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C t 1IAVE YOU A IIAKD QUESTION? /<fl ^ THE INDEPENDENT ^iM NO. 757. , t:nt"tfU,t'SF.uXl> n? N'T. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C? FRIDAY, SEPT. 22, 1922 . " ?id? by w 0 Sau"je" PRICE M ? ? _ fODEDICATE $200,000 [HURCH SUNDAY, SEPT. 24 lw F it Methodist Church In This City Cost $135,000 Exclusive cf Land and Equipment I I 1-i "st South will be I Sv; 24. ^ - w hich wiil con ? nij*ht?. I I ? u Monday n:j*ht I j?rojjram oi re ? I prosrvaiii is urns at : U v. M. I i f.?n?:er |..isti>r of ?!???' I I u.'i (>?-.? - ? r: r. I ? !?: T'X.. at thf of I . v ?? i- si?ri?nM|y W. Mn. I IVrsuiiitg Khler of, I I>istrict will tafcr Mr. I ? a tin- Sit: at<?r\ serc.oii will bo ?!?? > .tiilav morning by Itrr. I 1 l'l - .I.-:;" I ft Mo. Mr. I' tilling; itu I of the First ("liureh hero ft 111I >,?( I I tlmrch. Mr. t'un I of new ft .f worship for the rougrrsa rtoil a campaign f<>r StiH.WHl lie carried the campaign I thrn. t>:;; before tin- >til> I were j?;.1 in we were i:t I of I he \V.>ri?l W? r:;" !?iiM.as; materials soaml I xi-aroiry of l.i I that time im|?rar I. i osf of 1>I1 ill IK1U roll ?. tiio rliurrh httiMiiiK f i i.ii-c ami iisoro r Mir |?lu" ^ of rli.- pro i . i id i many < I<? ~ i i l : ? i ::>ij?r ivruients iii Mr. ? 'ir.niny.iiii I ?Ir ia flu- Souihom rT - - !????*?l?-iI in tiio jws | ? K -t < iri-i: l>\ his \ .1- M. ?1111101111. i >> > t> tlm bniMin;; i . \f t 'uiii. n^;ii!i had i "Why ii" bui'nl a t ~ ? Jo tin- Ill-oils of !' . I 'for 1 _ r:.' a-." Till' fart of ?i o.i till' :? :b'ir In t: ?_*ii o to tiiis ami that - wri'k. iliil li ?' *irt it | iiiiiK for ll? I. n> r .????! j? -i.(,!'? lovtiI f". ? i.z. Hi* laiiii' if 1 I <7." I l) on 1 o;? iif ' ?, ? K' . for Siitl.lMMt. :I!||| F' 1". ii- tin' rlinrrh \\.;s ' .? of t> or...a an<l ????i-iv ri'pri'si'iits an in- | 1 7." ' 'i 11. i'm1. ~ivi? of i (!??? proliahli' valur ' . : vain- of . to SJiMi.lNiO. Ami 'I In1 I'riliraliil fr<M' of 1 ?!" i- of its co-t having <? its author walks Smalay woning It t - o-riH.iii of ili'iiicjiion ? In- iiui'!.' of tin- now ' it" i is lo ili'il on half v St. nil IJoi'il " >t. Tin* lot was |?nr- ' . 1 .. r? ajjo i.i'ii rr wa> pastor of thr "it** now In:iiii l", '"hi ?? ii. the ral ly autumn coliljlii toil 1 ". inn tin- auditor u 'ill no lisr tin- hoiisr shoiihl I I W? I V. i\:? ? I' tin* i'bwrrh BnW" I ? \ . *s I f??r tbe I I I I I FiuiMf I I ? v..mill ? mill wnin I I low I ? '1 ?? i< lnwer iu I I ? ? Ci? \\ 1BH *???***?**** PROGRAM * * DEDICATORY EXERCISES * * FIRST M. E. CHURCH * o ____ # * 9:30 a. m.?Sunday School. * * 11:00 a. in.?Dedication Ser- * * mon by the Rev. J. L. Cunning- * * gim. D. D.. President Scarriit * * Bible ard Training School. Kan- * * sas City. Mo. * - 4:00 p. m.?Sacred Concert * * by the Choir. - 0 00 p. in?Sermon, by the * * Rev. J. C. Wcoten. Presiding * * Elder, Raleigh District. Monday * ft to 10 p. m.?Reception. Tuesday * 8:00 p. m?Organ Recital, by * * Prof. Horace L. Jones. Organist * 0 Epwo th Methodist Episcopal * * Church. South. Norfolk, Va. * Offering. *?*?*<:?****? SUPERIOR COURT DOING FAST WORK THIS WEEK I Mar.y Going to the Roads and Jail For Usual Run of Crimes. Murder, bigamy. larceny. boot leg ging. divorce and all the other sorry stuff that make gii>t f<?r a Superior Court term are on the docket of the September term of the Superior Court in session in Pasquotank County this week. As this newspa per goes to press a number of the 'more important eases on the doeket hare been disposed of and Judge John II. Kerr and Solicitor Khring liaus are cleaning the docket up in good shape. John II. Kuji-rs, a young while mail was sentenced to twelve months ??ii the road* for the larceny of a poekethook ami the plaintiff in the fast-, K. F. Mitchell recovered tin* stolon property. Tt was brought out during tlu> trial Hint Rogers is now wanted iii Vance County on a charge of bigamy. Itessie