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dail'vedition. 18.00 Par Annum, In Advance 8.00 for 6 Months, In Advance. O 1-50 for 3 Months, In Advance (1.09 per Annum, la Advance 1 CLD S2RISS VOL iXIIIIEO 4,IiS FAYEJTEVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY. APRIL 1, 1909. HEW SERIES-VOt. XXV-H0. a,346 M , v w upas -- p- f r r r j "- jHj' !, V M 1 H j Young People'! Society of Christian . Endeavor State Union of North Car olina. ; ; . ... "One la your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren." The annual convention of the North Carolina Christian Endeavor Society will be held this year In the First Presbyterian churos ot ' vflnston-Sa-lem April 23 25. . 'A Very, interesting and helplul programmejls being pre pared, and -very Christian Endeavor Society in North Carolina Is urged to send as largo a delegation of members as possible to the convention, and a cordial Invitation Is extended to pas tors of all denominations to be pres ent Rev. Francis E. Clark, D. O., President "of the United Society ot Christian Endeavor, and founder of the society, ill be present, and this fact will add much to tha Interest of the-conventifja,' J "Christ and I" will be the centre! theme of the conven tion, and 'the Importance of this com panionship will be emphasized at eve ry session; VThe promise Is tor a suc cessful convention in the Interest of Christ and 'the church-''r-'rv'';';' ...::.., v.-mamib bays,.',- Supt. Press Dept. C, EL State Union, ' Charlotte, March 25.'' ;'; Kills Would-Be Slayer, A merciless murdejer Is Appendici tis with many victims. But Dr. King. New Life Pills kill it by. prevention. They gently stimulate stomach, liver . and. bowels, preventing that clogging that invites appendicitis, ' curing Con-' stlpatlon, Biliousness, Chills, Malaria, Headache and Indigestion.: 25c. at B. ' B. Sedserry's Soss. - - " ' - PROFESSIONAL HIS - W. W, BAKER, CIVIL ENGINEER, Land Surveying and Municipal En gineering, over fthuford V Rogers' .-Store, Fayetteville, N. C.'- $M Q. K. NIMOCKS, A ttoraey and CouacIIor-at-Law. Rooms 1 and I K. of P. Building..: : Fayetteville r.,X " :'"-U;.'N.' a ' ' 'Phone 22fl - ' H. McD. Robinson, John Q. Shaw, " (Notary Public) ' : ' ROBINSON & SHAW, Attorneys-at-Law, r "' Offices on second floor National Bank of Fayetteville. ''Z'-i'-y- '-'"T H.S.AVERITT, ' ' Attorney -at-Lawy ? L Notary Public ; Office Thornton ; Building' Hay Street, Fayetteville, N. C , V. C BOLLARD, Attorney and Counsellor ' , .at Law, ' Notary Public, Surveyor, .:--Office K. of P. Building, FAYETTEVILLE, N. C, DRjWM. S. JORDAN, Physician and Surgeon. Office In Palace Pharmacy. ; - Hours: to 12 and S to 8. Dr. e; l. hunter, .Dentist, North-east pomer Market Square. Fayetteville,. N. C Dr. A.. S. .CROM ARTIE, i 1 DENTIST, . ' Office In MacKethan Building, 102 1-2 r . '. ,' - t Person street. ''Phone 338. Fayetteville, N. C G. B. Patterson, 0. D. 8. , J. H. Judd, D. D, . Drs. Patterson & Judd, " Office 219 1-2 Hay Street, over Dunn 1 A Co.' 8tore, 'Phone 65. . ' E.J.S. SCOFIELD.M.D., Offers his professional services to the citizens of Fayetteville and surround ing country. Office 'with. Dr. .J. H. Marsh, 249 Hsy 8treet, 'Phone. 77; Residence, 8t. Luke's Hospital, ,Phono 124. .. I-.. -J, -."..li Public ftccountenl? Auditing ot Partnership, -, Corpora tion and Public Accounts a specialty. Would leave clty for a few days at a time. ' 5 V - , Refers to County Authorities,; D. H. Ray,. Esq., and Dr. H. W. Lilly. , .. ' w. n: tillinghast, sr.t . September. 19th.. K::: Phone 252. ROBERT EISENSCHMIDT,' - "Architect and Superintendent; - ' - COLERIDER BUILDINQ, NO. 130 PERSON' STREET, , STAIRS. : " ' . , p. o. box no; 285. rr UP nn IIUU Market Sqnv. '' riTlTTlTU.tl..0. Real Eatata bonKht end told. Loaoa DeuUted tod RtiuaoteM. nd InterMt oolleoted. m . i i ununnnMltlri. Innuraiir premluau taken and loaned here X. R. KcKTHA, Att'v. $300. Farm BO 'acres, house and barn.. ' 1300. Email farm mile north city. $75. lot Cool Spring street . $150. Tenement lot Rowan street. $400. House and lot Blue street. $211. Tract II acres mile Victory Mill. ; ' ' $150. Lot Mechanlo'street $600. House corner lot Mechanlo street $80, lot MancheBter street $300. Each 3 lots Arsonal Hay- mount $15 each 10 lota Fayhope. $85, Bhare LnFnyotto Auditorium. DEMOCRATIC REPORT ON , THE PAYNE (REPUBLICAN) TARIFF BILL. The Democratic House leader, Mr. Champ Clark, submitted the report of the minority on the Republican tariff bill, on Monday. Mr, Clarjt declared that the bill reported by the majority increase's the cost of living: that It laQcrude,, indefinite, sectional and pro hibitive; and that It Is an .open chal lenge to trade war with foreign coun tries. The report is a severe arraign ment of the revision which the Payno bill proposes. ' The .Countervailing duty provisions for coffee and petrole um, the maximum and minimum feat ures of the Cuban reciprocity clause, the woolen, glass, agricultural ; and sugar schedules are bitterly attacked. The