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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-11-10

FAST HORSESHOE sale, at road horse
prices I have several trotters ana
nacers that must be sold this week. Can
be seen at my stable West side Of track
at Fair Grounds: II these horses are
not sold before Saturday morning. they
viii be offered to the highet bidder at
public auction Saturday at 1l:o0 O'CLOCK
am Remember the pIace-West side OF
race track at Interstate Fair Grounds.
- p, weIles. 10nov3t
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ACCOUNTANTS.

F. M. COOPER, accountant. % South
Palafox street. Phone 1886 and 235.
2Soct1ms
FRANK W. RILEY, Public Accountant,
10 Blount Building. Phone 1877. 27oct1m
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ROOMS AND BOARD.

FOR RENTAL newly furnished bed
rooms. suitable for light Housekeeping
Close in and In good neighborhood. Es-
pecially suitable for gentlemen. 416 w
Gregory st. 9nov1w"
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wANTED@Good cook at once. Mrs. S
G. Pinney, Cor. Spring and DeSoto.
4nox
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wANTED-Cook Apply at once, SO
East Moreno St. Ono
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-11-10

yard man who understands
gardening. Apply at the Old Mil Inn:
8nov3t
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FOR SALE-Four shares American Natl.
Bank stock at $155.00 dividend payable
December. See Jos. P. McHugh care Bull
lock & Caldwell. It,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-11-10

FOR SALE-Boarding house, one block
from Palafox, doing fine business. Good
stand. Price $4,000. Address Board
ing House." care Journal. 30octlm"
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wANTED-Boy for ONCE and collecting.
Stratton Ice Works. 6nov
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AZ ACRES good farm land in north part
Of Escambia county, near labama
line. All new buildings. A bargain. Mrs.
c. H. Bumpus, Route l. Atmore, Ala.
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WANTED TO RENT-smal 4 or s-room
furnished house near bsuiness district.
Apply Hannah's Pharmacy. Phone ISL.
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FOR SALE-Good milk COW. Must be
sold quick. Apply 316 East Gadsden
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-06
John A. JOHNSON.

John A. Johnson.
Could you give mo a sketch of Gov
ernor John q. Johnson? A. B. c..
Tho following Is taken from the
New international Year Book: An
American public official. Governor OF
Minnesota. died September 81, 1903. He
was born of Swedish parentage near
st. Peter, Mimi, in 1861. His father
was OF disso1ute habits. and when the
son was thirteen years of age, died
of alcoholic dementia In a county Door
house. Young johnson at once. left
school and took the support of his
store, and later worked in a drug store
and In u general store. During these
occupations he found time to read
such books as fell in his way. He
became later timekeeper for rail-
way construction gang. When he was
ship. of the st. Peter Herald. a Denfb-
cratic paper. became vacant, and the
place was offered to him. Although he
had done no newspaper work. his wide
acquaintance and popularity made him
successful in this post He became
IN few years part owner OF the
paper. In 1894 he was nominated as
Democratic candidate for the State
Senate. but was defeated. Four years
later he was successful and served as
Senator in three successive Leeisla,,
lures. During this service he showed
no especial ability but became known
as clean. honest legislator. with
much skill In securing votes. In 1907
he was defeated for the State Senate.
In 1904 the Republican party was dis
sensions. chiefly over the question of
the taxation of railroads johnson.
who strongly favored an increase in
such taxation. was nominated for Gov
ernor by the Democrats. The division
among the Republicans and his power
with the Scandinavian voters won him
the election by $500 votes. although
Roosevelt carried the State by plu-
rality of $4,000. In 1906 he was re.
elected by plurality of 10000 votes.
During the presidential campaign of
1908 Governor Johnson was the most
prominent candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination, after w. ]. Bryan.
! He received the Endorsements of the
delegates of his State. and forty-siN
votes were cast for him In the ma
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-06

