No. ih fa From 5 : Th3sGapit3 A Good Tariff Lew to b too Beanlt , . .of OonpionlM. . ProgreaUte are t . 1 LEGISLATION. If" t " ' '1 , M ' 1 A Oood Tariff Law to be tho , Remit. of Compromise Progressive are '' Oood Looser. , ; Washington, Juno 14. The tariff de . bate - drag on with no definite Idea of the date of final passage. r Even if - the bill passe the Senate by July 1, it may still be weeks in conference, ..but it ia now predicted that It Will reach the President by July 15. The t Senate Finance Committee's amend' ment will all be adopted and the bill will Vnxra a milifttftfttiitl mAforlfcv. - The so-called progressives, or insurgents will have. filled a good many pages of the Congressional Record at a cost to .the industries of the country of half a billion dollars and with little on no result, as even when joined by most of the Democrats they have not won on a3 single vote. But the bill will be eted in conference and will he as satisfactory as any tariff law can be. For Next Winter. Assuming that the bill will be Come a law in a few woeks, speculation is rife concerning next winter's legisla tion. Three subjects command atten tion, currency, corporations, and labor. There will no doubt be some kind of currency legislation following the report of the monetary commission, bat it is too early to anticipate its exaet nature. There is considerable doubt about any farther legislation at present affecting corporations. The Interstate Commerce r i i l - VUU1U11BS1UU UlBjr IN glVVU UblttV JUUrr power, but just in what direction cannot be predicted at present. As for so Tslation,' that will de- , pond largely upon the labor leaders themselves. , Their wishes will be eon' sidered if they can get together and . agree to something definite, bnt if they eontinue in the future to fight among themselves they will get no bill of any kind before the Sixty-first Congress. A measure for steam boiler inspection will be asked for, and an anti-injunction . measure will eontinue to be discussed, but until the leaders and advocates of labor organzations agree among them' : selves they cannot expect the President , battles for them. " The Labor Vote. , . It has been shown that no one can deliver the labor vote either in a N' tional, State or Congressional election for the laboring man is quite capable of. deciding for himself, and will eon tinne to do so. I Oood Wages Desired. , The new . tariff law as soon as it goes into operation will result in the employment of two or three million men now idle, and that is what the )a boring men want most of ; all work and good wages, and that is what he is going to get.',, ' Treasury Looking T7p ' Some week agal in this eorreapond enee prediction was made that the de ficit for the fiscal year would consid erably less than $100,000,000. It in prob able that it may go below 10.000,000, 'as there is a surplus so far this month; whieh, it is expected by experts, will b considerable by the end of this month and year. , , . ; The estimates of the departments for 1911 are still being "out far below :..j'm 'ioiA umi. fto b every reason to nope that the .. deficit will disappear altogether during the flsoal year 1911, if not next year. '" - " Tor Next Term. - Sarins- a recent debate in the Sen ate it was declared that Mr. Taft was the only .candidate at present thought f;to succeed himself. Tata la not surprisingas no administration of re cent ' years has enjoyed a eonfldenee ad approbation such as the Taft ad ministration baa acquired. And this appreciation will no drabt Increase aa the months wear oa which means dls Mter to Democratic pretentions aid continued Republican sueeesa, ,j ' , , A Contradiction. , , "Youna Court v's engagement - te Visa Bleb, who anexpeetedly fell into s fortune, was a brilliant stroke.' J "HoW do youvmeant";," V-'. "He made a loeky hit with a lucky 'iriaj "-8kthey Blta.' Tho Way : IVo're lleadGd THB PRESIDENT g SOCTttBRll VOL- What la Bait for die Booth and Bait for the Nation. , Knoxville Journal-Tribune. , , ' : The public has heard a sood deal la past months about what is termed Jhe "outhoru policy " of the present oce j pant of the white house. - We Question if he has anything that may rightfully be called a southern policy. To call it that- we are persuaded is a misnomer, that it should rightfully be called a lib oral and broad national policy. It is assumed by- some that the intent of President Taft i to build a stronger opposition, or republican party in the southern states. That he would be pleased to see such a party in these states we do not doubt; he believes that with two strong political parties in the south, the south would be better off. The nation is better off from having two parties, and so it would be in the states. yBut there is nothing in the