The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, July 23, 1913, Image 6

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EFENDS MEASUBI SENATOR TIDIAS REPUDIATE! CEIaRES AINST TafIfF WILL USE NO FANH Colorado Senator Delivers Shar Speech to Senate, Referring to Wal Street as the "Monte Carlo of.Fin ance"-John Sharp Williams Als Takes a Hand. Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Col orado, and member of the Senat financ committee, in a speech in th, Senate Tuesday defended the Wilsoi tariff bill of 1893 from responsibilit: -for the financial panic which follow ed it and charged former Presiden Cleveland and the New York bank with conspiracy to precipitate a cal amity in order to force repeal of th Sherman silver act. Though denouncing the Wilson bil of that time as "a most miserabl pretense of tariff reform," he at tempted to clear its skirts and in th course of a vitriolic address brande the New York stock exchange as th most prodigious gambling hell of an age. Referring to threats now beini made that "the enactment of the Un derwood bill into law will be a con -gressional sentence of death to bus ness prosperity, Senator Thomas re iterated his charge of the banker plot to bring on the panic of 1893. After reviewing its history he said "There can be no denial of th origin and purpose of this fright! calamity. Mr. Clevfland and th New York banks conspired to wrec! the progress and prosperity of th nation that they might be rid of a Anwelcome law. "The Wilson law was the most mis -rable pretense.of tariff reform eve jlaced upon our statute books.' as eviserated by the Senate, agree to by the House only because its lon and disgraceful sojourn through th npper chamber had disgusted th people with the very thought of tai fit. reform, and repudiated by th president as a thing fraught wit: party perfidy, and national dishonoi But wretched as it was 'it ca: 1iad 'not guilty' to the charge c bringing dfhaster to the country." He reviewed at length the histor n the Cleveland administration c this effort to repeal the silver bi and the manipulations of Wall stre( and other bankers to bring on trot ble In order to force the issue. Describing the New York stock e3 hange as one of the - agencies I bringing on the panic, Senatc Thomas referred to it as "the Mont Carlo -of American finance, the mo -prodigious gambling hell of this a any preceding age." "It is the swindler's paradise," h *continued. "It is a huge vampir Zthat sucks theblood from the al terles of industry. It Is an uninco: porated, irresponsible monstrosity. Is beyond the pale of laws. Its vots ries' pay it homage without tran' gressing any command, for therei nothing like it in heavn, on earth c 'In the waters under the earth. It the antithesis of fair dealing an common honesty. -It has sanctifle speculation.~ It Is the most pernu *lus influence in the land." Predicting the re-enactment of n such trouble at this time, the seni tor concluded: "If disaster, whose coming is no' so freely predicted, shall overtake r - in the near future, It will be cause -not by the enactment of the pendin revision bill, but by the same Is fluences which produced it before. do not say theywillldolit. I do nc -thinrkthey wHlldolit. They have n partnership with the administrator -That has been dissolved by the pec ple.** - When Senator Thomas conclude Senator Chilton of West Virginia hai read from the record a speech mad in the Senate by Senator La Follett during debate on the wool ,bill I 1911, in which the Wisconsin senato -said anybody with any knowledge o the subject knew that the Wilson bil had nothing to do with the panic c 1893. "I had that read," said Senato -Chilton, "because Senator Thoma has dug the grave of this argumeni -Senator La Follette erected the tomb -stone, and I wanted him represente at the obsequies." Senator Smoot took the floor "There Is no doubt In my mind now, -he declared, "but what the passag of the Wilson bill was the means o -bringing to this country a great dea of the suffering that came to th< 'working people of this country a that time and If conditions were thb same now as then, I di not doub that the passage of the present tar1 bi will bring the same result." Senator Williams of Mississip13 said the people at last had found on~ that the Republican argument tha the Wilson bil brought on the grea - panic was a lie. "It took a long time for them t find out," suggested' Cenator Warrei "Yes, because there were liars ge lng about the land preacnn thi * le," said Senator Williams. "Ther never has been in history an orgas Ized lie that could not make an im pression, but now the people knoi this argument was an organized lie. FRENCHE WANT AID. Ask U. S. to Assist in Developing Their Smokeless Powder. War department officials have beel placed in an embarrassing position b: a request from agents of the Frenc1 government for assistance of the de partment's ordnance bureau in per fecting the smokeless powder no' used by the French army and navy A series of unexpected disastrou explosions in the Frenoh magazine aboard ship and ashore Is said to hay led to this request. which is quite u: usual in view of the consistent effort made by most nations to protect th secret of their powder preparations. Against Veto Power. A proposition to give North Care *ina's governor the veto power -Wa e lst Thursday might when the coa pt~utltonal tommittee defeated tb mearnre, SELLS COTTON SLOWLY PIAN THROUGH WHICH TEXA FARMERS MADE MONEY. Peter Radford, President Texas Far mers' Union, Outlines Plan Used to Prevent Gutting of Market. In a recent address Mr. Radford, President of the Texas Farmers' Union, said: I want to