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CUTS DUTIES DOWN »- NEW TARIFF BILL INTRODUCED IN THE BOUSE MAKES GREAT CHANGES The Bill Represents the Pledges Made by the Democrats and is the Effort of the President and House Experts to Carry Into Effect Promises of Revision. Removal of all tariff from many articles of food and clothing; broad reductions in the lates of duty on all necessaries of life, an increase of tariff on many luxuries; and a new income tax that Would touch the pocket of every American citizen whose net income exceeds $4,000 are the striking features of the new Dem ocratic tariff revision bill presented to the House. Sugar would be free of duty in 101G, the bill proposing an imme diate 2fi per cent, reduction and the removal of the remaining duty in 1916. Raw material would be made free at once with a correspondingly heavy reduction in the ariff on ail woolen goods. All these other articles are put on the free list, namely: Meats, flour bread, boots and shoes, lumber, coal, harness, sadd'ery, iron ore milk and cream, potatoes, salt, swine, corn, corn meal, cotton bagging, agricul tural implements, leather, wood pulp, 1‘ibles, printing paper not worth more than L 1-.’ emits per pound, tvpewnters, sewing machines, t)pe- setting machines, <ash registers, steel rails, fence wire, cotton ties, nails, hoop and bar Iron, fish, sul phur, so<ia. tannuig materials, acetic and sulphuric aci Is. borax, lumber products, including broom hanoles. clapboards, bubs for wheels, posts, laths, pickets, staves, shingles These principal Items are taken from the free list and taxed I’ncut diamonds and precious stones, furs, coal tax products, 10 per cent, v<rta tile oils, 2u per cent , spices from one cent to two cents per pound ( halrmsn I'nderwood of ths ways and means committee in bis state ment accompanying the new tariff bill gave the following comparative table to show reductions In tariff du ties, made u(>on necessaries In each item, both to the present tariff and the proposed tariff had been reduc ed to an advalorem basis Present Proposed TELLS SHOCKING STORY ANOTHER ARCTIC EXPLORING PARTY 18 LOST. A rt irl*-s Law Law ('l*•.trll uf tart.ir 24'. 17 H 5 M •• 1 !■ n.il ; M-i'.ir.t t ion- '• -f, 5 1 t 1 < j blur ml . . . . . 3 3 19 J.', 1M1 \S anil blu»> 2 3 '9 1 5 0 0 Saltpetre 6 v 7 Common soap 2o Ud 5 oO Suleratus or blcarbon - nate of soda 2 1 5 4 9 50 8al soda washing aoap 2 0 9 3 1 3 1 Borax, refined o j •> a 1 3 1 Lime 9.17 5 00 China and crockery not decorated . 5 5 00 35 00 Grindstones 9.2 1 8 33 U i c y »■ 1 ea 45 00 25.00 Pocket kntv*-* 7 7 6 S 3 5 0 0 Pocket knlvee . 5 5.00 Razors 3 5.0* Razors . - - 5 5 00 S< isaors and shares 3 7 7 3o 0 0 Knives and lurks . . . 4 198 2 7.00 Furniture 3 f. no 1 5 0 o Cattle 2 7.07 1 0 oo Macaroni, etc 3 L 2 a 23 8 1 Rice cleaned . . 5 4 o 5 3 3 3 3 14.29 Stocks, etc , of fruit trees 3 4 4 4 2 7 5 9 •Mineral waters 4 i ’> . > ♦j r.o.oo Siool thread 2 2 '• 5 15 MO ("(ff’on cloth 4 2 7 4 2 6.69 Cotton clothing 5o 0 0 30.00 Stockings, hose and half hose selvt dged . . . . 7 5.3 8 50.00 Men's and hoy's cotton v ork gloves 89 17 35.00 - sPi-THe 4mwere. —• — etc. and underwear. 60.27 25.00 Collars and cuffs 4 9.10 30.00 Blankets 72.69 25.00 Flannels 93.2 9 30.00 Clothing ready made. women’s and chii- dren’s dress goods. . 99.70 33.00 Sewing silk 25.00 15.00 Wrapping paper 25.00 Hooks 15.00 Brooms 40.00 15.00 Matches 27.59 14.00 other than leather.. 35.00 20.00 India rubber, manufac tures of ,....35.00 1 0.00 Lead pencils . 39.00 25.00 The new rates are estimated to re duce the customs revenue approxi mately $80,000,000 a year. This is expected to be made up by the in come tax. Indorsed by President Wilson, the measure represents the efforts of the president and the house tariff makers, to carry into effect Ptemocratic pledges of downward re vision and of concessions to the American consumer. Protection to the farmer would be cut throughout by mere than 50 per cent. In an effort to reduce the cost cf food. Protection to the steel and Implement manufacturer would in turn be cut by fully as wide a mar gin. Heaviest reductions fall upon foodstuffs, agricultural products, Many Are Believed to Have Perished From Scurvy, Exposure and Star* vation. Failure has overtaken the German Arctic expedition under Lieut. Schroeder-Stranz. Most of the m-sin- bers are believed to have died on the ice from starvation, exposure or scurvy and the commander-in-chief is missing. Four of the men have succeeded in returning to Advent Ray, Bpitzbergtm and two others are