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Jaft Recants Formet ^ate-
ments in Authorized Intetview
yew York. Dec. 1.—In the current
li(je of The Outlook there appears
IS article entitled “President Taft’s
Own View An Authorized Interview,”
1- v-ich lilt* president discusses cur-
laws for four years, had presumably
learned the ins and outs of that busi
ness; and Howard I regarded as the
ablest southern representative in con
gress in nay day. These men made no
pretense of being tarift experts; they
employ all the expert help they need
‘‘I fully realize, and I wish our peo
ple would that the present prosperity
of the treasury is due in no small
measure to the existing tariff, which,
notwithstanding all its faults, is a rev-
enue-producer. There is a good deal
more that can be said for that act.
r»ct topi-- an Inten'iewer, as
In part:
of the tariff issue, Mr.
could begin your ad-
Bj-ni^hHtion apaln. would y’ou repeat
p - V ir.ona speech tomorrow?” the
iu'i asked.
In phra."eoligy. no; in effect, yes.
R j I as much as I do now, I
iboiilj have realized that there are It gave us a maximum and minimum
mnp thincs one cannot leave to be' tariff provise which I deem of the
for granted. I dictated that]highest importance, and which tended
ji a stenographer on the cars, to increase our foreign trade substan
horv. ' tatlons, and glanced through i tially. It gave us free trade with the
it r,r:'\ (»noiiph to straighten it’s gram-
mr i' w i^ent out the press
f': ■ -p.ondingly little ceremony,
if» '^ar ;>ai)ers received it in all sorts
•''^;aPe!l If I had prepared it two
j. woek8 bofore and revised it
if. . as 1 ought to have done,
! ',i liave clarified several pas-
u. Anil, parii‘ularly, I should have
. sentence where I proclaim
r.viip Tariff .\ct the best ever
The fomparatlve would have
.ipsfription than the
' i fnr,
ii‘ t -till contains less to
• i1 fhiMi Its |)redecess)rs, and
• ' p whole revise the existing
downward.
■ ffii'.t to find with either
' “ >8 insurgents for trying to
rliifi*‘s they chose; what
' ’ (listurl)lii:; the liusiness
’!> t .’.ay when there is
ir/'f tl’;>n guesswork to pro-
;ui(l then disturbing it
>' ' \ mon hs later when the
'= "'^'le ln*'Tormation is before
' ' ^ !'r • ii in In the charge of in-
II a^-aiii ; the denirK-rats for
oti ^inir with l.a Follette on the
■ 'I'll 'iistead of standing by
•• nv fl8:\urv. If they could not
'1 : p rpd\iction they asked for,
q„(tp justified in taking
'■ ':i* 2Pt. My chief critl-
’’ ■ on :..-lr taritT activities last ses-
*’ '* tb'-y were willing to
’ ■ I - it icin so crude and ill
fhf>y must have known.
iHfi pniiK,.,'! to think, that I
*0.:
stt&ce that th« itme persont who hall
m«, aft«r one application of equal jus
tice, as a far-seeing conservative pa
triot, denounce me aftvr the next as an
unreasoning radical, d6es not greatly
disturb iny equanimity. I set that
down as 'all in a day’« work.'
“I atn very grattful for the honors
the people have given me. I do not
affect to deny the satisfaction I should
feel if, after casting up the totals pro
and con, and .striking.a balance, they
should decide that my first term had
been fruitful enough of good to war
rant their enlisting m« f(Mr another.
Any man would be proud of such a
verdict. But I have not been willing,
nor shall I be, to purchase it at the
sacrifice of my freedom to do my
duty as I see it. My happiness is not
dap«nd«nt on holding any office; and
I shall go back to private life with
not heartburnings if the people, after
an unprejudiced review of my admin
istration, conclude that some one else
can serve them to their greater advan-
tage.'^
PfiESIDENT COON
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Philippines, which has made the is
lands more prosperous than ever in
their history, 'without Injury to any
American industry. It gave authority
that I used to create and appoint a
tariff board, which, though not the
commission I sought, is doing a most
useful work: and it imposed a corpo
ration tax, on which I had set my
heart, but which at times I despaired i
of getting through,”
“Now that you have launched vour
project for. a constitutional amend-
whatever its short- ment, you probably have in mind some
particular form of general income tax
to recomuieud to congress when it is
free to act?
