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Recently Elected Democratic Representative
Fosm from Massachusetts
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Makes Sensational Beginning f I
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1'ublic Duties. Flays Republican
Party Unmercifully.
Representative Eugene N. Fobs, i
the newly elected Democratic Representative
from Massachusetts, a former
Republican and a leading manufacturer.
Saturday signalized his
beginning of active participation in
the House with a sensationally ra 1ic
11 attack upon the Payne-Aldrich
t : :ff. He denounced the Republican
policy of protection as an unmitigated
evil, flayed the Republican lea iers.
declared the recent revision of
the tariff to be a "deliberate bunco
game from start to finish," pronounced
in favor of r ciprocity and de- ,
maudej an extra session of a new
Congress, at the earliest opportunity, 1
to revise tlie tariff.
"The people are indeed demand- |
Jng protection." said Mr. Foss, "but
the opportunity they are demanding i
is prot' ctlon from the Payne-Al- i
dric.h tariff."
The speaker announced himself as
favoring the creation of a tariff com- t
mission, but he wanted the coin mis- i
Bion composed of non-partisan men j
whose report would be made direct
to Congress rather than to the Pros- s
ident. Referring to the provision i
In the pending sundry civil appro- (
Itriation bill for It II Mimrnnrint Inn n f I
$250,000, for a tariff commission to t
report to the President, he said: I
'Naturally it looks a little strange <
to some of us, after all this long de- s
lay, and aftrr the people have them- <
selves discovered the worst evils of (
our tariff system, which such a com- i
mission could have exposed years i
ago; that it is now brought forward s
at this eleventh hour. Clever e.ll- i
tors -of leading journals have stig- i
matized this proposition since its in- <
troduction .here as 'a sop to Cerberus' i
or 'a tub to the whale.' I
"They have evidently in mind the 1
panicky fueling that pervades, for
instance the 'stand pat' section of ]
this very chamber, as well as of ,
the oth< r c.hambers, and the Repub- ,
lioan machine the country over }
There is among them a great |
'searching of hearts' as to what Can ]
ho done to quench these burning
issues of tariff and taxation reform; ,
of how this great people's movement
on these great issues can he divert- \
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"It cannot he denied that the poo- |
pie have, rightly or wrongly, come
to regard this whole 'revision' scheme j
of the Republican party leaders t
as planned in the last national campaign
and as promulgated in their
inuiiui miii tin uiiiiuy i) .i-.u-tiprea in
the special tariff session of Congress
i as en intentional and deliberate
k bunco game from start to finish."
A Air. Foes urged reciprocity with
foreign nations as the pro pi r middle
ground between a protective tarift
and free trade.
He recounted how Republican
leaders, such as John Hay and Nelson
Dingiey, had endeavored to obtain
reciprocity with Canada and how
"McKinley almost with his dying
breath affirmed reciprocity as the
ruling keynote of his prospective second
term."
"We recall," he said, "how the
nefarious 'stand pat' influence in the
Republican party, by all sorts of underhand
means, succeeded in defeating
all these treaties, nullifying ail
efforts and treacherously betraying
and assassinating 'reciprocity in its
own house.'
"The stnnd pat hierarchy sowed
the wind and we are reaping tiie
whirlwind. Reciprocity was sacrificed
to selfish and mercenary influences
by the politicians against
the jieople's interests, prostituted by
them for the purpose of hoodwinking
the public, just as now recently
they have prostituted 'revision.' "
Declaring that a tariff commission
should report to Congress and not to
the President, Mr. Foss demanded: t
"Why does the Administration v
seem to be so sollcKlous that this
commission shall be absolutely tinder
the control of the Executive. ,
seeing that it is primarily intend- .
ed for such legislative purposes? j
Is there any ulterior motive?
