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Gunnison news-champion., 1911-11-03

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toa aud \ Asstia Wilsoa go in
sssllins machinery On their psopsrty
under Rsby pesks, which they hope
10 get in place veedy for early work
in the sprins Of 1919. They Gre
psttlng in . compvessor 70 BE- rSa by
water power.
The moving pictsres nov bsine
exhibited of the resent Grand En-
campment q. A. r. st Rochester, n
Y. show q very fine picture II our
fellow townsman, Judge DEXTER 7.
Sapp. marching 1t the heed of sbe
Colorado deleestion, Of which he is
com1sDder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03
M'Namara Confessions

The country is shocked by the Me Namara confessions. While it was generally believed that the plant of the Los Angeles Times was destroyed by dynamite, many refused to believe that the McNamaras had personally any hand in it. But their confessions show that they were directly and per sonally guilty of crime in which 21 persons were murdered.
 Organized labor has duty to per form in this crisis. Honest labor rep resented by such men as John Mitchell and Samuel Gompers is now denounc- ing in the severest terms the acts of the McNamaras and of all other crim- inals. This cannot be made too en- phatic, too comprehensive or too minute. Many have been misled, in- cluding, it seems, MT. Gompers him. self, but now the time has come when organized labor will go on record in regard to all criminal acts and all criminals. Honest labor has come to the parting of the ways, and it should proceed to drive out of it's ranks all who advocate, under any circum- stances, damage to property or the destruction of life. It must place it. self at all times and under all cir cumstances unequivocally on the side of law and order. If it does this speedily and unreservedly the cause of labor throuhout the country will not suffer from the fiendish acts al Los Angeles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03
BROWNING WAS A DOUBTER

John Churton Collins: Memoirs"
 'If you don't accept Revelation" said Browning. q honestly do not see, after all my thinking and experience. any indi- cation to lead us to suppose that there is a life after this. It is great desire that is certain; but I see no reason to suppose that it will be fulfilled. I can't agree with Tennyson. Tennyson told me that he felt positively certain of an ex- tension of individual consciousness after death. Carlyle said to me a short time before his death, T have 10 notion at all, not the smallest idea whether I am going to me annihilated or whether I shall burst out into something splendid and quite strange Old Landor said, T do not care a jot which way it goes I am ready for either Huxley felt very depressed and dissatisfied tha he would be out of it'-felt the hardness of hay ing to quit consciousness when his curl osity was so ardent, when so many new truths were daily coming to light Hau- riet Martineau. he said, was anxious to live because she hated the idea of an- nibilation, and that was, she felt, cer- tain'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03
A LadX'S CriliciSnl

From the viewpoint of housewife who lives far enough away from the new ly opened market to have to pay carefare to reach it, I consider this municipal in- stitution a failure' said Mrs. J. J. Cana Ian of Mountain Terrace yesterday after noon.
 T boarded the car and went down to the market this morning purposely to do my kitchen shopping for Sunday and was the worst disappointed mortal that have met in a week. When I arrived there il was o'clock, ana in the row of wagons lined up against the curb for the display of the eatables offered for sale in Eir- minghams new market were tufnir greens, collards and spinach Eggs at $ cents dozen could be had, which I think and l am sure that the vegetables on sale could be ordered from the grocer with the staple articles of food Everything that the market contained could be bought from huckster selling his wares in the residential section without the bother. ol coming downtown and expenditure of cal fafe. . "Going further down the street I went to the regular market stands and saw ( beautiful display of reasonable edbles but the same high prices were prevailing I do not know what the trouble is, but the market is certainly in need of mar. ketables, in my opinion"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03
Congress and the Tariff Issue

