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FUDJOSmN avNI THUnSDAY MORNIN. --BY Tho Sentinol-ournal Company, TPOMPSON & RIOnBr. PoPh. J. L. 0. TifOMPSON, EDiTon. Subscription $1.00 Per Annum. Advertising Rates Reasonable. Entered at Plokeni FstofMOe &I Second 0lass Mail Matter PICKENS9 , . t. THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1907. SCHMITZ'S SFNTENCE. Schmitz, former mayor of San Francisco, Cal., was sentenced yester. day to five years imprisonment in the. penitentiary for extortion, of which he was convicted some time ago. Before passing the sentence the judge, like all judges are prone to do, undertook to lecture the noted crimi. nal, who objected to wordy castipa tion. He informed the judge that he was there to receive sentence at his hands not to be humiliated by a lec ture for the delectation of newspaper readers. But Semitz's protest had no effect upon Ihe judge, who was evi dently determined that his blistering lecture should not be put on cold storage. t is needless to say that, being a judge, he had his way, and and the wretched criminal was abso lutely at his mercy, which, unlike Portia's description of it, was very much "strained." While we are of the opinion -that Schmitz, so far as his sentence goes, received no more than his crime de monded, we cannot help sympathizing with him in his protest agains his un warranted lecture in which the pre siding judge indulged, who clearly took an unfair advantage of an abso lutely helpless man for the purpose of tickling the ears of the groundhng and winning their applause. The whole performance was contempt ble and cowardly. The jury had found the man guilty of the crime cbarged; and the court was simply required to impose the sentence. But not content to do tnis alone, the judge took ad vantage of his office and the helpless ness of the prisoner to make use of villifying cpit hets which served none of the ends cf justice. We have alway questioned the pro priety and good taste of those judges who are given to offer moral proven der to a prisoner before passing sen tence on him. We doubt if these lec tures make the least impression on those whom they are intended to af fect. Usually the criminal's attituide of mind on the occasion of the lecture from the judge is one of resentmuent, not because of the sentence about to be imposed, but on account of the judge's gall in prefacing it with a long-winded moral discourse.-Co. lumbia Record. Ben Tillman as a Lecturer. , Tillman, like Dixon, is more con cerned with making money out of the negro question, by playing upon the passions which arise from it, than iglending his help tc those who try to bring calmness and wisdom to making the situation easier. Indeed, it is an interesting speculation whether public men whose livelihood comes from the lecture platform are not open. fairly to the suspicion that their expressions of political opinion are influenced by shrewd considernm tions as to wvhat will make their oc cupations more remunerative. Is it not possible that Tillmnan stirs the fire and brimstone for his senate speeches with a mind alert to the lec ture bureau mnanagere?" And in cast ing his vte may not his motivos be mixed b, the same consideration? The South Carolina senator lectured recently in Parkersburg, W. Va. The State Journal the following day delivered a judgment of him which, though strong and outspoken, is con caived obviously in a spirit of consci e..,Los nwish to b fair.. V bo. How we vo'ic 1,th rI 0 Val W* m~wnt agig k will uMy a aan be i ited to 'eliVer a leetIte hore, and thti a reAued hone wodlp, not think of receiviig him as a guts . He may have a better side, but tOB jndke him as he made himself known f from the platform, it woald not be un1just to aver that his swaggering manter and hie language denote the bully and vuilgst upstart. If onc were called upon without knQwledg' of his identity to'size him up after I listening to his bombastic tirade, the verdict would probably be that he was a half-educated, ill-bred country lawyer who prides himself onbeing the cock-of-the-walk in his own small I community. His argument on the race questien was for the most part a rehash of newspaper and rogaziue articles on the subject thirtV years ago, replete with putburste of viciopp, hate incredible. The presence of culI tivated ladies and young girls who formed half of his large audience was no restraint to his profanity and. obscenity, the latter being of tb6 most shocking type. "It is to be regretted that the cause of the states for whom he pretenda to speak could not be represented before the public, if thought best, by some one of character and standing, I fair-minded; able and consclentious,as he would be gilen an earnest wel come and a sympathetic hearing in all sections The people at large fully understand the grave problem con fronting these states involving 'the well-being of the whole country and are willing to hold out a helping hand to them, but plead with them for-the sake of decency, for the sake of juste, for .the aske of -ighteowus ness, to-r26ie Atlman fom he field." This