"If the oommission is to be merely
an executive instrument and report
only to the President, how is
Oon^ress to receive the information
excepting as the President may elect !
to transmit is, and what is to pr ^ 1
vent the executive department from (
withholding or suppressing or color- 1
ing such information as has more (
than once been done heretofore? Is '
there not an evident fear that control
of this commission will too soon
come into the hands of a Democratic
and reform Congress? j
<**J n-> npn|7f that tl,a oe^nte h ve ,]
lost faith in the Republican party a
and they are no longer looking to r
them for an honest revision. The r
fcirtffM"'"' n'lii'iii . ~
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eople have turned to the Democratic
arty. Now the responsibility of an
lonest revision of tire tariff is up
< 'he Democratic party, with the aiJ
a the insurgent and such independ- ]
mt elements as will ally themselves
v'.th us.'"
In voicing his demand for anoth r
special session to revise the tariff
lie speaker said: ^
"The people demand that the rer'ision
and reduction of the tariff,
vhich was promised two years ago
jy the RepubTican party, be carried
>ut by the D'-piocratic party as soon
is tne new Cong.ees can convene.
The Democratic party ought to rai3e
the issue that there shall he an extra
session aonvened next Snrine to
Jo thie work which this Congress hua
proved faithless to. The people .have
made the immediate reduction of
the tariff the issue and the Democratic
party must pledge itself in a
most distinct and sy* ciflc way to carry
out this course; in order that the
mandate shall bo a compelling one
the victory shall l>e so complete that
the Republican Executive will be
forced to acquiesce in it and call
Congo ss together."
Mr. Koss declared that the rallying
cry should be made "free wool
and cheap clothing."
"Today," he said, "millions of our
people are deprive 1 of crmfort and
health, and even of life by til socalled
protective I M iff on wool and
w miens for the benefit of the sheep
ranchers and woollen trusts."
He denounced Pr sident Taft's
Winona speech, which, he said, had
i disastrous effect upon .his Administration
and characterized part of it
is the "only weak and lame palliaLion
President Tuft could advance
for the iniquities of the woolen
schedule."
Mr. Foss declared that lower dudes
on sugar, and said the people
were demanding further reductions
n iron and steel.
"Now, at this point," he said, "it
seems to devolve upon me. as a representative
in Congress of this reorm
and as a representative manufacturer
in the iron and ste 1 induRry
of New Englan i, engaged in the
production of important lines of machinery,
employing large numbers of
skilled workmen an J using large
quantities of the finished products
if the Steel Trust, to state publicly
that in my judgment my industry and
:he people employed in it would not
suffer under free trade conditions,
.hat is. if the 45 per cent, duty was
jntirely removed and provided these
xmditiens apfily to the whole iron
ind steel industry from the coal and
Iron ore up. This statement is equally
true of other staple industries.
"In fact," Mr. Foss continued, "1
neuevie touay tnai under free trade
conditions we can compete in the
markets of tlie world In most, if not
all. of t.bese industries and compete
to better advantage than wo do
mow."
Coming to the question of raising
revenue the speaker said:
"It is no adequate defence of a
arlflf law to say that is a large tarff
producer, which simply means that
t may lay upon the people a gr<at
>urden of taxation, that it may exact
roin {.hem vast sums of money that
hey are net able to contribute.
"VVe must have a system of tnxition
which removes these abus- s
ind eliminates this graft. The best
ind the only way, I l elieve, is '
hrough the income tax."
'Mr. Foss advocated the placing of
til raw materials upon ths free list,
ind declared that the burdens of proection
were felt keenly by the
employee as by the employer
Finally the speaker argued for
lm "Anglo-Saxon unity" and practitally
the establishment of closer reations
with Canada.
Mr. Fuss's maiden speech was puntuated
with constant applause. His
It duration that the people had lost
tonfilence in the Republican party
'voked a demonstration from the
Democratic side. Mr. Longworth, of
)hio, sought to inject a question.
"You will excuse me," smillingly
emarked Mr. Foss. "I cannot be
nterrupted this mornin?."
The Ohioan sat down amid laugh
er from both sides.
An uproarious scene followed the
inclusion of Mr. Fcss's speech.
