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CHARLOTTE .DAILY OBSERVE!?, SEITEMISEI5 11, 1005. A V - Uoal, Lrklto'V. . Shaw,' iff:-' MR. SHAW AT; S A F.ISBUBY " o (Continued from Pair One.) Dlngley Jaw for allowing, manufacturers wbo export their products the advanut of ..the d material authorises the Secre tary of the Treasury to pay back te the riponep- oi munuraciurea mercnanaise n wr nt.' ol tha' duty which he has actually paid npon any Imported ma tertut consumed therein. Dunn the Jaat flaeel- year there waa refunded to ex patera of manufactures produced in whole or In part from Imported dutiable tiiHlerial approximately: fci.000.000. -Tha -vreruna ar duty , averagea about s per ; cenv-or.ine vaiue or tne exported met ', -rhandisa, This drawback provision, therefore, . 'Justinee the sale ' abroad of i.v,(iuo,( .-worta of mrr1can-nvanurio-. tured tnerchandlie per cent, below the .-; Sumestlo price of similar articles. Both .,: ; tlicae provlaiona of , the ' Dingle? tariff .... la.; were -anacted for the avowed and " sole -purpose of enabling the American ' employer of labor to put hie product on the foreign market at reduced prices. la this way only Is he able a uccesefully to ; compete with rivals who. always have v. ma peaenc or cheap labor and frequently ' ' of nondurable and uatasad tmiIdHiL , The articles on which drawbacks are allowed are numerous and varied. Lat year- drawbacks were allowed on 18 ar. - - tinea in wmclt dutiable Iron or steel waa :- ' consumed, t articles In which dutiable imported lead ore or lead bullion was . Incorporated, t articles In which dutiable tin Plata termed a part, articles In - Which dutiable sugar or molasses was , V l used. 12 different articles In which Im-.- ported dutiable alcohol was used, sever al la which imported dutiable hides er - learner waa used, and no and or articles in which dutiable Imported ' wool - waa , tired. Drawback were allowed on over ' i taaauractured articles, in the aro- - ' Auction of which 0 different kinds of . auriuriie imported materials were oon . :' aumad. . . - '- - ' . . - lee polley of allowing drawbacks upon j the., exportation of manufactures into which dutiable raw material has entered , la la strict harmony with the principle V.,v of protection. The protective principle ( "yuwt emu. ia met gives tne American Y. producer an advaahtire within the ? Amerload v market, , but no - economle . ' .policy can give the American producer Jut advantage over hie foreign competitor '.. lTWK LABORER PKOTECTED. ; . . Tba Republican party , from, the time" of Its birth until now has protected the . a sorer wno preaucea Tor the American X. market In every way possible for man ... to 'ouneetva. Republican leaislatlon ax. eludes Chinese labor primarily because .... ma . LDiunun reiusea to live on the A. American standard. TTia coolie laborer , w unpopular, mrgely because of his In sxtM-nstve habits. Me neither feeds him , v self, clothes hlmaelf. nor bonuses his ;Mm"y oa ao Americans. . L.lvina' pn a . jowrr puine, ne can or course a fro Id to work cheaper than Americana and hla . presence-la a menace, not so much to American moraia as to American labor, V To -the extent that ha secures his pro , ;,, rata, share of American wages and falls to contribute proportionately to the oon k sumptlvs capacity ot'- the country Ms presence la undesirable. The Republican party therefore says to him: - "Unless " you consent to be an American conaunr : rr yeu ahall not be an American pro. , ',' fluewr. You must, be an American la . both. re pec t er in neither." v Republican laws againat contract labor I : vera of the same class. But for theaa laws . manufacturers would go abroad, hire laborers at the Kuroneun enala of . , wagea, and bring them to this country imiifr conimoi j 10 worx doiow the '. American scale. This was onea the ., practice to' th, prejudice not onlr of ' luoor out to uis prejudice or the Atnerl. '( can fnrmer as well. Low wages compel 'poor--livmg and poor living barms the , farmer and the manufacturer also, for , it restricts to a consumptive capacity of ' ' the country. ,. , ,, ;, .-..J , , The jiepubncsn party gives the Amort . raa manufacturer for the foreign mar- . Vet, ' however, every possible advantaaa ; exoept that Df cheap (abon. No law run ,. protect the American producer In the . rnrelsrn fnapaet. rtmmm rh. itArt a V IhA nru1lipt .Af ImaHMn lalw, la van : the oheaoeat poaalble raw material. " If . it ne sam tnat tuie is to the advantage ' ot tne exporter, 1 reply tnat it aida quit . as much ' those whom the exporter em. ploya, while those who supply the ordl- nary neeas 01 tnesa employed a . are oenenieq a 10, .-:: . . Perhaps J can make this'. drawback principle clearer by means of an llluitra-tlon.