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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13
Teddy at Least Has
A Redernptive Son.

1t is horrible that the South per-
mlts her poor children to work in her
mills, Meantime, Theodore RoOse-
/ Velt, Jr., began at the bottom a few
months ago in the ThompsonviIle
Carpet Mills, and is now weaving
from a. m. to D. m. Is he playing
TO deprive a poor boy Of a job or is
he doing a real business stunt? In
either case. why do not the phiIan-
thropists discuss his condition and
that Of his father?-JacksonviI
Times Union.
The Journal hates to touch any raw
spot on the coTporeity of its admired
contemporary; but as it takes q very
decided stand against the degradation
Of children, morally, physically and
intellectually by their employment in
factories, it is interested to know il
the Times Union is intimately ac-
quainted with the facts in the above
excerpt
First. what is the age of Theodore,
JT.? Second, what is his purpose in
learning the weaver's trade? Third.
after he has learned it what use will
he make Of it? Fourth, what is the
extent of his education? Fifth, does
the Times Union think the example
of the Kaiser in the trade education
of his sons has had anything to do
with ''unser Fritz" in putting young
Teddy through this strain? Sixth,
does our most esteemed friend really
believe that boy works steadily from
Z a. m. to p. M, as stated?
How many questions one might ask
if the pace set by the Times Union
were followed, especially of late when
pitching into The Journal on the
Everglades and Taiaferro naval stores
questions. Our experience has been
that it is much easier to ask dues-
tions than to answer them. The thing
we hate most however, is to make
statements we can't substantiate.
We, therefore, patiently await an
answer to our several enquiries.
OF course the press of the state
have been amused by the fact that
the Times Union has produced the
son of its ''TedditoriaI" victim to sub
stantiate its adverse position on child
labor reform. But almost any old
thing goes when it comes down to a
hopeless argument.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13

Mardi Gras, the festival of "ShrOve, Z
or Fat" Tuesday. This initial cele-
bration proved such a decided success,
ana elected such a universal demand
throughout the section contiguous to
the Deep Water City for an annual
repetition OF the celebration, that
Dardi Gras has developed into Pen
sacoia's most important annual gala
occasion. From year TO year the eel
ebrations of the festival have enhanc-
ed In scope and manifcenee until now
none OF the great New Orleans car
nival paradeS excel Pensacola's big
Tuesday night parade.-Gainesyille
Sun.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13
A Close Second.

Pensacola is sending out some at
tractiYe literature 70 advertise her
annual Mardi Gras festival which oc-
ours on the 22d and Esd of this month.
The celebration of Mardi Gras in that
city was only inaugurated a few years
ago, but the people took hold of il
with such YigOT and put the true car
Hival spirit into it with so much en-
thuSiasm, and fine community pride
that Pensacola is now a close second
TO New Orleans in her annual Mardi
Gras frolic. And except in magni-
tude, the show in the latter city has
no advantage over the gorgeous Sc
rfes of spectacles and all the coIlat-
eTal fun to be seen and had in the
metropolis of West FIorida.-Live Oak
Democrat,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13

Another attempt to drag religion
into politics comes from one George
W. Munderlein of New York, who in
sists that a Catholic should be elected
president of the United States. There's
no reason why a Catholic as we'll as a
protestant, Jew or even an iRfidel
may not properly aspire to the high
hcnor. hut not on any ground ex-
cept his capacity to fill the office and
his integrity of character. There
should never be word said in any
political campaign in this country
either rejecting upon or lauding a
candidates religious belief-it has alb
solutely no right to be considered in
determining his fitness for office.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13
Accommodating.

Cynthia Brown has such a nice
young man." confided the postmis-
tress at Bacon Ridge. He is much
better than that other beau she used
to have"
Have you ever met him, dear?"
asked old Mrs. ScTibbs, who came in
with bucket of eggs.
Emo, but he writes all his love
letters right on postal guards, and 1
don't have the least bit of trouble to
read every word of them"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13
Judge Sheppard in Tampa.

