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The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-10-27

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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-11
YOla EarlY Today

The polls will be opened at s O'Clock
today, and many voters can do their duty
as they go to shop, store or office. The
man who votes early usually votes at
least twice, for he is almost sure to
speak to his neighbors or associates about
the matter that has eased his conscience.
A large vote will be extremely salts
factory to the authorities upon whom
rests the task of caring for the numerous
debts of the annexed districts, and if
those districts desire to see city improve
ments carried on steadily and progress
sively they will cast a large vote for the
bond issue today.
Let no one think that there will be
no negative votes. There will be. The
number who oppose all bond issues from
habit of thought regardless of cireum-
stances is by no means small Every af-
frmative vote will be NEEDED. Upon the
thoughtful, intelligent citizens OF the
greater city rests the responsibility Of to-
days vote.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-11
Mr.. Taft 10 Take The Stump

In one respect MIR. Taft is eorrect-the
issue of next falls election will be the
tariff that was drawn solely with view
Of enabling ampaign-contributing manu-
facturers to get rich quickly. He sees
that it is to be the chief issue, and he
proposes to take the stump in its defense.
He stood by it at Winona as soon as it
had been passed. He is committed to it,
and he finds his two best advisers in Mr..
Aldrich and Mr.. Cannon. The President
and the rest of the party leaders are to
take the stump in support OF tariff
that they are charged with and must
stand by. whether they like it or not.
The insurgents will not support the
tariff and the proposed action by the
party leaders will drive them still fur
ther from the republican party. Logically
and inevitably they will leave it. They
will not do so openly this year, but in
the long run that will be the result OF
insurgency.
The opponents of the administration
will accept and even welcome the issue.
The tariff that was drawn regardless OF
the cost OF living is exactly the issue
that the coming elections should turn on.
This interest and that interest, this fell
low and that fellow, made the tariff
and the sum total of their work is an
increase in the cost of living. This is tho
Issue, and the administration spellbinders
cannot blind the people to a situation
that speaks for itself wherever the neces-
saries of life arc sold
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-11
MEANEsT OF GAMBLERS
be New York Tribnne.

From the New York Tribune.
The department of Justices crusade
against bucket shops will command tho,
approval of all elements of society en-
cept those which make a practice of law
breaking. The bucket shop operators
are among the most ravenous of "srTe
thing gamblers. They conduct a fraatd-
ulent imitation of brokerage. recording
purchases and sales of stocks or conn
modities which go no further than the
bucket shop ledger. They are merely
bookmalSers accepting bets on market
fluctuations. But. unlike most bookma-
kers, they do not always balance or. bet
tors money against another's. They often
play their own funds against the GUS
toner's and the customer finds himself
employing as broker a hostile specu-
lator who gains when he loses. The dice
ar. loaded against the bucket shop lamb.
II he and his fellows win too heavily
the shop is likely to fail and their paper
assets are made uncollectible.
1t is said that many of the patrons
of the bucket shops raided in this and
other cit les were women, who were led
to believe that they were milking bona
hde stock investments. This pretense of
taking and filling orders has given the
operators of this form of gambling an
assurance which ordinary gamblers have
lacked and made them so much the more
insidious and dangerous. In spite of
state laws and federal laws they have
gone ahead plucking their victims. while
the owners Of gambling houses have been
driven out of business amt the race track
bookmakers have been harassed by re-
strictions practically fatal to their indus
try. The department OF justice has done
a public service in striking at one of the
most destructive forms of public gambling
extant, because it is intrenched behind
business forms and is conducted by men
devoid even of the average gamblers
sense of obligation to his calling and his
patrons. The bucket shop man is the
pariah of gamblers. His nefarfous ac-
tivities should be completely abolished.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-11
Billboard Farms on Central Of Georgia

