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1 ..V - .V-.':- i lJJ 6: ;;;H5':;: ' Delivered In r iCIy fcy Cin tent any wfc;ra X t.!!) t Cv &1 ij ;; y ISrdiu dfaiii ?ind Jsllghtlii !wtfnwr Hbitiglit c Pr Montis'- A PRICE VTHREE i CENTS liiiiiiiiKgai llSillilt MKBoaWaJill;:lit! n Urn First roll It Bv Dec. It Ffliffi With Bis Again Catte flonoisid Rtt Oita ll6r . ' 4 1 flrticte in 00UC2S mgBSSBSM Discusses Current Topics In Lengthy Manner, Especially ".tht Tariff Would Change the Wording of His Winona SpeechStill, Believes in a General Income Tax and Tslls Why New Yqrk, Dec. 1. In the-trdrrent issue of The Outlook there appears an article entitled "President Taft's Own View, an Authorized;- Interviewrin which the President discusses current topics with an Interviewer,' as follows in part:- f-i':y "Speaking of the tariff issued Mr. President, if you could begin youj 'Xdr ministration 'again, would you repeat your Winona', speech;' tomorrow ?" tie interviewer, asked. ' "'CX-'.l "In phraseology, jio; in effecV yW Had I known as much then as'l do noW, I shrould have realized that there -axe some things one cannot leave to be taken for granted, -I dictated ' that speech' to a stenographer on the icars between two stations,'', and - glanced through it only 'enough to straighten its grammar; it was sent out by the press with correspondingly little' cere mony, so that the papers received it in all sorts of shapes. If I had prepar ed it two or three weeks before-and reivised it deliberately, as I ought to have done, I 'should tiave clarified sev eral passages. And," . particularly, I should have changed the ; sentence where I proclaim the Payne Tariff act the best every passed.' 'The' compara tive would have been a better descrip. tion than the 'superlative; for,' what ever its shortcomings, the Act. still con tains less to be : criticised than Us predecessors, $nS it; did' as aiwtfole, revise the existing schedules down ward. fi&Ki '-eft I had no fault to find 'with either . Democrats reduce any r dntle tbey chose; object to is df stdrbnl te husness pt the country today'when Uiere is noth: ing better than guess work to 'proceed upon, and then disturbing ' it f afresh six months later when the besti ayaila, bie information isbefr do not join in the charge, "of inconsistency against the Democrats for compromis ing with LaFoliette "on the wool sched ule instead of standing by their own - figure. If they , could not get all the reduction they asked for, they were quite justified in taking what they could get. My chief criticismon their tariff activities last- session was that they were willing to send to me legisla tion so crude and ill digested that they must have known, if they had paused to think, that I could not possibly ap- ". prove it" : : -'"--fi. - -: I ;-r "Is your tariff reduction, - program based on the theory that it wilj bring about a corresponding reduction in, the cost of living?" over eaUae(4hiet objejction to a needle88lyhii& that j' jaour ishes mpnopbly)MQa forth .conj staht tebm&tit&ria pt littlei tmfsfioSe more'.dl- , rectly oppressive ioleonsunJiejr. thPt - big oneapegl' T h' Mr. Tesiaeni, mere yuw xi m, Board. You have ' been sharply criti cised for making it up! of men who are not tariff experts "And thni- la'tnier thev are not If I had been annolnting a board of tariff f" experts I could , not have got along with less than twenty-five, order to do justice 4o all branches of the subject. What I undertook to do was to make up a board of : trained . investigators, capable of canaging . a ' thorough ; in quiry into costs of production and, oil analyzing -its, elements..