speak a word to the far mers and bankers of this nation through the press on the plan of co operation in marketing cotton which has been adopted in Texas, and It Is one which can be easily extended to all states and to all products. If the a plan is not readily adjustable to con ditions beyond Texas, then I submit the spirit of co-operation as worthy of emulation by the agricultural and - financial interests of every communi t ty in the United States. * In Texas cotton is the money crop, - and the problem of marketing it In a telligently has absorbed the attention of the leaders of economic thought I for half a century. The crop is oft e times mortgaged and debt is such a hard taskmaster that the farmers, in & order to escape it, rushes to the mar I ket with his products and down goes B the price and the anxiety for the an V nual pay-day causes many others to seek an early market. g. To relieve the pressure, the bank - ers are advancing the farmers $35 - per bale at 6 per cent., payable when - the cotton is sold. The title to the - cotton rests with the farmer, and he can sell when he pleases, and there is no longer occasion for disposing of his crop on a weak or glutted mar ket. There is a strong demand in Texas for money at 8 and 10 per cent. on terms to suit the lender, and an offer to lend the farmers on de mand at 6 per cent. Is'a concession on the part of the bankers which the farmers appreciate. I estimate that it will require approximately $40, r 000,000 to hold the distress cotton off the market, and this amount the bankers have made available to lend on cotton stored in our warehouses. It will require a much smaller sum e to handle th4 business, as the money the farmer borrows will be paid on e his debts or spent in his home town, and most of it will be immediately redeposited in the bank available for lending again. We have 350 ware houses in the interior and adequate storage facilities are provided at the ports to take care of all cotton which can not be accommodated in the in terior. S A Dollar With a Soul. It is refreshing in this strenuous commercial life to find so many dol lars in Texas with souls. When a dollar is approached to perform a task that does not yield the highest r rate of interest, we usually hear the e rustle of the eagle's wings as it soars upward; when a dollar is requested r to return at the option of the bor rower, it usually appeals to the God e dess of Liberty for it contractural erights; when a dollar is asked to ex pand in volume to suit the unknown trequirements of industry, It usually talks solemnly of its redeemer, but Ssoul material has entered into the bank vaults of Texas, and rate, time sand volume have a new basis of reck r oning in so far as the ability of the s banker permits him to co-operate in dpromoting the ,business of farming. Constructive Banking. Many bankers in Texas have for several years been lending money to farmers without compensation or at a very low rate of interest to buy blooded livestock, build silos, etc., and no usurer who ever bowed at the shrine of a dollar received as large returns on the investment as these ' progressive bankers, who made loans without interest to uplift productive t industry. The spirit of the builder which actuated the bankers in these smaller transactions is now extended into the financing of the cotton crop on a mammoth scale and returns will be correspondingly increased. The time was when money loaned on such a basis would severely test the sanity of the banker; such a transaction would pain the directors rand shock them like a blow in the face. A cashier who would dare to Icast bread upon waters and it did not return .buttered side up In time for annual dividends would have to give rway to a more capable man. The rplan does not necessarily mean that the bankers are getting any better, or that the milk of human kindness is being Imbibed more free by our fin anciers. It Indicates that the bank ers are getting wiser, becoming more competent citizens. The vision of the builder Is crowding out the spirit of the pawnbroker wherever it occurs. IA light has been turned on a new world of usefulness where the vermin of greed and avarice can never enter and where the germs of business Sgenius flourish. The bankers have Salways been liberal city builders, but they are now building industry. God Almighty's Noblemen. t The work has had its hardships t and has met with such obstacles as t all progressive movements invariably encounter. It will have to break the o shackles of shiftless habits of many ifarmers, melt the adamant heart of -many bankers and it has become the s target of ridicule and suspicion of the e near-sighted. - It is the custom in Texas and other - Southern state's to market 65 per r cent. of the crop the first three Smonths of harvest season, which re sults In weakening and oftimes glut ting the market. At least two-thirds of the octton farmers are tenants. and there is approximately an $80, ; o00,000-dollar mortgage against their crop each year. due when the cotton is picked, and the farmer is i forced to meet his obligations. The r bankers will now advance him as i much as $35 per .bale on his option. - it until the price is satisfactory and - make a glut easily avoidable. The e consumption of cotton Is distributed .evenly throughout the year, and it B should be marketed as the spinners s demand It. There are so many fao. e tors that enter Into fixing the price - that no one influence can be satisfac s torily segregated and reduced to a s cash basis, but in my estimation the slow marketing of cotton will in crea~se the farm price at least fom 2 1-2 to 5 cents per pound net over .the