The Central of Georgia is to all in
tents and purposes except in law an ex-
tension of the Illinois Central, and each
year will make it more and more a part
of the great road eentered at Chicago.
The policy of the Illinois Central is to
be applied to the Georgia road as rapid
" as circumstances will permit. For ex-
ample, an immigration agent has been ap-
pointed-an Iowa mainland he proposes
10 bring western men to the south where
lands can still be had at low prices.
In order to induce them to come south
by the Central of Georgia on the bill
board plan This plan consists, says the
Savannah News, Gin cultivating strips of
land in winter crops close to the lines of
the railroads, and where they can be
seen easily from the windows of the rail-
way coaches. Grasses and grain crops
will be started, and possibly stock will
appear. Coming from a section Of ice and
snow the homeseeker would be delighted
with green fields in midwinter, and this
kind of advertising may prove very eff
feetive.'
The new plan is practical and will ap-
peal to practical men, and if the Central
of Georgia will establish a billboard
farm in every county it passes through
1t will certainly secure a large number
Of immigrants from the west; and they
are the kind of men the south needs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-11
WOMEN AS PHARMACISTS

From the Youths Companion.
Only of late has the profession of phar-
macy attracted womankind. For some
unknown reason the mixing of drugs has
been left to man alone. But some of the
colleges of pharmacy are now turning out
women graduates, more all the time, and
there seems no difficulty in finding places
for them.
For some years the enforcement of our
laws regarding the compromising of drugs
was very lax, and many non-graduates
were found to be handling life and death
in the little prescription rooms of Amer
lean drug stores. Some time ago the mat
ter was Investigated, with the result that
the laws were more thoroughly enforced.
For this reason there has been an increas-
ing demand for really expert pharmacists,
and the women who could fill the need
were offered good places. Their deftness
and conscientious accuracy have proved
them valuable prescription clerks. The
work is agreeable. and the course OF
preparation is an excellent education In
itself. Some OF the best colleges of phar-
macy in the country receive women stu
dents. tile course lasting two years, II
The students previous training has in
cuded one high school year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-11
INSURGENTS VS.. REGULARS

Ben S. Catchings in Lafollettes Weekly.
Each Congressional district is privi-
legged to select a representative in the
House, each state two representatives
in the Senate-when SO selected each
representative becomes member of
national board of trustees holding the
Legislative power of the nation and his
duty and obligation runs to the nation
as a whole and not to his district or
state. and not to his party nor any
other organization.
Democracy and republicanism are
matters of principle and not of organ
Ization.
Both stand upon the basic principle of
government by the majority of the
whole, for the benefit of the whole.
Any and every scheme and contrivance
which defeats this principle is undem-
ocratic and unrepublican.
Therefore every agreement and every
understanding and every practice
which results in a representative in
Congress voting contrary to his own
Individual judgment and as his own
conscience dictates is Illegal void, I'M
constitutional and contrary to the prin-
ciple of representative government
For this reason every caucus is
usually less than majority of the
whole legislative body-and where such
caucus follows the dictates of its own
majority the whole Congress is ruled
| by a minority. Where the majority of
caucus or party is governed by
committee report and that committee
by a majority of the committee and
that majority by the appointive power
the whole system of democratic and
republican government is destroyed.
The trust relation between each con-
gresham and the people of the nation
is the same as that between the chief
Justice and that people and upon his
election and by his acceptance he sewers
every binding string whether party, dis
trict or state and becomes trustee for
the whole people and he cannot legally
lessen his own power nor increase that
of another by any system of delegation,
whether 1t be accomplished by pubic
caucus or a passing wink on the back
stairs of an inner Congress-and TINS
is the law of It,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-11
Cities Compared

