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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27

lum is not arrested in its journey toward the
light, hesitating before its swoop toward the dark.
Strange as the kaiser's words may sound to
the people of a Republic, monstrous as they may
appear in the light Of the constitutional warrant
by which he himself holds title, signs are not
wanting that even in America exists the insidious
practice of what the King of Prussia announces
openly as a principle. Already III this country
almost anything can be done by executive war
rant, except that the courts still guard the per-
son. Already a supposedly representative Con-
gress sits quietly by while the President and the
members of his official cabinet wage wars, which
are not called wars, and make treaties under the
name of agreements. Already the time has
come when a great portion of the people have de-
clared themselves for the exaltation to the seat Of
the mighty of one who does not even make the con-
cession of a power divided with the Deity, that ev-
en- the Kaiser recognizes. Strange as the bald de-
~clsration may sound to American ears, it ought
TO be remembered that the difference in the cases
of the two countries is one more of form than
of method. Whatever the German Emperor
boldly SAYS, he is careful of the Reichstag; not
withstanding there is a limit to the assumption of
the rising ruler Of the United States, he is CON
temptuous alike of The Congress and the laws.
1t is a far call to the day when the "Divine
Right was a popular religion, but the time has
not yet come when the delirium of power will
not persuade itself of its possession.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27
TRYING ON AN OLD TRICK.

There is a certain pathos in the paucity OF
ideas which the "Old Guard brings to the task
of inventing a method by which it may stop"
the Colonel.
Forgetful of the truth that the vice of a trick
is that its success is limited to one performance,
it is now stated that the program is to catch
Roosevelt at the convention and force him, if
possible, to become the candidate for Governor
of New York. Failing in that, the idea is that
his recommendation shall be given assumed
endorsement and himself made chairman of the
executive committee, charged with the success of
the campaign.
In either of these events, the "OId Guard" lays
the JUNCTION to its soul that it could beat the
Colonel AT the polls. However that may be, it
is not to be considered that with his experience
the ex-President will permit himself TO step into
the trap prepared for him. IT. was a good trap
when Thomas Collier Plat first laid it. It
was good politics when Roosevelt walked into it
with open eyes prepared to break the precedent
of the deadly innocuousness of the Nice-Presi-
dency. The psychological moment has, however,
passed. The Colonel would treat such a snare,
should it be laid, with the contempt with which
an old rat regards a trap with fur still clinging to
its jaws.
Even more ridiculous than the plan itself
is the theory upon which it is based. that the
Colonel as Chairman could not find the sinews
of war. The Colonel is no political babe in arms.
Indeed. we have his own word for it that he is as
practical a man as Hartman ever was. The
country has the check of Hartman as evidence
of how eficacious IN practice this practically is.
There is scarcely doubt that with the efficient aid
of the lamented Cortelyou the Colonel was no
less eminent as n collector than he is as moralist,
naturalist, statesman and disciple of Literature
and art.
Should the peculiar genius of Colonel Roose
welt take a twist which would make it seem adj
visable that he should repeat the double cross
which he served to the ancient Plat. he would
hardly as Chairman of New York repeat the
error of the Hartman letter. But there is even
less room 10 doubt but that he would manage as
formerly TO. corral the funds.
After his former experience. Colonel Roose-
Welt would get the money, but be would not write
for it. Instead, he would probably follow the
sage advice of the big Jim Fisk Don't write
send word.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27
COTTON.