Mr. 11111. of Connecticut, vehementy
Informed the bemi crats th
dea of reciprocity whic.h Foss aJrocated
was in the McKlnley law.
)ut the Democrats had killed it in
he Wilson law. He demanded to
enow why the Massachusetts mein>er
.had not expressed his views be ore
the ways and means committee
vlien the bill was pending.
"I had been ruled out of the Re>ubllcan
|)arty five or six years back
>y leaders in Massachusetts," replied
dr. Foss. "The people know where
stand."
Miners ami Soldier* Shoot.
The State militia, on guard at the
.Ml us Portland Cement Company's
ld Tuesday. L. A. Merger, of Bel
no strikers Tuesday morning at the
lynamite magazine. Tlie militiamen
vturned the Are and bhe strikers es aped
iu the underbush. No one was
njured by the fifty shots.
Died from Wound.
Hilton Smith, the Columbia city
aller, who was shot by the negro,
fohn Rabb, died Wednesday night 4?
l local hospital. The negro was ar estert
that afternoon at Rlaneys, i
tear Columbia, and is now in jail. j
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BOOZE SALES
DlspeosarT Auditor West Makes Startling
Sta emtnt About
THE SALE CF WHISKEY
He Declares that the Liquor Sajes
in the Six Present Dispensary j
GIVE THEIR SIDE
METHODIST BISHOPS DEFENDS
WOllK IN* HO>IE.
Aut Decline at Present to Enter l'|ton
Any Counter Attack Upon the
Roman Catholic Oiurrh.
The hoard of Bishops. or the Methodist
Episcopal. Church, through it3
secretary. Bishop L. B. Wilson, Monday
ni'?ht issued an official statement,
which had been prepared by the
hoard, at is meeting in Chicago on
May 9,. relative to the Italian mission
The statement is the outcome of the
recent controversy in Rome caused
by t-he visit of Col. Roosevelt.
The statement follows:
"Deploring, an-1 at all times seeking
to avoid interdenominational con
'roversies, we are. nevertheless, conipelled
to recognize occassions when
personal prefer nee must yield to a
proper sense of official duty.
"We cannot allow to pass unnoticed
the recent unprovoked and unwarranted
attempt to discredit one
of our mcst useful missions, by widely
published accusations which, i
has d upon truth, would be nothing
short of dishonor upon the Church
which supports that mission.
"We regret that after repeated
challenges for details of the specific
acts supposed to justify these
charges, they still remain in such
general terms that therr validity cannot
he tested before the judgment 01
the world. We can only observe:
j"l. That ordinarily the us> of
ophedian adjectives is suggestive ot
inger rather than of reason.
"2. That the methods of our missions
in Italy, now for the first time
hus publicly condemned, are th
same that have been pursued from
the beginning, almost forty years
ago.
"That the same methods, name!}
preaching the (dospel in its simpllc
ity and conducting schools where they
are needed, schools which recognize
the plain teachings of the new testamt
lit as a supreme authority in religion
and ethics, have long been followed
by our missions in South
America and Mexico, as well as In
Rome, ar.d no such indictment has
been brought against those missions
even to this day, so far we are informed.
"4. From these faors the Inference
appears to be irresistible that other
considerations than the methods of
our mission in Rome must have been
the real cause of this suddeu outcry.
"5. Possible some urgency of our
diplomacy, local in its origin, but
far reaching in its portent, required
this attack with all its hazard, as a
diversion from the real issue involved,
"The facts that support this inference
are known to all who have followed
the course of recent events in
the city of Rome.
"Had there been any other way to
avoid certain issues of etiquette and
precedence created by coincident circumstances
of a public nature, the
Methodist mission might have escaped
calumny and thus lost the valuable
recognition of its success.
"Under such circumstances we enter
upon no defense of our work in
Italy and make no plea for abatement
In the judgment of tho world.
"We decline at the present time to
enter upon auy counter attack upon
tho Romau Catholic Church.
"We ask only that all fair men
interested in the situatlou study for
themselves its m thods of propagandism
and the traditional attitude of
that church toward otiier Christian
fait lis.
