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Oldest Newspapefin South Carolina. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WE?NESDAY, JANUARY 26th, 1910 NO. 52 WHY DO THE -Car GOVERNORS ALIVE TO COST In Some States investigations Hadley Advocates "Back Anti-Food Trust Washington, D. C.-As reflected by the views of the Governors now here in conference, the high cost of living is a mos. acute question throughout the entire country. In some States investigations to ascertain the cause already are in progress. Governor Harmon of Ohio is inves tigating the condition through a spe cial commission. Governor Hadley of Missouri will take the subject up with the Legislature when lt next meets. Governor Harmon said he was not prepared to say what the direct cause of the high cost of living is, but he recognized the injury done by great combinations. "Out our way," said Governor Had ley, "we are agitating a 'back to the soil' movement that will bear good fruit." The Governor says he keeps three cows now. "I had chickens, but I had to give them up when I became Governor; I always have had a garden. Every body who can should keep chickens and make a garden. That would help amazingly." Governor Weeks of Connecticut be lieves that conditions have been brought about largely by the people ff* wc iiviui, ne ueueves, DUt "Wltn even the Governor paying fifty per cent, more for his living than several years ago, it has brought the subject very near to tho head of the State." Governor Curry of New Mexico says that the cost of living isn't af fecting the Southwest "in the same proportion as the crowded East." He looks upon the operations of combin ations as largely responsible for the trouble. Governor Kitchin of North Caro lina recognizes that there are thou sands of contributing causes for the high cost of living, but the tariff Is the Governor's chief objection. Governor 'Cromer of Alabama points out that the cotton growers of BOYCOTT ON MEAT F Cleveland Butchers Promptly Respon Living--Thousands Join Crusade etarian Diet Until Easter--Nattai Columbus, Ohio. - A resolution calling upon the people of the State to abstain from meat for the next sixty days and to subsist entirely on a diet of vegetables, nuts and fruit for that time was introduced into the House by Representative 'Cidrick. Chairman Williams, of the High Price Committee, was fairly swamped with mail from all parts of the State containing suggestions as to possible remedies for the situation, many of which were deemed worthy of consid eration. One of the most popular Ideas In the rural districts seemed to be that the millers had abandoned the old custom of taking one-eighth pf the grain as toll and were ,now asking twenty-two out of every si*ty pounds of wheat as the toll for grinding. Many women representing women's clubs pointed out that lack of instruc tion in cooking among the young women of to-day is responsible for the added cost of living by waste and extravagance in many households. Senator Williams held a long con ference with the Attorney-General re garding the situation. Cleveland. Ohio. - The anti-meat movement that started here a few days ago among the workmen in President Taft Proclaims Minimum Tariff Nations. Washington. D. C.-The President issued his proclamation in which it is declared that under the new Tariff law the countries of Italy, Great Bri tain, Russia, Spain. Turkey and Switzerland are entitled to the mini mum rates imposed by that act. Of this list Italy is the most im portant of the countries of Europe to receive the reduced rates, inasmuch as her exports to the United States ex ceed those of either Russia, Spain, Switzerland or Turkey. Prominent People. President Taft plans to visit Alaska fate in the coming spring. King Peter bf Servia pent an agent to this country to find rich American brides for his two sons. Jn1r? ynor, at the Bar bannuet. ma. u . for cleansing New York City L" euasing newspapers and jour nalistic sneaks. The father of Dr. Pederick A. Cook was named Koch, and the name was changed by error when he enlist ed in the army. He was born In per manv and practiced medicine in New York. i DRESS SO? W?' CHICA60 7?VAT A W P?OAXSt> VAK ASA ?AY r/Q?RE UPON 70j HS S ISMS 0>' HIS fiM3P??iTY. ( , toon by Triggs, in the New York Tress. "OF LIVING AS A PROBLEM s Already Are in Progress to the Soil" Movement League ^Growing. his State are not profiting by the high price of cotton. "They sold their growth many months ago," he declared. "Some of the planters sold before the crop was ready to be picked." Governor Draper of Massachusetts preferred not to discuss the matter. Governor Willson of Kentucky finds the situation acute in his State. Governor Shafroth cf Colorado said ho had not given the subject much consideration. The same was the case with Governor Shallenberger of Nebraska, Governor Burke of North Dakota, and Governor Carroll of Iowa. The latter three being great agricultural States, the people are not complaining directly against the ex orbitant cost of living, because they are getting high prices for their farm products. The Beef Trust is rapped on ail hands. "I live comfortably, and I know that it costs me forty per cent, more to keep .my family; than it did three years ago," said .Representative Fitz gerald, of New Yojik, during a debate in the House, ','the cost of living has been going-unsteadily for fifteen years, and it ls the maladministration cents. \ ( -r I The House laughed when Francis Burton Harrison, of New York, a multi-millionaire, got up and took his kick at the high price of food stuffs. 