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fJELD MORNING STAB, ' WlIiMTyGKTON &Ci FillPAY, MAY 26,1911. i m i , i a5rm7iir -raTrft - . PublUhd b- tb WIUONOTON 8XAB COUMKT. ISO WUmlnrton, N. C. Entere as second-class i B"e .t the ostoffle t Wilmington N. C, nr Act of CongreiB, March 2nd, 1874. FCUi ASSOCIATED PBKSfl IBBPOKT. PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT. THE MORNING STAB, the oldest Bew. paper ". North Carolina. Pbed ally except Monday, at .16 pe ye. J for iu months. S1.B0 for three months. TO cents for one month, seryed by carriers in lEysUNAYm8TAB. by mall, one year II; six monUB, 60 cents; three months, M "adVebtisino BATES may be had on pnllcatlou. and advertisers may feel as sured that through the columns of this pa per tliey may reach all Wilmington, East ern Carolina and contiguous territory In Booth Carolina. Obltna.-y sketches, cards of thanks, com munications espousipg the cause tate enterprise or h political candidate, and like matter, will be charged a ; the rate of 10 cents per line, or If paid cash Id advance, a half rate will be allowed. An nouncements of fairs festivals, balls, hops, picnics, society meetings, political meet ings, etc., will be charged under Bame con ditions, except so much thereof as may be of news value to readers of the paper. Advertisements discontinued before expi ration of contracts are charged transient rates for time actually published. Pay ment for transient advertisements mnst be cash In advance. Contract advertisers will not be allowed to exceed their space at same rates or advertise anything foreign to their regular business without extra charge. Advertisements to occupy spec ial place will be charged for according to position desired.: : TELEPHONES: Business Office, No. B1; Kdltorlal and Local rooms, No. 61. Call either, if the other doesn't answer. COMMUNICATIONS, unless they contain Important news, or discuss briefly and properly subjects of real Interest, are not wanted ; aud If acceptable In every other way, they will Invariably be rejected un less the real name of the author accompa nies the same, not necessarily for publica tion, but as a guarantee of good faith. Friday, May 20, 1911. When a suggestion from any source is made concerning an opportunity lor an industry, investigate it, con sider its possibilities and go into it. That is the way we can increase the nianufacturing and industrial plants of Wilmington. New York's water supply is getting dangerously low on account of the long continued drought which has extended all along the Atlantic from Maine to Florida. If relief is not soon forthcoming, the waterwagon will cease to be a joke. While in New York a few days ago, President Taft shook hands with the monkeys in the Bronx park. No doubt it reminded him of shaking hinds with men who make monkeys of themselves in their efforts to get on the government's payroll. What is known as a Happy Consola tion Club has been organized among the men of Sioux Falls, North Dakota. It will be obligatory upon each mem bef to emile at each other as they meet The wives of the duffers would think more of it if they would agree not to indulge in a "smile" when they meet. The Wilmington Chamber of Com merce mef on Wednesday night and began work on a campaign to secure industries for Wilmington- The Ra leigh Chamber of Commerce met last night to start a greater organization campaign and begin a programme to promote the progress of Raleigh. This shows that we have gone to work in earnest, but do we know the boosters' game so we won't lose our time and money? The New England preacher who got i;p a fake confession of immoral con duct, so he could find out ' whether there were anv charity in his church, was not long in ascertaining what he wanted to know about it. He was promptly bounced and is denouncing Christianity as a fake. The fact is, the -preacher proved himself to be a falsifier to trap his congregation, and in denouncing his church members he showed just as great lack of char ity as they. lie also takes the illog ical and absurd position of blaming on Christianity -what is inherent in humanity. Neither the preacher nor the members of his congregation fol ?cwed the teachings of Christianity, Jut their failure to do so is no more to be attributed to Christianity than ran the treachery of Judas, the un faithful denials of Peter, or the doubting of Thomas. Says the Salisbury Post: "Ameri ans from the Middle West are flock. ing to Winnepeg by thousands. Sonus 45,000 with $30,000,0(10 worth of per sonal ioperty, it is said, are now on Iheir way. Better come South to North Carolim