"We believe that there are standards
of equity and moral retitude
by which, in the estimate of all
progressive people, all religions and
ill methods must be rated by w-hat
the.v contribute to intelligence and
moral character.
"We now content ourselves with
ifllrmlng our entire confidence in the
moral Integrity of our missionaries
md methods in Italy, and against the
{enunciation of th Ir accusers we
place the wide open record of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, both as
to teaching and method, in America
and throughout the world."
CITY JAIIjKII SHOT
Ry a Negro Wiiom He Was Alrout to
Put Under Arrest.
At Columbia, about Tuesday midnight
City Jailer nilton Smith was
rushed to a local hospital and bloodhounds
are out hunting for John
Rabb, the negro who shot him. It is
believed Mr. Smith is fatally wounded.
He was shot three times In the
tide. The negro fired five times, and
hreo shots took effect. The pistol
was snntcheJ out of Mr. Smith's
pocket as he attempted to arrest the
negro near his home.
Made Them Good.
The negroes at Alexandria and
other parts of Virginia were very
much frightened on Wednes lay about
the comet. A dispatch from Alexandria
says not in the annals of
history of the r.ezro churches In
this part of Virginia have so many
new members got "religious fever."
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Counties Would Kquul One Half
>f the Sales of the Former Twenty-One
Dispensary Counties.
The startling and far-reaching
statement was made by Dispensary
Auditor \V. 1 . West Friday, in reply |
'.o a question by The News and Courier
Columbia correspondent. Mr. I
West stated that the sales of alcoholic
drinks in the six counties now
retaining the dispensary system
would equal one half, if not more.
>f the total sales t.he y ar before in
J1 counties, then hating the dispensary
system. The s.ilos last year
were nearly $4.0b0,000.
11ns statement was based upcn
the monthly r ports of sales curing
iie lust several months of dispensaries
in the i-oiinf w.o potolnlm. * * 1
lispensaries, namely: Charleston,
Richland, IJeaufort, Florence, Aik n,
and Georgetown. "For the
months of December, 1909, and .January,
1910," continued Mr. West,
'the salts were about two-thirds of
the sales for the corresponding
months in the years just proceeding."
T.hese statements are very significant,
for several reasons. The wise
>ne predicted before the August ructions
that those counties retaining
the dispensaries would be consideribly
benefited by the profits accruing
from the sales of whiskey and beer
if their next door neighbors voted
Hit the system. This has been borne
>ut by the largely increased Bales
in these several counties.
To the prohibitionists there will
">e furnished by this sfate of alYairs
the arguments that all the dispensaries
should lie voted out, and the
whole "tate should become prohibltion.
They will argue that since
leighboring counties have voted out
the dispensaries it is injurious to |
these counties to have other counties
surrounding them engage in the
sale of liquors.
On the other hand, the local opion
men will argue that the revenues
received by those counties now
having dispensaries and the legalized
sale of liquors should cause other
outitles not now enjoying these privileges
to want thein.
It is stated by men seen here from
all sections of the State, where the
lispensaries have been voted out.
ihat the reaction has already set in
and s me counties that voted out the
lispensaries wish them back.
That there has been less whiskey
sold since planting season began is
-Rated by those who are in touch
with the situation. Naturally, dur.ng
the planting months the sales of
whiskey and beer fall off iu the
ountry school districts, because people
are too busy to go to "town'
and buy the "firewater."
Twenty-one counties iu South Car>lina
had the dispensary system bofore
AllirilSt 1. 1 when 1:". nf th.>
dispensaries went "dry. leaving six
of them having dispensaries.
"You have no idea what an ofTect
'he Greenville situation in regard to
the liquor question is having on the
othor counties." said a gentleman,
who is well versed on the liquor
question and travels about the State
a great deal.
"That the Greenville County Convention
should have determined to
submit the question of dispensary or
no dispensary to the primary this
summer is having a marked effect
upon the lower counties of the State.