- The American producer of steel blllele has a minimum protection of KU2 , per ion. ; The producer or spikes and bolts hat a -protection of 111 44 and 8. per ton respeetlvely. The American Iron . end bteel Manufacturing Company, or Iiebanon. Fa., .was paid last .year In .mi A MitnKAM tin IWi a. t. 1 ' ,1 . v .... t . (iH.iiar.ia T " ,''. uiaa I. I K ajl I lf exportation of t.00 worth of railway exportation or ir.oo worth of railway pikes nnd bolts produced from Imported steei Diuais. ' v , . , . Is effect the government ' said io this concernt If you will consume $,0u0 worth of American In bor In the menu facture of 7S,fliio wori of spikes and bolts, there will be piild back to you i soon as you export your produot flO.'Kii of the duty whlfh you pny on the bil lets consumed. -This drawback ennfcled till" - concern to sell I75.0HO worth of .'spikes and bolt abroad t for f6.0OO and make the same profit as If snjd at home lor ,a.ww. 11 oeing impossime ti protect the Amerloan producer of. spikes and lt In the forelan market, the law an. horlitea this refund to him On nranf of iptirtntion, . with mimlfeet ' Intent tbnt h aha 11' sell his product abroad that much below the American market price, " In Home Incnlltles there Is a demand 'f.r 'the admia-lon of hide free of duty, end )e principal reason aaelgned Is that It will enable tha mantu'acturers' of leather goods to export more of (heir products. Drawbacks were allowed dur ing the Jt year, " however, on large amntinta of axported leather produced from dutiable .imnorted hides and on ahee- and heltinr produced frem " dutlnble , Imported leather. One ' con cern 1 In lloatnn received ' $l.0rt) n dreahncks on the exportation of Sole leather produced from Imported hldea, J'rciirrmlily this sole nthr was aold ehroHil rhean-T than et home. It could have been. There waa lm,( dlfTeren.-e In II rout and the coat of a like amount of Hole leather ronaumed et home. 1 re. prut. It is the pollcv of the Republican part.v.tw five ilie exporter of iiunufiio. lurcl proUncta the benefit of the cheup. e. t i-oMlhle raw mnf i-rlol. Me mliet pey the Anierlcan nlnriilurd of waaea for the J.ilx.r consumed a that thoee in his em. filnv iniiv In turn Ciinxume Amerlonn fmiil producta, Anierti-nn-niile rlothlna, live In Amcih'Hn hotuee, and eriunite thwlr . Iilliiren to the American stjimlnrd but whenever th .l.i.turt of Uila Altl.'d run I !,..r 1- e..ot., ti, f,t out f, f e ) l . ' ' ' I'll' l, ! , i y f'. ., piiii keijt ti.-i la v i m'-i-i1 . i. ;u i, .a Tmi Vi; ft 4 v. -. - 1 'H 9 xretiry of the TToeenry. ' j, v . ; . , . , , . .... auty no has paid on tne imported tna- teriaL..'-. . . .1 ..s .'' , We exported during' tha last fiscal year approximately &70,ouo,W0 of manufaotur. ad Droducta exclusive of. treparcit and partially prepared foeday Of this total Probably (o.OUO.ouO v- was' ' produced In bonded smelteries and faotorios, and no duty waa collected unoa the materia! consumed. On approximately ruu,U00,ou a drawback of about i per cent, was re covered. Thus It will be seen that nearly 2ft per cent- of eur exported manufac ture leave this country ceetlng the ex porter : leas than oorrespondinic articles which he places on tha American Bar. get, ' -i'y . : I - - ry frequently tha drawback thus al lowed, though Imall, baa 'made po"lbl tne exportation or America a products. To what extent', our export . trade la marAifactures Is dependent on this wise provision of taw under wnicn American labor, while ' working - generally - for Americans, is enabled to perform some service .. tor otner countries, no one can tell.- I am convinced that muoh mora can 'be accomplished along this line by llberalixlng our drawback lawa - This phase of tha question, however, I will not discuss at this time. - Suppose Senator On I linger estimate to- be correct that t4,Me,0uu of American manufacture. Is annually aold abroad -at f rices lower -than prevail In this ooun ry, what does it prove? We manufuc tura about 11000 million per' annum, ex. clualve of ' prepared foods, of which KOU0.600 la but one-third of 1 per cent if Senator Galllnger'a estimate la correct then . for every ll.flOO ' worth of output from our shops and factories about 10 cants' worth is sold abroad cheaper than at home. - The manufacture of )l,0u0 wonn oi onisneo prooueta' neoessiuiies tha outlay of f&oe In wages. -The proposi tion, therefore, may be stated as fol lows: Vor every VK In wagea paid by our a ho pa and factories 20 cents' worth of the resulting products are disposed of In foreign markets at reduced prices. Of our manufactures excursive of pre. pared ana -partly prepared joocs, w ex. port but a small fraction above per cent, la other words, of every tl.000 la finished products at tha -door of our shops and factories, 'the production of wnion nae onsumea xow wortn or tanor, practical In' $.'4 worth is - sold abroad, snd of this 161 actually exDorted. a lit. tie over ft worth la sold, below the American market. ... . ' PRACTICED RT fWKERCOtlMTRTEa. Tha practice complained of is not con Anad to America, nor . la It . limited to oountria where ,the protective principle prevails.