The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
NEW YORK WILL ENTERTAIN LURTON New Justice Will Visit Metropo-
 lis February 26 NEGRO AT WEST POINT Possibility of Colored Cadet Causes Mild Sensation-Would Be Com pletely ostracised For Entire
 Term.
By ROBERT LEE CARTER.

By ROBERT LEE CARTER.
 New York, January 29.-(SpeciaL)- New York will have as her guest on February 26 that distinguished jurist, Justice Horace H. Lurton of Tennessee and the United States supreme court bench. And New York will do him honor as she so well knows how to do when she wishes to. The New York County lawyers association will act for the city in entertaining Justice Lurton at a din ner as the banquet which is to be held at the Hotel Astor is modestly called Invitations will be sent to the justices of the United States supreme court. the federal judges of this district She judges of the court of appeals. the judges of the appellate division. first department; the United States Attorney General, Senator Root and the United States district at torney for this district
 It is needless to say "a good time will be had"
 New York has high opinion of Judge Lurton. In conversation with one of the leaders of the New York bar the other day he said:
 ''In the opinion of the late Justice How ell Fl. Jackson of Tennessee. who himself was one of the ablest judges who ever sat on the United States supreme bench, the new justice, Horace H. Lurton, is the best lawyer he ever knew.
 Judge Lamar of Mississippi, whose death occurred 1T years ago, was a pro- found scholar and had the philosophy of the law as well in hand as any man who ever adorned that tribunal. He was unfortunate in the fact that his health broke down shortly after his appoint ment.
 Some of Lamar's best friends always insisted that he shortened his life by leaving the Senate. He had never been accustomed to the steady grind which necessarily fell on him when he became secretary of the interior in the nrst ao- ministration of MT. Cleveland, and which necessarily followed him as a member of the supreme bench. This was the opinion of the late Senator Walthall, also of Mississippi one of LamaPs closest friends.
 Tt is noteworthy that some of the very ablest members of the highest court in the world have been southern men,
 West Point is roofing, to man, for the success of that young candidate from wyoming, whose alternate is negro. If prayers and good wishes would accomp- fish 1t. the young Wyominger, Wyoming ite or whatever the people Of Wyoming call themselves. would pass at the head of his class Not that West Point cares
 At I.sff Point just naturally has no use for negro This feeling is not confined to the men of the south. It is common to the cadets from every state.
 I was speaking of the matter the other day to a former West Pointer. T don't see," he said, why a negro wants to go to the Point. It means for him four years af about as near the pit as man can get in this world. HaZed? No. It means what is much worse to a man fit to be an officer, absolute complete ostra- cism. Not a word will be spoken to him except what the strictest military rules requires. He will be man absolutely alone for at the Point you know the men have not the privilege of going out side for companionship. So far as his official treatment is concerned it will be absolutely square, but his social life will Dt u Clpf1Ci. Aiiu II BC g. doudtcS II VIII be the same so far as the army is con- 
 You can't keep a squirrel on the ground" That is a mighty true saying. There is Joe Johnston, formerly of At lanta, now newspaper man, great oak or large acorn or something of the sort. Joe had a s4000 a year job in one of the city departments which he promptly sur- as son as the anti-Tammany man in whose gift it was took office. Now Joe has been made first deputy fire com missioner at $50OO and with lots more in- huence.
 Many southern men will learn with real regret of the death of Charles A. Shear son. Mir. Shearson. while a Canadian by birth. had lived in the south, in Savan- nah I think, and had been so long en- gagged in the cotton business that he gen. erally was regarded as a southerner.
 Former Gov. Benton McMillin of Ten nessee, who was in the city this week, is an optimist in politics. He says:
 If the democrats take advantage of conditions prevailing in this country the next House of Representatives will be democratic, and the next President of the United States will be democrat
 The Mckinley tariff law was the worst law that had been passed by Congress up to that time, the Dingley law was worse than the Mckinley law. and the AL drich-Payne act is far worse than the others. I do not believe the American people will stand for the high taxation imposed by the republican tariff law nor for the unwarranted prodigality of ex- penditures. The Reed Congress earned the title of the billion dollar Congress- but succeeding Congresses have been more extravagant by far than was the Reed Congress. With an expenditure of $1 1.44o. 900 authorized by the last session of Congress, following session that ap- propriated $1.007. 100000, it seems to me that the people will soon begin to take mo- tice, and that they will want to know
 why such prodigality. I do not doubt that the present session will authorize ap- propriations in excess of other years.
 There Is no doubt in the minds of most people that the present high prices of food are due in large measure to the high protective tariff passed by the re- publicans. and I tell you believe that with this knowledge before them the peo- pie are going to elect a democratic Con- gress next fall and q democratic Presi- dent in 1Sl2'
 
 The southern women of New York have taken up | movement which will doubt less meet with hearty support not only among southerners here, but throughout the country. It is the establishment of non-ssctsrian homes for aged gentlewom- en who are left without means.
 The plan resulted from their inability to find q home in New York in which to place an elderly woman who comes from