“In a way, yes. I believe, on princi
ple, in a general Income tax. The
only good arguments against it are
that it is inquisitorial, and that it of
fers a temptation to perjury. B»it I
wotild not resort to the ordinary in
come tax except in an emergency like
war, w’hen I would have it graduated,
so that those citizens who had most
at stake should bear a correspondingly
large share of the burden of the com
mon defense. In time of peace I
would avoid temptation to perjury and
wcHild confine the government to taxes
that CO not involve such inquisitorial
methods in their collection.”
“Mr. President, I suppose you have
noticed Mr. Bryan’s comments on your
appointment of Chief .lustice White?”
“AH* that I have to say about my
judicial appointments in that I have
regarded my duty in respect to them
as the most sacred with which I am
charged, and that I have spared no
effort to secure for the supreme court
and other courts the best men I could
g€^, w’ith the fullest appreciation of
the fact that the federal courts, and
especially the supreme court, consti
tute the chief bulwark of the Institu
tions of civil liberty, created by the
constitution.”
“Now, Mr. President, something of
the future. What do you purpose
treating as your ‘calendar of unfinish
ed business’ for the rest of your term?”
“In the domestic field, I suppose re
ductions In the woollen and cotton
schedules, and possibly In the metaj
schedule of the tariff, will go to the
top of the calendar. These will be
founded, as far as my recommenda
tions are concerned, on the report of
the tariff board. I have heard it Insin
uated that congress will not heed the
suggestions of an executive board. As
to that I have no means of judging in
advance. What I shall do Is to put the
whole thing up to congress, and leave
the members to settle with their con
stituents If they prefer not to act. In
the house the democratic majority
have always professed themselves
ready to accept any reductions they
can get, and I am going to take them
at their word in good faith. Where
the Insurgents will stand I am not
prophet enough even to surmise.
“For another thing, we ought to ob
tain some legislation which will enable
Alaska to develop without Infringing
on our board policy of conservation.
Then there Is the question of ratify
ing the peace treaties with England
and France, and the fiscal treaties
with Honduras and Nicaragua, which
in their way are peace treaties also,
as their purpose is to removeVone of
the most prolific causes of war.”
“I assume that you know that it has
been widely hinted that your tour was
the opening of your Campaign for re-
election?”
“Certainly, as is the case with all
administrations, much of what I hav«
done since I have been in office has
had some political color put upon It
by those who were incllwed to be crit
ical. The truth is, however, that po
litical considerations have not weigh
ed heavily with m«. I have tried to
do in each case what seemed to me
the wisest thing, regardleaa of its
effect upon my Own future. Indeed#
in more than one instance I have been
■’ U'ly approve It.”
! riff reduction programme
■ ■ h" 1 y that it will bring
■r i ^ponding redtiction in
I'vini;?''
' lat that effect is greatly
'fpfl. .My chief objection to
ly high tariff is that It
monopoly. It holds forth a
^ rnptHMon to the formation
1. which often are more
' ■' ,8ive to the consumer
•'T Prpsidt.it, there is your tariff
■r' V‘ii h -ve been sharply crltl-
'n- niHt-lnr It ui) of men who are
f ■ Pfrtj.,-
\ 1 t'vit ic finp; they are not. If
„ . n .;'iw)inting a board of tariff
rith 1 - h^ve got along
ip ‘V n twenty-five, in order to
erf \vk ' ’ ^»'anches of the sub-
I unrlertook to do wa.? to
'"=■ 'fl of trnined investlga-
nianaging a thorough
^ of production and of
4irV *"~ First, Mr.
irj,.- tr> friends in leading
ji-. / . • ' •'IniT each to give me
j,,' , pooTK'niists considered by
' I pprd for the task in
Kmery’s name was
find at the top of half
I 111'1p him chairman of
• ' r.mer, from the Uni-
Sanders is an au-
'tiire, Reynolds, in
' enforcing the tariff
Charlotte News
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dead.perfectly conscious that bad .blood
use always ifwould be stirred by some act of min«
or some refusal to act. The circuni’
Special to Tne News.