nations, but there were not twenty if1l-
portant cities in the country where
the death dealing cannon-cr crackers
could be bought.
cess, in preventing deaths and acct
dents. but It was no less a success in
restoring proper observance OF the
day in the cities. The authorities
knew that they had to substitute
something for the fire-crackers ana toy
cannons, and hence exerted themselves
to devise sports and pageants. New
York had the "happiest Fourth on re-
cord" with more real patriotism than
lad been shown in years; Boston, OF
course, was superlatively mice" and
Philadelphia swelled with pride in
celebrating the event which took place
by accident within its confines.
This Is as 1t should be. The measure
of a patriotic celebration is not the
amount of red liquor and brown that
can be drunk, and the noise that can
be made. but the public rejoicing of
the people in the blessings Of free
Government and the maintenance of
order. The old-time Fourth Of July
speeches may be out Of date, but the
spirit of the speech is the correct spirit
of the day.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-06
OF winning the money. 1t is hoped that
there will never be such another exhi-
bition anywhere.
TIE rAx COMMISSION.

Nothing that has happened in Vir-
ginia since the Constitutional Conveii-
ton has had the promise OF SO much
good to as many people as the or
ganization of the Tax Commission. The
fact that the Commission has been
appointed to look into the gross in
CAPABILITIES Of the system of taxation
in Virginia, and to remedy. IL possible,
these conditions, is in itself matter
Of large significance.
Virginia is admittedly one of the
worst taxed communities in this coun-
try, and If the Tax Commission do
nothing more than show that proper
ty known to be assessed at its full
value in Richmond, and at 10 per
cent. of its value in at least one dis
trict of one of virginia's counties, thus
making the unfortunate inha OF
this town pay ten times as much as
his fellow-citizen in the country.
enough will have been accomplished to
pay all that the Commission will cost
For two years The Times-Dispatch
made taxes the subject of serious study,
and feels, in some degree at least re-
sponsible for the creation of the Tax
Commission, and will, therefore. re-
gard it's work with sympathetic inter-
est. IT has a great work TO do. "
will be judged fairly by the extent and
value of its service If it shall give
Virginia uniform and efficient tax
system, its work will be felt imnledi-
ately in all branches of business, and
| promote astonishing growth in the
material wealth of the state.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-06
A HARD NUT TO CRACK.

The Republican spellbinders, who
are soon to begin their annual task
of fooling the people, have plenty
of hard work ahead of them. They
have much to explain and much to con-
ceal and much for which to ask for
giveness. They have a number OF bad
laws to interpret and they have few
good laws that they can honestly de-
fend. Above all else they have the
tariff hanging over them, as a sort OF
Nemesis about to overtake them. The
most astute cannot make the people
believe that the tariff is anything but
UBIQUITOUS and the most glib cannot
claim that it is what the country needs.
Every day a new nut is found in the
hard to digest The latest Of these
is the report on the Philippine tariff,
which Is in itself a practical example
of how a low tariff works When the
Republicans insisted on seizing the
Philippine Islands and embarking TINS
country on a career of conquest, they
| finally had to give some show of JUS
| tice to their newly acquired fellow
citizens Unwillingly at first and al
ways with hesitation. the Republicans
Increased the freedom of these people,
and at last, it will be recollected, prac-
tically gave them free trade with
America A few articles were put on
a low tariff rating, but most OF the
things that the Philippines produce
are allowed to enter this country duty
free, while our goods have the same
rights in the Philippines.
1t has now been eight months since
the new Philippine tariff went into eff
feet, and during this time wonders have
been wrought. The Filipinos are
! prospecting as never before: trade has
| been brisker than 1t was ever known
| to be; Philippine products are coming
| into this country in great abundance
| and at very low rates. Nobody has
| been injured; no legitimate business
has suffered; everybody has benefited
How are the Republicans to gel
around this? They may argue, Of
course, that the increase in the Philip
pine trade is due to the general bust
ness advance. and they may say tina
/ what is Justice for the Philippines anc
prosperity for the Islands. is not jus.
tice for other nations and good policy
for our Government; but facts ar
facts, and none can dispute that thu
Philippines began to improve from tn
hour the old tariff was removed There
Is no answer to this
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people fight the battles of their local
leaders very bitterly, but politics Is
personal and consequently without
aim. AS q result, when the Deputies
gather. they form not into parties, but
into cliques, and where we have two
great parties. they have at least n
dozen factions. There are. for ex-
ample, four or FIVE varieties OF So
cialists, none of whom has any po-
lttical principle, and most of whom
are at dagger's points with the others.
This has made the task OF any Pre-
mier difficult almost beyond descrp-
ton. He has no stable party on which
to rely, and his only hope of carrying
through the Government policy is by
choosing those parties which are In the
least opposition to each other and by
uniting them against those whom they
most fervently desplse. Clemenceau
did this for years. often at hazard
and with no assurance of permanent
success, but he was forced to retire In
the end, a victim to a system against
WHICH ne Hdu COHteHueu, a HAaA ~ "
rule which he hated.
BRAND has taken the bull by the
horns. and where he has been unable
to hold the majority he has insisted
on the Government policy and has
| fought 1t out on the floor of the Depu-
ties. AS recently as last week in
carrying out his policy he told the
| opposition that he could not rely upon
mere factional support, but would
carry through his policy as best he
might regardless of opposition. He
used Parliamentary language, OF
course, but he told the opposition to
| go to the devil. to fight If they would.
to yield II it pleased them. OF course.
| he is having difficulties. and he will
! probably be unable to get the APP
prevail OF the Deputies to half the
laws he introduces. but he is on the
right trail, and he deserves the sup
port of every man who wants to see
a. stable government in France.
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nurrING IN AGAIN.