life or the publio record of President Taft to jus tify a belief that- iu cibk! tg uuy over tures he may have made to the south, he has nothing more in view than the mere overthrow 'of one political party', and the bestowal of power upon an other. He is broad minded and has a big soul. His patriotism is of a high order and' his yearnings for the peace and prosperity of his countrymen are not circumscribed by geographical lines. He wants to see the country united and each section of the union bound to the other by ties that are the outcome of a common interest and common destiny. ..President Taft wants to see the South take its place on the level of perfect equality of all the other sections of the . country. He has not been guilty of upbraiding the south or of recalling the deeds of the past who i differences led too an appeal to arms. He would have the south judged by . the present, and not stigmatised on account of any thing done in the distant past. He is on ajiigh plane, and while a partisan he will shape the policy of his admin istration with the view of removing any of the sears that remain to remind Am ericans that there was a time when they were enimies and not friends. He would bring about such a happy condition, not for tho good of the south alone; but for the betterment of the whole country. He sees, as all others not blinded by prejudice must see, that the country will be better off, that the nation will be in all respects stronger; that the people of all Metmns will be happier and more prosperous, if unity and harmony are cultivated and prevail, than if sectional discord and unnatural strife should exist. This we believe to be the policy of the Pesirdent, and we repent, that to oal it a aoutbora j-olir?" is a misnomer, it owes not eonvey to the mind the fullness of the benevolent and highly patriotic purpose that he has in his mind and heart. It may be that in carrying oat what he proposes, he may not always please all republicans in the southern states. He does not believe that the republican party in the southern states has been strengthened by appointment made to federal offioes. More than a year be fore he was elected President, he made a speeoh at ; Greensboro ia North Caro lina, in whieh he plainly told hjs au ditors, who were' mostly republieans,that he did not believe the republican party in the south was better off on account of having the federal Offices. He sees, aa all have seen, that the straggles and the contentions of the party have been productive of hostile factions. : Not sel- democrat . But looking at the matter each other with mora of bitterness and less of tolerance, than has characterised their contentions with the. democratic W do not doubt that it gitea the President more pleasure to appoint a southern republican to office, who ho be lieves to bo qualified, and when he is satisfied that such an appointment will give aatiafaotioa to reasonable and im partial men la tbo community, to be served by nob an official, than it does to go obtslde of hi party and take a democrat , Bnt lookin at -the matter from a purely partisan point of view : (Ctae!B4eAem yago ,rl t NEWS IN BBEBF. Later Items Gathered as we go to Press. The business section of the town of Wise, Va.,was almost wiped out by fire Tuesday morning. ' BioUng Peared. It being feared that serious rioting would result in Meadville, county seat of Franklin county, Miss., as tho re sult of a bloody street duel there late Monday, in which two men were killed, and others are 'reported injured, the Brookbaven company of militia left at six o'clock yesterday for the scene by order of Gov. Noel. Small Boy Kills His Father EaleighN. C, June 14. Frank Craw ford, a farmer Hying near Selma,, N. C, was struck on the head and his skull crushed by an axe in the hands of his 13-year old son yesterday. Crawford had his wife down and was beating her and the boy not being able to get him off, without force, used the axe. The boy has been placed in jail at Smithfleld, ' Braxil's President Dies. Dr. Alfonso Moreira Penna, presi dent of BrasUl, died yesterday. He was" stricken with influenza on June 2, and although quite seriously ill for a time, improvement was noted on June 6, which continued until Satur day. ..... Japanese Situation geriona. Honolulu- June -14. The situation growing out of the indictment of the seventeen leaders in. the strike of Ja panese plantation laborers took an in ternational turn today, when M. we noro. of the editorial staff of the Jiji, a local Japanese publication, who was taken into custody when tho office of that paper was raided by the authori ties last "Friday, made formal ' com plaint to the Japanese foreign offloe at Tokio of the violations of his treaty riehts. The alleged violation, he sets forth, consists