Raleigh, N. €., Dec. 1.—President
Charles L». Coon, of the North Car
olina Teatcher’s Assembly stirred
a sensation last night among the edu
cational forces of the state with his
annual address in which, as he ex
pressed it, he undertook to "tell the
rude truth” about the educational
situation in this state. He was not
allowed to conclude, a coterie of
men led by a county superintend
ent clapping their hands whenever be
attempted to continue.
“If we cannot endure honest criti
cism from within and without our
profession, then we need to be born
again and that speedily,” Mr. Coon
had declared. The teachers and leg
islators of North Carolina were rep
resented as having put on the state
a multi-colored and unharmonlous
patchwork as an educational gar
ment of divorce and discordant ele
ments. Some of the most glaring
patches w^ere legislative or politi
cal appointments of county school
boards who have power to select
almost any sort of person for county
superintendent and he undertakes to
supervise something about which he
scarcely know's the first principles
and is totally unfit for. There are
tw'o hundred different i^andards for
entrance upon teaching. A teacher
thought to be worthy of a monument
in Durham may be declared unlit to
teach In Asheville; teaching children
may be considered a private business
in this state but doctoring pigs and
cows and horses is not, declared
President Coon. The department ol
education rules that a teacher can
be required to teach sixty-five chil
dren before state aid can be invoked
in a changing to a two teacher school
and in over half the counties such
conditions exist. There is no effi
cient method of making new teacii-
ers; average salaries now are w'ortb
no more to the • teacher than ten
years age; conditions are a constant
invitation for the best teachers to
leave the profession.
President Coon ridiculed the farm-
life school movement, saying that
the one county in that state that
had undertaken It undOT- state aid
scheme has now only ninety days
school terms and the property of
the proposed farm life school would
be rediculously near the value of tne
whole publio school property of the
country and Its salary schedule half
that of the country schools. Shall
we have blacksmlth-life high schools,
carpenter life high chools and fisher
man life high schools “More and
more educational patches. Ttie mul
tiplication of small local tax districts
without system as a,glaring multitude
of patches. He declared that it will
take a Saul and a small revolution
to remake these educational failures
into anything like a harmonious sys
tem whose parts do not work against
each other.”
The average pay of $198.40 per
year for the public school teacher
was ridiculed. The high school sys
tem, the township system and local
tax district system tend to make a
by-word and jest of that part of the
constitution that requires a uniform
system of schools.
Mr. Coon outlined a constructive
educational policy he advocated. The
teacher’s assembly should be made
a delegated body from the smaller
organizations of teachers. There
should be a state educational com-
mislon of eight members appointed
by the governor on recommendation
of the teacher’s assembly that should
control the licensing of all the pub
lic school teachers and control the
courses of study, selection of text
books, licensing and supervision Of
teachers and have a continuous pro
fessional body, townships for schools
should be re-constructed to afford
a seven grade central school for
each with subordinate elementary
schools with minimum four months’
term and longer terms for the central
schools; special tax districts should
be gradually absorbed into a unified
system of taxation, the amount or
state aid to be dependent on local
effort on the townships.
At this point the interruption came
and Mr. Coon was forced to take his
seat. Governor Kitchin in introducing
Champ Clark the next speaker, took
occasion to compliment the spsaker,
and severely criticised the disturbers.
Champ Clark’s-speech was concern
ing the United States In the 20th
centur^;^. In the course of his address
be gave America credit for the Ut)
republics which now exist and among
other things expressed the hope that
the Filipinos would never become
American citizens.
Morning Session.
