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CHARLOTTE DAILY OEoEBVLIl, KOVIIilBi:!! 1, 1." L L, J. r. , CAJLDWEIJj! SVBSCRITOOIf, FMCSI One year iiw.,iU.'."H l- thMA mnnfKl itni t- - S.W 8iX MNtIl-MMkM'MM''". Three month T. ......... -.... fcCSDAV, NOVEMBER , ' WHT DID TTCET DO IT? Except for the reason of exceaelvs - erotism the action of Rockefeller and Caraefle In rushing into the papers k with statements that they are for Taft to difficult to account for. Certainly they are for Taft; everybody expected them to be. Roosevelt's declaration that the Rockefeller publication la a Standard OH trie, designed to In- - Jura the Republican candidate, foes for nothing:; he doesn't bellevo It hlm- ' self and nobody else will. ;? There are men who think their v tnoaey rivet them popularity or at - least influence over the minds of the ' public, when their very wealth la a source of unpopularity to them and give them no power whatever ex cept as they put It out. Can It be -r w kaa ttvn minutM. ftni the most . Aiflnut man In the. nation, the Other a man whose wealth baa oeen ae euired through tariff craft, collected - off all the peoplecan It be that they think the country bows down to them ' ttMULHaa their wealth la ttevond the V dreamt of avarice and only awaits their nod" to determine how to vote? ' xnia is noi impossible; mere is no other reasonable theory upon which papers to make their opinions known. They want to help Judge Taft, and through their- exaggerated Idea of their own Importance, through Igno raoce of the hatred the people bear ' tnam. nave aeait mm me neaviest hlow be has had In the campaign. : Thousands of people who had lntend- w VUW LVf IUU1 Wlii uvw Win IWI : Mr. Bryan, having learned from themselves of the seal of Rockefeller O, CONSISTENCY! ,- The opening sentence In a special from 'Wilmington to The Observer of yesterday ran this way: i Tred B. Rice, of this city, formerly deputy collector of customs at this port, but for the pait nine years inspector of steam hulls. United States government inspeotlon service tor the Wilmington and Chei-laston districts, has been reauested v a . . . . . i l I I . r-W r tngtoa, to hand In his resignation. Under penaIty;of dismissal, tne cnarge sgamsi , him being- political activity, after repeated warnings to aesist rrora sucn." What a spectacle! The head of the national . Republican campaign is not the head of the ticket, not the chair- map. of, the national Republican com ' mittee.but the President of the TJnlt- ed States, who for three months has been down in the dirt throwing mud ' with the 1est of them. Every mem ber of his cabinet was on the stump : last week and for longer, and Secre tary Root, realising, of course, the impropriety of. the proceeding, ex plained at Cincinnati a few days ago, by way of personal apology, that "I was sent here." (Sent by whom?) In . North Carolina District Attorney Bkln v nor. of the eastern district, and Hol- ; ton, of the western, have been up to ? their necks In the campaign. The : nostmaster at TtalHeh Is the Rp.nub- Ucan candidate for Congress in the hustings, pleading his cause and that Of his party, for weeks; while other postmasters, and of course the reve one officers, have been, as usual, . "doing their beat endeavors." No brake is put upon the s activity of .' the aggregation Indicated nor upon . that of the army of Federal offlce 1 holders not enumerated, but a poor devU of an "InsDector of steam hulls" js yanaea up ana maae a sacrifice on -account of his pernicious activity. O, the humbuggery and hypocrisy of It ' .in MR, MILES OV THE TARIFF. ' ' -After full consideration of It, we are prepared to say that we have -never read or heard so powerful and ' conclusive a presentation of the Dem ocratic argument for a righteous tar iff mm that of Mr. H. E. Miles, of the 'National Association of Manufactur ers protectionist and a Republican, : the first section of which waa printed In The Observer of yesterday, the sec ond of which is printed to-day, and .the final chapter of which. "An Argu- -tnSnt for a Permanent Expert Tariff Commission," will be given to-morrow. This presentation of the subject la Its various phases makes It as sim ple ss primer and the reasoning is SO cogent that there Is no escape from ttr In the section printed this morn ing Mr. Miles lays damn the novel : proposition that the first principle to be considered In the framing of a tariff bill should be "protection to the consumer." When ever before was this suggested by a protectionist and Republican ? We could not hope to add anything to Mr. .Miles' Illuminating discussion or ID srux question oy eiaDoration of 1t; We' only, again beg our people to read it.. . : . .