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Bloodshed in
Turkish Capital
TWO ARMY OOBFS MARCH ON OITT
AMD OVERCOME RE8I8TENCB.
Bultan will Henceforth B a Figure
Head. It is now a certainty that the one
time absolute monarch of the Ottoman
Empire will be ruler in name only in
future.
Following the occurrences reported
last week the two army corps under
Mahmound Schefket Paska closed in
upon Constantinople, which contained
the troops friendly to the reactionary
movement of last week which deposed
the constitutional ministry.
Fierce fighting ensued. Both sides
were reinforced. Last Saturday frequent
pitched battles occurred in and around
the city. More than 5,000 were killed
the exact number can not be ascer
tained. From their strongly fortified
position the Sultan's forces held out
stubbornly until overcome by numbers.
The invading army champions the
eause of constitutional government. The
' revolt laBt week led by the sergeants of
the army, which displaced the people's
ministry, was brought about by advo
cates of the old order. The progressives
wish to take decisive aetion which will
make a repetition impossible. At the
same time the fanaticism of the Moslem
who regards the Bultan as head of the
church and the living representative of
Mahammet will hardly permit violence
to the person of Abdul Hamid or his
deposition aB nominal ruler.
His allowance will be greatly re
stricted and he will have no means for
further agitation should his mind turn
again in this direction. It is credibly
reported that the Sultan has distrib
uted within recent days two million
pounds, ..Turkish, to the troops. The
question 'of his deposition or his exeeu-
-tis"ean hardly- b considered- a- possi
bility He has been tried, it is true, and
condemned in the minds of the commit
tee of union and progress as untrust
worthy, but it is authoritatively stated
that he will be allowed to remain where
he is for the present.
The worst feature of the situation,
however, is the disturbed condition
throughout the entire nation. At Adana,
in Asiatic Turkey, it is estimated that
25,000 have been killed by religious
fanatics, mobs, and lawless bands.
Several places are in a state of siege
and the inhabitants arc on the verge of
starvation.
, Warships of many nations are in tha
vicinity, but the disturbance is so wide
spread that little can be done. The
welfare of citizens of other countries
in Asiatic Turkey is a mntter of serious
concern.
DURHAM TONIC.
From the Durham Herald.
Mr. Taft is certainly due those Dem
oerats something after the part he made
them play.
Mr. Taft has at least discovered that
he would have little trouble in filling
all the federal officers in the south with
Democrats if he were so minded.
. It will look pretty hard if it turns
out that those Democrats have bees
scrambling for something that was not
in sight.
But could yon blame Mr. Taft for re
fusing to appoint a Democrat after
the fuss they have made over itT
If it had been Mr. Taft 'a intention in
the first place to appoint Southern Dem
oerats where competent Bepublicani
were not available, don't yon think be
has seen enough to disgust him with the
plant
rk niatina'a Plurlarlsm.
The following story about Bishop
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jjoane is now gum vuo xuiuw v n
"Dr. Doane," said parishioner, at
the end of i service, "I enjoyed your
eeraon this morning. ; I welcomed it
like an old friend. I have, yon know,
book at borne containing every word of
it." 'V.V. '.""-'"Y" '.' ' ",'
"Ton have not," said Dr.' Doane.
: "I have so," said the parishioner.
"Well, lend it," was the reply.
The next morning an unabridged die
tioaary wae cent to be rector. Judge.
News From
The Capital
TARUT BILL MAT OBT TO CON
FERENCE OOMMTTTB BT TONE
FIRST.
All Signs for Industrial Activity Fa
vorable. (From our Regular Correspondent.)
Washington, D. C, April 27th. Now
that the Senate debate is fairly along
there is prospect that the tariff bill
may got to the Conference Committe by
the first of June or perhaps earlier.
However, there are to be some very
sharp conflicts over several features,
particularly the income tax and the
maximum and minimum provision. The
question of revenue is giving the lead
ers most concern, and as there is no
way of estimating it to certainty, the
debate over the various amendments
may be prolonged. The utmost pres
sure is being brought to bear by busi
ness concerns for the Bpeedy passage of
the bill in some form so that the fu
ture can be anticipated and planned
for and work resumed. The railroads
and all industrial interests are extreme
ly hopeful and manufacturers expect a
large demand for all products at once.
