The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-28


caught in financial sky-scraping, were
famous in 1896 as 'preservers of the
national honor" Walsh converted
his Democratic paper into a McKin-
ley organ ito preserve national hon.
or" Many like financial pirates are
honored because they didn't get
caught as did Walsh and Morse
Raleigh News and Observer.
Explanation for Cook.
The Bishop Of Alaska accounts for
DR.. Cooks vagaries and Commander
Peary's crustiness logically. Says the
Bishop: AL men come from the
polar circle with shattered nerves.
In Alaska we send home fifty men
yearly after the long winter. their
illness and solitude of the great ice
and snow wastes, says the bishop, in
duce in the men what he called "po-
lar insanity" which Is characterized
by NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. News.
Federal Power.
Another illustration of the power OF
the federal government was given yes
terday. A great ice gorge INSTRUCTED
the channel Of the Ohio, and notwith-
standing the opportunities of Indiana
and Kentucky it refused to bulge.
As soon as congress appropriated So
900 as a war fund and threatened to
dynamite, the ice began to move of its
own accord, without actual pressure
from the federal officers. Great is the
power of the interstate commerce
clause Of the constitution of the Unit
ed States.-Louisville Post.
A coIored Woman's Funeral.
Amy Latimer died last Monday a.
Milledgeville, Ga. She was a colored
woman of much responsibility, of the
"befo' de wah" type, and then she
was buried the mayor of the city and
seven other of its most prominent
citizens, all white, and all of the best
class of white men in the state, acted
as her pallbearers. The Milledgeville
News said: "The funeral was quite
largely attended and the old woman
will be greatly missed. She had serv-
ed as nurse in the family of each of
the gentlemen participating at her
funeral" All this occurred down in
one of the southern states, where
the negro Is supposed, by many i'll
informed persons on the other side
of the old line, to be much oppressed
by the white people. Did you ever
hear Of such funeral as Amy Lati-
mer's funeral in the great Christian
north ?-Charleston News and Cour-
fer.
The Aristocracy of Crime.
According to the Wilson Times "the
law Is no respecter of persons" But
in the administration of the law there
is frequent discrimination based on
the social status Of the criminal or
his pecuniary condition or political
influence. If Bill Sykes had broken
into New York bank and robbed
the vault of a thousand dollars, he
would almost certainly have been sent
to prison for the limit, and the world
and his wife would have applauded
the sentence as just. When Charles
W. Morse, promoter and Spectator,
by abuse Of trust, loots the banks of
which he was an official of millions
of dollars, he is tried. convicted and
sentenced, it is true, but straightway
responsibility all over the country
sets up an appeal for his pardon Gen
orally such offenders as Morse and
Walsh go acquitted by jury or are let
off with less punishment than men
from humber walks of life would have
allotted them for petty populations;
when once in while the nets of law
do inmesh big fish. straightway the
responsibility of the land rises up to
protest against visiting bars and
of such unusual talent for (crooked)
money really belonging to other peo-
ple.-Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
Railway Construction.
The railroad mileage of the United
States has increased 3,74S miles in
the year 1909-with a single excep-
tion the slightest extension in eight
years. In that part of the country
east of the Mississippi and north of
the Ohio and Potomac there is not a
great deal Of room for more railroad
expansion, and there are hundreds of
miles in operation in that region than
were constructed in the name of COM
petition only, something that would
be criminal waste if all our railroads
had been managed according TO the
plain dictates of justice and prudence. |
But the south is in great need of
additional railroad mileage. No state
of that section has anything like the
railroad facilities of Indiana east of
the Mississippi or Iowa west of that |
stream. Texas, where railroad con- |
struction is much less difficult and
accomplished with much less expense
than in Pennsylvania or West Vir- |
ginia, has a smaller mileage than Il |
Iinois, though Texas has more than |
four times the geographical surface of |
Illinois, which is. next to Georgia, the |
biggest state east of the Mississippi |
It is proverbial that capital is timid, |
and the small railroad mileage con- |
last year is accounted for on |
the ground that the additions made |
were absolutely necessary to the great |
systems that built them for conve- |
nience and advantage. Few If any |
new independent lines were built. and |
those that may be called new were |
all interstate, none interstate.
This is an unfortunate, if not a Ia |