- And likewise none of the. patrons c f the Charleston opera house who r- :nch peanuts and popoom daring t: performance erers fcora In North Carolina,-..' 'i .&$$tjt'-';i 1 Tou can "employ your' tints better !? reading a last year's almanac tAan ? y reading the tiection prophesies 'of any national chairman. 'Jf.j There rsn he no qurrtlon sow liorn' John-D. PocketSJIer favors for sident "The fciow h-s leu IF IT HAD BEEX CVDEB PARKER Just suppose Parker had been elect ed lt( and fhls bloomikg panic had come off la fie third year of him administration! : X tit yCTeyelaad took over ' a well-grown panio from the ' RepobUcana . plates for panic bonds had actually ten made had the Harrlaoa administration was beg ging flnancia magnates day by day to tide it along, unUI Cleveland's ac cession; yet Republican pleaders have shows themselves so dUhonest and so presumptuous ' upon popular gullibility as to declare that panio of Democratic origiqi.,. It was as truly and exclaslvely a Hepabllcaa panic, except for the' protracting Influence of the misguided free silver agitation later, as the panic of 1ST!. The par tial success of Republican attempts to associate Republican rule with good times In the popular tnlnd and Dem ocratic rale with bad times simply shows what can occasionally be done by persistent misrepresentation when circumstances favor. . It was the good fortune of Republicans that their panic fell chiefly upon an Incoming Democratic administration; it was the bad political morals of many Repub licans which set them at the unfor tunately easy task of deceiving the unthinking or the half-thinking through misplaced blame. Last year. after more than ten and a half years of complete and unbroken Republican rule, panic and business depression again assailed the country. The ef fects much more in some respects, as Mr. Bryan recently showed by citing bank failure statistics, than either the panio of 187S or the panio of lit and not remotely attrlbuta" ble to any natural cause are still with us. Just suppose, Indeed, tbt the panic of 1907 had happened under a Democratic administration! It is amusing In the extreme to think of what the country would be hearing now. THE PASSING OF "OLD FI GOERS." We have been vaguely conscious all along that this political campaign lacks something, and now we know what It is. In The Chicago Record- Herald we find an anxious Inquiry whether Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor intenda giving out any figures on the result of the election. Sure enough, there are no figures from this hither to unfailing source. A feature of every campaign for a generation past has not, thus far, repeated Itself In the campaign of 108. The old war rior whose bitter and marveloualy ready tongue discomfited many i Democrat and beat many an -insur gent Republican Into submission no longer serves as the mainstay of au tocracy In the House of Representa tives, and he appears to have made recall by his Ohio district the occa sion of his retirement from active politics. No longer does his white beard mark a storm centre. Neither speeches nor predictions are heard from him. Have the infirmities of age at last made themselves feltT It has not been long sines he pre sented, when fighting his hardest Ind bitterest in the House of Representa tives, a modern embodiment of this picture: "Though, white as Mount Boracte When winter nlshts are Ions. His beard flowed down o'er mall and belt. Mil neart ana nana were strong; Under his hoary eye-brows Still flashed forth quenchless rage. And if the lance shook in his grip 'Twas more with hate than age." But "Old Flggers" neither fights any more nor, bl-ennially, prophesies evil concerning Democrats. He may be unable to fight or he may be sulk ing In his tent. We don't know. But remembering that be was always a man and that In later years he show ed a feeling of something like kind ness toward the South, we wish his remaining days