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s1 A REPUBLICAN NEVfSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING; AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN' INDUSTRIES -7. . ?burling vnrvn"?"'" TNftTON: -N'r':C',f AT WASHINGTON -I CTTED 1 1 IX LI Lilrl From our Regular Correspondent. Washington D. C.Augnst 2 When the making of the tahff.law; of 1909 shall have become a -matter of completed historyr i t will be found that never before vjias such .- a task presented itself to a political, patty for adjustment, and it will be shown that only a party - haying in view the best in terete of thp whole coun-f try without rerd", eectidnor class could have'''fi6allyraie;bn7'a Kll whatever. I tT would have been impossible i for1 the.' Democraticparty to have agreed, or for the Populists or the Socialists no party, except ing a body made up of j men ho could sacrifice personal interests and sectional interests for the bestTgood of the whole country It is a most thorough vindicatiun of Kepublica nism as embodied.in ' thei example of our President and party leader and of our Senators and Representa tives in Congress. It has shown ur AS We COUiu uut uavc. ftuuwu it in any other way, the personal charac ter of Mr. Taft and his' methods o'' carrying out what he believed jko be wise and honest results. There was no big stick flourished; there were no threats used; there was no , . coer cion simply calm and. deliberate persuasion until, for the oaost part, he accomplished his purpose. kX, all times in our history the members of all political -parties have been more o less divided . over' the schedules and rates ot a -tariff law. We are geographically so vast a country and our interests are so wi dely diversified that it would seem almost impossible to harmonize and agree on rates applicable to all sec tions and all interest, andtnever was this so apparent as at thepresent Naturally as production and , con turn ption increa es and methods be come more varied, as machinery be- d&mes more effective, and- as bothj capital and labor increase in "such euormous volumes, as has been the casejcluring the last decade, the va rious needs and wants of different sections must be very far apart. It is almost to be wondered at that any ta riff bill could be agreed-upon ' by these various interests, and by men having such divergent views, and it is to the honor and glory of the Republican party as a whole that it could give the countrya law agreed upon by its majority and signed by .its President. It remains, of course, to be seen whether the operation of the law will be successful, whether we shall prosper as we have under preceding tariffs. It remains to be seen whet her sufficient revenue will come, both from the duties on imports and the internal revenue. It remains to be seen whether importations will increase to such an extent as to dis place domestic productions, and it remains to be seen whether we be come a country giving full employ ment to our wage earners at the hig hest wages on the face of the earth, or whether the wage must be redu ced and the purchasing power of the people curtailed. One thing, h jwever, should result from the operation of the new law, and that is if not lower prices certa .jnly no increase. There is not an Item in the bill that will warrent-an Urease in price by the manufactu rer or mprohnnf nnf. nnf and if "ris is attempted it will be an "- im position that should be resented by people, and not charged to "the ration of the law. : This has been "jf; Tatt's design and this has been toe thought in thp minds nf. those wto nave agreed with him m the uctiuns carried by- the bill, and. should this residt obfain without a Auction of wages, or without a de fease in the vnlnmp of pmnlnvmpnt! SUlvlv flic fk J "it Jl LUC CAtia of 1909 will be of inestima- bit val in th 1 l . ' ' -ir7 V V t Li 11 LI V uUU 1CUVUUU III Tk credit ot the Republican par- pvomi.1 it and c carried .out US r,l,.(l . 4 unf in the recon- "t the Democratic Con- uwitnutee is very sigai- i- It liearings upon the i nis comiuiuee is, !vV; n committee the the secretary Representati Clark, of-Floi ida, haVinK been ousted. U it leaves no doubt whatever in the min ds; of the. political fleaders that Mr:: Bryan means to try for another that means of course, 1 Republican success at. the polls should he 4 be successful .in- the J convention,' J and, at: the present time it looks i ifi Mr. Bryan might be successful in gain ing the nomination because his op-; ponente arenas eververy 'muclt di videdjand ihre Keems no prospect of them getting together." opotiTany candidate. Of course it gives Mr. Bryan ; a considerable time unto