There are no large stocks of any com
modity in the country, and with the
usual good crops the fall business should
be tremendous.
Most Favorable Signs.
The Uovernment receipts continue to
increase, and the deficit will probably
be diminished rather than increased to
the end of the fiscal year.
The most significant and favorable
sign for the future is the confidence
found in all circles toward the President
and his administration. Mr. Taft is
pledged to continue the so-called Roose
velt policies, but at the same time his
methods will differ largely from those
who ought to be punished, he will go
about it in bis calm, dispassionate,
judicial way, and not injure the inno
cent or unneessarily disturb the indus
trial and financial world. Hundreds of
millions of capital are ready for the
investments that will take place under
the new conditions. Stock markets have
reflected this feeling and there ia the
most optimistic sentiment on every
hand.
Refolta of Coming Activity.
Of course, a normal resumption of
business means the death blow to the
hopes of the Democrats in the Con
gressional elections of next year. The
Republicans "will compromise their
differences, while it will be impossible
to unite the Democratic factions.
Naturally, certain Democratic leaders
and papers are making their usual year
ahead claim, but that has no influence
on the result. The people are going
support Mr. Taft throughout bis ad
ministration, and give him a Republi
can Congress to help him carry out
his plans.
Important Work Ahead.
There will be most importan legis
lation enacted at the regular long ses
sion next winter and spring, which the
people will endorse in the elections of
next year. The fact of the matter is
that the Democratic party is thor
oughly incapable of taking advantage
of eireuinstances. It has had the si
liance of certain muck-raking journals,
but the efforts of three publications to
smirch the Vice President and Speaker
and eertain Senators and Represents
tivos, has fallen flat and only acted as
a boomerang. The American people
like fair play, and are going to know
both side of a question before they
condemn men who have been in public
life for nearly a generation.
Daughters In Washington.
Washington wae captured last week
by about 5,000 Dangbters of the
American Revolution, and for a few
daya the polities of thia body of asser
tive and pugnaciously patriotic women
overshadowed" the tariff bill and even
the White House BiU. No blood was
spilt, however, and the proceedings
ended very peacefully. The various
sessions were much like political con
ventions, and showed what apt pupils
onr ''Daughters" have become.
Oenena Work to Commence.
When the Census bill becomes law
and the adequate appropriation is made,
plans win be perfected for the work of
next year. Director North will toon
after have his force completed and
with his wide experience will no doubt
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PULP AND PAPER HAVE A CHANCE
Committee Promises a Compromise
Measure.
The important work of picking up
loose ends in making the tariff bill
was begun Saturday by the senate com
mittee on finance.
Wood pulp and print paper, which
have been the subjects of considerable
dispute, were the items Considered, and
it was agreed that an amendment should
be drafted by the sub committee in the
nature of a compromise between manu
facturers of print paper and those who
are demanding free pulp and reduced
duties on paper. The committee has
decided to recommend the continuance
of the present rate of fiften per cent
ad valorem on hides.
CAPTAIN HARGROVE PASSES
AWAT.
The death of Captain W. H. Hargrove,
wjiich occurred at the home of his son,
Mr. J. A. Hargrove, Tuesday April 20th,
1900, was a distinct loss to Hnywood
county and Western Carolina.
Captain Hargrove was a true and en
thusiastic Mason, a member of Bethel
lodge. He was a consistent and devoted
Christian.
Funeral services were eondnetod from
Bethel Methodist Episcopal church
South Wednesday at 3 p. in. by Rev.
L. B. Abernethy and Rev. Sentelle. The
Masonic fraternity uttendod in a body
Interment in Bethel cemetery.
Friend Merchant, read talk No. S, c'
advertising on page 6 of this issue. If
that don't eure yoor troubles they arc
chronic.
Just One.
"I hope you were a good little boy
while at your aunt's and didn't tell any
stories," said bis mother.
"Only the -one yon put me np to,
ma," replied ber young hopeful.
' ' Why, what do yon mean, child 1 "
"When she asked me if I'd like to
have a second piece of eake I said, 'No,
thank you; I've had enough.' " Har
per's Weekly.
give us bettor results than ever before.
President Likes Base Ball.