estimate by a comparatively small local newspaper, formed from a merely pasing glimpse, coincides roughly with the opinions of many men at Washington who have had for years the opportunity of observ ing Tillman closely. However near to accurate the State Journal's esti mate, this independence of judgment is refreshing to find in the newspa per of a small interior city. Tbis virility, and the poise which remains unconfused by senatorial glamour, or by the fact that this is a lecturer who comes from a bigger world out side, if multiplied by as many papers of equal rank as there are in the United States, would make, in the clash and debate of opposed jude ments, a fine residuum of sound opinion for the solution of this coun try's problems, and for the final de termination of the real stature of its statesmen and its near -tatesmen. -[Collier's Weekly. The President's Free Ticket. "I return the free ticket which Mr Gittings bas-dlirected to be forwarded to me for the Northern Central Rail road with as many thamnks for his kindness as though I had accepted it. It has been the practice of my life not to travel free on any railroad, being opposed to the whole syate-. of granting such privileges to any in dividal not conn'eoted with these roads.''" So wrote the president of the United States, and, knowing the character of the man as we do, it is not surprising that he should have in this manly.-and inoffensive way acknowledged the courtesy extended to him. It was greatly to his credit that he could decline the ticket sent to him without giving offense to the rauilroad president who wishel to pay him a compliment, and without ad vertising the fact that he had justified the public confidence in him h.'y avoiding the appearahoe of evil. The incident noted bore occurred forty-eight years ago. .and the presi (dent of the United States who was so careful of his personal and official conduct was James Buchanan. Hlad hie lived in these strenuous times and acted after t~he manner of his latest successor, he would have traveled by special train at the expense of the railroad companies, or he would have paid his passage out of a special appropriation unlawfully made by congress.-[Charleston News and Courier, WHAT A NEWV JE~tSEV EDITOR SAYS. M. T. Lynch, Editor of the Phillips burg, N. J., Daily Post, writes: "I have used many kinds of medicines for colds and coughs in my family bat never any-t thing so good as Foley's Honey and Tar E I cannot say too much in favor of it." Thte South andIateb. 4k for the rdiotimuon pk6 lo w es is on id nearly evp utheistate. The' decilion Id. tie orth Carolina case will not neoqa arili settle all others, for conditions re not precisely the same in -all the itates. A rate reasonable in' soine tates would be cot fiscatory in others Taking the entire SouthJ, the see ion has a population of 24,181,467 md 6O0608 miles of road-862 in iabitantes to a mile of roard. The qorth Atlantic states have 81,046,695 alhabitants and 89,324 miles of rail oad - .585 inhabitants to a mile of 'oad. One mile of road in the North Ltlantio states has the business of 8. per cent. more people to support it han one mile of road in the South. )N this account the railroads of the .qorth Atlantic states carry passen (augers at from two to three cents a nile, while the railroads of the South harge three cents. Whether they can stand a reduc ion to two and a quarter cents per nile is a question. Government re orts do not show the earnings and 1xpenses by groups of states. The eduction amounts to a cut of one ourth. The anti-railroad agitration which, vheu taken up ty the federal gov irument, became more active in iearly all the states, will check rail !md builing in ;al .ection. This wili be mnore snanifestpn the South ,han in Most parts of the country, :ecause the railroads there, to a con ;iderable extent, have discountud uture requirements in rairoad con ftructiou and because the. agitation lor cheaper passenger fares is more aearly universal in the South than elsewhere. To a great extent this is a play of tho politicians. The mtsses of the p)eople are little benefited by cheape:r ?assenger fares, Geuerallv speak ng, those who travel are able to pay 'or it and the saving derived from egislation of this kind will benefit the 'ich ten times as much as ,hoe pour. l'he benefits from freight reduwtion wuild be diflused among all, but this would not fournish politicians with .'ppie tunitims for grand-stand play s. lie poor muan who would ride one hundred miles a vear on a railroad -a see that 1 reduction from three tLo two aid a quarter cents per mile would save him .the magnificent som of seventy-five cents, and he ioes not kuw that the average fam ily of five is paying $100 a year freight. Thme bills are not presened to him. They are paid by the mer abant and, with an additional sum for profit, are charged op by him 00 the goods l he sells.- [ N. Y. Corn mnercial. IOET3li10EUwTAR her cheldrenr aafe, aure. JNo opaatea )ver-Work Weakens Your Kidneys. Unhealhy kidneys Make Impure Blood. 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