which to. work up -a new hobby. Whether or not the RepllblicanjDar ty, has slolen alfbis clothe. he will have b !a'QewrAimeQ(and. putvforth some new tenet io'gaio' a healing - in 1912--m the meantime the Bpepubican party at the; next sessjon.of Congres.4 will undoubted ly put into Venactment ?many new laws that are? needed to carry on the principles and policies or the - party and in response to 3 the recbraenda tions that will be made by-President Taft indiisfirst annual message. ' Folia wing this legislation and the firt year of the pew tarifl law will come the Congressional elections of 1910 and ' the Republican leaders areinot unmindful of the ?fact that there are many doubtful districts be cause of one reason or other, and that an election between two Presi dantial elections '; is . .always fought with -doubt And yet there is the utmost confidence that not ouly will the present Republican majority be maintained in the next House, but that it will be considerably incresed in spite of file fact that the Demor cratic Congressional Committee ba seen fit toaiinoonce . that, it is going' to worn a year before the usual time., It is believed that next year the people will again be ua prosperous as they were for the, ten years preceding- thSGlle3;paiilb dtf&Ti is believed that the v will vote for prosperity and plrogress that comes through Republican legislation; it is believed thai: the operation of the new tariff law will, bring such em ployment and such an increase of wages in the aggregate .as to -make all present difficulties forgotten, and that while some interests may possi bly suffer temporarily to some ex tent, yet the whole good of the whole country will be so great as to make the people satisfied with gener al conditions. ..- ' State Farmers Convention. ". - ' At the A. &r M College, West Raleigh, N. C. Commencing Tues-. day, .'Ang 24th, and Continuing to Friday, Aug. 27tb. Four days of Real Study in Agriculture, Horti culture, Dairying, Stock Judging, Etc, At the same time and place there will be held a Woman's Convention where competent will discuss their problems in" home making, house keeping, prevention of diseases, cook ery, etc In addition to men from our State we have invited speakers for the oc casion from the Department of Ag riculture at Washington D. C, aud from other States. ComeUnd have four days of real agricultural enjoyment. - President Hill of the, A. & M. College offers board at 25 cents a meal and room rent free. Each person should bring one sheet and one pillowcase. Let the farmers of the State with iheir wives and daughters attend. Reduced rates over the railroads will be asked for. A fine program practical ques tion discused bypractcal farmers has been arranged. , ' Come and help make the occasion a grand success, . A. L: FRENCH, President. Mr: O. D. Hooker) formerly of Hillsboro, andf Mr. W J. yhoren burg, yill j have charge of 'the bld Burlington warehouse, at Burling-toSjJST.- d, this?season.-;;nddi Hon of fifty feet" will be made to the warehouse, makings a largej roorn 170 bv85 feet to be used for the con- committee the Ueuier.ee ot .the customers wraugeiau Vi"1' SJ JtxL':.J,t?K1 '1,,Jfel"V. : . - "'1 Iryan,-uoVuUyrXrmr'TO TT-TCSTmpIny. .. - - : -t t waitjjgi youtnsrchon; j f the customers Orange Report of Thompson ships. The Sunday-School Convent ion for'ThompsOh's Townbip convened at Sa'em Church the 4tH Sunday in July. - Tnere was a very lare at tendance. There are six schools in the township and all ;wereTepresent ed except the Baptist Sunday School at Swepsonville. We-vcannot a( count for it failing to send delegates. The exercises of thv day were gcoi ind mush interest was manifested. ? . The convention, was called ,to or der by the Chairman J. N. Thomp; son and after the-opening exercises, consisting of singing by the chojr, reading, of Scripture lesson ; by the pastor Rev. 3vH. Bowman and pra yer by L. W. Holt the chairmanjde livered an addrps of welcome ' in which he gave an historic account oi old J3alem church, showing that it had " been occupied as - a place of religious worship for more than one hundred years, by Baptist, Pres byterians, Friends, Methodists, Episoopals and now by Methodist Protestants.' ' - Mr. L. W. Holt in a very - short but interesting talk responded to the talk of welcoma. After singing by the choir which was very good, the first regular speech of the day was niade by L. W. Holt, Vice Presi dent of Alamance .County S.. iS. Association, on the subject, wjhy I believe in the Sunday. School, Mr. Holt's speech way practical and help ful to 1 he Sunday 8chool worker. The next .8peech in the forenoon was made by H. M. Cates, ' Slate Lecturer, of