-1 First , Mr, MacVeagh oriehds Ib( Jeadjng universities,.;? sking' each to give. me. a. list of!'theV'e'coniihist8vcb'nsidere4;'by; them beatj equipped .for-'' the task in hand. Professor Emeryp name, was on all the lisfaahd at the top jqf,. half of themy to 1 made him chairman. cf the. Board. Page comes Irom th UBiyer.v sity of Viriginia; Sanders is anantho- ity on agriculture Reynoldsin inter esting and enforcing the tariff j laws for four years, - had presumably '-, learned the ins and outs of that business; and Howard I regarded as tne ablest South, ern Representative in Congress in my day. These men, made "no pretense of being ,tar.eprts; they employ al tne expert help they need "I fully' realize, and I wish our people would that the present prosperity of the Treasury is due in no small meas ure to the existing tariff, which,: not withstanding all ' its ..faults, is a .reve nue produce!.'- There is a good dea more that can be said for that act. It (Continued on Page Twoi. Va' Won First Prizes, ai Horticultural Con. '.- sress in , St Josephs Mo. Won Sweepstakes; Usi:year For. Best State Exhibit iand "Comes Back" Strong ';Thls';Year'W A. Special to The Dispatch. Raleigh; N.-C.. Dec.a,---buplicaUng the feat of last year when she captured the grand sweepstake for the best State exhibit the. National HortScul twnfp Congrels, Nbrth J Carolincanie eafanilat St: 'JosephAMo the first prizeHfor eKtguf witsi the first for subtrdpi- tie;4t?t on canned and pre- yrMcis, me. nrsi on nve boes 6i Commercial pack and the first afyl eUioua: apples. ; This f iiiiwHpn i , -contain ea in a telegram t94WW;..-Htttt' Commission er Graaaafc CBrdiinaVexIbibif viras.not as tgcdlte: lastyat hut was great . llilllliQ PRES10B1TIAL PRIMARY Washington, Dec.c 1. Senator Cum mins,, of .Iowa, announced .... today he would totrcuceVa:biir at the coming session providing for '. presidential primary elections in each State, at which the electors of both parties could - announce their; preferences . for Presidential Candidates. '' ? t 1' ' r ' Thousands of Laborers Affected. . x Berlin, Declj-T-The lockout of metal tvkers, 'whichwent" into' effect last night. Already haavaffected fifty to .six- ty tnpusand men. v Jtepresentanves oi T' dni'ofiistsV1 iet -again ' today rw1th dele- gates of the employers o' Endeavor to reach a settienient'- New York, Dec 1. Illness of W. E. Stokes, the millionaire, today caused another Interruption in the trial of the chorus girls, Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad, for. attempted '- . murder 'of Stokes. Although not seriously J ill, Stokes was unable to resume the stand today. ,' He .was attacked by acute in digestion last night ; v. ; : .-.,',., .( Notwitiistandihsr the illness ot Stokes theH enseiwas;called and' Miss jMarion1 Prophy; Stokestenograiiilwir1,' tiook the stahd.-: Counsel 'if ofStokes-i Sild he wonld bet unable tosuTrfe- th stand till MondayiVfc jof .. ' 81Sti!..j'9i' Wflihineon. Dec. l.'-The coming session of Congress will be unique in the f a ct that two Democrats -will rep resent itaine' in the Senate. They are Senators 'Charles S.' Johnson and Oba mah Oardner; Johnson was , duly elected by the" legislature, while Gard ner was recently appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sen ator Frye.. ' . .,- ... ' ti The -Nettleton'. Shoe for Gentlemen tRAn .wilmhieton Shoe Co.'f - It piinnm HAS DiLbrun m a. - am. . m uui oners. &Ys-'t "" ' Persian-;Council TodayRejecteijl Rus .' sia's Demands In Spite of the Advice of ; G reatBritai n Father, of Amefl can Treasurer-General Consults State Department - About .Welfare of His 90n . " ' ' : i-. ' . ' , ' Teheran,Pepia, Dec. 1. -The Persian National .Council has rejected the-Riis. sian uiUmatunt by"!a l)ig majority. " The Foreign Minister .has . resigned. : The Russian.' ultimatum, called for the in stant dismissal of" W.