Il was in Oklahoma City a week ago
and was struck with it's marked growth
within u months" said W. 2. Eldridge
of Cincinnati. II visited Oklahoma City
about year ago and it seemed then to
b. booming place, but it is even more
of booming town today. 1t is only 20
or Il years of age and as its estimated
population now is 10000. it may well
be called one of the marvel cities.
The state of Oklahoma is very rich in
agriculture and it has other natural re-
sources; but 1t seems to be that Oklahoma
City's growth is too rapid to be alto
gether healthy. People are flocking there
from every direction. but when it is found
that the supply of population is greater
than the demand there will be a decided
slowing up
Now, Birmingham is growing fast, but
not too fast. There is more bottom to
this city, as far as ] can make out, than
there is to Oklahoma's metropolis. Biz
mingham had its mushroom boom period
years ago; and from now on there should
be no halt in its progress. / would not
speak disparagingly of Oklahoma City,
but il / were looking around for a young
and growing place IN which To settle ]
would choose Birmingham, or some other
live town that had its overdone boom
behind it,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-11
HOUSTON POST

The Greater Southwest and Silver Jubi-
lee number of the Houston Post, which
was issued recently, is being read with
interest by newspaper friends of the Post
in all parts of the country, who are glad
to learn more about a section which the
Post has always doomed with an ardor
worthy of admiration. The Post is not
only a very able newspaper, but an ex-
tremely popular one, and it has been In
strumental in the remarkable develop
ment which the southwest has expert
enced during the past decade or two. This
special number of The Post is freely il
Illustrated and contains great deal Of
readable information about the Post,
about Houston and about Texas. The
Age-Herald extends congratulations to
the Post for it's latest achievement.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-11
Raising The Maine
ssries c

The bill to appropriate 100000 for the
purpose of removing the wreck OF the
Maine from Havana harbor has passed
the House, and is awaiting the approval
Of the Senate. That approval will be
Forthcoming. The permission of the Cuban
government can no doubt be readily Sc
cured and then it will be but a brief
time before the bodies of the sailors
who went down in the Maine will be
placed in Arlington cemetery at Washing
ton.
Twelve years have passed since the days
Of intense excitement over the sinking OF
the Maine and the war with Spain that
followed it, and surely it is time the
wreck was raised and the bodies in it
duly buried and duly honored.
Spain went headlong 10 disaster in
those days of 1898. The sentiment in
favor OF the Cuban patriots became a
war spirit when the Maine went down
and war became inevitable. Spain claims
to this day that our own neglect led
70 an explosion in the lnasazipe Of the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-11

down. In the meantime the "Interna-
tionale," the Song of the Workers." Ma
meli's Hymn" and other revolutionary
chants were howled in chorus, and then
came the usual cries of Down with the
Pope" Death to religion!' Down with
Austria" Death to Christi Neither
God nor masteri" Death to the King!'
Death to the Queenr'
After q sort of ritual ceremony per-
formed before the statue of their idol,
Giordano Bruno, the mob wished to pay
a visit to the Austrian embassy in the
Piazza di Spagna, but there the troops
barred their passage. They were, how
ever, contrary to precedent, allowed to
cross the bridge with impunity, and pro-
coed almost to the very doors of the Vat
lean, to within earshot of the Pope's win
dows. The headquarters of, the demon
strators, which have been recently re-
moved from the center of Rome to
house near the Porta Angelica, within
a stones throw of his holiness apart
ments, were decorated for the occasion
from top to bottom with black and scar
let flags and blasphemous and disloyal
inscriptions. In order that his holiness
should hear their opprobrious cries sew
eral scoundrels used horns and mega
phones, and in the course of the even
ing a searchlight was thrown into the
windows of the Pope's private apartment
the better to attract his attention to the
outrageous illuminated Inscriptions that
appeared above their meeting house. The
Italian police never interfered, and the
beastly crew were allowed to insult and
annoy the pontiff for over an hour in a
manner which would not have been toll
Grated hadjhe been a private individual
however criminal and obnoxious.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-11
Political Rest Due Alabama