-- Every, government of. Europe approves u ana au, save one, encourage It. Oeorge Paiah, editor of The London Statist. berhaDSj tha laraeat economlo lournai 1 published In the Enrllah Ian. guaga, was my gueet at ue Witt, iowa, during tha campaign ..of ; U04., I Intro. duced him to my audience and he- aat upon sny platform.' . Purina tha discus aion oi mis suojeoi i maae tne state ment that every forelan aovernment ex cept. Kngland- encourages the sale of manufactured products aoroad cheaper tnan at noma, ana aaaea tnax i waa not certain as to the- Kaxllsh policy and asked Mr. Palsh tor- information. Promptly did be. reply: . "England doea not encourage it, but pur people prac tice It."- The practice is frequently re ferred to by writers on political economy as the Kngllsh-Chnrnauv poltey.--"-- special agents at the Treasury Deoarte ment throughout . Europe occasionally pick up two catalogues published by the same house, one market "ex port' r and the other "domestic." . Thee catalogues will be Identical In every respect except price, and the price for export will be from 6 to S per oent. lower than for tha domestic market. They frequently And discount sheets aoniloabla to the same catalogues but regularly -ottering to sell for export to the United States material. ly tower than at noma, i bold la my hand an original letter from ,a manufac turer in ' Bwltterland,' the heading to which locates It offices and show rooms In London also. It waa written and Is addressed to a well-known firm la New York city, and reads as follows! 'v "Kepiying to your ravor vtn March, wa beg to state and cenflrm that our European market price la 86 pfa.. sub ject to la per cent, and I per cent dis count. There are no dilTerenoes between tha different States except such , as are necessitated by tha customs duties of every country (toiy' Inatanoe , Germany 0.8R.' rranca 1.10).. . A , -(-. V? . ,,. wa have given you the following die. n our regular price of 85 ufa.s- "Ten per eent- plus f per cent, blue I per cent, plus -W per, cent., which Wt confirm herewith." . ' ' i t ' Thus this Bwlsa mantrfaeturer' onenlv oDst s bis product i In America approxi mately . It. Ier cant. lower than 4n the, country of production, '' : -".v',i. ' The law requires merchandise, to be entered at ' tne. roreign market . value and advalorem "duties ara levied there on. - The Importer, has tha : right Of coarse, to buy abroad, as Cheaply aa pos- alhle. hut he milet nav llufv- nn the full rtorelgn value.- All Importers ara requir ed to nia their . original Invoicee , and when' they buy below the regular foreign market value they muat add to this In voice an amount equal to tha different This is technically known as "nddlAa? make-market voiue."-f When the Itn- liurwr nine io auu to maae mnraet value hla-duties ' are increased to the extent of bis undervaluation. During the last fiscal year, at the r port of New Tork alone, upward of l',00V Invoices, covering mora than I..OOO.OuO worth of merchan. dlae, were filed and thereon. tha Importer maoe . voluntary advances aggregating over. 4 million and a half. Thta is proof positive that there was sold for exports, tlon to this country durlna the last fiscal year ttn,io,0oo worth of merchandise, at sn aberage of 1 per cent blow the price ?t Wlilch It could have been purchased or consumption in tbs country of pro. dllctlOIV .. , , s.. :, .. " KnrUnd Is a free-trade countrv. anit Vet linxllnU merchandise Is -freefv and openly sold vry any In the. calendar yeur ror exportation to-'Amerlca cheaper man tor nome consumption, noma time atro the Fngllab china , mnnufiicturers In American parlance: the Knallnh china trust) arranged among thmslves to sen tneir products tor exportation to the United fltntee IS per Cent below tha r-arnliir Kngllnh market Tha Treasury l)epnrtrnent learning of this, for It wns no secret advanced their wares accord Intrlv. and a teet -aae was tried at Hul. tlmore before a Iernocrailo member ot th boiird of general appraisers, Mr. Mc t'lellnrul. Tha aula leeue at tbe trial wnl tbe reifiilur ixnrket price of this luiort ed rlnnu In tha l""clll. market. Mr Mct'lelliind told me Hint there were 11 let wit'i iilrn at the trial a In me number oi afii'livlts from Krigllh manufacturers ebilina epeclurnlly Hint the invoiced jibe n the reaulnr price at which the iirtiBiit would tt willing 11 e"'l to nnv ouo for fxnnrl to the t'nltwtl Hfnie, l Sn.v t.