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CUTS DUTIES DOWN I NEW TARIFF BILL INTRODUCED IN THE HOUSE MAKES CHEAT CHANGES ? The Hill Represents the Pledges ^ Made by the Democrats ami is the KITort of the President and House Kxperts to Parry Into KITect Promises of Revision. Removal of all tariff from many articles of food and clothing; broad reductions in the uites 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 $-1,0DO are the striking features of the new Democratic tariff revision bill presented to the House. Sugar would be free of duty in 1(116, the bill proposing an immediate 25 per cent, reduction and the removal of the remaining duty in 191G. Raw material would bo made free at once with a correspondingly heavy reduction in the ariff on all woolen goods. All these other articles are put on the free list, namely: Meats, Hour, bread, boots and shoes, lumber, coal, harness, saddlery, iron ore, milk and cream, potatoes, salt, swine, corn, corn meal, cotton .bagging, agricultural implements, leather, wood pulp, Bibles, printing paper not worth more than 2 1-2 cents per pound, typewHters, sewing machines, typesetting machines, cash registers, jsiecx raus, lence wire, couon lies, nails, hoop and bar iron, fish, sulphur, soda, tanning materials, acetic and sulphuric acids; borax, lumber products, including broom handles, clapboards, hubs for wheels, posts, laths, pickets, staves, shingles. These principal items are taken from the free list and taxed: Uncut diamonds and precious stones, furs, coal tax products, 10 per cent; vola^ tile oils, 20 per cent.; spices from one cent to two cents per pound. Chairman Underwood ^>f the ways and means committee in his statement accompanying the new tariff bill gave the following comparative '*u table to show reductions in tariff du"Kv ties, made upon necessaries. In each item; both to the present tariff and - the proposed tariff had been reduciv yl to an ad valorem basis: Present Proposed Articles: Law. Law. Cream of tartar 25.45 17.85 Medicinal preparations. 59.05 31.1 1 Castor oil 33.19 15.00 Wash blue 23.59 15.00 Saltpetre 9.27 0.87 Common soap . . . . . . . 20.00 5.00 Saleratus or bicarbonnate of soda 21.54 8.50 Sal soda, washing soap. 20.93 1.31 Borax, refined 21.22 1.3 1 Lime 9.17 5.00 China and crockery not decorated 55.00 35.00 Grindstones 9.21 8.33 Bicycles 45.00 25.00 Pocket knives 77.68 35.00 Pocket knives . . . . . 55.00 Razors 72.36 35.00 Razors >. . 55.00 Scissors and shares .. .53.77 3 0.00 Knives and forks 41.98 27.00 Furniture ....3 5.00 15.00 Cattle 27.07 10.00 Macaroni, etc 84.25 23.81 Rice cleaned 5 4.05 33.33 Eggs 36.38 1 4.29 Stocks, etc., of fruit tfee3 54.44 27.58 Mineral waters 43.56 30.00 Spool thread 22.95 15.00 Cotton cloth ...i 42.74 26.69 Cotton clothing 50.00 30.00 Stockings, hose and half hose selvedged ....75.38 50.00 Men's and boy's cotton work gloves 89.lt 35.00 Knit shirts, drawers, etc., and underwear . 60.27 25.00 Collars and cuffs 49.1 0 30.00 manners za.uu Flannels ,93.29 30.00 Clothing ready made, women's and children's dress goods..99.70 33.00 Sewing silk 25.00 15.00 Wrapping paper 35.00 25.00 Hooks 25.00 15.00 Brooms 4 0.00 15.00 Matches 27.59 14.00 Harness and saddlery, other than leather.. 35.00 20.00 India rubber, manufactures of ,....35.00 10.00 Lead pencils 39.00 25.00 The new rates are estimated to reduce the customs revenue approxi* mately $80,000,000 a year. This is expected to be made up by the income tax. Indorsed by President Wilson, the measure represents the efforts of the president and the house tariff makers to carry into effect Democratic pledges of downward revision and of concessions to the r American consumer. * Protection to the farmer would be cut throughout by more than 50 per cent, in an effort to reduce the cost of food. Protection to the steel and implement manufacturer would in turn be cut by fully as wide a margin. Heaviest reductions fall upon foodstuffs, agricultural products, TELLS SHOCKING STORY ANOTHER ARCTIC EXPLORING PARTY IS LOST. Many Aro Relieved to Have Perished From Scurvy, Exposure and Starvation. # Failure lias overtaken the German Arctic expedition under Lieut. Scliroeder-Stranz. Most of the members are believed to have died on the ice from starvation, exposure or scurvy and the commander-in-chief is missing. Fhlir llf (tin ! . returning to Advent Bay, Spitsbergen mid 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 lie started on a sledge expedition alone in August last year. Capt. KitzeluM 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 revived hopes that a few others may be alive. Among the party, besides the ollicers and crew, were several German