- Morgan Shuster, tne -American i reasurer-uenerai, ana a cash indemnity, ta eover; the cost, of t.e dispatch of Russian, troops to Per- sia. - : - x - M' '- - ;r Wouldn't Take1; England's "Advice. , A cablegram' from - the 'British For eign Minister,' Sir Edward Grey, was presented, to the assembly urgently ad visiting' compliance' with Russia's de mands,;" but some of the members- point ed out that England's, ad vice hitherto had - led only, to Persian 'humiliation. They thought 'resistance to the . Itus sian demands- would awaken "foreign attention and lead to. an impartial in quiry. . , . ' .' 4 " . Speaker after speaker declared that It - was impossible for , Persia, ever to sign . away her own independence ', if Russia should wrest it . from - her that would be God's wilt A deputation of members waited on W. Moran Shuster before the vote was taken in 'parlia mentary session.'. The American Treas urer-General begged .them - to consult only the interests of their country and not to consider, him. ; ; ' , , The National Counclll registered its refusal-of the Russianrultimatum just a quarter, of an hour bef ocethe expira-. tion. of theN4jltlmatum. Meanwhile tbp-tiastaof pilnenrhousewait- ing for the verdict ot.the deputies. " Ex-GovVrnor Assassinated. Ala-Ed-Dowlfh-eXrGovernpr of Fara Province, was assassinated when leav ing; his residence, this morning. Three men. participated . in :.th& crime,- firing seven shots. ,. r ., ; ' i: Father Anxious About 8on. : Washington, Dec, 1. Shuster's fath er conferred with State Department officials , today regarding the position of his son. The officials declined to make any. statement as to the nature of the. conversation. - v i " Russia Orators Troops to Attack. St. Petersburg, Dec, In conse quence of the rejection by the-Persian National Council of the Russian de mands, Russiahas ordered the troops how concentrated at Rasht, the capi tal of Jthe Persian Province of Ghelan, l6pmjAe8 fTbifL Eeli, on, the Caspian Sea, to advance on Teheran. ; .. u Persians Appeal Fdr Peace. ' Washington, Dec. , 1. President .Taf t Wp3;'Aptfelfed; taitoda'bvj tha Persian goodqf6oes in AaTJhlied States to trrivettt iwiar bbeen' Russia and Per sia! The society also sddressedj letters. orappeaji .to, the Senayejand House and o' Andrew Carnegie, asking the la tier's help as a friend oJiwbrld peace, ; t r r-.;,. "The Lost Necklace." An American Drama of Vigorous Ac- tion, Grand Today. -MUCH DAMAGE -:-W. Resulted From Bombardment By Turk- ' ' . ish Ships. : vPerim, Dec. 1. The Italian bombard ment of Mocha, Arabia, by a fleet of warships caused considerable damage, but only three Turks was killed. '. The Turks replied, , but none' of the shots was effective . on,, the- ships." Bombard- meht probably be resumed December 4th by, a more powerful fleet.- .1 . :'j -; " 'i:X r- v ; " '1 1 .c Ne York, Dec.' l.Thef thirty three subsidiary companies into which the Standard Oil Company wras, divided af ter the Supreme Court decreed its dis sbltftion.' began their individual exist ence ( today, i Some two hundred thous and new. stock certificates,' containing proportionate shares in these 'compa nies, were mailed yesteraay to six thousand and odd stockholders in the old company. . . ' ".''' v? ,Pathe's Weekly of Current Events. Among the Fine Films Today at the Grand. s - r . - sTAiioiiBiriie ? - AUanta, beci W. Mors e, banker-convict, is now an inmate of the hospital at Fort McPherson. Rest! ng on a stretcher and seemingly un able to sit npi the ilew Yorker was tak en to the hospital, the removal . being made by order of President Ta.lt;' that t Jhe prisoner, , who is afflicted with Bright's isesJtniy ve a better .chance to iecove(r.