| f0lluGal Rust DUO htoUnUd
| 1t is quite generally agreed that Ala
bama has had too much politics in re-
cent years. There has been great
deal of political excitement ever since
1904, when the railroad regulation
campaign started actively; and in 1906,
when Governor Conner and a legislature
swept the state on the rate regulation
issue a sudden halt was called on rail-
road development, but political agita-
ton was undated.
conservative legislature were succeeded
in 1907 by a state government, COM
mitted to radical policies, and notWith-
standing the fact that the state demo-
cratic convention of 1906 had adopted
local option plank, a statewide pro-
hibition bill was enacted; and finally
the Carmichael and Fuller measures
were adopted, imposing upon Alabama
the most extreme sumptuary laws in
this country. And by way of a radical
climax, came the proposed amendment
measure, seeking to write prohibition
in the organic law.
We have had turbulent campaigns in
these latter years. the amendment cam
paign last fall being the bitterest and
most turbulent of all. Some of the men
who voted for the amendment are ready
TO admit now that they made mistake
They would rot vote that way If the
election were held over again. And the
majority of them are eager to welcome
a period of rest from disquieting pol
itics.
Emmett O'Neal, who led the movement
which defeated the prohibition amend
ment, stands as a candidate for the
governorship for all that is conservative
and just in the matter of state policies
He is tried and true. He is an able law
yer and student of political science
He will make a model governor. His op-
ponent is a chivalrous, kindly gentleman
and one of Alabama's best lawyers, but
he helped to bring on the amendment
campaign. which cost Alabama so dearly
He represents the radical element in
this state and it is this radical tendency
that we must be done with. O'Neal will
win at the primary, but the effect will
be all the better if his majority ex-
ceeds that cast against the amendment.
With a big majority for O'Neal and with
a legislature that will be governed by
democratic principles. political tranquility
so much desired, will be assured.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-11
From the Saturday Review.

From the Saturday Review.
N the afternoon of this Cay (Sun-
Il day, February 20' no "dy pro 70.
" cession was formed between 10000
and 0,O00 persons, among them ACCORDING
to the Temps, an unusual gathering Oh
Italian functionaries, of memb ers of par
lament, of notorious rather than ceie-
brated journalists and law ers, and OF
almost every noted Free Mason in Rome
bearing his masonic emhlems. These peo-
pie were one and all anarchists and rev.
dictionaries, anti-clerical and anti-every-
thing. They carried bannecs which bore
basphemous and seditot inscriptions,
and the number of revo dictionary flags
was so great that we arc assured they
looked like river of blood and fire pour
ing down the streets thr ough the modern
city to the city of the past
The procession forme d at the railway
station, passed throush the principal
streets, and eventually reached the statue
erected in the Piazza del Fiori to the no.
torious pantheist Clio rdano Bruno. Here
revolutionary speeche IS of a most violent
description were delivered, notably by Po-
drecca, the editor of the unspeakable
Asino, and by BarzEhi, wealthy Jew So
cialist member of. parliament. These
violent attacks on the Pope, the church
and the monarch were Endorsed by
Mayor Nathan, who expressed on behalf
of the municipal bloc his hearty sympathy
with the demon fration. Lastly, Prince
Gaetani, the rem egade head of that great
historical house to which belonged Pope
Boniface VIII, attempted to address the
meeting, but TIN audience considering him
an apostate to his order and religion told
him SO very plainly and shouted him
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-11
PROHIBITION LOSING GROUND