(.:M not a-y H wmh ii, e t - e t' v f i ' I t ii i, ., (., ' i l i. Ui, II 111 i -ns'iil ml. , ' Sd genernl ha this prnctlce liecoru thtit u UkrKf number of New York im porters appeared before. tne ways and luewna coiiiriiitlue at the recent saaalon of Conxi-rsa la ura an amendment to the customs .'administrative! law undttr which H ans proponed to levy and col lect ad valorem duties not as now. oa the market price In the country whence exported, but on the price at which the producer' might be willing to sell for ex. port 'to -the United States. These 1m porters know, better-than others, that the price of nearly every kind of inor clmndlse is from I tO",'6 per cent cheap er when sold for export to 'the- United Ktates 'than when -sold for local con sumption, and they sought In this In direct way to 'effect a material reduc tion In ou tariffs. i .. v The Treaaury Department ,-hs many contldentlal ugents in Europe, and I of. nclally meet a large number of people, many of them Importers, who annually go to Europe on . buslneas. ' Through these two sources I have auugfct to find what If any, articles of ' American pro duction nu be purchased abroad cheap er than at- home, and Incidentally have accumulated abundant evidence 1 to. dl prove tha claim of our opponents that tne practice oi dumping, as, it ja -called throughout JSurope, is .general. X. hold in my handa a. letter from a business man of New Jersey on the subject. He say ha recently pure hosed at Trenton, N. J., a McCormlcR - mower. tor KM, This, he says. ; whs tha price at' which' anyone could buy, ' spot cash, i Ma found , tbs identical make and pattern for sale in England at 19 pounds (lto.40 our money), and in Prance for franca S7fi, or tbt. He IVHHU Dlllllll C ,1 CWaj lVIIVl. V. 11 IV. U regularly sell in New York at HoM for aiils in Paris at the equivalent ot liS. He found 'the ' Dong las .'shoe,- advertised ' In every - town In the United , -tilatea for is. bo per pair,, .also popular In -London, tha metropolis- at a free-trade country, at- the equivalent of 44 per pair, and In Paris at the equivalent of ft.25 per pair. The identical Sorosls shoe, which sells In Vew Vm-ft at ftl hi I la maid In Iindon at Vk2S.:: My-daughters,' who spent the winter In - Kurope, wrote' their mother who waa, soon to loin them, to bring shoes, for they could not get good shoes as cheap In Paris. My .friend say a he round a Hinger sewing macuine at - l cheaper nrlce in Europe than la Amert ca. but he added that it waa a machine made at their German factory, and -of a much rougher finish - and interior in ev ery wsy. . . . WHO SUrP-ERH BECAUSE Of IT? But what shall be said of this practice ss a- policy? Is the practice bad per seT Who - suffers because of It T Does tha American In borer! - Oo ask the man who produces 1 these exported wares thus dumped abroad, I -have been criticised for. saving that I would prefer to have tha American manufacturer sell-hi producu abroad cheaper than at noma rather than have the foreign producer sen nis wsres in America camper man at home.' This is tha same as saying that I would prefer to have the produota of our faotortee close foreign shops rath er than have the producta of foreign shops. close our factories. I wish hit tha world well, but if anyone baa to be out of emnlovment If there must be Buffer. Ins; somewhere, then V will use my best efforts that It come not nigh my coun. try- 'U. 'to accomplish this, it shall be necessary that , I , pay - more for my clothes, more for my shoes, more for my sewing machine; more for my- type writer, mora ror tne oaroaa wire used on my Iowa farm than Is paid for tha sams articles in .Europe, then l will not object so long as the producta of Ameri can farms . feed, and the produota of American looms clothe, and the products of American labor generally supply ev ery neea or, moss wno proauije, mess things thus sold abroad at reduced prices. I. wilt "consent to pay' a tittle more than otherwise would be necessary to the end that tha products of Amert. can labor shall be-out oa foreign -tnar- SliAW AT WINSTON-SALE v ' Srorrtary of th Trcaati rr Makra ' 'Mlkt bfiKKHb Bpercfi for the Bene. . Bt of KVM-aytti KcvnbUcanawpis. : tlnimiahed Visitor the Uncut of vtlia Twin-tlty Board of Tirade. Special to Tbe Obaerrer. .' : v- ' Wlnaton-Ralem. : Rent. ' 10 Ttnn Leslie M 8haw.4 8ecretaryof the Treaxury,' addreaaod an audience) ; of nearly z,O0O people lit. the ' Elks" AudltoHutrfvv to-day,; ' The 'nation's DanKer- came to the ute by mvita tion of the Republican executive committee, but the Winston board of trade, -undertook his . l- entertainment His arrival at 1:10 o'clock this morn Ins; waa heralded by the plowing- of factory whistles. He waa met at tbe train by a committee from the board of trade and escorted to the Phoenix Hotel. . Later he waa - tendered an automobile . rids over the city, which terminated at the Elks Andltotinm. Every geat In the ; pretty puy house was filled and .there waa gdnerons aprinKiing of ladles. - un tne auge were Mr. W. A. Blair. who Introduced ' , Secretary . . Shaw, Mayor Eaton and eight others. ; No one would accuse ' tha fine ra ta ry of being an orator. He la tail. has; a large frame, la stoop-shouldered ana awkward. He has large handa, and when not popping his Angara to attract the attention or bis audience. permlta them to rest .upon hla hlna. giving the Impression that ha 1 In Daln.. ' Hla.. tron.srrav hair, ta clnaa cropped and the retrratlna; forehead la accentuated by baldness, His limb are long