Following the Thanksgiving serv
ice in the morning by the North
Carolina teacher’s assembly, en
masse, in the auditorium the'’several
divisions of the organizations met
separately and took up matters per
taining to their particular phase of
tha work of teaching. Tha division
of primary teachers developed the
largest attendance and quickly
overran the city court room that
had been; set aside for their use.
Firsl they heard a paper by Miss
li^ldren of Maryland, expert primary
teacher, on educational and profes-
tional Qualifications of the primary
About 200 pieces beautiful Linen and Rennaiss ^nce
P eces, Squares, Round and 40-inch Scarfs,
values $1.50 to $5.00, but they are divided in 3
lots $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 each
One lot ladies’ and men’s slippers, leather soles,
wool fleece and terry-lined, values to $1.00, but
choice of lot 65c pair
Fitted Work Boxes for children ,
10c, 5c and 50c each
Hand-made Satin Pin Cushions, all colors
50c, 75c and $1.00 each
Best values in Bradley Mufflers ever shown for
50c each
A beautiful assortment of evening Hand-Bags.
One big lot of men’s fine all linen Handkerchiefs,
no values ever shown like the 3 lots at
^ 15c, 25c and 35c each
Easy choosing in our Ladies’ Handkerchief De
partment as the variety is great and values un-
matchab!e.
one tot Bath Robe Blankets, assorted colors and
figures with tassels to match
$1.75, $2.50 and $3.50 each
Complete line of pretty Neckwear in the new
Jabot effects, many styles to select from.
Liles-Nix Co.,
Charlotte’s Authority on Women’s Wear.
' Phone 776 777
teachers and the . requirements in|or refusing the suit of Dr. Charles R.
other states and countries for admis- Brooks, a Detroit dentist who seeks
Blon to this work. Following this ' to remove the body of his wife from a
there was a general and spirited I grave in the cemetery plot of her fath-
discusslon of these, requirements as ^r. Robert Raddon, a Windsor busi-
they might be made, to apply in ness man and father of the late Mrs.
North Carolina and contrasted with Brooks, is the defendant,
present conditions. Miss Etta Spier, j Under the Canadian law a human
of the State Normal and Industrial body Is not considered property. To
college presented a paper on The ’ directly evade the technical point
Cirtificatlon of Primary Teachers and Brooks is suing for the recovery of the
legislation that might benefit con- casket. He claims the law prohibits
dltlons In this state. This matter tj^e removal of the body inasmuch as
was further discussed by President fails to recognize the corpse as
C. W. Wilson of the- eastern Caro- goniething of real substance.
lina Teachers’ Training school. This i
afternoon there was a discussion or. Death of Judge J. W. Marshall,
language teachers In the primary Mr, W. E. Price received notice Wed-
grades led by Miss Janet -McKlnzie nesday of the death of his imcle. Judge
of the Greensboro public schools with j. w. Marshall, of Newcastle, Va., who
further discussion by Miss Pearl died Monday. Mr. Price was expecting
Cross, of the Raleigh public schools Judge Marshall to visit him Tuesday
and Miss Fulghum, of the Chalep but he did not make his appearapce.
Hill public schools. Miss Lily Jones, He hejird nothing of the matter until
of the Durham schools, led a discus- he heard Wednesday of his death,
sion of “Spelling in the Primary, Judge Marshal was one of the most
Grades.” , widely known men in the state of Vir-
In the division of gramar grade ginla and had many friends all oy^er
teachers this forenoon there were this state. He was well know'n m this
discusions of qualifications for gram-^ city,
mar grade teachers led by Miss ‘
I^llie Armfield, of Statesville; five
year course of studies tor grammar
grade teachers, by Miss Marion Stev
ens, of Goldsboro school; and cirtltt-
catlon of grammar grade teachers,
by Supt. D. F. Giles, of McDowell
county schools.
For the division of school principals
this evening there w'ere discussions
of practical w'ays of developing
school spirit, by Supt. A. Vermont,
of the Sniithfield schools; teaching
hygiene and study of public phi^sical
condition, led by C. H. Jenkins, of
Durham schools. w
The division of city suplftntend-
ents and principals discussed qualifi
cations of principals the paper bemg
by R. U Latham, of Winston-Salem
and the discussion" led by Chas. L.