following synopsis of Leader Clark's report Is contained in , the press dispatches r N'."'4- .' "There are many changes, for' the most part minor changes," says the report, "of the Dlngley rates, some up and some down. . Most of the changes In a downward direction are reduc tions, more apparent than , real, the Payno rates .being as prohibitive in their results In many ' oases as the Dlngley rates." . Declaring that a tariff Is a tax paid by the consumers, and that the only function o't a tariff law Is to raise revenue, to supply the needs of the government the minority members ot the committee insist that Instead ot an Increase of taxes or a new issue ot- bonds the correct remedy for the growing deficit In the revenues Is the cutting down ot the expenses 'of run ning the government " J The bill is in many respects crude, indefinite, sectional and prohibitive. It seems to us from our examination which was necessarily hasty, that on the whole it Increases the cost of living?.- For example, It will Increase the price of hosiery about 3 per cent and certainly : nobody ' will claim that hosiery Is a luxury in this day , and generation;. In numerous Instances the protection exceeds the entire cost of production." , Treatment of Farmers Usual O. O." P. . ' Policy. . v 'The report maintains that the tariff arrangement L with the Phllllpplnes should be considered In a separate bill, and not . In the general tariff bill. The claim that the bill is a sec tional one- made "by the Democratic members of. the -committee, is based largely on the cotton schedule. - The report contends that the bill does not lift any burdens from the shoulders of the Southern farmer, although the manufacturer of cotton goods Is pro tected by heavy tax, It claims. The treatment of the tanner by thia bill Is along the same lines as have characterized Republican methods In the past," says the report, "he gets practically no relief and the laborer and producer have greater burdens im posed, upon -them. . Every article -of food the laborer must have to live comfortably Is heavily taxed; even the salt on his table Is not exempt,' This schedule (agricultural products) was evidently prepared by the same mind which baa dominated the bill a mind certainly . not unfair to. the great trusts."o i-r -; "-"';.;I South Unfairly Treated. - "That the bill Is a sectional one is shown because the failure ot the ma jority of--the committee to lift any burden whatever from the shoulders ot the Southern farmer. The grower ot cotton must sell bis product In tne open markets of the world.. In order however, to benefit the manufacturer of cotton- the Republican party makes him pay a heavy tax on every pound of it that Is exported and comes back Into the United States In the shape ot manufactured goods. . Thus he sells In free trade markets and buys in a pro tected market- Not only have these burdens not been lifted, but additional ones have been placed upon him. By a lately discovered process, a fabric known as "mercerized fabrics" la now being made. This is a- very fine, arti cle ot cotton goods, looking very much like silk and is largely worn. In or der to ' further enrich the . manufact urer and further tax the masses ot the people a "tax has been laid on these goods. '.'"".;.'. '. ' 'Cotton cose has fallen under tneir greedy gaze and the tax on It already too high, baa been greatly increased. Cotton goods are more generally used than any other class ot goods or tne masses of the American people and every cent of duty -laid on such fabrics is an- additional tax on the people least able to pay.lt .' - .Standard Oil Protected.'. "The Standard Oil -Company la as handsomely cared for- in the Payne bill as In the Dlngley bill," tne report continues,' "and by reason of the pro vision In paragraph 637 ' popularly known as the 'Joker, continues to be protected by a tariff duty of 89 per cent, which enables it to dominate and exploit the American market and to levy tribute upon the public there by piling up millions of dollars of .ill Rotten (tains." r i-V.r.y.-,;:: The report runner contends roai a Similar "Joker" In the paragraph pro viding tor the free -entry ot coaee places a duty .on coffee, equal to the export duty: imposed by the country from which it is Imported, and . that the consumer must Day both the ei nort duty of the other country ano the. Import duty of the United States, The tax on tea is also attacked, tne claim being made that the $7,000,000 which It is proposed to raise Dy im ooslna a duty on tea. represent the amount by which the cost of living will be Increased by the statistics. - -critclslra is made of the metal schedule, and It - la contended . that hides having been placed on -the tree list, the duty on leather goods, bar nest! and other leather manufactures should alBO be removed. ; " . Referring- to the reduction ot 5-100 ot a cent in the duty on refined sugar provided by the Payne bin. tae report nan urm: " v -- "Theoret ca ly the trust receives a blow between the eyes.' In reality this Infinitesimal . reduction oi ui nimriov rata- win not reduce the price of refined sugar a prime necessity of lifeto the consumer in any aegreo whatsoever. Certainly that k reduc tion may be properly denominated as a sham." - ANOTHER VIEW OF THE LUMBER ; DUTY. ' . w. tt n tirvanf tha Washington air, i. -r- - correspondent of the Charlotte Ob server, writes to his paper 18 follows concerning the lumber duty: - ll IB avium!