Estimates of cotton values for the three States
Of North and South Carolina and Georgia of
$235 ,00o, 600 based upon a price of thirteen
cents and reports of the crop conditions in the
States named indicate but a fraction of the new
capital which this years agricultural results will
create for the South. We have not at hand any
estimate of the value of the cotton that will be
raised In the larger producing States, Mississippi
Texas, Alabama, Louisiana. but the total should
far more than double that of the three States
named. King Cotton should this season turn
into the Golfers of the South more than a
billion dollars for the sale of the raw staple
alone.
When ii is recalled that the bv-products of the
cotton field, in meal and oil, will add other hum
dreds of millions 10 the total when it is realized
that the returnof the raw product will be doubled
and trebled in the hundreds of factories which
now dot the South when it is remembered that
these figures are for but the one crop out of the
many which the South is proftably engaged in
creating, it viii be seen to what proportions the
wealth Of this section is growing.
A striking example of Southern confidence is
shown in the optimism prompting the building
of new cotton mills, in the face of aycondition of
the market in which many mills are shut down,
and in which practically all of them are being
operated at a loss. Instead of indicating a want
Of economic wisdom, this policy is one that seems
TO us to be in line with the better faith in the.
South and its future. Precisely because the
market for manufactured cotton goods has been
saagnantl il becomes the more logical to look
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27
DIVINE RIGHT"

B The reassertion BY the German Kaiser OF the
Ehledieyal doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings
makes a challenge 10 modern civilization which
Ahe world at large cannot ignore.
AZ The Kaiser is, in relation to the world. per-
|haps the representative Of the worlds third great
ut power. With the Empire behind him, his
apotentialities are less only than those of the
~ President of the United States and the King of
England Actually, his power as an individual
q perhaps greater than either Of hese-certainly
Than that of George V.
NJ When a ruler of this calibre asserts the ancient
1aeory of non-responsibility to the people who
make up his dominion, he asserts his antagonism
the great principle of popular self-assertion
E. hicn has been the active force IN the advances
III civilization in the last Two centuries Kaiser
wilhelm may, in the sense that all intensely
goistic individuals are insane, be an unbalanced
apression OF an outworn system of superstition.
Eake Al eeoists In possession of power he is dar-
e and able. As all eminent men of his stripe,
Az fascinating in his fanaticism. In declaring
6n1self named of God, he has the courage of a
6&refe conviction In the light of that assertion.
RWii not do that the hardly won rights of men
Ipnld make Light of his anachronistic doctrine.
Ntead, the utterance ought TO emphasize the
g1etlOn whether the tide Of the constant battle
Popular freedom is not commencing the ebb
IN iced Wksther the sweep of the pendu
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27

hopefully at the situation. Demand for a neces
slty cannot in the nature of things remain stag
nant. With the high price Of raw cotton es
tablished as a certainty, the demand for the man
featured product will take heart. The mills that
have westhered the storm will again become pros
porous. Those that are building will catch that
prosperity on the wave. Out of a refusal to
see the disaster in a temporary check to a great
industry will have been taken another long step
toward the manufacturing destiny of the South
the time when it will not only itself consume but
import the staple for its manufactures. when to
manufacture cotton with success ii will be neces-
sary for the mills to come 10 the fields.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27
The Talk Down Home"


Ex-Congressman r, n. Hackett, of North Wilkes
boro, was here to-day, returning from Raleigh. where
on Friday he attended a meeting of the directors of
the Home of the Aged and Inhrm Masons and their
wives. The directors organized by electing Grand
Master Hackett chairman and DIR, +. NJ. Winchester,
of Charlotte. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. DIR. Winchester.
Mr.. L. NJ. Clymer. of Greensboro. and Mr.. /. II.
McLauin. of Laurinhurg, were appointed as a commit
tee to decide on the site. Chairman Hackett was
added to this committee on motion.
In two weeks this commission will begin a tour OF
investigation and will examine all sites offered. Mr..
Hackett says there are Indications that a large mum
Der of places will offer sites and make Inducements
to secure this institution. He stated that every To-
cality desiring TO secure the institution should within
two weeks notify the committee. so the proposed site
could be visited. Greensboro has offered a number
Of sites and also a cash consideration. Other cities
have done likewise. and it is understood that some
of the cities have already offered a choice of sites and
large financial consideration. At any rate. the whols
matter will soon be - Salem Sentinel.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27
HUGHES AND THE BARREL.

