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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-30
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Now that the election is over. and the men who involved the people oi Alabama in the most bitterly personal contest known in the history of the State have been severely rsbuked. all weli-wishsrs of the State should look calmly to the future. Notwithstand- ing the bitter things that have been said ana the crimination aad rs-crimi. nation indulsed in Alabama will con- tinue to be the home of s9 per cent. of those who figured in the contest. Ii has been truly said by an eminent Aia- bariian that the statute of Limitations as soon as the polls close. should be placed on everything of an unpleasant nature said or done in the heat of a political contest. If that remark was applicable to former campaigns 1t is pre-eminently so ss to the one that has just ended. The Advertiser without doubt has been more severely abused. and by many ministers, than any other par. ticipant in this contest. Just why this should be. we have never been able to prompted by the highest consideration of duty and patriotism and by sincere desire to avert as we honestly believ- ed change in our organic law. which would turn homes and firesides over to the tender mercies of the Legislature. In view of very recent fegisiation 1t is dangerous to give unlimited power to men. majority of whom may be swayed by desire for popularity or by uncomfortable fanaticism.
 So far as The Advertiser is con- cerned we wish to say we have no even for the bitterest of our assailants whether they be ministerial. laymen or Journalistic. If fl was any pleas .ure to them to dtstort, misrepresent and abuse we can afford to overlook it in view of the fact that an over wheiming majority of the people stand side by side with The Advertiser. The pain of abuse Is more than com pensated for by the thought of duty. honestly and faithfully discharged and the happiness that comes from the utter disregard by the voters of the utterances of those who have assailed us.
 Now lets all of us get to work and aid in enforcing all the laws on our statute books and do the best we can for npbuiiding our State. Put animosI- ty to the rear and prosperity to the front
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-30
On yosker street ARnip.

washington Post.
 Is the Democratic party going to swap horses for the third time when crossing a stream? During the life of the Fifty-third Congress. when it was crossing the tariff torrent. it liam J. Bryan. and shifted the Issue from tariff for revenue only to free coinage of silver at the arbitrary ratio to gold of 1s to 1. We all re- call with what disastrous con eight successive RepubiIcan con- gresses with more than working ma5orities in both houses.
 Then, h 1906. when :he Democratic to a standstili. there was another swapping of horses in mijstream. Again was tariff reform the para mount. and the Idea that had been victor In 1882, 1884, 1886. 1890 and 1892 triumph, when the chief jockey of the Democratic party swapped the thing off for governmental ownership 0f railroads, stocked and bonded for above a score of billions.
 One of the guesses at Mir. Bryan's motive for that hopelessly improvi- dent swap has never been much ex- plotted. and 1t is this: Knowing that a basket, Mir Bryan sought to gain the support of William R HeGrst. and with a characteristically shallow esti- mate of things and men. he supposed that he could secure the aid of that distinguished editor and his several | newspapers by plugging into state socialism up to the elbow. when the fact is that after the. conduct of Mir. Bryan In the Democratie national con vention of 1904. when Hearst wan thA contending candidate for the nomina- | ton against Alton B. Parker. 1t was utterly. unthlnkable to any mind with a particle of sagacity, that Hearst would ever Took the way Bryan was And now 1t Is revealed that Mir Bryan's trump card of 1912 Is local option" poubtless he is the one one | what the Federal establishment has got to do with local option in the states. But why should he not shape the issue? He is> as completely the master of his party In 1909 as he wal | In 1898.
 | He made the party a pop; he very nearly made 1t socialist. Why l should he not make 1t prohibition | ist? May not q man do his will with his personal property?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-30
TUESDAY, NovEs1BER 50, 1908.

seme zaalous but weak minded ad- vocate of the amendment flooded the streets of Montgomery yesterday with a red circular. containing an anony- nous attack on The. Advertiser. The unknown man who made the attack from the dark. criticised the fairness of The Advertisers report of the big demonstration by the anti-amendment forces of Montgomery Saturday night. So far as could be obtained from the muddy English in which the circular was written. the annoymous author asserted that there were only ss7 men in the torch light parade while The Advertiser estimated the number of those in the parade at 2.eoo. As matter of fact there were about 597 torches in the parade. so the commit- tee states, but anybody who saw the procession knows that there were about four men to each torch.
 The Advertiser aliudes to this annoymous circular at the close of the campaign without bitterness. It illus trates one method of the repeated at- tacks upon The Advertiser and it H. illustrates the unfairness of those at- tacks.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-30
TT KEEPS RISING.