Tampa friends and admirers of
Hon. w. B. Sheppard, judge of the
United States court for the northern
district OF Florida, are gratified at
his presence in the city. Judge Shep-
pard is presiding in the stead OF
Judge Locke, and while that distin-
guished jurist and lovable gentleman
is missed from his accustomed place
on the bench, it is a pleasure to have
here with us Judge Sheppard, who
has won an enviable reputation among
the federal judges of the country dur
ing his comparatively brief occupancy
FOf the high judicial position.-Tampa
Tribune.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13

Ex-Comptroller Bird S. CoIer. of
New York. is suing a Brooklyn paper
for libel and his lawyers wanted
Roosevelt to give evidence covering
his reason for Diminishing the charges
brought against the litigant when the
letter ran the finance department of
the Empire city. For once Teddy
stood on what nobody ever suspected
him OF Knowing anything about-his
dignity--and made Loeb send a tele-
gram to the impudent lawyers declar-
ing. THE president of the United
States does not testify in court, nor
give evidence by deposition" Verify,
il strikes one that the presideuS must
have been afraid; must have suspect
ed that there was an Interior motive
in this summons to explain matters
He was wise enough to know that the
hair of EsaU is not always proof OF
the genuine article being contained
within the skin, and although he is
red-hot on the subject of libel, just at
this time. there's a vast difference be
tween sitting back aud bossing and
having to toe the mark and answer di-
rect questions under oath.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13

What's that about giving Taft old
wine at the New Orleans banquet
Dispatches from Augusta declared the
honoree while there had solemnly
turned his glass upside down one day
and declared that he had taken his
last drink forever and a day. Is it
possible that the president-elect has
fallen from the water-wagon?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13
First Gun.

Horse racing got a black eye in
Louisiana last week, and all the pom
les fit to travel were sent to Tampa.
The others were turned out on the
city commons TO. die. This is what
gambling did to a sport fit for kings.
Ell Paso and Tampa are running the
only books in the United States to
day. The pity of it is that st. Peters
burg is a part of HillsborOugh county,
of which Tampa is the county seat
st. Petersburg Independent
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13

It looks as though the Cuban rural
guards were glad to get rid of Ma
COON to judge by the way they mutt
MED when commanded to obey one of
the ex-governorgeneral's orders is
sued before his departure from the ISL
and.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13

An innocent negro narrowly eseap-
ed death at the stake near Lakeland
Thursday. How comfortable his exc
cUtioners would have felt had his in
nocence been established after the
burning.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13
View Seems Correct.

Unless the United States senate yio-
lateS the precedent it has itself estab-
lished Florida will have to get along
with only one senator after the ad-
journment of the present session OF
congress until our legislature next
April shall ratify the choice of the
primaries and elect Mr.. Fletcher TO
the senate. This is peculiarly unfor-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13
Better Every Year.

Pensacola is, from year 10 year. riv-
aling New Orleans in the Mardi Gras
carnival, and the Deep Water city's
efforts this year promise to outstrip
all others. This is based upon the
representations of our border sisters
great newspapers, the Pensacola Jour-
Eal and the Evening News.-St. Aug
uStine Meteor.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13
PENSACOLA FLORIDA SATURDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 49, 1909

The Tobbing OF church poor boxes
is about as low a class of thievery as
one can well imagine.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13
EDITORIAL COMMENT ON
PENSACOLA'S CARNIVAL,


More and more the Pensacola Mar
di Gras is becoming a distinctive feat
ure of life of that city. II has a most
unique history, as it from time to
time paid homage to five different
flags, and the descendants OF many of
the early settlers yet remain. The
MaTdi Gras festivities this year will
begin on Washington birthday and
continue two days. These festivities
will be a revelation to those living
In this section OF the state, and we
hope that this beautiful and rapidly
glowing city will have large number
o. visitors from this part of the state
at the time of her great carnival
Ocala Banner
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13

Lincoln's birthday was observed in
several southern cities yesterday.
Haven't known one northern city
where Davis's has been commemorate
ed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13