good people, where better opportunities and a warm Southern welcome .awaits you. The South has every advantage over the . North and West." That is absolute lytrue and it is well known where the J'Ost circulates, but concerning these fatts the people who are emigrating arK b,issful ignorance. Common sejhae ought to dictate it to us that should circulate the complete In formation in that part of the country from, which tho home-seekers are em- ; jgrating. They don't know what we know and . since we take no steps to let thorn know, they are not coming this way. It is also certain that a , "write up" in; a paper a thousand i iiles from them ' won't reach them cither, especially if it has to be frearched; out from.: among' several hundred pages of'similar matter in which no definite propositions aro made. 'When we advertise let us ad vertise" right. '-'.'JX"-. COTTON MILL DEPRESSION, What is the matter with the cotton milling industry? In view of the fact that the manufacturers are again to I shut down the mills, it is timely to re mark that they ought to quit stopping the spindles and the looms for the pur pose of forcing down the price of raw cotton, but rather base the shut-down on a proposition to force up the price of manufactured cottons. The depres sion in the cotton milling industries indeed is serious, but it is to be hoped the extremity is not so serious as to afford the opportunity for or ganizing a cotton milling trust. The organization of Southern cotton, mill syndicates with, millions of dollars capital o consolidate large numbers of mills, means that, but is that a good remedy for the confessedly bad con dition of the cotton goods trade? The real "trouble of the mills is that the price of manufactured cotton goods has not advanced in proportion to tho increased price of raw cotton. Why haven't the prices of manufac tured cottons kept pace with the price of raw cotton? Who fixes the price of manufactured cottons? Naturally it would be presumed that each manu facturer would figure the price of his own product on what it costs him to make the goods, with a reasonable profit added, but we rather suspect that the ever present middleman has the mills at his mercy. There are sev eral classes of middlemen who handle the mill products on commission, and we understand some of these commis sion handlers are really syndicates backed by millions of dollars. In that event, the middlemen fix prices and a close investigation might disclose who it is that keeps the price of cotton goods from advancing in relative pro portion to the price of raw cotton- For some reason or other, the cot ton milling business seems to lack the flexibility of other industries. It doesn't seem to respond to the in crease or decrease of the price of raw material and the cost of production. When the wheat crop is short and the price of wheat goes up, the price of flour responds with a like increase We do not find the flour mills shutting down to force down the price of wheat or. waiting till they can get cheaper wheat. They run right along and so flour mills products are regulated largely by the law of supply and de mand. Not so with the cotton milling in dustry. It doesn't seem to recognize the law of supply and demand, or, at any rate, doesn't respond to it. There is no effect without a cause, and so there is a cause for the depression in the cotton milling industry. What is it? It is hardly possible to attribute it to over production, for Europe is alarmed lest cotton production will not meet the needs of the world. In fact, European spinners now assert that all the world's cotton supply is less than the demand and they are en couraging the production of cotton in Africa or wherever it will grow. They want the South to produce more cot ton to ease up their apprehensions of a cotton shortage, so, unless they are mistaken, we have to eliminate the question of over production as a rea son for the depression In the Ameri can cotton milling industry. Well, then what is the cause of the disastrous effect that is being exper ienced by our Southern cotton mills? We know the r.eason why ' their raw cotton comes higher. It is principal ly because of the great world demand and short cotton crops. Of course, speculation has its share in making an unsteady market for cotton, 'but, after all. doesn't speculative prices alao depend on the law of supply and demand, since it follows that a large acreage and a good crop lowers pric es to suit the bears, while curtailed acreage or poor crops is where the bulls gef on the rampage Speak of speculation as we will," if appears to us, under all the