An increase in the estimated cost of the Panama Canal from $145.o00.oo0 to $S75, ,o0e,ooo Is going up some. In the meantime 1t would be somA satisfae- ton to know that there will be no further raise. but of course there Is nothing sure about the business. The first estimate given was in 1902. as we now remember. so 1t will be seen that there has been a raise of s2S5.- 100000 in seven years. That Is going up faster than the cost of living. and we need not be surprised at any fur ther increase in the estimates.
 As a matter of fact. no one is com potent to judge or predict what the expense will be before the work is completed. Even if the work is hon. estIy done, and there should be no waste or graft, 1t is rnanifestly impos- sible even now to foresee and prepare for all the difficulties and obstacles that may be encountered. and to tell just what 1t may cost to overcome them. II is 6 big job at best, and will cost big money, but no one knows how much. and no one is competent to make anything like a reliable es- innate. %
 This great canal project illustrates very graphically the fallibiIity of all human calculations in. such momen- tous undertakings, or else it shows that public men are sometimes will ing to mislead their fellows in order to carry out their purposes. It may be that the advocates of the Panama route were thoroughly honest and sincere in their opinions and In their deliveranees to the public. Senator Morgan. with a wisdom possessed by few of his fellows, pointed out some of the reasons why that route should not be chosen. among them being his conception of its enormous cost.
 But Mr. Morgan's counsel failed to receive the consideration to which 1t was entitled, and largely because those who were pushing the Panama scheme did not fully understand the man. Knowing him to be a strong consistent and persistent champion of the Nicaragua route they plainly thought he was prejudlced. Some of them. at least, could not comprehend such broad and impersonal statesman ship as he possessed. and plainly be- lieved that Senator who advocated one route could not be fair --s.s un'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-30
MINISTER ID CHINA.
Ex-Gov. Montague of virginia Appears
 Now to Have the Lead. vVa hf Ruaatal VI .t.

Now to Have the Lead.
 Washington Special to New York
 Evening PoAt.
 Two more names have been added to those under consideration for the ap- pointnient of Minister to China. They are, A. T. Montague, ex-Governor oi Virginia. and Charles E. Magoon. al one time Governor General of Cuba and previously holding the dual posi- tion of minister to the republic ot Panama and Governor of the Canal Zone. The third person, whose name, 1t Is known. has been presented to the President. Is Oscar Terry Crosby. res- ident of Washington and Warrenton, Va.
 At present ex-Governor Montague has rather the lead of the others. but 1t is understood that the administra- ton hesitates because of the cfrcuna- stance that Mr. Montague Is a lifelong Democrat. He was United States Dis trict Attorney for the Western Dis trict of Virginia under one of the Cleveland administrations; and was not only elected Governsr by the Demo crats of his own State, but has held responsible ofilces in the Democratic organization of this State, and. pre- vious to being elected Governor. held several State offices.
 sfr. Montague was one of commits sion recently sent abroad by the gov ernment to revise and assist in defin- ing with the representatives of other powers the rules of war at sea, and the rights of neutral vessels in time of war. He has given a great deal of time to the study of international studies and problems. He Is one of the Taft Democrats" of Virginia. From Virginians in Washington 1t Is learned that Mir Montague was only deterred by personal considerations, based upon his long friendship with the Demo- cratic candidate for Governor. from assisting the Republicans in the last gubeFnatorial campaign in Virginia. II Is well known that Mir. Taft was great. Iy desirous of swinging Virginia into the Republican column, as a begin ming to a breaking up of the "soIid Qntffh a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-30
The Doctrine of states Rights. New Orleans States.


