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TAFT ONJHE TARIFF. Great Political Interest In Secre tary's Position on Revision. BRYAN'S INTERWOVEN ISSUES Officeholder! Ready to Nullify Will of People on Oklahoma Conetitution. Foraker'e Stand Against the Admin istrationSays Let the People Speak For Themselves and Then Learn What They Want London Paper's View on Raid's Rising Dignity. By WILLIS J. ABBOT. Secretary Taft is making bis way to the raclfic coast with much delibera tion and a multitude of speeches. Thus far his speeches made in Columbus, O.; Lexington, Ky and Oklahoma have deHned his position on few points of comparative political novelty. In the main he bns contented himself with eulogy of Itoosevelt and with un flinching applause of the president's policies. Vet at one point be broke away, us in his Columbus speech, when be mildly opposed the president's plan for federal licenses of corporations. But perhaps the greatest political in terest has centered upon Mr. Taft's position on tiie tariff issue. The politi cal world knows that he is antagonized by the American I'rotective league ou the theory that he is a revisionist. He referred to himself l!i his Columbus Epeecli us one oft that body. Vet, con tinuing, be throw u sop to that clement in the Republican party from which it gets its campaign funds by saying that there should be no revision until after electiou. This, bus always been the position of the Republican party. It was specifically so in 1902, just before the congressional elections, but while there have been three such elections and one presidential election the tariff has beeu in no way touched, though that party lias had absolute control of the government since. If there be no way to judge the future except by the p::st the people may well believe tliat promises for reform after the election merely Indicate forgetful ness when that moment arrives. If it is worth while to revise the tariff and if It must, as Secretary Taft thinks, entail a temporary disturbance in bus. ness, why not do it in the coming Six tieth congress and let that possible effect coincide with the usual business depression that attends a presidential campuignV Foraker'e Response to the Challenge It Is not necessary to agree with Senator Fornker's views In order to have an admiration for tbe man. He Is tied neck and crop to corporation Interests. He seems to believe with sincerity that wba is done for the wealth of the coui try, however much concentrated that wealth may b. makes for the good of the whole peo ple. He serves the railroads, the trusts and the protected monopolies earnest ly and well. Vet be is not a quibbler nor a straddler. What be believes be cays, and as be believes be votes. It took courage for him to be the one Re publican to vote against the Roosevelt rate bill. Some bravery, too, was de manded when be took up the Browns ville investigation. It is easy to say eneeringly that be bad in mind some 30,000 negro voters In Ohio and the enormous power of the southern negro in carrying delegations to tbe next ua tlooul convention. Nevertheless In this particular year of political poltroonery, when practically every Republican senator or representative you meet here in Washington will denounce Roosevelt personally and officially, then "crook the pregnant binges of tbe knee where thrift may follow fawn ing," bis manly stand Is like a cool breeze on a sultry day. This is the way the Ohio senator meets the Taft equivocation on the re vision question. First declaring that be does not believe revision necessary at all and that so far as be is con cerned be wouKI not promise it either before or after the presidential elec tion, be goes on to plead that the Re publican party shall express its pur pose in plain terms. "Let the people speak," lie says, "and then we cau learn what they want. They will have a chance in 1!his. If they want a revision 'of the t.irilT they can give their com mands, and their wish will be obeyed." This is the utterance of a frank and open man if not a wise one. its weak ness is that the people will pniltably lie-given no chance to speak with defl niteuess. Tin 1 einoerals will undoubt edly put a demand for an immediate reduction ' tin- lafiil Into their plat form. The Republicans wiil just as certainly declare for revision ;uid at tempt to U:ai.e i! a;. pear that the revi sion will be downward and will lie promptly undertaken after the election. Only by studying lii.