welL Charles' H. Grosvenor still lives; "Old Flggers" Is already dead. When Governor Malcolm R. Pat terson, of Tennessee, fully held his own In joint debate against the re doubtable Carmack '. throughout a bitter primary . campaign- he revealed some qualities whose strength had thitherto been little suspected. Now he -energetically seconds jthe efforts of the law to avenge Itself upon the Reelfoot murderers, regarding neith er his personal convenience, nor threats against his life. On Tuesday next Governor .Patterson comes be fore the people of Tennessee for re election. The forces of lawlessness will surely be against him; If the law abiding people of Tennessee do not see that he receives a greater ma jority than could have been expect ed two weeks ago they will have lost a great opportunity to render service to their Stats and to the whole South. With great force, and with good reason behind the statement. Chair man Mack says that "Preaiaent Roosevelt's denial of the relations be tween the administration and- the Standard Oil Company loses Its force when It is remembered that he made a similar denial four years ago when Judge Parker declared that tha Re publican managers in charge of Roosevelt's campaign were receiv ing money from corporations.' That's It, exactly. How can President Roose velt, In consideration of his record expect the public to believe anything he says about any matter In .which ha has an interest? . - ' ' ,'t-v f-. The last good man to eoma to the aid of the party throng the medium of The Observer was '- R. 8. Eakrldge, Rich wood, ,W, v This was sent last night to Mr. Van- dertord and this Is the final, transac tion pf The Observer In connection with the Bryan-Kern campaign fund, for which It has gathered a total of 1760.00. ' , WALL) STREETS GWLXBTUXY. ' The "way. of thepromoter Is almost as hard to understand as the four ways which Solomon found too much even for ' his wnarkwblo Intellect. Many people are familiar with one or mora of the various types, outside the field , of legitimate promotion, which represent nothing Wore than a vr porous brain and a plausible tongue, yirst easily convincing himself, the promoter addresses others with conviction which Is contagious. .Us ually he need do no more than make believe at convincing himself; cer tainly he Very seldom lets his hopes stand in the way -of hie interests mm distinguished - from the interests of his clients. Sometimes, of course, he is a swindler,' pare and simple. A very Interesting fact about this game of shady promotion Is that players of very crude type, who might be sup posed transparently fraudulent or foolish-fraudulent, often meet with much success. If they preyed only upon the credulous multitude, as many do, there would be little cause for wonder, but they are continually victimising men of the largest ex perience In the financial world. The Frenktyn syndicates, Thomas W. Lawsons and other exponents of the get-rlch-quick idea gull the outside publlo hardly oftener than one of their tribe gulls great financial In siders. Latest of the lot to figure conspicuously . in the public eye is "Ice Trust" Morse, who personally was by no means' as crude as some but whose methods were near the limit of crudity. Morse had acquired control of a string of New Tork banks by the pyramiding process; that Is, he em ployed the stock of one bank as a credit basis upon which to acquire control of another, using the second bank to acquire a third, and so on. While he thus exercised no little financial power for a time, It very early came to be recognized by men well Informed about things financial that he was a dangerous figure in the situation as his downfall, an impor tant panic excitant, later proved. His practices as a banker were glaringly frenaled. Nevertheless he succeeded three years ago In associating with himself some of the leading men of the financial world in what was al ready,, disreputable speculation, his Ice trust project. Among 'these asso ciates were the ex-president of the United States Steel Corporation and present head of the Bethlehem Steel Company, the treasurer of the Ameri can Smelting and Refining Company, the president of the Knickerbocker Trust Cbmpany, not to mention that unashamed plunger, John W, Gates. The readiness with which the nag nates took Morse's . bait forms' ' pen haps the moat noteworthy part of the story new coming but on the witness stand. "When qsestio-ned,' autmhar taes Tha New Tork Evening Post In remarking upon their credulousness, "Mr., John W.' Gates declared that he bought ice stock because Morse told him It was "selling at less than its value.' Mr. ' Charles Of; Schwab's recollection was that he bought it because 'Morse told him Ice securt ties were a good thing to hold.' Mrt"brfent woolen and sugar pchedules. Guggenheim, bought 10,000 shares in the 'pool,' no doubt on slml lar convincing grounds,: and later raised It to 20,000 at Morse's request. Mr. John F. Carroll's motive for John lng the croup, aside from habithe had 'been In ice with Morse for ten years' was suggested by a loan of UK, 000 to him from one of Morse's banks and a letter from the bank's cashier stating that the loan would be taken care of as per what Mr. Morse had said.' " To the extent of their subscriptions, al) these esteem ed magnates fared precisely like Morse's other Victims. Promotion schemers hare a field boundlessly wide. They extend their activities into ovary quarter. Because unwilling to "squeal" even when the law might be invoked, men of reputa tion in the financial world are highly desirable as Victims, and We have just seen that no class Is immune. It has been shown by the Morse bank- wrecking case testimony as by many an event before, that few . easier marks dwell under tha sun than the average Wall Street magnate. Tf ArchboM were to "declare that Hearst had made material changes in the letters stolen . front his office. which one would the publlo be in clined to believe r asks The Wilming ton Star. "Hearst, It adder "surta out with tha baadlcap'of reading let ters charged against hint with hav ing been stolen, which charge he ban not had the face to deny." Behold the twof One "corrupter cf weak public men; the other the purchaser of stolen goods, Knowing them to have been stolen. ,A precious pair! Which Is the more deserving of credence? Wa glvo It op.' Therottv choice amonf polled pUbV.: V-"' Jfobody oouM-.nxpoct other ; than that Rockefeller and Carnegie are tor Mr. Taft as the representative of the Republican party. Unless, they are beastly in grates they could not bm ex pected to be' nnmlndfol of tha favor received from the Republican party.' and unless they, are fools as they are not they know -what party to look to for. future favors, - They ar la .sympathy with - the' Republican party because It la In sympathy "wftn them. ; We note' with great Interest lnYhe Western North r Carolina Times, of HendersonvUle,' that while Asheville and WsynesvJfle had real snow storms last Tharsdayi: enow lying1 on -' the ground at Waynesvlila to the depth of four Inches, there was' on!y; s 'sklft" at Handsrsonvlile. -, . TARIFF MAKINGS-FACT AND THEORY :Hi-th':" ' E"" 1 -" ' 4 ' .;. BY H, lU MTliES. ' ' " Of the National Aasooiatioa of Ma nufactarera. Chairman Central Committee en, Export Tart Commission, Rap reseating Fins ea National Cganlaattons. , Wo ;are . Introducing herewith th second InaUlment of the remarkable paper of Mrt H, E. Miles on ths tariff, the first section of which was print ed yesterday; Mr. Allies continuing his atUck npon the existing tariff law and the manner in which It was made' says,: J . TUB WAT OCT. Nothing Is easier and simpler than the making of an honest, scientific and helpful tariff. 1 do not mean by this that it can be done In a night time, nor with small care. It requires the ceasedeas patient endeavor of high-minded men, expert In manufac turing processes, ' In International trade relatione ana In tariff s of this and other countries. Four -principles heretofore wholly disregarded' must be constantly and thoroughly respected. These are: 1. Protection to the consumer. I. Domestic competition. I, International costs and foreign competition. 