The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, July 29, 1904, Page 7, Image 7
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED
(Continued From Second Page.)
not because of shifting conditions in
the production of gold in the certain
mining centers, bit in accordance
with what we regard as the funda
mental principleQ of national morality
and wisdom.
Upon the financial legislation we
have enacted there is now ample cir
culation for every business need:
and every dollar of this circulation 1
is worth a d,llar in gold. We have
reduced the interest-bearing debt and
in still larger measure the interest I
on that debt. All of the war taxes
imposed during the Spanish war
have been removed with a view to
relieve the people and to prevent the
accumulation of an unnecessary sur
plus. The result is that hardly ever
before have the expenditures and in
come of the government so closely
corresponded. In the fiscal year that
has just closed the excess of income
over the ordinary expenditures was
nine million dollars. This does not
:ake account of the fifty millions ex
pended out of the accumulated stir
plus for the purchase of the Isthmian
Canal. It is an extraordinary proof
of the sound financial condition of
the nation that instead of following
the usual course in such matters and
throwing -the burden upon pos
terity by an issue of bonds, we were
able to make the payment outright
and yet after it to have in the treas
ury a surplus of one hundred and six
ty-one millions. Moreover, we were
able to pay this fifty millions of dol
lars out of hand without causing the
slightest disturbance to business con
ditions.
We have enacted a tariff under
which during the past few years the
country has attained a height of ma
terial well-being never before reach
ed. Wages are higher than ever be
fore. That whenever the need arises
there should be a readjustment of the
tariff schedules is undoubted; but
such changes can with safety be made
only by those whose devotion to the
principle of a protective tariff is be
yond question: for otherwise the
changes would amount not to read
justment but to repeal. The read
justment when made must maintain
and not destroy the protective prin
ciple. To the farmer, the merchant.
the manufacturer this is vital; but
perhaps no other man is so much in
terested as the wage-worker in the
maintenance of our present econom
ic system. but as regards the finances
and the tariff. The standard of living
of our wage-workers is higher than
that of any other country. and it can
not so remain unless we have a pro
tective tariff which shall always keep
as a minimum a rae of duty sufficient
to cover the difference between the
labor cost here and abroad. Those
who, like our opponents. "denounce
protection as robbery" thereby ex
plicitly commit themselves to the
propositi. n that if they w'ere to revise
the tariff no heed wou:ild be paid to
the necessity of meeting this differ
ence between the standards of living
for wage-wo'rkers nere and( ir other
countries: and therefore on this point
their antgonismi to our position is~
fundamental. Here again we ask that
their promises and ours be judged
by what has been done in the imme
diate past. We ask that sober and
sensible men compare the workings
of the present tariff law. and the con
ditions which obtain under it, with
thle workings of the preceding tariff
law of 1894 and the conditions which
that tariff of 1894 helped to bring
about.
We believe in reciprocity with for
eign nations on the terms outlined
in President's McKinley's last speech,
which urged the extension of our
foreign markets by reciprocal agree
ments whenever' they could be made
without injury to American industry
and labor. It is a singular fact that
the only great reciprocity treaty re
cently adopted--that with Cuba--was
finally opposed almost alone by the
representatives of the party whlichi
now states that it favrer reciprocitv.
And here again we ask that the worth
of our words be jud(ged by com
paring their dleeds with ours. On this
Cuban reciproctiy treaty there were
at the outset grave differences of
opinion among ourselves: and the
notable thing in the negotiation and
ratification of the treaty. and in the
legislation which carried it into ei
fect, was the highly practical manner
in which without sacrifice oi princi
ple these differences of opinion were
recnciled. There was no rututre
of a great party, but an excellent
practical outcome, the result of the
harmonious co-operation of two suc
cessive presidents and two successive
congresses. This is an illustration
of the governing capacity which en
titles us to the confidence of the peo
ple not only in our purposes but in
our practical ability to achieve those
purposes. Judging by the history of
the last twelve years, down to this
very month, is 'there justification for
believing that under similiar circian
siances and with similiar initial dif
jerences of opinion. our opponents
would have achieved any practical re
We have already shown in actual
fact that our policy is to do fair and
equal justice to all men. paying no
heed to whether a man is rich or
poor: paying no heed to his race. his
creed, his birthplace.
