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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
President Taft's Message

The President has decided to turn in his annual message away from the tariff to the trusts. He will not, it is stated, discuss the tariff at all in his annual message, while he will dis cuss to the extent of 5000 words about five columns-the trusts.
 But the curse of affairs or of pub lie sentiment cannot be switched about even by an annual message. He cannot abolish either the ways and means committee or the ex- pressed desires of the people for a revision of the tariff and lower cost of living. Just as soon as Chairman Underwood begins to report revisions of one schedule after another, just that soon will tariff revision become uppermost in the minds of the peo- pie, and by revision we mean real revision-revision to a revenue or constitutional basis. As a matter of real law and real sense protection for profits is outside the constitution. A revenue tariff is, however, within the terms of the constitution.
 But this is neither here nor there. President Taft cannot shake off his Winona speech in which he declared the Payne-Aldrich- Shoot tariff the best one ever devised. He cannot cease to be standpatter. He can not drive the tariff out of the com ing national campaign by putting, to use his own words, all his eggs in one basket. The antitrust message will not take from the public mind the present tariff, or the taxes it inn poses on the many for the benefit of the few.
 The tariff will become as promi- nent and egrossing in the long ses- sion as it was in the extra session, no matter what becomes of the re- vised bills that the House will send to the Senate. The democrats arc pledged to bring in revenue tariff and Chairman Underwood can be trusted to do this before the day of adjournment arrives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
ThanI<sgIsIng Day


 Governor Bradford of Plymouth col ony. in the year of grace 162l, thought ne had good and honest reason to appoint a day for rendering thanks to Almighty God for favors received during the year, said a gentleman of religious training. But it is safe to say that most of us would have found little occasion for grat- itude had we been among those colo | nists.
 Since the year 16OS they had been ex- | patriated living in the Dutch city of Leyden, instead of their native Lincoln shire villages, because there was no room in England in those days for man whose manhood demanded spiritual free dom, which is integrity. To the number of 102 persons, of whom less than half were mature, responsible citizens, they left Leyden in July and Plymouth, Eng land, in September, and reached Cape Cod in November. On December Fist they landed on the rock called Plymouth Rock, where now their Baptist descend- ants also are about to erect a worthy memorial. Storms had driven them from the Virginia coast, to which they had hoped to come. During that first winter nearly half of them perished, Governor John Carver among the others. They chose William Bradford as their chief and they pooled all their possessions. Brad' ford's History of Falmouth Plantation" the manuscript which was undiscovered in 1858 in the library of the Bishop of London is splendid story of privation and heroism and tenacity triumphant at last. Dr. John Brown of Bunyan, meet ing in Bedford, England. has told that story very sympathetically, and his read CTS learn what kind of men those were who were led by Elder Brewster in that early winter of 1921 to thank God. Ac- tualy they had some protection from the storms, they had made some crops to grow, and they were not all deadi
 T suppose that the supreme reason for thankfulness was that they had their own soil under their feet, none daring to make them afraid. They had the sweets of freedom, dearer far than the fleshpots of Egypt. They had suffered in order to be free, and though their re- sources were most meager. they could not but thank God for priceless bless ngs.
 For us nature opens her most lavish treasures, but we hear the call to thanksgiving as men hear an oft-told tale. It almost asks us to be called aside from the pleasures and business of life to spend an hour in thangsgiving. l wonder why? Is it because in spite of our enormous debt to the God of Amer ica, we are more concerned with our own greed than with His boundless love, | His boundless generosity? Or is it pos sibly because We have lost sight of Him. and can only with infinite difficulty bring | to mind the fact that He is more than | a vast machine? That is great word | that comes out of the old primeval wilder ness:
 Be thankful unto Him, and bless His | name!''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
UNDERwooD.s NORTHERN FRIENDS

From the Baltimore Sun.
 Not long before his death the late Senator Hoar of Massachusetts proph- esied that the time was coming when the United States would have to look to the south for safety. The northern states would be compelled, he said, to rely upon the conservatism of the south to save the country from the advancing tide of radicalism, socialism and agrarianism which would surely become powerful in the north
 And now the same thought is pre- scented by Dr. Jacob G. Shurman, pres ident of Cornell university In a speech in Atlanta the other day pr. Schurman said that the conservatism of the south would work the countrys saliva tion Speaking of the progress of radical change In the political condi- tions of the country and of the gain of socialism in every section of the union save in the south, he continued: :
 "In the south alone have found that same spirit of conservative progressive ness which marked the spirit animating the founders of our country. The south will be the salvation of our country, for from it will spread the right kind of conservatism, bringing back the erring sections to a realization of their mis- take"
 And now comes the New York Times in leading editorial congratu- lating the democratic party that it has among it's prominent men to whom the eyes of the party are directed on the eve of a presidential campaign one with such standing among those who know him best as oscar w. Underwood.
 The Times devotes more than page,
 written by a staff correspondent who
 was sent to Birmingham, to an account of the home and business life and stand ins. of this southerner. Discussing the sectional question, the Times believes that MT. Underwood would not be weak or as a candidate because he is south erner. but might be stronger on that account.
 Baltimore and Maryland have no candidate for the presidency, and we only advert to MT. Underwood in con- nection with President Schurman pre- diction The democratic party is ai- most embarrassed with its riches h men of presidential stature The talk in the north of turning to southern candidate is interesting as Illustrating the subsistence of the feeling and bit- terness of the Civil war. As the Times justly says, no man under 60 years has any personal experience of the civil , conflict. and the great body of our
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
Regarding Police Officers