and ungainly and, when not Mridlng back and forth like a caged animal, he awkwardly ahifts from one foot to the other. The description. mat nta nim'best is one-1 caught at random:, -: "A euocesaful "'country banker, who hag made a good Score tary 'of they Treaaunr Despite, his awkwardnesa and hla mannerisms such for Instance at hla occasional reference , to - "Noth Callny" he made, frorn. a Republican standpoint. a rood speech. W was Informal and embellished with "anecdote and Illus tration and waa altogether amooth., . There were more Democrata than Republicans 1n ' his audience and about half of big time waa taken up with apologetic byplay for preaching Republican doctrine. . He ' exchanged pleaaantrloa with hie Audience, made frequent requests ft those standing to cvniw uy iruiiv, iiiau piayiui oauinage with the ladles and finally had time to ' discuss .'. two laaues tariff " and trusts, . Accepting Mr. &ran'a Kew Tork apeech aa the pemocratlo. key note, he aalled' inp the Nebraska n with ridicule ana argument. "I like Bryan," , he declared.:, i, "I . would like to have hla 'gift of oratory, though the gift of logic la. more to -be de rtrd.? i '-if y-. , : : k lie declared that the Sherman law met all the , requirements demanded by Mr. Bryan for the control of trusts, and ridiculed the Nebraskan'a plan of requiring truats to tak out a Federal license. - The Sherman 4aw, he aald, covered this point, too, for first, "Ton must prove that It la a trust," -and 'he' backtracked: "what law Ii there against one man, buying all the salt produced In the United Btatea?" It waa the 1 government' duty, he aald, to see that "the great game of btinlnasa is well played, but the government must not alt in the game." ; '.'.; . f- - -...' ? Taking up Mr. Bryan'a government ownership of railroads Idea,, Mr. Phaw dwelt ' upon . the honesty and Integrity ef tha employes of ., the Treaaury Department, citing Illustra tions to ahow the tests: he had made. A voice In the audience Interrupted him to ask, him if he could run the railroads -the same, way and' very promptly he gave a negative answer, following tha simple statement with two "parables" to convey hla mean ing.' In 18Z, ho aald. Mr. Cleveland signed the bill appropriating a certain- amount of money for a public building for Chicago: Blxty days ago he laaued the final check to the con tractors; Contractor McDonald com pleted the subway tunnel under New York city In two and one-half years, and If the munlclpnllty of New York had undirtakn the contract one hundred years would lmve been re quired to comi'letfi the Job. He cited a few other sltnllnr exatn S'Icm, trnw l' I'1" roi; .-.irli 'Mi lni-eet. j(,vern mcnt and j uvaio enferprlsy and let It go at that. In a. gentle way he flayed the Democrats for What he termed their Incorrect principles, per sUtently drawing the conclusion that both parties were 'together, on all vital questions and that ' the ele mentary principles were alt (hat held them , apart nd these, , for the, most part,1 were matters of environment. The future,; tha eafety f the coun try he declared,, tresta with. , the men who. thtnki, and who go to the polla and vote according to their own dic tates, regardless- of party lines or precopta, ' "Hla .address.' throughout war an efrprt to ' aet forth, - in a simple , ' way, Republican doctrine, without ' off enae to the most i'gun ahy'f Demoerata, and the very j few ''iH.tii' ' .ibam - 'waM' '.t.ele.il , .Aver With humor; and, fetching 'anecdote. On the whole it - waa" a amootn. ,.ei fectlve "booBt' for -the State's 0.' O. K. At" o'clock Secretary Shaw. waa the guest of the Twin City Club at a reception and at 6 o'clock he left for Salisbury ',;.'t.;:i.'A,;.', V :,;...;, R. JV,y,''. ,'l-,Ve in' i''? '.''"; h - nijeoavE : sbci4,: bjiaw; Artvlne'a'rCvlrullttee' ' Composed ct : BoUi ItepnbUciuia and Demoerata, -, Special' to-The Obaervcrv; ; : ; Aahevllle, Sept 10. Commltteea composed of clUiena, members of tha Aahevllle. board of trade, bankers and representatives of, th, city govern- : ment were thla afternoon appointed t receive Secretary of, the Treasury Lea He .M. Shaw upon tola arrival . here Wednesday . morning; t The Commit tees are composed -off both. Demoerata and Republicans ana. in ao rar as tne retention to the Secretary goes, poli tics will net enterv; .V The people of Aahevllle are going to exert every ef fort to make the Secretary's slay nere pleaaant The city -auditorium ,haa been secured aa the Tlace of speaking and, tbe hour noon, Wednesday. , ' I li, l y - ' ' ' TO RELIEVE IABOR SHORTAGE. Rigid EnforMmetnt' of Vagrancy - laiwa bv Mayors mud Boarda of Al demirn it Soother n Cltlra Would : Do Much tCj Ilrlp the MtuaUon. Southern (.umber Journal. The action A of ,' the Georgia and Florida Sawmill AaaoclaUon In Jack' onvllle the other day, ot which time It waa resolved t Inaugurate a local campaign In all the cities and towna throughout the South, ta the right and.' proper thing.