There's a man named Mincwitz who
says he once spanked Teddy ROOse-
welt. If he's not man enough to re-
peat the felicitous act We move he
enter the portals of that dread abode
where all hope must be left outside
the Ananias club.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13

Teddy has aroused the wrath OF the
'Chinks" because he has shown par
TALLY for the "Japs" What a hor-
ribly yellow peril for Theodorus Pri-
mus.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13

It's pretty thing. isn't it. for New
Workers with their thrice accursed
tenderloin district to pose as moral
lists and attempt to- reform other cen
tiers OF population?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13

A children's bureau is the latest sug-
gestion with its focus in Washington,
but a ehildren's wardrobe would be
a better establishment.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13

larger life, we proportiOnately swing
the old world far out in the orbit of
her appointed destiny. This world of
young blood is the unerrfns PROPHECY
Of all the coming years.-Chipley Ban
ner.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13
The Pivot.

Did you ever stop to catch a vision
of the greatest standing army in the
world? The school children of the
United States outnumbeF the entire
population Of Spain. Numerically, they
far suFpass all the fighting armies of
Europe put together. The destiny of
the nation throbs in every pulse-beat
OF these oncOming hosts. America s
future rests with these teeming thous-
apds-for a nation can never be great
er than her sons. Herein lies our
amazing responsibility. It stands be
fore us with solemn lips of question.
As we lead these throngs into the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13
The Most Brilliant.

judging from the stories being
printed in the Pensacola papers re-
gaTding the coming MaTdi Gras c2rni-
val which occurs this year on Feb.
1928, the celebration will be the most
brilliant undertaken heretofore
Chipley Verdict.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13

sPunta GOrda shipped 67O.SO0
pounds of fish the first nine DAYS in
January, and this is not one of
Adrian Jordans stories, either" says
the Pensacola Journal. Why, Fernan-
dina eats that much of her own pro-
duct in less time than that and ships
more than she eats, too.-Fernandina
Record.
But this does sound like one Of the
aforesaid stories.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13
Key Vests "RIn Fish,

JEFF Browne has gone back to Key
West, after maintaining Il law Office
in Jacksonville several months.
There's much In atmosphere" and
We believe the atmosphere of Key
West is best for Jefferson B. He is
the idol OF the capital of Conkdom,
and It's better to be a big fish I'm a
small puddle than the other way
atout.-Lakeland News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13
NEWS AND VIEWS
BY STATE PRESS
Half Million Loss.

Half Million Loss.
1t is said that the truck gardeners
around Mobile will lose a half million
dollars as a result of the recent cold
snap, and the Selma Times offers TO
BET they Will hold the prohibition law
responsible for it.-Camden Gala. }
Progressive Era.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13
Best Ever.

Best Ever.
Pensaeola's Mardi Gras festival
will be held February ed and 23d.
and promises to be the best ever. This
festival has become a regular feature
Of life in the Deep Water City and
becomes more elaborate every year
StaTke Telegraph.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13
A State Holiday.

Taking Official cognizance of Pen
sacola's leading annual gala occasion,
the legislature of Florida, several SEES
sions ago, passed an act designating
Shrove Tuesday. or Mardi Gras, as a
legal holiday, hence Tuesday, Febru-
airy %, the date upon which, Mardf
Gras falls this year, will be a legal
holiday at Pensacola at least. The
banks, state and county offices and
public schools OF the Deep Water
City will, therefore, all be closed
throughout the day.-Fort Myers
News
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13
Noise Like an Eclipse.


The tenth celebration of the festival
of Mardi GTas VIII occur at Pensacola
on February % and %, and judging
from the noise being made by the
newspapers of the Deep Water City,
this years celebration Of the occasion
viii eclipse al former efforts OF the
Pensacola Carnival Association
Fort Myers News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13

King PriscUs-on your stores and
homes.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13
Very Elaborate.

