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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27
CORNERS in NECESSITIES.

New York World.
with wheat and flour soaring in
price. with loayes Of bread diminishing
demand upon the President and Con-
gress for action, the man responsible
Tor the present situation in breadstuffs
yehemently denies that he has cor
nered the market. He Is merely q mer-
chant. He foresaw scarcity he DID
wheat when he knew it was cheap and
he now has it for sale at a profit.
So say they all. Few daring opera
tors who have attempted with more or
less success to monopolize markets
have been willing to admit that they
now in evidence is not likely to do so.
There are laws in Illinois against
forestalling and against corners. There
is a law also. which has been upheld
by the Supreme Court of the state, but
rarely enforced. prohibiting dealing in
Gamblers IN wheat ara shrswd
enough to point to the high price of
cash wheat-that is. real wheat-as
proof that their speculation is not re-
sponsible for the advance in futures,
iation of futurks there would DO no
SUCH demand now for the actual grain.
these operators probably have bought
and sold many times over all the real
wheat there is in the country. BY
such methods they have gained con
troll Of a great proportion of the visia,
It is not so easv 10 see how the ma
tional government can reach those
evils, but States which permit manip-
uiators to monopolize food and fitch
unearne6 millions from. the pockets of
their duty to themselves and their
neiZhbors.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27
MON ORE QUESTION.

\
The duty on iFou ore affords q very
striking example OF the difference with
which any Item Of the tariff Is. viewed
lions are everywhaps aass dependent on
The commanding position Of the PITTS
b tSaE steel Interests .S y lSTsslE due 70
plies of ores in the Lake Superior re-
gion and the economy with which this
ore is brought directly to the furnaces.
transport their ore a long distance BY
rail across the mountains. are thus at
a serious disadvantage. so far as they
are dependant upon native ores;
in the West Indies accessible by water
that might be brought cheaply to our
Eastern mills. thus counterhalancing
But the tariff puts a prohibitive penal
ty on their use. Thus the interest OF
Eastern Pennsylvania is directly OPP
posed, IN this in.stanes to thai Of West.
projects. the valley of the Ohio at the
expense of the valley Of the pelaware
which has the natural barrier of the
Alleghenies upon one side and the arti-
ficiai barrier OF the custom house upon
It Is no mere dream in which Mr.
schyab sees great development Of the
ton with the United States Steel Corr
poration II the Cuban ores can be
brought within reach TO supplement the
native deposttss Eastern steel men
have long recognised the essential i'm
portance of this. They have seen the
great center OF steel production trans
ferred to the West BY considerations
Themselves. but aided by the artificial
operation of duty no longer needed
for the protection Of an interest suf-
ficiently protected by the feats Of geo.
graphy. The Western mills are moving
steel nearer to the ore beds. and the
latest great enterprise IL not even in
pennsylvania. IT is in Indiana, In
tion to the trust" and our own local
interests as plainly suffer from it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27
MORE TROUBLE IN GEORGIA.

Georgia still suffers from the strife
which followed the politicians war on
the railroads, Turmoil. sensationalism
in governmental affairs to keep them
constantly advertised before the pub
lie. is still the one great desire Of the
politicians who famed the flames of
hatred and prejudice, for their own Of
f1ce-getting.
The Atlanta papers announce that
Governor Hoke Smith is on the eve Of
suspending Chairman s. G. McLendon
of the Railroad Commission from office,
even as he suspended Joe Brown. The
Governor has announced that he pro-
posed to reduce the rates on cotton
from interior points to the Georgia
ports five cents on the hundred pounds
There appeared to be good political cap
ital in this. 1t was easy to go on the
stump and tell the farmers how he had
saved them fve cents on each hun
dred pounds of cotton.
But the reduction of the rates was
a matter for the Railroad Commission
and not for the Governor. Chairman
McLendon refused to become a party to
it. More than that. he prepared a state
ment. which he laid on the Governors
desk, showing the unfairness and in
justice of it--no mater how good a
campaign material 1t might make.
Among other things. he showed that
the port rates in Georgia were lower
than those of any Southern state. He
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27
THE room QUESTION:.