- iiviu " " t m the . flKht-on tne r 7--- the layne tanu " ' i " fought Democrats are Inclined to support the present rate of duty. The West is tor tree lumber. A North- westerner who was In Washington to day, says that It is greatly regretted among low tariff Republicans and Democrats in that part ot the country that so many Sou uiern members of Congress seem to have deserted their party platform on the free lumber proposition, we Denver platform declared absolutely for free lumber, and. the Republican State conventions and the Legislatures In several West ern States have declared for free lumber. This gentleman said that in bis opinion these Southern members have been stampeded by the strenuous work of the lumber lobby and ' the lumber interests. He points to the fact that until a few months ago pretty much all of the big lumbermen Lin the country conceded that lumber would go on the free list in the next tariff revision practically without op position. But about last September the great Weyerhaeuser interests -passed the word along the line to all those associated with their thirty or more companies, North - South and West, that everything must be done to keep up the lumber tariff. The real reason of this position Is at tributed In the West to a far-seeing Weyerhaeuser'; scheme to utilize all the timber resources In America -to their own profit' The plan la to keep up the United States tariff for ten years more until the coniferous for ests of this country : are exhaust ed at fancy profits to them behind the tans wall, m the meantime they will get control of all the choice tim ber in Canada, and will then bo in a position to work the consuming pub lic again. It is significant that Ed ward Hlnes, or Chicago, one of the great captains of the Weyerhaeuser aggregation, Is the brains and energy the lumber, lobby that haa be- seiged Congress tor these several months. Mr. Hlnes himself, or his company, owns between 500,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 feet of Canada' tim ber now, and directly or Indirectly the Weyerhaeusers own a great deal more;'.';.:,.;., i:. V-,;.:. i::-:.'. -'"'.f '' no': 8trang0'. Feature.' j A strange thing about the - whole affair Is that'while the high tariff lumbermen repeatedly ' assured ' the ways and means committee that they did not fear Canadian- competition In high-grade lumber, the- chief -reduction made by the committee is In rough only, the tariff left on unfinished lumber being practically prohibitive. Nowadays most lumber Is planed or finished at the mill where it is sawed, and 99 per cent of tie lumber pur chased by the ordinary consumer la In some' degree filnlshed.. It results that the Payno bill in no way benefits the Individual lumber consumer, the farmer, for-Instance,' though It may .U seems as .If the Observer's doc trine, which the able lunatics afore said regarded as, somewhat fanciful Is gaining recognition. The able Nor folk Virginian says on this subject: Nothing for the Wool Consumer. ' It is, of course, not expected that the Payne Tariff Bill will become a law la the shape of which It has been Intro duced. If 'It manages to get through the House tn anything like the original form, it Is a safe prediction that the Senate will so amend and change the measure as to make it almost nnrecr ognlzable. . It la In that body that the privileged . classes are most strongly entrenched and It la there that the fight tor retention of-existing privi leges In all their fullness will be chief ly and. most stubbornly waged. But the trades, dickers,- swaps and log rollings will bo all in the direction of lessening or preventing the proposed reductions- In rates and none towards decreasing duties in which no changes are recommended.. -. ' . - - It Is this fact which almost precludes the hope that the measurer as It will be eventually passed, will effect any more redaction In Hie wool schedule than -is provided for in the bill aa in- help large consumers, such as - box manufacturer! ' - ; : The way this - Northwestern man looks at it, the Southern lumber man ufacturers -and their business connec tions, suffering from, the present de pression in the lumber Industry, have easily allowed themselves to be made cat'spaws to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for the Weyerhaeuser and other combinations whose : Interests are chiefly in the tar West In his opinion, '. the Southern manufacturer would never know by- (is own 'busi ness wnetner lumber was on tne -tree list or not .". - - - THE WOOL. DUTY RETAINED. We hare once or twice told. In the Observer the story ' of . the. writer's twitting the able lunatics of the New York Reform Club ; with the tariff's responsibility tot catarrh and con sumption, ailments so prevalent at the North. ..The high duties on wool, and woolen, clothing double the price of warm underclothing hence the nec essity for the excessive heating of the houses of the middle: Classes, which Would .be unnecessary it these small- salaried persona could afford to buy the same grade' of underwear which their British congeners clothe them selves with..' .'