TUFT ON TOE TARIFF.
Great Political Interest In Secre
tary's Position on Revision.
BRYAN'S INTERWOVEN ISSUES
Qffieeholders Ready to Nullify Will of i
People on Oklahoma Constitution.
Foraker's Stand Against the Admin- 1
istration?Says Let the People Speak
For Themselves and Then Learn J
What They Want?London Paper's
View on Reid's Rising Dignity.
By WILLIS J. ABBOT.
Secretary Taft is making his way to
the I'aclflc coast with much dellbera
tiou and a multitude of speeches. Thus
fur his speeches made iu Columbus,
O.; Lexington, I\y., and Oklahoma
have detlued his position on few points
of comparative political novelty. In
the main he has contented himself
with eulogy of Roosevelt and with un
flinching applause of the president's
policies. Yet at one point he broke1
away, as in his Columbus speech, when
he mildly opposed the president's plan
for federal licenses of corporations.
But perhaps the greatest political in
terest has centered upon Mr. Taft's
position on the tariff issue. The politi
eal world knows that he is antagonized
by the American Protective league on
the theory that he is a revisionist. lie
referred to himself in his Columbus
speech as one of that body. Vet, con
tinuing, he threw a sop to that element
in the Republican party from which it
gets its campaign funds by saying that
there should be no revision until after
election. This has always been the
position of the> Republican party. It
was specifically so lft 1902, just before
the congressional elections, but while
there have been three such elections
and one presidential election the
tariff has been in no way touched,
though that party has had absolute
control of the government since. If
there be no way to judge the future
except by the past the people may well
believe that promises for reform after
the election merely indicate forgetful
uess when that moment arrives. If It
is worth while to revise the tariff and
if it must, as Secretary Taft thinks,
entail u temporary disturbance in busi
ness, why not do it in the coming Six
tieth congress and let that possible
effect coincide with the usual business
depression that attends a presidential
campaign?
Foraker's Response to the Challenge.
It is not necessary to agree with
Senator Foraker's views in order to
have an admiration for the man. He
is tied neck and crop to corporation
Interests. He seems to believe with
sincerity that what is doue for the
wealth of the country, however much
concentrated that wealth may be,
makes for the good of the whole peo
ple. lie serves the railroads, the trusts
and the protected monopolies earnest
ly and well. Yet he is not a quibbler
nor a straddler. What he believes he
says, and as he believes he votes. It
took courage for him to be the one Re
publican to vote against the Roosevelt
rate bill. Some bravery, too, was de
manded when he took up the Browns
ville investigation. It is easy to say
sneeringly that he had in mind some
30,000 negro voters in Ohio and the
enormous power of the southern negro
in carrying delegations to the next na
tional convention. Nevertheless in this
particular year or political poltroonery,
when practically every Republican
senator or representative you meet
here In Washington will denounce
Roosevelt personally and officially,
then "crook the pregnant hinges of the
knee where thrift ruay follow fawn
lng," his manly stand Is like a cool
breeze on a sultry day.
This is the way the Ohio senator
meets the Taft equivocation on the re
vision question. First declaring that
he does not lielieve revision necessary
at all and that so far as he is con
cerned he would not promise it either
before or-after the presidential elec
tion, 1^ goes on to plead that the Re
publican party shall express its pur
pose In plain terms. "Let the people
speak," he says, "and then we can
learn what they want. They will have a
chance in 10(18. If they want a revision
of the tariff they can give their com
mands, and their wish will be obeyed."
This Is the utterance of a frank and
open man if not a wise one. Its weak
ness is that the people will probably
be given uo chance to speak with defi
nlteness. The Democrats will undoubt
edly put a demand for an immediate
reduction of the tariff Into their plat
form. The Republicans will just as
certainly declare for revision and at
tempt to make it appear that the revi
sion will be downward and will be
promptly undertaken after the election.