circum stances, that even speculative prices are even controlled by the law of sup ply and demand. As a matter of fact 15 cents raw cotton today is on ac count of successive short crops, poor crop prospects and the increased cost of growing cotton. The cotton grow ers curtailed acreage because they couldn't produce cotton at ruinous prices, with the result, probably, that the price of their product went up. When, however, the mills curtail pro duction by closing down, why is it that the price of their manufactured pro ducts does not advance? This is the mystery of the industrial era in the South: Who will solve it? What is the remedy? In his address at the recent meet ing of the American Cotton Manufac turers' Association at Richmond, Pres ident Cooper indicated that relief could come from. Southern cotton growers who would increase their pro duction, thus lower the price and hold the South's supremacy for cotton production."- Otherwise, he warned . the growers that cotton production - would spring up in other parts of the world and rob the South of its supremacy now represented in the production of about two-thirds of the cotton grown in the world. He argued that curtail ment of production and resultant high prices would stimulate cotton, growing in other countries, ; but that would hardly induce farmers to grow cotton at a loss to keep other countries from growing cotton. We think we know 'the cotton growing business and . the farmer,, .and we, don't, think, . they wouldJfaney or foster any kind of supremacy that would mortgage their farms -'or; bankrupt them. If they should bejnduced to do that, we don't think theif t -advisers would comej around and lift their mortgages and help them in their days of bank ruptcy. I Some. people overlook the fact that1 it requires -capital and labor to pro duce cotton. The grower's capital is: Invested in his land and in paying for labor, and he reasonably expects re turns sufficient to'pay him for his ope rations and pay a percentage on his capital besides. We have seen the day when it would have paid the cotton gTowercto turn .out his land or give it' javtaJ Because of low priced cot ton, but by organization, business-like methods. and favorable circumstances, the. cot ton grower is making a reason able profit and his Jand has increased in-value because he is producing something on his investment. How ever, at so-called high prices the cost of producing cotton has so vastly in creased that the average farmer Is hot making enough money to burn- If he lives well, is able to educate his children, and can have a telephone and piano in his house he is doing fairly well, but the average farmer doesn't get that far along and to be content, with less makes serfdom of farming. That is the reason the farms were deserted,, and there will be no back to the farm movement unless there Is profit instead of senti ment.' farming becomes profit able it becomes attractive and if it beats -wlfa Ve are all doing in town, back to the land will be all the go. Of course, iti getting that way in North Carolina now, but it is because the farmers, quit growing all .cotton, and have diversified their crops. So far as increasing the acreage is concerned, we doubt whether that can be done, for labor is a scarce article in the South, though production might be increased "Jy " intensive methods of farming but each progressive farmer is already trying to do thai in order to produce all he can with his labor. Machinery might cheapen production, but that means more capital invested, for it takes money to buy power ma chinery, and labor saving implements for farming. So there we are. It is possible that' our cotton mills are over-producing in a pent in home market and have no' foreign trade to take their surplus. Therefore, there may be a great deal in what the New York Journal of Commerce says in dis agreeing with President Cooper's view that the remedy for the cotton milling depression is in producing more cotton. In suggesting a cause and pointing to a .remedy the able edi tor of the Journal of Commerce takes this view: "Mr. CoOper had little to say about the corresponding duty of manufactur ers, but he dwelt -with some emphasis upon the need of foreign markets for their product. The ; American manu facturcr has also been too much "at ease" and "contented with the domes tic trade, and has done little to en courage a foreign demand for his pro duct ; but the need which he seemed to discern was that of "seeking trade that is of slow growth, the essential features being friendship, absolute confidence and lodger credits than the American manufacturer