scientists, including a geologist, a botanist and an oceanographer. Kxperience in polar work was almost entirely lacking and the equipment was said to be very poor. The intention of the party was to pave the way for a more important expedition under Lieut. Schroeder-Stranz, which was to endeavor to make the northeast passage later this year. ? ? DKATII FOLLOWS Dl'KL. Tuo Young Men Fight About a V()H?.n Cuban Woman. Rudolph Warren, son of Jere Warren, a prominent American sugar planter, died in a hospital at Havana Monday from a pistol wound in the abdomen which he received in a duel riimduy with Hannibal Mesa, mem bet o fa wealthy Cuban family. The two young men recently had several physical encounters and were reputed to be rivals for a woman's affection. The duel was at thirtylive paces. Warren fell at the first lire. Mesa was not harmed. Warren made a statement to the police that he had accidentally shot himself. Immediately after the duel IMesa sailed for New York 011 the steamer "Habana". The utmost reticence is being maintained 011 all sides regarding the affair. The Cuban government is taking measures to procure the arrest and extradition of Mesa on his arrival in New York, lie will be charged with homicide. ? ? Awful State of Affairs. The Rarnesville News-Gazette di uLLtMiuun lu mc itit'i mat ten killings have occurred in Tike County, (la., since the October terra of Pike superior court. A similar record is being made all over Georgia and the country. Life is about the cheapest thing there is. Hundreds of citizens of Pike County go around daily with pistols in their pockets with the purpose already formed in their minds to take human life if only provoked." This is an awful condition of affairs for a country like ours. woolen and cotton cloth. The free wool proposal backed by President Wilson and accepted by the House committee, is expected to provoke a severe fight within the Democratic ranks of both houses. It had not become clear whether the Democratic opponents of free wool and free sugar in the Senate would be able to force a compromise on one or both those provisions. The decision to make a gradual reduction in the sugar tariff was reached by the president and the House committee after Louisiana cane growers declined to accept a compromise that would have established 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 the present tariff law. The new tar ifr rates would bo the maximum tariff and the president would be Riven authority to negotiate reciprocity treaties and make concessions to countries that grant favors to American exports. In a statement accompanying the till 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 our commerce, bring relief to the people in the matter of the high cost of living and at the same time work no detriment to property conducted , manufacturing industries." "In its tariff levision work the ( committee has kept in mind," he i said, "the distinction between neces shies and the luxuries of life, reduc- < ing the tariff burdens on the neces- < slties to the lowest points commen- s surate with revenue requirements i and making the luxuries of life bear j their proper proportion of the tariff ] responsibilities. Many items of man- i u&acture controlled by monopolies i have been placed on the free list." < WILSON'SMESSAGF WHICH HE READ IN PERSON TO THE CONGRESS THE PEOPLES BURDEN Culls Attention to the Tariff, and Says it Must bo Revised in Accordunco With the Promises Made, So That the Masses May he Relieftiled anil Helped. The following is the full text of ?Vl? moaonirn ...I.O.K I>- ! .1 * ??-:i >nv Iin n nail I K'SUH'Ill \\ 11SOM read in person to Congress on Tuesday: "i have called Congress together in extraordinary session be cause a duty was laid upon the party now in power at the recent 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 not he kept too long in suspense as to what tho fiscal changes are to ho which they will be required to adjust themselves. It is clear to the whole country tha' the tariff duties must be altered. They must be economic life which the country has witnessed within the las' generation. While *!ie whole fae? and method of our industrial and commercial life were being change 1 beyond recognition tho tariff schedules have remained what they were > before the change began, or have moved in the direction they were giv- j en when no large circumstance o;' j our industrial development was what' it. is to-day. our task is to square i them with tho actual facts. The sooner that is done the sooner we shall escape from suffering from tnc facts and the sooner our men of ousiness will be free to thrive by the law j of nature (the nature of free