Only by studying history and recogniz
ing the fact that never yet has the Re
publican party reduced a tariff system
and that during more than six years
of absolute power It has steadfastly
refused to carry out its promises to re
vise the tariff can the people wisely
make up their minds. "Hint the tariff
Issue will l>e the greatest Issue for the
people next year Is probable. Mr. Rry
an places it first among his trinity of
Issues?the tariff, the trusts and the
railroads?though he declares the three
to be so inextricably interwoven as to
make them of equal importance. It is
worth remembering, however, that
since the civil war the Democracy has
won national elections and congres
sional elections only on the tariff point.
Taft's Attack on Oklahoma.
Of course Mr. Taft attacked the pro
posed constitution which Is shortly to
be submitted to the suffrages of the
people of Oklahoma and Indian Ter
ritory. The eight Democratic electoral
TOCM that that territory will east when
I -
once It becomes a state loo It very bit:
to u lteimbllcau statesman who is el
ther a candidate (or the presidency
himself or a stalking horse (or hi
master tu the White House. Mr. Taf'
thinks that the men who adopted the
constitution were insincere, lie charge?
that, while it promises people's rule
through the Initiative and referendum
It denies it through a gerrymander
which would euable the Republicans to
carry the state by 10,000, yet have a
Democratic legislature and two Demo
cratlc senators. This question of ger
rymandering is one about which it I
always easy to make an outcry. So
great a traveler us Mr. Taft might
have had an opportunity by now to
study its operation lu the ltepublicau
states of Rhode Island, Connecticut
and Illinois ? -
But it seems to me that the answer
to the charge of attempted unfairness
and endeavor to defeat the political
will Of the people of the two terri
tories is complete when one says that
they sent to the convention which
adopted this constitution 100 Demo
crats and ten Republicans. The con
stitution itself is eulogized by every
progressive student of government. Its
provisions for safeguarding the peo
" pie's rights, for conserving public lands
and franchises, for the regulation of
railroads and for the rule of the major
ity by direct popular vote should
arouse the envy of every American
commonwealth. It is of course un
derstandable that Mr. Tuft should pre
fer to have the people of these terri
Tories governed irom vwismngion uy
the rough rider proteges of the presi
dent than to give them self govern
ment. One of these gentry, Governor
Frautz of Oklahoma, said to tne in
Washington only three months ago
that they were going to prevent by le
gal proceedings, injunctions and other
dilatory methods the adoption of this
constitution or its approval by the
president and demand u new constitu
tional convention.
"Suppose the next constitutional con
vention has even a greater porportion
of Democrats than the last?" I asked.
"It probably will have if you interfere
with the desires of the people. What
then'!"
"Well, we have our president in the
White House; we'll come up to him
again."
In other words, the gang of federal
officeholders now governing the two
territories stand ready to nullify, with
aid from the administration, the ex
pressed will of the people rather than
give up their fat jobs. And, further
more, it is becoming apparent that the
fear of the electoral vote of the new
state of Oklahoma In 1908 is urging
the administration on to a denial of
the right of self government to the
people of the most prosperous territory
of the Union.
His Excellency Whitelaw Reid.
There are old fashioned people in
the United States who have been ac
customed to deplore the Increasing
practice of sending multimillionaires
to be our ambassadors to foreign lands.
They are inclined to think, for exam
ple. that George Bancroft, as minister
to Germany, better represented Amer
ican intellect than Charlemagne Tow
er, our present ambassador at Berlin.
Indeed, coming to more recent times,
they hold that either Lowell or Phelps
carried to the couit of St. James more
brains and more of democratic sim
plicity than the present incumbent.
Mr. Whitelaw Reid. Yet in this as in
other things some compensation is to
be found. A friend sent me last week I
a copy of a London newspaper con
taining a most eulogistic article upon
his excellency tie; American ambas
sador. Condensation is necessary,
though the delightfully British tone
of the article wculd well repay publl
cation in full. It appears among other
things that former American ambas
sadors were so far beneath the proper
ambassadorial level that they actually
gave attention to their own establish
ments. Probably their wives did not
actually dust the furniture or answer
the doorbell, but Mr. Iteid is the first
whose housekeeping has been on such
lavish scale that a major domo is nec
essary to supervise it.
