Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 26, 1913, Page 4

PAGE FOUR. f - The Evening Telegram Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. e \eee—————————— Entered in the postoffice at Lake- fand, Florida, as mail matter of the _ @eoond clsss. e N e et M. F. HETHRINUGION, PDINB. A HWNRY BACON, MANAGER. SUBSCRIPTIUN RATES: Delivered anywhere within the Wimits of the City of Lakeland for 10 pents & week. From the same office is issued . THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume ol local matters, crop conditions, pounty affairs, etc, Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. o D—— THE GREAT MAN OF THE TARIFF DEBATE No man on either side has ap- peared more effectively in the long and weary tariff debate in the Sen- ate than John Sharp Willlams of Mississippi, and his clear, simple , and convincing way of putting things and lighting up a dull sub- Ject with humor as well as logic have sustained and increased his reputation as one of the strongest debaters in Congress. He is a real statesman and Mississippi has hon- ored herself in honoring him. His personality is so interesting, especi- ally just now, that we cannot re. frain from giving our readers a real pleasure in reproducing what Savo- yard, the veteran Washington corre- spondent, says about him in a re- cent letter: “The discussions of the tariff the present session are not at all en- lvening, though they have afforded John Sharp Williams opportunity to again discover to the country that in the arena of political debate in the American Congress, like Eclipse among horses, he is first and the rest nowhere among senators. Mis- sissippi is proud of him, I make no doubt. In a debate John Sharp Wil. llams is more like Allen G. Thur- man—'the old Roman’—than any- body else, and he is as able and as formidable as Thurman himself. There is a simplicity, a clearness, a lucidity, a strength, a force in his arguments that sweep away all op- position. What a pity it is thdt all America, especially Mississippl, was not there July 18 to hear John Bharp Willlams explain the wage question, triumphantly divorcing the thing from the tariff. He utterly _ oonfounded the Hon. Smoot, the high priest of high protection and tariff monopoly. “Now John Sharp is no orator. I think it a pity that he is not the possessor of Alden Smith’s lungs, of Joe Balley’s physical corporosity, of Oscar Underwood’s sedate poise, of Gus Bacon’s dignity; but in politi- cal debate he is the master of them all. There is abfolutely no non- sense about John Sharp. He is a bundle of common sense and lucid- ity. 8o clear is hig statement that every man of ordinary intelligence can follow his reasoning. and he can say more in 100 words than the average senator can in 1,000, There 15 his strength. He never flies ex- cept at the throat. He seizes it with the grip of a glant and when he sits down the subject is exhaust- ed. He never bores the Senate, for he never rises to discuss a thing he does not know all about. When he gets up every Democrat is hopefully expectant, and all the opposition grip their chairs, for they know a shock is coming, which it certain- 1y 1s. ' “John Sharp is a scholar and a student. Nearly all the reading worth the having, is at his instant command. He reads and speaks sev- eral tongues, How I envy.him his , French? He has as keen, as delic- dous a sense of humor as Proctor Knott, or George Vest, or Zeb Vance, and can relate an anecdote with the best of them. Unfortunately his Pphysical frame is not robust and his physical health is sometimes delj. m”- s e 2o } | TIME TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE The Frank case in Atlanta has passed out of the front page of the aewspapers, for the present at least, and with murder in the first degree segistered against him Frank can 000l of in a prison cell until his Jawyers have exhausted all the nu. merous tricks, technicalities, de- vices and remedies so abundantly provided by the law to shield the . detendant in such cases. Frank is by no means a dead one yot, for it is a long road under our o THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK FLAND, FLA., AUG. vehement protestations of innocence g0 ofr nothing, for nearly all guilty, men protest their innocence. He was tried by the evidence in the case and the trial seems to have been a fair one. . These modern days are producing a horribly unique type of murderous degenerates, many of them men of good social standing, who make young girls first the victims of their unnatural lusts, and then of their fright ' by hiding their crimes with murder, and it is high time that some examples of extreme punish- ment were, being made, Southern juries are generally most careful this, and that Atlanta jury probabl found the