Congress will meet tomorrow. AS
 Senator Shoot says, it will play poli- tics from beginning to end. The Sherman antitrust law will not be repealed or even amended. No cur rency law will be passed. The pure food law greatly needs amendment, but it is doubtful whether any bills can be passed other than appropria- tion bills and bills to revise the tariff downward.
 The House is democratic, and it has fully determined that the next general election shall turn upon the issue of a tariff for revenue only. The House was wisely conducted during the extra session, and the same men, from Floor Leader Under wood down, will be on hand tomor- row to shape and manage its great business. Neither the President nor any of the lesser lights of the repub- lican party can change the vital issue of 1912. They would be glad to do so, but they have made their Payne Aldrich-Smoot bed and they must lie in it until the people decide in No vember next what they want. Chair man Underwood will give form and substance to the great issue and the people will do the rest. This does not and will not meet the wishes of the standpat leaders, and demo- cratic House stands in the way of any new departure prior to November next. A tariff for revenue only is the issue, and the people will decide it when they go to the polls next No vember, each armed with an all potent ballot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03

pose than the Outlook office or any of his speaking tours.
 The country is much larger than it was in Quincy Adams time, and Col onel Roosevelt is by no means averse to a good tussle in debate. He will find in the House an opportunity for service that he cannot elsewhere find. He could there command the atten- tion of the people and of their law makers, and the wonder is that he has not seen this opening and util- ized it. It just fits him, and the country would be glad to see him where his utterances would be heard and needed.
 If the eX-President does not care to be President, again-and this is what he says-he certainly should not hesitate to serve a seat in the House that was many years ago the scene of the later laurels and labors of an ex-President.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03

| From the JeHersonlan. This paper was the first 10 put the name os oscar Underwood at it's mast head as presidential candidate. Many others are beginning to see his strength and availability. Bryan was quick to realize what a formidable com petitor he had in the Alabamian, and Bryan lost no time in trying to blast Underwoods chances. No meaner. more venomous and more mendacious charges were ever hurled at any public man than Bryan is throwing at Underwood.
 What congressman ever made a more gallant ,fight for the common people 1 than was made by Underwod at the ex- tra session? When did Bryan succeed, or even try to pass up to the President such magnificent measure as the farmers free list bill? And the woolen bill; and the cotton bill? When Bryan was in Congress he was the pliant tool of the sugar trust, and he did his level best to get tax of a cent and half on every pound of beet sugar used by the people. He endeav- ored te tax every cup of coffee, every cup of tea, every article of food in which sugar is used. He not only worked for the trust in the House, but went over to the Senate and tried to deliver to the trust the vote of the pep | ulist senator, William V. Allen of Ne braska. Bryan actually coerced Allen | into voting for the infamous sugar tax; but as soon as the populists found it out such a howl went up against Allen that | J. right.
 With that sort of record behind him, Bryan is the last man who should ac- cuse Underwood of being "a reactions ary."
 Had Taft signed the Underwood bills, instead of yetoing them, the common people of the country-all those who have to buy the necessaries of fife would have been relieved of at least s100,000000 which we now have to pay to remorseless trusts.
 The passage of those measures through Congress was triumph of leadership. of energy. of industry, of parliamentary skill.
 Those measures are the most eloquent answers to Bryan's malicious charge that Underwood is the logical candidate of Wall street.
 am for Underworld
 O) Because he is a full blooded south- ern man.
 CD Because he is today the strongest all round man in the democratic party. (3) Because he hasn't boxed the com- pass with paramount issues," as Bryan has done.
 | (4) Because he has shown that he is a lconstructive statesman, instead of being a mere artist in words or star per former to the grandstand.
 (5) Because he had the pluck to hit back, and hit hard, when Bryan slan- dered him.
 co Because his nomination would
 prove that the south Is back in the
 union for all purposes, and not for the
 sole political advantage of Tammany
 Hall and Wall street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03
A Fine Afternoon Shopping

"The Saturday afternoon throngs on the street is the first real sign that the tide has turned and that from now on there will be better spirit in the business world" said an observant man last night.
 From o'clock until 6 there was a. crowded condition of the shopping g district. I had ample leisure to study the scenes. The picture shows, the markets and the stores did fine bus mess. I think that pay day-the first of the month--with salaried men par ticularly, had something to do with the busy throng of shoppers for mark you most of them seem moved by spirit of getting about at lively pace.
 "The day has been ideal. While il opened foggy with the sun in a haze it cleared by noon and the sun shone in genial warmth with just enough o1 crispness in the air to bring color to the cheeks of the brisk walking sh op- Iers."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03
Theodore Roosevelt for Congress