The two or three million bate ball
fans throughout the country will be
interested in knowing that both the
President and Vice President were at
tentive spectators at the game in
Washington last week, and in the most
democratic fashion shared a bag of
peanuts while discussing the plays. Al
though there is Presidential box at
the Washington grounds, Mr. Taft pre
ferred to sit in one of the boxes of the
Grand stand. Vice President Sherman
is seen at the game frequently, and
Mr. Taft has announced that he will
atten as often as possible. 5
RETURN OF OLD "HOLDFAST."
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THE CHAIRMAN'S VIEWS.
Extracts From Senator Aldrich's Dis
slon of the Tariff Bill.
The following extracts from the re
port of Senator Aldrich, chairman of the
Finance Committe, and the real author
of the amended tariff bill now being
debated, will.be found not only inter
esting,, but instructive:. . ,
The practical question to which I
shall ask your attention today is, Will
the bill as reported from the Committee
on Financo produce sufficient revenue
when taken in connection with the in
ternal revenue taxes and other existing
sources of revenue to meet th xpenses
of the government without the imposi
tion of additional taxes I I answer un
hesitatingly, after a thorough and care
ful investigation of the facts and the
conditions likely to surround the prob
lem, that it will.
Growing out of depressed business
conditions which have existed since the
autumn of 1907, there has been for a
month a large reduction in importations.
Stocks of goods of all kinds in the
country are now very small, and with
the improved conditions that are sure
to follow our action, we may expect
larger importations in tho fiscal year
1910 than In any year in our history.
Business aetivitv and the movement
for increased importation has already
commenced. We can feel the change in
the air. The customs receipts for the
thirty-nine business days from March 1
to April 15, inclusive, increased, as
compared with the corresponding days
in 1908, 12,031,093.08,or an average
daily increase of $26 1.545.50.
There is no incentive for these en
larged importations except improved
conditions of the country and reduced
stocks of imported merchandise. The
character of the legislation proposed
furnishes no reason for accelerated im
ports, as there are practically no rates
in either the House or Senate bill which
are above the rates imposed by the act
of 1897. It must be conceded that the
era of prosperity commenced the first
part of March is likely to continue un
interruptedly with tho enactment of
wise tariff legislation.
Those who do not believe in this eon-
tinued march of improvement have little
knowlodge of the recuperative powers
of the American people and fail to
measure correctly the force of the
spirit of confidence which will accom
pany a guaranty of security and indus
trial peace.
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There is, it is true, another method, ,
adopted in the construction of the Wil
son bill, the only Democratic tariff with
which this country has been cursed
since 1848. What did that bill dof
What was the effect of the legislation
in that ease I It did reduce revenues.
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Rogers in New York Harald.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Caught as We Oo to Press.'
Ten jurors have been secured in the
ilnvnes trinl.
Sixteen persons were injured, one
perhups fatally, in a tornado which
destroyed a large part of Ccntrahoma,
Okla., yesterday. Not a building in the
town remained intact. Twelve build
ings were wrecked. The town con
tains about 800 inhabitants. Many of
these are homeless.
Sultan May Oo.
Constinople, April 26. The deposition
of Sultan Abdul Hamid appears now to
be certain, and the 101 guns saluting
Mohammed Reechad Kffendi as the new
ruler of the empire will probably be
beard before the next Sclanilik on Fri
day. The dignitaries of the church care
as little for Abdul Hamid as does the
committee of union and progress, but
the higher clergy are seeking to curb the
agitation of the enthusiasts of the Mo
hammcduu league. Senators and depu
ties who have mude inquiry among the
llemas, find them in different degrees
favoruble to the sultau's removal.
A Rate War.
News comes from Washington that
a rate war among the Eastern trunk
lines is nearly inevitable in the opinion
of the interstate commerce commission.
Thus fur the trouble extends only to
rates of import trafic, west bound, but
the likelihood is that it will extend, be
fore a great while, to domestic traffic
Automobile Wreck.
Four prominent society women of
Pensaeoln, Fla., were Injured yesterday,
one probably fatally, when riding was
mobile in which they were riding was
struck by an electric ear. The hurt
were, Mrs. J. M. Muleoon, of Pensa
eolu, and Mrs. Luce and Mrs. Clark, of
Mobile, and Mrs. Gonzales. The auto
mobile was struck by a Bayshore ear
running about forty miles an hour. Mrs
Gonzales later died of her injuries.