-tny and recogniz ing the fact that never Jet has the Re publican party reduced a tariff system and that diirinu more than six years of absolute power it has steadfastly refused to carry out its promises to re vise the tariff can the people wisely make up their minds. That the tariff issue will be the greatest issue for the people next year is probable. Mr. Bry an places it first amoiig his trinity of Issues the tariff, the trusts and the railroads though lie declares the three to be so inextricably interwoven as to make them of equal importance. It is worth rememliering. however, that since the civil war the Democracy has won national elections uud congres sional elections only ou the tariff point. Taft's Attack on Oklahoma. Of course Mr. Taft attacked tbe pro posed constitution which is shortly to be submitted to tbe suffrages of the people of Oklahoma and Indian Ter ritory. The eight Democratic electoral votes that that territory will cast tiu once It becomes state look very big to a Republican statesman who Is ei ther a candidate for tbe presidency himself or a stalking horse for bis master In the White House. Mr. Taft thinks that the men who adopted tbe constitution were insincere. He charges that, while it promises people's rule through tbe Initiative and referendum. It denies It through a gerrymander which would enable the Republicans to carry the state by 10,000, yet have a Democratic legislature and two Demo cratic senators. This question of ger rymandering is one about which It Is always easy to make an outcry. Bo great a traveler as Mr. Taft might have had an opportunity by now to study its operation in the Republican states of Rhode Island, Connecticut and Illinois. But it seems to me that the answer to the charge of attempted unfairness and endeavor to defeat the political will of the people of tbe two terri tories is complete wben one says that they sent to tbe convention which adopted this constitution 100 Demo crats and ten Republicans. Tbe con stitution Itself Is eulogized by every progressive student of government Its provisions for safeguarding the peo ple's rights, for conserving public lands and franchises, for the regulation of railroads und for the rule of the major ity by direct popular vote should arouse the envy of every American commonwealth. It is of course un derstandable that Mr. Taft should pre fer to have the people of these terri tories governed from Washington by the rough rider proteges of the presi dent than to give them self govern ment. Oue of these gentry, Governor Frantz of Oklahoma, said Mo me in Washington only three months ago that they were going to prevent by le gal pro.-eediugs. Injunctions atid other dilatory methods the adoption of this ! constitution or Its approval by the president and demand u new constitu tional convention. "Suppose the next constitutional con vention has even n greater porportion of Democrats than the last'?'' I asked. "It probably will have if you interfere with the desires ot the people. What then';" "Well, we have our president in the White House; we'll come up to him ngaiu." In other words, the gang of federal office-holders now governing the two territories stand ready to nullify, with aid from the administration, the ex pressed will of tbe people rather than give up their fat jobs. And. further more, it is becoming apparent that tbe fear of the electoral vote of the new state of Oklahoma In 1908 Is urging the administration on to a denial of th" right of self government to the people of the most prosperous territory of the Union. His Excellency Whitelaw Reid. There arc old fashioned people in tbe United States who have been ac customed to deplore the increasing practice of sending .multimillionaires to be our ambassadors to foreign lands, They are inclined to think, for exam ple, that George Bancroft, as minister to Germany, better represented Amer ican intellect than Charlemagne Tow er, our present embassador at Berlin. Indeed, coming to more recent times. they bold that either Lowell or I'helps carried to the court of St. James more brains and more of democratic sim plicity than tbe present incumbent. Mr. Whitelaw Iteid. Yet in this as in other things some compensation Is to be found. A friend sent me last week a copy of a London newspaper con taining a most eulogistic article upon his excellency tbe American ambas sador. Condensation 1h necessary, though the delightfully British tone of the urtlcle would well repay publi cation in full. It appears among other things that former American ambas sadors were so far beneuth the proper ambassadorial level that they actually gave attention to their own establish ments. Trobably their wives did not actually dust the furniture or answer the doorbell, but Mr. Reid Is the first whose housekeeping has been on such lavish scale that a major domo is nec essary to supervise it. Furthermore, former ambassadors were vulvar enough to permit cullers without prior appointment. Mr. Reid has risen to tiie dignity of an English ruilroad magnate who only receives liersons after mi appointment has been made by mail. Finest of all. accord Iuk to tiie I.omlou journalist, the pro vincial habit that Americans in Loudou heretofore lmve La I of Hocking to the uinlia'ador's Iioii.