business) instead of by the law of legislation and artificial arrangement. "Wo have seen tariff legislation wander very far afield in our dayvery far indeed from the field in 1 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 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 "pro-' tecting" the industries of the country and moved bodily forward to the! idea that they were entitled to the direct patronage of the government. For a long time?a time so long that the men now active in public policy hardly remember the conditions that preceded it?we have sought in our tariff schedules to give each group of manufacturers or producers what they themselves thought that they: needed in order to maintain a practi-' cully exclusive market as against the ' rest of the world. Consciously or unconsciously, we have built up a set of privileges and exemptions from competition behind which it was easy by any, even the crudest, forms of combination to organize nionoply; until at last nothing is normal, nothing is obliged to stand the tests of i efficiency and economy, in our world of big business, but everything >hrives by concerted arrangement. Only new principles of action will save us from a final hard crystalization of monoply and a complete loss of the' Influences that quicken enter pris and keep independent energy alive. "It is plain what those principles , must be. We must abolish exery- j thing that bears even the semblance; of privilege, and put our business men i and producers under the stimulation ; of constant necessity to be efficient, I economical and enterprising, masters of competitive supremacy, better workers and merchants than any ?n the world. Aside from the duties laid upon articles which we do not, and probably can not, produce, therefore, and the duties laid upon luxuries and merely for the sake of the ;e ( venues yield, the object of the tariff ' duties henceforth laid must he effective competetion, the whetting ol American wits by contest with tlie wits of the rest of the worl !. "It would be unwise to move toward this end headlong, with reckless haste, or with strokes that cut at the very roots of what lias giown up amongst us by long process and at our own invitation. It does not alter a tiling to upset it and roi 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/oiopment, a more free and wholesome development, not revolution or upset or confusion. We must build up trade. We need the outlet and the enlarged Held or energy more than we ever did before. We must adopt freedom in the 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 will be a matter of judgment, exer- i 2ised item by item. To some not accustomed to the excitements and responsibitities of greater freedom our i methods may in some respects and i it some points seem heroic, but re- ; medies may be heroic and yet be re- : medies. It is our business to make ] jure that they are genuine remedies. 3ur object is clear. If our motive j i Your I 4fcould have the b'eet of atte I natural Ufa Get the full bem make him valuable to you?a keeping him in first-class con Keep him insured and pre | hand for emergency a bottle < J Don't experiment with unl< diet?but use these tested and nuau 9 nun contain no dope whatever. Beware of medicines mad die from being treated with < than if none had been given al heart or run-down condition .When the reaction sets in the Noah's Horse Medicines a larger public Institutions, by i people in the live stock and supplied regularly in quantiti riane. Urge contractor*, min twhicn U the bast recommend [rWg! AUVIlt TO FARMERS ; I ? TIIKY SHOl l,l? r:\KKT rOMTICAli IN l< LI IvNCi:. ?. So Declares li. M. Rhodes in Address llefore Meclin^ of <ieor;*in Inion at Atlanta. In an address delivered before the annual convention of the (leorgiu division of the National Farmers' union : which convened in Atlanta Thursday I , for a two-day's session, L. M. Rhodes, | president of the Tennessee division and chairman of the national board of directors, pleaded for more unity and urged the fanners to organize and assert their intiuence in politics, non-partisan however, in order to secure recognition and legislation of benefit to their interests. In prefacing his remarks, Mr. Rhode* declare^ the farmers were a failure in a business and urged them to pay more attention to that end of their life's work. "In this country," said the speaker, "there are trade organizations whose successes point out only the plainly reasons why the far- t mer should awake to the realization that ho is entitled to the same recognition. This Is the prime object ( of the farmers union and we must 1 band together as these other bodies 1 have done, it