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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-14
TOO MUCH AGITATION

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
 Representative Underwood of Alabama, majority leader on the floor, confessed a a speech before the Pennsylvania society of New York city Saturday night that he has no panacea for the present commer- cial unrest, so far as that unrest Is due to the popular conception of the Sherman law. He deserves credit, however for sounding a warning to his own and to the opposition party-for declaring that "there is nothing in any solution for men of either political party to make capital of"
 Tt is," he continues, "too big and too momentous question for that. Nor are we to seize upon the first remedy proposed for a treatment of the symptoms of the trouble by rushing off to demand new legislation before we understand what we need"
 These are the words of a patriot, even if he does happen to represent the organ ization tha1 las been least successful in "constructive work" If a diagnosis of the present situation could be accurately made, there is good reason to believe that the malady would be properly labeled new legislation"
 MT. Talt the head of the republican party, and MT. Underwood who reflects the sanest democratic sentiment, are at agreement, and their views are in har- mony with the views of the manufactur- CTS of the country, as expressed through a circular sent out by the National Asso- citation of Manufacturers as recently as November 2. The circular, based upon reports from 10, GOO business men, concludes that politics, played for personal mo- lives, is the direct and menacing cause of our present unsatisfactory business conditions
 Indeed, iJ is hard to reach any other conclusion when our national resources are considered. The estimated wealth of the United States is sl25e00,000,0O0; the farm wealth, ss,S0o, ,O0o,OO0 annual crops, 80, eco, ,000, 400; mineral productions, $3,00o, GOO eco: manufactured products. annually, Sin OO0 OO0, ,JJ0 exports of domestic mer- chandise, annually, s1,SOO,000,o00; lumber production, annually, $55O,0OO,Oo0; money in circulation, $3.2Oo,OOo,cOO; bank deposits, s9, eco, ,C0o,eco.
 Under normal conditions a people so situated should not have cause to com 1 plain of business stagnation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-14
Georgia's June Primary

The republican national convention is to be held in Chicago on June IS, and the democratic convention will presumably be held early in July. The date will be named when the demo- cratic national committee meets in Washington on January 8.
 The campaign of 1912 is rapidly taking form and substance, and it is already plain that the presidential primary is to cut no small figure in it. The Georgia democratic state commit tee has decided to hold presidential primary to decide for whom the national delegates of that state shall vote. This primary is to be held mot later than June 12." The exact date will probably be determined after the democratic national committee has named the convention date. The Texas legislature passed bill pro viding for a presidential primary, but if Governor Colquitt has signed it the news of the fact has not been freely published.
 And then there are seven states which hold official presidential pri- maries in all parties. These states are North Dakota on March 19, Wis consin on April ?, Nebraska on April
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-14
Good reasons must, of force, give place
 to better. Julius Caesar
Boot and Shoe Monopoly

Old citizens can remember when the manufacture of boots and shoes was carried on in every center of trade-in every village even. Now it is confined to great factories, and these factories are dictated to by one corporation which has Is subsidiary companies. Its machinery is, as a rule, leased. It controls 96 per cent of the shoe manufacturing in this country, and the little home shops are now but a memory. This is what monopoly has accomplished in the lives of men now living.
 This enormous corporation Is to be dissolved if Uncle Sam and his Sherman law can do it. A bill in equity has been filed, and the officials of the shoe monopoly have been indicted.
 The shoe monopoly and the beef packers handle necessaries only, and every effort will be made to put an end to their control of articles used by all the people, and to hand over their products to general competition and trade. Thus far the government has been successful in changing the form of monopolies, but not in putting an end to their taxation and power. The Standard Oil stockholders con- tinue to control the oil trade of the country. When a monopoly is broken up in, every truth the Sherman law will be fully vindicated, and it will not be until this is done.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-14