We do not like his name and we
despise his politics; but If we lived in
the State of Washington, we should
join hands with all the good people
of that State in resenting the i'm
pertinent Interference of distin-
guished busy-body who imagines that
he has been commissioned by some I'M
seen power to regulate the political
affairs of this country. Better Piles
than Poindexter. in the circumstances
better the worst man in the State of
any political party whatsoever than
to have the politics of Washington
dictated by any man, however high
and mighty, without responsibility
to any influence than his own
brutal and selfish passions. We are
much mistaken in the character of the
people of Washington IL they do not
repudiate this impudent attempt to
regulate their internal AFFAIRS.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-06
NOT A CLEAN cALLING.

1t is precisely the "exaggeration and
abuse to which the spirit of investi-
cation into affairs public and private
(have) proceeded in this country" to
which we have objected and to which
all honest newspaper folk must OBJ
ject. 1t is the establishment of dis
coveres, the assassination of char
acter" with which we have found fault.
uck-raking, at best, is dirty BUSH
ness Only the cheapest people are
employed in it, 1t requires no spe.
cial ability; few honest people would
prefer to engage in it. The Charlotte
Observer would not do IT. we know of
no decent newspaper in the country
that would. This does not mean, OF
course, that crime should go unpunish-
ed or that criminals should be suffered
TO escape but it does mean that those
who prosecute must come into court
with clean hands.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-06
BRANDS PROBLEM.

The reading public has been so much
interested in political events in Eng
land and Germany that it has over
looked important happenings In other
countries. The situation in England.
to- be sure, deserves all the attention
that is being given it, because it marks
an epoch in the English Constitution
and possibly turning point in the
life Of the English nation: but. while
Parliament has been graphing with,
great problems of state, Spain has
been in Torment, China has been pass
Ing through a great revolution, and
now France appears to be moving.
The moro or less we'll informed po-
litical writer's who send long reports
on foreign affairs to American news
papers for publication on Sunday are
now directing their attention especial
ly to France, and they tell us that
Premier BRAND is playing as large a
part in French politics as Mr. Asqulth
is playing in England. Some of them
are inclined to hail Monsieur BRAND
as a modern Gambetta. and they de-
clare that he is bringing order out
OF chaos in France in most remark
able way.
If BRAND Is really doing half of
what the foreign writer's say he is
doing he is solving one Of the greatest
problems of modern political history.
AS every one knows, France has long
been a country without political
parties The people are much divided
in sentiment. and are utterly without
| organization to crystalize opinion on
the great questions before the nation
They do little more than choose mer
to the Chamber of Deputies in whom
they have confidence; the politica
Affiliations OF the men, their platforms
and the principles for which they
stand are all Of minor Importance. The
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-06
THE SOUTH HAS FOUND ITSELF,