-r MorseJooks, to Win very serious condition. The ride throu gh. the city on a bright autumn day raised the spirits of the sick man. who . has hones' that sooner or later hia nH. tioh for"pardogill be granted. "St is good authority-that Attorney general en Morse his freedom but that he feare a conaiwn wouia nave caused If vrnr IIU t r San Francisco, Cal., ; Dec. 1. The Jewish-Americans here have joined a Nation-wide movement' fop early abro-q gatloa of the;1832;treaty?between the U. S. and Russia because Of Rus- sia's alleged refusal lQ-recognize Amer ican passports of Jewish citizens. It was announced today that the Califor nia legislature would-be memorialized to have, the matter taken, up in Con gress. -V1 ' ;. ' '' :.V- ': "" ; Has" Bill . For,-Congress. New York, Dec. 1. Russia must live up tpfthe terms of the" treaty with us or the treaty .must " be abrogated, de clared Congressman Sulzer, chairman of the . House . Foreign Relations Com mittee, in a speech before the Spanish war veterans here lasl night v Mr. Sul zer "wifl Introduce a tesojhtion calling for alMKgation of .thevbreaty wh,en Con gress convenes- He says he-wll make it not merely a:jewish .question, but an American: question ;and that - When CbngressH passesVhis resolutiipn "no President "will dare veto it"- - i -. n r, Well Known-Journalists Dead: ' ; ' Troy, N. Y., , Dec.' 1. Charles ' S. Francis, proprietorof the. Troy) Times and - former ! American. Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, - died here- early to day, aged fifty eight years. ' , II Richmond, Va., Dec. 1. The News- Leader today prints the outline of what it said to have been a detailed and pri vate confession left by HenyyClay Beattie Jr., for the perusal of his fam ily alone. According to, the alleged; confession, '. Beattie decided two weeks before . the crime was. committed to kill his wife. , Details; of the- murder coincide almost precisely -with the theory set out by the State at the trial. Beattie is said, to haveassertedt that his .-marriage, was comparatively jlovfe- less and ; w44orced upon hjipi by his father's earnest wishes. ;j v ? vc : , X i M rf J a s. And re ws Dead, v .;, It-will be sad newsVfdr friends for friends in this city ind . elsewhere- to learn qf ' theMeath; Wl Jame drews,' of ; dgeeombe agei ' -77, who died at an early hour today. ' A cbffln is being . sent lip frOn tbs city f or the, interment. The . yenerable'geh-' tleman Is survived, by hiswld6vr and 9 children who will be accorded the tender sympathy (.of many-friends ip their hour, of sorrows Rev.. Mr. Baker will preach the funeral ' at vBalow's Baptist churchyi , :i 'j - - BEATTIE CONFESSION reported in Atlanta' on what seems to beH Wickersham Icing ago would have giv d that the sudden shock while in so his death; 7 . ..--v v -'Washingtoh Fore ter, who iias beeni : connected - with the WhiteHduse-f or more thah ten years, hrast today 'appointed executive clerk toUhe President at a salary of five thousand. !? She'rman Allen a newspa per man,' sucfeeeds - Forester as '.Chief Clerk, with a salary of four thousand! Through the promotion of Forester and the'vappointment of -'Allen, much work ill "be taken off the hands- of Secretary Hilles. This has renewed the discussion- as to the ' probability of Hilles becoming chairman Of the Na tional Republican Committee. With routine business off his hands, Hilles probably now will devote himself al most exclusively to observation of poli tical 'conditions' 'sind consultation with political leaders in' the'fnterest of the '.iv 'is.