1 The Central Labor Union, of Wash ington, 35,000 strong, has sought al lianco with: the new National Anti Food Trust League. At the first meeting of the Board of Directors of tho league the union's application was accepted. So also was the appli cation of tho,League of Penwomen of America and the Householders' Al liance of "this .city, of which Ellen Marshall R'ugg is president and Mrs. David J. Brewer, Mrs. Robert Shaw Oliver and Mrs. Robert M. La Fol lette, vice-presidents. ORCES PRICES DOWN.* 1 I d to Campaign Against High Cost of ?Adopting Scheme to Follow Veg iai Boycott Plan Proving Popular. Cleveland factories has spread so fast, not only In this city but throughout Ohio, that the first effect came in the announcement of a straight cut of two cents on certain kinds of meat. Further rc .uctlons are expected. The meat dealers are alarmed, and a se cret meeting of the Butchers' Protec tive Association was held to devise means of combating a movement that threatens to become national In scope. Many of the dealers say their or ders have been cut in half in the past two days, and they fear some will be forced out of business. Over 10,000 men in Cleveland factories have al ready pledged themselves to abstain from eating meat for at least thirty days, and it is believed that fully 100,000 people in this city and sub urbs will be In the vegetarian class before the week ends. Other cities of the State are following the idea, and Senator Williams' suggestion that the entire State' boycott meat till Easter Sunday ir? being taken up with an earnestness, that means husiness. Big meat 'dealers here and the agents of the packers say if the boycott reaches.New York City it will surely force a decided drop in meat prices throughout the entire Central and At lantic States. - _ - , Dogs Rnn in Packs Like Wolves Over New Hamnshire Mountains. Nashua, N. H.-Hounds running in packs like wolves have exterminated the deer in the central part of Hills borough County and particularly on Temple Mountain and Mount Monr.d nock. This statement was made by .Game Commissioner Nathaniel Went worth. Mr. Wentworth returned fron? Rlndge, where he prosecuted two men. Four hounds belonging to them were captured on a pond in Rindge out of a pack of six. Amone the Workers. Hpngary has almost 150,000 trade unionists. Union tailors all over the United States and Canada are voting for in ternational officers. Preliminary steps have been taken looking to the erection of a labor temple at Fargo, N. D. As early as 18S4 a mechanics' con vention was held at Utica, N. Y.. protect against convict labor. A convention of I he International Transport Workers' Federation meets in Copenhagen, Denmark, next Au gust Condensed from Wide Fields, Domestic and Foreign. AS THEY ARE HAPPENING DAILY Suited to the Wants of Busy Headers Seeking a Knowledge of What ia Going on. Len G. Broughton, of Atlanta, has challenged Thos. E. Watson for a joint debate at the Tabernacle in that city, on "The Foreign Missionary Movement." In a decision handed down at Dal las, Texas, the court of civil appeals upheld the new law requiring express companies to pay an occupation tax of $5,000 for handling C. O. D. whis key shipments. Brantley of Louisiana has been ap pointed to succeed Griggs on the committee of ways and means in Con grss. Martinsville, W. Va., is making a determined effort to get a new Balti more and Ohio passenger station. Gen. Rufus N. Rhodes, editor of the Birmingham News, is dead. . The West Virginia Shippers' As sociation was organized at Clarks burg and passed resolutions demand ing a Congressional investigation of the Baltim'or? and Ohio Railroad. As proof of their possession of the Kellner girl, of Louisville, the abduc tors sent her parents a hit of her dress. J. Deik McAllister, past grand master of West Virginia Odd Fel lows, has disappeared from his home in Elkins. Georgia has organized a permanent association known as the Georgia Anti-Tuberculosis* and Sanitary So ciety. The Boston Eleveated, Railway Company voluntarily raised its em ployes' wages. Milk producers in Chicago plan a national association with better prices as its aim. A score of'Italians, among them the mau supposed to be the brains of the plot to assassinate Peirosino, have been arrested around New York on charges of counterfeiting. The Mayor of San Francisco wants Chinatown restored, as he deems the Celestials an asset to tho city. The first suit attacking the Feder al Corporation Tax law as unconsti tutional was filed in Cleveland. A St. Louis judge wept at having to send two young bank clerks to the penitentiary. The Bronx Park Commissioner in New York dismissed 15S men in re sponse to Mayor Gaynor's admonition against padded pay rolls. The use of oil as fuel on locomo tives has proved more or less of a foil"--- - Lios Angeles meet. Governor Harmon, of Ohio, blames laws of Congress for the increasing cost of living and asks a remedy. Ten children and their mother were killed when a miner thawed an explosive in his home at Charleroi, Pa. The price of shoes is going up. The