Ex-President Roosevelt demands a new policy and new law toward corporations, as he says, the Sher- man law cannot meet the situation. He wants law that will be "clear, unambiguous, and certain The true way to get such law is not by pos ing as contributing editor, but by running for Congress as did Johr Quincy Adams, and by staying in Con- sress until he secures the law he de sires.
 Colonel Roosevelt is in middle life ! full of vigor, eloquence and force and in Congress he could serve thu people while he worked out caree even greater than the younge Adams did. No doubt the Oyste Bay district would send him to Con gress and keep him there, and thi presents the best opportunity fo public service that st<side4 can find. It is be @g sss nls faY
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The PresidentinlYenr

"one hears a great deal of political
 talk these days" said NJ. B. Cochran or | Philadelphia. My business takes me to New York, New England and the mid
 de west and in travelling about the. .eoun- | try 1 naturally meet republicans and democrats who discuss presidential tim Der.
 "I am a republican and expect 10 vote for President Taft's reelection next fall. MT. Taft has been criticised by men in
 his own party. but l believe he will have no trouble in being renominated. The democratic party has a number of strong candidates. Six months ago Governor Harmon seemed to be the favorite, but now Woodrow Wilson has loomed up with what seems to be very strong fol- lowing.
 Recently I have heard a great deal about Congressman Underwood as pres ilential probability. My idea is that he stands a good chance of being nominated. have heard men in New York, both re- publican and democrats, say that Under- wood was the logical democratic candi- date One certainly hears more about Un- derwood, Harmon and Wilson than any other candidates, although 1 have come across a number. of enthusiastic Champ Clark men.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03
Why We Need a Parcels Post

Interstate Commerce Commissioner Franklin K. Lane is Investigating the methods of the express com- panies, and the testimony already taken has brought out seven addi- tional reasons why a parcels post should be established. It has already been shown that CD AT per cent has been the average ratio of operating income to investment in property and equipment; (2) that in one case the ratio was 8S2 per cent; (3) that the 13 companies under investigation own property valued at $27,OOO,0OO and have an annual operating income of 100000 (4) that rates are un- equal and discriminating; (5) that the average charge for express mat ter is 16 times the average freight charge, while in Europe it is only five times; (6) that shipments are not sent by the most direct route un- less it so happens that the lines of the receiving company are most direct; CD that rates have been in- creased 53 per cent in 20 years.
 The facts officially brought out by Commissioner Lane were not intend ed to serve as reasons for a parcels post, but they do, nevertheless, serve excellently as such, and they should ke laid before Congress, and every member of Congress should be re ouired to vote ives" or mo" on then when presented with parcels pos bill. The coming session is an excel lent one in which to press this grea reform to a vote. Let us know wh' are ready to stand by the people an' who by the express companies. Le the sheep be separated from tn goats this winter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03
The wounds invisible That loves keen arrows make.
 As You Like It.
convicts in Tennessee Co.'s Mines

The Steel corporation uses convict labor in no state other than Alabama, and it's policy in Alabama is being brought into conformity with its policy elsewhere. This applies to county as well as state convicts. No doubt the management of the great est industrial corporation in the world is convinced that it's subsidiary companies should be operated by free labor only. The change is in con- formity with similar changes in the industrial world in other states and other counties.
 The policy of the state will not be essentially changed for the present, for the Sloss-Sheffield company and the Pratt Consolidated company have s'high seam" mines in which the state convicts can be employed. But in due course of time these, too, will probably deem it unwise to work convicts, and then all the states prisoners will be kept employed on the roads of the state. This will prove the true evolution of the prob lem. County convicts should be placed on county roads at once. The action of the Steel corporation means, in other words, that Alabama will soon follow in the footsteps of Geor gia in the matter of making gooc roads by means of convict labor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03
Organ Recital TuesdaN Night