.-.'U ':' traduced. This schedule, which offers a particularly Inviting spot for the axe of the tariff reviser, has hardly been touched. There Is, It is true, a substan tial reduction in -third grade or carpet wools, which axe not produced in tills country In any appreciable quantities. But the duties on the better grades that enter Into, the manufacture of clothing, blankets and such like arti cles of necessity to millions upon mil lions of domestic consumers, are not lowered one cent ' '-; Why this should be so Is explicable only on the assumption that' the com mittee allowed the influence- of a spe cial interest to outweigh consideration for the publlo welfare. To argue that existing duties are promotive ot the sharp-raising industry is to ignore all the official figures and authoritative facts in the case. The existing duties have been In full' force and effect for eleven years, and yet the sheepralsing Industry is less extensive ana less prosperous in the United States to-day than . when the Dlngley - bill ' first became a law. In the territory East ot the Mississippi it has declined almost to the nolnt of extinction, and even in the West It is not now what it was ten years ago. The sole effect of the wool duties, after eleven years ot ope ration, is to enhance the price ot an artiole ot necessity to millions ot do mestic consumers and to curtail im portations, without promoting one lota the domestic Industry which they are ostensibly designed to proteot and fos- tr. Thev are a failure aiiKe as a rev enue producer and a a protection to American Industry. Lower duties would encourage Importations and sO Increase the receipts of the publlo treasury from this source, and at tha same time lighten the burden upon da meat 1 0 consumers and contribute to the publlo health by enabling hun dreds of thousands of poor people and people of "moderate means, who now have to wear shoddy, to protect their persons against the cold by woolen clothing. ;' There is no one schedule in the Payne Bill which more clearly evidences the unwillingness of the Ways and Means Committee to revise the tariff In the Interest of the oonsumer than that re lating to wool . ' i' WHAT WE ARE GETTING FOR DE FEATINQ THE' DEMOCRATS, V; Let the Housewives of America Rlso In Arms Against Republicans and Aluo Against the Taft "Democrats" Who Would Surrender the 8outh to the Greedy Protectionists, The careful Washington correspond ent of the Baltimore Sun shows In "the appended article how the coet ot Our dally bread Is to be increased by this Republican tariff bill In order that In creased salaries may be paid to the officials at Washington and the gener ally reckless expenditures of the Re publican administration be met. Every table In the land will hereafter pay trib ute to the greed of the licentious and the over-rich, who. will, continue to use it for buying the Presidency and a ma jority of Congressmen' while-trading valueless governorships for these Fed eral offices. The little relief we might have had now in "clipping the claws" of Speaker Cannon haa been denied us by. the act of the ti nty-Uiree Demo cratic bolters, just as, In 1896, .the door was opened for the trust era by the Bolters of that year. ' f: Says the correspondent: i) Analysis ot the Payne Tariff bill In comparison -with the present Dlng ley law In the light of . Chairman Payne's own figures respecting the es timated revenues calculated to bo pro duced by his own bill doea not present any pleasing showing for. the "ulti mate consumer." , . -.. ' :-"t; This is .certainly not the case so far as one of the most Important por tions ot the bill Is concerned. - That portion la Schedule O., which com prises the 'general field of agricultural products and provisions, and includes many of the articles classed as nec essities of the poor man's table.. Splceai tea and cocoa, nutmegs, and the pep persblack, white and red are com prised within this schedule, and It was right in this schedule that the Re publican Congressmen who framed the Tariff -bill have found the bulk of their increased' revenue. , The net increase in revenue under the Payne bill, according to the es timate of Chairman Payne, based upon the use of 1906 as a normal year, 12 a fraction more than 111,000,000,-Yet the transfer of six articles alone from the free, list to the dutiable olass and their classification under Sched ule O as agricultural products and pro visions will, according -to the same principle