The South is coming. Its people are
In better condition than they nave
been at any previous time since the
war closed, forty-hve years ago. They
live better. They have more Their
barns are filled with the fruit OF the
fields; their rivers have been harnessed
to millions of spindles; their banks are
bursting with the wealth their peo-
ple have made by honest Industry and
steady toll. One of the surest signs
of the progress Of the South is to be
noted in the constant increase OF It's
trade with other countries. The last
annual review Of the foreign commerce
OF the United States shows that there
has been an increase Of 40 per cent
lin the exports of the Gulf Ports In
| ten years. and an increase OF mot les'
than Gao per cent, in the imports o.
! these ports The increase has no.
been so great at the Atlantic Port
Of the sa4th. but there hsga nssA nass
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-06
THE SANE FOURTH a SUCCESS.

The newspapers yesterday were so
full of fight news and accounts OF
baseball games, that many persons
overlooked the fact that they were
lacking in the usual fifth Of July news.
In 1909, for instance, The Times-Dis-
patch and other papers printed sew
eral columns of dispatches. giving
reports OF accidents in all parts of the
country, Scores We're killed by
the explosion of fireworks, hundreds
were blinded for life, and many lost
limbs. In the papers yesterday there
We're few of these items. New York
State reported not a single death
and very few accidents, while in
1903, s97 OF its future citizens were
killed or injured by. fireworks and pis-
tolls,
The national agitation for "sane
| Fourth" was responsible for this
Mayor Gaynor set the country splen
told example when he prohibited TIL
sale of fireworks In New York I'm
mediately preceding the Fourth, ana
/ number of other cities followed hi
lead. There were bonfres and mum
/ Sipal fireworks and salutes and .ilNLa!
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-06
GOOD OLD GOOD MANNERS.
We svmpathlze with the lamentatlon

We Sympathize with the laIneHtdeioii
of a correspondent of the Charlotte
Observer at the disuse of the good OLD
fashioned Yes, ma'am," and mo, sir"
and we also agree with the Observer
in its depreciation of any tendency to
omit these forms of address. We ut
terly disagree with the Norfolk Vlr-
ginian- Pilot that their use indicates
in any way sense of seryiltty, and
that st is only among the lower
classes that such a mode Of response
is practiced." We do not care what
Charles Campbell, the Historian, SAID
on the subject fifty years ago. There
is something very sweet to our ears
in this old-fashioned way of "beins
polite" 1t sounds 80 much better to
say "Ma,am?" than to say "What?"
"Huh?" or "Hey?' and there i. a
gentle courtesy in saying Yes, ma'am''
or NO. sir" that is utterly lacking
in "Yes'' and No"
We are getting away from too many
of the customs Of another and better
day. The time was when gentlemen
took off their hats when speaking to
ladies. and in one very good old town
that we know 1t was always regarded
as quite the proper thing for youns
fellows to lift their "lids" to thei1
elders All these matters are matters
of courtesy and are not to be desplsee
among gentle folk.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-06
WHY THE SOUTH is M1sJUDGED.

A few months ago the Arkansas Land
Congress was formed at Little Rock.
1t was decided. we are told by the
Louisville Courier-Journal. to spend
100000 in advertising the resources of
Arkansas, beginning next October. we
agree with our contemporary that
every State needs an effective organi-
zation of the kind working sensibly
and constantly for the general well
fare, and it is not enough to hold a
convention once year, occupying two
or three days in aimless speech-mak-
ing. There should be permanent In
formation bureau and continuous and
systematic effort for Immigration"
Very true, very true. But one of the
first things that Arkansas ought to do
is to improve the character of It's rep
resentatives in public life before it can
hope to attain any substantial conf
mercial and industrial growth. That
State will be judged by Jeffries Davis
rather than by the work. however eff
iectlVe IL may DC, uolie Wy Ihe IA hah
sas Land Congress.
Prudent men do not care to invest
their money or establish their homes
in State which is so Indifferent TIC
it's good reputation as to place It's
worst citizens in high position. We
must get rid in the South of the dema-
sogue, the mischief maker. the poll
teal tramp, If we are to impress the
outside world with the sincerity of oul
motives and the security of our affairs
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gratifylng growth Of tho foreign busi.