From the Washington Post.
 Coming from the floor leader of the democrats in the House. the address of Oscar w. Underwood of Alabama at the dinner of the Pennsylvania society, in New York, makes sweet music in the ears of those who have grown tired of the raucous voice of passion and preju- dice. The strength of Mir Underwood mas been due largely to his own fair-minded- ness, conservatism, and poise In stating
 his principles to the Pennsylvania socie- ty he has sounded a note of reinsurance that should inspire more confidence in his party.
 MT. Underwood pleaded that the great problems before the country today should be considered without patrisanship and without political motives. He admits that the country has been, and is, suffering from an overdose of agitation. As to the tariff, the democratic leader says that if the tariff board furnishes statistics on which reasonable reduction of the wool schedule can be made, the democrats will act upon il, giving credit where credit is due.- It was with reference to the trusts, however. that Mir. Underwood made his best point. After showing the difficulty of the problem. and arguing that it's solu- tion could be found only through sober ness and delibeg>tion, MT. Underwood said:
 There is nothing, however, in any such solution for men of either political party to try to make capital out of. It is too big and momentous question for that. A nation which, in it's judicial and executive branches, has not only not in- terfered with, but, on the other hand, promoted, or at least tolerated, the crea- ton of these corporations, must not act precipitateiy, but thoughtfully and con servatively in dealing with them. Nor are we to Seize upon the first remedy pro- posed for a treatment of the symptoms of the trouble by rushing off to demand new legislation before understanding what we need, if we need anything"
 Mir. Underwood has made a good politl- cal platform for his party by eliminating politics from it. He is frank enough to admit that even under democratic Pres ident the big corporations were permit ted to grow to the size and to pursue the methods which are now frowned upon.
 The responsibility of dealing conserva- lively with the trust question, therefore, belong as much to the democratic party as to the republican party, in fact there is no excuse at all for dealing with it as q political ptoblem. Both parties should stand together to restore confidence to business throughout the United States. If Mir. Underwood will lead his party in that direction, he will be performing a public service
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-14
Estimating the Current Crop

The department of agriculture es- inmates the cotton crop grown this year at 14,8S5,000 bales. As a rule the department underestimates crop. Then, too, linters and repacks are to be added, and these will be fully 500,000 bales. If the coming season adds in August as much baled cotton to the commercial crop of the cotton year as were taken from it last Au- gust that crop may on September go well toward 16,000,000 bales. No other commercial crop had crossed the -million-bale line.
 Here is a crop two million bales larger than was ever grown, and yet its value, fibre and seed, will not ex- ceed $750,000, 900. Last year crop four million bales smaller yielded a total of $963, ,1SO,0OO.
 A CIOp uOG liuCll III tACSSo Ol 12,000,000 bales would perhaps be the best crop the south could grow, but how to guage a crop grown in fifteen states is certainly a difficult problem. The weather clerk would refuse to become a party to any pre- season agreement, and no one would know whether the crop would be one of ten millions of bales or fourteen millions. It is one of those things that cannot be regulated with exact ness. It will have to be left to the aggregate of human needs and human Millions of farmers can not we'll be pooled, and trust in restraint of trade or production would be illegal anyway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-14
MANDALAY: BY RUDYARD KIPLING

By the old Moulmen Ragoda, lookin' east
 ward to the sea, There's Burma girl a-settin', an know
 she thinks O me; For the wino is in the palm trees, an the
 temple bells they say: Come you back. you British soldier;
 come you back to Mandalay! Come you back to Mandalay, Where tho old Flotilla lay; Can't yol ear their paddles chuckin'
 from Rangoon to Mandalay? O, the road to Mandalay, Where the fiyin' fishes play An the dawn comes up like thunder
 outer China 'crost the Bay! 'Er petticoat was yaller an Ter little cap
 was green, An er name was Supi-yaw-lat-jes' the
 same as Theebaw's Queen, An I seed her fust a-smokin' of whack-
 in white cheroot, An a-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eath-
 en idos foot; Bloomin' idol made O mud Wot they called the Great Gawd Budd- Plucky lot she cared for idols when l
 kissed CT where she stud! On the road to Mandalay. M When the mist was on the rice fields an the sun was droppin slow, She'd ge, her little banjo an she'd sing
 "Kulla-lo-lo."5 With Ter arm upon my shoulder, an her
 cheek against my check We uster watch the steamers an the hathis pilin teak. Elephints pilin teak In the sludgy. pudgy creek, Where the silence ung so 'eavy you was
 'arf afraid to speak On the road to Mandalay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-14
National Politics