Furthermore, former ambassadors
were vulgar enough to permit callers
without prior appointment. Mr. Reid
has risen to the dignity of an English
railroad magnate who only receives
persons after an appointment has been
made by mail. Finest of nil, accord
ing to the London journalist, the pro
vincial habit that Americans in London
heretofore have had of flocking to the
ambassador's house on the Fourth of
July to shake his hand has been cor
rected. The doors of the Reid palace
are closed on the nation's birthday to
all save those whose names have been
selected long in advance and who have
received a special invitation. This seems
doubly significant to the London editor
when he reflects upon the fact that it
was on that same day that King Ed
ward VII. held a garden party and
moved freely among his guests, shak
ing hands with all the cordiality of a
Tammany leader at a picnic. The
London paper goes on to philosophize.
It sees in this leveling down on the
part of King Edward and this leveling
upward on the part of Ambassador
Reid indications of a social evolution
that will ultimately bring the leaders
of the two nations, England and Amer
ica, upon precisely the same plane.
Lovely, doncber know!
Mr. Reid In Politics.
It is said to be one of the severest
tests of a political memory to recall
who ran for vice president In any giv
en election. Yet 1892 has not receded
so far Into the dim past that people
may not remember that Mr. Reid then
accompanied Benjamin Harrison to de
feat. He was never politically popu
lar, and at that particular time the
New York Tribune, which he owned,
was in the bad graces of printers all
over the country for Its fight upon the
Typographical union.
Washing**, D. G. ,
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Humor and Philosophy
Dy DUNCAN N. SMITH
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PERT PARAGRAPHS.
Men kindly consent to let women talk
ftbcu they can't stop them.
An anxious past sometimes tries
vainly to head oit the future.
Not getting the worst of It is gener
ally as much as the most of us dare
expect.
s People don't get bored over the 1907
brand of weather anyway.
Perhaps all men were created free
and equal, but women inauage to con
tribute variety.
Parodoxieslly enough when the dove
of peace sits brooding mischief Is apt
to hatch out directly.
Some of our most innocuous citizens
carry around a look tragic enough to
belong to the Russian douma.
One reason for the outbreak of many
hitherto quiet citizens may be that
they think tluit one way to get atten
tion is to need It badly.
Everybody udmlres the honest work
inguian and thanks God that there is
none of him in theirs.
Nobody minds being a fool if he can
keep from being found out.
Hopeful.
I sit around in comfort
And dose the time away,
Regardless of the warning
That such things do not pay.
Though busy ones may grumble
That resting is a sin,
I'm waiting till my airship
Comes in.
Sometimes I find a hammock
Where lookout I can keep
To see if it is coming,
Unless I fall asleep.
Then I am sure to see it,
Unless my dreams get mixed;
It settles down and leaves me
Well fixed.
I know some people argue
If I should work a spell
At hard and useful labor
That I could rest as well.
Such methods may be suited
To mortals who are blessed
With something like abhorrence
For rest.
Of course I am not certain
That It will ever come
And hand me down a fortune
That totals quite a sum.
I will not go in mourning
If it I never see.
Because this style of waiting
Suits me.
In Sympathy.
To buy a bunch of
railroad stocks
V To him appear
| \ ed astute.
But later when the
market broke
You bet he fol
lowed suit.
???
Where She Wanted Him.
"How are you and Willie coming
on ?"
"Oh, very nicely. I am slowly get
ting him trained."
"Induced him to propose yet?"
"No, but I have him so that he
doesn't shy at an ice cream sign any
more."
Adds Zest.
"Do you think it is wrong to steal
a kiss?"
"It must be very wrong or one would
not be eternally tempted to do it."
Platitudinosity.
There's nothing succeeds like success;
There's nothing holds fast like duress;
There's nothing so binding as strength;
There's nothing so long as is length.
There's nothing so galling as gall;
You never can get more than all;
This precept I likewise unfold?
There's nothing more golden than gold.
There's nothing gets wetter than rain
And nothing more painful than pain;
There's nothing that's hotter than fire
And nothing more Irish than ire.