Magee. a comely" colored girl who has given the poliee a lot of trouble, was seutcn-rd to 11* uioa hs in jttil for selling litpuir. doltu II etiry lleekstall for larceny and housebreaking got six mouths oil the roads in each ease. Miiford .Munden drew two years on two indict me tits. IS mouths for big amy and six months for assault with a deadly weapon. Jake Shields was sent to the roads for 12 months for larreny and fleorge firiffin to jail for four months on a similar charge. l>:i\id Warren got Is mouths on the roads for selling aud transport ing li<(uor. Itruee l'uckctt. charged with Hie sale of lit|tior failed to show up and capiases were issued for his bonds men. Kt he ridge Forbes, indieted oil a charge of transporting liiptor, was found not guilty. . --:,i IS >;.wt J nmrri- miii !<? iimi-s ?h. 1: Winder was wiped off the docket, since Winder is now serving time under* a conviction in u similar case. Divorces were granted J. II. Cas per and 1'attic Casper, and I). S. Crain and Chine Crain. white cou ples. Irivorees were also granted in the eases of several colored couples. A number of eases of alleged vio lations of the cattle dipping regula tions were ordered removed from iho docket, since the work of the De partments of Agriculture in this con nection has about been completed in this county and the dipping of cattle is no longer meeting with violent op position. The case of Willis Stallings, col ored. charged with the murder of Mack Stallings in this city on Sept. U. was on the docket for Thursday of tiiis week ami the Court had not reached the case of Policeman Geo. Twiddy and others charged with as sault with attempt to kill Davis t>v ertoii. Jr. MARRIAGE DROPS OFF IN PASQUOTANK THIS MONTH Marriage has dropped off consider ably in this County in the last month. Only ten marriage licenses have been issued un to the lit. while in the corresponding period of Aug ust. IS licenses \*ere issued. * tne li cense has been issued since Mon day of this week. The marriage rate in Pasquotank has shown an un precenfed decrease for the past two years. Perhaps it is tlue to hard thue-s. but Geo. W. Brothers. Regis ter of Deeds believes it to he due to the law requiring a physical exam ination before a license is issued. That has checked a great many Vir: ginia couples from coming here, as ; compared with former years before the uassage of the Bellamy Act. | 1 ? I Southern Methodism s Finest House of Worship I i ? ?_ __ f THE new First Methodist Episcopal Church South of Elizabeth City, to be dedicated Sunday, Sept. 24 has been called the finest church in Southern Methodism. It cost n.ore than $150,000 exclusive of its magnificent pipe organ costing $10,000. It is a great monument to the enterprise and devotion of the Methodists of Elizabeth City. Zoeiler photo. CURRITUCK SHERIFF FOUND STILL RUNNING Captured Lively Still and Three Al leged Moonshiners Near Sligo lSruce Burgess. Ilenry Hushes ami a l!)-ycjr-ohl boy named .lours, all white men. are in Currituck jail in default of bonds in the sum of $.~?tMI each for operating an illicit still near Slig>. The still was located by Sheriff K. K. Flora of Currituck who made the raid assisted hv his sons, , Irl and Will Flora on Monday morn ing. Sept. Is*. The still was iu full operation ; when Sheriff Flora and his party ! found it and the amber liquor was, flowing in a steady stream from the worm into a five-gallon jug. .It was reported that a ten-gallon jug of newly manufactured liquor had been removed from the still that morning. The Jones, who was in charge of. the outfit, readily turned it over to: the Sheriff who destroyed several, barrels of mash and other equip-! ment. except such as will be used as evidence. At it preliminary hearing only one of the defendants pleaded J guilty, but all were placed under, bonds. Failing to give bond they , were remanded to jail. liruee Burgess is a young matt of 2."? or -?