'the United
States government can deport to the coun-
try whence he came any alien who within
three years Of his arrival in this country
IL convicted Of q crime. We are preparing
to report upon the large number OF aliens
in the prisons of this state whose conviction
fell within three years OF their landing here
l believe the facts will be startling.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28

They ara telling it now that the big
animals Roosevelt has been killing are
worn-out circus animals which have
been planted" in Africa to fool natura-
next?
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28
Practice For DoshaB.

Those four members Of The Mont
gomery Advertiser force who footed It
from the Capital City to the gulf coast,
have solved the problem Of how TO set
along Though slowly without rails
road passes. Was this meant az an
object lesson to US editors who have
been puzzled over how to get to Do
than In June'
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28
waitins For DeIinquents.

We are anxiously awaiting the time
when the price OF aerial touring cars.
run-abouts and air-scorchers viii get
down to the peck ct book capacity OF
the average man.-MontEomery Adver-
-tiser.
Be patient. We are "anxiously wait
ing" for some Of our subscribers to
pay UP. and haven't given them UP yet
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28

The President seems to have caught
the Tar Heelers comm and goin' on
his visit to Charlotte. They think now
that the Mecklenburg Declaration is
nailed down hard and fast among the
important events of history.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28
Hopes Other State. win Act

Il hope that action by this state will be
paralleled by the States OF Pennsylvania,
with Its large mining and iron and steele
working populations: New Jersey with its
great tile and pottery industries; Ohio, also
with steel works, and Illinois with mines
steel-works,- and other Industries employing
large numbers of foreigners so that the
object lesson to the foreign governments will
be a striking one" ~
It is said that these five States have not
fewer than 5000 alien criminals In their
prisons who might be dsported under the
State legislation under which the sentences
Of all OF them should be committed at
once, and the criminals should be bundled
back in one impressive and convincing dele
CATION to tho countries whence they came.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28
soath Alasana,. CROWN.

EIDa CIlppeF.
Tie Montgomery Advertiser states
that statistics show that South Ala
bama Is developing more rapidly than
North Alabama. This 10 surprise
to readers Of Abe Birmingham papers,
as from them one would naturally
conclude there was not nothing much
In the good old State outside the min
eral belt.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28

Another recipe for long life is hand
ed US bv Mrs, sprague. Of Chicago, who
has just concluded century OF living.
She tells US that the secret OF lorN
life is To eat. That's downright cruz
city Just when Everything is so ex-
pensiva
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28
LAUNCHING HARMON BOOM.
johnson and Marshall Invited, but Brya
Quite Ignored.

Quite Ignored.
Springfield Republican.
Ohio Democrats of the anti Bryan per-
suasion are planning a big barbecue to be
held somewhere in the state next July for
the purpose of launching a Gov. Harmon
boom for the party's next Presidential NOM
nation The franklin County Democratic
Club of Columbus. is back Of the movement.
and has been stirred thereto by the action Of
the Jefferson Club OF the same place. Ina
banquetinR Bryan there a week ago. Gov
ernors johnson OF Minnesota, and Marshall
Of Indiana, will be invited to attend this
funeral Of their own booms. but Bryan ap-
parently is to be ignored. II IL an early
recrudescenee Of what has become the Dem
erracVs chronic trouble
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28

The Baltimore Sun asks II there is
no way to induce some Senator 10
make few remarks about the tariff. "
No. not II You cut them down to only
"a few remarks"
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28

IF any section Of the country can
produce more kinds OF weather than
we had in Montgomery Monday night
and Tuesday morning we don't care to
swap with it.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28

No doubt some Of the Congressman
would vote for recess so that they
could go home and take long visit.
The country is tired. If they are not
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28
uewbIe A dvertisins ].

Andalush news.
Alabama weekly newspapers gener-
I. = page advertisement of Andaiusta
that appeared In The Montgomery Ad-
vertiser. This 10 double advertising
that Andalusia didn't pay for.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28
What the State Papers
Are Saying and Doing


MOuitOn Advertfgef.
We hope the extra sesnon. II called.
will not create any more new ofices.
We need dog peter and q fool kill
err. but we are not in favor of putting
them on salaries.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28
: Ths sts ss Enhances.