price obtained under present a methods, making a minimum net . saving to the farmer of $50,000.000. e It is new up to the farmers to take dvantag, of the facilities offered. MULHALL'S STORY SENATE CO1IITTEEHIEA13 TALE Of HIS ACTIVITIES WORKED IN ELEO1NS Lever's Name on a Memorandum of Congressmen Which He Was Try ing to Have Knocked Out, Because They Worked Against Interest of Manufacturers' Association. Martin M. Mulhall, professed field agent, strike-breaker, lobbyist and political worker for the National As sociation of Manufacturers, Monday and Tuesday continued his remark able story before the Senate lobby in vestigation committee. In the two days he identified more than 1,000 letters, telegrams and scraps of mem oranda, with hardly more than a glance. He remembered apparently the first names of congressmen, of lesser politicians, of labor leaders and underlings, of secretaries to con gressmen of all the men he had work ed with through a year of most active campaigning in many parts of the country. His performance seemed so remarkable to lawyers present that they sat intently watching the wit ness and listening closely to the tales and every word that the witness ut tered in the brief cross-examination that accompanied some of them. . Mulhall's- correspondence told of the efforts to re-elect Former Con gressman Littlefield of 'Maine and de feat the present representative from that district, Daniel J. McGillicuddy. Littlefield was to be supported by the National Association of Manufactur ers because of his stand against labor unions. Mulhall said on cross examination that he had been told that $60,000 was spent in that cam paign. Some of the letters read earlier in the day showed that Mulhall had been known to the late Vice-President James S. Sherman, who in 1907 was chairman of the national Republican congressional committee. In a letter he wrote on July 11, 1907, to Mr. Sherman, Mulhall said he was going West and would call upon James S. Watson of Indiana, and that he intended to look up mem bers of the organization in that dis trict and get them to do some ac tive work for Watson. "I will pledge you before starting there," the letter said, "that we will be able to land Mr. Watson again in the next House." On July 2, Mr. Sherman, on papel of the Republican committee, wrote Muhall as follows: "My Dear Colonel: I am glad that you are still interested in political as well as economical work, and I am glad to bespeak for you to our friend! a cordial reception. "While you are not employed by the Republican congressional com mittee, nor were you employed dur ing the last campaign, you did rendei us very material assistance, and found you at all times reliable, trust worthy and effective." In a subsequent letter Mulhall wrote to Shermtn: "I have just re turned from the West and I feel that I have put the ball a-rolling in In diana so that it will help Mr. Watson to renomination." He told Mr. Sher man also of a "report of the commit tee on tariff and reciprocity." The witness thought about $22,000 had 'been raised in Indiana for the Watson campaign. and a letter read just before adjournment Monday night told of "three millionaires" in the State, one of whom was willing to spend $100,000 to defeat Watson. The letter did not identify the mil lionaires and the committee did not ask who they were. A feature of Tuesday's hearing was the presentation of a memoran dum which purported to be a list of congressmen whom former Congress man James Watson of Indiana pur posed to "knock out". Among the names on the list was that of Lever of South Carolina. Senator Reed introduced the mem orandum which, Mulhall said, was a "black list" of congressmen which, Mulhall thought, had been prepared by Congressman Watson. The memorandum ran: "Watson: Here's a list for you to knock out." It included among others Messrs. Candler, Mississippi; Lever, South Carolina: Beall, Texas; Stephens, Texas; Humphreys, Mississippi; Car te, Oklahoma; Hull, Tennessee; Burgess, Texas; Henry, Texas. "I am under the impression the list was made by Watson," said Mul hall. "I am not sure; I would not want to swear to it. "Two names on the list, Clark of Missouri-Speaker Clark-and Gard ner of Massachusetts, make me think it was a list by Watson. I know they were on the blacklist." Fred C. Schmedtman, secretary to President Van Cleave, of the Nation al Association of Manufacturers, wrote to Mulhall on Septeniber 5, 1907, bringing in the name of Mr. Taft, then secretary of war. "If we could only afford to have a worker like you In every State it would be up to us to name the next president. Since all the efforts made are only in the line of fairness, pa triotism and good Americanism, we are sure to succeed and we are sure to be quite a power in good man's politics. "You saw, of course, where Sec retary Taft referred to the National Association of Manufacturers at great length in his Columbus address. If we now succeed in getting the council plans thoroughly established (and this we will no doubt, do at the next meeting on Septeinber 23) then our power for good will grow right along until next year during the pres idential campaign we will be a factor of national importance that can not be overlooked." Senator Reed wanted to know more about the National Association of Manufacturers tariff and reciproc ity activities. Mulhall said the let ters would show better than he could tell what It had done in these mat tars of legislation. He added: "The Mtonal Association of ManufatuLr ers created the tariff commission." Answering a command to held up his hands Arthur Eedgins, of Amity. Ark., shot (Constable Mforgag Gal'nd twicen ug tho