Pensacola is making great prepara-
tons for the annual Mardi Gras fes-
tival which will begin in that city on
Feb. 22d. The celebration will be
more elaborate than any of its prede-
cessors.-MarianRa Times-Courier.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-13
Ne Plus Ultra

Ne Plus Ultra.
Nine years ago Pensacola undertook
its first organized celebration OF
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-06
Smokinu on Street Cars.

'I remember reading some time ago in the newspapers of Birmingham letter from Mayor Ward to Chief Bodeker re- questing the police official to see to the rigid enforcement of that section of the city code making 1t a misdemeanor for men to smoke in the street cars,' said an Ensley citizen yesterday afternoon.
 'I do not say that this ordinance is generally violated, but it is violated oc- casionally, and it seems that it is at these times when it most needs enforce ment
 Frequently on the cars leaving Bir- mingham at night there is enough smoke to remind one of furnace. It seems to be a practice of some men when they get on a car and find no ladies to get out their cigars or cigarettes and some instances rank old pipes, and begin to puff away. Consequently the car is filled with smoke.
 q do not recall an instance when a man did not throw away his smokestick when a lady got on the car, but after the place is filled with smoke 1t is too late The matter is really obnoxious and ladies have complained of 1t to me- It seems to me there should be some way to stop the practice"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-06

hesitate to say that the full returns do not sustain the Democrats state- ments "a cents worth" The south still believes in upholding the reserved rights of the states. It does not favor eentralization, or a robbers tariff, or legislation by construction of the 14th amendment. But the Globe-Democrat plainly intends to generalize regardless of the full returns of the November vote.
 It has many visions. It sees the in dustrial south determining the party attitude of the southern states. When MT. Taft, it says, in conclusion, visits Birmingham he will be in a region which at date not remote will be as reliably republican as West Virginia or Ohio is now"
 It is not pleasant to contradict an organ that sees things in this off-hand manner, and, to tell the truth, it is not worth the while. Let it have all the visions it desires. Each succeeding general election day will furnish the antidote, and we need not anticipate coming elections.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-06
COldeSt Wave of the Season

The weather bureau has billed to Medicine Hat. The bureaus chief as- sures us that the wave is not only broad, but intense and that "the cold will be the most marked of the season thus far" The middle west got that chilly feeling yesterday, and the east and the south are to get it today and tonight.
 The southeast has no reason to con- plain if wintry day or two becomes its portion in January. A January without some wintry days would be remarkable, and no doubt the weather clerks forecast will hold good. But the man who turns off his water sup blythe man who has no reason to send for a plumber when the cold wave has departed, will not regret one touch of winter. The safety of water pipes in cold snap is after all the entire battle with cold weather in this latitude. Pipes in this locality are oftentimes put in with no thought of cold weather, and the contest for their preservation from injury in freezing weather is therefore sometimes diff cult. A plumbers bill piled on top of a freeze is not pleasant to contemplate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-06
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.
 -AlPs We'll That Ends We'll.
Rivers and HarbOrS Committee

This important committee will be materially changed after March 4, for Messrs. Burton and Jones will go to the Senate, and Messrs. Acheson, ,Bede, Ellis and Birdsall were not re- elected. Out of 13 republicans on the committee six will need successors. The remaining seven will be, in order, MT. Alexander of New York, Mir. Law renee of Massachusetts, MT. Davidson of Wisconsin, MT. McLachlan of Cali fornia, MT. Lorimer of Illinois, MT. Young of Michigan, and MT. Woodward of West Virginia. MT. Alexander will be the ranking member when MT. Bur ton goes to the Senate, but he is said to be ambitious to become chairman of the judiciary committee, and the correspondents say the chairman of the rivers and harbors committee will probably be MT. Lawrence of Massa- chusetts. He represents the Spring. field district in the heart of Massachu- setts.
 No doubt MT. Lawrence would be fair to all projects, but he may not stand by the Warrior as firmly as MT. Burton did MT. Burton considered an Open Warrior substantial benefit to the country, and he invariably re- sponded to any appeal for carrying on the work. MT. Lawrence would not, however, let the invested millions be wasted. He would for that reason be pretty apt to favor completion of the work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-06
THE WEAVER OF SNOW.