4. Reciprocity, with maximum and minimum schedules. ' PROTECTION TO THE CONSUMER The benefits of the tariff . should ac crue to all the people and not to a few politicians and manufacturers only; nor to the manufacturere and their dependents In Congress and In Wall Street'. The money-ln the pock ets of the publlo belongs -to the indi viduals who comprise that public, and cannot lawfully be taken from those pockets except upon full and fair equivalent. The makers of the con stitution were themselves so upright and clear minded upon this proposi tion they did not stop to consider that Congress could, much less that It would, rob the people under the taxing clause. They would have con sidered unconstitutional such abuses as now prevail. They Justified the original bill, which gave average pro tection of only 5 per cent,' upon the ground that it was of such direct benefit to every Inhabitant as fully to recompense him. To-day our law makers Ignore the rtarhta of the con sumers and the publlo In their service-of the corporations. The shoe is now on the other foot The taxpayer Is held to be the prop erty, as it ware, of the manufacturers and promoters. - Instead of the -manufacturer 'proving that he is entitled to a certain tariff, bo Is held to de serve the earth and all Its Increase. Consumers are not expected to assert either rights or interest In the charges made against them. r The public must not again permit the consumers' Interests to be eacrl- fled as they were, for instance. In the rne wooien manufacturer, upon sub mission of proof that Imported wool was used In making exported yarn, nay eecure a drawback of the duties paid. The evidence shows that 1 1-1 pounds of woouare used In making a pound of yarn, but ths tariff allow ance is for 2 1-i pounds of wool When the tariff rates on sugar were being considered by the ways and means committee thief representatives of the sugar trust Insisted upon cer tain rates, but declined to give the ftrurea and other proofs showing the necessity for the rates. ! The result was that tha committee "compromis ed" With the trust by. giving it more than would have been given had there been specific data at hand from which to make the rates. Who, It may fairly be asked, waa In real con trol of tariff making that day. the people through their representatives. or the trusts with their friends on both sides of the committee table f The result has been sugar prices higher In the United States than In Great Britain, and a tariff rate ex ceeding the total cost ot production. Including ths expense of raising the beets, , Competition was for many years considered a oure-atl for tariff abuses. In competition Congress took refucw as against all criticism.' Mr. Carne gie showed the reliance the public thus placed upon this when he said. la 1814, concerning steel: -we are creatures of the tariff. If ever ths steel manufacturers attempt to control or have any general under standing among them,, the tariff would not exist one session of Con gress, The theory of protection is that home competition rlU soon reduce the price of. the product' so It wtu yield only the usual profit. .; Any un derstanding among ua would' simply be an attempt to defeat thla There never has oeen, or ever will be. such an understanding.'-- : ..-- - Mr. Carnegie did not foresee what would . occur. 'Excessive, dishonest, and unreasonable rates made by Con gress aad the administration - have been the principal Inducement for the destruction of competition and ' tha formation of trusts for fifty rearm. during which time a ery great -num ber of the tariff rates have been net protective In any sense. ut have been prohibitive. Prohibition . of Imports is not protection. , ' : - "N .t Congress might almost as well de cide that there shall te no competi tion as to give, as It now does, to shrewd American business men rates that . are practically prohibitive : of Imports upon billions of dollars worth of tha requirements of - the - people. In my own business, for instance,. protection of If per cent to it par cent Is necessary, but Congress gave ua, under an omniDus clause, 4 i per cent la doing this It permitted, if It did hot invite us, to consolidate, and to add to our aalea prices about 10 per cent and treble our profits; possi bly euadruple them. At any rate the strong arm ot the government will not permit of foreign . competition. and so by our elimination Of domestic competition, - the people can be put wholly at our mercy to the extent of the excess duty. And this is what has happened with raort of the ne cessities of ufs, The government tin der both political parties has aided, abetted, and enriched trusts and trust makers insistently and outrageously. Domestic co-mpLUon has been so it 111!? far eliminated