Down that way it has been generally
thought that Greenville, Anderson,
Spartanburg and the Up-State counties,
as a whole, were bulwarks of
prohibition. Now that the question
'.s again to be submitted to t.he people,
many of the low counties are
wondering wuat effect this will have
on the rest of the State.
"Suppose Greenville should decide
to place the dispensary back? That
would mean, naturally, that the sentiment
up tliere has changed, as
shown bv the votes of the nennln I
Then the I!i>-State would not he regarded
such a stronghold of prohibition."
All of which is mighty
interesting, and shows which way
the wind is blowing in the liquor
situation in South aCrolina.
Horse Explodes.
A dose of soda given to a horse
belonging to James Elmerson, of
Canlsteo, N*. Y., caused the animal to
explode. It is thought the soda combined
with gases in the stomach
forming carbolic acid gas and, the
tank, not being copper lined, could
not stand the strain.
Mol> Lynched llim.
Doc McLean, who severely Injured
Ernest Hale, a young white man at
Tshdown, Ark., last April, was taken
from two deputy sheriffs at that place
Monday night by twenty-five men
and hanged in the jail yard.
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seed, Laten strain.. $1.00 per bu.
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S. C.
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Wanted To buy wool, beeswax, tallow.
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I Our $1 Adding Machines save tim i
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l den Watermelon Seed for Salo
75c. per pound. The best flavor*,
shipping watermelon grown. J
M. Farrell, Blacksville, S. C.
Per Sale Milch cows Jersey'*, gr c
Jerseys and Holstelns. All of tf
best breeding. Registered Jer
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Teachers wanted for excellent pos;
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White Wyandotte Fggs, 10c each
Ilig blocky birds, snow whit*
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pair Columbian's. S. A. Kernel'
R. 1, Columbia. S. C.
Insurance One of the oldest annua
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offers special contract to part or
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Drawer 70, Columbia, S. C.
Wuntrd Names of those wantln*
teachers; names of teachers do |
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school officials. Address witl
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Agents Wanted. $3 to $5 dally assured
selling our harness attach
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Young Men Wanted ior Railway Mai r
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Examinations soon. Common ed
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Wanted Hardwoods, logs and lum '
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Augusta, Ga. 1
Bargains In Psre Bred Stock rio
and rare Berkshire Boar Pigs, 4^
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ter 10 pigs, second 11. S. C. b
Leghorn Eh*3 15 for $1; 30 to
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Pedigreed English Setters, Puppie* ;
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itchon, bath room, laundry, barn, and
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,T Co. - Columbia, S. C.
er of bird dogs. Also Barred Plymouth
ltoeks and Rose Comb
Rhode Island Red eggs from best
of pure stock. $1 and $1.50 for
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Practically bug and blight proof.
I made 970 bushels on 5 1-2 acres
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Price 75c per bushel f. o. b. Clareniont.
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May 15. J. M. Hughes. Claremont,
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IMPORTANT NOTICE.
For a short while we have decided
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pxpeuses. This will save about twenty
per cent, ou Organs, and about ten
per cent on Pianos.
tH'Ktins, iroin ?7.l up. .
IMunos, from up. J
Less the discount as stated above. V
Write at once fur catalogs and terms I
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Columbia, S. C. 1
Manager Frank J. Shaughnessy,
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bruises, scratches, stifTness.
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Here's the Proof
"T have lia l occasion to use Noah's
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ind the result was most gratifying,
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nml able to resume throwing with
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ihatighnessy, Manager, Roanoke Chamdons,
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Hi:run at Sea.
The steamer J. MarhofTer, which
eft San Francisco for Portland, Ore.,
n May 14. has been burned at sea,
!0 miles north of Newport, Ore.
'apt. Wellander of the Uni'.ed States J
ife savins station reports that 19
>ersons from the burned steamer
lave landed safely in their own
oats.
Starts Fire.
A larse tneteor which fell near
donterey, Mex., set fire to a pine
orest and much damage was the reult.
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