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1 f 1 H IK VOL. XXVII. RALEIGH, N. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1909. No. 47 EDITORIAL BRIEFS If we thought "Protection" was robbery we would not vote for a man who believed In prelection. If I5ryan and Glenn should be nominated next time, wouldn't they make a noise across this country? Wake Forest won the debate from the Virginians on the high tariff. Now what are you going to do about It? Bryan ha9 at last crawled on the water wagon. Be careful Colonel that the first bump doesn't knock you of. If Doctor Cook should turn out to be a fakir would the Democrats elim inate him as a presidential possi bility? Charlotte has a street named '"Mint." No wonder they can't en force the prohibition law in that town. An exchange says that a Democrat Is one who believes in Democratic principles. But what are Democratic principles? If the Democrats hope to keep Glenn quiet by nominating him for Vice-President that is where they aro mistaken. A New York man proposes to have marriage made compulsory. But how does he know that every woman will be able to support a husband? Wonder if the trusts think North Carolina's anti-trust law too drastic? . ., . , . However, none of them have asked that it be repealed, or even amended, The Wilmington Star is advocating Bryan for the bench. Not the Su- preme Court bench, however, but it wants him to go away back and sit down. If the Democrats declare for local self-government next time, it might be well for them to explain at the same time what they mean by' the term The head of the State Board of Health of Kansas has started an of- flclal crusade against long whiskers, Another fight on the Democratic partj. A news story says that New York spends $30,000,000 a year for music. L Hall to which the tax-payers dance annually. Col. Henry Watterson advises the netnnmtc in lroon oHll That la t. ceuem aavice, u iaey win oniy neeu It, for every time they move it is It A. 1 P .1 111 1 1 J I backwards. A Democratic paper in this State only last week declared that "Pro tection is Robbery." Still his party sends men to Congress who vote for 'nrotection " The State Democrat wants to eet the .,,,w. t party. And heretofore they have party was white. The Lenoir News says that wealth does not hrln. honnlnflco w will , . . , . , , have to take the News' word for it, as it is a matter on which we cannot t-i - I speak authoritatively. A French woman who claims that she can bring the dead to life, has recently arrived in this country. She probably came over in the interest of the Democratic party. Ex-Governor Glenn says he is still in politics and expects to take a hand in the next camnaien. Of course. if he should happen to be the candi date for Vice President. a woman in San Francisco was granted a divorce because her hus band had the "hook-worm" disease, We had better spend Rockefeller's million in a hurry or the divorce mill will be overworked. A Washington dispatch says that Judge Harmon is being groomed for the Democratic nomination in 1912 If he doesn't bat his ears or kick it ought not to take long to complete tha -Ins Hix-trovernor Glenn has declared for Judge Harmon for Democratic nominee for President in 1912, and iurther says that the nominee for Vice President should be a Southern one of the Central American coun man. However. Glenn's extremal tr1 an TJnrth narnHna. ha a nnmher modesty prevented him from saying whom the candidate for Vice Presi- aent should be. DO NOT APPRECIATE GLENN. The Texas Papers Have Invited Him To Stay at Home. The Dallas Times-Herald comment ing upon the Ex-Governor and some of his recent utterances says: 'Here Is a patriot, glowing and glib tongued, who Is In favor of shoot ing down, murdering In cold blood, all men who refuse to look at things through his glasses. He would shoot down men who attend a game of ball on Sunday; he would slaughter all men who do not accept his In terpretations of the Sunday laws; he would plant In crimsoned graves all men who do not worship God accord Inb to the dictates of the Glenn conscience. This same R. B. Glenn, ex-Governor, came to Dallas, deliver ed an address, made a speaking tour of Texas, landed at New Orleans, and then slandered Texas and Texans Dallas among the rest. Called down for his misrepresentations, he hus tled himself away to the mountain retreats of his native State for medi tation, fasting and praying. But he never made good his charges, he never recanted, he never made reply. Now he Is for the shotgun extermina tion of all men who are not in sym pathy with the Glenn plan of salva tion. Hon. 'Shoot 'Em Down' Glenn should go back to Buncombe coun ty and lose himself." PROHIBITION AMENDMENT LOST. Measure Was Proposed as an Amend ment to the State Constitution of Alabama Large Vote Polled Feeling Ran Very High. Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 29. Ear ly returns In the Alabama amend ment election indicate that the pro posed amendment to put prohibition in the constitution has been defeat- ed by a decisive vote. From the country precincts which closed at 5 o'clock, the reports indicate that the iarmer voie is largely against it. . .. , ,r . . The majority in Montgomery County - train st mv en to 1.500. The indications are that the the amendment lost in a majority of the counties. Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 29. In Birmingham the election on the pro hibition amendment was the most AYMHner vpr w! tnAnnpd. TTnndrftds f , wgre crowded around each polling place, women and children were singing and brass bands sta- tioned by the anti-amendment forces were playing patriotic airs.- macn polling piace wunessea us -uota f flst flhta' thefe eta BO mm It was imnoaslble to keen track of tnem Feeiing was so high that a few words were sufficient to bring on a blow. As an Instance of the deep feeling displayed, a promi nent minister went to the pons ana a young woman attempted to pin a ... v . A proper for young ladies to speak to men on the streets whom they did not know. The woman began crying and the minister apologized lor hurt- ing her feelings, but said he consid- olou iv0 r nlACAA for th voune women to be " nnl. Roosevelt and Party Heard - . m From. Mombasa, British East Africa, Nov. 30. The Roosevelt hunting party arrived to-day at Londiana. Colonel Roosevelt is happy over the success of his hunting trip, especially on the Inguasha plateau, ah or the Party are well and enthusiastic. Col- onel Roosevelt accompanied oy isai- urallst Heller, arrived first via the TTaTw.ft T?Nrn1 and ahortlv after- Ivc,-..- wards were joined by Kermit Roose velt and Mr. Tarleton. The others of the expedition, who have the tro- phies with them, were expected later I J . A. "1.h.T aay or lo-morruw. vuiuuci ,A .1. KOOSeven was eninusiauuc over uio plentltude of game on the plateau and many handsome trophies were secured. The party was on the pla teau for several weeks. Heavy Snow Storm in Texas and Ad joining States. Chicago, Not. 30. A heavy snow storm prevails in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas, and railroad L ffi . demoralized Communication with Beaver and other towns Guyman, in Okla homa has been lost and . the extent of the storm there cannot be learn ed. Six inches of snow has fallen over the Panhandle of Texas, and a blizzard is raging which will cause great loss of live stock, if it contin ues. Over a thousand telegraph poles and several miles of wire are down on the western Kansas division of the Rock Island and Santa Fe as the result of rain, sleet and snow Trains on the Rock Island, bound for El Paso are reported snowbound near the Oklahoma State line. Seven feet of snow is reported at Dawson, N, M.. and the fal throughout Mexico generally wll icosi sneepmen bbu taiucuicu wuu Could Lend Them Experts. It is reported that an organization of red shirts has been started in of experts In that line that she would be very glad to lend for an indefinite neriod. Greensboro News. THE TRUSTS UNEASY They Claim Sherman Law Is Too Drastic and Should Be Amended. NO GOOD TRUSTS CAUGHT YET President Will Await Decision of the Supreme Courts If Law Is Chang ed It Will Be Strengthened Whole Country Looking Forward to President Message With Great Interest Congress Will Meet Mon day. (Special to The Caucasian.) Washington, D. C, Nov. 30. 1909. Many Congressmen and Senators are already arriving In town and the capital is again taking on very much the appearance of the time when Congress is In actual session. There Is great Interest being manifested by all legislators in the nature and scope of the President's coming mes sage to Congress. In addition to the measures of reform that the Presi dent outlined in his circuit through the West, which has already been published in The Caucasian, it is un derstood that the President has given most careful attention to the recent decision of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in the Standard Oil case, and that as a result of that de cision, he will not recommend any amendment to the Sherman anti-trust law until after the Supreme Court has passed upon that case. The Position of the Trusts. The position which the large trusts of the country have taken since that decision in declaring that that decls- ion would regult ln Congress amend ing the law so as to make it less drastic, has attracted the President's attention and made him deem it un wise to even move at the present time in making it stronger. The Washington Times, in a lead- ng editorial on Sunday on this sub- ect, and also discussing a later de cision following the Standard Oil de cision in a rate case, says: Another Great Circuit Court Decision Less sensational and spectacular. but hardly less Important than the recent Standard Oil dissolution de cision at St. Paul. Is the finding of the United States Circuit Court at hlladelphia, just announced, in a railroad rate case. The Reading Railway had sought to enjoin the enforcement of certain rates prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The court declined to enjoin, and dismissed the bill. In doing so It announced a view of the rate making power of govern ment that, if sustained; ' as it prob ably will be, will clear away most of the difficulties surrounding the whole problem of government control of rates. "Justices