National Shoe Wholesalers' Asso ciation says existing prices of leather and materials make the increase nec essary. China has decided to .open two .towns in Manchuria to international trade. At Washington Fred S. Clinton, while asleep, fell against a red-hot stove and was almost burned to death. Bituminous coal rainers will ask an increase of 10 per cent. At Cleveland, O., the anti-meat strike, as a blow at the increase cost of living, is in full swing. If, is estimated that full 6,000 men have signed a pledge to absfain from meat for a month in an effort to break the high prices. Physicians charge that bacteria laden milk has been given typhoid patients in certain Washington hos pitals. Baltimore lead all American ports last year in the exportation of corn. Miss Maude Sanders, 20 years old, was made a deputy recently by the sheriff of Pulaski county, Ind., and single handed she took a prisoner, giving the name of John Doe, from Winande,, to the jail at Knox, and delivered him safely to the sheriff of Starke county. ' , American waist and dress manufac turers, in New York, have under consideration a corporation capitaliz ed at $300,000,000. which would con trol the manufacture of all women's Avearing apparel. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, of the Harvard class of ?S0, has been elect ed president of the Harvard Alumni Association, to succeed President Charles Eliott. It is estimated that 41.590,300 tons of snow have fallen in Chicago this winter, and a fortune has beeu spent to clean the streets. Pneumonia and other troubles have made it a disas trous thing of beauty and ugliness. Major George C. Waddill. a well known Southerner, died in the home of his daughter, Mrs. S. S. Cathings, /ingston, Staten Islands, N. Y. Dr. Jas. Boyce, president of the Woman's College, Due West, S. C., suffered a stroke of appoplexy last Tuesday. The boilermakers at the Atlantic Coast Line shops, at Rocky Mount, N. C., have returned to work. The Belgian authorities have been advised of systematic frauds which are being practiced against'the Amer ican immigration law at Antwerp, Rotterdam, Marseilles and other points. A special from Berlin says if is stated on good authority that the Porte has commenced proceedings to recover from the Deutche bank the millions deposited thore by Andu' Hamid, me formar Sultan of T?rkei*. News From the Nation? in Passing foi is? Bin i The South is coming into its'own. No section of this gr?at country is getting more favorable advertising. Everybody has a good word for it. The unprecedented internal improve ments within the last decade and a half have attracted tbe attention of he entire country. Recently Secretary Wilson, of the United States Department of Agricul ture, made a flying visit to North arolina, the occasion being the an .ual meeting of the National Farm ers' Association, and was so impress ed with what he saw that he has >ver lost an opportunity to speak I it. "Why," he said, "the boys of the South have pulled their coats off and are at work. They are farming, manufacturing and trading. You have great cotton mills and still greater tobacco factories.. White and colored people are at work, earning good wages, building homes and bank accounts and developing the country. In every way possible, said Mr. Wilson, his department was going to help the South. This does not mean that he is going to single it out for that purpose, but, as a part of the Union, it is to have its share of at tention. He spoke of the progress of the boll weevil and the necessity for diversified farming, so when the lit tle insect makes cotton growing un profitable the lands can be turned to something else. The corn crop for 1909, he declared, was greater than for any other year. More hogs and more cattle should be raised. Dr. Seaman A. Knapp is organizing the government forces in Dixie with a view to 1 improving the methods of producing corn, beef and hog meat. His efforts so fas have been very suc cessful. Rural Mail Delivery. At a conference of 30 members of the house, all of whom are authors of bills to improve the rural free de livery sendee, a motion to embody the following propositions was unai mously agreed upon: Increase of salary from $900 to $1,000 per annum with the basic length of routes at 24 miles. The proposition provides a sliding scale for the payment of ad ditional compensation for every mile or fraction thereof in excess of 24. miles, and for a reduction in salary along the same scale. Heretofore the maximum salary has been $900, with no allowances for increased length of route. looking to an amelioration of exist-, ing conditions. Pinchot's address dealt with forestry, and he stated that the forest situation offers a field for uniform action and for co operation between the States them selves and between them and the. nation. Judge Alton B. Parker was temporary chairman, and also ad dressed the meeting. More Wheat Than America. The United States has lost its place as the greatest wheat producing country in the world and Russia has won that distinction. Russia last year produced tbe remarkably large harvest of 783,000,000 bushels, which constitutes the largest crop ever har vested by any country and 26.000, 000 bushels greater than that of the United States Railroads Win Case. The Supreme Court denies petition of the Macon