Governor Hughes Of New York is the synonym
Ut honesty in politics. His capital consists in
the credence given to his reputation for personal
md official integrity. Mentally and morally his
is d nature chaste and cold. Unconditional, UNI
lrelenting, unmagnetic, his vogue has been pitch
I'D upon the popular ideal of his unrelaxing
|probity. In a State which is as politically cor
frupt as New York, it has seemed to be All omen
hi the victory of the public's basic self-respect
that this man, on such a platform, should have
again and again.
1t comes, therefore, with something of a shock
[ko learn that, even in the case of the Hughes who
has done 80 much TO discourage horse-racing, it is
Emoney-and plenty of it-that makes the mare
[kon. In It's resentment at being held up before
HE gaze Of the country as the source of all evil,
|3he New York "Old Guard" comes out with the
1fatement that it took over 100000 to secure the
IEoyernor's election in 1908. According to the
linen who did the actual work, he could not have
been elected otherwise. And according to the
Harrow majority by which his election came TO
him. it is quite evident that this statement is
literally and exactly true. No less is it certain
What an expenditure of close upon $1,000. 900
Hi q glbernatorial election could not have been
legitimate.
Il therefore appears that the one man in the
|eountry whose conspicuous position makes him
she pattern of political cleanliness owes his
S1nccess to the familiar methods of electoral de-
Easement The man whose voice above all others
Ehas sounded for purity in politics takes his of
@6cial life as the gift OF venal corruption. The
man whose tongue has most numerically scored
Efhe thieves and bribers with whom he has been
S1urrounded is the man most conspicuously be-
holden to theft and the debauchery of voters for
the opportunity to preach morality. The dis
5rlosure is one that ought to be sickening most of
all to Hughes himself.
We prefer TO believe that Mr.. Hughes was ig
Inorant of the methods adopted to place him in
the chair Of office at Albany. We would part
Nth him as an ideal with regret. But the Incl
dent goes to show that there is need of a %stricter
nense of obligation on the part of political lead
Eefs than even the most stringent code Of person-
AI and official morals. 1t shows that they owe
athe duty of scrutinizing the methods of their own
campaigns. And it fixes them with a response
khlty which they cannot longer avoid in the light
Espf the evidence. 1t is q poor morality that, fixed
with notice of what has been done, is willing to
turn a pious back upon the corruption by which
if profits. Every such exposure of intentional
AZ unintentional hypocrisy ought 10 further CON
~nantrate public attention upon an ideal of virtus
- s'practical' in its manifestation as, i'll another
sense, it has in the past been practical in its
carelessness as TO the methods by which it has
kained Its ends.
From the time when PLATE washed his hands
3n public, the world has known in its heart that
Justice is not compassed in a form, nor virtue in
y negative abstinence.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27
Let the Virginian Follow You.

II you intend leaving Richmond for a vacation,
have The vireinian sent daily to your cottage
or hotel You may then enjoy the mountain
0r aeashore air and at the same time keep in.
close touch with all that 10 happening i'm the
city and State. and counuy-pofidcai, social,
business and sporting circles.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27
Rnntinu thc Wesf.

Some time ago when the Chronicle made the state
Hfent that some of the farms in North Carolina eetiid
grow as much cotton per acre as some of the farms
In Texas, and that the Southern States could grow
more corn than the Western States, there was an in
clination to doubt the sanity OF this paper. Now the
proof is at hand, at least TO corn. 1t Is stated that
a communication in the Atlanta Constitution from the
director OF the Georgia experiment station contrasts
the States of North Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama. Mississippi, louisiana, Texas. Arkansas and
Oklahoma in the South with Pennsylvania. Indiana.
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota. North Dakota, South
Dakota, Kansas and Colorado in the East and West
The total yield OF corn of the former group for 1903
was Al 7. 577. 900 bushels, while that OF the latter was
$685. 100, 900 bushels 1t will thus be seen that there
is a difference In yield in favor of the nine cotton
States of s1,7S7,000 bushels over the nine non-cotton
States 1t Is not only the South for manufactures.
but &c. culture-Charlot Chronicle.
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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27

The B~allinger investigating committee makes
another bid for notorietv by again announcing
that it will exonerate Richard. The country,
however, will think twice before generating the
committee.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27