Edwin Arthur Kraft, who will give an organ recital at the First Methodist church next Tuesday night under the auspices CT the Music Study club. en- joys the reputation of being one of the few great organ vrtuosos in this country. His programme will include many novel; ties compositions by modern composers whose names have been seldom seen on programmes.
 These are the numbers he will play: Concert Prelude and Fugue Q'aulkes); Canzona Faulkes); Meditation (Sturges); /; Scherzo-Canon (Jadassohn); Grand Choeur (Rogers); Andante Cantabile Oethier) Melody (Tschaikowsky); First Organ Symphony (Maquaire); Cradle Song (Silver); Intermezzo (BonneD; Cap rice Heroique (BonneD; Supplication Frysinger); At Twilight (Frysinger); War March from "Rienzi'' CWagner).
 The Music Study club has brought number of fine artists to Birmingham, and music lovers are of course looking forth with keen interest to the coming of MT. Kraft.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03
UNDERWOOD LOOMS LARGE

From the Cleburne News.
 At the present time-we- do not un dertake to forecast the future-Repre- sentative Underwood looms lalge on the political horizon, and the suggestion of F. w, Barrett, editor of The Age Her. aid, that Alabama and Geolgia pool their strength in an effort to encompace his nomination as democracys candi date for President is a good one MT Underwood is a man of splentid equip ment, and deserves well of he party which he serves with such signal sue cess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03
SERVED HIM RIGHT.

He sang to her a little song
 Twas Alma, Where Do You LiTo' She paid no heed but tripped along
 Not cen a look would give. Persistent he, the "masher' type,
 The worst you ever saw; At last she turned-the time was ri1e- And smacked him on the jaw. No more he sang that little song,
 The melody was hushed: In all that busy, busy throng
 Was none who seemed more crushed Alas, alack!' he sadly sighed,
 His face on fire with pain. "Sinee this my suit has been denied, I'll never sing again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A DoLoRoUs PLACE.

A DoLoROUS PLACE. Gloomy the lives And sad the refrain; Joy never thrives In Poverty Lane. Troubles abide
 And sorrows remain; Hope is denied
 In Poverty Lane. Woeful the nights, So heavy with pain: Grim hunger smites In Poverty Lane. Dreary the days
 When dawning again; Pale Despair stays In Poverty Lane. Breaking the hearts That battle amain; Quick the tear starts In Poverty Lane. Death is a boon
 Not prayed for in vain; May 1t come soon Tn Poverty Lane!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03
SHE WAS WILLING.


 ''I know I'm mixing a metaphor" said George D. Pyper. Out you take it from me-if you warm a sense of humor in your bosom, some day it will rise up and bite you in the face.' R-f -.. MT. Pyper is a Mormon. He came to town not long ago with the choir of two hundred Mormons, which played a sing ing engagement here. Like every other Mormon, he denies that polygamy is now practiced in Utah-and asserts that poly gamous families were the happiest. The moment that he is asked if he belongs to the church, MT. Pyper, wearing an rn- jured expression, begins his recital: I'm Mormon," says he, "forty-nne years old, been married to the same wife, and only one of her, twenty-nine years; am perfectly happy; never wanted a second wife; couldn't have one now, anyhow, be- cause it would be bigamy, and do not think that the Mormons are as happy now as they were in the days when polygamy was openly practiced."
 >Having finished his litany, MT. Pyper will then consent to talk "I have been travelling around the country for years, says he, and once got so alarmed tired of having the same old question pushed at me that I changed the order. We were running an industrial exposition in Tennessee, and every woman who spoke to me would ask: How many wives have you?
 six I'd say. But if you'll say the word I'll make it seven Usually they would squeal and run away, but one day a good looking woman asked the ques- tion and got the answer. She smiled at me-a sugary, sticky. honey sort of grin and went away. That night she came back again with her sister. Pm willing, she said, but, say, can't you marry sister, too' ' MT. Pyper reiterates that little humor is dangerous thing. "You haven't any idea he says, mournfully, "how hard it was to get that woman to see the joke.' New York Correspondent, Cincinnati Times-Star.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03