-c on the Fourth of July to shaL'i.' bis li :ud has 1 n cor reeled The doors of the Reid pnlncc are c'osed o:i the nation's birthday to all save llci' e w liose names have been selected iiuirr in advance and who have received a special invitation This seems dotilily si.niiiciHit to Hie London c-diior When he reflects Uji'M the fact fiat it was on tl:at sn;:ie dav that King LM ward VII. belj a t,'nrdt-ii party and moved freely among his guests, shak ing bands with all the cordiality of a Tiiinnianv leader tit a picnic. The London paper goes on to philosophize. It sees in this leveling down ou the part of King L'dwunl and this leveling upward on the part of Ambassador Reid Indications of a social evolution that will ultimately bring the leaders of the two nations, Kngland and Amer ica, npoti precisely the same plune. Lovely, doricher know! Mr. Reid In Politics. It is said to be oue of the severest tests of a political memory to recall who ran for vice president In any giv en election. Yet 18fC bus not receded I so far Into the dim past that people I may not rememlier that Mr. Reid then I accompanied Benjamin Harrison to de I feat. He was never politically popu I lar, and at that particular time the ! New York Tribune, which he owned. ! was' in the bad graces of printers all over tbe country for Its fight upon thj Typographical union. , Washington, D. C. NEWS IN BRIEF. Secretary Taft is now in the Phillippiues. Three homicide cases were for trial at Anson Snperior Court this weed. Miss Linnie Shamburger, of Hills 8 tote, is one of the teachers at the Jamestown Graded School. The Thompson Lumber Co., of Greensboro, was placed in bank ruptcy last rnday. Thos. C. McLeod, who has been telegraph opeiator at Cameron, has resigned to enter Elite High School. The Cramp Shin Building Co., of Philadelphia, will build a branch plant at Norfolk. Thiolore Wolfram, of Columbus, Ohio, has discovered au anti-toxin that is said to kill diphtheria germs in tl re - miuutee. The Lindsay Chair Company, at High l'oint, was sold last Saturday to the Ford-Johueou Company for $15,000. K. L. Crouch has been a wauled coii r,taet to build the new County Hih School at Spnngti-,.ll in Guilford county. 1) aim-list George Stimrt. l.-gan a mm its if uieti nitjs at tin- Nlaiii Street M. K.'hiiriMi at High Point Tu'i!av. 5,151.S(i2,130 cigarettes were manufactured and consumed lust year, it being an increase of 1,3CS, 595,815. Greensboro is to have a great Centennial Celebraion nest spring. A committee tif thirty is making preparations. Sample S. Brown and bis former wife, Mrs. Helen G. Brown, of Greensboro, were married in Dan ville last week. The North Georgia Electric Co. has been placed in the hands of a receiver. It operates a 50,000 horse power plant on the Chatta hoochie Iiivti. At McAdville, Pa., Henry Lehma, who confessed to robbery and three assaults on 14-year old Anna White head, was lust week sentenced to 55 )eais in the State Prison. .dr. 11. L. Com ad, of Thomas ville, was accidentally shot through the hVcliy part of both thighs one day tbe past vseek by Chief Holtou, whose pistol dropped to the floor and discharged oue of the car tridges. One mile of track for the new electric railway for High Point, which will include an inter-urbau line fiotu Gieeusboro to Thomas vilie, via Hign Point, has been com plied witniu the city limits. The Concord Wholesale Gioce y Co. registered a deJ of assjgnm"ut last Tuursday. The Southern Lo ill & Trust Co. io trustee. Ttie ludilititti are $0,500 with $4,000 at-sets. fcatiuday night, the ?th, instant, at midnight, the store of 11. A. Cameron, at Vass, was destro)cu by tire. It is thought to be of incenl diary origin. The stock was val ued at $3,000, with $1,200 insur ance. The Southern Railway Co. has ordered the number of employes in the Spencer machine shops be re duced 150. It is understood that the reduction is made to reduce operating expenses. A reunion of the Andrews fam ily was held at the home of Lee Andrews, at High Point last week. