The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 18, 1913, Image 7
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IMPORTATION INTO IRELAND IS
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ASQUITH IS SR1QUS
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Takes First Stop Towards Conciliation
With 1 1st or, Favoring Carson's
Plan?British Cahinet for
First Time Takos a Hand in thoj
Irish lloino ltiilo Question. |
The British cabinet, by a royal
proclamation promulgated Friday
night prohibiting the importation of
arms and ammunition into Ireland,
r the first time grasped the nettle
the revolution in Ulster, which it
therto had ignored, although the
llowers of Sir Edward Carson for
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.miiiim iiuyu m-t'ii an \ i-i i im UK uii'ii
military preparations in every possible
way and daring interference
with them.
Almost at (he time of publication
of tho proclamation Premier Asquith
made, tho longest step towards the
conciliation of tho Ulsterites that the
government has taken by announcing
his acceptance of the principles of a
basis of agreement with Sir Edward
Carson suggested in his last speech.
These principles are: First. that
the settlement must not ho humiliatinging
or degrading to Ulster; second,
Ulstor's treatment must not be
different or exceptional from that
meted out to tho other parts of the
United Kingdom; third, Ulster must
retain full protection of the Imperial
Parliament; fourth, the homo rule
hill must not ho such as to lead to
ultimate separation of Ulster from
Groat Britain.
Thus the government extends to
*ho signers of tho Ulster covenant
?e olive branch. The proclamation
rohlbiting tho importation of arms
nd ammunition into Ireland, which
ling George signed at a meeting of
_hc Privy Council Thursday, and
which Friday was published in the
Royal Gazette, was milder than rumors
had anticipated It would he.
Instead of reviewing the Irish Crimes
Act it invoked the Customs Consolidation
Act of 1 87G.
Premier Asquith's pronouncement
was made, as many of his most im
portant declarations on British politics
have boon, in an after-dinner
speech. The premier was tho guest
3f honor of the Reform Club at Manchester.
Tt was in this same city and
>n a similar occasion that Sir Edward
Larson's overtures were made, so
;hat it would appear that tho nego.lations
for a settlement of tlie Irish
:ontroversy wero taking tho course of
nformal public debate.
Dealing with Sir Edward Carson's
tasis of settlement categorically, Prenior
Asquitli said he was sure Sir
Idward must agreo that tho statelont
that there could be no settlelent
worthy tho name that would bo
umillating or degrading to those for
-horn Sir Edward spoke should nply
to nil sections of the Irish people.
)n tho second point Mr. Asquith
1 he supposed Sir Edward referred
what formerly was called "home
a all round." Ireland's case, he
led, was a case of urgency and
ust come first. It could not be devnd
until thr> fnvom ni nil t tina crrwir.
rough the complicated process of
lopting the principle of home rule
all the different parts of the United
Ingdom.
The premier said ho agreed there
ust be no ultimate separation of
Bland from Great Britain. The real
d effective authority, supremo and
Questionable, ho said, must ho reined
by the Imperial Parliament.
Mr. Asqulth's speech comes at an
iir when the newspapers of both
rties considered that attempts at a
.tlement had reached the stago of
adlock. If the compromise is
nented the agitation over the
ny, which lias grown bitter, will
one of the strongest reasons for
Sir Edward Carson and several
tmlnent Unionists, notably Uord
osdowne and Andrew Bonar haw,
speeches suggested that the otlls
should resign and the soldiers
use to fire if ordered to light felProtestants.
The most appropriate Christmas
; Congress could make to the
ntry would be the prompt pase
of the currency bill.
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FLOOD DEALS DISASTER j
DEATH LIST WILL PROBABLY GO
IMX) 1IUNDKEDS.
Problem Now Chan^'-H From Hoscuc
Work to Tlwit of Providing Home
for 2,0()0 Refugees.
Sunday's dispatches increased tlie
numher of known dead in the Texas
floods to sixty-one, with the possibility
that a heavy toll of drownings reported.
hut not yet confirmed, at Sunnyside,
in Waller county, Texas,
would increase this number.
The crest of the Brazos River flood
Sunday night was Hearing Hrazory
county, which borders on the Gulf,
and the peak of the Colorado River
flood was approaching Matagorda
county, also on the Gulf. As the
water passed southward the damage,
incident to the overflow grew correspondingly.