is a professional writer himself, but he had gone wrong on this word modern ism, having notion that all modern ten dencies, political, scientific or social, were opposed by the church and were con- demned under the head of modernism. Nothing could be further from the truth
 Modernism is too new word in ire quent use to be in the dictionary. About two years ago Canon Moves of Westmin- ster cathedral, London, wrote an illumi- hating article on Modernism for Nine teenth Century and After In general way, modernism is something like the higher criticism with which Protestant divines are so familiar. The most ex- haustive treatise I have seen on this word
 modernism is by the Rev. Arthur Yer meersch, Jesuit and a doctor of social and political sciences, professor of moral theology and canon law at the University of Louvain. It will be found in Volume of the Catholic Encyclopedia, which came from the press only a few months ago. Dr. Vermeersch says: "A full defini- tion of modernism would be rather dffI- cult. First it stands for certain tenden- cies, and secondly, for body of doctrines which, if 1t had not given birth to these tendencies practice often precedes theory) serves at any rate as their explanation and support The Pope sees in theolog- cal modernism subtle undermining of faith, and an attack on religious truth. hence his announcements against it.
 "The word naturalism' can be found in encyclopedias and dictionaries, but a most interesting philosophic statement of the term will be found in this same vol ume of the Catholic encyclopedia It Is by the Rev. Charles A. Dubray, Ph, D., professor of philosophy in one of the Catholic colleges in Washington city. 'Naturalism, by the way, has several technical de1nitions-one in philosophy, one in theology. and one in art. In the latter sense it is almost synonymous with realism, and is the opposite of idealism. The technical definitions of naturalsm in philosophy and theology are substantially the same and will be found in any una bridged dictionary-the doctrine that all phenomena may be referred to natural as distinguished from supernatural, or spir- itual causes; the explanation of the phe- nomena of nature by blind force acting necessarily.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03
"LINERsn OF TOMORROW

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 The motorboat has passed the cxperi- mental stage safely, and F ocean going vessels of considerable size are now in coure of construction in European yards. The motor liners" of 6000 tons each are being built for the Hamburg American line, according to London corresponds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03
American HumOr

'It is safe to say that America has produced more humorists than any coun- try in the world, and some of the best of them have been southern men," said a newspaper man. q suppose most persons hereabouts will agree that the Rev. Dr. John w. Stagg as humorous storyteller heads the list. Here is his latest as far as knew.
 At the Underwood banquet at the Country club pr. Stagg was called on for a speech, but the hour being late-about a. m.-the doctor had the good taste to cut his remarks short. He started some thing like this: I am reminded of a story. There was a political gathering characterized by turbulence and personal wrangling. It was suggested that 1t might be well to call on some one to lead in prayer, with the especial object in view of tranquilizing the politicians. Then a man got up and said, q see Brother So and So (Methodist preacher) over there. I move that the brother be asked to of- fer a prayer" There was a hush as the reverend brother arose and said: T hope | you will excuse me. don't want the Lorc to know I am here"
 ''Dr. Stagg said that the story didn't fit this banquet. Just the reverse, for not only was there perfect decorum at the Country club, but everybody was unanimous on the main question--Oscar Underwood, the guest of honor, as the right man to head the democratic ticket in 1912. But he told the story merely for Advertisement and let it go at that. The company would have been glad to have waited and heard Dr. Stagg in a speech, for he is always felicitous; always has something good to say. Owing to the lateness .of the hour the Methodist preacher story was crowded out of the press reports, but those of us who heard it thought it well worth preserving"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03
SUICIDES AT s1oo EACH

w. Fl. Thompson. M. D.. LIA D.,
 Life. Death and Immortality"
 A gentleman who lived number wears in the city of Annoy in China me that he could secure any nun among the common people of that | to commit suicide for s'on apiece. human nature f4 se ferywl