Gray, Bufflngton, and anning constituted the court, and they were unanimous in the decision. hey declared rate-making is not a judicial function, but legislative. The Legislature can fix rates either di rectly or through a commission to which power may be delegated. When such commission has been delegated the necessary power, and when it acts n accordance with the law's hear ng, etc., then the court has no busi ness Interfering. The act of the com mission becomes law, and the only ground on which a law may be set aside is the strictly constitutional ground. In -this case, the proof that the rate was confiscatory would con stitute such demonstration of uncon stitutionality. "This is a decision, from one of the greatest circuit benches in the country, which clearly points the way. There has been too " much of ederal Courts suspending and en joining the orders of the commission If the Supreme Court now sustains this decision it will have served no tice on the rest of the minor courts that they have no business recklessly and thoughtlessly setting aside the orders of the commission simply be cause an attorney chose to allege that he didn't like them. The order of the commission is to be treated as law; to be enforced till it is proved an unconstitutional law; and the proof must be made and the whole case adjudicated, before that can be maintained. "It begins to look a if the courts would get the problems pretty well settled; before Congress can get around to them at the present rate." These two decisions are attracting the closest attention of lawyers here, and the general belief now is that the Supreme Court will sustain both of these decisions. No Good Trust Caught Yet. A prominent Government offlcia expressed the sentiment yesterday that it would not be wise to respond to the appeal of the trusts to amend this law so that none but the bad trusts would be caught by it untl some good trust was actually caught and convicted, and this view will no doubt be voiced generally in Congress and wilr meet the approval of the country. Bob Simpson, a farmer, who lived at Wilson's Grove, in Mecklenburg County, .was shot and killed by Will Hartis, last Saturday night. BRIEF ki WB TTKM3, Congress will convene next Mon day. f Durham proposes to hold a tobac co fair next year. Four white prisoners escaped from Jail at Shelby Friday night. A woman's sufftag league was or ganized in Richmond. Va., Saturday. The Baptist State Convention will meet in Wades bo ro, N. C. December 7th. and continue for four days. The Noilh Carolina Grand Lodge of Masons will kold their annual meeting ln Raleigh the first week in January. Morgan Chambers, a negro prison er, was lynched near Meridian, Miss., Thursday night The prisoner had assaulted and robbed an aged white man. The telephone train dispatching system was put Into use by the At lantic Cont Line Sunday on all the trains f etween Richmond and Wil mington. Jane Douglas, an aged colored woman, who escaped from the Meck lenburg County Home October 26th, was found dead Saturday two miles from the home. C. M. Edwards, of Greensboro,, is in jail charged with attempting to kill his wife. .He shot at her, but fortunately tblball missed the woman. Frlerfd llaim that Edwards is a "dope tty North Carolina won several prizes at the National Horticultural Con gress at i Council Bluffs, Iowa, last week. The fruit exhibit from, this State was not very large, yet it won twenty fir3t premiums, six gold med als and four sliver loving cups. Martin Luther, a boy of Randolph County disappeared from home over two weeks ago, and has not been heard from since,. He did not want to go to school, and his relatives think that he drowned himself in a mill pond near by. A special from Greensboro to Sun day's News and Observer says that Guilford County has been awarded! the thousand dollars offered for best roads between New York and Atlanta traversed by the? recent New York1 Herald-Atlanta Journal long distance automobile tourists. Mr. C. B. Newberry, of Fayette- ville. lost his barn and stables by fire on last Thursday night, and on Saturday night an attempt was made to burn his dwelling. In an attempt to burn the dwelling one side of the house was saturated with oil. There s no clue. to the Incendiaries. A special from Rockingham, Rich mond County, to Sunday's News and Observer, says: "Elmore Maner and Alex. Covington, two young white men, are in jail here charged with assault on F. G. Punke, an old Ger man, who runs a restaurant here. The injured man will probably die." Mr. Alvls A. Pleasants, of Dur ham, was drowned in the Cape Fear River, near Wilmington, Sunday. Pleasants and Hubert Maynard, also of Durham, were in a boat when it capsized. Maynard came near losing his life before he reached land. Pleasants' body was not recovered until Monday. The Jennings Cotton Mill, of Lumberton, has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $500,000. The Center Brick-Wat son Warehouse Co., of Wilson, has also been incorporated with an -authorized capital stock of $100,000. The company will buy, sell and man ufacture tobacco. G. R. WiMtead and Wiley Dew, of Wilson County, were fined $50 each by Judge Cook last