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Andrews of High Point, N. C; and C. W. Andrews, of San Antonio, Texas' were among those present. Chas. E. Letton, chief clerk in the tax collector' s oflice ut New Oilcans, is short in his accounts 107,000. lie was captured while contemplating suicide by jumping lutothe Mississippi river. He con fessed that he stole the money and spent most of it on a negro woman. MRS. PRAG DEAD. Was a Native of Montgomery ouiitv Mrs. Jane Andrews Prag died in Cam bridge, Maryland, September itli, l:'"7. Mr. Prag had lieen nick for a Ion,!; tnn. She was raised in Montgomery Cnuiitv, N. C, and was inuni d in 18(i0 or 01 t i 'i. W. Sugg, of Randolph County, und kwu aft rlLi'ir inurriuge Mr. Sugg went to :li army and was tukm sick ami died ut no -detixville, Va , and left his wife m il child with Lis parent:), Mr. and lire, M. A. S'W, An. I in IStij she n arried dipt. I. I'r:ig m Asheboro, Capt. Prag was a refugee l rom Kewlicrn. lie left there just belore (tie Yankee took Newborn, and ftfier the war they moved back to New'iern, and fnni thereto Ealtnnoie, Marylan 1, and from tlc're to ('ami ridfce, wl.ere Capt. Prag died ev -erai y lars a ;u. iim. I'rag'd only child l-y her liit hutdia'id in Ct prs E. Kugg of tlii pl ice. OUR GREAH MINERAL WEALTH. Randolph Gold Mine an Expert Opin ion as to Our Gold Mines and How to Work them. Editor The Courier: You have asked for some information about our property in Randolph county and mining in general in the state, and why there is so much work done on mineral lands and finally abandoned. To clearly answer these questions may take more of your valuable space than you can afford to give, but if the people of North Carolina appreciated the value of their mineral wealth there would be no necesiity for urgitg them to develop it. "Morth Carolina exceeds any other state in tbe Union in the tumber of its mineral species," (Bulletin 293 U. S. Geological Sur. vey);and while the bulletin treats of a small section and is rather pessuniatic on jr.tiu mining, it goes I as au explanation that the oxidized I stamp mill as as iecomm n !ed, ores found abose water level and j Norm Carolina would have had un easily worked have been the sources other failure to her credit ere tl.ii. of profit in thepast; the sulphites j Our plant will include" a 50 ton loitu.i ueiow ine water level re pure mill 0f the .Moiiadtwck type wiih expensive machinery to treat tlu-m. I all ,i,e t tpiipuient of a tir,t clues T'.ere are no custom smelters or J custom plant, samplers and conceii mills in the state and in order tojlrat.,.s The concentrator -will be recover tbe metals ores must be j treated iir-e.i.r.liu s t.i t.i.eir i-mimo,,. nipped. bniuDing and sine tins' ppetl charjres exclusive of mining cost ttbuut $16.00 per ton. Is it any surprise that mining does not pay in North Carolina? It may not be complimentery to certain persous in your state, who are engaged in'selling mines(?), but it is a fact that the development of your mineral resources has been hurt by reason of so many worthless piopertiea being "unloaded", on peisons inexperienced in mining matters. Of course, if one does not know mineral property when lie sees ic and cannot tell the difference between a prospect showing few ''colors" aud a mine, he is to a cer tain extent to blame when he swal lows the bait, h. ok sucker und all the line hs cuii gtt, wheu the sell er springs the "Ancient History attachment" and trie "old inhabi tant stoiy" on hi til. ew-rv uid ehaft has these alwajs some oue who was the last man uni when work was storified and wiil w-ir to uug--et- l -f . i'i i h- wall. -tc. lVii ni lly I htt'.e examined u number of bo-cautd mines ia X. C. Inr-l of tiiciu weie icilliiiig more !iuu the leuiains of uu old shaft, now filled witli cirt or water with no evidence of metal in sight. When you ask why work was stopped, the answer is always tne tame the wai or a falling out of owners not enough money to con tinue always Buuirlhilig plausible, but the tiling? i is very rich, plenty of ore ready to take "iir and thous ituds in it! However, yon will not, find one of tiieiu willing to put his tiru" and a few ilollard i:i it, io op-u bp thii wonderful proposition that would make bint ru-n if it were half as good as be lepiepcnied it. When x victim is lanoed, he fnends a lew thousand dollars, thru liudi he has to speiid a great deal