the Farmers Alliance. He prefaced, bis address with, the story old negro preacher who" when about to addres- his congregation said: Brethern Tand 'Sistern' every sermon must consist of these parts, th text the subject and tlie rousipg 1 have 'nor textnb subject soT will have to confine ravself to the-rous ing. Mr. Cates talk was greatly ap preciated and evidently aroused much interest in the Sunday School work. Mr. Catas' speech was fol lowed by more excellent singing. The thanks of the community , are extended to onr visiting, young friends who aided so much ins the singing. The large congregation after spending an hour and a half eating good dinner aud talking with friends reassembled to hear a most excel lent address on, A Vision of the Sunday School Work by C8. W. Dameron of Burlington, Mr. Dame- ron's talk was plain and practical, just such as people need to hear of ten. Misses Mattie and Hattie Bradshaw added much to the occa sion by acting, "Nearer .My God To Thee" Rev. J. H. Bowman pastor of Salem church made an interesting talk to relatives to the. Sunday School. A short time was spent in the discussion of the time that should be spent in hearitfg Sunday School recitations. The convention then went into the executive session and elected delegates to the County Con vention, and also elected officers for the township. Mr. J.( N. Thomp son was re-elected President, Mr. S. E. Wood Vice President, and Mr. Chas. P Thompson Secretary and Treasury. Mr. Chas. W. Webster and myself returned from our offici al work with a clear conse'ence in regard to duty and a consciousness of haying done at least something for the betterment of the Sunday School in the township. . It was decided to hold the next convention at Salem. - . ; J. A. W. Thompson, Retiring SecretaryJ The July term of Wake criminal au rt ended Saturday, i. There Nvere twenty-eight road sentences imposed upon defendants. One defendant was sent to the penitentiary another to the criminal insane department." There ; aretwenty-eight. prisoners now in jail Mk whom fifteen are Fe deral prisoners; Oaucasion. . I t . ' l Cicero'Durham deft yesterday for Kciuucr, Nr C, where he goes : lor an opening of the Hoplun Tailoring v. uvyubuuiu Ul ; UUU111 1 comhissioners;mettinb Urajiam, August 2nd; 1 909, I he 4?oardx)f Coanty Commissioners of Alamance Couuty " met : in the Court -House on : the above date with the following members present. . E. liong) Chairman, WS A. Mur ray, B S. Robertson. 4 The following business :was tran- v .Ordered: That h. A. Becker Corapany 'bereiieved of tax on sol vent credits amounting "to ; $1 500 , same erroneously listed, for the year 1908. V l l- Vl.-r - - 7 f- pidered: j Dr. S M. Montgom ery. Stipt. of health be received . and filed. - A. - ... 4 -; X - Ordered: ; That the report of J. HrpleySup,tr of';the County Home be received and filed. 7 brderech That J. r H. Tarpley be abd, lis hereby elected County Supt of the Home of Aged and In firm ;for,two' years beginning the fir st Day of October 1909 at a salary of $25.00 per month. Ordered: That the petition -of citizens of Morton township . asking tor a road from the Burch road on Prof. .L'W. pilliam's plae to th Ossipee and Burlington Road be ad vertised, and heard at the nextmeet ing of this Board. - Ordered: That J. H. Tarpley Supti of the County be authorized to call oil Mr Ed. Teague for the rent on house and lot of Polly Boon- she being ah inmate of the ? Cbunty homeland that the renter be ana id herebyl authorized and instructed to pay said rent to J.' H. Tarpley Sup't of the County home each month. Dr EM. Montgomery! Coimty Supt of health-gave notice of his re signation as5 County Supt of heilth to take effect on the first Monday ia oepu . Juie oamiary ; ommittee is requested to meeiwith the Board of County Commissioners on that Day to-consider th matter and to elect a County Su pt of health, r There beinglno futher business the Board adjourned to meet thefiist Monday in Sept. Graded School Faculty. The following have been .elected by the board of education of the town to the serve as faculty of the graded school during the scholastic year of 1909-1910: Prof. .F. H. Curtis, principal; Misses Mary Posey (jlenn Springs,". C, Annie Burton, Jeffersonton, Va., L. Gertrude Ken nedy, Cambridge, W. Va., Mattie A. Jackson, Lewisborg, W. Va., Annie G. Webster, Graham, N. C. R. F. D. No. 2, Idalia Petty Rust burg, Va., Margaret Mizelle, Roan oke Rapids, N. C, Susie F. Staf- ford, Burlington, N. C , Bessie Ster rett, Charlotte, N. C, Lettie Mac Rice, Windsor, N. C, Mildred Cun ningham, 'Madison, N. O, May me E. Fonville, , Burlington, N. C, Cecelia H; Bason, Biirlineton, N. - - C, Helen