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lake the Tariff Out ot Politics • BY JOHN \V. KI'RFEKS.) The situation today through vat the I'nited States, from a • diticai standpoint, is indeed an .-.toresting one. Politicians of j tie different schools are seeking -antage ground all along the tjr.e. Ho'.v many of these have at L . .'art the real good of thei c nintrv, regardless of their own ■v el fa re. the Lord oulv knows. That we must have some Kind .: political government, and that -ie people the real peopie enould manage and control mat government, goes without sav ig, but to convince the people i mat the politicians and not them- b s- lves are running the govern-; iient seems hard to do. !i One faculty of professors from j| one political school, bearing the i rame of one political party, gets i hold of the reins of government, i i roclaiming that they are the, champions and everlasting guar- i uians of the people's rights. A ] little over half the people applaud i this proclanation and rejoice that i their "side" has again "got in." ut before the victors are hardly well seated, those who are "our" begin to lay plans to again get n." The people, did I say.' \'i, no: not the people; the poli-p t.-uans. The people are never They are always "out. says ne. do you mean to npiy that the people should all • in 'die V No, Ido n : mean - c tistable to President, be mtr.v ar-> ffhvu in this way. ? then, and not until then, will it ■•2 a real people's government. i 7he people should not only select j mose who till these offices, but i m.ey should have a stipulated i a tract with them, let the office t -large (»r small, and have the 1 f. wer t" "swap horses in the t ;i i'iie of the stream" if con- \ •■. is t> vk m. A;• uitical plat- « * :-.s »• i.-h doormen's are us- t • cai. i. is nothing lit a , • p.ra ■ ' •tm ■p' ode and ■, * .at p »|».. a' g iverament has ; ~. most cases no m >ro than ; \ . \ . n i:i .it ; sition they ha-. . .creto ' . nderstanbing w.ui tu;.» tnat , • • rtain duties an? to 1#? pc-r? >rm •; i. How long do they keep such man il' he begins to fall short of, their requirements? His resigna tion is at once demanded and no time lost in finding a man who will do their bidding. If such a policy is good business for the j firm or corporation, it certainly J would be for the people in run- 1 ning their government. If not, : why not? But notwithstanding the soundness of the foregoing reasoning which no on can quest ion, the people continue to follow blindly and, no matter what the wording of the platform or what the general understanding of the people was, the off'iciai, j after being safely landed in his job, begins to take dictation from the "powers that be," viz; "the favored few" or the "invisible government." The "molasses has served its purpose, the "Mies" have been caught, and those who hold the oll'ices have nothing more to fear till election time again rolls round. The national government is to- ; day controlled by the Democratic ' party. I'nlike former adminis- 1 trations of its own or the opposi tion party, it has with a few ex- , ceptions, endeavored to carry out its platform pledges. \\ hether or not their program is best for the 1 country is open for discussion. ( but the fact that they are keep- , ing faith with their promise to r the people should be placed to t their credit. I Two political partes, viz: Deni- 1 ocratic and Republican, have j had control, either one or the other, of this government, for s over a half century. Republican t party has been in control the greater part of the time, .lust 1 two cardinal principles tone each i c have been the greatest asset of these political parties for more . than -in vears. ; ; IHI: TAKIIT ISSI'K. ' The Republican party has stood j for a high prop ctivo tariff'on the ( one 'nana. d the Democratic . party has sto.> 1 lor tree traue or 1 tariff" for re enuo only on the • •. Hius thev have Ik m ar- ; ! I ; • r.crst eacn other :n a.- i r. >* .mtpMgn s.rc« t.:? P. i-n't ;• ; .-sing , • tra ■ 'ma* ffu-.-bigent . i .. • v.- me!"cans would wrangio 1 ,» tning '.tie til at i r > • . t.g an*: ' 'er get ii settled . >» nen .' Re; .ih cans make a tan:':. , th? :c school of politicians declare it the "best ever written." and i when the Democrats make one, t we hear the same glad ?» tiff- 1 ings front their side. And so it * goes: the people doing the danc- j ing but paving dear for the mus- r ic. I read with interest President ' Wils iit's speech delivered some time ago at Indianapolis. From j his standpoint, it was a great \ speech. However, just one sen- 1 tence in that speech impressed me mere than all the rest. It ' ( was this: "The Republican parry hasn't had a new idea in j. ffi years." If he had jr.st added \ one m re sentence ami said: i "Net.'.-.or has the Democratic 1 : u ?y. ' it would have been tine. J ii: hi i not mean that no mem c ber of the Republican parrv had . ■ r a ivau t anew idea. He !:n men like LsFoil-.tto, Cuntmings, Borah, Beveridge, 1 Ro-.s -•.••.•it ard others Layo been 1 forging to the front with r.ow I ideas for several years, but his , assertion that the party, as a 1 party, hud not had a now idea in CO vt ars, was unmistakably true, as evidence the wonderful activi ty of the real bosses to trot out i the same old "idea" in 191 M. . j dust as certain members of the ; Republican party have advanced : new ideas from time to time, so have Mr. Bryan, President Wil son and others of the Democratic party: but the real milk in the cocoanut with their party is ' "antitariff" and. with Mr. Pen rose's party, it is "more i tariff." But, says one, "can't you seep THE DANBURY REPORTER how much better off the country is when the Republi cans are in power, with a protective tariff on the statute books'.'" Yes, 1 frankly confess that my observation has been that we were more prosperous at such times: and, to be still more frank. 