hedy. WANT CLEAN PRIMY PEOPLE WITH A RIGHT TO VOTE SHOULD HAVE EDUCATION. A John J. McMahan Discusses the Dis enfranchisement of the Unfit and Advocates Beneficient Work. "The primary Is the real election." In discussing the principles that G should regulate the suffrage we must recognize that what is right for the general election is right for the pri mary-and far more important, be cause the primary is the whole thing. In most States an error in the pri mary may be corrected in the gen eral election. Not so with us. In a State with two real .parties, if a par- a ty falls below a certain standard to o the quality of its nominees it risks s, defeat at the polls; the primary is b but a preliminary for the real con- c test in the final (general) election. a With us there has been no such nec- : essity or stimulus to offer only our 1 best at the general election, and a a mistake in the primary is beyond re pair. Hence proper regulations of b the right to vote and proper safe- a guards and corruption are more e needed In our primary than in our general election. Yet there are men among us with such perverted views b as to think that the constitution and I, laws of the State can have no rela- U tion to the primary. 1 In arguing the merit of the "lit eracy" with alternative property test we have seen that the men who are excluded can not complain. They are offered free education, and are urged to learn to read, for their own good and for the good of the State. The only fault to be found with this test Is that it admits too many-it does not bar all the undeserving. The vicious are sometimes very Intelli gent, and in high places. Among the legal, and the Democratic, voters may be skulkers and deserters of the time of war and scalawags of the period of the "prostrate" State. Even the constitutional exclusion of all con victed of infamous crimes fails to cut out all of the infamous. Many have escaped the law, though as guilty as if convicted, and many who do not violate the law are nevertheless of bad hearts,.hostile to the public wel fare-many that sit in the seats of the mighty. No rule can be framed by which all such can be disfranchis ed. Every human device is imper- f fect. The constitution of 1895 enume rates certain crimes 'jincluding "crimes against the election laws") and provides that persons convicted of any of them shall be disqualified from registering and voting. But our primary welcomes all such-if white. This prohtaitory provision sh6uld be enforced in the primary and the list of disfranchising crimes enlarged. It was made with special reference to "negro crimes" and includes crude and primitive crimes and will catch few of the bad white men. We now have some laws against bribery and C corrupt practices in the primary, butC how few prosecutions! Even a mod-S erate enforcement of these laws with C exclusion of the convicts from the primary, would have ridded the State of thousands of voters that now are C bought every two years or oftener But we need more far-reaching pro visions to catch all professional cor ruptionists, a new code of criminal laws to provide adequate punishment including disfranchisement for crimes that have attained new signi ficance in their bearing 'as a part of organized evil. There Is no worse in fluence than that of keepers of gain bling dives and blind tigers. These make politics an essential element of their business and would be hit In ~ the vitals it disfranchised upon con viction, or upon second conviction. c Higher up there is need of similar 1 penalties for improper lobbying and ~ corrupt control of publicity and oth- ~ er more refined methods of modern ~ wrong-doing more pernicious than ~ the plain old crimes. But every uplifting agency should be utilized by the State to cure all such sores 6n the ,body politic. Even if the line of demarcation between z voter and non-voter could be drawn e perfectly to coincide with the line be- a tween the fit and the unfit, it would 8 still be the duty of the State by all d possible remedial measure to seek to 1 save the deficient from themselves- D to remove those defects of knowledge r and of character which are obstacles S to universal suffrage, and a blot on a civilization-a mar to that general b welfare which Is the object of goy- f einent. It should be the fixed pol- ' icy of a democracy to eradicate the z shortcomings which call for the dis- 'l franchisement of any man and to t train all to higher fitness for the soy- E ereign power and responsibility of t sharing in the government. All the forces of civilization, all the a agencies of enlightened government i~ should be directled toward removing b the causes of crime and of low morals c and raising the average of worth and E efficiency-making all citizens better s men and women. In a monarchy the f8 hear-apparent to the throne is edu- t: cated with the greatest care to fit him il to rule. His mental and moral train- I ig, his physical well-being are the c concern of the nation. No expense is V too great to obtain for him the ,best c Instruction and guidance in the years t. of character moulding. In a democ racy the same principle of statesman- p ship dictates the most careful train- a ing for all the people-the sovereign F people from whom the government .i proceeds and to whom alone it is re- c sponsible. Where the people rule, t each man is a part and proportion of r the sovereign power and will. Igno- e rance and incompetence, even in j small degree, must mar the vision p and warp the judgment that steer the o State. Universal education Is one of the v processes for betterment-and prob- - ably the most fundamental. But it p is not all by any means. Promotion