Reports Saturday night from Welborn
that twelve negroes and a Mexican
had been drowned 011 the Allen
plantation, at the junction of the
Navasota and Brazos rivers, and that
twenty-five negroes had met death in
the flood waters 011 the Parker plantation
in the same vicinity, have not
yet been confirmed.
Fifty persons, mostly negroes, are
ronnrl ed tn hnm Imnn r?
Sunnysido, a small town on the lower
llrazos, Sunday night. It Is said between
4 00 and f?00 persons are marooned
on a small mound at San Felipe
and are In great danger. A special
train loaded with motorboats
was dispatched from Houston to rescue
them.
J. It. Garrett, a planter, who telephoned
to Houston for assistantce,
reported that the entire Brazos bottom
in Waller county, is Hooded; that
a number of houses had floated away,
and that refugees were clinging to
trees and housetops. Boats are being
constructed as rapidly as possible to
rescue those imperiled. Sunnysido is
eight miles north of Brookshiro. Mr.
Garrett said that warning was given
the residents of the lowlands of the
approaching Hood Saturday, but that
many of them refused to leave their
homes.
The task of rescue along the forty
miles of flooded Brazos Valley was
succeeded hy tho problem of providing
for 2,000 or more refugees. Reports
from tho Hooded territory
brought by motorboats showed that
between 700 and 1,00 0 persons are
marooned in ginhouses and large
plantation residences, safo from tho
Hood, but in urgent need of food and
clothing.
Sunday night at Horso Shoe Bend,
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bo hoard tlio singing and praying of
fifty negroes facing death in a rocking
ginhouso on an island a mile and
a half out. The flood strechos almost
to the horizon, six miles or more, dotted
hero and there hy a roof or the
steeple of a submerbed church. The
forty-mile levee is the refuge of domestic
animals at points where it did
not all cave in.
MANY RESCUED.
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Passengers Change Boats Until Fire
is Extinguished.
Wireless reports received at Nor-j
folk Sunday night tell of the rescue
of 107 passengers from the steamer
Rio Grande hy the steamer-Swanmore
Sunday morning 205 miles northwest
of Diamond Shoals. The Rio Grande
had a fire in her hold and sent out
wireless calls for assistance.
The Swanmore picked them up and
went to the assistance of tho burning
steamer. She reached tho Rio Grande
beforo daybreak. Slio took off her
passengers and after helping to sub
duo 1110 names, put them back on
board the Rio Grande. Tho latter
steamer is said to be proceeding on
her voyage with tho ilro under control.
Only meagre reports of tho fire
and rescue have been received. Wireless
reports gave tho name of the
burning steamer as "Ringrande", but
marine men say there is no such
steamer registered. They say it is
tho American steamer Rio Grande,
which plies between New York and
Southern ports.
I'M SUA li CASE.
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Saluda Girl (Jets $.1,000 Damages for
>1 ist roatment.
On the ground that an agent of the
southern Railway company had encouraged
others to attempt to hug
and kiss Miss Emma Rodgers, a 16year-old
Saluda girl, a jury in the
court of common pleas at Saluda returned
a verdict of $1,000 in favor
of tho young woman. A motion for
a new trial was overruled.
It appears that Miss Rodgers,
wliilo in tho passengor station at
Ward in August last, was mistreated,
and the allegation of the complaint
was that tho agent of defendant failed
and neglected to givo the protection
to tho young girl that tho law
requires and that, acting in concert
with others, lie aided and abetted and
encouraged others to attempt to hug
and kiss tho plaintiff. Miss Rodgers
is only about 10 years of age and
was on her way to Craniteville to
visit relatives when the alleged misconduct
and maltreatment occurred.
A verdict for $l,00u was returned
against tho railroad.
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RtPOKISJO HOUSE
NVtSTIfiATlNIi CIIMMITTEE DISCOVERED
LOBBIES
WILSON'S CHARGE TRUE
House Committee Hands in Results of
Investigation of Cluu^es by Mulbali
ami Reports McDermott Not
Wholly Clear?Progressive Member
lias Minority Report.