Grocery Company and other wholesale dealers in groceries in Georgia for an injunction to restrain railroads in the Southeastern Freight Association from putting into effect August 1, 1908, a general increase in rates on fresh meats, grain products, hay and packing house products. More Aid For Workmen. To strengthen the employers' lia bility law so as to afford greater pro tection' for employes, is the object of a bill now being prepared at the De partment of Justice as an amendment to the existing statute. Taft For Civil Pensions. President. Taft has given his for mal indorsement to the movement looking tp a civil service pension system. Legare After Deeper Channel. Congressman Legare, of South Car olina, is working for 30 feet at mean low water for the harbor channel at Charleston. He will very likely suc ceed in getting thc appropriation. Lee Now Under Flag. The government has recognized the birthday of Gen. Robt. E. Lee. The government ordered the custom house at Newoprt News, Va., to observe the anniversary of his birth, thc 19th. FIRE IN GO T( H A?LING Before insuring elsewher Old Line Companies. HARLlflG At The Farmer? . a! Capitol Briefly Noted r the Reader. ii The New York Sun, summing up the "Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy'9 among other things says: "What probably will continue to be known under its present designar tion of "The Ballinger-Pinchot Con troversy" has been constantly astir in official circles since August ll, last, when the Chief ^Forester hastened to the White House to urge the Presi dent's direct intervention against his Secretary of the Interior. It sim mered through the President's period of rest at Beverly, broke out afresh in what "are known as 'Tim Glavis Charges' and finally reached its first crisis on September 15 at Albany. { "With the meeting of Congress a resolution was introduced calling for a Congressional inquiry into the whole situation. And then came a step that had not been anticipated and was out of the government rou tine, and apparently was aimed at making the conflict as dramatic as possible. Mr. Pinchot succeeded in having read upon the floor of the Senate a letter reflecting upon the ; President and enforcing his own dis missal as tho only possible . conse quent act. A day's session- of the President's Cabinet preceded the de cision to dismiss. And that leaves the possible 'Ballinger-Pinchot' in vestigation now merely a question of investigating a single officer of the government on charges which the Ai torney-General has ridiculed and on which the President has passed judg- ? ; ment." -i Fight on Ballinger. . Monday the so-called Ballinger Pinchot coptroversy was revived when sensational charges against Secretary Ballinger of the Interior Department was made. The charges are that when Ballinger became commissioner of the general land office' he reduced the salary of Clerk Wright so that the salary could be given to his nephew, Jack BalUnger. The matter will be investigated. Ballinger is sues a statement saying the charges are false. Selected By Democrats. Representative Rainey, of Illinois, and James, of Kentucky, were last Saturday selected as nominees for the Democratic representatives of the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation com mittee. The selection was made afc a caucus of Democratic Representa 3allenger Probe. o and House c nger-Pinchot ion reached while not viii stand. _*y importa of difference between The investigation by the is limited to the present Congross, and witnesses will be permitted to appear -with their attorneys and be legally represented, concessions to the House. Lee Greatest Southern General. In reply to letters sent out by Chas. A. Culberson, >of Texas, to general officers of the Southern army to express their opinion as to which of the Southern commanders should, be ascribed first place as the fore most soldier of the South, the re plies follows: General Robert E. Lee, 35; General Stonwall Jackson,. 4; General Joseph E. Johnston, 2; General J. E. B. Stuart, i; General P. G. T. Beauregard or General Rich ard Taylor 1; undecided 1. Wants Money For Granby Dam. Representative Le\'er of South Carolina, presented to the rivers and harbors committee a brief in behalf of an appropriation for raising the Granby1 dam. Mr. Lever says that he is confident that the committee will put in the bill what Capt. Adams recommends and he hopes this will be fm $50,000. Defends His State. Provoked by published charges that the Burley Association, the tobacco" raisers' protective organization, had controlled the courts and the Legisla ture of his State, Representative Kantrill of Kentucky, in a passionate speech defended the people of his State as law abiding. He contended that in opposing the - tobacco trust they had exercised their rights in a lawful manner. ? Wants Steamers to Stop. Senator Tillman of South Carolina' took up with President Taft the ques tion cf ltaving the government steam ers between New York and the isth mus of Panama stop each way at Charleston to discharge mail and take on passengers. Quits Pension Committee. Representative Martin Dies of ? Texas has resigned from the ptr-sion committee of the House because lie is opposed to the pension system as now administered. ?UKANCE ) SEE i & BYRD e, Wejrepresent the Betti & BYm Bank of Edgefield