CUufty NeWSs -
Governor Conner announces thar
there win be no legislation at the SIX
tp s s ths ,,rs OF sse SIS cones.m,
Governor Conner went into ONCE ABOUT
two and half years ago there was o
million and a half dollars of surplus
$500, 600 viii have to be borrowed TO
pay the States obligations this fell
although the State has Collected more
revenue than ever before in it's his-
tory.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28
sWoRN CIKCULATION,

The figures for April printed pe,oM s,,,-D :
resent the actual net circuiauon' u"
having been deducted. .r.n,aes its
Tne Montg emery Advertiser guaIs ~ oon
advertisers land makes IL part OF the , T
iatiou n larger than that of any n NJ. me- it
newspaper printed in Alabama-anu1 .c s ,,o1
Sunssv edition has = i, largest eirculauon
~ sny editton Of any newspaper printed In
alabama, without exception.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28

Eastern man has invented a mag
netic key hole which Is charged with
electricity so that when man goes
fumblins around the key hole with his
key the key is drawn right into the
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28

Canvas can be made as impervious
to moisture as ieath& by sleeping it
in a decoction OF ode pound Of oak
bark with ten pounds Of boiling water
says an exchange. That's nothing. A
to q driving rain storm by q single
pint of q decoction they have in Mo-
bile.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28

Coins sometimes become so smooth
that you can't read the date on them.
When q woman can become this smooth
she is an artist In her line.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28

The very woman who will boast most
about returning a kindness will never
think of returning g copper bottomed
preserving kettle
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28

Atlanta churches are said to be pay
ing more attention to music than ever
before. And less attention to the SER
mon7 ~~.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28

was raised over the State by the ad-
administration. that the suits filled by
the railroads were suits against the
State, and that the Federal Court was
without Jurisdiction TO give relief
Fearing that possibly their conten-
lions that they were suits against the
State might not be we'll founded, the
Legislature at its third session in 1907.
attempted to so amend the laws as tn
make all such suits strictly suits
against the State. The United States
Circuit Court OF Appeals plainly re-
futed any such idea. plainly said that
Judge Jones had Jurisdiction. and tn"
only substantial question upon which
that court differed from Judge Jonas
was as TO the expediency of issuing the
injunction before an actual test OF tho
rates had been mace.
The test will be a costly one for the
State of Alabama. There is no means
by which the railroads can recover the
losses which they must necessarily
/ sustain while making the test The
roads which put in reduced rates. and
in consideration for their withdrawal
of suits contesting the statutory rates
in the Federal Court were given higher
rates than those prescribed by statute
have met with enormous losses and
some of them have not and are not
now. on that account. paying operating
expenses and taxes in Alabama.
The overtures OF Governor Conner a.
! indicated in his signed statement II
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-28

Honesty is the best policy but II is
certainly counterfeited lot these
days.
Putnam patriot., 1909-02-05

''Nts e''t sN'-'' tfpif DuoihtHs isn't anybody's. fine scheme so long as we have president who keeps his hands off and doesnt''-
 But how about the speeches and the bills?" broke in Randolph. ''I thought"-
 'Yes, yes: to be sure" the congress. man quickly added. Nearly all of us introduce these so called reform bills When they're printed at government expense we send copies. carried free by the postoffice department. to our constituents. and when we allow the bills to die in some committee we can always blame the committee. But if there's big fight by our constituents over the bill we let 1t pass the house. but arrange to kili 1t in the senate. Then we do the same thing for fine senators. Like in every other business, my boy" continued Norton as he led the way into the house, fits . case of you tickle me and I'll tickle you in politics. And don't let any one fool you about the speeches either. They are pretty things to mail to the voters. but all the wise boys In Washington know they aren't meant seriously. It's all play acting. and there are better actors in the senate than Henry IT, wing or Edwin Booth ever were"
 'T don't think my father looks at things the way you do. Charlie"
 ''No? We'll. maybe he doesn't now, but he will later on when he takes his seat in the senate. If he isn't wise enough to play around with the rest of the senators he won't get any bills passed. especially any bill carrying an appropriation or of any other particu- far importance"
 "Wbat" calculated the planters son "Do you mean to say that if father won't do what the other senators want him to do they will combine against him and destroy his useful ness. make him powerless-a failure ?"
 The congressman smiled patroniz- ingly on the youth. Why. of course they will. That's politics. practical politics. the only kind that's known In Washington. You see"-
 But the leaders of the great par tiesr cried the young plantation man. ager in amazemenI Why don't they prevent this?
 Because they invented the system and because political party differences don't amount to a whole lot much of the time in Washington. The politi- cians do most of their criticising of the other party away from Washing ton. where the voters can hear them But when circumstances sometimes force q man to rise to assafl the other side in congress he afterward apolo- gizes in secret for his words. Or sometimes he apologies beforehand. saying: I've got 10 hand out some hot shot 10 you fellows just to please a crowd of sovereign voters from my district who have come up to Wash ingtoD to see me perform So. of course. I've got 10 make showing Don't mind what I say You know i don't mean f. but the old fogies wiil % back home and tell their neighbors what rip snergin' referuler be.
 Is that the way you represent your district. Norton = asked Planter Lang don. who at this Juncture entered the room
Putnam patriot., 1909-02-05

curing the election of Colonel William
 H. Langdon. present heed of the fami- ly. to the United States senate. though the ultimate action of the legislature had been really brought about by
 lifelong friend of Colonel Langdon. the