upon which Mr. . Payne bases his net increase of $11,000,000 from customs net the Treasury a to tal ot , more than $12,700,000. Of course, there are reductions in various parts of the bill which are expected to hold the net Increase down to $11, 000,000, but It does not take much scannllng ot Mr. Payne's own table ot estimated revenues to discover that but tor the transfer of these six ar ticles from the tree list to the dutiable list his whole estimate of a net In crease tjf $11,000,000 would be wiped out; and, eliminating the inheritance tax and the additional tax on cigar ettes, the Payne bill would, on the bas is' ot the 1906 importations, afford no Increase ot revenue at all , . - These Lead On List, These six articles, all transferred from the free to the dutiable list, are tea, cocoa,- -pepper, cassia, brazil nuts and nutmegs, and these six are not all, because there : have been other transfers from the free list to Sched ule O, and the only reason why these six are now singled out la the fact that they stand at the, head of the list so far as estimated revenue to be produced is concerned. The total es timated revenue from these six arti cles during the fiscal year 1910, accord ing to Mr. Payne's own Ogures,. this revenue being estimated by applying f-the proposed Payne rates of duty to the quantities which were brought In during the normal year ot 1906, la as follows:' .: ,- . r- : Tea...... . .1... ... .$7,963,668.70 Cocoa ...... Pepper... i, Cassia.. ... Brazil nuts Nutmegs ... 3,222,854.40 . 828,217.50 ?s 153.206.40 , 120,894.50 1 102,713.40 ! iA Total vv;; . k . . . .$12;S61,454.90 v The $828,217.50 set down for pep per is for black and white pepper. - It Is estimated that the bill will bring in $194,613.21 for capsum ot red pepper, but red pepper la. not now on the free list;' its duty is merely Increased. Ca ssia may be an unfamiliar term to many readers, but it only a trade name for cinnamon ot Chinese origin, which Is not quite as high-priced as genuine cinnamon, but most ot the so-called cinnamon used in thlB country Is noth ing but cassia, so that the extra tax on cassia is really a tax on the cinna mon - which goes into almost every household: ;i : - -! --, ' V -:.; " : Tea Valued at $1483,400. ; Under "the present Dlngley law tea comes in free of duty, under tne Payne bill It will have to pay a duty ot 8 cents- a pound when imported di rect from tne country, or growth ana production and 9 cents a pound when not.comlnc direct The Importation ot tea In 1906 aggregated 99,420,858.75 nounds, valued at $14,583,,400.57 at the custom houses, but no duty was Im posed. Estimating that not lea than that amount ot tea will enter the coun try In 1910, Mr, Payne figures upon the, collection of more-- than $7,000,000 from tea. He really believes It will be nearer $8,000,000. Some tea, principal ly from Chma, Japan and India, is be lli z Droduced exnerlmentally In South Carolina. . Tea Importations have, fal len off In recent years. In 1903 we Imported 118,778,184 pounds, in 1904, 113,363,792 pounds; In 1905, 103,773. 244 nounds: in 1906 99,420,858 pounds, and in 1907, 88,406,028 pounds. . Of that which came In in 1907 Japan fur nished 37,411,653 pounds, China, 31,- 231.259 pounds; the United Kingdom, 8,003,762 pounds; British India, 1,751.- 006 pounds, and other British sources. 4,616,16 pounas. , , Cocoa or cacoa, crude and shells ot the same also enter tree under tha Dlngley law! Under the Payne bill it would pay 4 cents a pound, which would be equivalent to an ad valorem duty of nearly 37 cents. ' In 1906 80, 071,360 pounds of it valued at $8,689, 119, entered the United States, and at 4 cents a pound on similar Importa tion the duty In 1910 would be $3, 202,854.40. In 1907 91,836,846 pounds ot qrude Cocoa and shells were Import ed, of which 23,144,000 pounds came from the British West Indies. 19,945, 000 from Brazil, 10,533,000 from Por tugal, 9,902,000 from Santo Domingo and 8,280,950 from Ecuador. The great cocoa-producing countries of the world, in order of precedence, are Ec uador, Brazil, Trinidad, Venezuela and Santo Domingo. Chocolate as made from cocoa and Its consumption in the United States, which leads all other nations in amount used, is about 12 ounces yearly tor each person. , ; , i " a82S17.S0 From Pannara. . . -rr-. TTnr..M,4 kf..V .RJ .Lit. are also on the free list now, but the Payne bill seeks to Impose a duty of 30 per cent, upon them. - Treasury figures show that 26,589,960 pounds ot black - and white pepper, unground, worth $2,760,726, was Imported in 1906, and Mr. Payne estimates that under his bal a 30 per cent duty will yield 1828,217.60 in customs dues in 1910. In 1907 the quantity Imported was 24, 322,640 pounds and of this the straits settlements furnished 16,152,622 pounds, the Netherlands 3,174,670 and the. Dutch East Indies r 2,607,679 pounds. '- :. ' 1120,894 From Brazil Nuts, ' 80 are Brazil nuts free' of duty un der the Dlngley law, but the duty plac ed upon them by the Payne bill Is a cent a pound. In 1906 there was 24V 789 bushels of them Imported and the estimated weight per bushel is 60 pounds, so that the estimated duty un der the Payne bill would be $120, 894.50 In 1910 at the same rate of Im portation. , ". , - , , , ' . , The Payne tariff makers also took nutmegs off the free list and proposed to subject them to a duty of 30 per cent; 2,269,000 pounds ot them, valu ed at $34X378, were Imported in 1906. The estimated duty from this article Is estimated at $102,713.40 for 1910. In 1907 the quantity ot nutmegs im ported was 2,375,822 pounds, of which 1,042,244 came from the straits settle ments and 535,000 from the Dutch East Indies. 