> \cars and Henry Hughes is a younger man. all residents of the Sligo neighborhood. M. LEIGH SHEEP CO. MADE FINE SHOWING Wonderful Exposition of Newest Things For Women Attended By Hundreds Tin' first fnrni.il showing nf the! new tilings in woman's wetir for the! fall ami winter of lf'l.'2-ll'l was made ill.Elisabeth City this week by that enterprising woman's wear store the M. Leigh Sheep Co. All day Wed nesday the store was thronged with women who wanted to see what's what this season and they were well j repaid for their visit to the store. A more gorgeous or prettier array | of women's dresses, eouts, suits. I capes, etc. was never presented in | an Elizabeth City store. Leigh Sheep literally cpinbctl the New York mar ket for line and stunning things for j iiis opening and mat y of tile best | dressed women in town are going to' be better dressed this fall as a re-j suit. Many of the best items Were sold in the opening rush, luit stocks arc .being replenished by new ship ments arriving by express. THIS TIME IT WILL BE McMULLAN-MEEK IfCS * * Announcement of the forthcoming 1 wedding of .Miss .Mahulah Meckins to Tints. Shell on McMuIlan. Jr. was made public yesterday, the wedding j to take place on Nov. l."?, IfLJLi. Miss i Meekins is the eldest (laughter of Col. and Mrs. I. M. Meekins of thisi city and one of the town's most tal-J ented and popular girls. Mr. Me- j Mulian is the sou of Dr. T. S. Mc MuIlan. The following real estate transfe-. j have been recorded since Tuesday's publication: Mrs. Carrie Sinious to Mrs. K. 15. Leary. one half a lot on Boush and Lippineott Sts. Consideration $550. I S. W. Hastings and wife to I., C. i Hill, one lot on Greenleaf St. Con- ] sideration $1150. Good eyesight is inexpensive. Set Dr. J. D. Hathaway, Ooteinetrist, EJi/nWl. P?'*v N O MORE MONEY ON ALL OUR FARMS i Pasquotank Farmers Freed of Great Loss From Dis eased Hogs A fact of tremendous eco nomic importance to Pasquo tank County and section is contained in the statement of Dr. \Y. A. Schaffter. Federal Veterinarian in charge of hog cholera eradication in this county, that not a single case of hog cholera exists in this county at this time, so far as he knows. Tt was only a few years ago that hogs died in droves in Pasquotank County and mljoiniug counties, one; epidemic of cholera following fast upon another, and the epidemic in J one herd rapidly spreading to other herds. So complete has been the work of cholera eradication in this county, that the office of County In-! I sped or is to he abolished at once and l>r. SeliafTter will remove loj Kdenlon to supervise the work in , Chowan County. Speakiug of the) I work done l?v the State and Federal i departments in tins section during j the pa-d eight years. Dr. Schaffter "After spending cue year in the work of hog cholera control in the 11 en Northeastern Counties of North Carolina. I am able to state results | that are not only surprising but as-! tonishing. When 1 was stationed at Klizaheth City on Sept. t. I{t21. I could drive in no section of the coun try but what I would hear of many out breaks of cholera, sometimes as many as ."0 infected farms in one locality, lty the use of every meth od known to the Department of Ag riculture of North Carolina and the 1'. S. Department of Agriculture, and j by it he quarantining of sick herds and advocating the serum and virus i inoculation of the healthy hogs, the outbreaks became fewer and few er. until at this time I doubt, if in the ten counties that i supervise the work of hog cholera control one would be able to find five outbreaks of cholera. There are so few cases i of cholera, at this time it is very! easy to keep them under control. The farmers and hog raisers have learned that the sirum and virus inoculation j is absolutely the only preventive for; hog cholera and most of them are quick to call for help if they learn ! of an outbreak in the immediate lo- ! cality, therefore