gratifying growth OF the foreign busi'
ness at ali the ports in the South.
Take the port OF Charleston, for e.-
ample. Only few years ago 1t was
apparently one Of the least progressive
Of the Southern towns During the
fiscal year ending June 30, It's foreign
exports aggregated In value sS,10l,S2l,
an increase of s4,06o,5s4 on the busi-
ness OF the previous year. The import
business also showed a remarkable In
crease, the gain for one year amounts
ing to s1,595,72s. These are not large
figures, as large figures go In the
greater commercial centres of the
country, but they show in most
significant way how it is that the
South is growing.
At Norfolk at Wilmington, at Savan-
nah, at every point along the South At
lantic Coast the story is the same
There is no more thrilling story in the
history Of Industry and commerce than
the story Of how the South has found
itself.
Some of us recall the time, not so
very long ago. when this part OF
the country was PROSTATE. and It's
growth forms one of the most thrilling
epics in the history of the world. The
South is just beginning to feel It's
strength. Watch Richmond grow
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~ = &. Z r. -
The Columbia State asks US for IN
formation about the Pattersons. OF
Tennessee They are of South Caro-
lima origin. The original Patterson
emigrated to Tennessee a good deal
more than half century ago from
Abbeville county. whence so many
eminent men have gone out to bless
and build up the world. There is a
bridge in that county to this. day that
was named for the elder Patterson.
1t crosses Long Cane Creek, The Pat
tersons We're I originally seceders. or
Psalm-singinE Presbyterians, and a
very sturdy lot they were; but none
OF the South Carolina sort would have
hardened Cooper,
y G. p. 10 4
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WHERE REGULATION Is NEEDED.


There was nothing at all unusual
about the disastrous wreck which oc-
Cured Monday at Middleton, Ohio. In
every way 1t was the same old story:
"a passenger train, trying to make up
time. ran into a freight train, twenty
persons were killed, many We're in
jured, nobody was able to place the
blame The crew of the passenger
train insist that they were obeyins
orders and the freight engineer de-
clares that his train was where 1t
should be at the time The chances
are that IL an investigation is held
at all it will result in verdict OF
mot guilty" for all persons concerned
and will leave the matter exactly
where 1t is.
This is the first serious wreck in
several weeks, but it is only one in
that long story of disasters which
claim many thousand victims during
the year and fill the newspapers with
gruesome stories of the needless sac
ritice of human life. Now and then
railroad can report-as the Pennsyl-
vania did this year and the Erie last
year-that not a passenger was killed
during twelve months, but most of the
railroads have their death lists run
ming into scores, and many of them
are responsible for the deaths of hun
dreds during the course of year.
When the total CHASTITY list is finished
for the year there are at least 10000
deaths and 100000 accidents.
When one contrasts this tremendous
toll with the record of European rail-
system stands indicted of murder. We
kiln in this country dozen men IN
railroad accidents where the English
railroads injure one. and our mortality
from rapid transportation is at least
ten times as great as that of any
other nation in the world. II foreign
countries have been able to reduce the
number of accidents to minimum,
there is4no reason why we should not
| do the same thing. and our failure to
ADOPT proper precautions against &C
| cidents is absolutely without excuse.
Congress has been doing great
deaf of railroad legislation in the last
| few years, and has been asserting to
the fullest it's right to regulate" in
terstate railroads. If it can provide
| for the charges which railroads may
make 1t can certainly provide for the
precautions which railroads must take
1t would be a good thing II some OF
the men who We're most anxious tc
regulate the railroads would spenc
some time in enacting laws to prevent
| accidents, in requiring every Interstate
railroad to use all the modern safety
4 devices. to install effective block sys
TENS and to put an end to the killing
of men who trust their lives to the
safety Of travel.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-06

What's the sense OF having sane
Fourth If the people are SO insane as
to drown themselves when they can
not blow off their heads With cannon
crackers? sttst 49, 3f55s si,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-06

By the way, now that the fight is
over. does anybody happen to recollect
what has become Of the Virginia
League?