-., and word should he passed down the line to thla el ect by the lumber contingent all over the country, under the pian as aaopt ed at Jacksonville It waa deemed wise and beat that every lumberman ahoald call upon bis homo paper to urge the mayor and board of aldermen to rig Idly enforce the vagrancy law of that community. The. acarclty of labor and mill help In the South has as sumed au(h proportions since the first of the year' as to arouse the most se rious apprehension over the final out come of thla mooted question. At the same time we can all bear testimony to the fact that there Is not a city, town or hamlet In the country but what, you will find there negroes loaf ing -on the street corners and hang. lng around the wharves and steam ship docks In droves ranging in slxe from five to. twenty-five In number. Herein lies one of the serious trou blea with this vexatious question, and one of the primary causes of the unl vernal scarcity of labor. Since the hrst. fit, the year matters have been growing from bad to worse, and the Importation of fotelgB labor haa thua far failed to remedy the situation., ' There is one solution to this ques tion, however, and we believe the so lution la In. the hands, of the various municipalise throughout-the coun fry. Let the mayors In all the cities, towns and Villages In tbe 1 Statea of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia. Florida, Alabama and Ml slsslppt ' meet at some eentral point and. after discussing the best means and methods for tbe preaent difficul ties, then and there . among them aelvea agree upon a campaign for tha moat ' rigid enforcement of . the va grancy laws, euah aa are to be found on . the statute booka In ' the various States at thla time. Then let Louts! ana, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Ken tucky and Tennessee adopt a similar policy, other parts of the country do ing the same thing, until the whole country haa been organised. This would enable the mayor of .one local ity to act In conjunction with his next door., neighbor, so to speak, and . in this way there would be concerted action and no conflict ot opinion be tween the various heads ot the differ ent , municipalise. Thla plan would furnish no hiding place for Idle loaf ers, white or black,-, who .would there by- be given to understand that they most work or move on. ,. ' This plan would have the effect of dissolving ana scattering .tne numer oua bands of loaf era, who are barely eking out ' an existence In . different Cities, towns and villages on five, and ten cent Jobs, arid in thla way fur. Blah an Immense number of handa for the mills, woods and fields. We honestly believe that we have enough help here In the South It the vagrant laws were rigidly enforced, to fill every, need, and what la more, the average negro help 1ft the country la far superior to that of the, average foreigner, auch aa we have been' able thus far to Induce to come down thla way, f. Will the mayors of the differ ent - munlclpalltlea , throughout , .the country adopt thla plan and thereby render a lasting service to a great country? Great shall be their re-, ward if they will." y ' - v ; k j , ... . TUB VLVEYARDS OF MEtfDOZ.V TbHr Delicate Syetem of MJnlAture Ir rigation and Tnelr lamoua Leaf Ttuiiiclod ..Walks.,, :vi;i ,.""',' ' London Nowg,. ',''. 'i'J-f: i'l The broad fcvenUe of .Sari Martin Ilea bathed In the aummsr'a heat But for thW row of poplar that line eaoh side t the street the whole of its length would feet the glow that, white and stifling,: beats down at Intervals through the 'gaps In the massive branohea ' 'As It'la the roadway la dappled with' ahane, whiles a small canal trickles on either band by the side of the tree trdnka r Tha allmnse of moving , wateramakes the sense of shelter doubly pleasant- Still, the morning Is hot, even for Mendosa, and the Argentine, dust hovsrs over the cobbled street. - i ':--. v, i , But allies of the shade and of the strsama are now to be seen. A com' pany of small boy la advancing slow- y on either side of the street. Armed with poles to whlch are attached bucket-like scoops, they dip the latter mm tne small canals and-fi nsr the water across the thoroughfare. Thus two score Of so Of watery Jets corns tumbling Inwards from either hand upon the surface of the road. The battle with, the dust Is In full swing; Mendota is Doing, watered. As the arrlage that is bound for vineyard. land passes through the ranks of the boys the purified air fills one with gratitude towards their labors and the precious streams. , Hut these are nol done with yet. In the town Itaelf we have driven over the solid culverts at street comers, carelessly oblivious that the streams , exist.-.. Hut In tho but, Mrt the v lii -ifi M flunr 1 r-tf m l t .;((,(!. ,.