1 believe that a system of protection is best for the coun try, provided the benefits derived from such protection can be fairly distributed among the American people, but when such a system is practiced in a way to pour millions into the coffers of the few and providing a mere living for the many. lam unalterably op posed to it. That such has been the result with the Republican tariff's in the United States is not to be successfully denied. ANl> TIIKKKHY HANGS A TAI.K. Hut, says the inquirer, "is it not a fact that, under such laws, our factories were all running, with labor all busy?" Very true, and thereby hangs a tale: It is mightly easy for the special in terests, who own or control practically all the manufacturing plants in America, to blow their whistles each morning, make the spindles hum, and thus whoop up the boys with the slogan "full dinner pail," while the protection those special inter ests are getting not only gives them a full meal three times a day, but swells their fortunes until they are at a loss to devise the best methods of giving it away. What has the fellow with a "full dinner pail" got out of it? He perhaps sure enough has gotten sufficient to keep soul and bodv of himself and family to gether. after paying in some in stances extortion rents for a house owned by the company and enormous profits on their food and cl'.'thing. dispensed by a companv store. lie is perhaps feeding an i v."thing his family arid e iug the best he e t at • .1- o.cadr. : his children on r • ; .:e 0. fi 'tn one ami a ha. 1 > two dollars per day. with no dm. t six to lo ehiidi'e! 1 yet. the p> r fellow is called. : s| -ndthirf: if 1. coesn't save :ps. methmg a "rainy day." For be it fr m the writer's intention to array labor against ctpital. but th-o -'ration I have drawn sue • result of American protection, which is not fairly destributed. Why do I applaud when the American manufacturer, either with or without a protective tariff', runs his machinery t) enrich himsi.lt and associates with enormous salaries and dividends, and call it "prosperity" when the labor he is using is receiving a bare living? In the name of social justice, why sho d 1 1 applaud? The Democratic party, instead of admitting that the principle of protecting is essential to our best and setting about to remedy the evils attendant en on it in the past, have all along endeavored to swing the pendu lum to the opposite extreme, by fighting all forms of protection and thus pre .italic • the people against a just one atomic prin ciple which has only been abused. "Rut," says someone, "the doc tor who can only diagnose the disease anfl has n remedy to of fer, is notour choice. What we want when sick is a preseripion to make us well." In conclusion, therefore, I propose to point out for consideration a remedy which I believe, if taken by the Ameri car people, will make us not only a healthy nation, but will render us practically immune against the "tariff ups and tariff downs, with business fever and business chill." (Continued next week.) For Sale. 1 One milch cow, one mule, one one-horse wagon, one two-horse wagon, one buggy, one wheat drill. For particulars see MRS. MARY Y. CREWS. Gerrnanton, N. C., Route 2. 31mch4t Sale of Valuable Real Estate. 1 By virtue of authority'contain -1 ed in a certain Deed of Trust s executed to the undersigned ! trustee by E. 0. Caudle and wife, t Hattie Caudle, on the 14th day of May. 1914, and duly recorded in the Register of Deeds office of Stokes County. North Carolina, j in Book f>S, I'age 2NI of mortg ages. The stipulations in said deed of Trust not having been complied with and at the request 1 of the owner of the bond secured by said deed of trust ljwill offer to sale for cash to the highest bidder, at the Court House Door in Danbury. North Carolina, on Monday, the 3rd day of May, 191.1. at 12 o'clock noon, the, fol lowing described property: Beginning at a Red Oak Bush near a large pine, runs North on Wall's line, now J, Walter'futile, to Danbury road, thence east ward ly as the said road meanders to corner of Levi Ferguson's lot, thence with that line to a stake in J. H. Campbell's line, thence South on said line 2! 1-2 chains to a hickory, thence West on J. H. Campbell's line 10 chains to a stake, thence South on his line, 20 chains to a stake on bank of branch in said line, thence down said branch as it meanders 19 chains to mouth of spring branch, thence up spring branch north 12 degrees east ."> 1-4 chains to an apple tree on the west side of said branch, thence north 10 degrees,' west 10 3-1 chains to the beginning, containing 137 1-2 acres, less 39 acres sold by J. D. Watts ami wife to J. H. Wall and a lot sold to Levi Ferguson this being the J. I). Watts place. For further description of said land see deed made to .1. 1). Watts by Win. H. Watts and wife, Eliza E. Watts, Book 27, l'age 223. This the 29th d:ivof Mar.. 191.". w. read;: .ioiinsox, Trustee. Splendid for Rheumatism. "1 think Chamberlain's 1 ini ment is just splendid forrheuma • tism." writes .Mr. Dunburgh. Kldridge. X. Y. "It lias been used by myself ar:d other mem-; hers of my family time and time again during the past six \ears and has alwavs given the best of satisfaction." The quick relief from pain which Chamberlain's Liniment affords is alone worth, many times the cost. For sale by all dealers. Bring Your JOB WORKj TO THE I Office. I SATISFACTION j GUARANTEED. 1 J jPMIIJWK EXPOSITtOH ti 1 San Francisco and San Diego, California. 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