The sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1906-1909, August 15, 1907, Image 4
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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
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Your Kidneys.
Unhealhy kidneys Make Impure Blood.
All the blood in your body passes through1
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/ The kidneys are your
.blood purifiers, they fil
-..) ter out the waste or
- impurities in the blood.
If they are sick or out
of order, they fail to do
'.1W their work.
Pains, achesand rheu
mnatism come from ix
cess of uric acid in the
--- blood, due to neglected
kidney trouble.
Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady
heart beats, and makes one feel as though
they had heart trouble, because the hcart is
over-working in pumping thick, kidney
poisoned blood through veins and arteries.
It used to be considered that only urinary
troubles were to be traced to the kidneys,
but now modern science proves that nearly
all constitutional diseases have their begin
ang in kidney trouble.
if you are sick you can make no mistake
>y first doctoring your kidneys. The mild
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