--; H'! 4 ' 1!"-; f-J.-j . uiNewMYorky Decr l;-titttmors that striking -garbage- men of . the streel cleaning department are attempting to poison the food . served y the ; strike breakers by the city started a - panic among the men employed in one of the i ! uptown stations last night. One. Strike breaker died suddenly at Belleyue,Hos- pital. 'Physicians give . the cause; as "unknown,", but the symptoms were suspicious . and an autopsywill. be? held. An investigation was ordered by the board of health today. '".'--" ''.!'' House slippers 'for "Men'; ladies antf Chfldreh. Wilmington Shoe Co. It - ' 1. . 3. II , i .S.-T,'.. ". i4h:yui-Ml--: Special to he; Dispatch, Raleigh, ;N, C, Dec. l.The Doctor Paul Medicine Company, of Wllmin toni to manufacture and deal in drugs, was chartered today with One. hundred thousand dollars capital and forty, thou sand subscribed by E. G. Bulluck, E. L Moore, E. B; Tipton of Wilmington, and Paul Fitzgerald, of Salem; Indian Moccasins for ;.; . Men ; and Ladies, the latest thing In House Slip pers. Wilmington Shoe. Co. ' , - It Subscribe tb The Evening Dispatch liORE TIME FORfeHlttESlt 'v;. ibv' .'v jty . .v;; : . . . ' ' (.-. .-!r-- RUlilQR'JF. P0I80I1E0 FOOD CAUSES! STIR OOCTOiPAULffllCllll COn CHARTERED 35c :the mbii'l'yl:-; Chairman Underwood '( Speaks , of " the v Tariff ; Revision Work; by Jthe Next ' Congress-Wili Call Committee To gether As Soon a Session Convenes. Washington, Dec. 1. Representative Underwood, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, announced today, he would call the meeting ;of 'hja commit tee as soon as" "Congress, convened to sound the sentiments-of members as X( the:teriff:eviOB;prp :V he.5Presl?'4sj wood,' "will 'bevgive;resanablev, time in which to submit rr?ofthei tariff board. If these' arejuithheTd : too long the' committee wiUfoQd i ithcjoie i$4jfef4i8 IfaMrf'Mrb 1 Ihem. j It ihaslifcfcblmtl schedules w will : t.1rk: i-eiVi ifi rat ' i Ittf w; mrBL ,u wb ae eertain, hoeVMftd anbmitl'i on wool, cotton and sugar? schedule may rieomeJteriiill! Professof Coon Causes Sensation fat ' the. Present : Sjchoof; SysttmTc: r e'rs Are Having a 'Big 'Convention ' ' . Dispatch News Bureau ; , . RaJeigh,-N. CDec. 1911.' v The annual address - of - - President Chas, L. Coon, in which , he scored Fthe present educational system, wasc di pussed largely by - teachers ; today. In his remarkable address lastightfMr. Coon ' struck. out; bodily.' hitting the evils that he believedlnfested the school system. : He likened the. system to a variegated pa f Jpats, of .which; the parts had been:' tjonttlbuted in a haphazard jaort of a bhmejriehdl DeclariBg ; that vthe ; Jeachersi lacked professional, pride;, he;pontea; iout Iflie fac iba. menjwho ae not teachers Jbe: long to the assembly, simply; ecause they pay duesBook: agents and: otters; irse: f essional mett ?tqon their: soiefieS: should be a delegated body, made up of delegates from smaller educational organizations. -. --,' - .;;.'"': f J r He criticised the manner, of electing school boards and county superintend ents, and believed that each5 ? county should have the right to say1 ; who should serve it in these capacities. and not the state superintenlleht of public nstruction. : v.' ;' - -' .Those who discussed the, addressto- - t aftermathi tomorrow rwhtt the res olutions .comBsitt. meets; and ' when the husinesisessionia'heaiTi ,:Ar?y After- listenings to- the addresses last night of Speaker .Champ . idafk kn4 PEflaMent-Ceo- the. teacheTs were' Up early today 'tpgin the sessiOhMTX'd- ible:cfiitiWt,Vt' WvklArtiiK - A? v'4 A V Vl M A . 