e of general conditions of health is an- b other-removal of malaria, consump- * tion. drunkenness and unnamable q contaminating diseases that transmit p their poison to children to even the I1 third and fourth generations. Fur- 11 ther, there should be ineulcation of tV kno*7kdge of better care of health. by wholesome food, properly eooked; by plentiful use of fresh air and pure c water and praeutions to keep these t< pure at all tinte; by efficient farming , and other 'work, to make the neces- u sary income 'with which to supply c food, clothing and homes: by restric- s eezn for nzen in certain employ j ..,+n- ; msyineingr sufficient tf1ge for iILD- .RIDE !IN AID VlATOR CARRIED OUT TO SEA BY A RUNAAY BALLOON THRILLING EXERIENUI ust of Wind Tears Rudderless Diri. gible From Hands of Men Holding It, and Youth Has Narrow Escape -Rescued, Nearly Exhausted, Af. ter Jumping Into Sea. After a hair-raising flight In a run way dirigible balloon over a sectior E New York city and Long Islanc >und, Frank M. Gay, an aviator whc as just turned his majority, was res ued from the waters of the sound b3 motorboat just as he was about tc [nk, exhausted by his twenty-five iinute struggle to keep himsel: float. The dirigible In which Gay mad( Is adventurous trip was a new one nd the youthful flyer was makinj rperiments with it on the New Jer ?y side of the Hudson when a stroni ust of wind eblew the ropes from th ands of the five men who were hold ig It. Released, the balloon sho pward and drifted toward the ocean o one paying any attention to I ntil Gay succeeded in bringing hi raft down near the ground whil assing over the golf links on th [oward Gould estate, Several of the employees of thi lace were on the golf links at thi Lme, and their interest In the strang raft was doubled when they hear( he man on the framework shout: "Come on out to sea and get me h boat." The men in the -party jumped int4 wo motorboats and gave chase to thi eeing air craft. They succeeded Ii )cating Gay and rescuing him jus a he was about to succumb to ex austion. The dirigible consisted of a ga ag sixty feet long, containing 7,004 ubic feet of gas, to which was sus ended by cords a light framework o amboo, fifteen feet long. It wa: rithout engine, rudder or propeller ay had planned to use the cigar haped dirigible In exhibition races n the afternoon of his unexuectei ght he had gone over the cliffs t iake some tests to see what amoun f ballast was needed to equal thi reight of a motor. The big gas bal ras caught in a sudden gust of wind urling to the ground the men wh4 rere holding it with ropes, and th alloon shot over the bluffs. At first the suction of the air dre he balloon down to the tree tops an he roofs of houses. Gay, desirou f saving the balloon, threw out som allast. Then the craft began to ris ke a shot and to make a beeline fo ong Island sound. As he passeq ver New York city the heated al aused rise still further until, he as rts, he must have reached a heigh f 10,000 feet. Then the balloon began to settle nd Gay had to let out gas. With th, raft going at. a rate of about fort: illes an hour and the framewori ilting and spinnIng, Gay declares hi ad his hands full and failed to real s his predicament until he neare< he Gould estate on Sands Point 'here he called for help. The balloon soon dropped afte: assing the golf links and shot int he water with a splash. Then I rose to a height of fifty feet an4 ropped again with great speed. .Af er this happened fifteen times o: lore, Gay declares, he made up hit ind lt-was a case of being drowne< r letting the balloon go. and he eu ose, dropping Into the .sea. Hi warn for twenty-five minutes wit] he amboo frame ,before rescuer rrived. Gay is twenty-one years o ge, a native of Newark, 0., and ha: een in the flying business five years Muckraking Sometimes Necessary. In interested quarters charges o inckraking are ,brought against Gov rnor Suizer of New York because ii series of papers he is exposing the raft, which, he says, is so stupen ous in the Empire state. Muckrak ig is not a pleasant job by an3 leans, but there would be no muck iking if there were no nmuck to rake upposing, therefore, that condition: re as Governor Sulzer says, the lame should not -be placed on hin yr using the rake but upon those 'ho by reason of their wrong-doing ake it necessary to use the rake 'hat is on the well known principli Lt it is not on the nation tha akes it necessary to declare Wa: aat the blame should lie. How far, if at all, conditions are a: lieged by Governor -Sulzer certain I that the past history of the capito uilding at Albany and other matter: onnected with New York politic: lake one believe that where there i: a much smoke there must ,be som< re. The governor may not havy iken the best course in exposing thl iquity, but that is a little matter very true citizen in the country wel mes he uncovering of corruptiol herever It may exist because It I: ly by such action a better state o aings can be brought about. Of course the operation Is no leasant, any more than the stirrini f the water of a foul pool is pleasant ut if the water is stirred by the in action of a stream of pure water t< Leanse the pool one can stand the mporarily bad smell. So if the stir .ng up of corruption Is not for selfisi ids but to cleanse matters by the in action of a stream of honesty ani urity one may welcome the passing offensive odor 'because he looks fo: -ard to the better conditions tha 'ill result. hysical and mental rest and recup cation from grinding physical labor: y even interfering with the scale of -agee In certain industries and re uiring that every worker shall bI aid at least a living