The Pfttsburs Post sighs for some Of
the good old times OF which we often
hear and read. and gives some reasons
why they have apparently departed for
ever. II says:
fresh eggs were sold for less than .
cent apiece. and good butter went for
iese than a cent an ounce In the
spriaE Of the year, The ccld-s,orass
the hush sprinstime. Is absorbed by
the warehouse men and sold as fresh
or near-fresh to those who do not note
that t t,n sdysrb stricsiy aussiiss tns
not always truthfuliy. at that.
II will similarly be noted that no
great amount Of enthusiasm - maai-
ent high price Of wheat II is a tan
their old crop to the elevator men. and
4 q too soon for the new to come on.
The average farmer, like the average
rafser Of product. must sell his out
put Is soon as Il is gathered. And
then prices are always low. It Is only
Tss Iced waaehouss and The eleva.
tor are essentials In the dlstrib ution Of
food products. but a proper inquiry and
much siGssr rsssrsnt oxss the r nus
Is disposition to run such business to
the prejudice OF the general welfare.
Not fnfreqnentiy the middiemsn's prof.
n s are as % Of q:
censtderatlona for the general welfare
may some day demand public storage
centers to curb the rapacity of the ex-
listing private concerns.
Many or us. like The Post. look back
to those old times and wonder II we
win ever see their like again. 1t was
not only the eggs and the butter. but
the meat and the lard. the meal and the
-four, and almost everything else that
was needed for food could be had at
about one-half the prices we now pay.
And the good part OF It was that while
the consumers got their foodsturs at
low prices the farmers as general
thing were prosperous ana contented.
They did not get big prices for their
products nor aid they have to pay high
prices for the little they were forced
to buy. IN short. the balance was pref
ty well kept.
Conditions now are not only widely
different. but continue to grow worse
II the hish prices Of nearly all kinds
Of food are solely due TO the fact. IL it
10 . fact. that the supply In thiscoun-
try 10 no longer equal to the legitimate
demand, the only remedy seems to be
to increase the acreage of grain or the
production per acre. That Is Q job for
the farmers themselves. and they win
md prafit in II. II scarcity ana high
prices are due to spectators. grain
gamblers and the like. then 1t seems
that there ought to be some means Of
relieving the situation by laws. The
man who runs up the price Of food for
no ether reason than to make money
for himself is public enemy and de-
serves to be treated as such.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27
slandering Women

RlttSDurR ROSt.
A tendency of modern times TO lay
at the doors OF women sins of which
they are not guilty Is most regrettable.
rency In Washington that q committee
had been appointed to Investigate the
Character OF women employed by the
government, and that many of them
would be discharged because of their
morals. Prompt denial of such a con
dition from persons in authority should
quickly silence these ISLANDERS.
Among certain classes It is common
to cavil at the character of women who
are forced to earn their daily bread. Be-
cause these are compelled to come into
contact with men In the business
world few petty despoilers of eharac-
ter assume that they are net all they
should be. These innuendoes rapidly
spread and are always enlarged and ex-
aggerated in repetition,
This Is the same kind of slanderous
assault to which women OF the stage
are subjected. The whole class OF
stage women is condemned in some
weak minds because a few of them
have been silly or indiscreet. Working
women are not better or worse as a
class than women in any other walk
of life. But they are certainly entitled
to just as much respect, IL not more,
than some others.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27
The senaitIveness Of wheat King.

New 1ork Il0eS.
Mr.. Patten of Chicago differs from
other would-be cornerers of wheat. or
at least so he would have us believe,
In superior sensitiveness to public crit
icism. One notes. however. that the
poor man's.nerves failed him about the
time when what careless speakers
would call his nerve began to break
down, and that while all was going
well with his genial attempt 10 CAPT
talize his powers of divination he didn't
seem to be a bit disturbed by the de-
nunciations of the shorter-sighted folk
whose pockets his operations were de-
pleting.
1t is beginning to look as IL Mr..
Patten fed, not from criticism by 9th
ers. but from confession OF error by
himself. Be that as, 1t may, the hgure
he is now cutting Is not an entirely
pleasant one, and, however real his suf-
ferings may be. they win not excite
what could truthfully be called wide
spread sympathy.
What Mr.. Patten tried to do may
have been commercially defensible, as
coming under the common right to
buy low and sell dear, but the natural
man has an instinct which tells him
that to corner wheat Is not quite-nice,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27
CATHOLIC SLS7ERHO0DS