1 . While these six products are alone sufficient to make up the net increase of customs revenue under the Payne act, they are by no means all that have had 'their rates of duty increased In schedule O, or that have been shifted from the free list to this favorite sec tion of the Payne tariff makers, be cause the net gain under this one section alone is $14,010,392.33 in 1910 over 1906, and these six articles rep resent only $12,361,454.90 of that net gain. . : Down the List of Splcea. What are these other articles? Look at splcea: Capsicum, or red or cayenne pepper, is raised from the present fate of 2 1-2 cents a pound to 30 per cent, ad valorem, the unground, and 2 1-2 cents a pound plus 30 per cent for the ground red pepper, or an equi valent of 62.75 per cent. ad valorem bder the Payne-bill,- aa against an equivalent ad valorem of 32.75 per cent under the present law. Over 4,063,- 000 pounds came n during 1906. It comes from India, Africa, Algeria and South Amerioa. Cinnamon, now free, Is-to be taxed 30 per cent, by the Payne bill; estimated revenue $23,-541,- Cloves, unground, now tree, is to be taxed 30 per cent by the Payne bill; estimated revenue $86,105. Gin ger root not preserved or candied, now free, Is to be taxed 30 per cent; esti mated revenue $72,103.35. . Mace, un ground, now free, Is to be taxed 30 per. cent; estimated revenue $31,678. Mustard, unground, now free, is to be taxed 30 per cent estimated revenue $58,582 while ground or prepared mustard, now paying 10 cents a pound, isto be taxed 10 cents a pound plus 30 per cent by the Payne bill, bringing in an estimated revenue of $214,308 In 1910, against $119,856 In 1906. Pi mento, allspice, or Jamaica -pepper, which is now free, is also to be assess ed 80 per cent, under the Payne bill; estimated revenue $45,020.40. r. And Down The List of Foods, Split peas, which are also in sched ule O, now pay 40 cents a bushel. The Payne bill Increases this to 45 cents a . bushel, estimated revenue 1910, $26,362, against $23,432 In 1906. Cherries, same schedule, now paying 50 cents a thousand and 15 per cent, are taxed $1 a thousand by Mr. Payne; estimated revenue 1910, $23,095, a galnst $17,004 In 1906. Tarns, now free, are to be taxed 25 per cent., but this would net only an estimated In come of $727,' so doea not amount to much, and there Is a minor increase in caviare, but when they came to cit ron and found it free of duty the Payne tariff makers thought an import ation ot 3,307,338 pounds in 1906 ought to be a revenue producer, so they slapped on a duty of 2 cents a pound, which they figure will net an estimated revenue of $66,146 in 1910, against no thing now. They did exactly the same thing with all other fruit In brine, shunting it from the free list to a du ty of 2 cents a pound; estimated rev enue $17,695. Jellies are raised from 36 per cent, to a cent a pound plus 35 per cent, and tbis will net only several thousand dollars, but when they came to .figures which -are now paying a duty of 2 cents a pound and found that 16.907,000 pounds or tbem imported in 1906 they raised the duty in the - Payne bill to z 1-2 cents pound, calculating that this will give a revenue ot $422,687 in 1910, against $338,150 in 1906. -Dates also impressed the committee. They came just be low figures are now paying a half a cent a pound. But the American people Imported 22,374,000 pounds ol them m 1906, paying; a duty 01 1111, 873. So the committee just doubled e duty to 1 cent a pound, figuring hat this would double the customs revenue to $223,746. Olives To Cost More. - But this was not all. Just below dates in schedule O appear olives, crapes, in barrels and lemons. .011- vea in bottles -remain the same, m cents a gallon, but as only 62,401 gal lons were entered In 1906, the duty only aggregated $15,600. But olives In other coverings were Imported to the extent of 2,817,000 gallons In 1906, and the Payne bill raises the pres ent duty ot 15 cents a gallon to 20 cents on them, figuring on an Increase in revenue from $422,605 In 1906 to $563,474 in 1910... Over a million cublo feet of grapes m barrels were imported in 1906, producing a duty of $210,976 at 20 cents a cubic foot, so thecommlt- tee raised this' to 25 cents a cublo foot ' Lemons also attracted the attention of the committee while working at this same schedule B, because 