making the work more idea sing and satisfactory. Hut I must say that there are some few who think our work unci efforts are useless, but such people are found in nil parts of the United States. There are also some few who are ever ready to buy hogi remedies, all of j which have been 'tested out by the j U. S. Department of Agriculture and found to he absolutely worthless." Fishermen Stumpy Point report that the railroad strike proved a se rious handicap to them this summer. Fishing was the best in several sum-! iners, but jmor transportation ruined j the markets. For your eyes' sake see Dr. J. D. Hathaway, Optometrist, Bradford I rst^. W C. adv. | GETS A DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD IN AMERICAN Saunders Tells the World Why He Likes To Run Up to New York Klixnbcth City pit more national publicity this week in the publication of another article by \V. O. Saun ders in The American Magazine. In the October number of that great' monthly the editor of TIIK INDK-i, l'KNDIONT tells what lie gets out of bis trips to New York. The article takes a double page spread in The American and is enlivened by a pho tograph of Saunders Himself ami tin ! editorial by "Sid," The American's I famous editor. "What I get Out of My Trips to ? New York" is written in The Inde pendent editor's raciest style. The issue of The American for October is now 011 sale on till news stands. ; Two other articles by W. O. Saun ders to be published in future issues of The American are entitled (I) "(Jetting Acquainted With Father." CJi "What I like and Don't Like (About Life in a One-Horse Town." In the latter article Mr. Saunders j I gives the palm to the small town ash a place of human residence after | showing up" the uuiikablc thiugd < about it. 11 WHO ARE THE BEST | POSTED ONES HERE < !i Probably Elizabeth City's Foreigners I Know Moro of What Goes ' on About Them The lie si posted people in Eliza I belli <'ily can often lie found among 1 J its foreign population. Your (Jreek ' rcstauranteur, your Italian tailor, or , 1 your Syrian shopkeeper, besides, < keeping up with what is going on in j1 Ainerien, are tlioroly posted on what 1 is going on in Greece, Italy and Sy- 1 rin and all over Europe in general. 1 The population of America can not. lie told by many men on the street; but your foreigners can tell you the population of your own country as - well as that of every country in j Europe. They keep up with the af- , fairs of government here, ami by | reading their national newspapers!] they know all about the government: , over there. Ten days ago Mike Metlrey. a Sy- < rian shopkeeper was seen reading his Syrian weekly already then a few j days old. "What is the news in Sy- j riaV" he was asked. j ' "I think they have more lighting in Turkey," he said. "The Greeks and Turks can't agree; the Turks are j sore at the Christian people and the 1 Russian Bolshcviki arc willing to t help them. England will help out < the Christian people." t Mike's prophecy founded on' a < careful study of European conditions, f came true in a few days. In short t everything was turned tops.v turvy. t A lire resulting from trouble between 3 llie Moslems and the Christians end-j 1 ed in the deaths of 125,000 people,! and tilled t he American newspaper j i headlines with the largest type since! I the World War. 1 "Didn't. I tell you?" said Mike a < few days later. j! 1 ?The l'ulleu Memorial Association. ^ iu co-operation with the North Caro- t linn Federation of Home Bureaus, 1 is now engaged iu raising $10,000 for the purpose of erecting a $10,000 1 memorial gate at N. C. State College j * iu memory of Richard Stanhope i 1 l'ullen whose philanthropy largely i t made the institution possible. | f BR1TT0N HANDS, IT TO MEEKINS Washington Corresp o n d e n t Bets Meekins Will Get Federal Judgeship \ In his Correspondence to The News & Observer under date of Sept. IS. Edward E. Britton. Washington