The news that gum shoes are five hundred
times dearer in this country than abroad should
have a powerful influence in setting the poll
ticians against the rubber tariff.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27

Pinchot declares that Hepburn, of Idaho, is
partly responsible for the destructive fires in the
Western forests. Thus ends the effort of this
political amoeba to "set the country on fire..
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27

1t is now stated that Cannon is coming TO as
sist Slemp. It has been evident for some time
that the gentleman Of the Ninth would soon be
In need of a grave-digger's services.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27

Clerk August complains that many new laws
are quickly forgotten. Most of them were never
remembered.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27

The negroes who organized a bank without
funds were doubtless proceeding upon the princi
.plethatan business is done on credit anyway
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27

When the League of American municipalities
meets in Atlanta it will at least see something that
1T never saw before.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27

The refusal of the Government to try the ex-
pertinent of bombarding the skies in the West
for rain hardly implies the belief in the depart
ment that it does not sometimes rain big guns.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27

"Uncle Toms Cabin does not now avail to
move even a moving picture audience.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27

Drivers, as well as other people, seem to have
n constitutional Discrimination to keep to the
right.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27

Continued delay in returns from some Of the
Second District precincts indicates a hesitancy as
to which way to turn.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27
Stumbling. OH Death

My crops says that unlqne Nriter-SpeaknE-aaa
personally Judge Risden Tyler Bennett. of the county
OF Arson, writing to the Charlotte Chronicle-"My
crops. the best | ever saluted from my coming tower,
cumber my lands That is fine, but Judge BENEFITS
writings are SO filled with unique and original phrases
that 1t is impossible to say that any one thing is
pest. The Landmark. however. is partial to- the e-
preston in one of his numerous obituary notices
when, writing of a friend who passed away at ?
o'clock in the morning. Juge Bennett said: AT that
hour Of the night when men are least courageous he
stumbled upon death" From the solemn hour OF
midnight until near the morning dawn. there is some
thing uncanny in a quiet place, away from lights and
faces and the sound OF voices-something about the
impenetrable darkness, the awful stiffness, that gets
on the nerves of the most courageous and tinlidity
is felt when it may be realized at no other time, 1t
is then in case OF bodily infirmity that vitality Is laid
low and the victim often stumbles upon death"
Perhaps the Last Enemy watches the opportunity
and attacks when We are least able to give bat
tle-Statesville Landmark.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27

Knicker-what IL q swimming hole Booker-A
body OF water entirety surrounded by boyss-New York
SUN -.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27
Virginia Comment
BirfIs

healY.- it begins to- feek as If Mr.. Sfentp, Of the
ninth Virginia district, and Uncle Joe Cannon will
20 ell roostlng by themselves. Mr.. Slenp seems to
nave made a fearful mistake in postponing his opening
speech until September 8. His fellow republicans
are SO busy running away from the Aidrich Payne
tAriH Dill, Tor which he voted, that he is likely to
come linping along at the tail end of the procession.
ana observe, you people OF the Ninth district, what
tienry stuart said of the tariff bill at Gate City Satur-
Gay and what President Taft says to-day. The presi-
cent is with Stuart almost word for word. Notice
now stuart dwelt on reasonable" profits? Notice how
able?"
both are right 1T happens that Stuart was right
Hrst' Ana poor MIR. Slemp must come hobbling along
tie must come with Stuart, Taft. Roosevelt and the
insurgents and in doing so apologize for his past and
confess a fearful error on a vital question; or he
must SUCK with Uncle Joe Cannon, his friend and
chlefain. ad with him go down.
II a eeaattfttt trap And tire TaZewe11 Republican
ana Biuefeld Telegraph and all the rest Of them who
have been telling us what a glory the Payne-Aldrich
terir bll ts. are caught along with Slemp.
READ TAFT Read Stuart. Then wait To see Mr..
Slemp toll and limp and stumble. Roanoke Times.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27
The Presidential Succession.