Tt is claimed by some authorities that country police do more effective work than city police,' said D. B. Grace. This is accounted for by the fact that the country officers wear plain clothes and bounce down on a lawbreaker before he knows that there is an officer in sight.
 Now that Birmingham's policemen have been dehorned (clubs taken away, it might be well to try plain clothes. However, it is claimed that policeman s uniform is preventive of crime, as the lawbreaker will be deterred in his pur- pose if a policeman is in sight. The policeman's uniform Is also help in find ing him if any one is in danger or trou- ble and needs his assistance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
Russia Disregards Treaty Obligations
or IS month

Our treaty with Russia was made in 1882, and today Russia pays no attention to its terms. This raises the question whether it would not, therefore, be better to either cancel it or else give Russia notice that its terms must be carried out.
 By the treaty of 1882 the United States and Russia agreed that "there shall be between the territories of the high contracting parties reciprocal liberty of commerce and navigation. The inhabitants of their respective states shall have the liberty of con- merce and navigation. The inhab- itants of their respective states shall have liberty to sojourn and reside in all parts whatsoever of said ter ritory in order to attend to their af- fairs, and they shall enjoy to that effect the same security and protec- tion as natives of the country where fin they reside, on condition of sub- mitting to the laws and ordinances therein prevailing, and particularly to the regulations concerning com merce."
 Russia denies to all Jews and tc many Christians the liberty to so- journ in all parts in order to attend to their affairs. As a rule, Russia refuses to wise all passports held by Jews, and public sentiment clear ly favors the abrogation of a treaty that one party to it refuses to re spect. The matter will doubtless bt brought up anew in Congress. Int legislatures of nine states have gon' on record in favor of the abrogatior of the treaty. Russia has virtually abrogated it and the United State; cannot well do less, according tt every consideration of national dig nifty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

been so sincerely loved and admired as O. Henry, whose rare gifts made the world brighter for his coming. MT. Riley's lines are in a characteristic vein. 0. Henry, Afrite-Chef of all delight or all delectables conglomerate That stay the starved brain, and reiuven-
 ate H# t4 The Mental Man; The aesthetic appetite So long endangered that the 'inards'
 fight And growl gutwise-its bangs thou dost
 abate
 And all so amiably alleviate, Joy pats it's belly as a hobo might Who haply hath obtained a. cherry pie With no burnt crust ner no seeds in it: Nothin' but crisp crust, and thickness
 of it,
 And squashin' juicy, an jes' mighty nigh Too dratted drippin' sweet for human
 needs, But fer the sosh O milk that goes with it. ~ James Whitcomb Riley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
Issues in 1912

Political parties put a great deal of stuff in their platforms that is not iu- tended to be stressed or even taken seriously" said a veteran. "The issues that will be discussed in the next pref dential campaign will be few in number. The democrats will have tariff for reve- hue only as their slogan. This is the issue on which Samuel J. Tilden was elected in 1876, and it was the paramount issue when Cleveland was elected in 1884 and in 1892
 "In reading MT. Hearsts interview in the Chicago Record Herald-there were several columns of it-several things inn pressed me. First, I was impressed with Mr. Hearst's sincerity; second, by his strong bias toward so called progressive ism, and third, by his hope of victory in the event that the democrats nominate a progressive man. MT. Hearst is an inde-
 pendent in politics with democratic leaning and while do not often approve his polit-
 ical methods or his statesmanship, regard
 him as a clean, courageous man and as a
 man of influence in the state of New
 York Mr. Hearst speaks favorably of
 MT. Underwood but he is mistaken in thinking that MT. Underwood is pro-
 gressive in the sense that populists or
 socialists are said to be progressive. MT. Hearst seems to think that the only way the democrats can win in 1912 is for them to nominate a man of pronounced progress siveism in other words, radical. Such a proposition is amazing, because the his tory of the past and the temper of the thoughtful public now show that it is the conservative man only who can win. Will liam Jennings Bryan is the sort of pro- gressive that MT. Hearst probably has in | view. Notwithstanding Bryan's brilliance and his magnetism he was three times de- | feated when the democratic nominee for | the presidency. If he were to run agar
 in 1912 he worE.N- fewer votes than evei before. conservative, well balanced man like Underwood will probably bt elected next year. I think the part! | would be wise to put Underwood at the | head of the ticket"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
From the Grower to the Consumer