Baltimore in 1890. Bat thex we're <
clotstered order and INST with 30 many
discouragements that they ala not
succeed. After them came the Poor
claires. They were aIho . cioistered
order. and failed to gain foothoId.
community 70 which DR.. Nsale rave
the rule Of the Visitation order. which
has nourished ever since. and embraces
the famous Georgetown, ID. o., convent,
~ 1s2o only nye orders had suc-
cesded IN getting . foothoid on Amer
lean soil. A. score Of years later the
native American spirit began to be
the convent Of tbs Ursuiine Nuns In
Boston, About this time there wsre
many people who went about claiming
that they had been membefs OF the re-
ligfous orders OF the churoh, both for
men and women, and pictured har-
rowing tales Of what had happened
The native Americans were only too
glad to spread these ta1es. Some OF
them were Investigated By Protestent
newspaper men, and found 20 be withr
out foundation. One of9the women who
had taken leading role IA denounciue
the nuns and claiming TO have befn In
q convent herself vas found 20 have
been . notorieus character who haA
never bssn inside . convent.
Ans HpAn9A o. luo <Y<Hp4f4 %uNf44e
are fer ahead Of the men IN work
aaong these lines. n Ii said thne
there are i've times - many women ~
American territory who have devoted
their liyes to the work Of the church
as there are men. There are certainly.
i've times as many orders Of sister
hood. Even the negro and the Indtan
are not overlooked BY the women. The
Sisters OF the Blessed SACRAMENT look
after the dark races with q particuias
care. and there are many beautiful In-
dian girls who have Joined the order
and are devoting their lives to IT,
work. It Is said that they make ex-
ceilent sisters. fully alive to every
thing that goes TO the uplifting Of
their race. The Obiate Sisters, found
ed In Baltimore many years ago. was
the frst order to make the welfare Of
the negro its special interest.
The Episcopal Church has found It
70 follow the example OF
the Catholics. In England the effort
to establish orders Of sisterhood has
been successful. and some success has
attended similar efforts II sAmeFica-.
The DeaconesH Home OF the Lutheran
Church In another example ct the sis-
terhood principle spilled BY Protest.
lCopyrisht, 1909 BY Frederic j.
fiaskin.,
Tomorvsw--A City peanfifaL \
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27

~ uss ~ cirSumstencSs IKE tnese
81 pro rsn 90 cns - tNo thsnsss
Snr PsIcs " uss SorH y.
o., AM when we nsntion corn e Y
~ az. yuspose " uatscuns sstsx s,l1,i,
tSa "a sa,' e nprssa SeSs.h onis
na,s wv, wv ooutnorn sopks
de,isen,,a VIII tns valous ninus u
s Urn meal unlortunatsly the present
ecrss es saa. " 1871 canhos mehs 10Y !
49,. ursau. sut ne ~ ~ mek.nk ~
shc,s eo tns pegpie VII ~
= hvr ssen y nest elVuie 70
Scs - ~ ssla ", ons pusnSs.
aaiicta..D .e $50 ptv2sy msae ~ oosn
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27
Turkey In Asia.

New York Times.
The Mohammedan massacres of Chris
tians in Asia Minor are as vet but a
name. We hear that they have spread.
with fearful rapidity. that the fanat-
ieism of the MYRIAD devotees of Islam
across the Dan danelles Is capable of
horrible atrocities. and that the Asian
peninsula Is afiame with the spirit of
murder and rapine. With the news OF
The debate upon the fate of Turkeys
wicked Sultan come accounts of s.augh-
ter and panic exceeding In their pro-
portions the massacres In Bulgaria In
1875. When the full descriptions of the
present massacres shall reach the
their Governments will be moved to
act as they acted when Gladstone be-
came the prophet of the doom of Tur-
key a generation ago. In his paInph-
let entitled Bulgarian Horrors" Mr..
Let US insist that our Government
which has been working In one direc,
tion, shall work in the other, ANA
the other States OF Europe in obtaining
the extinction OF the Turkish power n
Bulgaria. Let the Turks now carry
away their abuses in the onlv possible
selves Their 5aptiehs and their Mu-
dirs, their Bimbashis and their Yuz-
bachis. their Kaimakams and their Pa
shas, one and all, bag and baggage
vince they have desolated and profaned.
II it be allowable that the ex-
ecutive power of Turkey should renew
at this great crisis, by permission or
authority of Europe, the charter Of
its existence in Bulgaria. then there
ts not on record since the beginnings
of political society, a protest that man
has lodged against fntolerable mis-
government. or a stroke he has dealt
at loathsome tyranny. that ought not
heneeforward to be branded rs a
crime"
In his speech at Blacksheath follow
ing the issuance of this pamphlet. Mr..
Gladstone ana aated the events lead.
ing up to the .reaty of Berlin ty de-.
claring that the assent not only of Rus
STA, but OF Germany, Austria, France,
England and Italy, WAS Indispensable
to entire success and satisfaction,
These were the terms he would offey
to the Turk:
"You shall receive reasonable trib-
ute: you shall retain your titnlar SOW.
ereignty: your empire shall not be In.
vaded; but never again while the years
roll their course. so far as 1t Is in our
power to determine. never again shall
the hand of violence be raised by you:
never again shall the dire rafinements
Of cruelty be devised by YOU for the
sake of making mankind miserable IN
AS with Bulgaria. so should be the
course taken BY the Powers with Tur-
key In Asia.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27

Cheap Land Has Governed Price D
Grain ThrouGhouf the wsrld.
New York Sun.