National politics will be all astir from November said Silas w. White of Chi cago. President Taft, LaFollette and ex-President Roosevelt will have to be reckoned with in the national conven- tion. I am a republican, and. although not an active politician, my sympathies are with Taft, and I hope to be able to vote for him at the polls.
 'I do not think Roosevelt will have particularly strong following in the con vention, but his supporters will doubt less try to get up a stampede for him. l am glad the national committee decided to hold the convention in Chicago
 'rThe democratic national committee will do well to select Chicago as the democratic convention city. Baltimore and St. Louis are both after the demo- cratic convention, and I am inclined 10 think that St. Louis will win the prize. It will be a very lively convention De- cause woodrow Wilson and Harmon Will each have a great deal of strength. Each of them has organized his partisans Harmon, I understand, has very thor ough organization. Harmon and Wilson will probably bring about deadlock, and in the event of a deadlock, Con- gressman Underwood will be apt to get the nomination. If I were a democrat, ,yould be inclined to favor Underwood.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-14
SAYINGS OF GREAT MEN

From the New York American.
 This list is compiled upon the assump- ton that 1t is quite as important to pre- sent the world with thought as with an invention or a discovery.
 Washingon-Put none but Americans on guard.
 Columbus, Galileo-It moves, neverthe- less.
 Frederick the Great-Every man must get to heaven his own way.
 Lincoln-You can fool part of the people all of the time, and all of the people part of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all-of the time.
 Watts, Franklin-Love your neighbor as yourself, but don't take down your fence. Cromwell-A battleship is your best am bassador
 Mahomet-There is no god but God.
 Gutenberg. Jefferson-Resistance to ty- rants is obedience to God.
 Confucius-Honor lies not in never fall- ing, but in rising every time you fall.
 Luther-To pray well is the better half of study.
 Morse Magellan-The church says the earth is tlat, but know that it is round, for have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.
 Napoleon-Imaginatio rules the world. Newton-I cannot calculate the madness of people.
 Grant-I,et us have peace.
 Peter the Great-I would give half my kingdom to know how to govern the other half.
 Caesar-Better first in the village than second in Rome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-14
Cincinnati's New Engineer

The Cincinnati papers are giving a good deal of space to Henry M. Waite' formerly of Birmingham, but recently appointed chief engineer of the Queen City. When MT. Waite gave up his superintendency of the Seaboard here a few years ago to accept the vice presidency of the Clitchfield coal com pany in Virginia 1t was thought that he would remain permanently with that corporation. But as he has a brother living in Cincinnati he was induced to quit the coal field and accept the nat tering offer made by the Cincinnati municipal government. It was rumored in Cincinnati it seems, that MT. Wan would retain his position as vice pres ident of the Clitchfield company and devote but a. part of his attention to the municipal position, but that report was without foundation. In an inter- view in the Cincinnati Times-Star MT. Waite said:
 q shall be the chief engineer of Cin- cinnati and nothing else. The work will require all of my time and any other connection, I feel, would be at sacrifice of proper attention to the of flee with which Cincinnati has honored me Of course, some of the work will be new to me, but as l have devoted all my time to engineering since l was graduated from the Massachusetts h. stitute of Technology, in 1890, l do not anticipate any difficulty in adapt ing myself to the new surroundings. The only trouble 1 anticipate is adapt
 ing myself to the greater indoor life. Down at Dante, Va, where l have had more than 10000 men working under me, my life has been largely in the open air.
 In national politics I am a repub- lican. l was given to understand that politics had nothing to do with my ap- pointment, and, under that condition, accepted"
 The Times-Star has this to say: MT. Waite is unmarried and when he moves to Cincinnati the principal item will be a negro general factotum who has presided over his household in Virginia. This negro is valet, general housekeep- CT and about everything else MT. Waite says he couldn't get along without him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-14
Colonel Roosevelt and the Tariff

