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SHORT MESSAGE STICKS TO TARIFF President Wilson Advises the Extra Session. inAPiiT nrrn nr nrmnilO UKiitm Nttu ui- ntrunmd Chief Executive Says Recent Elections Laid a Duty Upon the Democratic Party, Which Must Lighten the Burden of the People?Says It Would Be Unwise to Move Forward Headiong or With Reckless Haste; That Business Must Be Encouraged, Not Destroyed, but That Everything That Has a Semblance of Privilege Must Be Abolished?Promises Special Message Dealing With Needed Banking and Currency Laws. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I have called the congress together in extraordinary session because a "duty was laid upon the party now in power at the rei/ent elections which it ought to perform promptly in order that the burden carried by the people under existing law may be lightened as soon as possible and in order, also, that the business interests of the country may uot be kept too lonj? in suspense as to what the fiscal changes 0 by American Press Association. PRESIDENT WILSON I are to he to which they will be required to adjust themselves It is dear to the whole country that the tariff duties must be altered They must he changed to meet the radical alteration ( in the conditions of our economic life which the country has witnessed with- | in the last generation While the ! whole face and method of our ir dus- j trial and commercial life were being chauged beyond recognition the tariff | schedules have remained what they j were before the change began or have j moved in the direction they were giv- . en when no iargp circumstance of our industrial development was what it is today. Our task is to square them with the actual facts The sooner that is done the sooner we shall escape i from suffering from the facts and the sooner our men of business will he free to thrive by the law of nature j (the nature of fr^e business" instead of by the law of legislation and arti- i fieial arrangement. How Tariff Has Grown. We have seen tariff legislation wan- ! der very far afield in our day?very far indeed from the field in which our prosperity might have had a normal growth and stimulation. No one who looks the facts squarely in the face or knows anything that lies beneath the j surface of action can fail to perceive : the principles upon which recent tariff legislation has been based We long ago passed beyond the modest notion of "protecting" the industries of the country and moved boldly forward to I the idea that they were entitled to the ; direct patronage of the government. | For a long time?a time so Ions that the men now active in public policy ' hardly remember the conditions that precceded it?we have sought in our tariff schedules to give each group of manufacturers or producer* what they themselves thought that they needed in order to maintain a practically ex- i elusive market as against the rest of the world. Consciously or unconsciously we have built up a set of privileges j and exemptions from competition be-1 hind which it was easy by any. even ! the crudest, forms of combination to organize monopoly, until at last noth- j ing is normal, nothing is obliged to stand the tests of efficiency and economy, in our world of big business, but everything thrives by concerted arrangement. Only new principles of action will save us from a final hard crystallization of monopoly and a complete loss of the influences that quicken enterprise and keep independent energy alive. Must Abolish Privilege. It is plain what those principles must be. VFe must abolish everything that bears even the semblance of privilege or of any kind of artificial advantage end put our business men and pro C ii'd's under the .* ??i: of a conslant necessity to be ? unomical and enterprising, masters of competitive supremacy, better workers and merchants than any in the world. Aside from the duties laid upon articles which we do not and probably cannot produce, therefore, and the duties laid upon luxuries and merely for the sake of the revenues they yield, the object of the tariff duties henceforth laid must be effective competition. the whetting of American wits by ! contest with the wits of the rest of the world. It would be unwise to move toward tnis end neaaiong, witn recsjess uasie ! or with strokes that cut at the very 1 roots of what has grown up among us by long process and at our own invitation. It does not alter a thing to | upset it and break it and deprive it of : a chance to change. It dest^ys it | We must make changes in our fiscal laws, in our ' al system, whose obI ject is develops .it, a more free and wholesome development, not revolution ! or unset or confusion. We must build up trade, especially foreign trade. We ueed the outlet aud the enlarged field ! of energy more than we ever did be, fore. We must build up industry as S well and must adopt freedom in the J place of artificial stimulation only so far as it will build, not pull down. In dealing with the tariff the method by which this may be done wii) be a matI --1 ^ ler ux juujjiueuu caci i;iocu hcuj vj | item. To some not accustomed to the excitements and responsibilities of greater freedom our methods may in some respects and at some points seem heroic, but remedies may be heroic ! and yet be remedies. It is our btisi! l ness to make sure that they are genuine remedies. Our object is clear. If j our motive is above just challenge and only an occasional error of judg; ment is chargeable against us we shall ; be