By Fiona Macleod. In polar moons when the moonshine glimmers.
 And the frost-fans whirl, And winter than moonlight the ice fiow- CTS grow. And the lunar rainbow quivers and shim- mers And the silent daughters dance to and fro,
 A stopping girl
 As pale as pearl Gathers the frost flowers where they blow; And the fieet-foot fairies smile, for they know
 The weaver of snow. And she climbs at last to a berg set free,
 That drifthest slow: And she sails to the edge of the world we see; And waits till the wings of the north wind lean Like an eagles wings o'er a lochan of green,
 And the pale stars glow
 On berg and foe *s Then down on our world with wild laugh of glee She empties her lap full of shimmer and sheen. And that is the way in dream have
 The weaver of snow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-06
PARTIES AND THE TARIFF.

From the Washington Post.
 Hon. Oscar Underwood, representative in Congress from Alabama, and one of the minority of the committee on ways and means, announces that the democrats will formulate a complete tariff bill and pro- pose it as the revision unless the re- publicans shall do the unexpected and make revision that shall prove accept able to the democrats. The statement of Mr. Underwood is welcome tidings to those of our fellow-citizens who hold to the belief that a vigllant minority is nec- essary to good parliamentary government, for it would argue that, so far as MT Clark and his party associates on the committee are concerned, the democratic party is resolved to discover some ele- ments of virility in the next Congress, and that would be a radically new depart ure from democratic customs of the last 16 years.
 It would be an act of mingled folly and impotence if the minority of the Sixty first Congress should confine its attitude to the tariff legislation of that body to that of the fault-fnder, and present no pOSltlVe pOllcy or US own.
 It would be a great thing if the repub- licans should propose a revision of the tariff that both parties could support in both houses of Congress. We have had 15 general tariff bills since the adop- ton of the constitution, and none of them passed unanimously. The nearest to com plete agreement was the act of 1857, and, 4l, a-+ fA fra trade this country ever attained It was the Thirtyfourth Congress in which the republicans had a plurality, the speaker, and the majority of ways and means. The democrats had a majority of the Senate, and the President, who approved the bill. was a democrat from Pennsylvania who thought pretty much as to the tariff as did that other Pennsylvania democrat who came after him, Samuel J. Randall.
 We do not, however, expect the two parties to agree on a tariff revision next spring. It Is become too much of local issue for that. The questions propounded by the minority In the hearings" just completed suggest that they have surren- dered some of the academic philosophy of the tariff so long held by the democrat ic party; and the issue seems reduced to this: The republicans are figuring on how much protection they can retain, and the democrats or how much reduction they can extort. To illustrate, the democrats seem to take the position the republican party would have occupied in 1862 if it had come out for gradual emancipation.
 There are democrats, however, who look on the tariff as moral, as well as a po- litical, question. That Is why the tariff has been a political issue for more than 100 years, and the chances are we shall have it in our politics many years longer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-06
Visions of S0ntharn Votes

The St. Louis Globe-Democrat has been reading of things done in Au- gusta, Ga., and now it has visions. It sees a revolution coming in the south, especially in the industrial south. The vote and influence of the republican party is to be extended. While using, {" it goes on to say, "all legitimate en- deavors to strengthen the republican organization in every southern state which has a republican organization, MT. Taft will give encouragement to secessions from the democracy of all persons who want to abandon that party without, as yet, desiring to come all the way over to the republicans. His wish is to create party in the south which will cut loose from Bour- bonism and think and act independ- ently, and on issues of today. Recog- nizing, as every person does who has his eyes open, that there are tens of thousands of southerners who rejoice at the election of republican Presi- dents, although they themselves con- tinue to vote the democratic ticket. MT. Taft would like to make it easy for those men to break away from the democratic machine which runs the politics of the southern states"
 This programme is backed up with many figures going to show that while the politicians were against MT. Taft &hA husinsss men were for him. We