All questions relating to the investigation
of the Mulhall lobby charges
late Tuesday were referred by the
National House of Representatives to
its judiciary committee. This action
followed a long parliamentary debate
over the report of the special investigating
committee arranging lobbying
activities at the capital and holding
Representative McDermott of Illinois,
a Democrat, "guilty of acts ol
grave impropriety unbecoming the
dignity of the position he occupies,"
and a minority report submitted by
Representatives McDonald, Progressive,
of Michigan, with resolutions
proposing the expulsion of Representative
McDermott and contempt
proceedings against olHcers of the
Nfltlnnnl A UUMnlol Ifin nf Unmifnnt"
era.
Tho majority report, which made
no recommendations, was signed by
Chairman Garrett and all the members
of the committee except Representative
McDonald. The results of
tho long investigation were made
public Tuesday in the two reports, a
majority report signed by Democrats
and Republicans alike and a supplemental
report tiled by Representative
McDonald of Michigan.
Tho majority made no recommendation
but replied that Representative
McDermott had been guilty of
acts of grave impropriety, unbecoming
the dignity of his position, though
"we can not say that ho has heen
corrupted in his votes."
The majority report also held that
McDermott, having intimate relations
I with 1. II. McMicliaol, former chief
page of the House, knew that M. M.
Mulhall, "a lobbyist for tho National
Association of Manufacturers," employed
McMlchael. The majority held
that both the National Association of
Manufacturers and tho American
Federation of Labor engaged in political
activities and expended money to
effect nominations and election of
members of the House of Representative.
Representative McDonald, who
agreed with the majority findings, declared
that congress had fallen somewhat
from its high estate in tho estimation
of the American people, that
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of conditions existing in congress that
a system lias been built lip for defeating
remedial legislation. Ho made
recommendations for legislative reforms.
The main conclusions of the majority
deilne a lobby as "a person or
body of persons seeking to influence
legislation by congress in any manner
whatsoever." The National Association
of Manufacturers, the Council
for Industrial Defense, the National
TarilT Federation association, the
American Federation of Labor, the
Washington City Associations of
Liquor Dealers and local loan sharks
are found to have maintained lobbies.
Mulhall is held to have admitted
errors in some vital statements made
in his charges, but to have been corroborated
in other matters of importance
by olhcials of the National Association
of Manufacturers and National
Council for Industrial Defense.
Mulhall, the report says, was extravagant
in many of his claims.
The lobby of the Association of
Manufacturers and of ttao Council of
Industrial Defense is held guilty of
improperly preventing and seeking to
prevent legislation. Gravest doubt
was expressed as to propriety of acts
of Mulhall and James E. Emery,
counsel for tho manufacturers. Nothing
illegitimate was found in tho activity
of tho American Federation of
Labor.
The lobbies of liquor dealers and
money lenders in Washington were
found to have neither effected nor
prevented legislation improperly. No
evidence was found of employment, of
members of tho House for improper
purpose. Tipping of House employees
was denounced as reprehensible. Employment
by manufacturers' associations
of McMlchael, former chief page
of the House, was severely censured.
Admitted to tlio liar.
Tho State board hns recommended
tbat tho following be admitted to tho
bar: J. C. McGowan, of Laurens;
Paul S. Dodson, of Abbeville; Olln L.
Etack, of Columbia; D. E. Pinley Jr.,
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. I/WVTIUO, v* . *\. in&utl,, UI Ol. Matthews;
John T. Sloan, of Columbia;
T. M. Munro, of Union; James M.
Lynch, of Florence.
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Bntesburg Man Wounded.
J. Milton Tllte, bookkeeper for L.
D. Cullom, was shot and seriously
wounded in bis borne at Bato.sburg
Saturday night. Although It is said
that, tbo shooting was accidental, it
has been absolutely Impossible to
learn any of the details of the affair,
which seems to bo shrouded in doep
mystery.
WOMEN ADVISE WILSON
SIXTY SVFFHACKTTES TALK TO
THE PRESIDENT.
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In n Pleasant Cliat With Ills Callers
Wilson Says He Favors House Committee
on Woman Suffrage.
Woman suffrage?the question
which has vigorously projected itself
in the political forum?confronted
President Wilson Monday personified
by sixty members of the National
American Suffrago Association, who
plerrded that he use his Influence with
congress to obtain tho ballot for the
women of tho nation.