138,689,148 pounds of tbem were Imported in 1906 and the duty Is a cent a pound. So the committee Increased this rate to 1 1-4 cents a pound, figuring that the revenue will be $1,733,614 In 1910 in stead of $1,386,891 in 1906. And this same schedule O the tar iff makers strike at Cuban pineapples. They now pay a duty of 7 cents per cublo foot, but are allowed 20 per cent reduction, under the reciprocity. (The Payne bill proposes to raise this tax to $8 a thousand, so that when the 20 per cent reduction granted by the re ciprocity treaty Is deducted, the net increase will be equivalent to an In crease from a per cent equivalent ad valorem of 16 per cent, to an ad val orem ot 27 per cent Over 2,000,000 cubic feet of these Cuban pineapples were admitted In 1906, and the estimat ed revenue from them In 1910 is giv en as $221,010, against $128,922 in 1906. BRIGHT OBSERVATIONS 0N THE BOLTERS AND THE NEW TARIFF- ";' ;r: v The following from the Norfolk Vir ginian will prove interesting as- the country faces the situation created by the continuance, of Republican control of the government; '; '' -T : Bushwhacker ' And Guerillas. The kickers in the Democratic Con gressional camp are just numerous enough to keep alive the party's copy right on the Donkey's emblem. With all his faults Ben Butler was the author of some sayings which the lovers ot capsullc truth will not wil lingly let die. ; Among them was that which predicted two Democratic blun ders tor every Democratic opportunity. Never by any chance is Republican di vision responded to by Democratic solidity. Never does a Democratic is sue gain such lodgment In the public mind as to force the Republicans to make concession to it bnt that straightway enough disloyal and fee ble-minded Democrats spring uo to make good the gaps In the ranks of the enemy. At the very moment when the Republicans were abandoning their intrenched position on the tariff the Democratic line goes to pieces. It may well be asked what sort ot re form would have followed had the country trusted to the promises ot the Denver platform and turned over con trol of the Government to the Demo crats. There 1b small encouragement to the people to entrust their affairs to a party which either lacks' convic tions or the courage and honesty to stand by them. We differ in toto from those Republicans who believe In the doctrine of protection and favor the sort of revision which will pre serve It but respect is due their fidel ity and consistency. They are true to their colors, to their salt and to the letter of the promise given by their national convention. They bear com missions which justify their course, and in pursuing it can say to their colleagues and their constituents alike, "We have fought the good fight; we have kept the faith." Not bo the stragglers from the Democratic column. They have falsi fied their own records, repudiated the traditional and the latest promulgated creed ot their party, on a pretext no more substantial or respectable than that they hanker after the fleshpots of Egypt or to be more specific, after share of the plunder that pro ceeds to a favored few from the per version to legalized robbery of the power- of taxation lodged in the Fed eral Government ThlB may be Ortho dox Mammanlsm; it is not Democracy, and it Is diametrically opposed to the programme of policies by which these gentlemen professed to be bound when suing for Democratic nomination last year. It is the right often the duty, of the private citizen to change his political affiliations to meet a modifica tion of his views on public questions, but the officeholder who cannot adhere to the principles and policies of the party which elected him ought to re sign. The vote and influence con ferred on him for the furtherance of certain specified objects cannot be em ployed legitimately to accomplish pur poses directly contrary. The terms of the contract should be fulfilled or the honor and emoluments should be sur rendered. Something Gained. One thing at least will be estab lished on the side of clear gain, whether the balance of revision goes to the reduction or the Increase of the duties on imports. The notion that the Dingley act partook of the permanent sancity ot the laws of the Medes and Persians, and was as sa cred against amendment as the Mosaic tablets, has been smashed into smith ereens. The immediate result will most probably fall far short ot the adjustment whioh would place the rights ot the many above the greed ot the few, but when it has once been confessed that the hand ot alteration may be laid upon the schedules with out the commission of either sacrilige or treason, that fact alone will render comparatively easy future and further progress towards an equitable distri bution of the burdens and privileges ot indirect taxation. The stalwart Re publicans aided by the spineless Demo crats in the House may increase the protective deformities of the project submitted by the Committee on Ways and Means, and the Senate may still