fortunate. Thorouah. but Moderate. We are called upon to render the country a great service iD more matj ters than one. Our responsibility ! should be met, and our methods should be thorough, as thorough as moderate and well considered, based upon the i facts as thev are. and not worked out as if we were beginners. We are to deal with the facts of our own day. with the facts of no other, and to make laws which square with those facts. It is best?indeed, it is necessary?to begin with the tariff. I will urge nothing upon you now at the opening of j your session which can obscure that first object or divert our energies from that clearly defined duty. At a later time I may take the liberty of calling your attention to reforms which should press close upon the heels of the tariff changes, if not accompany them, of which the chief is the reform of our banking and currency laws, but just now J refrain. For the present I put these matters on one side and think only of this one thing?of the changes in our fiscal system which may best serve to open once more the free channels of prosperity to a great people whom we would serve to the utmost and throughout both rank and file. WOO I mow WILSON. The White House. April 8. 1013. INTEREST IN THE SESSION. Fop the First Time In Many Years Democrats Control. Elements in the extra session of congress are unusual. President Wilson has called the great body together at a time when his party has absolute control of every branci" of the government relating to legislation. This has not been the case before in twenty years. During that period of long ago when the Democrats were in power President Cleveland called an extra session, but the conditions were vastly different from now. The extra session under President Wilson is remarkable because the lawmakers to a iarge extent are men of comparatively recent rise to prominence. Because of the fact that the Democratic party is providing a change from Republican rule for the first time in sixteen years great Interest is centered upon th* doings of congress. Virtually a Dew generation or legislators has sprung up. With but a very few exceptions there are no men who figured in congressional doings of twenty years ago who are sharing the responsibilities of the body now. Of only one thing has the public been absolutely certain, and that is that the tariff would be first and foremost among the subjects for work by the ~ i 3 legislators, and that revision aownwaru would be the purpose. The legislators themselves have nor. known just how the revision is to be managed, and it has been well understood that they would not all be pleased over all the details of the ultimate changes. The subject has been thrashed over so often and earnestly that its intricacies have become feared. The ways and means committee, which has had the task of drafting the tentative form of the new tariff measure, has been unable to announce completion of its work in advance of the extra session, but the probability is I that the measure will be taken up : schedule by schedule. The public has beeu led to expect ! that after the tariff is disposed of conI gress will consider currency, the ini come tax, Philippine independence and the Panama tolls questions. Much publicity has been given to the i proposed national income tax. The tax will probably apply only to incomes of | over ?5,000 annually. Certain members of congress hold that this sort of levy : would be confined to but a comparatively small proportion of the public and that the revenue would not be sufficient. They argue that an inheritance tax should be added to insure the needi ed revenue. | T.RA<;?:I>Y AT w:.ij; Pistol Hattle i" Basement of Dry (toods Store.?Two Hov> Dead, Policeman Hurt. Greenville, April 6.?Upon break I ing into the basement 01 a iasnionaoie j dry goods store, shortly after ?> o'clock | this morning, Leonard Smith, 17 \ I years old, son of a prominent and wealthy family, and his 20-year-old companion, Rowley Martin, engaged in a pistol battle with three police men, who had concealed themsulves in the store in anticipation of a burglary, with the result that the young men were shot to death and one of the policemen severely wounded. With five bullets in his body and a wound through his heart, young Smith ran up a flight of stairs to the second floor, where two employees of the firm had stationed themselves in waiting. He was met at the top st-ep by one of the clerks, who shouted to him not to fire again, and passing on by, tearr." a mask from his face with one hand and gripping his pistol with the other sank to the fxoor and expired. Martn ran to the rear of bjseI ment, with a bullet hole chro'jgli his head and another in his hand, and coni cealed himself in a closet A policoi man followed ^osely up^p hi?n and pulled him out", at he r-a time tarring a mask from the lad's face. Mar! tin was placed in the police ambulance i and rushed to the city hospital, where i he expired two hours later. News of the terrible tragedy spread I quickly even at that dead hour of the i night, and Has created a profound sensation throughout the city . At noon in the county court house, in the presenc-e of a thousand or more citizens of all ranks, the coroner conducted a dual inquest into the killing. The two juries returned verdicts asserting that Leonard Smith and,. Rowj ley Martin came to their death from i pistol-shot wounds at the hands of I Policemen H. C. Alexander,A .M. Blair | and J. A. Mayfield. Chief of Police J. E. Holcombe was then deputized to