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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-20
PRnDIOTs PRosPrRITY.

George Gould Says His Reporss Make
 Him . Pronounced Bull. Baltimore Dispatch to The New York
 American.
 George J. Gould. interviewed hera Thursday about tie business outlook, said: ss [
 T am extremely .'buliish' on all con. ditions When have been on q yaca- ton for some weeks. naturally I have been kept informed on the situation, and, though perhaps not fully posted as to the details of the properties in which I may be interested, I have a general knowledge of what is In sight. The outlook is bright and promising. and am q bull. You can make this as strong as you please.
 we have gone through severe strain, but think the corner has been turned, and that the tide will now tend toward prosperity. Every indtca. ton points to this. My optimism is based on reports I have received and on conditions laid before me from all sections."
 Does this refer to raiiroads or to industrial and commercial afkairs?" was asked. s{8
 TO ali." he replied. 'They are so closely interwoven that the success of the one depends on the success of the others. The railroads cannot prosper if industries are idle. We fad an im- provement in traffic all along our lines. This means that the industries we serve must be at work and must be supplying the freight.
 N"The country is bound to go ahead. We can't stand still. While there may be brief periods of rest. the propulsion will again come. It is now coming. I can only repeat to you that am a bull and look for builish conditions from Low on."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-20

The Columbia State writes strongly against the men who have done so much to raise the price of wheat and other foodstuffs, and quotes at some length the published accounts of their operations. Thus" 1t continues. 'it is made plain that hungry women and children. the whole civilized world over. are the victims of the Board of Trade gamblers. The policy gamblers. also rob the poor-but they, at least, allow the deluded victims voice in the transaction. The Board of Trade gamblers, shrewder. more conscience less. rob millions of the poor, whose sole share in the transaction Is that they must be fed.
 ''Yet wise and benisnant civiliza- ton legislates, through its govern ments, to send roulette and poker and faro and policy gamblers to jail. while the Board of Trade gamblers are hon. ored, envied for their wealth, and some times almost sanctined."
 We read in the Bible of how one of the Pharaohs obtained and stored up all the wheat in Egypt, so that the people might be dependent on him. That was the first wheat corner" we have read about. and some of the modern speculators would like to emulate him. It may be fun to these spectators. but 1t is hard on the people who pay for 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-20
TERMS TARIFF A JOKE.
Jsln ". Gates Indiffenreht to Remov-
 fng Duty On OIL

Jehn ". Gates Indiffenreht to Remov-
 fng Duty On oil. New York World.
 "I've always been in favor of rec raw materials and protection for nn- tshed products" said John W. Gates to . World reporter Wednesday. There fore believe that removing the duty on crude petroleum is good thing. The Texas company. of which am a other. and I don't believe the stand- ard does."
 MT. Gates had been asked by a re- porter for The World for an opinion of the Payne tariff bfll.
 The steel and petroleum industries Of this country are big enough to take care of themselves from now on," he continued. What we ought to do is to protect the American workingman. He Is entitled to just little more than are his fellows in other countries I Know most about steel and coal. and I have always been in favor of having both iron ore and coal on the free list. To my mind, the tariff is a good deal of joke anyhow. You might call 1t a state of mind.
 How are they going to beat us? We'vel got them on the finished pro- duct. Why. down South they have been crying out about free lumber and have Kept the duty on 1t. Take 1t of and let's see where any is coming from to compete with ours. Mexico hasn't rough lumber from Port Arthur to Mexico nearly every day in the year. If they had 1t on the spot do you sup pose they would want ours? Not much. Some might come in from Cam ada. but not for long,"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-20
TunsDAY. APRIL ao 1908.
CouxCrLL,s WORK.