4-Th in mWa.Ai jambly meet j at ohe" time. The Vantage ffeobd' speakers was appreciated,', but where so. many are gathered,' as was the case here, it was difficult ' for the; teachers to get down to business' Each of the allied organizations may return to the plan, it has been .suggfstedV of holding separate sessions. - s;: - - . - .Unanimously endorstg the adminis tration of State Superintendent Joyner, and ; pledging e him ; thirsupportithe State ?As6ciaofv ot5 Owflaty jpertn- lutions praising hS a;qministi!ation j 01 liaws.;??- !$u 6f eia&h plrentedSuperjndeh neifehg3L Joy- njer : toVa.tjtemptinjf.to' expess apprecla oidmdjtt? ffler$;i; are 'times wnenr wurus -ian.r- a ui'iuitmieB w uuu qcfide(srcomtng' after ?.r-f"?. :PJA "- OFF V, New York, Dec. 1.4-Captain ifctod and eight men were' rescued Wednes day from the Nova Scotia brig Mar coni, off ..Wilmington, ' byf the: steamer Chalmette and landed fcere today.; The Marconi was dismasted itrV storihi -4.11 --' uiiuKuUiiuti.) he aiawere members of the assem bly,; a$?fi&! ou4 'noi'ecelvjejdf iaW yers-anl'dOCtorsrmittm Anriif rrtirnAii UKtV HtbUUtU Chairman and AnotherMember of the Tariff iBoarii Conferred With 1resi f dent Taft Today President Urged Them to Hasten Wool Report First Z and Then Cotton. - ' ! 3' mfXr-k v"ii? h :X Washington, Dec. 1. The much dis cussed 'report, of the tariff board onthe wool schedule of ,sthe Payne tariff and on the wool " industry" will ; be I in the hands of President Taft not later than t;4H' (two' weiauereoi ,tnet ooara-iouci v. ana nxKea DecemDer.lthtiiTJiis'leedictlon' was 'Ss r j made at tile? itUieua4l todaji !fol-M ??':' &ZU A m g&d'eVsi m boiriii ;Th jeo d mX i taaltebpi wlttiWJ fe!ent!d e! Whlte-h v v 1 'twoUsMCiaiv4ariffi!mess:afeek s lHp4offir; jon j tOiv jbe- cUme; ; known !todayt ft itf ibe" inerely lui uiai aocumenis oc iransmiuair ri ne report will ) show , the. cost : of produc- tionotlool and cotton. in the various; States aixl'abroad, but it will not con tain .conclusions;; as to any rates, f 4;?-: TAYLOR LOVE DIES ; IN ELECTRIC CHAIR fepeito The pispatcbi; 1 -: ; . i. ' Vy :.-R8gh,Nx Dec; 1: Taylor Love, coloredjtpaid th edeath penalty in the electric' chair in fee State's prison here today. rLove . killed ifiioeli - was -tespite un- :; til today. " He ff&a a. married; negro and ;. .; iathe' Weekly? CarrentiEvent f ABkehgj thjie ;FHms. Today; atthe? Grand, V HiralS ; '..iw.Wf.t-: D HOVE TO SEND ; ;-' AMERICAN-TROOPS. Wa.shiiigton; pec.' l. Although other foreign;countries are, sending . troops to China, the ( United States ' further than to instruct Minister Calhoun that tire . men- were reatty.t ; Manila has made no move , for the -dispatch "of sol-i diers "The .'movement . of American ':L troops is dependent . entireljr upon de-f cision of the CouhcU'of Foreign Repre- sentativfes'iatTekingas to whether or; hot theJ5 will b' needed, h u Dehyer,!J DertSarah: Piatt Deck etj' oe 1 of the most eminent woman suf- - f r agistsr j rthe i country and especially pifdmiaefct4ihf;G6iorada :pat f drward:;by!-heri eolleagues, as a candl-1 d'atoffor the;Uidte(il:States Senato and is getting such support tnat her can didacy has passed ; tae ' stage of being a joke." - Colorado has been unable to r elect "a soccessor jto Senator Hughes. No maie candidate - can get ' enough . votes to electl, andfn this; dilemma 'the suffragists off epnetof ; their number. TheyV-have received .some1- encourage ment from the followers p. Judge Ben ? LiiSej.' '-5 tH'-'-X. id- Will Be Suns by Mr. Harry Morgan, ' ... - X ; mm 1 ! j : ;1 . ,; : 1 '.- ,i. V --.-' - yw.vv. . - - - c J ' v '-I
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