cor respondent of that paper sa.vs: "It looks as if the fates are going to be very kind to Colonel I. M. Meekins of Elizabeth City, now hold ing a rattling good position with the Alien Property Custodian, and that ere long he will be Federal Judge Meekins. Tire report is persistent here that when the appointment is ? J made of an assistant judge for Judge Henry (I. Connor, of Wilson, that the man who will be handed the judicial robes of the same class as those worn by Judge K. Yates Webb in the Western North Carolina Dis trict will be Colonel "Ike" Meekins. Major George Butler, Herbert Sea well and Irvin B. Tucker are said to be out of the running, if they ever were really in it. Chief Justice William Howard Taft is said to be fighting to have Colonel Meekins ap pointed and fighting also to keep Major Butler aid Herbert Seawell from getting the position. He is said to oppose George Butler be cause he is decidedly, positively and emphatically against former Senator Marion Butler, and suys that so J far as lie is able he will defeat the aspirations of Marion Butler's j brother. And he is against Herbert Seawell. just as he is against him | when as President he turned him , face to the wall, holding that a man ( who sued a railroad because he had | been rotten-egged on the railroad j premises is not fit to be a federal ( judge. As for Irvin B. Tucker, there i is 110 one here who can learn that lie has had any real look-in. And | Colonel Meekins not alone has Chief | Justice Taft backing him, but two big j backers are Senator Moses, New ?. Hampshire, and Wutson. led., both,, close to President Harding. Be- 1 sides this there is the big backing | that Colonel Meekins has from the , bar of North Carolina as well as s from many of the representative cit- j i/.ens of North Carolina. As seen bj | this correspondent, it will be pretty ^ safe to lay a bet on Colonel Meek- ? ins as being the man who will be ? made Assistant Judge in tin: Eastern North Carolina District. I GERMANS WILL RAISE i THE PRICE OF POTASH 1 Of interest to potato growers in the Elizabeth City territory is tlie [innouneeiueiit that German potash prices will be raised 3 per cent on October 1 to meet the rising costs ?f coal and labor, the Commerce l)e- ^ part men t is advised bv Trade Com-1 % inissioner Alfred P. Dennis, at Iter liu. The reported accord between j Herman and Alsationa potash groups to establish a monopoly and raise r prices, however, he reported, has v been denied by officers of the Ger man potash syndicate. , . The output of German potash for f 1022 was estimated in the advices it 1,2.T0,000 metric tons, compared with 1)21.(100 tons last year, while ( the former German potash mines in j Alsace will yield 120,000 tons of pot-, ish in 1022. The Alsation export.' ( rapacity this year was estimated at ^ 110,000 tons and the German export j rapacity at 400,000 tons. rj MARRIED YESTERDAY Walter Odell Ironmonger. 22. of r i'orktown, Va. and Louise E. Wil-1 oughhy. 10. of Louisa County, Va.. were married here at noon Thursday >y the lie v. E. F. Sawyer at his liome on Pearl Street, the ceremony l witnessed by K. It. Elliott, Mrs. < c Mattie Itichardson and .Mrs. E. F. J Sawyer, all of I his city. f LOUIS SELIG ANNOUNCES > HIS 40TH ANNIVERSARY 1 Forty years ago Louis Selig, "your.1 iewelcr since 1SN2" opened a small (| ivateli and jewelry repair shop in ( his city ?and curried a slock of jew- * dry which .Mr. Selig describes as j ' lot being large enough to fill up a (' igar box. To-day Selig's jewelry ' <tore ranks with the strongest in i' lie state and his stock is far above [1 lie slock carried by the average! ewelry store in cities of the size of j 11 Elizabeth City. I'' To comineuiorate his fortieth an-1 * liversary, Mr. Selig is beginning j e lext Monday a huge sule. offering1 lis entire stock at a sweeping re- j h luction of 25 per cent. This sale. 1 n it a time of the year