probably safe at Treurenburg Bay. The aviator and the cook died from starvation. Nothing has been heard from Lieut. Schroeder-Stranz since he started on a sledge expedi tion alone in August last year. Capt. Ritzchel brought the first news of the fate of the expedition in January when, he returned to Advent Bay in a deplorable condition and was thought to be the only survivor. A dispatch from Spitzbergen has re vived hopes that a few others may be alive. Among the party, besides the offic ers and crew, were several German scientists, including a geologist, a ootanist and an oceanographer. Kxperience in polar work was al most entirely lacking and the equip ment was said to be very poor. The intention of the party was to pave the way for a more important expedi tion under Lieut. Schroeder-Stranz, which was to endeavor to make the northeast passage later this year. WILSON'S MESSAGE VMICI BE READ IN PERSON TO THE CONGIESS THE PEOPLES BURDEN DEATH FOLI/>\VS DI ED. Two Youn_ Men Tight About a Young Cuban Woman. Rudolph Warren, son of Jere War ren, a prominent American sugar planter, die! in a hospital at Havana Monday from a pistol wound In the abdomen which he received in & duel .•unday with Hannibal Mesa, membe; o (a wealthy Cuban family The two young men recently had several physical encounters and were r*puted to be rivals for a woman's affection The duel was st thirty- five pace*. Warren fell at the first fire Mesa was not harmed Warren made a statement to the police that he had accidentally shot himself. Immediately after the duel Mesa sailed for New York on the steamer "Habana' The utmost re- t.cence Is being maintained on all sides regarding the affair The Cuban government Is taking measures to procure the arrest ami • .tradition of Mesa on his arrival in New York He will be charged with luilUlt lde v Calls Attention to the Tariff, and Says it Must be Revised in Accord ance With the Promises Made, So That the Masses May be Benefhted and Helped. The following is the full text of the messagg which President Wilson read in person to Congress on Tues day: “I have called Congress to gether in extraordinary session bfr cause a duty was laid upon the party now in power at the recent elections whicli 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 Inter ests of the country may not be kept too long in suspense as to what the fiscal changes are to be which they will be required to adjust themselves. It is clear to the whole country that the tariff duties must be altered. They must be economic life which the country has witnessed within the last generation. Whifv* the whole face and method of our industrial and commercial life were being change 1 beyond recognition the tariff sched ules have remained what they wer>* before the change began, or have moved in the direction they were giv en when no large circumstance of our industrial development was wha* it is to-day. our task is to square them with the actual facts. Th« sooner that is done the sooner shall escape from suffering from tne facts and the sooner our men of otisi- ‘ S) |>«><dares l >| ness will be free to thrive by the law , of nature (the nature of free busi- 1 ness) instead cf by the law of legis lation and artificial arrangement "We have Been tariff legislation wander very far afield in our da> very far Indeed from the field in which our prosperity might have had a normal growth and stimulation Awful Slate of Affair*. The Barnesville News Gazette di recta attention to the fact that "ten killings have occurred In 1’lke I’oun ty, Ga . since the October term of 1'ike superior court A similar re cord Is bciug made all over Georgia and the country. Life is about the cheapest thing there is Hundreds of citizens of Bike County go around dally with plstoli In their pockets with the purpose already formed in their minds to take human life if only provoked '' This is an awful eondition of affairs for a country like ours Your Horse rftonld hart the beet el ettestkm end cere during bis ml lift Get the full benefit of pleasure, or work, end ce hfcn relueble to jon—ea you should relue him—by ping him In firat-dau condition. K®«P him Insured and protected by always having on hand for emergency a bottle each of Noah’s Medicines. Don’t experiment with unknown and dope-made reme dies—but use these tested and guaranteed medicines. Noah’s Horse Remedies contain no dope whatever. Beware of medicines made up of dope—more animals die from being treated with drugged and doped remedies than if none had been given at all An animal with a weak heart or run-down condition cannot stand being drugged. When the reaction sets in they usually die. Noah's Horae Medicines are used and endorsed by our larger public Institutions, by the largest concerns and best people In the yye stock and livery business. They are ‘ ‘ in quantities to many leading veterlna* Biwnava for umm .