wage-a living icoie according to a minimum liv ig u.gder healthful improving condi All these things enter into the 'ork of the State in preparing it! tizens to be voters--to have the in ,llfgence and the monality to kno's hat is good for *bg country and tC se their individual ballots for th4 amon good rather than for the :hemes of the selfish. John 3. MeMahan. mbia July 21. SOUTH USES OVER HALF COTTON STATES CONSUME MORE BALES THAN NORTH. Report of Census Bureau for Month of June Shows What Sections Use Most Cotton. Cotton consumed in the United States during June amounted to 466, 914 running bales, compared w' 510,416 bales in May and 503,607 bales in April, the census bureau an' nounced Monday in its monthly re port. Cotton on hand June 30 was: In manufacturing establishments 1,296, 657 bales, and in independent ware houses 611,519 bales, compared with 1,505,257 bales in manufacturing es tablishments on May 31 and 1,746, 611 bales on April 30; 938,809 bales in independent warehouses on May 31 and 1,355,785 bales on April 30. Imports were 8,023 bales, compar ed with 13,820 bales in May and 20, 732 in April. Exports were 223,921 bales, compared with 468,929 balec during May and 534,581 bales during April. Statistics for cotton growing States shows: Cotton consumed during June 243, 263 bales; cotton on hand Jun( 30, in manufacturing establishments 502,367 bales, in independent ware houses 491,250 bales. Active spin dies 11,982,685. Statistics for all other State: show: Cotton consumed during June 223,661 bales; cotton on hand Jun( 30, in manufacturing establishment 794,290 bales, and In Independen1 warehouses, 120,269 bales; activ spindles 18,069,645. Consumption during the month In cluded 15,843 bales of foreign cottoi and 25,396 bales of linters.' Of the cotton hand June 30, there were 90, 622 bales of foreign cotton and 81, 353 bales of linters in manufactuding establishments and 3,129 bales o foreign cotton and 40,877 bales o linters In independent warehouses Active spindles in the United State during June numbered 30,057,91( compared with 30,559,943 operatet during May. Of the imports those from Egyp1 were 6,632, bales; Peru 572 bales; China 617 bales, and from all othe countries 216 bales. Cotton exported to the Unite Kingdom during June was 88,900 .bales; to Germany 60,804 bales; t< France 7,93.5 bales; to Italy 27,07' bales and to all other countries 39, 199 bales. The College Boy. The president of the Chicago Asso ciation of Commerce, Howard Elting seems to have a .better opinion of th4 college bred youth than most busi ness men profess to have. After de tailing his faults and virtues he get this trial balance: "The new col lege boy is adaptable to the place hi seeks, and his problem of adjustmen is on the way to solution." The Richmond Virginian comment ing upon this statement says: "Trans lated, this means that a college edu cation teaches the boy to meet emer gencies and to adjust himself to hi: surroundings-enables him to learn more quickly what is to be done ani how to do it. Following are the neg ative traits of character, whicl weighed against-the positive give Mr Elting's trial balance: Impatience to succeed. Lacking in persistence. Tendency to snobbishness. Lacking in industry. Lacking in thrift. Lacking in technical training (has more than old collegetype). Lacking In appreciation of time. Easily discouraged. Set off against this there were these "positive" traits: Has more concentration. Knows where and how to look foi Information. Reasons from one step to another Is more adaptable. Is more conscientious. Has keener appreciation of the duties of life and its responsibilities Able to solve more difficult pro,b lems. Has higher ethical and monal standards. Has larger view of life. The Day of Large Shiips. The Imperator is the last word Ix ocean steamships, but how long Il may continue to be the last word is uncertain. In size, structure, equip ment and furnishings it would seen: to the average man that nothing car excel the Imperator. The descrlp tion of her state rooms, saloons palm rooms and other convenience! and luxuries reads like a chapter oui of the Arabian Nights. And yet ix all likelihood the Imperator will bs as much out-distanced within the next three years as she has out-dis tanced the ships which before he: advent held the palm. Probably ths greatest advance will be in size and structural efficiency, for other thing! being equal the larger the boat th( cheaper relatively it can be sailed and the greater the security for the passengers. A few years ago some people who posed as experts said thal it would be impossible for ships o1 any greater length to be constructed because, so they said, such a boal would break its back. They seemed to forget that the water bouys upa ship evenly from stem to stern, if any limit is reached in the size of a shi; It will be due to insufficient harbor age and dockage. Toss Coins to See Which Will Die. In love with the -same girl. Charles Robinson and Frank Broncho fiipped pennies to see which one should have his throat cut while he slept. Robin son lost, and Broncho cut his throal while they were sailing out of Mobile. Negro's Head Deflects Bullet. A bullet fined at Geo'rce W'ern. K.ss City negro, g1weied on his forehad and wounded Mrs. Edward T. Smith, sixcty years old, who wa passing In a street car Wern mon-. ped his head an d went en celebrating Denver a Market for Ants. Denver has shipped our 30 m R' Iants within the last two WA The Insects are used by i ara scentiUt to demonstrate +u<~i ness of a new powder be has mnade for SENATE SITS ON BRISTOW HE HOPS ON BRYAN AND HAS HIS OWN RECORD CRITICISED. Bristow Resolution