when so many ii teople are in need of bridtil gifts, as ? veil as other jewelry for themselves, ^ t vill doubtless be well received by the a J leople of this comniuuity. li Mr. Selig attributes the success of I a lis busiuess to the fact that he has it ilways liandled only jewelry of iuown Quality and convinced people v hat a guarantee from tSelig's is a j n juarantee worth while. (v IS NEW TARIFF A GOLD J BRICK OR A GOLD MINE] What May Happen If Farmers Determine ll Get the Billion and a Half It n Promises Them J By W. C Lansdon, vice-president of the Kansas division of tha Farmers' Education and Co-operative Union of Amerioa ? m (Reprinted From The Nation, New York) STEPS RIGHT INTO THE OTHER FELLOW'S SHOES ' CHAS.H. GRADY NOBODY has iHon this 22-year-old lawyer in makj-ifg a big start. He jsed to be in' Elizabeth City until a I few months ago when he went down ? to Roanoke Island, mixed right in with the right crowd, bought a honse, I jot married, and now he is the Dem ocratic candidate for the legislature; laving got himself nominated after 3. G. Crisp died the other day. As , VIr. Crisp was the only other lawyer j n Dare County, young Grady will! walk away with the law practice, as well as the official honors enjoyed ly the former. He is the son of Dr. j ind Mrs. J. C. Grady of Kenly, John-1 son County, and got his law license I n February 1921, after graduating rrom the University of Virginia and ?Vake Forest College. He is young >ut he's as big as the picture looks. ( 'hoto by W. H. Zoeller. GOLDSBORO BONDS SELL \T A GOOD PREMIUM iVould Indicate Ready Market For Elizabeth City's New Bond Issue Tn view of the proposed offer of fc7.">0,0(M) of the bonds of Kli/.abeth 'ity for municipal ownership of pub ic utilities, the following news item ?elntive to the sale of similar bonds >y the city of (Johlsboro. X. C. is vorth noting. The following is from; rile News & Observer under date of Sept. 10. "A premium of $700 was offered 'or (Johlsboro's $(?."?. 000 five per cent dreet and water bonds by I'ayne iVeber and Company of Chicago and iccepted last night at the meeting >f the board of aldermen. One other >id was above $700. "City officials claim this is an un isually good price, nixl much more iremium than Ivinston and other cit es have sold bonds for recently. I'liese bonds were not voted but is sued by the board of aldermen.*', rENNIS SPRINGS INTO SUDDEN POPULARITY I Tennis, the game of royalty, for-j Marly beloved by the crowned heads i if England, sung by Shakespeare in j lis episodes of French history, and j aided as having descended from the Jreeks of the days of Homer, has luddenly sprung into unprecedented lopularity in Elizabeth City. Cam \\*. Melick states that he has lever seen such a demand for rje incts and other supplies as lias sud lenly sprung up here within the last ew weeks. A score or two of Kliz ibetli City players now indulge in arl.v morning games, and the depar ure of many college students has lot dampened the ardor and enthus asni which continues to spread over own. Incidentally if is said thut( uany experts are developing among j oral fa lis. chief among whom ranks j tuymond B. Sheely because of bis i xceptional skill at the game. Many famous tenuis courts in Eng-1 and have become established us fa- j uiliar landmarks, some of them huv ng existed for many centuries. Louis 1 v of France died from a chill eon racted during a game. As fur back ,s 1 -4.1, the game was prohibited to' ?riests. Louis XIV of France kept i l regular staff to look after his ten ds courts, and Paris alone boasted 1,10 courts in the lUth century. It vas told that there were more ten ds players in France than there vere drunkards in England. Is the McCumber-Fordney BUI gold brick or u gold mine for An icun fanners? This may be a fa isk question but there are a lot' fools as well as a few wise men n arc interested in the answer. Judj by the obvious motives of the i