From the louisville Courier-Journal.
|HNHE Alnti-Saloon League, which is
/ as fond of bossing the pulpit as
i it Is of playing practical politics
in contention or maintaining a lobby
to shap~. the course of law making,
takes occasion, at Atlanta, to lecture
the ministers of several southern states
upon their failure to preach prohibition
every Sunday instead of occasionally
preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ,
who was not prohibitionist. Prohibi-
tion will lose ground so long as the
pulpit does not devote itself to carry
ing out the edicts of the Anti Saloon
lea,gne with unremitting assiduity, ac-
coro,ing to the organizations orators
Yet minister who reports at ATTAIN
ia upon conditions in Louisiana de-
clsres that the law which is in effect
in that state is, to speak paradoxically,
ineffective. The report from Tennessee,
where prohibition has been technically
triumphant, is that in the chief centers
of population the law is failure.
The prohibition issue was not put be-
fore the voters in Chicago. The petit
tons for it's submission did not secure
a sufficient number of signatures. An
Associated Press dispatch tells of the
loss of ground by the prohibitionists in
Illinois in the following paragraph:
Incomplete returns at a late hour
on the local option issue, voted on in
240 cities and towns throughout Illi-
nois today indicated gains for the
VETS These figures showed that 60
towns changed from dry to wet and
IS changed from wet to dry. OF .93
towns 4S voted wet Among the cities
which had been dry but which re-
turne dto wet were Decatur, Cham
paign, Pana and Riverton. Springfield
went wet the 'drys,' however. gaining
60 votes over two years ago. Rockford,
Danville, Bloomin gton, Clinton, Mat
toon, Elgin, Joliet and Lockport also
went wet Monmouth, Geneva, ST,
Charles and Batavia went dry"
This leaves considerable dry" terri
tory in Illinois, but shows a failure of
prohibition to gain ground. In Indiana
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-11
CIVILIZATION BY CLOTHES


From the New fo-A NOflu.
During the centennial celebration in the
City of Mexico neUs September the poorer
classes of the population are to enjoy the
advantages of a thorough course in the
etiquette Of civilization By order of an
all-wise and benevolent government they
are to be initiatsd into the sacred mys-
teries of store ebYthes. For a whole month
no poems are to be permitted to appear
in loose GOTTEN shirt and drawers and
big straw hat OF their class.
Thus only are backward races lifted to
higher planes of prosperity and enlight-
ened. Passionate reformers will testify
on their consciences that never until the
plains Indian sheds his blanket and dons
the blue overalls of commerce will be
change his moral nature and free himself
of original sin. The African chief in
stove-pipe hat and bandanna becomes
an object of awe and dignity to his tribe
and the equal of the European trader in
bad rum and Birmingham iron idols
There is no hope of redemption for the
pagans ON Greenland's icy mountains and
midas coral strand unless they learn
to wear respectable toys, like the truly
civilized nations of the world.
Foreign visitors in Mexico next fall
during the national festival would prob
ably be more entertained by the sight of
the genial natives at their ease in bright
serapes, high-peaked sombreros and raw
hide moccasins. Only a procession of
aldermen or a presidential reception COM
mittee can rise to the full glory of the
shiny silk hat and the full-skrted black
coat of economy But Porfirio Diaz has
worked wonders before, and as the crown
ing act of his long reign II is only proper
that he should impress the world that in
the regeneration or his country he las
taught the poorest peon to wear limiting
pantaloons and a cheap dicer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-11
JOHN PELHAM

BY James Ryder Randall.
Just as the spring came laughing thru
the strife
With all it's gorgeous cheer;
In the glad April of historic life
Fell the great cannoneer.
Grander and nobler than the child Of
Rome,
CURLING his chariot steed-
The kingly scion of a southern home
Dazzled the land with deeds.
Gentlest and bravest in the battles
brunt-
The champion of the truth
He bore his banner, to the very front
OF our immortal youth
The pennant droops that led the sacred
band
Along the crimson field,
The meteor blade sinks from the nerve
less hand,
Over the spotless shield.
We gazed and gazed upon that bcauteous
face
While round the lips and eyes.
Couched in their marble slumber, flashed
the grace
or, p divine surprise.
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battleship. while our best authorities say
the explosion was from the outside
was in fact a mine placed under the
ship The raising Of the wreck is ex-
pected to determine this contention, and
Spain should be asked to send a repre-
sentative to study the wreck when once
it is raised from the mud in the harbor
OF Havana