And now if these lines you peruse
Hero's something quite choice, if you
choose.
It surely can give no offense?
There's nothing more seemly than sense.
Protected.
uj -rgrr
"Aren't you afraid to stay In the
bouse all alone with your husband
? way?"
"I used to be. but not any more."
"Getting braver?"
"No, but we have two Teddy bear*
In the house ''
A. the Fan Would Say.
"Did he win out In the chicken bual
neaa?"
"No; he tost money on It**
"Out on a fowl, tiwar
NOTICE!
The undersigned having- qualified as Execu
tor on the estate of Addie T. Barber, de
ceased, all persons having claims against said
estate are hereby notified to present the same
to me duly verified on or before the 23rd day
of August. 1908, or this notice will be pleaded
in bar of their recovery, and all persons in
debted to said estate will make immediate
payment.
This 19th day of August, 1907.
H. M. BAKBEK, Executor.
Clayton. K. F. D. No. 1.
NOTICE.
The undersigned having qualified as Exe*.
utor on the estate of Dempsy Hocutt. de
ceased, all persons having claims against said
estate are hereby notified to present the same
to me duly verified on or before the 23rd day
of August. 190fc, or this notice will be pleaded
in bar of their recovery, and all persons in
debted to said (state will make immediate
payment.
This 22nd day of August, 1907. i
JAMES E. HOCUTT, Executor. >
Selma. H. F. I). No. 3. V
JNO. A. NAKRON, Attorney. <
NOTICE.
The undersigned having Qualified as ad I
ministratoron the estate of Mrs. Annie M. J
Smith, deceased, all persons having claims J
against said estate are hereby notified to I
present the same to me dulv verified on or J
before the 8th day of Sept.. 1908, or this notice )
will be pleaded in bar of their recovery and j
all persons indebted to said estate will make I
immediate payment. I
This 30th day of August, 1997.
sept 6x4t. L. B. SMITH, Executor.
NOTICE! '
Ry virtue of the authority contained in a
Mortgage Deed executed to me on the 17 day
of March. 1903, by JobnGuin and duly Regis
tered in the Register's office of Johnston
county in Rook O. No. 8. Page 314. I shall sell
at public auction, for cash at thet'ourt House
door in the town of Smithfleld, N. C., on the
Irtth day of September, 1907, the following
lands and property to wit: That tract of land
lying and being in Ingrams Township, John
ston County and said State of North Carolina,
and beginning at a stake in Henry Massin- t
gill's and K.J. P. Raker's line and corner and
runs East with the Raker line to a stump.
John Keen's corner, thence with the Keen
line South Fast to Willis Keen's corner,
thence South with Willis Keen's line to the
Gideon Keen line, thence with Daniel Massin
gill's line to the run of Rig Juniper to the
Massingill line, thence with the Massingill
line to the beginning, containing 185 acres,
except 95 acres heretoiore sold off of said
land on north side, and fully described in
said Mortgage.
This 14th nay of August. 1907.
J. H. STANLEY, Mortgagee
ED. S. AUELL, Attorney.
FOR SALE.
146 aeres of land, 8 milas west
of Smitfield and 5 miles south of
Clayton, two-horse farm cleared,
adapted to cotton, tobacco and
corn. Will make one and a half
bales cotton per acre. Good
pasture, good water, good new
buildings. Will sell for half
cash, balance on easy terms. ,
Write or see C. F. Johnson, Wil
son's Mills. N. C., R. F. D. No. 3.
FINE FARM FOR SALE.
I have a farm of 376 acres, 110
cleared, adapted to corn and cot
ton and especially suited to to
bacco. Two tenant houses, be
sides the settlement where I live,
three tobacco barns, and a large
two story pack house. The place
is less than a mile erom Clyde's
Chapel church, near a good
school, in a good neigborhood,
three and a half miles south of
Wendell, N. C. At least a thou
i sand dollars worth of timber on
the land, good mail facilities.
If interested come and see the
growing crop and farm. Terms
can be made all right.
J. W. B. Finch,
Archer, N. C., R. F. D. No. 2.
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