of Inquiry is Beat, Making the Author Very Sore -Some Interesting Accusations. Secretary Bryan's policy of lectur ing in his vacation time involved the Senate in a ,bitter controversy Fri day. It began when Senator Bris tow, ignoring the defeat of his reso lution directed at Mr. Bryan's action, insisted upon being heard in severe criticism of the Cabinet officer. Before the debate ended, charges and countercharges between Sena tors on the two sides of the chamber had brought the Senate to a high pitch of excitement. Senator Ashurst produced an old letter of Senator Bristow's, which he declared indicat ed that Mr. Bristow in 1906 had been perfectly willing to take a Fed eral position and devote only part of his time to it. Senator Bristow retorted with the charge that Senator Ashurst had spent over $100 of public funds send ing private telegrams that should have been paid for from his own pocket, a charge denied by Senator Ashurst, but which Senator Bristow agreed to prove by producing orig inal telegrams that had been paid for out of Senate funds. From these personal accusations. the debate went into the general field of public lecturing and writing, and Democratic Senators called at. tention to the Chautauqua platform work of Senator Bristow and many others, and to the newspaper writing that Senator Bristow had done during the last Baltimore Convention. The Kansas Senator emphatically declar ed that he had never neglected the duties of his office. "I am not on trial here," he said. 'I simply want to show that people who live in glass houses should nol throw stones," said Senator James. Senators Bristow, Townsend, Fall and others attacked in strong Ian guage the action of Secretary Bryar in delivering paid lectures during a time when they claimed public ques tions required his close attention tc the affairs of the State department. The Bristow resolution introduced on Tuesday, calling upon the Presi dent to state what salary would se cure all of Secretary Bryan's time was tabled by a vote of 41 to 29, as soon as it came up Friday, all the Democrats and Senator Borah and Senator Poindexter opposing it. A prepared attack upon Secretary Bryan's action by Senator Town. send, and an extensive defence b3 Senator Lewis, illumined the oratory of the day. Senator Townsend In sisted the example of the Secretary in selling his time for private gain when it had already been sold to the Government, was unwholesome fol the entire country. Senator Lewis asked when the Senator from Kansas and the Senatoi from Michigan had become so "subt ly inoculated with a comprehensior -of the dangers" of a public officia] spending his vacation addressing the people on questions of vital interest to them. He said it could not have been when a Republican Presideni .was campaigning at the expense of the taxpayers. "Wrhere was the voice of protesi when a post office official turned him self into a great political machine tc elect another public official to the Presidency?'' he inquired. "Where was the voice when Major Ray aban doned his post in the army to engage in political work in Chicago for Presidential candidate? Why wer' the voices of the Senators sileni then? Was it because those met were not Democrats? Where was the voice when officials of previous ad ministrations were speculating or the stock market and on tariff bills?' DOUBLE KILLTNG IN FLORIDA. Father and His Daughter's Sweet. heart Fight Fatal Duel. Montbrook, a small place north 01 'Dunnellon, Fla., was the scene of a doilJe killing Friday, when, in a pis tol duel between T. D. Howard, 01 Lakeland, and E. W. King. of Mont brook, both men were killed. The shooting occurred at eleven o'clock and was the result of an al leged equarrel over King's daughter, to whom Howard had been 'payinge attentions, and to which, it is alTeged, the father objected. Both began shooting ot the same time and each killed the other Instantly. Howard went to Montbrook about three years ago from Maxwell. N. C., and was a flagman on the Atlantic Coast Line Railway. He had no relatives there. Teaching Should he Practical. Dr. Leonard P. Ayers, speaking in Philadelphia the other day, said that not long ago he and his staff had been asked to examine the school cur -riculum of a certain large New Eng land town. He discovered that most of the children dropped out of that school at the seventh grade. Prob ing further, he found that the course in arithmetic in that grade dealt al most wholly with the various tables of measurement. He took ten repre sentative problems from this course and submitted them to ten business and professional executives in New York city, men whose salaries range from $3,000 to $15,000 a year. The highest mark was scored by the sec retary of the well known propagan dist society in social work. His grade was 25. There were several zeroes. Two of the problems were concerned with buying and selling paper in bulk. One of thle men who took the examination was the editor of a magazine and another was the head of a book-publishing house. Both failed on these two problems. They declared that the terms em plov ed in the problem had not been in current use for fifty years. Eaeh of the ten men explained his low grade by saying. "I learned that stoff once. hut I haent had an-: nee for It since." Tety hanpily in these days people are not often mlled upon to die for their counr. but the call is impera tive on all to live for their country. And in so livIng lel the fact be em phasized that honor and honesty are as necessary in the Individual as in +1M affairs of state, that, in fac't, a nainnl Is inst what its people make it. CALLS MULHALL A FRAUD CANDIDATE FOR HOUSE