Cheap Land Has Governed Price Of
Grain ThrouEhost the Weird.
sy s ss. ssu z; $685.
u,s ssr 4 eSE s i. a os g
population, IL lie evident that wheat as
comm oditiss previously used. increase
In production In this country has been
q little more rapid than the average
Of world increase. The American crop
sSo.ooe.o6o bushels, ana i Is now about
The variation of conditions from
year to year makes impossible any
vs yssss show sss ns srss a e inc
In. the percentage OF American wheat
exported. From 1850 to 1859 about
tsy per cent am Of sss e greg
thirty-thres percent The average of
the last ave years has been about one
half OF that Of the preceding twenty
sSs Wh s re gst besn q pea
TIE acreage r II It Is At al sxfsnasd,
VIII increase as rapidly as Il did In
earlier years when new raiiiiways were z
cultivation. In fact, the largest acre.
age In the record was that Of 1901,
when ss,sss,si4 acres were Pla9tesdL;
acres. The dgurss for 1907 drop to
4k21l, 900. 1t Ia conceivable, though
little probable, that another ten years
may see 10000 900 acres III wheat The
In acreage will not keep pace with
the Increase In domestic demand, and
that the predictions OF some observers
regarding the diminution OF wheat ex-
The conclusion' Is Inevitable that
with the passing OF cheap land there
must also be q passing Of cheap wheat,
unless there shall be devised and
adopted some profitable system OF I'M
tensive cultivation. with decided IN
crease In yield to the acre. The al.
tentative Will be importation duty free
from countries that still have eheap
land
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27
Flowers Centenary.

lfOnuOH
a French sailor living near Marseilles
went up to Paris by diligence. guard
ing with the utmost care two precious
little flower-pots In which he had spe-
cimens of a strange plant, His name
was Pierre Blaneard. and on his arri-
val in Paris, in November. 1908. he OBJ
tanned an interview with the Empress
Josephine, who was devoted to flowers
among other things. Hancard had fire.
uuently sailed to China and Japan. and
there had been struck by the beauty of
the flower which was held in such es-
TEEN in the far East; He had the
greatest dif1culty in getting his .speci-
mems out of Japan, and in bringing
them home safe in the slow sailing yes
sells OF those days: but he succeeded,
and managed to. grow the plant in his
garden at Aubagne. suburb of Mar
settles. The crysanthemum has now
spread over most of Europe, and is
held in almost as great esteem as 1t is
In the far East, where II was known
certainly as long ago as the Ninth CEN
turv before the Christian era. In Eu-
rope there are many societies which
are devoted to the cult of the chrysan-
themum. but probably the growers will
never attain the splendid colors which
distinguish the flower in China and
Japan, and here in England the garden
ers would hardly know what to do
without IL nowadays.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27

Grand larceny" lie the charge
against Broughton Brandenburg, who
is acucsed Of stealing notes from the
private, papers of the late Grover
Cleveland. The Chattanoosa Times
thinks If he had stolen the notes of
some other modern statesman. petty
larceny" would have been an exagger-
ated statement of the offence. True.
but man of his sort would not pur-
loin articles OF no value.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27


AS the professed leader IF the Dem
ocratic Party. Colonel Bryan. since his
last defeat. has had the greatest OPP
portunity OF his life to show real quail
tiles of leadership by getting into the
forefront Of the tariff discussion and,
through his paper and from the plat
form. open FIRE on Democrats and Re-
publicans alike who persist In taking
orders from tariff trusts and opposing
the interests of the consumer. Instead
of doing this. however, he has been
content to sulk in his tent Issuing
manffestoes that certein OF Taft's Cab
met officers are not Democrats. while
his chosen heutenants were orazenlv
bill the mandate of the Denver Con-
vention. Never was there a greater
opportunity missed TO demonstrate the
ahsurdity o. the protectionist's claim
that the tariff was devised to help the
wage-earners and for no other purpose.
and that even the income 10 the Gov
eminent was only Incidental TO this
end.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27
A Corn Revival Needed.