is the only means by , which we will ever amount to any- 1 tiling. There is no reason in the 1 world why the planter should not , control the product us well as raise 1 it. The time has come for us to be ' the master instead ?f the slave. ^ "The farmer has helped to fight the country's battles, he is the cor- j nerstone of our wealth, the main- i spring of our progress, the bulwark 1 of our defense and the future groat- i r.oss of the country rests on his c shoulders. lie produces the prime i necessities of life. Stop the plow, ] i eliminate the crop, and there would 1 j bo no 'tallest buildings', 'queen cities' | l or 'fastest trains in the world*. In j c the 1mst nmirtor r?f :> ppntepv i I for. ' . mer has produced enough wealth to 1 buy all tlio property in the lTnited 1 States. Yet they are not holding' j their own. Twelve years ago they ! f. owned one-fourth of the wealth in j v the country, and now it has dwin- 1 died to one-fifth. | ? a is above just challenge and only an occasional error of judment is (1 chargeable against us, we shall be t fortunate. a "We are called upon to render the t country a great service in more mat- o ters than one. Our responsibilities t should he met and our methods ji should be thorough, as thorough as s moderate and well considered, based n upon the facts as they are, and not ti worked out as if we were beginners. ( We are to deal with the facts of our ti own day, with the facts of no other, p and to make laws, which square with . those facts. It Is best, indeed, it is r necessary, to begin with the tariff, p I will urge nothing upon you now at the opening of your session which f; can obscure that first object or di- o vert our energies from that clearly y defined duty. At a later time I may c tako the liberty of calling your at- t< tention to reforms which should b press close upon the heels of the tar- d iff changes, If not accompany them, ti of which the chief is the reform of e which the chief Is the reform of s our banking and currency laws; but fi just now I refrain. For the present, s< I put these matters on one side and b think only of this one thing?of the ti changes in our fiscal system which s may best sorve to open once more the h free channels of prosperity to a great people whom we would servo to the e utmost and throughout both rank fi and file." p Horse tntion and care during his efit of pleasure, or work, and .s you should value him?by dltion. >tected by always having on each of Noah's Medicines, mown and dope-made remcl guaranteed medicine. e Remedies e up of dope?more animals drugged and doped remedies t nil. An animal with a weak cannot stand being; drugged. y usually die. re used and endorsed by our the largest concerns and best livery business. They are es to many leading veterinasr(L express companies, eta* AttOCL I High Grade Sec ? .V.IX^jN'SSKKDSCUOW. The) | LONG AND SI 1QRT S % The best Varieties. Wri | CORN, SORGUM, MH | Our Corn is all HKiII-llH Y Got our illustrated Catalogui | W. H. Mixsoi I CHARLESTON ????????e?o? &2k -..?.- i*. WE IIAVE 200 ? ? Velvt o ^ A(XX)I'NT w. E. I to ^ $2.75 1*10It III'. F. O. ? Charleston ] 92-4 Market St -o? ??????????? MlflmUHMnHMMaHMfMai "In the struggle for the comfor conveniences and luxuries of life, he American farmer has fallen 1 lind, has not kept apace with oth vocations, he has no one to blame h limself. Nature put into his han he commodities that succor t ,vorld. The only reason that he lot king of creation is because lie h )een outgeneraled in the battle vita. "Farmers of America, should 1 i-o on without a protest while trut tnd corporations are constant tnocking at the door of congress as ng for special privilege to 10b a ippress us, and men are making mo let gains speculating and gambli n our products than we are makii iroduclng them? Can wo stand id iy without a protest while our ch iren are ground into dividends ai >ur wives working as field hand W ing a patriot to the manner bor ooking back over the records of t >ast, taking a historic view of t graves of dead nations that ha vobbled out of the orb of righteoi less and died with an overdose ;raft and concentration of wealt nd knowing that the United Stat s loitering in tlie primrose path (alliance, so to speak, and knowii hat the prosperity that comes 1 ceumulation instead of productio he prosperity of graft, the prosperi f Injustice, the prosperity of oxto ion, the prosperity of tribute, tl trospority that thrives by opprc ion, t lie prosperity that depends < lastery and servitude, cannot mai [ in a republic or foster our liberti Fgypt, Home, Assyria, Greece, a ried this gilded pathway, and tin erished), will the American fame 'illingly