that it is ho longer to be reckoned with as of saving conse quence, ,:..r v'.fw. i-!t':"-J'Xi With . homo competition gone, this principle of international costs . re mains substantially our only salva tion. It is a pleasure .to note that this,' as a living and vital principle, waa first brought clearly and emphati cally to the publlo mind by the Amer ican manufacturers ; " a themselves, through their leading, organisation, the National Association ot Manufac turers, which for years has declared that the tariff should - measure. In Mr. Taft's language, "Substantially the permanent differential ,' between the cost of production in foreign countries and In the United Statea" This principle Is itself one , of compe tition, limiting the possioie extent ot trust extortion under tariff by the op portunities of foreign competition af ter the limita of a proper protection have been reached. Protection does not mean that the prise-flghter shall be protected against the child, but rather the child against ths prise-fighter. Our man ufacturers are protected when they are given a tariff rate that measures this difference in International costs, and makes them the equal in mat ter of costs, of the producers ot the same articles in Europe and the Orient i ThaSenate recently stated this prin ciple in a resolution concerning ths next revision and Implied that revis ion would bo based upon this prin ciple, as it .must bs if fair. But with extreme regret I note that the sub committee to whloh the question of revision is referred Is composed of men who presumably represent in business life the over-protected Inter ests. - ' . The tariff committee of the House has made a display of getting exact Information, but I know that they will not regard thla principle or any other. They talk of using experts!' but the men on these committees are the men discredited in recent years by the progressive wing of the Re publican party, and finally at the Chi cago convention. The data derived from experts. will hardly be of great Influence. Thla principle of the dif ference between the coat abroad an4 at home, as determining the rate was accepted in Chicago and made an important , part , of the Republican platform. The ollra-protected inter ests, however, secured the addition of a clause which opens the door to excessive rates, as heretofore. The plank readsi "The true principle of protection Is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will equal the difference etween the cost of production at, home and abroad, to gether with a reasonable profit to American Industries." The government does not guaran tee profits to the wheat grower, good Incomes to clerks, and clergymen, nor steady employment to labor, is It to guarantee profits to trusts only? This clause would not help those who manufacture and sell under old-fashioned competition, for competition keeps their profits at the minimum, or destroys profits. But when trusts have only foreign competition to fear and the government gives them a duty which brings their costs on a parity with Europe and Asia it gives them full and fair protection, trusts though they are. When it adds to such protection a guarantee of profits aso, iv practices tne worst sort of class favoritism, and In a quarter where it Is least of all pardonable. This sort 'Of "protection', is eoual to a guarantee of stocks, bonds and In come, at tne expense of, ths people; The statement of Principles in nrt platforms is not to be taken very se riously. Rather let us hope that Mr. Tatt, who secured so much In the acknowledgment of the principle that tariff should be based -on Interna tional cost differences, will eesstuDy assist , the people to Its daffy .If. mnji 1 1 .1 ml . .. " . miu j,Mwuoa. - ins na tional Association of ,i Manufacturers has .declared for the' exact difference In costs, to be figured,-however with such reasonable and ample margin of safety against - contingencies : as ordinary prudence justifies. ' The proper application t of . this principle , to the rates (will obliterate so' much of the controversial and party differences that It will cause the tralflt to be seen with new eyes, Tariff extortion, will cease. . . The moral tone of politics and business will be Immeasurably advanced. - Home us ers will purchase at fair, prices, and, tor the mostf