■ •ffoot 81m pl« to oSl. on tbo tongxi*. Choop la » bottlB, an4 worth tSS to aax ownor. Toilow boa. rod aad "ifilK rm. u . , eln* for fovor, oolda, diatom pc fluonxa, lung tronbloo oad tbo mont of milk fovor la oowm. Olvoa on tbo tongue Two slsoo. Mo oad •loo. Bluo boa, rod printing. Nooh’o Kora-Oon Olatmiat, for frosh cuto, old ooroe oeretehoe dol lar galle ooro beck* ead fkraoh la horses' foot Mo per can. Br can. red and black prtnttflg. t/omfm Ltatmea* la tbo beat . round family and atablo remedy eg the market Contalna no aleoboj I ADVICE i l THEY SHOl l.D EXERT I'OI.mi AI. IN EM EM*E. RIumU-. in Aihlrc** IWorc 'Dn-tlng of <,<*»rgiu l nion , at Atlanta. ■ In an addrctve delivered b“for»* the annual convi ntioa of the Georgia,dl- viilon of the National Farmera upion v hi< h convened in Atlanta Thuraday for a two-day’■ aeBaion. L M Rhoden, No one who looks the facts squarely president of Hie Tennesaee division In thr face or knows anything tha' aid chairman of the national board Mrs beneath the surface of action cf directors, pleaded for more unity can fall to perceive the principle* and urged the farmers to ergantze upon which recent tariff legislation und tsaert their Influence In politics, has l>een baaed We long ago pass non-partisan however, In order to se ed beyond the modeat notion of "pro- cure recognition and legislation of teotlng" the Industries of the coun'rv p.nefit to their interests :: High Grade Seed and Farm Lands ° MIXoviN SSEED8GKOW. They are grown in the boulb for tbe bourn ;; LONG AND SHORT STAPLE UPLAND COTTON The best Varieties. Write uc for prices and Information. :: CORN, SORGUM, MILLET, VELVET BEANS ficc Uur Corn ,s all HIGH-BRED SOITH CAROLINA CORN. Get our Illustrated Catalogue of all Vegetable and Farm ftttlls W. H. Mixson Seed Company, CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA and moved bodily forward to the Idea that they were entitled to the di- r* ct patronage of the governmert For a long time a time so long that the men now active in public j*>l:.-y In prefacing his remarks, Mr Rhod'-e declared the farmer* were a failure in a business and urged them t«. pay more attention to tha' end of their life's v ork "In tlilfe country." hardly rememl>er the conditions mat n u;t i thn speaker, there are Ira !e or preceded It we have sought tn o jr g jtnzallonn a hos- su<c sses point out tariff schedules to give each group only the plainly reasons why the f;»r- of manufacturers or producers what ri ,,. r should i.wake to the realization they themselves thought that they that he is entitled to the same rec- needed in order to maintain a practl- ognition This !s the prime object rally exclusive market as against the t , f (h ,. farmers union and we must rest of the world Consciously ir h d ml together as these other bodies unconsciously, we have built up a aet pave done It Is the only means by of privileges and exemptions from vl-.ich we will ever amount to any- competltion behind which it was easy thing There is no reason in the by any. even the crudest, forms of world why the planter should not WK HAVE BOO Bl'HHMLfi CHOICE Velvet Beans' AOCOt'NT w. V. BOOKMAN, LKMHHORK, FLA. •2.75 TEH III. V. O. B. ChartMrtM, H. C. Charleston Fruit Company, 92 4 Market St -o- CHARLESTON, 8. C. S woolen and cot ton clot h The free wool proposal hacked by "resident Wilson and accepted by the F( use committee, is * xpected to pro voke a severe fight within the Demo cratic ranks of both houses. It had not bec-ome clear whether the Demo cratic opponents of free wool and free sugar in the Senate would be able to force a compromise on one or hotti those provisions. The decision to make a gradual reduction in the sugar tariff was reached by the president and the House committee after Louisiana rnnF' growers ' (TecTIned to accept a compromise that would have estab lished one cent per pound tariff for three years with free sugar in 1916. To encourage trade with foreign countries, the bill would reserve the maximum and minimum provision of tiie present tariff law. The new tar- ifi rates would be the maximum tar iff and the president would be given authority to negotiate reciprocity treaties and make concessions to countries that grant favors to AmerL can exports. In a statement accompanying