see himself chained to tl nek while the vultures of despotis rey upon the vitals? "Knowing that a republic om alien has never risen, that the ruii f freedom have never regained the outh, will we not change oi nurse? Are we willing to contini "> bo nailed by the nail trust, dope y the drug trust, skinned by tl octor trust., plugged by the denti 1*11 at 111/ Uin (I Ann K.,e> ar.1 . l?VM 1/J I tiv. IIVIIII 1.1 Hill ! Oil 1 d by the suit trust, sweetened by tl ugar trust, stitched by the maehii rust, roasted by the coal trus cratched by the match trust, chilli v the ice trust, lathered by the so? rust, canned by the tin trust, an kipped by no trust all because v ave no farmers' trust? "Surely, if the farmers of the Unl d States could understand, coul Lilly realize, keenly and quickly, tl erlls to country life that lieth In tl . ) 1 hrfpfjfse RMVa Coll? Raotlf U r aoa? mendsd for that most danffsro^a disease, Colin, and Is harmles* In At* " effect. Hlmple to administer?<lT?n < uii win luiiKuo. ^n?ap in price?ooe J a bottle. And worth $60 to any stock owner. Yellow box. red and blaok ' printing, J N'oah'a Fever Remedx la a medict n o for fevor, colda, dlatemper, Influenza. lung troubles and the treatment of milk fever In oowa Olveti . on the tongue. Two sices, BOo and \ 91.00. liluo box. red and blaok printing. Noah's Kara-Gall Ointment# for freah cuta, old soros, scratches, collar galls, aore backs and thrush In horaea' feet. 2."o per ean. Bronxe can, red and black printing. Noah's Llnlinent la the best allround family and ntable romedy on tho market. Oontalna no aloohoU ohloroform, ammonia, naphtha, bnnstne or poisonous drugn. 2.lo, BOo and 91.00 a bottle. Gallon wina gt 90.0O White boiua, red and bUunc printing. The gennlne Noah's Medlolneg have Noah's Ark?registered tradtj Erk?on every outside box and eL Word "Noah's" always m . Beware of subatltutea old b|r all dealer# la medtgdap or g?at prepaid on receipt of tiiftoa Made In UlcSunond. ku by tKe^oak Hemedy Oa, bio. ( 1 ;d and Farm Lai ds Y ftire ki'onvu 111 tho South foi im boi.u i> TAPLE UPLAND COTTON * """ < to ur, for prices and Information. < .LET. VELVET BEAN'S f<c i! lil) SOUTH CAROLINA COKN. {! i k e uf all Vegetable and Farm Seeds. 0 1 Sppfi r - ? A, SOUTH CA KOI 4 IN A X >?@??0????a?3>3? HUKIIIOI/S CIKIK'IO ? 0 it Beans @ iSK.MAN, I.^KSIIOItK, l'l.A. a It. Charleston, S. C. 0 Fruit Company, ? CHARLESTON, S. C. ? t s, I INI) ANOTIIKIl CAVK. if >o- !? Is Larger Than the Famous Cave or u( in Kentucky. / j o With what appears to bo pre-his1h" toric hieroglyphics carved on its walls, a mammoth cave, rivaling the UH famous cave of Kentucky, was discovered near Ogden, Utah, Monday. Thomas Whitaker, a rancher, made the discovery. He will head a party Rs 0f University of Utah professors on ly a tour of investigation. The cave is located in the mountains near Promts! cntory Point, eigliteen miles from re Ogden, and has probably never been ng visited by white; men, as tin; surrtg rounding country is a bleak desert.. lI-N Tlie front cliamber is 75 by 150 i I Yards. II foot hinh. and tho wulia Il<| hour pictures of Indians crudely s drawn. There is an Indian legend II current in that locality to the effect ,u> that a great battle was fought years ago between two tribes near the vo point, the vanquished having perishlH" ed in a mammoth cave. h' DHMOC 'RATS &WKKP CIIICARO. z ? ? ol Progressive Republicans Makes Veq/ * -? Poor Show. n, ty Democrats swept Chicago in Wedir nesday's municipal election, returntio ing twenty-two aldermen, and the a- Superior Court Judge, city clerk and jn city treasurer. The proposed bond a- issue of $2,880,000, urged by the cs Hearst-Harrison factions of the l)emIII ocratic party, carried by a small mur?y gin. Republicans elected eleven alr?r dermen, Progressives three, and Inie dependents one. Tho Progressives m had candidates in every ward, but failed to show strength, being outce voted by the Republicans by nearly [is three to one throughout the city. The ir Socialist vote was consistently scatir tored through all the wards, and was ie not far below the Progressive total. Hi ie rapidly increasing rates in tenantry; st. the rapidly rising value of farm t- lands; the feverish anxiety if capital \e to buy farm land in large holders are ic monopolizing the land areas of Amer,t, ica, the appalling increase of a. homehI less, houseless class In this country; tp the lure of the city and the deadly id throat of illiteracy, ignorance and /q servitude, they would all come together and make the greatest eftort t- known to history to check the cause Id and find a cure for the ills that are ie so deadly in their menace to Amori10 can farm life."