Commissioner Weatherly's new
 market was opened in a cold wave, but untoward weather cannot crush an enterprise that holds out iduce- ments of lower prices for the neces- saries of life. One obstacle or an- other will be overcome and both producers and consumers will be edu- cated to the advantages of market that cuts out not only middlemen, but rents and delivery. The farmer can afford to sell cheaper than the corner grocer, and he will. The consumer will soon appreciate the differences.
 The open market has come to stay. It will be more popular next year than it is this year, because both
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
ODD SONGS AND NOTICES.

fiacard at moving picture show:
 Young children must have parents
 In a barber's shop window: During al- .efatlons patrons will be shaved in the back.' asrf..H- -. 4T
 sign in Fremont street store: Empty hoxes-suitable for Christmas giftsn
 In tailor's shop: we dye for others, Why not let us dye for your"
 In clothing store: "These pants will LOOK better on your legs than on our hands,
 A sllversmith has a piace next door to restaurant. The former having put up piacard' Jewelry oi gill kinds plated,' the restaurant keeper followed with this. Oysters and little neck clans nlated "-. Boston Transcript.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Lots of people think they're light heart ed when .ts only their heads.
 What girl likes about mems athletics is how exciting it can be when it's so dull.
 If a. man has to hear sermon he sleeps through it, and if he has to read it he mislays the paper.
 A man is just fool enough about busi- ness methods to want the baby nursed by the double entry system.
 You can tell when man is engaged to q girl by how he tries to please her in all the things Ee won't after they are married.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
HON. OSCAR UNDERWOOD
nm the Ensley Enterprise.

From the Ensley Enterprise.
 The banquet given in honor of oscar
 w. Underwood by the Chamber of Com merce Thursday night was a brilliant af-
 fair. and it was an ovation to one of Ala
 bama's most foremost citizens, who, we hope, will be the next nominee of the democratic party for President MT. Underwood has made himself known throughout the country, and the northern papers are teeming with articles compi- mentary to him. Let every southern paper boost this safe and splendid man for President. Don't let up for one mo-
 ment. Keep up the good work and sue ces will be the result.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
Holiday Trade

birmingham is having a splendid holi- day trade" said a prominent merchant. q believe business between now and Christmas will be better than ever A furnace operator told me this week taet the iron market was becoming very ac- tive. The price Will probably advance 50 cents ton by the first of next week. Now, if the price of cotton will only move up to 10 cents. everything in Alabama would look wonderfully bright. As it is, we have had good year, and nearly ev- erybody has something to be thankful for"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
Underwood and the Presidency

"Oscar w. Underwood's chances for heinz chosen the democratic standard nearer in 1912 are very bright indeed. D said a man of considerable political ex- perience. What is particularly en- couragng is the fact that so many in- fuential men in the state of New York. and especially in New York city, are looking with great favor upon Under wood as presidential quantity.
 "E'rom my point of view. New York $ backing is necessary for the success of the democratic nominee, MT. Under wood is certainly the logical man for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
A VISIT TO BOHEMIA
w. D. Howells: Literary Friends anc Acquaintances

w. D. Howells Literary Friends and
 Acquaintances.
 b UT apparently Bohemia was not
 a state that you could well im- - agine from one encounter, and since my stay in New York was to be very short, I lost no time in acquaint- ing myself farther with it. That very night I wen ito the bee rcellar, once very far up Broadway, where I was given to know that the Bohemian nights were smoked and quaffed away.
 It was said, so far west as Ohio, that the Queen of Bohemia sometimes came to Pfaff's; young girl of a sprightly gift in letters, whose name or pseudo nym had made itself pretty well known at that day. and whose fate, pathetic at all times, out-tragedies almost any other in the history of letters. She was seized with hydrophobia from the bite of her dog, on her railroad train; and made a long journey home in the parox- ysms of that agonizing disease which ended in her death after she reached New York. But this was after her reign has ended and no such black shadow was cast backward upon Pfaff's, whose name often figured in the verse and the epigrammatically paragraphed prose of the Saturday Press.
 l felt that as a contributor and at least a brevet Bohemian I ought not to go home without visiting the famous place and witnessing, if I could not share, the revels of my comrades. As I neither drank beer nor smoked, my part in the carousal was limited to a German pan cake, which l found they had very good at Pfaff's, and to listening to the whirl- ing words of my commensals, at the long board spread for the Bohemians in cavernous space under the pavement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
A BAD LOT.