 MT. George Sumner Mann, citizen of Massaenusetts, died @ short time ago and in his will bequeathed the sum of $2O,0O0 to found chair in Washing tin and Les University for the instruc- ton of the doctrine of States rights. "This sum I bequeath," reads the wall, in honor of the late General Robert Edward Lee and other eminent Vtr- ginia generals and statesmen whose loyal adherence to States rights sus- talned them in the war between the
 The popular Idea Is that the doctrine of the rights of the sovereign States Is as dead as a smoked herring, but 1t is a mistaken idea for much of that doctrine still survives the surrender at Appomattox and questions involved in 1t are constantly provoking earnest discussion in the North as well as the South as the eentrallzing tendency of the Federal Government Increases and clashes become frequent between the State and Federal authorities. This tendency Is today being resisted quite as actively in New York and Wisconsin | as 1t is in Alabama and Mississippi. Yet 1t seems strange that a man Iiv- | ing in Massachusetts has done for the preservation of the doctrine of States | rights that which has never occurred | to any Southern man to do, but the
 beauest of Mir, Mann indicates quits l clearly his belief In the vitality of the
 doctrine, and 1t Is justified by the fact | that the country North and South il 1 beginning to return to 1t as something | Fundamentally sound.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-30
roLD IN MOVING PI0rUnns.
Surgery, AgricuIture ana Metaiiufg'
 Now Taught by Them.

Surgery, Agriculture and Mesaliufgy
 New Taught by Them. New York Times.
 Moving pictures are now. or within the near future will be. applied to the teaching of botany. metaiiursy. bioio- gy, the science Of agriculture and surgery. and thus do away with tho necessity of yiyisection for teaching purposes. This plan was announced by John Collier, General Secretary of the National Board of Moving Picture Gen. sors. at one Of the regular afternoon socialistic discussions of the Church of Ascension. Tenth Street and Fifth Ave- nue.
 Tn discussing the immediate future for motion pictures. Mir. Collier said that the greatest surprise for the gem eral public would be the application of moving pictures to educationai prob- lems. Films had now been prepared to illustrate different processes taught In botany which 1t had never been possi- ble to see before In a process of growth. The same was true of btoio- gy, where, by the use of the nicro- scope and the moving picture raa- chimes the entire history of cellular life could be thrown on the screen be- fore the students. It was now possible to introduce the moving picture as an educational appliance to the study of medicine, which would result in les- sening greatly the amount of vigisec- tion practiced in undergraduate work.
 With the present scheme the vivi- sections used in all medical colleges would have to be performed but once. Any number of Aims needed could be prepared from the one set taken so that a single viyisection for one par ticular object would illustrase that subject for all the medical schools. This would greatly decrease the number of animals killed, while 1t would entirely do away with the danger of vivisec- ton being made by an unskilied per son.
 Films have been made for use in the Wisconsin Agricultural College show ing in parallel pictures the difference between scientific and unprogressive farming in process and In result. said Mir. Collier. This graphic presentation of the properly prepared field Stving an abundant yield side by side with the unimproved one with a scanty crop ik proving a most effective means Of instruction for the Wisconsin farmers.
 The same method will be used for various branches of farming and dairy ing in which reform Is being urged, An interesting possibility. he said, is the use of the demonstration out In India, to make known the irnproved' methods of farming in the famine dis- tricts. It Is asserted that systeniatized agriculture would do a great deal to- ward preventing the Indian famanes'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-30

It looks very much as though Lady Cook. formerly Tennie Ciafiin. is long on promises and short Oh perform ances. like many others who make a great ado about changing humanity. When she came over from England it was announced that she had a million dollars to spend to promote women suffrage in the United States, but she has returned to her English home. and the statement is out that if she really brought a million over here she car ried practically all of 1t back with her. Perhaps she couldn't see a good place to plant 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-30
European Ra.lroaa Pares.