When the president OF the United States dies in office
he is succeeded by the vice president. A man is gem
orally elected to the latter position because he Is in the
way, or for political reasons OF one kind or another. lie
is seldom a man Of great ability. He Is generally q
person of small calibre. Really great men refuse to oe
buried by election to the vice presidency.
President Mont. OF Chill, died recently. He Will be
succeeded temporarily by the vice-president, Elias Fer
nandez. However, the Chilian constitution requires the
announcement of Il special election for the presidency
ten days after the death of the president while in
Office. Thirty days thereafter the election for presi-
Dental electors is held. Thirty-fve days thereafter
these electors meet and elect a president. Nineteen
days later the fortunate candidate Is duly declared
elected by the two houses of congress. Within about
three months after the death of President Montt his
successor will have been elected and sworn In.
While for many reasons such a system wou.s cot
be suited to conditions in this country. some similar
system would. For instance, thirty days would not be
sufficient time In which 10 conduct a campaign in such
a great nation as the United States, but three months
would be ample. As O matter Of fact, many thought
full men are becoming more and more convinced that
the presidential term should be heightened. the incum-
bent being ineligible for re elction, and that some more
suitable scheme should be found for selecting a sue
cessor to a president who dies In office than that in
vogue now-Charleston News and Courier.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27
Thu, Mounfaineers.

An article In the Columbia State to the effect that
nowhere In America are the results Of Ignorance no
painfully Illustrated as among the republicans of the
western North Carolina mountains" has caught the
eye or The editor OF The Rtcnmonu vtrgfnian, vino very
promptly comes to the defence OF the mountain peo-
pie. At tho conclusion of an exceedingly fair and
forceful analytical article, he says: AN investigator
Is all too apt to discover that for which he searches.
Here and there in the mountains survives the typical
cabin of the pioneer, equipped with antlers and long
barreled rifle with slattern wife and skulking chill
dren. 1t is, however. but the quaint memento OF a
vanished past. and II Is not remotely the illustration
of a type. In the busting mountain towns, on the
welt kept mountain farms in the modern development
OF mountain resources, the men of the big hills are
actors instead OF on lockers. Republican or demo.
crat the average man OF the mountains holds, along
with an equal intellectual ability with the average
man Of the lowlands, the tang of interest pertaining
to a more, os less mysterious history. And that IS
al. Whatever his politics, let us be fair to the noun.
taineer." II is an old story-this throw-of on tho
mountain peupte-hut We had not expected the time
TO come to pass when a Southern paper would have
tc defend them fI,m the statements pf another
GhrppiclaA
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27

A city man nought a farm for 5000 and had 80. 500
TO pay on 1t. He informed the seller that he expected
to make enough OFF OF the farm no FIRST year 10 pay
the balance of S3,600. Such things are the natural
results of the stories Of farm profits that have APP
peared in papers and magazines in recent years. This
leads many city people 10 invest in farms for which
they have no use and which they do not know now
TO handle with profit. In a certain Eastern State
is a farm which the local real estate man regards as
a sure source OF income each year, because he sells
it so often, The fine old mansion on the place at
tracts the buyer, but the farm soon disgusts him, and
the real estate agent again lists he property and sells
to somebody who looks a the mansion when he
should be studying the soil.
Anyone engaging in farming without a practical
knowledge Of the business must have capital enough
to offset their lack of knowledge or sense enough to
keep their capital until they learn something of the
usiness-Salisbg Post.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27

We recognize the tact that It is bad policy TO
create offices continually, but there are certain neces-
sary Things that some one must be charged with
doing, otherwise it will not be done. For instance
there is no one in the State specially deputed TO look
AFTER hres IN the forests, to check them when started.
and If possible bring to justice those to whose care
lessness or malice is due great destruction OF property
that follows all forest fires.
Virginia. 1t seems to us, ought 10 have a forester.
as so many States have, one Of whose duties would
be 10 look after the fires that destroy so much TIM
Der every year. chiefly in the fan. in this Common
wealth. There are other duties that pertain to such
an office but those We have indicated would Of them
selves Justify, We believe, the creation Of such an office.
-Staunton Leader.