f
 The death of William H. Counciii Is . misfortune to the negro race. With the lights that are before them, those who knew Councill well, white and black. believe that he was the great est negro that he race has produced.
 IL Is not uncommon to fnd sloquent negroes. but coupcilI. lwaa more tSan an eloquent negro. T4s wasea think sr and he had the courage to battle against misrepresentation and against heavy odds. Until he was nearly grown. councili was slave. Like for mer slaves. and like white people who owned or were members. of the slave holding families. he knew that bond of sympathy could be created between the two races. and he deprecated the attempts by criminal members of the two races to foment trouble between whites and blacks
 councill taught. that after all had . been said and done, after all the fine spun theories had been worked out, one after the other, to nothingness. the me- gro problem, such as it was. would be settled by the Southern white man and the Southern negro. and that the white man. being of the dominant race. would be the dominant factor in adjusting the questions arising between two races of different blood, different ancestry and. different ideals. He knew that the men who studied the question from afar son. were only theorists. well -inten- tioned. but theorists. nevertheless. and that they would contribute nothing per- manent to the solution of the question. He was not deceived by theories, and he saw far ahead that the final Court of Appeals of the issue would be the Southern white man.
 It might be truthfully said that he was a great teacher. It is significant that the white people who live near his school and who knew most of 1t were it's staunchest defenders and advocates. He had no monopoly of the earnest de- sire to help the unfortunate members of his race; many other negroes had that. But he was successful in 1t and his work and ideas were rich in prac- ttcal results.
 Single-handed and alone he built a great negro school near Huntsville. He managed the school ably and no mem- Der of his race was turned away from It's doors. And today every piece of the valuable property of that school be- longs to the State of Alabama.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-20
A BUSY DocroR.

There are various methods of doing . thing. if one only understands how to so about 1t. as has been lately proven in the County of Monongaiia. West yir- ginia. About . year ago the county voted mo license.' which meant dry- ness. at least theoretically. but theory and practice are not always in har- mony. Notwithstanding that Monon- galia County wes legally dry. 1t was not SO in fact, for it was weli-known that jags were not at all unusual in Morgantown. and other places. In that county. and the problem was to find out now come" The Manchester Union adds this by way of explana- tion:
 .. The district attorney has been con ducting q quiet investigation, and the anaouncesment of his discovertes ts interesting, not to say exciting. Ao- foaan's nsn'psns ,o nSys,c,an Ine of has written 10000 prescriptions for liquor in the last year. the customary spracs received for these prescrlptions yeins tsls sbsses oas % tSat one % physicisn % made % sio, tt ,ooo ffiS the year from IiQuor pre- scrfptions alone, while 1t is estimated that half as much went to drugwists through the medium of one physician. This case is cited merely as q type. for the district; ;attorney says that oth- tr physicians have been doing big business In the liquor prescription Hue. Present indications point to lively times in medical and court cir cles of Monongalia County, as whole sale prosecutions against physicians are promised, and it is said that an effort will be made to include the druggists in the general roundup.
 It would be interesting, and doubt less sniishtenins to read a list of the diseases treated by this highly success fuf doctor. We are sure there's . fine lot of them. It Is natural to suppose that he discovered new ailments as we'll as new ways of curing them. but 1t seems that the remedy was pretty much the same. A certain amount of old rye. or something just as good, filled the bill every pop. And this in- stance is striking example of the dif- fculty of enforcing law against pub- lie sentiment. It Is possible that the authorities of the country may break up that practice, and punish those en- gagged in 1t. but plainly the people of the towns want liquor and will have 1t in some way.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-20
WILL Hn VETO n.