the hill Chairman Underwood said the measure would, in the opinion of its makers, revise the tariff "to a basis of legitimate competition, such as will afford a wholesale influence on bur commerce, bring relief to the people in the matter of the high cost o f living and at the same time work no detriment to property conducted manufacturing industries.” "In itsr Tartff tevisioTT work the committee has kept in mind,’’ he said, "the distinction between neces sities and the luxuries of life, reduc ing the tariff burdens on the peces- slties to the lowest points commen surate with revenue requirements and making the luxuries of life bear their proper proportion of the tariff responsibilities. Many items of man ufacture controlled by monopolies have been placed on the free list combination to organize monoph ; until at last nothing is normal, no;h- control the product as wall as raise U The time has come for us to be "The farmer has helped to fight the country a batth*. he is the cor- our Ing is obliged to stand th * tests of master instead sf tha slave, efficiency and economy, in our world of big business, but everything ’hm- es by concerted arrangement Only n t rstone of our wealth, t ie main new principles of action will save us spring of our progress, the bulwark from a final hard crystalization of ( .f our defense and the future great-^ monoply and a compl de loss of the resa of the country rests on bis influences that quleken entetpris and s i luu i d ,. rg produces the pr.me keep independent energy alive. | recessities of life. Stop the plow, | "It is plain w hat thus" prim iples eliminate the crop, and there would must be. We must abolish exery-j be no ‘tallest bull lings', "que m cities , thing that bears even the semblance er 'fastest trains in the world . In of privilege, and put our business men | the last quarter of a centsry tin far- and producers under the stimulation mer lias produced enough wealth to of constant necessity t.) bt eliicient, j buy all the property in the Fulled economical and enterp'lsing, masters States. Yet they are not holding of competitive supremacy, bt tier their own. Twelve years ago they 1 workers and merchants tr.i.n any 'n owned one-fourth of the wealth in the world. Aside from t!m duties the country, and now it lias dwin- laid upon articles which we do not, j died to one-fifth. and probably can not, pro tuce. there- fore, and the flTrtleB'lhtTrTfp'Tii TuxYir-p6"al)ove just challenge and only an ies and merely for the sake of the ;e venues yield, the object of the tariff duties henceforth laid must be effec tive competetion, the whetting ol American wits by contest with the wits of the rest of the worll. "It would be unwise to move to ward this end headlong, with reck less haste, or with strokes that cut at the very roots of what has giown up amongst us by long process and at our own invitation. It does nol al ter a thing to upset it and i ret k it and deprive it of a chance to change, It destroys it. We must make changes in our fiscal laws, in our fiscal system, whose object is de/e'lopmer.t, a more free and wholesome develop ment, not revolution or upset or con tusion. We' must build up trade. We need the outlet and the enlarged field of energy more than we ever did oeeasiona! error of judment Is chargeable against us, we shall be fortunate. "We are called upon to render the country a great sernce In more mat ters than one. Our responsibilities should be met and our methods should be thorough, as thorough as moderate and well considered, based ' upon the facts as they are, and not worked out as if we were, beginners, j We are to deal with the facts of our own day, with the facts of no other, 1 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 your session which j can obscure that first object or di-{ vert* our energies from that clearly j defined duty. At a later time I may take the liberty of calling your at- efore. We must adopt freedom in i tention to reforms which shopi/l the place of artificial stimulation on-1 press close upon the heels of the tar- ly so far as it will build, not pull iff changes, if not accompany them, down. In dealing with the tariff the method by which this may be done will be a matter of judgment, exer cised Item by item. To some not ac customed to the excitements and re sponsibilities of greater freedom our methods may in some respects and at some points seem heroic, but re medies may be heroic and yet be re medies. It Is our bnslneM to make sure that they are genuine remedies. Oar object is dear. If oar motive of which