A movement in the republican party looks to the selection of unin- structed delegates, and "spontane- ous" outburst at the convention in favor of the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt.
 Before the hero of Sagamore Hill is placed in nomination for third term he should at any rate define his tariff views. He has lodged that question fully ten years, and if he is to run again the people will de- mand to know where he stands. Does he favor protection for profits? Is the Payne -Aldrich- bill the best ever devised? Is it good at all? What is the matter of a tariff for revenue only?
 Colonel Roosevelt has reputation for courage and frankness, when in truth he is the smartest evader and dodger in politics. No one but he could evade the chief issue before the people ten years. Today no one knows what his tariff views are-how far he would go to reduce the profits of the interests in order to decrease the cost of living in the average family.
 No one has been able for years to get a word out of him in relation to the tariff, and if he is to run again he will be charged with evasion and lodging in order to conciliate the tremendous interests that lie con- cealed behind the tariff wall. They are exploiting 90,O00,000 of home people unmercifully, and Colonel Roosevelt should be smoked out as to what he thinks of this business. Will he stand by the many or the few?
 He boils over on other subjects, but he is as silent as the tomb when the tariff question is laid before him. He has no views to express on that subject. His tongue and also his pen are stilled. Why is this?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-14
FORAKER ON UNDERWOOD

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 MT. John Temple Graves will be in town soon to make us speech. He was in Birmingham the other night and The Age-Herald printed an interview with the former Georgian, in which that gentleman discussed MT. Underwood as a presiden- tial candidate. MT. Graves said: MT. Foraker used to be very bitterly opposed to tho south. but softened a great deal after his elevation to the Senate. l asked Mr. Foraker if in case Mir. Underwood is nominated for President, will it make any difference to you that he is a south ern man?
 Absolutely none,' said MT. Foraker. Of course, I cannot vote for him, as am republican, but if any republican should get up and denounce him because he is from the south, I would take the stump in Underwoods defense.'
 That reads well, coming as it does from man whose antagonistic attitude to- wards the south in other days gave him the appellation of Fire Alarm Foraker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-14
THE TRIAL OF AARON BURR