A consular report to the State De" partment gives the cost of railroad fares on the European continent and In Great Britain. From this report it Is learned, that railroad passenger fares range from a75 cents to l.ie cents per mile in GeFmauy. according to the class of grade. Tn Belgium they range from 2.es to 1.17; in France from 2.9l to 1.53 on the government roads, and from S.4S to l.53 on private owner ship railways. Holland charges from 3.2S to BAT; Italy from 2.e0 to 2.42, and England from e.3 to 2.i per mile. The second and thIrd-cIass cars of Europe. however, do not compare with the first- class aecomodations in the United States in comfort or convenience. and first-class accommodations In Europe are generally inferior to the sleeping ear accomodations of this country Some roads in South eastern Europe have seatiess coaches for the very poor, which are akin to our cars for live stock.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-30

biased when consldsrine another route. Probably some of these states men measured him by themselves. It Is plain now that these doubtless are becoming convinced tbat they did the Alabama senator great injustice. They may not 60 50 far as to admit that the selection of the Panama route was a mistake. but they can see that he possessed more honesty or more wisdom than themselves when he was pointing out what an enor- nous and costly job they were advo- eating. They may not admit that his selection was the better one. but they cannot avoid the admission that he knew something about figures.
 But if a wrong choice was made the harm has been done, anS all that Is left Is for the government to stick to 1t and push the work with all the force. wisdom and economy possible. It may cost far above the highest figures that have been given, but there seems to be a feeling of certain ty that 1t will pay in the long run. still. we look for further elevation of estimates.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-30

All members of the press in Ala bama will learn with deep regret that Editor M. M. Brannon's eyesight has became so impaired as to force him to give up all newspaper work !. He will. however. take to the lecture field, and as he is . man of genius and versatility he will be able to en- certain any. audience. His daughter. who isya cultivated singer will accom- pany him. We hope that great suc- cess awaits him in his new field of activity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-30
The Cable. of the world.

Excnan8e.
 The various Governments of the world own together 8S0 cables, having total length of i4,4so miles and con- taining 21,500 miles conductors. The French Government. which takes the lead as to length of cables, has S,640 miles In flfty-four cables. As to mum bers, the Norwegian Government comes first, with 265 cables, having total length Of PAS miles. Finally, as to the length of conductors, the English Gov ernment comes first. with 5.4ss miles of conductors, divided among l1b ca bles, having total length of 1,5S1 miles.
 Private companies to the number of twenty-eight, own 2SS cables, having a length of l26,864 miles and containing 127,6S2 miles of conductors. The French companies, only two In number ---the Compagnie Franeaise du Tele- Eraphe de Paris a New York, and the Societe Franchise des Teiegraphes Sous-MarinB-have eighteen cables. with a total length of 7,249 nautical miles. The most important of the pri- Vate companies Is the Eastern Tele- graph Company which operates sew enty-fve cables, with total length of 25,347 miles
 The total number of cables In the world is 1,16s, with total length of 140,s4 miles and 149,l33 miles of con- ductors. This is not sufficient to reach the moon, but would extend more than half way there.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-30
MIR. PULITzER's WAY.
His Idea About Saving Words and
 Spendin& Money.

His Idea About Saving Words and
 Spending Money.
 aDont waste words Mr. Pulitzer has dinned in the ears of his sons and his editors and reporters This preach- ing has been summed up in these three words Epiacarded all over the edi- Htoriai room of The World n sAecufaeys Terseness Accuracy.-4J II F P.'b. An stn- .troduction to an article or story Tor his paper Is waste of time. good pa- per, and words. he has protested over and over again, I don't want to read 6 thing three times and you have to do it when an editor tells you in headlines what you may expect to read and the and again in the body of his story and maybe two or three times more sone- thing that you know already
 MT Pulitzer's respect for words Is not an idiosyncrasy of his innrmity. and later on. The World he held edi- tions many a time while he struggled to get into an editorial word of the proper shading or killed" an editorial in the forms and wrote q new one. The familiar summaries of the big features of a news artieie--they call them box es' in newspaper ofiices--which one may read as he runs, Is one of MT. Pulitzers pet ideas. He likes things massed,
 Pay the highest price for the high est eflciency.' Is one of MT. Pulitsers cardinal rules. Men with ideas he counts greater than riches. He adores the man who will dare to do things. There was a man who entered his em- ploy at whose command he placed un- limited funds with which to work. The funds were unused and six months passed without his doing anything. Then, one day an idea came to him. He was on his own resources. He cabled to Mir, Pulitzer to know if he approved of his carrying out the idea.
 l" Don't bother me, was the answer he got back. I don't hire you to do that, For Heavens sake do something about which can bother you.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-30
The Discreet Lions of Africa.