The Albany Herald is building its hopes on the. Fresident on the tarin matter. It looks for nothing good in that line from the present ssssion. and dsciarss that there is just one hope. That hope" 1t says, 'fs in the White House. Will President Taft be true to himself and the people who believed him, or will he bend the knee to the favorsd interests whose absolute tools the men who control Consress are7 With the pending measure rejected. the country would be better on than 1t can bs with 1t approved. and there would rsmain the prospect of another tariff bil--a tarif bill which. in the light of the Presidsnt's veto of the mon- strosity now about to be offered. would Of necessity be an improvement over it..
 The Herald argues that if the Presi- dent will veto the bill, there will so up from all parts of the country such a spontaneous note of approval that Congress would not dare attempt the perpstration of an outrage such as is now being planned" As our contem- porary should bear in mind. it Is difi- cui to tell what Congress will do. If the extra session, called for the express purpose of enacting tariff law. hands out "a rnonstrosity," would regular session do any bsttsr7 That session will be composed of the same members. controlled by the same policies. and of course dominated by the same inter- ests. and why should it be expected to do better than the special session does7
 Perhaps there is some weight in the argument. however. that e strong and lucid veto message from the President might meet with . warm response and approval from the people. and that popular sentiusnt would compel the enactment of a fair and just law. It is known that Mir. Taft is not fully in harmony with the extreme protection ists of his party on this question, and 1t may be thatfhe will refuse to ap- prove any measure which does not comport with his ideas of what should be done, and 1t may be that if the bill now being prepared does not fit in with his ideas of what 1t should be he will veto 1t. We confess. however, that we are not expecting any genuine tarif revision from the party in power. It knows too well where the sinews of war come from.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-20
SENATE TARIFF REVOLT.
wasslngten Iasss Special to Philadelphi

Washington Special to Philadelphia
 Record.
 The Republican Senators of a pro- gressiye tendency, and who honestly believe in revision of the tariff down. ward, have begun a systematic move ment to let in the light on the sched- ules of the Aldrich bill. with view to exposing the jokers and demonstrate. ing to the country exactly how much protection will be afforded the Various lines of industry by the tariff rates fixed in the bill.
 These senators have divided up the more important schedules mong them selves and have employed experts Y to assist them in making a searching dis- section of them. One senator. for in- stance. has taken charge of the wooden schedule, another will take iron and steel, third glass and pottery, and so on down the line. When they have completed their work they will come into the Senate and tell the country what is really in the Aldrich bin and how much of revision downward bill it is or is not. h
 Their object in doing this is not so much to crucify Aldrich as 1t is to make 1t plain to President Taft that get no real revision downward, but will be aiding in handing the coun- try q gold brick. The progressive Re- publican senators believe they win be strong enough with the aid of the President. If he will consent to aid them, to force Rldrich and his heuten- ants to make a real revision and keep the pledges of the party to the coun- try
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-20
COOPERATIVE LIVING.
Productive Industry Reducing the Bt
 dem OG Housekeeping.

Productive Industry Reducing the Bur-
 dsn of Housekeeping.
 Everyhodv's.
 Each passing decade sees a larger and larGer share of the life ot the child trausferred from individual to transferred from within the home to ontside the home. We have already observed that. the same law of dev- elopment exists in respect to certain other elements of home life. We have caied largely in the. home. has almost entirely departed from it. We have observed how the arts of housekeeping have begun to die in the home and to be revived in domestic science eour-
 simultaneously. naturally. there has arisen a great demand on the part of housewives for food already cooked. This applies not only to cereals and ned fruits. but to meats and fish.
 In one of the Chicago department stores. last year. the manager of the grocery department sold more than sausaee. cerveIat sausage, Southern hash. mutton stew, veal chops. fried perch. fried frogs legs, combination salad. boiled ham. beef tongue, fried oysters. baked white fish. bologna, saul sage. .deviled crabs. and so on. all 'se1' Of course. S r even s2oo.OOo Is a small amount compared with what city as large as Chicago spends a year in the I tendency is setting. There Is prob ably ten times as much cooked food sold in Chicago today as there was ten years ago.
 All these changes .Sa tend nd, t9 SoIa contract follow that they tend to destroy its vital principle.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-20
rl1n DIVIDED xxnsuY.