right-verdict. . am——— That large company,of brethren here in Florida who so often fail to exercise their glorious American privilege of voting and let it pass as not even a vonial offense, are in- vited to note what Rev. A, W, Jack- son said about them in a church ad- drecs in Miami last Sunday. The good man wants them branded—not morally, but physically—if we may judge by this sentence from his speech: “I would brand every man:who does not exercise the privilege of the ballot so that every one would know that there goes a man who was recreant to his trust.” ’ We ourself strongly deprecate the failure of so many stizens to vote in our various elections, but the use of the branding iron in such cases is a step in progressiveness a little too pronounced for even our progres. sive soul. Herding the derelect vot- ers on a given day once a year in pens and putting the branding iron to them would be a cruel and bar- barous spectacle, morally demoral- izing to the large number of town kids in attendance and the penalty would be out of proportion to the offense. ——————e United States Judge Speer of Georgia is in for it, it seems, as the House judiciary committee has de- termined to thoroughly investigate the charges against him and present articles of impeachment if the evi- dence warrants that extreme meas- ure. It is .very necessary for our judges, especially the autocrats of the federal bench, to be made to un- derstand that they are just as re. sponsible for the exercise of their authority as any other class of pub- lic servants and that they can be effectively punished for misuse of their power. Judge Speer has prob- ably been arbitrary at times and’ may have played his favorites among the lawyers practicing in his court, but there must be very strong, clear evidence to convince the pub- lic that he has been cprrupt or in- tentionally unjust in the discharge of his judicial functions. — President Wilson showed himself both wise and firm right at the out- set of his administration when he checked the onrushing horde of of- fice.seekers and politely informed them that they could take their lit- tle cases to the various heads of de- partments and not bother him with them as he had much more impor- tant matters to attend to. As a result he can give his undivided at- tention to the big questions, like Mexico, the tariff and currency, for instance, and not go to bed harried and disgusted with the conflicting claims of Tom, Dick and Harry for some particular piece of postoffice ple or other federal office. Presi- dent Wilson has set some excellent precedents and this is one of the best of them. 2 Qe Sleepless nights are the black bat hovering over the couch of the civ- ilized man in this complex age, and how to cure this growing ill is by no means the least of our problems. Try thig remedy suggested by a New York paper and don’t turn it down because it is so simple: “Above all, go to bed in a pleas- ant state of mind. You need not expect to sleep if the brain is bur- dened with anxiety, worry, jealousy, regret or anything else undesirable, A clear mind, a hupeful spirit and L.an optimistic view of life are pow- erful aids to slesp as well as to di. gestion and the general bodil, health.”, —_ g1 wayastes yuf 2l I 5 i W e ——— s % The following from the Tampa Tribune of today will be interesting to the newspaper fraternity throughout the State. We congrat- ulate both parties to the deal: “Frsnk L. Huffaker, one of the best known and ablest newspaper writers in the State. has accepted a position as editorial writer and State news editor of the Jacksonville Me. tropolis and will go to his new work Sept. 1. Mr. Huffaker will find a songenial fleld for his talents under the new management of the Metrop- olis and his friends here are wish- \ng him the utmost success.” e e That sneaking and malicious 1it- tle wretch known as the typographi. calserror makes one of the most elo- quent ministers in Florida whose 26, 1913. sermon was printed in a recent 0 CRORCRBRCHORECHONHR KERBRER e daily. paper,. responsible. for the fol-. lowing startling and‘ demoralizing | proposition: “I have the fullest confidence that ‘n there i8 nothing - in :science or in | any possible resuita from investiga- u"u » ¥ i 4 y The good man ‘wrote that last word “immortality,” -but, the Fates were against him and made him sponsor for a statement that might well tickle the, hosts of the Evil tions of ‘nature against immoral- One and sorely ;rleve thg. other side. e —i— i J§ those _pnloonkaop_oi‘i in Marion ‘county were fully up to snuff. in the matter of publicity they would import that old party we read about up in Indiana who is 107 years old, spry as a cricket, ‘“‘was never sick and has a day,” been drinking whiskey all his life. They could point to him with