is accus tomed to give." Other efforts to pro mote access to foreign markets are referred to, but the most essential of all is ignored. Why is it that while the manufacturing world abroad is so dependent upon American cotton, its manufacturers are busy and supplying the wants ' of the consuming world as distant from them as the cotton fields, while. American mills run on short time and . have difficulty in disposing of a surplus product at home or abroad? It is not a Question of friend-: ship, confidence or credit, but of cost of the goods they have to offer- They are sufffiSnf from an industrial and conimercia! system devised to protect tne home market, which in the long run becomes eauivalent to excluding the foreign market. In foreign mar kets there is no escape from compe tition, 'arid J a policy of protection against -competition affords a poor. training for availing of those mar kets." DEMOCRATS NOT SO BRASH. Preaching a theory and facing a problem are two different things, and since we Democrats got -where we have to shoulder the responsibility we are finding that out. "Free wool" has. been the popular theory and there has been lots of favorable talk about it, but when it comes to hitting the raw wool producer and not the woolen trust, which has both the producers and consumers at its mercy, the advo cates of free wool had another think coming to them. " We always believed in the fairness of the Democracy and were satisfied that the majority in the House would look into the question before it acted. So it has, it seems, and that will be about the same way it will do when it comes to considering free raw mate rials, a subject in which the South is vitally interested. .. Now the "free wool" proposition has petered out, and In lieu thereof we are told that there is a proposed com promise by 'which the tariff taxes on wool are to be reduced at once' and then gradually removed altogether. Investigation revealed the wisdom of not using the knife on the patient at one sitting, but that the operation would be more successful when done with fcafe. The Springfield Republican (Inde pendent) says the plan agreed upon by .the . Democrats is a good one, and may ell-be adopted as a part of the PemocratW'policy of tariff reform The Republican also ventures the pre diction that it will make more votes for the-Democratic party ten times over that it will cost in votes. The fact is, the Democrats found out that free wool would help the man ufacturers and injure the 'wool pro ducers, while not relieving the con sumers from the extortions of the highly protected wool trust. It is now seen, just as The Star has always con tended, tha relief can ,only come from reducing . the tax on manufactured products In r the same proportion as the tax Is Taken off the raw material. If one is to: be free the other should be free, and... if the one..jLs.,to be re duced, soi also should the other be equally reduced- ! Speaking about free wool, very few of us buy, wool, but the bunch buys what's manufactured from wool. The manufacturers are the- fellows who want free wool and we- are the fel lows who want the tariff lowered on the woolen products which we are compelled to buy. In order to reach the consumer, give us the same reduc tion in clothing as you give the manu facturers on their raw wool and we'll then be a free woolite. Speaking en tirely from the standpoint of those who wear what the wool factory turns out, we don't want it left to the woolen trust to see its way clear to give us the same reduction on clothing that the trust will save on getting wool free of duty. From the store of Old "Aunt" Jemi ma's negro, philosophy, we get this saying: "Blessed am detn dat specks niith'n fer dey aint gwine to be diser piiited." If the manufacturers get free wool and dq jnot have any of their tar iff protection, lopped off, we will ex pect nothing in the way of reduction on clothing. ; "We know who fixes the price of woolen goods and if we get any reduction on our clothing it woul be exactly what the fixers of prices benevolently decide they will grant us. If wool were to be given without cost to the manufacturers and they fix the prices on what they make from gift wool, we wouldn't look to the trust to give to the consumers what they save on the wool. We've been in the sus picion business too . long to suspect that kind of benevolence from the trust which manufactures woolen goods and fixes the prices because it has an absolute monopoly under the tariff. So long as the tariff wall is around the trust and prices are fixed on the inside of the wall, we wodld have on an average of one ..fit a day if the trust would give consumers a "hand out" These observations are submitted as the garneririgs of experience, for oh several occasions we have been up against people who had a cinch and wouldn't give it away. What consum ers , want to see is that tbe -woolen trust shall be hit with precisely, and also exactly, the same size stick that is to be laid on the back of the wool- grower's sheep. The 'farmersYi.free list" bill was raseed by a Democratic House and tent over to a Republican Senate v.here it has been put in Uncle Davy's locker. A standpat Republican is a great friend to the farmer that is, simply in talk on the stump. It is said President Taft is counting upon being re-nominated and wants Secretary Stimson to go on the ticket as his running mate for the Vice Pres idency. Since Stimson was defeated for Governor in New York, he may de cide not to be the kind of Jonah that is willing to be twice thrown to the whale. i Don't get discouraged when some people snub you, because they are sure to hunt you tp when they find Qut you are getting to be important. Consider the malodorous onion, at Vbich everybody used to turn up his Or her nbse, yet the onion 'has lived down prejudice and is strongly grow ing in favor every day. CURRENT COMMENT. Miss Ida M. Tarbell i showing a highly commendable degree ofmodes ty by not claiming that the Supreme Court decision has vindicated at least one of the magazine muckrakers. Savannah News. Jigging from what Senator Till man has to say auout his appetite and fondness for indulgence in horseback rides and other forms of exercise, he will probably be in the race for the United States Senate again next year, ?. hich being the case,, a number of budding boomlets will have to be sup pressed for a while yet. Chester Re porter The merchants of the town of Clin ton have 'erected handsome and up-to-date, mile posts on all the public highways .leading . from the city for several miles. It is one of the ad vertising mediums they are using and the people, pf the' county are proud vben they are nearing the city and see improvements liifee this, showing how far they are away and where to go when they get here. Clinton News Dispatch. The Southern Railway's water plant located on South Buffalo gave out last night and the city had to come to the relief of the company. The road pays by mefer measure ment and It is a good thing tor the city, provided the running of sprink lers can be brought within the ruling of the ordinance, to wit: , two hours out of 24, but If the water is to be wasted and the Southern has to draw oh the 'cTOTTulirJly,' s6me)thing is go-' Summer and BALBttlGGAN, LISLE, NAINSOOK, MADRAS, THE BEST SORTS AND THE WANTED SORTS ne LIGHT AND MEDIUM WEIGHT UNDERWEAR ARE HERE FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN. Men's Nainsook Underwe ar, Shirts anrd short Drawers, 32 to 46, eac h at 25c - New Balbriggan Underwe ar, short or long sleeve, fine gause, each at.... 19c Men's Balbriggan extra fl ne gause lisle finish short or long sleeve,, each at. . . ... 48c and the same applies to Hosiery in lisle, silk and cotton, black and and varied. Fine French gause lisle li nen heel cial, at White tan and black gaus e lisle values, at j ; : : ; Special values in white Muslin Underwear, see window display. Millinery, new shapes, white and black braid, just received the most wanted styles this season, prices very much reduced. Corsets, most unusual values in high-grade Corsets. The famous Worcester Corsets in many styles light and medium weight, range of price $1.00 to $3.00. Thompson, Gloving, the Empire, and R. and G. Corsets, sizes 18 to 36. Plain and fancy ., Ribbon, 5 and 6 - inches wide, 25c values, at 19c . THE 5ng to happen. The supply is all that is needed and more, but with all this drain, the capacity of the pumps should be doubled. Greensboro Rec ord. On the Statehood bill passed by the House of Representatives Tuesday 31 Republicans voted with the Demo crats. It has been the same way with every other measure which the House Democrats have undertaken to pass at the extraordinary session. Al most half of tho Republican members voted for reciprocity. More than' half of them voted for direct election of Senators and for the publication be tore elections of campaign expendi tures. Twenty-three of them support ed the farmers' free list bill. "It is pretty plain," says Harper's Weekly, 'that when the record is brought be mre the people in the next campaign the Republicans are going to be at a disadvantage. They cannot pitch In to a single thing yet done by the ma jority without hitting some. of their