pears to have convinced everyone with correspondence with General Wilkinson during the entire time, and Wilkinson had charge of all the army of the south west But when the expedition reached Natchez, Burr found that Wilkinson him. self had turned against him and gave up the project. He sunk the rafts containing the arms in the Mississippi river, and left his men. Burr surrendered to the com mander at Natchez, but the people sym- pathized with him and a grand jury re- fused to indict him for any offense.
 Burr disguised himself and disappeared. A month later he was found and arrested within sight of the boundary line of Span ish Florida. He was taken back to Rich his life on the charge of treason.
 The trial revealed nothing as to the pur- rose of Burr in the expedition. While he was in Tennessee. Jefferson issued g. proclamation charging that "sundry per sons were conspiring to set on foot a military enterprise against the dominion of Spain, contrary to law, and called upon all good citizens to arrest the offenders. 1He government at Washington was in the dark as to what Burr intended doing, as there is nothing to show that he had ever contemplated such a thing.
 The only act that could be construed as reasonable, without proving treason able motive, which the government could not do was that of arming the expedition from Blennerhassett's island, and it was proved that Burr was 200 miles from there when the expedition started. That brought out a most remarkable decision from Jus tlce Marshall, who held that he could not be convicted of treason for that act un- less Burr himself were actually present in the flesh when the act was committed His might have been the brain that de- vised the plot, his might have been the resources that provided the muskets and the arms, but if he were not present in person at the time the arms were used he could not be found guilty of treason. So he was acquitted.
 But the famous trial is enshrouded in mystery in that it revealed nothing like a satisfactory explanation of Burrs pur- pose. But out of it has come the con- cluslon from the more safe and sane" historians that Burr intended nothing more than great land enterprise for financial profit, with an attack upon Mex ico in case the United States should be- come engaged in war with Spain, which Jefferson was threatening at that time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-14
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
 "O THE STAR: Was Aaron Burr
 ! convicted of treason? Did he lead
 A a conspiracy against his own coun- try? Will The Star please tell something of the story of Burr?
 A STAR READER.
 Aaron Burr is entitled to the distinction of "The Man of Mystery" in United States history. Elected vice president on the ticket with Jefferson. he first at tempted to have himself elected Presf- dert by the presidential electors in place of Jefferson, and almost succeeded. This action turned Jefferson against him. As vice president he did all he could to en- barrass the President. Professng to be a republican he coquetted with the fed eralists. Near the close of his term or office he fought a duel with Alexander Hamilton and killed him. For time he was practically a fugitive and spent his time in the south. But he returned to Washington in time to preside at the trial of Samuel Chase, justice of the United States supreme court. who was tried upon impeachment charges.
 Here Jefferson played politics" by att tempting to win Burr to his side, because Jefferson wanted Chase convicted. He appointed all of Burr's relatives who wanted office to some good place, invited Burr to dine with him, had republican senators petition the New Jersey courts to dismiss the case against Burr for the killing of Hamilton, and finally at the request of Burr appointed Gen. James Wilkinson governor of Louisiana territory But even at that, Chase was acquitted and Jefferson's friends charged Burr with having betrayed the President again.
 After retiring from the office of vice president, Burr's movements were mys- terious He attempted to procure money from England for the purpose of estab- fishing a colony of some sort, with the promise of the probable establishment of government somewhere on the gulf coast that would be friendly to British interests He was charged also with having made similar overtures to Spain.
 Finally he found a rich, eccentric Irish man named Harman Blennerhassett who had obtained possession of an island in the Ohio river below Marietta. Blenner- hassett became his partner and put money into an enterprise proposed by Burr to buy a large tract of land in Louisiana. Burrs son-in-law was a partner, also. in the scheme. Some land actually was purchased in Louisiana with the money thus obtained, and company of 60 men, equipped with arms and provisions, were started from Bennerhassetts island in boats. But Burr had preceded them. He went down the river in advance of the company, organizing other companies, or having them organized.
 It appears that Burr kept his purpose secret from everyone. He visited Andrew Jackson in Tennessee and 'Old Hickory" became his friend and partisan. He ap-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-14
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Chicago Party Coming south

T received telegram today from a Seaboard Air Line official in Chicago. saying that the Cook county democracy was arranging to make a southern trip in a special train some time in Febru- ary," said Capt. Jack W. Johnson, dis trict passenger agent.
 This organization, I understand, Is made up of prominent democrats, includ- ing the officials of the various demo- cratic clubs of Chicago. The party will consist of about 15o. They have planned 10 stop in Cincinnati and Chattanooga, and go from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and from Atlanta to New Orleans. Our agent says that if Birmingham will ex- tend the Cook county democrats an in- vitation, they will be glad to change their plans and come from Chattanooga to Blr- mingham, and go from Birmingham to Atlanta.
 "As these tourists will live on their cars, not much entertainment will be expected of any city, but they only stop at such cities as extend formal invita- lions. Secretary Ryall of our board of city commissioners tells me that he will bring the matter before the commission Thursday morning, and that he feels sure an invitation will be sent by wire, urging the Cook county democracy to spend day and night here.'