It was the first time the President
had been brought face to faco with
the issue in a formal way. lie told
his callers that whatever might be
his personal views on woman suffrage
or any other subject, he made it a
rule not to urge legislation upon Congress
that had not been the subject of
"organic consideration" bv tho nom
oeratic party, of which ho considered
himself the spokesman.
The President said that when members
of Congress consulted him ho
would freely give his views, and he
added that having already been asked
his opinion about the organization of
a standing committee in (ho House of
Representatives to consider woman
suffrngo ho had expressed himself in
favor of such a committee.
It was a quiet earnest group of suffragists
who stood in a circle, with
the President in its centre, In the
White House ofllces. Most of them
had walked in defiance of a freezing
gale, enthusiastic about their mission
and determined to get an expression
from the Chief Executive.
Tho President nodded pleasantly to
the women, who had formed a circle
around him, and Dr. Shaw stepped
forward. In a low voice she told in a
straightforward, simple way how unavailing
had been the frequent pilgrimages
of the women in Washington
and how committees of Congress
had listened courteously, hut had
"buried their case." She appealed to
tho President "in tho spirit of justice"
to urge upon Congress to pass
an amendment to the Federal constitution
to ho submitted to the States
that would give women the right to
vote throughout he land.
Tho president listened in silence.
Ho was not asked to givo his own
views on woman suffrage so ho did
not givo it to them. On the proposal
to send a message to congress he cited
his rule of adhering to party poliI
tiCS. intimatini? that when nnnoiiHn/l
by members of Congress lie might
give bis views freely.
There was a pause after the President
finished speaking, an air of not
having quite been satisfied, and Dr.
Shaw resumed:
"Sinco we are not members of any
political party," she asked, "who is
going to speak for us?there is 110
one to speak for us?"
"I realize that," interjected the
President.
"?unless we speak for ourselves."
"And you do that very admirably,"
rejoined Mr. Wilson, and a general
laugh broke the solemnity of the occasion.
"I should liko to shako hands with
as many of you as want," added the
President smilingly, and several women
stepped forward. Others hung
back and drifted out of the otfice.
Those who stayed behind spoke cordially
to the President of his courtesy
in receiving the delegation after
his illness, and some referred to having
voted for him in suffrage States.
TYPHOID CASKS.
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Number of Cases in the State by
Counties.
Physicians of South Carolina exhibit
in respect of typhoid much the
same laxness as is charged against
them in respect of other "reportable"
diseases, according to the State
health officer, James Adams Hayne,
M. D., who says in his forthcoming
annual report that out of approxim
atal V 0 COA nnanet #1 ~ 1
j i',v? 1/ v v/uouo vini nif^ niu curruui
year but S02 cases have been reported
as the law requires. Typhoid is a
(liseaso "of tho rural districts rather
than of the cities", Dr. llayno says,
and it bulks large 011 the horizon of
public health work in tlie State.
Reported cases have been distributed
this year as follows: Abbeville
22, Aiken 22, Anderson 27, Bamberg
5, Barnwell 12, Beaufort 7, Berkeley
f?, Calhoun 4, Charleston 72,
Cherokee 8, Chester 17, Chesterfield
5, Clarendon 4, Darlington 26, Dillon
12, Dorchester 2, Edgefield 4,
Fairfield 4, Florence 25, Georgetown
10, Greenville 04, Greenwood 7, Kershaw
6, Lancaster 22, Laurens 16,
Lee 12, Lexington 15, Marlon 22,
Marlboro 14, Newberry 22, Oconee
19, Orangeburg 47, Pickens 28, Richland
4 6, Saluda 21. Snartanhurer 4 2.
Sumter 21, Union 1, Williamsburg
11 and York 26.
In n Class to Himself.
Tho flreenville News says: "When
a governor pardons dead men and
then pardons for a second time a
criminal and gives assurance to a certain
class of criminals that pardons
are waiting for them if they are ever
convicted, it looks as if tho. pardon
business had been pushed to the limit."
It would bo for any governor
but Itlease, but ho is in a class all
alone.
MENACE PROPERTY
FOREIGN POSSESIONS IN SENALOA
IN DANGER
FEDERALS LEVY WAR TAX
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Hocuuso of Threatened Confiscation
Upon Failure to Pay Tax Foreigners
Have Appealed to Their Consuls
Who Are Taking the Matter
up With Their Home Government.