who have framed this indefetia tariff ami are using all the l>o of their party machinery to foeot through Congress there is but answer: It is a deliberate, oqrefi worked out, and wholly cold-blooti conspiracy ou the part of the h protectionists to fool the farmer*, to supporting a monstrous raid thp income'of the producers J workmen of the republic. But at last the foolers may be fooled. jW is so plaiuly intended as a gold bi may yet.turn out to be u regular | miue for American farmers. One of the most effective appe made to rural yoters during the litical campaign of the RcptfbH party, iu 10.0 was the promise t high tariff rotes would be impM 011 agricultural imports so that American farmer should be. faI from ruinous competition with cheap labor of other countries. Ea in the life of the new Administral u temporury or emergency agric tural tariff was passed by Congra and approved by the President. T| law, already once renewed, has bt in operation for more than a y< with the result that prices of net all farm staples are now very utl lower, even when measured by 4 fluctuating dollar, thuu they were, the years immediately preceding i Great War. That its an inauspicious begfonqH for the success of the tariff M a plfl area for farmers, but the Kepubfl cans iu both Senate and House fotifl in it ouly an incentive to build t|H tariff walla still higher. The >1 called HKricultural bloc has for^H the Senate to accept a duty of tfcjH cents u bushel on wheat. OtH agricultural products have reccll^H oi|ual greuter favors. Wfl which ha< the advantage of be^H represented in the Senate by great producers who are iufluen^H members of that body, is to have tfl highest protective tariff that has er been given any American intere^| Not a single commodity produced American furuis has been over4ook^| or slighted. Once it begins to fua^| tion the results of the new tariff be truly magnificent fur funncrql 011 paper. The Expert'* Figures I According to an alleged exiiffH connected with the Ways and Ile^H Committee of the House of' BemH sentatives the new law will eurHl American furmers by the very rtl spcctable aniouut of about H billiolfl ami a half dollars a year. To lodfl n gift horse in the mouth before dH cepting it and becoming reapopsfq^J for its oats may not be go?4 ? foqfl but in the light of their cxp*ii4&g^| with agricultural protective tariffs ? other times the furmers of the ed States, even those who,dp tfl live in Missouri, are scarcely to blamed for demanding proofs. naturally they want to know vvhdH t hat billion und a half is eoa|^| from uud just how much it is gofcfl to 'cost them to get it. 4H "i lie tariff expert arrived at j? figures by a very simple proc#? simple in more than one awy. Ta? wheat for example. The amufl Americau production of that high? useful cereal is around 800,000,0? bushels. A tariff of thirty centi^? bushel, therefore, will put the tid sum of $240,000,000 a yer.r in t? pockets of the American wltq? growers. The sunie rule is appUj? to other crops and to live stock affl the results so obtained foot up to one uuil one half billions of doll^H with which agriculture is to be a? richcd annually by the magic procedfl es of tlie new Republican tariff. In a few years our furmers w? pay all their debts, there will be more tenancy and every furm hoM? will have a bath tub, an elecu^| light system, aud a flivver. Bat I? fore we spend any of that money <? must check up op the expert, j I? appears to have overlooked tka ,'fajfl ly well-known fact that America? wlieat growers produce a goodlsia? surplus each year over home need and that our surplus must W MM on world murkets at world t>fld Xo law made by the Congress, of fll United States, even when that bo? is dominated by the superlative w? dom aud the masterly and nhahehl^B statesmanship of the Republican pfld ty?see any campaign document gM can add a single penny to / tka p? (Concluded on Pace/ fl>) j?