further revise the revision and emas culate It of even the measure of relief the House shall spare; but an enter Ing wedge will have been driven, the pathway to better - things win nave been blazed, and with the discovery that -the preserves ot the monopolies may be poached upon without incur ring political death or exile the people may take heart to send representatives to - Washington . next . time wno can neither be coddled nor coerced into stopping short ot thorough reform of the entire system. The chain by which the enterprise - and Industry of the masses have so long been shackled to the service ot a handful ot taskmakers Is no stronger than its weakest link. Both comfort and promise abide in that thought Some of the joints have already been hammered to attenuation by argument and experience. .One or two will yield this time to the blows struck under political ' exigency oy Republican hammers: That will be sufficient to break the spell ot sanc tity. The eventual doom of a vested wrong has been ensured when 'once the continuity ot Its armor has been broken, and tha markesmen fire more raDldlv and with stratghter aim when they have found out that the target la no longer lnyuineraoie. - r , . . . Tha Disingenuous Republican Leader, It is not at all clear In view of the facts in the case, why Representative Payne should have been so Indignant Tuesday at being asked if, taken as a whole, the tariff bill reported by his Committee on - Ways and Means was not "revision upward." Whether the average of duties would be lowered or raised under this bill depends upon the ooeratlon ot the maximum and min imum feature of the measure. On this point Mr. Payne acknowledges an ab solute lack of knowledge. Under the cross-fire ot questions put to him from the Democratic side ot the House while be was attempting to explain this provision ot the bill, he had to admit and did admit that he did not know to what countries the maximum rates would apply and could not therefore, give ; even a guess as to what extent our foreign Importations would be- affected thereby, nor could he say how- extensive and dangerous the possible tariff wars in which we might become lnvovled as a result of this experiment In tariff tinkering. More than that,, he confessed that he and his associates on the committee had made no efforts to Inform them selves on these points. In such cir cumstances where was the ground or occasion for the indignation displayed at the question propounded? Congress and the country are entitled to know, approximately at least what sort of a tariff law they are being offered, and the committee charged with its draft ing ought to be able to furnish some definite explanation of and some ap proximately accurate Information as to the provisions ot the bill recom mended. Mr. Payne, by his own ad mission, -does not himself understand the most Important feature ot the bill which he is fathering and urging Con gress to pass and the country to ac cept . His Indignation is due probably to the smart caused by the enforced confession of bis own Ignorance. The Reductlo ad Absurdum. Mr, Broussard of Louisiana has gone over to the enemy bag and baggage. Such infidelity to obligations voluntar ily assumed Is the reverse of com mendable, of course; but his constitu ents are mostly to blame for having elected a representative without sense enough to know that the protective duty on sugar has enured altogether to the profit of the Trust not at all to the benefit of the grower of cane. The reduction proposed by Mr. Payne's committee Is too insignificant to affect any interest concerned one way or the other; while an increase; however min ute, could only, rivet the hold which monopoly has on the planter without giving the latter a cent of the extra' tribute to be. levied on the consumer. One of these days the tillers of the soil will find out that prohibitive duties on natural products only tend to put them at the mercy of the domestic market bare of competitive buyers. There is no agriculturist in the land who would not make money by a ra dical and horizontal reduction of the Import duties on everything he has to buy than by the extension of nominal protection to his special staple. And it goes without saying that the new cry of universal protection is a reduc tlo ad absurdum. For If the prices ot everything are to be artiflcally lifted In equal proportion we should all be in the same relative position as if nothing was protected. It Is a matter in which principle and policy coincide. There is neither righteousness nor wisdom in taxing the whole people for the en richment of a class or classes. The greatest good of the greatest number is the only legitimate object of a gen uine Democracy. There will be no Democratic party worthy of the name until the organization shall nail to the masthead the ancient flag with the one inscription: "Equal rights for all; special privileges to none. ITEM8 FROM 8TEDMAN. Mrs. H.S. 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