-r 't,i, ;.k,tt af.i-iiliDii. A he cobbles give way to soft earth It Is ' over a sheaf of boughs laid across an open streafn that the carriage passes.. As tho town Is left further behind tne brsnches grow ever more attenuated. The loosely set,! fragile bridges bend beneath the. weight, of the carriage, but ' the. ' whels roll and bump ovme them in an astonishing series ot provi dential escapeB,(r'''!u'.',,,'.,.'-.uk..fr i'V'j ! ;',,.'',-' , The hount-s fall away and the" pop-. la r 'groves rise thickly) on all sldea, nere la a lowiy .forest or sienaer, graceful - saplings; ' there la a broad clump of others whose trunks have attained to tbs thickness of a foot or so;-while farther en rises an" lmpos injf collection' of , giant slse, , each) standing weir apart from the rear. There are mllliona of these poplars, each ' priced ; accurately:' according to It slae, For In : Mendosa the poplar Industry ' Is aotlve, and the trees are grown, bought and sold with the same readiness with which a . wheat -crop to the point where they are lost In the white light at the tunnel's and.-;' i Walking through the vinerarda one may learn the reason of their luxurl- ance. Here, there, and everywhere are tiny canals, of a yard, foot, or even of slighter breadth, The little atreums apread . '' themselves . In an, amaalng network ot dainty Irrigation, one apeedlng freely . aiong, another dammed , In for a space-by a minia ture water-gate. It la difficult to re gard thla. lUlputtan system of canal and lock as ether than a pretty toy scheme. But It la for the sake ot these rivulets that the huge' permanent' weir on the Mendosa river haa Its ex istence. " The fey torrent that oomea thundering, downwarda from tho snowy peaka of the Andes upon the horison has been dammed from bank, to bank for.no reason but this. The waters-have been- tamed, warmed In the lower heat, and sent flying in all directions -to work. Hence the pop lar, the vine, tho asparagus, onion and potato that thrive between 'Us rows. - The prosperity of Mendosa Is bound up In It net work ot little streams. --It would be an ill hour tor the town In the shadow ot the Andee should they Cease to flow. -; OLD EGYPT UNEARTH ED; The Town of the Shepherd Kings Dug From Sand of Ccnttirlo London Graphic v. At University College this year tha annual exhibition, of the year's work that haa been done In Egypt by the British School Of Archaeology' and tho fclgyptlan .Research Account haa very wisely been subdivided as to pre sent distinct foci of Interest, so that the- Intelligent visitor. In surveying the tokens which Prof. Petrle and Mrv Duncan and Mr. Gilbert Smith have brought home, la conscious of the meaning and the Implications of tho dlscovertee. The exhibits are elucidat ed by plans and models: and the rath er formal and concentrated descrip tions offered .by the published reports are supplemented each day by little lectures, which are delivered In, tho morning and afternoon by some one or other of the archaeologists. Last year the chief work of tho British school was along the eastern side of the delta between Cairo and Ismalia, and It haa 'brought to light, after many centuries, the habitations of the moat ancient shepherd ktnga of the Iaraelltes the Hyskos and one of the cltlea that they built. At TeU-el-Tehndlyeh the excavatlona laid bare a great camp which la cer tainly older than the eighteenth dye nasty, and enshrines within Its con fines many graves and tomba which are of the period ot these shepherd kings of Israel. who ruled 1,600 years before the .coming of Christ, The defense of the camp, not-unlike a great "fon duk." such as .now exists In the Saha ra as a refuge for travelfhg caravans, wers chiefly earthworks, and It la evident that Its dwellers relied on their archers and sllngers to keep off the enemy on the long "glacis" of tho approaches to the walla But the camp reveals that the rela tions between Israel and Egypt were not always such as have been suppos ed; that time brought Its revenges; and that a great wall was built around the camp by the skilled masons of, Egypta wall of finest limestone, In I blocks brought rrom tne nuia twenty five mllea away. Truly, when one contemplates thla link of continuity of labor between the pyramids and the Assouan dam, one,beglns to lym- pathlse with the Egyptians ss a rsce wbo have never been allowed to cease from their building. A very interest ing, model of this primeval camp to xmong the exhibits. Not less faacU natlng la a piece of temple sculpture, representing Ramessu II, slaying a Syrian before the god Atmo. It formi sd one side of the temple as the Is raelite city of Ramsses at Tell-el-Retabsh. - By the ancient site of .Ave rts found the great mound and temple which onus, the hign priest, duiiu Ha had fled from the perseeuttona of Antlachus Eplphsnes and came to Egypt about 1(0 B. c. to round a new Jerusalem and raise a temple to Je hovah where the Jew might worship In peace. One of the most singular dlacofsriea in connection wun tnia temple waa a place of the builders' account showing bricks to have been Pure White Lead Graded" White Lead,; as the cheap. Adulterated ' article is sometimes called, , is aa expensive purchase at any price. kh. k H Pure White Lettd costs' o little more per pound, and blasts ' so much longer ori the 'buildingj that only, die pure could' be sold, i; the property owner jvas al-'-vyays fully informed bn the subject of paint materials. To be sure of " absolute - purity insist on having ' ; ft Pure Vhlio lead dtaee Of tae 014 Petsh Mixed with Lewis ; Lin seed Oil, ,it( is ' a perfect paint. If your dealer will , not supply you, write, us. icr.x t. mvis a r.sos. co. . 