in the search of his office and the seisare or bis private papers and documents without due process of law. , ' Hs, Knew a Thing or Two. It is said that often when a woman says "no" she means "yes" bat there are signs which discourage oven the most, hopeful and persistent , wooret. "I didnt ao mneh qtind Hetty's say ing she'd a soon marry a jumping-jack as me,"s said Ethan, Hatch, forlornly, to a sympathetie friend taor I didnt much care whenu she said she'd rather stay at borne than go out to Jordan's Park with such a slow coach a I was; bat when she told mo ho'd got to help her mother iron when I asked her to go with mo down to the Center for iee eream soda, I saw 'twastat moob us hanging on any longer," px. -' A SUPERFLUOUS PRECAUTION. ABOUT BUSINESS. Some Merchants Helping the Town. Honii" of Wuyuesvllle 's leading mer chants are availing themselves of the advertising space of The Kntorprise to offer some especial bargains this week. We are glad to get such advertising aside from the revenue it brings to the paper, for it is showing outsiders that it is to their interest to trade in Way nesville. , Such advertisements indicate healthy business conditions in a town. It shows that we are alive to improved business methods and that we're "up to snuff." Business is thicker than politics and hard money dollars saved do more to keep trade at home and draw it from the outside than all the sentiment in the world. People are going where they can get more goods for less money. If Wnynesville can sell goods so cheap that it pays the man from Jackson and the man from Pigeon and the man from Crabtree to buy here, let them tell folks so and make their words good as some of our advertisers are doing. We don't say all our merchants are "up to snuff," but some of them are and others will have to be or stagnate. The ones who offer bargains as low as can be had anywhere in the world and who scatter the news abroad are the ones who really help a town. Woman's Olnb Meet. Thursday afternoon the Woman's Club gathered at Mrs. R. L. Allen's home and spent an enjoyable afternoon in the study of Washington snd some of his contemporaries. The Club has had American history, beginning with the Aetes of Mexico and Inca of Peru, the early settlers down to the revoln tion.". : The next meeting will be at Mrs. Kel lers, 4 p. m., June 24th. The program will be: Roll call. Kings and Queens of Bcotland. Paper -"Early History of Scotland." Mrs. T. Ferguson. Pa per "William Wallace." Mrs. Han nah. Reading "Brace's Address to His Army." Mrs.. Harrold. Mnslo ' Should Auld Acquaintance bo Tor got" Paper "Two Famous Queens, Mary and Margaret.' Mrs. Allen. Bond ' Tablet. "Forgo. Bon oi Erie." Mrs. F. Ferguson. "Tho Mal colms.1 Mrs. Killian. "Alexander IU." Mrs. Brown. "Edward Brnoo" Mrs. Lyndsay, ."Lord James Doug las." Mri i Keller. ( "Connteo or Buchaa." Mr. McDowell t . ', Current eventsi "Advancement of Woman." -Mr., Harrold , , Row Literary Production. . .J They 'say that Stevenson frequent ly worked a whole afternoon on. a single Una." . "That's nothing. I know a man wno haa been working tbo, last six year on ono - sentence." Boston ,tTraaa , Boston Herald. THE BOOTH'S ECONOMIC FOLLY. Vlnaicatlons of the Contentions of Southern Republican. Charlotte Observer. Hince last Tuesday there bus arisen iu the United States ttenate a situa tion which concerns the South very in timately. Senator AMtii.li we ahull first review the course of events sub niittu'd the cotton i;-jols tiiriff sched ule. On this schedule the finance com mittee had charged duties from ad va lorem to specific. It had been urged that under present rugulationa high priced experts in importers' pay sue crssfully ili'ad tnshnieiihtibs and de feated the law, that administrative deffl ciency requires specific duties where the subject mutter is so wry c.onijli cated; the committee, therefore, taxed goods at a flat rate by tho pound or the yard regardless of price variations. 8ineo price variations on some yarns within recent yonrs have been qilite one hundred per cent., it is clear that the flat rate must reckon with prob able high and probable low, seeking to establish an average If neither in' creaso nor JeeteHM in duty is 0Mntm plated. This,Sonator Aldrich contends, the finance eommitteo has done care fully and inn .! tit ,'. tic dutiei which are true equivalents for the Dingley law's ad valorem. Of course varying somewhat from his, and, ia the nature of the ease, exact demon' stration is Impossible. It can be said with truth that the finance committee estimates to represent a fairly honest and intelligent effort, for no one con siders them - very far amiss. Our in clination after a little pencil work of our own to accept them as accurate enough is strengthened -when we take