cwn fellows'." Nor' cab they do so, it may be added without advertising ;et more widely their opposition to a programme which they know fuil well has the cordial endorsement Of a large majority of the people of near ! every part of the United States. Charleston News and Courier. GREAT REBEL MAMMOTH GUNS. (Communicated.) While reading in the Wilmington Sunday Morning Star, of May ,14th, 1911, the reminiscences and exciting experiences of Pilot Craig, while pi loting the many Confederate steam ers running the blockade into Wil mington, among them I see he safely brought into Wilmington during the war the Confederate steamer Gibral tar, formerly the Privateer Sumter, commanded by Admiral Semmes, which .he successfuly ran out of New Orleans, passing the Federal block ading fleet, capturing and destroying many United States' merchant ves sels, before tal ing command of tne famous Confederate Privateer Ala bama, which Teddy's uncle paid for, and another uncle iBullbck, fired, the last on board, of the Alabama before i,he sank off the coast of France In the fight between the Alabama and the Kearsage. After Admiral Semmes left the Sum ter she was named the Gibraltar and was run into Wilmington, N. C, havr ing on board two of the largest can nons then made, called the English Armstrong guns designated for the protection of Charleston harbor. Well do I remember two guns being named througn the streets of Charleston on wo railroad flat cars. They -were so heavy that it was necessary to build railroad tracks through the city to f,et them down to East Bay Battery, where they mounted one to protect the junction of Asheley and Cooper livers, while they mounted the other 'jpon the Custom House wharf. While firing the one on the Battery, they cracked the breech and foundryman Fason had a time mending it before another attack upon the city by tae Federal iron-clad fleet. These two guns used solid shot with steel points screwed into ths email end. They also had large brass strips screwed on the sides of the shot to fit in the rifle groOves of the gun which made them look like nail kegs with brass hoops they were so large, they had to windlass up to the gun's muzzle by an iron basket. Ends of the chain wound around the axle of the gun carriage when it' recoiled after firing, hoisted another' shot'' to the muzzle to be fired. After the War I made a sea trip from .Vilmington to Charleston and the first ' thing 1 saw on the wharf were the remnants of these two guns being shipped to Governor's Islanjd, New York. A large piece of the breech was marke'd with white lead in large letters: "The Great Rebel Mammoth Guns, "which General Beauregard had ordered us to burst in evacuating Charleston when Sherman captured Savannah vnd was about to cut off our retifrn to Wilmington, N. C." - Especially Attractive. ' Bill today at the Grand is a beauty. Come In. and cool off. . fa Ufmerwear Fine Silk Hose, -. and toe spe silk finish, gr 23c FTEM THAT PAYS YOTJB CAB Copyright Hart Scbaffner & Marx THE A. DAVID COMPANY This store is the home of Hart Sehaffner and Marx Clothes. The largest line of Porch Goods ever shown in Wil mington and at prices that will promptly convert them into Money. Porch Rockers, Three-Piece Porch Suits, Porch Swings, Porch Settees, Porch Chairs, Hammocks, Ham mock Beds, Porch Screens, Crex Rugs, all sizes. A large line of New Matting and Rugs of all sizes. New lot Bloch Go-Carts and Carriages. Push Carts for Less than $2.00, with Rubber Tires. See our line before you The Wilmington Furniture Co. WILMINGTON'S GREAT FURNITURE STORE. my3-tf fie This is to notify our customers that they can secure Un popular brand by sending their orders to Petersburg ': 4 Doz. Bottles F. O. B. 10 Doz. Bottles F. O. B. Darley Parle Brewing Company I G. Morgan Knight, Mgr. Ladies' Underwear, fine gause Vest, tape n. ck ai sleeve, each , , ' l-2c Fine gause lisle Silk Mer cerized Vest, each 19c and garter ta pe, back, all sizes at 48c colors. The assortments a Misses' black, tan and w hite fine Ribbon Hose 1&C Misses' plain gause lisle, sizes 6 to 9, silk nierce ;rized, at 25c New black Voile Skirts, braid trim med, $5.98 and $7.r) FARE. J DAVID'S FACTS to know . and use in buy- nig V,JlUI.UViJ. All-wool in every thread. All silk in every seam. Absolute guarantee with every suit. . All these,' with your style, your fit, y$ur fabric, in a HART, SCHAFFNER & V MARX spring suit is here, where everything else is of the same quality. $18 up. buy. i -: Petersburg. . Petersburg. . .. ..$3.00 .. ..$7.50 taived PETERSBURG, VA. JJ -V- ' A .i.
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