Thursday for contempt of court. Winstead was a defendant in a case and Dew was a juror, and the two bad dined together each day . while the trial was in progress. A mistrial was or dered in the case against the Rock- ford Manufacturing Company for carelessly causing woods-burning, the case in which Winstead was a defendant. Mr. Lee H. Battle, of Greensboro, has been on trial ln the Federal court in that city for the past week on the charge of irregularities in his accounts while he was cashier of the defunct City National Bank of Greensboro. He is charged with using the bank's money to help , float the business of the Pomona . Mills, of rhch he was a director. There are also other counts in the bill of in dictment The case will probably go to the jury to-day. The heirs of the late Mr. W. A Stewart, of Dunn, who was killed by the movement of an Atlantic Coast Line freight train, some months ago will receive $25,000 from the rail road. The heirs sued for $75,000 and a jury awarded $35,320, but the Coast Line announced that it would appeal. However, at a conference o the attorneys for plaintiff and de fendants Saturday, it was agreed the railroad should pay $25,000 and not appeal the case. f BlLirajN JAPAN The Agricultural and Man ufactured Products of The Empire. WHERE COTTOri WOHT GROW The Silk Industry Is Great fruiu Do Well They Make Little "Spirit" The Japanese Garden Mining an Important Industry ' Cotton Mills and the Great Ship building Carried on Strange But Profitable Manufacturing. Tokio, Japan, Nov. 17, 1909. Correspondence of The Caucasian Enterprise. I hev awlready spoken ov the rice farmers in Japan, they bein' the big gest part ov the agricultural industry in the empire. The cultivation ov tea is very important, so much ov hit bein' necessary fer home consump tion. Rice grows best on the rich lowlands, while tea will grow on the sides ov the hills an' mountains. Be tween Yokohama and Nogoya you can see probably the best tea-growin' portion ov Japan. The tea plant grows about az large as an ordinary gooseberry or current bush and the tea leaves air very thick on the bush. The leaves vary in value, one grade or quality selling fer az much az five dollars per pound. But not much ov that kind is raised. Since Japan hez become a large purchaser ov Ameri can cotton the cultivation or cotton hez bin tried. But Japan will never get rich growin cotton, the yield be- in' entirely too small. The South, U. S. A., still hez and will awlways hev a monopoly in cotton growin . Some tobacco iz grown. Some to bacco iz grown, but Japan cannot compete with the U. S. in that either. Raw silk is probably the most avlu- able export product Japan hez. At one time much ov the silk wuz neces sary for home use. But the exten sive use ov American cotton la Ja pan hez enabled that country to sell much ov the silk and substitute cot ton cloth for home use, which iz a good business proposition for the Japanese; and if Americans or other! people prefer silk goods, nobody Iz hurt ln the transaction, - for a gude grade ov silk will wear an' look well fer years. The, amount ov silk sent out o vJapan amounts to about thirty-five million dollars pr year, three fifths ov the quantity goln' to the United States. In addition, the sale of silk products, made in Japan amounts to about fifteen million dol- ars, or a total ov fifty million dol ars. Az the sale ov tea iz but five million dollars and the sale ov rice four million dollars annually, that iz, to outsiders, the reader can readily see that the silk industry iz the com mercial life ov Japan in hits dealings with foreign countries. Some ov the fruits grow to perfec tion in Japan. The apple tree wuz carried here from America only thir ty odd years ago, but a great quan tity ov the fruit is now grown in Japan, some ov the apples goin' to China and some to Siberia, for a surplus iz raised. The Southern Japanese islands grow oranges, ba nanas, and pineapples, a surplus ov each bein' grown for trade. The ban-tan, a species of grape, is awlso raised. Pears do fairly well. Peach trees do fairly well, also, but the peach iz not at home here. I hev mentioned the wonderful persim mons that grow here In a former let ter. The only Intoxicant the Japan ese hev, except wine, iz made from rice. Hit is called "shocken." This contains about 50 per cent or alco hol, and I am told that hit will make a feller "rich" If he tanks up on hit Az I am from a more or less dry State an am an active member ov a more or less dry party, the grand old Dymakrat party, the party that bets everything on Bryan an' prohibition, I could not feel at lib erty to sample the "shochu"; that iz, if I did sample hit, my party ties, an' other clothin would not permit me to confess that hit iz a gude medisin. But I may buy a little bottle ov the stuff an' carry hit home with me and git a special permit from the State chairman ov my party to take hit, so I kin tell my friends what they git 'mellow" on in Japan. The Japanese garden is a cute lit tle affair. Az their "fields" air no larger than an American garden, you can well imagine how small the aver age garden iz. Why we raise cab bages in North Carolina which air