We recognize the organization of
capital and the organization of labor as
natural outcomes of our industrial-sys
tem. Each kind or organization is to be
favored so long as it acts in a spirit
of justice and of regard for the rights
of others. Each is to be granted the
full protection of the law. and each
in turn is to be held to a strict obed
ience to the law: for no man is above
it and no man is below it. The
humblest individual is 'to have his
rights safe guarded as scrupulously
as those of the strongest organiza
tion, for each is to receive justice, no
more or no less. The problems with
which we have to deal in our modern
industrial and social life are manifold:
but the spirit in which it is necessary
to approach their solution is simply the
spirit of honesty, of courage. and of
common sense.
In inaugurating the great work of
irrigation in the west the administra
tion has been enabled by congress to
take one of the longest strides ever
taken under our government toward
utilizing our vast national domain for
the settler, the actual home-maker.
Every since this continent was dis
covered the need of an Isthmian canal
to connect the Pacific and the At
lantic has been recognized; and ever
since the birth of our nation such a
canal has been planned. At last the
dream has become a reality. The
Isthmian canal is now being built by
the government of the United States.
We conducted the negotiation for its
construction with the nicest and mos7t
scrupulous honor. and in a spirit of
the largest generosity toward those
through whose territory it was to
run. Everv sinister effort which
could be devised by the spirit of fac
tion or the spirit of self-interest was
n:ae in ord-r to defeat the treaty
with Panama and thereby prevent the
consummation of this work. The
construction of the cana! is now an
assured fact: but most certainly it is
unwise ti entrust the carrying out
of so nmomentous a polic. to those
who have endeavored to defeat the
whole undertaking..
Our fo'reign policy has been so
conducted that, while not o'ne of our
inst claims has been sacriticed, our
relati' nu with all foreign natitons are
no w of the most peaceful kind: there
is no t a clo.ud on the horizon. The
last catuse of irritation between us and
any other nation wvas removed by the
settlement of the Alaskan boundary.
In the Caribbean Sea we have made
good our promises of independence
to Cuba. and have proved our asser
tion that our mission in the island
was one of justice and not of self
aggrandizement: and thereby no less
than by our action in Venezuela and
Panama we have shown that the
Monroe doctrine is a living reality,
designed for the hurt of no nation.
but for the protection of civilization
on the western continent, and for 'the
peace of the world. Our steady
growth in power has gone hand in
hand with a strengthening disposi
tion to use this power wi-th strict re
gartd for the rights of others, and for
the cause oi international justice and
goodlwill.
We earnestly desire friendship
with all nations of the new and old
worlds: and we endeavor to place our
relations with them upon a basis of
reciprocal advantage instead of hos
tilitv. We hold that the prosperity
o.f each nation is an aid and not a
hindlance to the prosperity of other
nations. WVe seek interinational amity
for the same reasons that make us
believe in peace within our own h er
dlers: and we seek this peace not be
cause we are afraid or unready'. but be
cause we think that peace is right as
well as advantageous.
A\merican interests in the Pacific
h-n-e rapily rown. American enter
prise has laid a cable across this, the
greatest of oceans. We have proved
in effective fashion that we wish the
Chinese empire well and desire it; in
tegritv and independence.
Our foothold in the Philippines
greatly strengthens our position in
the competition for the rade of the
east: but we are governing the Phil
ippines in the interest of the Philip
pine people themselves. We have al
ready given them a large share in
their government. and our purpose is
i4s increase this share as rapidly as
thev -:ve evidence of increasing fit
nes for the task. The great majority
4f the oicials of the island. whether
eectvve .or appointive. are already na
tive FiliiOf. \We are now )r,,vi(l
in-. for a legi.latve assembly. This
i, the ;-, step to be taken in the
fitnre and it would be eminentlv un
wise W. dare what m:r n:-:t sep
will he mtil this first step has been
taken and the results are manifest.
T,, hav, gone faster than we have
already gone in giving the is
landers a constantly increasing neas
ure of self-government would have
been disastrous. At the present mo
ment to give political independence
to rile islands would result in the im
ne'diate loss of civil rights. personal
liberty and public order. as regards
the mass of the Filipinos, for the ma
jority of the islanders have been
given these great boons by us, and
only keep them because we vigilanly
safe-guard and guarantee them. To
withdraw our government from the
islands at this time would mean to
the average native the loss of his
barely-won civil freedom. We have
established in the islands a govern
ment by Americans assisted by Fili
pinos. We are steadily -striving to
transform this into self-government
by the Filipinos assisted by Ameri
cans.