L. Hall, Burlington, N. C, Mary Wilson Brown, Locus Hill N. C, Cornelia Hancock, Manches ter, Va , Josephine E. Estes, Music Teacher, Newtonville, Mass.' Colored Teachers I. L. Tillery, Burliugton, N. C, Fannie G. Hall, Graham, N. C. Holt Farm Sold. The large farm which lies three or four mile southeast of here for - meally owned by Mr. Robt L. Holt, but bought by Mr JQ: Finch a few months ago, has been purch ased Saturday by Mr. John Caffey of Wilkesboro for $12,000. Mr. Finch jvho paid $10,000 claimed an advance in the property of $2,000 oh account of the. macadam; road. This one of the many instances which are "coming up daily, showingthe great value of, the macadam roads and the rise of . valuation on real es 6tate. With a network of. macadam roads over the country and some of the best- farming ;landv in the Stajte, there is no -reason why Alamance should not iakejirst rank a an agri ural county- - v v. ; v- 5 '-"ft ' - iVisit the one half price sale, which s io oegin at, ii. r leisnmans oatur- daV':Augu'st"7.:vJ5ig7:barga1M:are PRnnFPniKfi np: rniiNTv THE4WASTE0K;qDRliif UllMURALfRESOURCEJ Scientific American is 4 .The present awakenmg of ; the national conscience on the subject of hewaste of: oui natural vresourcer is one of the most encouraging signs of the times;; but iu this, as in.-. all other great national , awakenings, there is the danger that the move ment ;xmay.; neverf progress beyond the, stage ot disOussion to that of ' . A? . . 1 ' !. j TT i "1 ,1' practical enort. u diu tne necessary legislation is secured, if is well for us to. take an occasionar review of the present conditions of wasts, and point to the; ultimate absolute deple tion of our resources which iniist in evitably ensure linless the strong ami of the ' law ; be called in to enforce remedial and preventive .measurep. We have before os a succinct review of the question by -Dr."Gebrge Fi Swain in a paper presented at the recent annual meeting of the Nat ional Association of Corton Manu facturers, in which the .subject is treated under the four heads of For ests, Water, Lands and Minerals. At the present time the, pebpl'oi the United Stater use annually forty culic feet of - wood per acre, as an offset to which there is va natural growth of only twelve cubic feet per. acre. In ans wer to the Question. whether it is necessary for as to r use three times what we produc, atten tion is invited to the fact that, while iir the United' States ? we use 262 cubic feet per capita,' Germa- y vuses only 37, France 25, and Great Bri tain 14 cubic feet per capita. Forest fires, most of which are entirely pre ventable, have consumed since j 870 an average of 50,000?000 acres of standing timber per year. . There; u much necessary" waste due to care less methods of logging and sawing. for each 1,000 feet of standing tim- berrthat, are ciirdowlo' only 32.0 feet ore put to use. Tanning estabu m- ments bark the trees and leave them to die. , The turpentine , industry, also, results in a large " annual des truction of timber. It is not to be wondered at that in -the last nirie years the price of yellow pine at the njull has increased 65 percent. ; Natural gas is allowed to waste in many localities without restraint, and it is estimated that a sufficient amount is lost to light all the cities of the United States having a popu lation of over 100,000. At the pres ent rate of use and waste all the known supplies of natural gas will be exhausted in 25 years. , As for oil, it is sufficient to state that at the present rate of increase the supply will be exhausted before the year 1950. Although there has been an improvement of about 50 per cent in our methods of coalmining in re cent years, the present system is un economical. We extract the high grade coal "and allo the mine to cave in thereby wasting a large per centage of the available supply. By the middle of the next century, the easily accessible and available coal m this country will have been ex hausted. . ' " The situation with respect to our supply of iron.