New York presents now example of the disssssion and division In the Re- publican party of today. A Repubii- can Lsgisiaturs has killed for two ysars anyhow. the direct primary biil of Governor Hughes. and. not satisfsed with that. it has gone farther and tram pied upon several other pet theories of the Governor. AS q result. the party is divided into two hostile camps. one made up Of the Governors supporters, the amateurs in politics. 1t might be said. and the other composed of the pro- fessionais with the machine behind them. Although the primary bill is dead. the two camps are stiii beiabor- ing each other right Justify.
 An organised and eficisnt Democracy in New York would be absolutely csr- tain of victory next time. But neither the New York Democracy nor the Ma tionai Democracy. at this time. fills the bill for such fight.
 The Republican party is worse divid- ed right now. not only In New York. but throughout the country. than at anytime sincs the war. It is .reapins the reward of being ari things to all men, In Kansss 1t pfstended to be the party of the tarin revisionists. In Massachusetts. 1t asumed to be what is had always been. the defender of the protected interests. In Michigan. 1t was the champion of the "Progresivs Republicans" and stood for every scheme they proposed In New York 1t claimed to be the friend and ally of the nnanciai and the business inter ests.
 The divided and discordant state of the party now is the natural sequence of such political doubie-deaiing. Even the Republican. party could not pose as Joe cannoA.s party in one state and Tn eodore Rooseveit's in another. and get away with the trick.
 what chance for Democracyl Pop uiism never has and never will win. no matter how often Democracy's brand is stuck on 1t. but | vital and aggressive Democracy standing for something be- sides fad for the hour could win.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-20
NEWLAWS IN EFFECT
B Frederic ]. HasLa.

ravagss of vsudef commercialism ex- pires June 7sth by limitation. It was expected that Great Britain and the United States would be able Go perfect . treaty relative to the preservation of the falls prior to that time. But such an expectation has not been reai- ised, and the recent session of con- gress passed "a joint resolution extend. ing the operation of the present law until 1911. in the hope that between now and then treaty may be ratiied which will hand Niagara unspoiled down to generations yet unborn. Re- newed efforts wili be made to secure the adoption of such treaty.
 The Library of Congress will here. after be the repository of the publica- Congressional Record have been placed In the hands of the Librarian of Con- gress to be used for an exchange list between the United States Congress and other legislative bodies which agree to the exchange. It is of courss expected that all principal legislativs bodies will exchange with the Amer lean Congress. Another public reso- iution authorizes the Census Bureau to extend it's cotton statistics 90 as to show the stocks of bsled cotton in the United gAtes on November 1. January |. and March i.
 Mrs. Grover Cleveland and Mrs. Benjamin Harrison are now enjoying the frankfng privilege. sending their correspondence through the nnails free. as this privilege was extended them by congress before 1t adjourned. It Is interesting to note that Mrs. Me- Kinley was granted this privilege shortly after the death of her husband, but that it was not extended to Mrs Harrison until recently. Why she was shown less consideration than the widows of other Presidents is unex- plained.
 Matters relating to the navy ana shipping were well taken care of in a dozen different acts and ameniatory laws bill was passed authorizing the refund of certain moneys to pur. chasers of stamps under the War Rev. enue Act of 1898. and the remission of certain duties collected on anthracite coal imported about the time of the big coal strike several years ago. These moneys are now being returned by the Treasury Department
 It is remarkable fact that Theo- dore Roosevelt signei away nearly a billion. dollars of the peoples money in a single twenty-four hours. Seldom in the history of the country has there been such a congestion of big appro- priation bills at the end of session as there was in March. Nearly every one of the big supply bills bears the significant statement that they were approved on March or March {. From noon on the former date to noon of the latter Mir. Roosevelt by his signature made the appropriation of some Sg00.- 100000 the law of the land. It is a record which bids fair to stand for many years. and 1t is perhaps twice as much money as was ever before signed away by any ruler In the same length of time.
 Copyright. 1909. by Frederic J. Has,
 kin.)
 Tomorrow--A Matthew Maury Me-
 naorsnl.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-20

From all sections of this mighty land. like the reverb berations from some mighty cannon. comes the echoing and joyous command, Play Ball! ITO many thousands. possibly many millions. it Is like the call to Q new life. Tn the frigid North, the wild West. the flower gemmed South and the ocean washed East, it is the same. The teams are lined up. the grounds are in order. the fans are prepared for the summers games. Joyful are the anticipations. warm the expectations and glorious will be the realizations--to some. Great Is baseball!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-20
What tie State Papers
 Are Spying and Doing
Lest the ope.ias Game.