pride, while the pros viewed him with alarm, in a whirlwind campaign through the county in . their present deadly struggle with the relentless mon. ster, Prohibition. m————— We view with unmixed regret the sad spectacle of those Canadian lawyers absorbing so much of Har. ry Thaw’s wealth when there are s0 many American l'_&wyerq of un- surpassed absorptive powers in oasy call who might distribute that same money to so much better advantage among their fellow citizens on this side the line. e (e The conference of governors of the varjous States of the Union meets in annual session in Colorado Springs, Col.,, today, and what the governor of North Carolina may pay to the governor.of South Caro- lina wiil neither point a moral nor adorn a tale, for Colorado Springs| is strictly a “dry” town. R L e The resemblance between Mul- hall and Tennyson’s. brook is grow- ing more obvious every day. ] ¥ AUGUST 26 IN HISTORY : (g0 KECHROCRAIECED LI 1804—England ordered blockade of all northern ports of France. 1829—Educators from all States met at Boston to consult on public school work through- out the couatry. 1848—Battle took place at the Cape *" of"Good Hope between the British and the Boers, ‘wmx victory for the British. 1864—Indians of six tribes reported massacreing settlers and stealing cattle in Platte Val.| ley and to be menacing Oma+’ ba and Council Bluffs. 1884—London in a panic over re- port that Queen Victoria had died suddenly. 1904—Japanese in full control of Pigeon Bay positions. Bat- tle of Liao Yang began; lasted until Sept. 4, 1912—First regular session of the Sixty-second Congress ad- journed. ] % TODAY’S BIRTHDAY HONORS < [~ [-} JOR0BA0R TR Finis James Garrett, former con. gressman from Teunessee, was born Aug. 26, 1875, near Ore Springs, Weakeley, county, Tennessee; edu. cated in the common schools and at Bethel College, McKenzie, Tenn., graduating from that institution in June, 1897, taking the degree of A. B.; was for a time engaged in teaching in the city schools of Mi- lan, Tenn.; studied law under the instruction and in the office of the late Charles M. Ewing, at Dresden, and was admitted to the bar in 1899; married in 1901 to Miss Eliz- abeth Harris Burns, of McKenzie, Tenn., was appointed master in chancery Sept. 14, 1900, and served until Jan. 24, 1905; was elected to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty- first and Sixty-second Congresses. | Your Clothes Foundation is more or less sub- stantial, accord ing to the dependabil- ity of the methods of Examining, Test- ing and Shrinking of all materials used. : EJ V Price & Co. are so particular about this that any clothes they make for you are insured lasting style and permarent shape. Why pay:the high prices of local tailors or tolerate misfit ready-made clothing. when you can buy clothes like these tailored to your individual order? - Williamson-Moore Co. . ‘FASHION SHOP FOR MEN. .- " Phone 29 Drane Building ITIS YOURMOVE NOW We move NEXT MONDAY to the room formally occupied by the EDISONIA THEATRE. You have ONLY FOUR DAYS left to attend Our Big Shoe Sale, Sale will end Saturday night, Aug. 31. ALL BHOES sold at 2§ per ! cent’ DISCOUNT. Some of the BEST BARGAINS EVER OFFERED IN LAKELAND. THIS IS A STRICTLY NEW AND UP-TO-DATE TOCK, We will be ready to take care of your shoe trade after this week at our new location off Kentucky avenue, and we will have the most complete line for you to _ehoou from that has ever been Lakeland. We will also have in the rear of our store a m to-date shoe npilrlng shop. shown in odern, up- We have employed an expert repair man and all work will be guaranteed. ' Remdmber Only Four More Days of the Present Big Sale | Toe quanty I| snoe Store Dutton-Harris Futch Geatry Baliding WHY SAFER THAN CASH Paying by checks is not only more convenient than pay. ing in cash, but it is- safe; because ig;)ggggllppt‘es risk of loss. - Your. ao¢bugt subje to check--large or small--is cordially invited,- . AMERICAN STATE J.LSKIPPER P.E gy President Cashiy J. P. McCCORQUOD The Florida Avenue Grocer 200——PHONE RED— Respectfully asks his friend8 and the poj generally to give him a call when neediy Fresh Meats, Groceries, Vegetabl HE WILL TREAT YOU RIGHT AND WILL GUARANTEE SATISFACTION ANOTHER DRO?| 40 60 60 100 150 250 MAZDA LAMPS 25 watt Mazda “ . unskirted I“ skirted “ (1) il ] We carry a stock of lamps at the following places & ourfshop: LAKE PHARMACY HENLEY & if JACKSON & WILSON Cardwell ano Feigle Jewelers and Optometrists Phone 173 Electrical and Sheet Metal Workers: PHONE 233 LUCK IN CHOOSIN! is something you dot trust to. Never buy ! baving your eyes tei done by us and it ¥ thoroughly and accun® will be nothing “chant! Wiluses any oth# taking medicine in the dangerous. & H U Lake Py For Fire Insuranct Room 7, Raymondo Bld¢