part, aa cheaply as for eigners now buy from - ua These equalisations of advantages win afford us world-wide trade opportunities of Inestimable advantage to us at all m,?w nl "PocMy in dull times Ilka the present ' -j V 'r ?. RECIPROCITY. i.r Fortunateiy.'we are, at last almost certain that-the next tariff will be one' of maximum -and minim.n schedules, leaving us no longer alone among . tne nnuone and unable to make trade agreements for the exten sion of commerce. - . , . , " It was President McKInleye fondest hope as he took office to make his administration, distinguished by reci procity treaties, under the provisions of the present law.. Great was ths public disappointment when those who permitted these provisions in incorporated . la the law r only as a vote-catching and specious sop to the public, prevented the fulfilment of his hope. Reciprocity should be made prominent feature of our future tar iff legislation. The imporianqe of securing expanding toreijrn market. for our manufactures makes this im perative. -. . - -. .. With aa honestly made tariff that does not unduly burden the consum er, that permits of healthful' foreign compet!4on, that is aa high, and only as niga, as is requirea to place do mestic and foreign producers on a parity, that provides for reciprocal trade arreenients in. the Interest of a larger foreifra trade, American Indus trie will prosper by honest and a.uitaile methods. Coac!ude4 0-tnorrow)P . - - H ' "e V 4. . , - v . . , . . 1 -! - . i T GIGANTIC' c ,c - v - W.AJ. ' VV f v j " ft A -I FIFTY 12-Bize year GUAHANTEED Gold ' KUed I, Watcli Cases, with French STEMS and SOLID GOLD - BOTSf "Plain PoliBhed,"7Kprrwn and4 Elgin": - - V l lii ' c7uxa.i sit. rr 2 i - x tm - uite cuts;, atbea wxui -jcwciea rn ana v ,vvaitnam moyemenw. . f t , v i Teri Dollars and Fifty, Cent3 Spot Cash. No" extra; charge fpr monograms.' .'' Our guarantee goes ivith every one. " ,V s They have all been timed and regulated, in the cases ancl , ' ready for deUveiy. ; , t , ; -J ' . Not oA sale until Saturday. Displayed in our Tryon ' , street Btore' window all week. Come in and examine. K - themjeee for yourself the best watch value eyer of-?r" . fered.-1 v l,- I3nappy, Good Fitting, Well Tailored Clothes ,V7ill Grow . :, t v ' Popular' " 1 W ft nnd bv eellins. onlv. a garment that our clothes' grow' more and more popu lar each day. ifach Suit we, sell confirms the wearer, as a (Customer and makes new' ones for xxa.", .V'V The, customer must be pleased and fittedV too,' before- , ne. leases ine nouse. uur coats are ine laiesi in nesizna . ana jnaaa , or . newest . - jcblorings'and fabrics.,. ) " . V.f -, They awing with air from the shoulders and the pants . hang from the hips just like made-to-measure.' They ; are swell, that's jail there is to it, - and we save yon; H t : .$5.00 to $10.00, wpfe you: to have same made to order V-?-w ' -from same material. " -" Swell, Stylish Suits and Overcoats- Latest "HodeU'aadf . : - Newest Suitmss $15.00 to $C0.0O - ; . :;; Boys Knee Pants Suits, 3 to, 17 years, Einckerbocfccs v ?nr Plain PAnti. 2.fX) tr 51510 VlO on? rrimVn7t 1Tefl' : I side" makes In 'these,'- Special strong lines for. School ' , l .Tf-" J - , .., . - . 5, t ' ' " " " ' '-y t$L00 and $1.0 Underwear, 75c .We -bought a' lot of broken sizes in Wool Fleeceid, SiDa : '. Fleeced, Gray Natural Wool and Brown All-Wool medium-and light-weight Shirts and Drawers worth , ' up to $L50 a garment ;,Coine take your choice for i'V rK, ; ';, .iV:--'V'vV'i-S-.-:- ' i'-'r '''';"' ; '' V ' ' ' " i v a A Strong Assertion as' to Ladies' Fine Chocs - v We are sole agents for the "Sorosis" for Women' and r - ? Men and we state positively there's no better Shoe- VJ making comes to tMs town than is in our Woman's H Sorosis at $3,50 and $1.00, or in the Han's at $3.00 " and $6.00. ? Any leather, plain or cap toe, button, bal - or.blucher, lasts B to E. We sell the best makes of T Woemn and Children at ' . - ' r ? .4 . k ' If. I . - ' ' f"1S. T1 i.i-,. l , iv ay-r-. l-4T."-v.v -.t.::v- .7. ,-, iS. i is' J , . 4 1 4 i ,.i ' - well - tailored, ttood fitinTior :, , swck oi; buiis ana urer Shoes to be had f or ' lien, popular prices. . " " : S -r . . ' - ' . .V.. i , -' t" , V, I I -' ,-:t a ..; '- Tl'J'-' J" " SS,N -s-y " '
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