a glance at the only people, except the Importers, who have talked otherwise. Senator LaFollette, the Wisconsin hot air proposition, contended that the bow duties will exceed the old by fif teen or twenty per cent Senator Dol liver, a man, of real 'parts who, how ever, haa not been quite himself since his recent failure to get on tho finance eommitteo, supported Senator LaFol- lett ' contentions. Various other Western Senator, rampant for protec tion on commodities produced at home, took occasion by word or vote to make a tariff revision record after their con ititamta'. own heart; namely, at the expense of section so remote a th Bonth and New England. Into .South ern Senators Mr. Dolllver' hurled the terrible warning that if they support ed the committee's report they would themselvae open to the charge of hav ing voted for increase over Dlngley rate on a highly Important schedule This waa the situation aa far aa It had developed when tbo voting waa done. . And how did Southern Senator vote f Hor were dutiea which concerned their (Concluded oaf fourth jpaga.) , , The Daniels Glenn Proposition PLANS TO "BEAD OUT" ALL WHO . ABB MOT SUFFICIENTLY RADICAL. VU1 Make It Bonator Glenn and Sena tor BneU if no Objections are Raised. The Charlotte Observer in a special from it Washington bureau Monday morning says: "The democratic movement down in North Carolina is becoming interesting. There i much talk here of what ha become known as 'the Daniels-Olenn movement,' which is said to contem plate the retirement of Senators Over man and Simmons and six of the North Carolina bouse delegation and to elect Joseplms Daniels, editor of the News and Observer, at Raleigh, now national democratic committeeman from the state, to suceed Simmons, and former Governor Robert B. Glenn to succeed Overman. In this scheme Daniels Is to do the writing and Glenn the speaking. It will be recalled that it was fre quently said in the last national cam paign that both of these ambitious Tar Heels, Daniels and Glenn, expected cab inet places in the case of the election of William Jennings Bryan. Boing dis appointed In their expectations they will now strike for the senate. As Simmons' term expires fint the guns are for the present,, leveled at him. Al though Simmons is daily voting against protection rates in the Aldrich bill he is denounced as a protectionist and a repubHaiin because he refuses to eon- sent to discriminations against the pro ducts of his state and section. The course of the wind is indicated by the clamor that is heard. Tho cry from certain quarters will be "Down with Simmons and the six; lumber rep resentatives," and, secretly, this will be added: "Up with eight other good democrats." These are the report that come to Washington from tho Old North State. Senator Simmons is the target. His seat in the senate is the first attractive thing in sight. Some time ago Governor Olenn said something to this effect: That if the people needed him to redeem the fifth district they could get him. Many North Carolinians believe that the Winston-Salem man thinks that he hears voices crying in the wilderness; he may be right. Dr. George A. Mebane, who also has a keen ear for such thing, imagines that the call is for "George" not "Bob." There are others who hear noises. The fifth district went 'wet" in the stnto-wldfl prohibition contest. Govornor Glenn went "dry" a long time ago, and Dr. Mebane followed suit. If a majority of the vote of the fifth are still "wot" something of a surprise may await either Dr. Mebane of Mr. Glenn. The wet man with the big stick does not let opportunities . for making base hits go by. A snako is a anake to him. TO PUNISH MUTINEERS. Army authorities to Make an Example of tbo Vlsayaaa who Blew Officers. News comes from Manilla that Bri gadier General Harry H. Bandholts, , chief of the Philippine constabulary has proceeded to Davao, Mindanao Is land, the scene of the mutiny of the second company of constabulary 01 June 6. General Bandholts has assumed per sonal command of , the constabulary force sent In pursuit of the mutineer. The insular government is determined to make an example of the mutinous Vlsayans and tho pursuit will be pressed with, the utmost vigor until the last of the mutineer bare been eaptnred. No additional detail of the mutiny ant of th three hour fight made by Governor Walker and tbo' Akterieaai la th ebnreh 'at Davao haVei 1en ro- mtvaJI Thai- km 'mi tnAleatloa of any exteaalv military plans, aslda from th ordering of several detachment to , fpDow tbo mutineer. ' v ' ( V. , , 1 j H ' The' contest ll still flourishing: . bnt owing to extra adyertlstrig w bad U, loara oat th display announcement The vote win appear next week. - - . , t I "is,

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