Latest from Armenia.
Alexandretta, Asiatic Turkey, April
26. Refugees who have made their es
cape from Durtyol, which is a small
town not far from Alexandretta bring
most alarming aconnts of the situation
there. They affirm that 10,000 Armeni
ans are beleaguered toy 50,000 Moslems.
The beseiged are half starving and the
conditions within the well of the city
are pitiful. It is difficult for foreign
residents here to credit these numbers.
The foreign consuls estimate about
6,000 townspeople and refugees at
Deurtynl with perhaps as many more
Turks threatening them from the out
side. It it eertain there are no Ameri
cans at that place.
The South
And The Tariff
HAVE MADE POLITICS OUR BUSI
NESS WHILE OTHER SECTIONS
MADE BUSINESS THEIR
POLITICS.
Some Cold Facts Which May do us Oood
to Review.
From the Washington Post.
U That in politics, especially with re
Terence to the tariff situation, the
South is the cat's-paw for those who
make the game business their politics
is the viow taken by Richard H. Ed
monds, editor of the Manufacturer's
Record. In an interview in the Savan
nah (Cm.) Press, under the caption
"South Used by Other Sections," Mr.
Kdmonds says:
"The South seems to be the most
guileless country in the world. It ac
cepts without question the fads of other
sections, even after they have been
tfsted and abundoned elsewhere. It lets
ittlicr people write its history and award
them prizes, even when in essays they
say that beforo the war 'the South
was intellectually dead.' In polities it
is equally blind, and it quietly grabs at
the bait carefully prepared for it by
other sections, who hope to maintain
their commercial and industrial suprem
acy so long as the South eagerly swal
lows the bait and the hook, and thanks
the fishermen for giving it the privilege
of being caught.
One Kind of Tariff Revision.
"For years many interests in other
sections built up by a protective tariff
have desired to increase their profits
by securing lower prices on what they
use as raw material, and they have
steadily worked to develop n sentiment
in favor of tariff reduction. To most
of them tariff revision means a lower
tariff or free trade on what they buy
and continued protection on what they
sell, and on that narrow ground they
are striving to make tho South help
to bring about a revision along such
lines.
"Charles M. Schwab is reported as
being satisfied with the proposed re
duction in steel and iron. While I
think Mr. Schwab has been misunder
stood, yet bis company owns a vast iron
ore supply, estimated at 500,000,000 tons
in Cuba. He has lately spent (17,000,
000 in ennrging his Bethlehem plant,
and this foreign ore is essential to
him. If he can save 40 cents a ton, it
would mean probably a million dollars
or more n year saved, or possibly 5 per
cent a year, or 20,000,000.
"John W. (Jntes lately came out in
favor of free ore, but Mr. Gates and
his associates are developing enormous
deposits in Canada for shipment by
the lakes to this country, and free ore
would save thnt company probably sev
eral hundred thousand dollars a year.
What Free Ore Means.
"The Pennsylvania Steel Company,
owner of tho Pennsylvania Railroad, is
now developing one of the world's most
remarkable iron-ore deposits in Cuba,
containing probably 600,000,00 tons of
ore. Free ore would mean the savjng
of 32 rents a ton on all that it imported,
adding enormously to the value of that
property. And free ore would all be
at the expense of the South. It' would
still further concentrate the iron and
steel interests in the North and West,
and thus delay the development of the
vast iron and steel potentialities of thia
section. A reduction in the duties on
pig-iron would likewise injure the South
for the benefit of the founderies and
shops of tho North Atlantic coast.
"Free coal would strengthen the posi-
ion of New England's cotton mills and
other Industries, against the growing
cotton manufacturing of the South and
lessent tho New Englandmarket for
Southern coal.
A "Rank Suggestion."
Free lumber, or even a reduction in
duty, is one Of the rankest suggestions
of the tariff bill. The South would be
the only section to suffer much and
gain nothing. It would mean the oppo
site, for it wonld result In destruction
of the values, in lower wages, and in
mneh demoralisation. 1
But in asking us to swallow the
bait, we are offered nothing in return.
The things that the South buys more
largely than any other section, such as
textile machinery and woodworking .
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