-ore is even more ser ious; for it is estimated that if the present rate of increase of consump tion continues, the known supply of high grade pre will begone by the middle of the present centurv; Twenty-five years is also the limit set for 'the exhaustion of another ira- portant- mineral phosphate rock. Taking air our mineral products to gether, itis' estimated that the total waste approximate ,$1,000,000 per day or over one-sixth of the value of the total production. .. ; ' ; ? As to public lands, or lands in" general it is undeniable that we are" failing to secure as large crops as we should, chiefly because we neglect some fuhdmental principles, such ;af. the development ot rotating crops. and so plowing on - sloping groundr as to prevent washing away of tht soil. Although we have sorne of tht richest soil in the , world, the aver age yield peracre from 1 897 to 1 906 was 13.8 v bushels of : wheat in Iht Uuited States hs against.28 in Ger i.,AMC iaVw auB: 1 ting 'o he Vxus'ion oZ cur fue many and 32.2 m the united King dom. - " - ; ; supplies indicate that in -the future years, the 'value of Water mwer as a natural s asset ;, will ' become increas- -ingly evident To utalize the full'i hydraulic power of the rivWitVill " V, be the greatest i mportance to reduce ' I; the ;tremesbjk flo w waste ofwater. through floods may - be made . a imintmum. ; Statistics S : shbw, moi-eover, 'that the annual ; V.; : HamWe done bV floods is inairibrx W ano! has risen from $45,000,000 in 007to$118,bg0,pb0 in 9(nMm Thev-MerTimacRiveri'disalr its period of highest flood seventy 5 times as m uch ; water per second a . ' it does at its lowest stage, and ten V M ; ' times as .much as ayerayflowii throughout the yea The! reguIaritlMS : oi ine now may De lncreaseCi by the preservation 6t 4 the?; forest, whose t presence tends to retard; thejrun-bff . f of the rainfall, ; ahef fy the atxuc-li tioii' of treservqire, which? wilbhold V r. pacK the noods and allow ; the surr : . r plus waters to- be drawn of as iieed-1 ed, thereby increasing the averaTO-c;'..- - uuw uuuuguuut but: year ;x:ariicU"-':; 1 arly; necessary is It i to protect the- loresis ou steep mountains slopes with a view to the prevention of floods and the resulting destruction ; I of the arable lands in the lower val- ' , leys. In the lentb Congress on In- ternational Navigation held in Milan in 1905, the engineers were unanim- ! ' ous upon this point, M. Lafosse, . , tbe- French delegate describes the::; evil effect Vf stripping the mountain sides' as follows: " - P&x ''The aoil, swept bare of its forests exhaii Jted by the abuses' of grazing, . ' loses quickly ita vegetable stratum, a " . i : j Wasned periodically, and ; carried ; v f away by melting: snow and mmerSliS s tortus, u j bo nt u Jw'ggrPS1 -iff- s water runs- towaru , ine low points, i . y roinne oeiore tnem crave ana Douid- - t rs, an even, tea rini; out loose see-r a tions- of rock.' A: thousand5 rivulets put out bedSj the torren t; is formed down, and a mass tjf, mud, stones and ;; v- . rocks invades the yallty, destroying everything as it passes.,r-A'K .-' Most-of the ; countries of ; Europe have learned, the lesson; and. taken ; steps for the careful preservation of .' their fdrests; and this has been done not .merely with a view rto Jncreas-1 'y ins the timber supply, but in the ih century ago, the French' government k; - entered upon a policy of forest pro tection and reforestation, and up to the 1st of January, 1900, they had acquired no less than 620 square miles for these purposes. The efforts' oi our own government to soive tn is question on a scale commensurate! witn its importance . snouiai receive the hearty .co-operation of "every State of the Union ; . ' :.-. Protection in The South. The. South is going tobe one ;ofcfr the strongholds of Protection in the . future. There are a few in the West 4 "K who think that progressiveness V V ;, stands for anab andonment of this, T - graat national doctrine.; They, boast-" r ed. their freedom from its trammels' . . -;. and. attacked in driver3 places and ; ; in manners that have not been known even to those Democrats' who .have ; bean hereditary foes'of Protection." . But Protection is goin to survive. . : It is gouig to remain a; living, and :S: vitalizing force not only' in our ppli-r tical life,; but in our individual and v commerical livesV , We are going to . be more persuaded,u0t less persuad ed, tha t bur first jnoncerh f must - be for ourselves; that' what we can , do , - or grow or make -of ourselves we ihoukl not look to other countries- for. , -' The"hew. South i goiug to have his as one of its. cardinal , doctrines Stntiievu i .Congressmen ; have not. - hesitated o prcK'lalm themselves ; "as being oub and out ProttionKlB3yrand they have dared to say that in' that ; policy lies the future1 greatness ' of tuat unaeveiopea section oijne coun try, Cedar Rapids "Republican. - Messrs. Ei- Bowland and Lewis -- Marshall spent Saturday and Sun. - day at Ebeneezer atteodiDg anasso- i ciation of the Baptist MrY Bo wfand 1 states that he ; never received ' mOre ,-.. 1 courteous. and i hospitable 'treatment , , - ., ban at the rteiudsovthossgduu l tist brethern -r --Wf : A i;;'--ivs':L7. ?,'-L V- ' - . '. V -i--" -VI ! - fl- i 1 i I-. v ,
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