231 S. freei St., riiilad.lpliia. ra. , Tor sate by all tnt class deafer. delivered by a Jew named A lira m, together-with other details, which cor roborates thoee that are set aown In the Mstorj i of Josephus. i . " '; Inducements to Die. . jt I , r,r r. r . v . ' v',,For latest designs in undertaking, see W, A. Swan or' A.; L. Hawkins. Entire new stock: satisfaction guar anteed. The Swan Company. Blue tm, ayanne.v ':,;.' ,' -vy'j j':' -" C.': P. Elha Coa Cotton Jttcrv".' Special to. The Obssrvsr. ii,':: ? v -y s;'l 'New Orleans. 'Lai, Sept. 10. The higher range' of prices created to-day la directly due to the publication of (he Agricultu ral Department's eonditon reports, com piled from return dated Aug. IfSth,; show ing a percentage 'of 77.1 - aa . compared with t2. last month, 731 last, year, and SO in ISM, '' (". Although half of the ' Improvement ' at enk time recorded waa subsequently lost upon the promulgation - of - the census figures as to ginning, giving a total this year of a,2J with t,m gins' reporting against 47,U last year with 8.82 gins reporting. the former ; document 4 waa construed as extremely) bullish 'making allowance for the' deterioration occurring since the returns were received, whlah ! Is claimed ' to have been greater than be fore that time. On the other hand tbe census figures were Interpreted aa bear ish, the total being regarded surprisingly large In view of Uis lateness ot tbe crop over tbe eastern belt. This la clearly shown by ' the detailed statement In which It is found that Texas contributed no less than I2&.000 balsa To- our minds, however. . this very feature. le. a bullish rather than a bearish one,' emphasising the susceptibility of the erop to weather conditions henceforth and Indicating tha Importance ef the frost date ta .deter mining the ultimate yield. Tne crop, therefore, is not made by any means and it can bo a very large one, or a moderate one, ' . .. Naturally, the world Is laboring under the shadow of thslr experience two years ago, when at this time, deteriora tion reports were proline and resulted In a sharp advance in a comparatively short time, but It must be remembered that the seasons after thla time that year all that were needed to permit of the maturity of late, fruitage, which the weather applying was remarkably good. Wi do not aay that this will not occur again this yeur. but It seema to us the time has arrived when a conservative policy should be adopted In operations for a decline. Of course, wo recognise that speculation is , dominant and that the weight of actual cotton will steadily Hotel Woodard Broadway and 55th St., -New York City. A high-class transient and residential hotel, catering only to a refined ' and exclusive ellentlle. Exceptional Restaurant. Music, T. D. GREEN, Mgr. Oiarlotto's Rest Cood acted , Hotel THE BUFORD Special attention given to Table Service, making It an : equalled In tbe South. 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Increase fur entna t,i come. 1ml ' Is undoubtedly working uim.ii 1 Hint the forthcoming ii,,!y vi : overwhelmingly liii t, In-iu o if n erenra In the near future to d'-t 1 confidence of tha trade tn ttu:r l' poniton, active coniicilion fur might develop which could i"t 1 exroise a etiniulaUnir iiitliu-ncc. ' the ' circumatancea, - weather con in and the spot demand will exer:li a. trolling, part -,' In deterring linm-ili," ' pricey charges . and the former . wan us in 'counselling the acceptance of 1 1 -Its . on short cotton around the -,, t level.-'..' We rarely - Indulge In ' suttatii . but It W interesting to note the re.n -i from the sverages hitherto announced l y the government officials,'- In t'Ot. is ;, ltatt and ISO,- their, average flguree were In each case above K for ths five months from June to October,' inclusive, and the yields of those years proved the Urgent ef record up to date, whereas, when the flgares - fell below SO the outturn - w .comparatively, smalt. 'We do not regard thla exposition of tbe oomparatlve con ditions - as conclusive, -but It ta very signiocant to say the least. C. p. iOXIS CO. nnbbard Bros. 4 Co.'a Cotton Letter. Jpeetel to The Observer-v-f j? j k ..'.; New Tork, gept. 10. With two' reports to corns from Washington' In one day the morning was. devoted by the trade ta closing accounts on either side before , ths tiros for their publication. 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