HOIstUU TVSIs
The bread question Is beginning 10
bother the whole world. and largely
because a Chicago speculator is trying
TO make a fortune out of wheat OF
course. this Is not the Arst time hu-
mainly has been made to suffer to serve
the greed of spectators. but the high
sT price b b the toi1eTs are 10 tn he w Ssld
up for multiplied millions, even though
the corner in wheat lasts hut a few
days.
40 far. our Government has not seen
proper to outlaw this sort OF specula-
ton so while 1t Is permitted the poo
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27

Some people have strange ideas Of
fun. The story comes from Pittsburg
that two young white men went to a
negro lunch stand and after abusing
the proprIetors. one of them drew a
pistol and shot one OF the attendants
iniicting a painful wound. The men
claim that 1t was only a prank" but
q prison sentence would probably
change their ideas OF fun.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27
DRIFTW0oD

Parson SNOWFALL says: De tiar
srsts postS lot @ atss q an fes lis
opinion on any nlAttah % Importance"
4 sentimental girl II . village sohooi
i IL sTnsn Eaperisnes sssanss he i
such . rdear" teacher
Long island sound---ths most lnper-
tant Is the talking of money, Just as II
is everywhere else:
DON'T mind these tears of April.
1t Ii Just her way, .5s,
She's pleading with Miss Spr1nEttne
For the roses o the May.
We learn from . woInar's lnaaazins
the. thsfe 4 :, such o., 9 th 1.a e Srs zen
i Is served az up with iiSerai quantity Of
green appies, II would double up the
r issis less e sssa ' g sis
'Tis sweet to see the treea In bloom.
As through the parks we pass.
Sei k isEi' ore Ses TaE e < sRI'As ''
"A man never thinks to wind the
clock up In the night until he has
blown out the Hight and jumped into
mo poet has eyer worn the Carter"
says an English Journal kespectfully
referred to Ella wheeler Wilcox
Darwin says there is living prin-
cipal is fruit. Maybe he has reference
to the worm,
The physician is different from other
fellow haste pay the bin
o. s.o.r,. ,.t,a a. xhtnt. - Taa~,..
SON ohs as sosSn grain ne 81 speeuiator, but IN
..Locksisy Hall" he says he dipped into
ing Til tomorrow" Does this mean
that to be happy q fellow must 50 70
bed with hts clothes on9
May is full Of love and tulips.
But where. oh where, are those mint
OF the yesterday
There is one man in Alabama who 10
too stingy to advertise in newspaper.
Here is the, notice he tackled on tree
horse too wife feat and wife Ease.
Blind In wun ! five doier reword:"
Young Chicago bride killed herself
because her husband failed to kiss her
know Of some wives who would drop
dead with surprise II their husbands
even offered to kiss 'em goodbye az
all.
University of Pennsylvania professor
says whiskey does no good in snake
Ss sis iO aI RSas % maS
ties.
A Jacksonville girl killed the man
she saS Ung 70 heard
Jacksonville girls had killing ways.
Missouri legislature prescribes feet.
Thsy grow long TAN people in Missouri
Bread cast upon the water BY a
. shrewd wheat SPECTATOR Will return
after many days.
Charles II of England issued an act
in 1859 first allowing women 20 act
upon the stage 50 you can plane n It
Sir girl - '
girl graduate VIII hold forth.
Have you been e e.. i R,Ssic b yet t sns
ants are hungry.
Hungry man in New York tried to
eat the artificial cherries off iady'a
hat the other day.
Mary Garden. the Salone dancer. says
'sThe New York man Is a golden calf.
The New York woman doesn't worship
him-she merely skins him."
what makes you feel so blithe and gays
What makes you sad the self same
dav?
Girl.
what causes half the pains in life.
what also smoothes the bitter strife,
What makes loving little wife7
what makes man a loon W IOon'
What turns December into June1
Girl.
What ia 1t that will force a guy
To spend his salary-can't tell why
Pretty things for her to buy?
why Do We iive--Oh tell me why7
Also tell me why we die?
What makes a wise man act fool?
what makes us learn in lies sreat
what Is il that the world doth ruler
RIA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27

The way the corn-srowing prize
proposition is spreading throughout
the South is encouraging, for 1t pres
ages good for the farmers. If they find
that they can raise large crop on one
acre. it will be an object lesson for
their own good in the future.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27

The Columbia State is getting just a
bit skittish. If apprehends time when
the prohibitionists, in addition to doing
away with Demon Rum, will also en-
deavor to prohibit the use of such food
as they do not approve. There's no
telling where wave" will stop when
1t gets fairly started.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27

The dispatches tell us that Roosevelt
rode on the cowcateher Of an African
train. 1t is simply impossible for the
man to refrain from making spectacle
OF himself
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-27

Some OF those who think they can
tell US what Ia doing on Mars would
hnd themselves up in the air If re-
quired to tell what is going on down
here on our own planet.