moie to develop His prospect; that its a rule he has an ore that requires I siiieltins; iinil concentration. With i:o ttiiclter in ifan stHre aud no tiioti ev to put up a mill h - w "up asjuinst i He quKS wt'tk, disgiis'eti. und goe home with a la lac impression oMhe mineral wealth of the state and an insane desire to consign the man who sold him the mine(?) to a place we all hope to avoid. There is gold in North Carolina in paying quantities, it can be mined to a much larger extent than at present, and at a probt. It is simply a manufacturing propo- i sition, a question of producing the ' finished product at a cost that will , leave a profit. Like banking or the' cotton mill business or auy other business it requires money, brain.-; and careful management; executive , ability, a thorough knowledge of the business and competent liibor Ores thitt were worthless 25 yeai. ago will pay handsomely now. Gre tt ; improvements have been made in mining liinchinery und in aietlmds ot ore treatment. The investors in the past buvt j been iulluenced by suggestions of the many so-called miners in the state. Few if any of the miners have ever 6een a modern ore mill.; They know nothing of concentration or the cyanide process. Their expe- ; rieuce dates back 40 years to t he j t'tne of the old stamp mill that ' lost as much as it made and of en j more. The experience of tb'se men is largely confined to the pan, yet they pose as experts. Thev J know lit'.le of rr ck formation and how to break ground to any advan-' tage. ; These ondituns nave caused; many failures but they do Lot af-; feet the real mineral wealth of your ; state. You caimot expect outsid- ' capital to develop tiiis as long a your citizens look npoti the invts'nr' as legitimate prey. I have often j beard It remarked tlwt North C -.' I ia could not whip tne Yanko-,! l ot. it. cnnld sell thrni "cold n : s". H UioU utiaLia tu uiiu ' hi.iu bucks . Now, as a Southerner, I am ashamed of such sentiment. I be lieve your paper can prevent much of this practice, but it will require moral courage. In regard to the Spoon Mine, which we own, our prospect work has been thoroughly satisfactory. We found what we expected to find; the ore is free, milling with emu ' paratively small veins, but very rich weaisonave a very large vein m low grade ore which we have had tested both by mill runs and chem ical analysis and find nothing to prevent economical treatment. It's not our inteutiou to do anv further work until o"r custom mill is completed. This mill will be cimaneuced at CI ar.otte within tbe next month. At Charlotte we have two well developed mine e worked these mines two veirs before deciding what uiachiuery would best suit our ores and those of the sit which e might be called up- on to treat. H id we adonted th sition by the cyanide or cblorniu tion process, while the tailings will be cyanided. When completed we will be pre pared to treat gold ores at a small ! cost. The man who takes ore there will get its value less the milling charges. i In conclusion will say, unless one i is prepared to develop his propety i berore returns are expected, he should not try to mine. One should j remember, "It takes a mine to makej a mine"; that more attention should , be paid to what is below the surface and less to what is shown in the pan; that no actual development should be undertaken without first getting the opiuiou and report of a mining engineer. A prospective luvcsluf should Ue like liie- ma . from Missouri. "Show me", is wbati he must s.iy. The. imtjonry of individuals in jour s ute who are selling hiines(: i leuiiud us of Uoucbefocuuld's max : i in in which he says, "There is something in the misfortune of our: friend that dues not exactly displease' us". Help eliminate these and you will have a more healthy condition in your mineral industry. Very truly, W. H. Chandler. N. P. COX, Jewe er Asheboro. N. C. GROCERIES and NOTIONS. FuU line of Staple and Fancy Gro ceries, tin ware, table ware and crockery always on hand. Your patronage solicited and appreciated. A. J. Depot Street. LUCK. Asheboro, K. C. SAGWA The Great Cleanser Blood Puriier. and I'HKIMUATIOX CO- mr. i-'oi uiwivti IMiltKIHKVrs. ii- illii, l"rt Uly ( tieii- J. T. INDZR'AOOH. M' Fall term opens Sept. 3, l7. Ideal location, 7-'"" " ' : n iti r"-"1 ' " 1 '"i" or dvantacea to boy, and girts of the South. Splendid (acuity. Equipment enlarged and iwprovad 4 Expenses moderate. New firti' dormitory, welt equipped and furnished. 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