the chief is the reform of which the chief is the reform of our banking and currency laws; but just now I 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 flla.” "In the struggle for the comforts, conveniences and luxuries of life. If the American farmer haa fallen be hind, haa not kept apace with other vocations, he haa no one to blame but himself Nature put Into his hands the commodities that succor the world. The only reason that be is not king of < reatlon Is because he has been outgeaeraled In the battle of wits. ' Farmers of America, should we go on without a protest while trusts und corporations are constantly knocking at the door of congress ask ing for special privilege to 10b and oppress us, and men are making more net gains speculating and gambling in our products than we are making I reducing them'’ Can we stand Idly iy without a protest while our chil dren are ground into dividends and our wives working as field hands 7 In ing a patriot to the manner born, looking baek over the records of the past, taking a historic view of the graves of dead nations that have wobbled out of the orb of righteous ness and died with an oyerdose of g'uft and concentration of wealth, atol JtmvwJni? ■+hat-ttte t t TittFa ‘fftater' is loitering in the primrose path of dalliance, so to speak, and knowing that the prosperity that comes by accumulation instead of production, the prosperity of graft, the prosperity of injustice, the prosperity of extor tion, the prosperity of tribute, the prosperity that thrives by oppres sion. tiie prosperity that depends on mastery and servitude, cannot main tain a republic or foster our liberties (Fgypt, Rome, Assyria, Greece, all tried this gilded pathway, and they perished), will the American farmer williagly see himself chained to the rock w hile the vulture* of despotism prey upon the vitals? "Knowing that a republic once fallen has never risen, that the ruins of freedom have never regained their ycuth, will we not change our course? Are we willing to continue to be nailed by the nail trust, doped by the drug trust, skinned by the doctor trust, plugged by the dentist trust, sacked by the flour trust, salt ed by the salt trust, sweetened by the sugar trust, stitched by the machine trust, roasted by the coal trust, scratched by the match trust, chilled by the ice trust, lathered by the soap trust, canned by the tin trust, aud skipped by no trust all because we have no farmers’ trust? "Surely, if the fanners of the Pnlt- ed States could understand, could fully realise, keenly and quiekly, the perils to country life that Ueth In the KIND ANOTHER CAVE. * I' Is laryer Then the With what appears to he turte hieroglyphic* carved en Ms wills, a mammoth cave, rivaling the famous cove of Kentucky, wee dle- covered near Ogden, Utah. Thomas Whitaker, a rancher, (he discovery. He will head a party of University of Utah profeesers oa w tour of Investigation. The cave ie located In the mountains near Proas- ontory Point, eighteen miles from Ogden, and haa probably never been visited by white men, aa the aur- loumliag country is a bleak desert. The front chamber is 75 by 158 yards,! 4 1 , feet high, and the wahg : <-ar pictures of Indians crudely drawn There is an Indian legend current lo .that locality to the effect that a groat battle was fought years ago between two tribes near the point, the vanquished having perish ed In a mammoth cave. > -vt - Tv Progressive Republicans Makes V< Poor Show. Democrats swept Chicago in Wed nesday's municipal election, reinm* ing twenty-two aldermen, and tha Superior Court Judge, city clerk aad city treasurer. The proposed hood issue off $2,880,000, urged by th|F Hearst-Harrison factions of the'DegSf ocratic party, carried by a small mar* gin. Republicans elected eleven •h dermen, Progressives three, and In dependents one. The Progresslvgg had candidates in every wartL Wi failed to show strength, being voted by the Republicans by nearer three to one throughout the city. ti* Socialist vote was consistently scat* tered through all the wards, and WM not far below the Progressive total. ■^J 11 11 —si ' rapidly increasing rates in tenant*?; the rapidly rising value of lands; the feverish anxiety if to buy farm Tand in large holders monopolising the land areas of A Pa, the appalling increase of a less, houseless olass in this cq_i the lure of the city and they* threat of Illiteracy, ignorant servitude, they would all gather and make the kuown to history te and find a cure for the nig so deadly In their can fans life.” * '**>•*: A fiv-f * I - £ kl ' *