Coon, president of the assembly.
There was consideration of “Certifi
cation of Superintendents and princi
pals,” “High school courses of study”
and “Provision for Individual Differ
ences of High School Organization”
led by R. J. Tighe, Ashvllle; J. A.
liattheson, Greensboro, E. C. Brooks
and others.
Read the Little Classified Ads.
in Today’s NEWS
The STOMACH not always the. STOMACH
^Wn«t you fear is stomach trouble” it often due to other organs* and
^^^^oenct purely stomach remedies have done you ao good.
The Reason Whv
AllX
GEORGIA DAY AT LAND SHOW.
Chicago. Dec. 1.—Yesterday w'as
Georgia Day at the Chicago Land
Show. Every caller at the state’s
booth was given a handful of pecans
and a Georgia badge.
WHAT IS A HUMAN BODY?
By Associated Press. •
Windsor, Ont., Dec. 1.—“Wliat is a
human body?”, is the question which
the high court of Essex county has
been asked to solve and which it
expects to determine soon when It
hands down a decision either allowing
The highest point of woman’s hap-^
piness is reached only through motn-
erhood, in the clasping of her child
within her arms. Yet the niother-to-
bc is often fearful of nature’s ordeal
and shrinks from the suffering inci*
dent to its consummation. But for
nature’s ills and discomforts nattire
provides remedies, and in Mother’s
Friend is to be found a medicine of
great value to every expectant mother.
It is an oily emulsion for external
application, composed of ingredients
which act with beneficial and sooth
ing effect on those portions of the
system iiTvolved It is intended to
prepare the system for the crisis, and
thus relieve, in great part, the suffer
ing through which the mother usually
pa^s. The regular use of Mother’s
Friend will repay any mother in the
pomfort it affords before, and the help
ful restoration to health and strength
it brings about after baby comes.
Mother’s Friend
is for sale at
drug stores.
Write for our
free book for
expectant moth
ers which containvS much valuable
information, and many suggestions
of a helpful nnture.
no A nhFin REGULATOIt Cft. ^
save;.* CHIUO TROM DEATH.
“Alter our v;n«a nad suffered from
severe bronchial trouble for a year,”
wrote G. T. Richardson, of Richard
son’s Mills, Ala., “we feared it had con
sumption. It had a bad cough all the
time. Wa tried many remedies without
avail, and doctor's medicine seemed as
useless. Finally we tried Dr. King’s
Now Discovery, and are pleased to
say that one bottle efiectea a complete
cure, and our child is again strong and
healthy. Finally we tried Dr. King’s
New Discovery, aid the pleased to say
that one bottle efiected a complete
cure, and our child is again strong
and healthy.” For coughs, colds, hoarse
nes§, lagrippe, asthma, croup and sore
lungs Its the most Infallible remedj-
that’s made. Price 50c. and $1.00. Trial
bottle free. Guaranteed by W. L. Hand
ic Co.
cures all sorts of indigestion troubles Is
it treats the whole digestive process—not merely
the Stomach. It is preparea by a regular physU
ctan of very high standing in Europe.
A spoonful in water after meals has cured the most baffling and distressing cases of dyspepsia*
Aak any Druggist.
• E. FOUGERA & CO^ Agents U. S., New York
ACADEMY
Saturday, Dec. 2nd
Matinee and Night
New York Lyceum Theatre Success
THE
THIEF
By Henri Benstein,
Prices, Matinee ........25c, 50c, 75c
Night 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50
Seats on sale today at Hawley’s.
For Rent
1 brick store on Graham St. Ex
tension.
1 seven-room house on South A.
St.
1 six-room house on East Liberty
St
1 slx«room house on East Stone-
waU St.
1 five-room house on West 12th
St., with all modern conven
iences.
C.Mc Nelis
No, pz East 4th St
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