Baltimore sun.
 Mir. W. R Hotchkiss. who is in charge of the Industrial Mission at Lumbwa, Africa, in an interview in The Sun yesterday, gave vivid de- scription of the perils which beset the traveller in the Dark Continent com paratively few years ago when there were no railroads and the visitor and explorer travelled on foot On one oc- casion Mir. Hotchkiss and brother missionary were suddenly confronted by eleven lions. We fired upon them" says Mr. HotchiSiss, and kill ed three. The remainder fled" It is to be hoped that the Hons which Col. Roosevelt has met since he landed in Africa have not manifested an equal spirit of timidity of the forbearance and consideration; that when the Col oners gun was trained upon them and the slaughter began they did not beat a retreat and take to the jungle, giving him the undisputed right of way. The Colonel went to the Dark Continent to meet animals in some de- gree worthy of his prowess. He went for a fight, for the delirious joy of combat. It must have been a sad disappointment to him if the King of Beasts declined to face him. to mix it up with him. Everybody knows that Col Roosevelt would give odds to the fiercest lion in Africa and beat him to standstill. But if the lions decline his challenge Gas well they may If they know his reputation), If they refuse to stand up and be throt- tied or rent to pieces, the Colonel must be fairly brokenhearted at tine tameness of the sport.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-30
DIR IFT WOOD
.of tsesr.e. .

Friend--whsn you are out of food and are surronnded by an ice-jam, what
 Arctic Expiorer--why--er--eat the ice-jam, of course.
 Een Weed.
 Where are the heroes of yesterday? They Hash moment across the sky,
 And then go whence from whither' !. When 6 lady fails to get a seat on street car. she should go and get a receipt for beauty.
 Now. that Thanksgiving Is safely dinner. which can furnish just as many aches.
 This ls good one. going the rounds, credited to ahe Metropoiitan:
 "A grade teachsr, after having 8 meaicaI examination In her room re- gently. wrote the following note to the parents of q certain boy Your little Doy, Charles. shows signs or astigma- tisln. Win you please investigate anu take steps to correct it. To which she received a note In reply, saying: dsnt unassstaad Sssg so,,s exactly TnSs Sass walloped him tonight, and you can waiiop niEn tomorrow. and that ought to help some .s"
 With view to putting an end to the old sytablished custom Of dismtssing tfrel sfftfteo Bf sfhs gFoom ct a wedding by simply stating m the newspaper re- port or the event that he wore con- ventional black" Editor Elmer E. TRy- Tor of The Traer tla.I Star-Clipper has set the new fashion of giving the groom as muck space in the article as IS accorded the bfide in describing the wedding trousseau. Editor Taylor. in this innovation of newspaper etiquette. feels that the groom has for years been sighted by hls journalistic bretafen, and that 1t Is no more than just and fair that some attention be paid to the attire of the other one of the principals in the average nupttal event. He goes to the trouble of writing up the iinery of the bride and described her toggery at some length, that the other party to the contract Is entitled to dismissed by the old-time phrase of "he wore the conventional black"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-30

Mir. Taylor calls attention to the re- port of Col. Van Sant, American con-i sul at Kingston. that that city dur ing nine months ended September 30 had lost 800 citizens through emigra- ton to the United States.
 Emigration in that direction is iarg- CT than generally appreciated. It has been estimated that there are l.o0e.- 900 persons of Canadian birth in the United States, A careful inyestisa- tion several years ago showed there were s0o.000 in the New England States alone.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-30
Reflections of a Bachelor.

New Hork Press.
 Lukewarm friendship can outiast grand passions.
 There's nothing that requires such constant repairing as good resolu- tion.
 girl can fall in love with man so as to have a chance to find out if it's really true. When you can't spank sense into children. what's the use of trying to preach 1t into them? A womans faith Is based upon what she wants; mans lack of It upon what he doesn't want.