HOWEVW ER, ADMITS GETTING AID. Says Mulhall Was Not His Manager, But Has to Admit That Manufac turers' Agent Worked for Him. S. Wood McClave, Republican can didate for Congress in a special elec tion to be held in the Sixth -New Jer sey district Tuesday, went to Wash ington Friday night and told the Sen ate lobby investigating committee that Martin M. Mulhall, late "lobby ist" for the National Association of Manufacturers, had perjured himself in his testimony before the commit tee. McClave denied emphatically that Mulhall had raised or spent money for him, had managed his campaign, or had been his close companion and associate during his fight against William Hughes for the Sixth dis trict nomination in 1910. Mulhall, the witness swore, came unknown to *him in his office in New York city in 1910, introduced himself and said he wanted to help him. "It looks as if you were going to get the nomination," he quoted Mulhall as saying, "and I wanted- to know how you stood on public questions." McClave said he replied that he stood for protection and fair dealing to labor, and that Mulhall responded, "our organization stands for the same thing and wants to hel' you." He added that Mulhall insisted upon two rooms In -Paterson as head quarters, but that he visited them only a few times and then saw a newspaper man. The witness said he had letters from Vice-President Sherman, Con gressman Gardner and others. "It was my first experience," he added, "and I supposed that a man endors ed by such men must be all right." McClave had been held up to the committee by Mulhall as one whose meal checks and other ex'penses Mul hal had continuously paid and for whom Malhall raised and spent more than .$3,500. This McClave vigor ously denied. McClave said he could obtain no aid from the Republican national committee and that when Muj ,all came as the rep-esentative of the National Association of Manufac turers he said he was willing to ac cent their assistance. "What was the National Associa tion of Manufacturers to get in return for he money it spent?" asked Sena tor Walsh. "It was going to get a Representa tive in the American Congress who was in favor of protection to Ameri can industries," replied McClave. He added that it had been said that William Hughes, his opponent, now Senator, had received a. $5,000 campaign fund from the American Federation of Labor and that he felt it was entirely proper for him to ac cept aid from the Manufacturers' As sociation. Repubican3~ Hypocrites. The Mulhall exposure of the doings f- the National Association of Manu facturers in mInlpulati~ng politics in the interests of the trusts and large corporations with the assistance of the Republican party has given the Republican leaders in and out of Con gress a great deal of uneasiness. That Is why Congressman -Mann and other Republicans in the House and Senate are trying to magnify such in significant incidents as the Califor na case. They want to discredit the Democrats so as attention will be drawn from their many rascalities brought out by the Mulhall exposure. Congressman Mann is not only the Republican leader of the House of Representatives now, bat he was the leader of that party on that floor during most of the years when -the National Association of Manufactur ers were lobbying against eight-hour bills, child-labor bills and tariff-re form ,bills. The Republicans whom Mr. Mann led were then In a majority and, as the records show, it was among Mr. Mann's closest political friends that the lobby found its most devoted servants. Naturally, James . Mann Is sensitive and severely critical now of Mulhall. But Congressman Mann had noth ug but kind words and a helping hand for Mulhall when he was work ig for the benefit of the trusts and big corporations and against the -masses of the people. It was all right so far as Congressman Mann was concerned for Mulhall and other lobbyists to use bribery or any other unlawful means to get legislation through Congress favorable to the trusts and big corporations. Con gressman Mann had no words of de nunciation for Mulhall or any of his gang then. They were serving Con gressman Mann's masters, the trusts, and big corporations, and what they did was all right to him and the oth or Republican hypocrites, who were betraying the people. A Change Badly Needed. How greatly the land laws of Great Britain need revising has been brought prominently before the peo ple of that country by the recent death of the Duke of Sutherland. He owned one and a half million acres of land, most of it in Scotland. It is said that at one place you can tra verse the whole breadth of Scotland without setting foot off the Suther land property. That fact partly ex plains why so many of the best young men of Scotland have emigrated to other lands. In the adding or acre to acre there has been the crcwding out of .he old yeoman or freehold farm er, and that means injury to the na tion. Doubtless the majiority of feam flies that have been forced off the Sutherland and other estates have done better In this country and Can da than they could have done on their old holdinrs. hut no one rel ishes being forced into exile. But the worst feature of the case is th~e ;i iousness of the princinl4 or of the laws that makes it noethiba In so limited a country as Engl'4nd for OneO an to have so many etr #4'E of land. o -.op'ir o1~ the o move of the Liberal governmiet a a r adal revision of the lai d 1- s 'at the land may be restored tc -.he reo If It proves prue thrt Governor Blease and Mayor (ore will null to eth in the enmr'afre "at year af tr all they hsve s-"'l Anoit each other, the peon4e wo"UI W!.e ta kIloW4 Ia thme lasdrtion.