 u,,,, Lest sas ope.ias Game. 1t wss S ssd fifteenth Of Apri for Mobile fans. By the way, that. was the day Mobile .arrendsred in issS.
 There is Renso.. Wiregrass siftings.
 A woman gets cross when she has so ret up to let her husband in but she doesn't mind 1t at all to get up and let the cat out.
 The Greatest DeveIoper.
 Every railroad built in Alabama swn d. n:E s5ssry s..s sIss ss :D ns. S. ally. adds to the ctvilizine influences of the country through which 1t runs The railroad Is our greatest developer
 r..a.x t D.lle.s.,,. Shemeld Standard. The Charleston News and Courier re- fs,r fsrs to certain portion of 2 Ken csssion Of smaciatsd Thoughts through poverty stricken mind" That Is certainly polished and polite way of calling the congressmau dern fool
 Den't Crowd the Season. Dothan, Eagle.
 Several attempts st picnicking have were out of place, and out of season as picnics. There are no red bugs and seed ticks to speak of yet. ard we haven't had enough warm weather to bring them out Picnic parties ought to wait . while.
 The Engineering Building. Tuscaloosa Ttmes-Gazetes. '. The University's engineering building has been completed and partly occu- pied. This is good news to everybody. lt Is superb building. well suited to It's purposes. and 1t makes 1t possible for an Alabama boy to get as good en- gineering education at Alabama as he can get at Cornell or any of the East- ern schools.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-20
Nc Love For Americans.

Baltimore American.
 "f was in Cuba when the Americas n troops evacuated the country" said MT. Ralph A. Piner, San Francisco capitalist. at the Stafford, "and not 2 single cheer went up from the native throat. Tn their hearts the Cubans were exulting at the withdrawal of the Yankee boys, but beneath their breath they called them pigs I was not the victim of any rudeness, but I learned that 1t was no uncommon thing for Americans to be slurred as they pass along the streets of Havana. There are few people in Cuba of any intel ligence who do. not regard the re- sumption of American authority on the island as a certainty. It may not come in a few weeks or even months, but 1t cannot be long delayed. for the na- tives are simply incompetent to matn- tain e decent and orderly government. They are inherently defective, and 1t is simply a waste of time to give them any more rope. To think of what we did in freeing them from Spanish op- pression and the ingrstitude they have ever since shown makes the average American pretty sore, especially when he goes down there and, gets q near view of things"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-20

Mir Bryan does not want to be a candidate for Senator from Nebraska, and hopes some other Democrat will be selected. Last year he did not want to be a candidate for President. but he was the only man in America who had a regular working organization seek ing to secure delegates. Of course. Nebraska has a number of able Demo- crats who would grace the Senate. but ten to one the peerless" will be the nominee.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-20
Hnsn,t Hurt Hlm.eIf.

Jacksonville Times-U Union.
 Congressman Frank Clark hasn't in- jured his prospects for political ad- vancement or for holding on to his record as being opposed to naming Mir. Bryan for President again and to his remaining at the head of the D~lo- cratic party. As the head of that party he Is undertaking to direct the party in Congress. This action on his part Is being resented by some of the Democratic congreBsmen, and Hence there isn't tke harmony in the party there should be. His leadership. there- fore, Is destroying the harmony of the party. Without harmony it would stand no chance whatever for victory in 1919 or any other year.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-20
Same oia Tnrim.
~13G oH1 NNN1Ns Charleston News and Courier.

Charleston News and Courier.
 The chances are that the new tariff will be framed for the advantage of pet interests as usual, but 1t will be the last tarif law of its kind Presi- aent Taft discerns the profound un- knows that the Aldrich and Cannon crowd must be sent to the rear if the Republican party Is not to be turned inside out and drenched with 6 radi- Bryanism, but for the present it is likely that the standpatters will have their way. President Taft would wise- ly advise them to give up at least @ P Pees nj him aneiF For I0V tsW % more r yea years n0 at the swill trough they are prepared to sacrifice MT. Taft and imperil their party.