The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-19

nlOll. llll0k IL dil even pcl iioW thoe if Governor Harmon lives he will be our next President. I have spent several weeks in Illinois and I believe Harmon could carry even that state in 19l2''
 Business Situation
 Henry Clews, in his Saturday review, says in part:
 "In some respects essential conditions are improving. Two weeks more and the corn crop will be out of danger, so that if frost does not intervene we are practically sure of a bumper crop of about S,O00, ,000,0 ,00O bushels, bringing to the farmers over $1,500, GOO .Ge0 of new wealth. The importance of this factor, not only in its relation to the farmer, but to the railroads and to numerous important in dustries depending upon corn, can hard ly be overestimated. It will do much to replace the west upon a sound business basis. and must offset many of the draw backs arising from recent overriding. The cotton crop is also making satisfactory progress, though later In maturing and more exposed to injury from frost than corn All things considered. the harvest is turning out somewhat better than an ticipated While grand results measured in quantities are not what was originally desired, still the country has escS ped disaster from deficiency; and growers will be more than compensated for any sh ort- age by the profitable prices which nearly all farm products now command This country is peculiarly dependent upon its harvests. and the fact that these are about to be garnered with very satisfac- tory financial results is basis for much congratulation.
 SJn one other important respect there has been decided improvement, and that Is in the monetary outlook. There is no longer any fear of a money crisis this fall as at one time anticipateds By means of forced liquidation the banks at all the great centers, especially New York, have materially strengthened their re- sources The lessened pressure for funds for both business and speculative ppr- poses has also removed the probability of any dangerous strain upon our fnan- cial system. Tn the west, where trouble was most feared, there has been a very decided improvement and bankers there are once more lending with increased freedom and easier rates"
 States Rights and Natioualism
 q am out of patience with such spokesmen of the south as former Governor Blanchard of Louisiana, wh O, at the Conservation congress, advocated nationalism and declared that states rights is dead under the feet of a mil lion marching men, said Percy Clark.
 Blanchard was in the lower house of Congress in the sos and I knew him. He never did have the back bone of a real democrat. Against his asinine bray I place the recent utterances of President Taft, and the several de- cisions of the United States supreme court
 "One of the cardinal tenets of the democratic party today is states rights It is true that the sword cut out the property rights of the south and wiped out slavery, but even that great revolution left the constitution in all things else as a palladium for the conquered provinces-even Roosevelt the man fired with ambitions insanity of genius, can not sweep it aside.
 Blanchard was announced as a dem ocrat; I dub him a demagogue."
 Comedy nnd Tragedy in Business
 Our business has some of the com edy and tragedy in it not only. on the stage but off of it," said a furniture dealer
 We supply the furniture and some of the accessories for the theatres. On one occasion, hd<&ng supplied quite an amount of such property to a local theatre in which the play had a pickle esta blishment. asked the stage props if there was anything else needed. He replied, Nothing. unless you can sup ply the dill pickles I told him that had in my employ two men, one named Dill and the other Pickle, and If he could use them he was welcome
 T daresay I have a trunk in every city of any size in the United States We try to get the actual cost in the first payment to guard against losses.
 "One day a negro woman came tc the store to purchase pair of lace curtains. I priced them at $2 cash, oi $3 on time. She said, I'll pay you the s2 and will give you the other dollar next month, I never buys anything ex. cept on the part payment plan.' charged the s1 to satisfy her and that was the end of it.
 "A few days ago l sent my agent tt cabin in an old field out near Nor, wood to collect on $25 furniture sals or get the property. The negro hat paid only $5 and nothing for hvt