Those "artists" up in Kansas.
 Whose speciality is tar, Should read a few newspapers
 And learn what clumps they are. Nobody speaks to praise them
 And no one ever will .Twould be a pleasant duty
 Their hides with shot to fill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
A DREAM OF RELIEF.

Isn't that Miss Yawler singing across the way?"
 ''Yes. l wished she belonged to grand opera company
 You surely don't think she can sins?" Not at all, but grand opera companies never come to this town.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
MONEY BE DAMNED!

From the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald.
 A young woman residing on Oak street complains to the police that as she was walking home on that thoroughfare Tues day night young man rushed up. hugged and kissed her, and then ran away. He fiade no demands for money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
so LONG, MARY

From the Kalamazoo Telegraph.
 To Whom It May Concern: My wife, Mary Dinnerboiler, having left my room and board I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by her after this date-John Dinnerboiler
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30

Georgia's court of appeals has gone to the other extreme by holding that it is after all crime to kill a baseball um- pire. The contrary view had long been cherished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30

There were writers for the Saturday Press and for Vanity Fair Ga hopefully comic paper of that day), and some of the artists who drew for the illustrated periodicals. Nothing of their talk re- mains with me, but the impression re- mains that it was not so good talk as I had heard in Boston. At one moment of the orgy, which went but slowly for an orgy, we were joined by some be- lated Bohemians whom the others made a great clamor over. I was given to un- derstand they were just recovered from a fearful debauch; their locks were still damp from the wet towels used to re- store them and their eyes were very frenzed
 was presented to thees types, who neither said nor did anything worthy or their awful appearance. but dropped into seats at the table and ate of the SUD- per with an appetite that seemed poor. l stayed hoping vainly for worse things till Il o'clock, and then rose and took my leave of a literary condition that had distinctly disappointed me. I do not say that it may not have been wickeder and wittier than I found it; I only report what l saw and heard in Bohemia on my first visit to New York, and I know that my acquaintance with it was not exhaustive. When came the next year the Saturday Press was no more, and the editor and his contributors had no longer common center.
 The best of the young fellows whom met there confessed, in a pleasant ex- change of letters which we had after wards, that he thought the pose a vain and unprofitable one; and when the Press was revived, after the war, 1t was without any of the old Bohemian char acteristics except that of not paying for material.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
PEACE ATIA ST.

plodding wight had toiled along
 For many weary years, And strove in vain to lift a song,
 Instead of shedding tears Btu could not seem to '.strike it right,' However hard he tried; The wished-for goal ne'er came in sight And Fortune still denied. He wore his heart out in a quest
 That only left him sad And filled his sorrow-laden breast
 With pains few mortals had At last he reached smiling land
 Where all was fair below. The blossoms grew on either hand
 And life was sweet, trow. How stranger he cried. i've never seen This pleasant vale before, Where all is lovely and serene.
 And trouble comes no more. q did not dream so close it lay
 And blindly passed it by, To roam the wilds where griefs dismay And ghostly phantoms vie. 'Here will I stay till life shall close,
 Well pleased with all around Where time in placid channel flows And none are straitly bonnd.' And thus it was plodder came,
 When many years were spent, No longer mocked by wealth and fame, To the Valley of Content.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30

Death came to Wilhelm Jensen, the German novelist, when he was writing his 16oth volume. He certainly had no grounds of complaint against the scythe bearer whatever his readers may have had.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30

The Madonna of the Stars has been recovered. but Mona Lesa mas not been, and the latter may meyer be seen again. She Is smiling secretly for a select few.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
yet, but I hope to soon" ]"
PHILOSOPHER.

T never quarrel with my wife,"
 Remarked a placid man; 'Wheneer she's in mood for strife,
 simply rush the can"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
TO 0. HENRY.

The following lines were written hv James Whitcomb Riley and addressed to true Prince of Story Tellers," who died just when he was doing his best work. few contemporary writers of fiction have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30

active business people and the great body of voters are under that age. "I. is more than quarter of a century" says the Times, since the southern question entered even nominally into a national contest" It is to be hoped that it has made its last appearance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30

J. T. Trowbridge, whom many readers of the war days will recall, is S5, and he has gone to Europe-his ninth trip.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30

Mir. Bryan did not do the Caesar act at all. He got into the lifeboat when his turn came without saying a word.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30

The one night stands in the country decline to be eliminated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30

The White Star liner, the Gigantic. has nearly all of the conveniences of civiliza- tion except a baseball diamond.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30

Congress has until June to reform the country. After that time the campaign will do the reform work,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30

Colonel Bryan's ships do seem to have a knack of running aground.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30

The English suffragettes did not make a demonstration until the tomato season had been ended
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30

Russia asks her young men to go east and grow up with Siberia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
PAVING THE WAY.

"Who is the man to whom you just bowed?"
 "A coal dealer"
 You were extremely polite. You must owe him money"
 Not yet, but hope to soon.''