so large that they would not have room to grow in a Japanese garden. But they grow vegetables just the same. many varieties or them. In visiting Japan you can land at Yokohama and depart at Kobe, these seaports bein' three hundred miles apart Side trips can be taken to Tokio, Nikko. MIyano-Shita, Kyoto, and Nara. That does not include awl ov the principal cities, but you see some ov the most lnterestln' portions ov the country. - Mining is an industry ov consid erable importance in Japan. Gold, silver and copper air found in payin Quantities. About six million dollars worth or copper air exported annu ally. Good coal is found ln abund ance. Coal, or course, iz the princi pal fuel used ln Japan. But they E (Continued on Page S.) YOCXO GIIUS STRANGE DRKAit. Bays She Was Cured or Ferrr In a Vision Claimed That hint Haw Heaven, and Alao Visited Her Dead Father. The following story is furnished us by Mr. Thomaa. L. WUHncham. of Wilson, N. C. formerly of Oma vllle: I was at Black Creek, N. C, a nice little town about six miles south of Wilson. N. C. and Mr. A. A. Aycock, a young merchant at that point, told me that his sister, Mrs. Addison, who lives near Kenly. N . C. had recent ly told him of a little girl who had a very strange vision. I expressed a desire to see the child and see if I could get her to tell me the story of her vision from her own lips. The young merchant told me that his brother was going over near there on Saturday and that I could very likely get him to take me to the place where the child lived. This was done. I found things as they were stated to me; I found a small girl, who will be eleven next January. I gave her a Sunday-school paper which she seem ed to appreciate; but she said that she couldn't read. "Spiritual things are spiritually discerned;" there will be some peo ple that will question the truth of this; as for myself, I find no explana tion of the story; I merely stato the facts as they were given to me from the mouth of the little girl herself. Her parents are ln very humble circumstances; she has had no ad vantages whatever. Her parents are tenants on Mr. Addison Wigg's farm. near Kenly. Her father died some years ago. and her mother having married a second husband. She says in her vision she saw her own father in torment She says that she was sick ln bed for two weeks with scar let fever, and was very low at the ime of her vision, not having eaten anything from Sunday till Thursday. Her mother came into the room where the child lay and heard the little girl break out ln a laugh and say: "Mamma, I am relieved of pain" This young girl is named Smithie Elizabeth Deans, but is generally called Elizabeth or Lizzie. Lizzie Aent on to tell me: "I was up there with Jesus when I rose from my bed that was my dying-bed. Jesus was the one that came to me; I said 'Lord, there is Jesus,' and I said: 'Lord Jesus please heal my pain,' and He said: 'I will,' and eased it. And He took all my 'feelings' away and left the body lying there on the bed, and I could see it as He took my spirit away. When I got up there to Heaves, I said that I did not want to go back, and He said (Jeeus and God were 'begging of me') to go back and tell my people and warn them how to do." Although this little girl had not eaten anything from Sunday until Thursday and had been very lew with scarlet fever for two weeks, after the Great Physician had 'visited her she got right up and to use her own words again "eat a big mess of col lards and some chicken stew." "Papa is in torment, and asked me to bring a drop of water to put on his parched tongue. God has water; the people up there want nothing to eat Mama wanted me to go visiting today, but I told her no, that some people would be here to see me today. Next, after I got to Heaven I saw God, saw so many pretty things." A lady that was also in the room while I was recording the above said to Mr. William Aycock and myself, that we ought to have heard her talk just after her vision, of the pretty things that she saw, and she looked up and said: "I can see it now, God, says what to say right now, I can't talk and tell them unless what He says tell them. He told me last night I could not stay here long." I have the names of two ladles liv ing in Wilson that she says that she has a message for. People are flock ing out there to see her. "I do hereby certify to the fact that the above Is true. W. F. Aycock, Black Creek, N. C.w SECRET DIVORCES DENOUNCED. Justice Brewer Attacks Practices of the Rich. New York. Nov. 27. Secret di vorces were attacked by Justice Da vid J. Brewer in a lecture on the sub iect. "The Good Time Coming," de livered to-night before the Progress Club, at Par Rockaway. He said: "Divorce suits are con ducted without publicity. While I regret the disposition on the part of some journals to hunt out the nastl- ness of life and lay it before their readers, yet against any concealment or secrecy in Judicial proceedings, I must earnestly protest Better no divorces than divorces obtained by secret judicial proceedings. "Let no man be rich enough to buy a veil to cover the records of a court of Justice." Niece of Aguinaldo in Mooresville. Mr. R. E. Frazier