take the officers into custody until tomorrow, when their I commitments will be issued by the cororner. At the same time application for bail for the three policfmen will be made before Judge S. W. G. Shipp, who convenes the spring term of court i of common pleas for Greenville coun| ty tomorrow morning. The inquest was the most dramatic ever held in this count}'. The father of young Smith, overwhelmed with grief and dumbfounded at the tragic occur rencf, appeared at the inquest and coducted the examination of the varij oi's witnesses. City Solicitor B. F. Martin questioned the witness, s on the part of the city. The testimony did not ; develop any mysteries, but was plain ! and to the point. The policemen testified that members 1 of the firm of Hobbs-Henderson notii fied them a week ago that their store j was being robbed. Young Smith was j employed by the firm until a short j while ago. and, the witnesses stated, I suspicion pointed to him. For five I nights one of the policemen concealed I ViifYioolf in tVio hacpmpnt nf thp stnrp J 11X AAA 111 w.os/ WW* V J he said, and each night observed a ! party or parties come to the rear windows of the basement and flash a pocket lantern. Last night, he testified, three policej men were stationed in the basement ! shortly before midnight. It had been i planned to have two members of the ! firm stationed on the second floor of i the store, in charge of the switch gov| erning the electric lighting system. < The three policemen concealed them| selves behind a counter in the base ' m-ent and waited. Saw Lantern Hashed. j At five minutes after 3 o'clock, the I testimony ran, the policemen observed j a pocket lantern being flashed on the I outside of the rear basement windows, j They waited and presently an arm was slipped through a broken glass, and i the padlock holding down the sash un locked. There was a slight commotion as th? boys slipped through the window and ; into the basement. As soon as they had entered, the witnesses testified, the bovs placed masks over their faces. . i took out their pistols and hold the-n in shooting position, and flashing th ir pocket lanterns, advanced toward the j staircase leading to the s cond floor, i As they drew opposite the counter bei hind which the policeman were con"* '* a ^ a1/1 ooirl TVi1. C6cil6Q, 1'UIlCt^illclii A>iaj nciu, ocuu i j nesses, arose and called to the boys, i "Hold up your hands, boys." Wthout answering the challenge, it I was testified, the boys opened fire first I Thev fired two shots, it was testified, * j and then the three policemen, realizing | th-eir danger, opened fir>\ A total oi j fiften shots was fired. An examination I of the revolvers showed that young j Smith had fired once. Martin twice and j the policeman twelve times to?- ther. | During The shooting the clerks up! stairs, hearing the terrible commotion, j throw the el .ctrc switch and the darl> j basement was flood d with light. A RARE ! = Please look over tl are selling c Locks Hinges I Well Pulleys Well Chains Wire and Cut Nails Horse and Mule Shoes Plow Stocks I Plow Points?all kinds and Hoes, etc. Also have just work shirts, shoes ed for by E. A. Gr I sell at a bargain. We beg to call 3 distributors, cotton rows. WE HAVI Be sure to see John Deer Ni J. T. MAI ? ?rCTHMIM?BBH? Pains in tlie Stomacli. I i I Tf you continually complain of pains in the stomach, your liver or your ! kidneys are out of order. Neglect may ! lead to dropsy, kidnev trouble, diai betes or Bright's disease. Thousands ! recommend Electric Bitters as the | very best stomach and kidney medicine made. H. T. Alston, of Raleigh, N. C., who suffered with pain in the stomach and back, writes: "My kidneys were deranged and my liver did ?->< % + ^ *>10-1-1+ T o 11 ff -Yiimli Vint iiVL >y U1 rv jl ouuv1v/u uiuvm, wuv Electric Bitters was recommended | and I improved from the first dose. I now feel like a new man." It will improve you, too. Only 50c and $1.00 Recommended by all druggists. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. By C. C. Schumpert, Esquire, Probate Judge. WHEREAS, W. L. Schumpert hath made suit to me, to grant him letters of administration of the estate of and effects of J. J. Schumpert, THESE ARE THEREFORE to cite and admonish all and Singular the kindred and creditors of the said J. J. Schumpert, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Newberry, S. C., cn Aoril 17, next after publication, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, j if any they have, why the said admin- j istration should not be granted. GIVEN under my hand, this 2nd day of April, Anno Domini, 1913. C. C. Schumpert, t t> v r ! ?J J. . . v/. I :j I 3IKUCWNTIU; STOCK FOR SALE, j . By virtue of the authority given, me; fl i in a d- ed of assignment from Wiliiam t | P. Alltn, and under the authority of j a resolution passed at a meeting of j I the creditors of the said William P. I 'Allen, 011 April 2, 1H13. I will sell at I ! Chappells. S. C., on Monday, the 21st | i day of April, 1913, at 10 o'clock a. m., j I : the mercantile stock and fixtures of | 1 ! the said William P. Allen, situate in ' the store room, recently occupied by r the said William P. Allen, the same to be sold to highest bidder for cash. The stock of goods iventories $t>75.86, r'and fix tunes $150.75. The said inj ventory may be seen by calling on the ; undersigned at his office at Xew'oerry, .' S. C. ! Eug- ne S. Blease. Assignee ad Agent of Creditors, j 4-4-3t-ltaw. j? 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