The principles which we uphold
should appeal to all our countrymen,
in all portions of our country. Above
all they should give us strengch with
the men and women who are the
spiritual heirs of those who upheld
the hands of Abraham Lincoln; for
we are striving to do our work in the
spirit with which Lincoln approached
his. During the seven years tha-v have
just passed there is no duty, domestic
or foreign, which we have shirked:
no necessary task which we have
feared to undertake, or which we
have not performed with reasonable
efficiency. We have never pleaded
impotence. We have never sought
refuge in criticism and complaint in
stead of action. We face the future
with our past and our present a.
guarantors of our promises: and we
are content 'to stand or to fall by the
record which we have made and are
making.
BIG MONUMENT FOR LIARS.
Mounds Erected to Shame Men Who
Were Fabricators While on Earth.
Straits Settlement Budget.
WVhile other nat ions build monui
ments to the memory of men who
have done great and noble dels. the
Dyaks heap u~tp a pile of the branches
of trees in memory of the man who
has uttered a great lie, so that future
generations may know of his wicked
ness and take warning from it.
The persons deceived start the tu
gongbula by heaping up a large num
ber of branches in some conspicuous
spot by the side of the main road.
Every passerby contributes to it. and
at the same time curses the man in
memory of whom it is.
The Dy&cs consider the adding to
a 'tugong bula they must pass a sacred
dty. the omission <f which will mee-t
with supernatural punishment, and
so. however pressed for time a Dyak
may be, he stops to throw on the pile
sonie branches or -twigs.
This custom dates from very an
cient times. Tt is interesting to no
tice that , though the ethics of the
Draks. even at the present day, do
not agree in many points with the
moral code of other and more ad
vancedl races, still from the earliest
ages the Dyaks seem to have agreedl
in coinsidering a lie a most disgrace
ful crime. not only of his own gener
at i n. buit also of pe' ple yet unborn.
A few small branches. a few small
twg and leaves-that is what the
t'inan buta is at hrst. But day by
day it increases in size. Every passer
by adds something ti it. and in a few
reamrs' time it hecom'nes a large antd im
p. 'ing monuitment. raised to memory
of onei who was a liar.
It has often been remarked by
nytrs that any other punishment
would if a man had his choice. be
much preferred to having the tugong
bula put up in his memory. Other
punishments are soon forgotten. but
a tugong bula remains as a testimiony
to a man's untruthfulness for suc
ceeding generations to witness. and
is a standing disgrace to his chiI
dren's children.
l3elieving. as the Dyaks do. in the
efricacy of curses-a curse among
teicm being a lnable offense-it is
easily understood how a Dvak would
dread th< ccumulation tt curse
which w, I nece;sarilv accom'pany
the formation of a tugong btla.
What the Big Order Meant.
WVashington Po;t.
Orville Wright. the flying-machin-'
mian. told a reporter this story:
"A little hv bustled into a gr
ery one day with a memorandum in
his hand.
"1'Hello. Mr. Smith.' he said.
want thirteen pounds of coffee at 32
cents.
V er good.' said the grocer, and
he noted down the sale. and put his
clerk to packing the coffee. 'Any
thing else. Charley?'
'Yes. Twenty-seven pounds of
sugar at 9 cents.7
"'The loaf. eh? And what else?'
" 'Seven and a half pounds of bac
on at 20 cents.'
That is the arrow brand. Go on.'
'Five pounds of tea at go cents;
eleven and a half quarts of molasses
at 8 cents a pint; 'two eight-pound
hams at 21 1-4 cents, and five dozen
jars of picked walnuts at 24 cents a
jar.'
"The clerk bustled about and the
grocer made out the bill.
"'Its a big order," he said. 'Did
your mother tell you to pay for it, or
it is to be charged?'
" 'My mother, said the boy as he
pocketed the neat and accurate bill,
'has nothing to do with this business.
It is my arithmetic lesson, and I had
to get it done somehow.'
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Stop-overs allowed at Western
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R. W. HUNT,
Div. Pass. Agent
Charleston, 5, C..
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at
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In connection with W. & A. R. R. &
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INWRT LMII WL
OF
Newberry, S. C.
grgan.izec i896.
Capital - - - $50g00
Surplus - .- .- 19,500
Paid Stockholders
since organization 21,000
Paid Depositors in
Savings depart
ment since or
ganmzation - - $9,200
A man working by the .day is paid
for the time he puts in at wtork, but
when that man saves a dollar for his
day's labor it works for him nights,
as well as days; never lays off on
account of bad weather and never
gets sick, but goes right on earn
ing him an income. It's a nice
thing to work for money, btut it's
much nicer to have money working
for you Try it-open a savings
account with us and get some money
working for you. Make a deposit
in Uie Savings department today
and let it begin to work for you.
Interest computed at 4 per cent
anur y xand Tnlyx of meh yMea1'