left these parts in 1900. with the North Carolina band, for army service in the Phil ipplnes. He spent five years in the Philippines and while there was charmed by the grace and beauty of a native Filipino, the niece of the insurgent general, Aguinaldo, and married her. Mrs. Frazier is now on a visit to Mrs. J. H. Frazier, of this place. She is the mother of three interesting children She speaks several languages fluently. and is a most charming conversation al 1st -Mooresville Enterprise. REFUSE THE BUDGET The House of Lord Fail To Pats England Rerenue BilL SITUATION IS UNPRECEDENTED Their Refasal to A eat Refers the Measure to the Country to Bo Vot ed Upon In Theory, It U Now Il legal to Collect Taxea In England With Which to Carry on the Ring's Ruftlnea May Canae n Change In the Constitution. London, Nov. 30. la the sedste, detached manner characteristic pro ceedings in the gilded chamber and ln direct disregard of the advice of some of Its abtest and oldest mem bers, such as Rosebery, Morley, Lord James of Hereford. Lord Cromer, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, the Earl of Lytton, Lord Courtney and the archbishops of Canterbury, and York, the House of Lords to-day created a situation unprecedented ln EnglUh history a I least In three hundred years by refusing formal assent to the budget bill and referring It to the country itself for Judgment, thereby, tn theory, making it Illegal to collect taxes anl carry oa the King's government. After six days' debate, notable for the high standard of the oratory, as well as for the able and convincing arguments arrayed on both sides for and against the budget, and placing ln every possible light the aspects of the great constitutional questions In volved, the Hous of Lords declared for division at 11:30 o'clock to-night The scene was impressive, but in no sense exciting. None would have supposed that the event proceellng was destined not only to prove mem orable In the annals of British his tory, but possibly also involving far reaching changes ln the British con stitution. There certainly was unusual ani mation in the public galleries, which were crowded with peeresses, mem bers of the House of Common, am bassadors and others, but In the louse Itself complete calm prevailed. The vote was on Lord Lansdowne's amendment that the House was not u stifled ln giving Its consent to the bill until it had been submitted to the judgment of the country. When the vote was announced Just before midnight, as 350 to 75 In fa vor of the amendment, a few mixed cheers were heard. The Earl of Crewe immediately moved an ad- ournment and the House rose. The Archbishop of York strongly opposed Lord Lansdowne's resolu tion, declaring that It would be un precedented for the Lords to reject a finance bill passed by the House of Commons with such a majority. Lord Curzon was plainly suffering rom his recent Indisposition, but in spite of physical weakness, he spoke with all his accustomed vigor, and he maintained that the Lords had an absolute right to reject the finance bill. Earl Cawdor, former first lord of admlrallty, who wound up the de bate for the opposition, maintained that there had been an attempt to evade the Lords' ancient right to re ject such tax by placing all taxes on one bill, it was idle to pretend, he said, that such a change of procedure by the House of Commons could af fect one iota the responsibilities and duties of the second chamber. Referring to the tacking on of li cense proposals and land valuations to the budget, he said that as both of these had previously been rejected by the House of Lords it would destroy all the power of the Upper House If the Lords were unable to veto the finance bill, ln which these were now Included. He asserted that the bud get had already drawn capital from the country to an alarming extent, bad stunned the building trade and Increased unemployment They were told that the rejection of the bill would be the cause of fi nancial chaos, but Lord Lansdowne's offer of assistance ln order to avoid Inconvenience had not been cordially received by the Government There fore, he said, if chaos came, the re sponsibility would rest upon the min istry. The Earl " of Crewe, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Lord Privyzeal for the Colonies, and Lord Lansdowne's amendment, was the ne gation of all precedent and flouted all usage. All agreed that ft was necessary this year to raise a large amount of extra money by taxation, necessitated by the claims of nation al defense and the adoption of old age pensions. The sum total of the long debate, he declared, was that the opposlton considered the Govern ment's method of raising money Il lusory, and that justified revolution.' Now is the Time to Pay. "We read the other day," says a Missouri editor, "where a fellow was shot and his life was saved by the bullet striking a silver, dollar. Now, should we happen to get shot before you pay up your subscription and there is no silver dollar ln our pocket to stop the ball, we shall always pre sume you might have saved our life." Atlanta Constitution. i1 .1
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