The American charge d'affaires,
Nelson O'Shaughnessy, recently notified
Washington that the property of
foreign residents in the State of Sinaloa
was in imminent danger of confiscation
by the Federal authorities
as a war measure. The charge has
received instructions to investigate
the constitutionality of the act, and
if ho finds it is not sanctioned by law,
to register a protest with the Mexican
government.
Tho confiscation of property has
been threatened in default of payment
of a 5 per cent tax arbitrarily
imposed by tho government of Sinaloa.
Foreigners generally have ap
peaieu inrougn their consuls to the
diplomatic representatives in the
Mexican capital. The French minister
has reported to his government,
asking for instructions; but the English
and German minister havo advised
their nationals at Mazatian to
pay the tax under protest. The America
n charge has prepared a memorandum
for presentation to Senor Moheno,
the Mexican minister of foreign
affairs. The order of the governor
requires the payment of a tax on all
real and personal property, regardless
of the nationality of the owner,
and a warning is issued that unless
the tax is paid by December IS confiscation
will he summary.
Consular reports say the governor
explained that the levy was absolutely
necessary to raise money for the
payment of the troops. Two banks
and several commercial houses
already have closed their doors and
the conditions of the people generally
is becoming desperate from lack of
money. Business houses, including
thoso under foreign ownership,
already have contributed 115,000
pesos ($57,500) to a fund for the
troops, according to consular advices.
A parade of 200 young women in
the capital Wednesday reflected the
impoverished condition to which
many of smaller towns havo been reduced.
They were seamstresses
thrown out of employment by the
' closing of factories, where the exclusive
output consisted of soldiers uniforms.
These same women recently
appealed to President Huerta. They
went to the palace again, and again
the president refused to see them.
Afterwards they inarched through
the principal streets, displaying banners
on which was inscribed, "We all
want work." The husbands of many
of these women are in the army service
and tho women aro dependent
upon their own resources.
Prsldent Huerta again has asked
congress to vest him with full executive
powers to conduct the affairs
of the departments of war, finance
and tho interior. A hill to this effect
was introduced Wednesday in the
chamber. The deputies had just approved
a measure authorizing the
flotation of interior loan of 100,00
0 pesos at 5 per cent, to ho Immediately
issued. This was to he the
first of a series of five loans, and if
congress approve the president's request
for power over the finance department,
it will enable him to put
out the remaining four without further
formality.
That the reactionary Catholic party
element in congress has been induced
to see things from the president's
point of view was indicated by a
speech made in congress by Francisco
Pa son ol Claroln londnt* !-??
t v-Mvtvi v/i tuvj \r ell IJ ,
in which he declared that he was convinced
of the necessity of the country
being ruled by a dictator should be
subject to congressional approval. *
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lloys Prevent Wreck.
Two boys of Anderson, Ind., one 8
and tho other 1 0, who modestly refused
to give their names, Wednesday
saved Pig Four passenger train No.
4 8 from a probably disastrous wreck
just north of their homo town. The
boys were taking a short cut along
tho railroad track on their way to
school and found a rail 16 inches out
of place. They knew tho passenger
train was about duo and rushed
down tho track to meet it, took off
their coats and from tho middle of
tho track waved them until tho engineer
brought the train to a stop.
Pasesngers from the coaches made up
a large purso for the boys. *
Gray Haired Women Found Guilty.
Five gray haired women of tho village
of Volo, 111., who rode Mrs. John
Kicnarason on a rail one night last
July becauso her namo was linked by
gossip with that of her brother-inlaw,
have been fined $200 and sentenced
to six months in jail.
Shoots Two Sons.
An unknown nepro shot and killed
a white hoy and wounded his brother,
sons of a farmer named Itritt Manning,
residing in Sllco, La. The negro
escaped.
LOSE LIVES HUNTING
THIS SEASON'S DEATH LIST
BREAKS ALL KEOOKDS.
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Total Roaches 135?Some Wore
Reckless, Some Careless and Others
Just Had Hard Luck.
Tho liuiitiiik season, ending tlie
past week, cost 135 lives in 21 states.
In addition, 140 persons wero injured,
a number of them fatally. Wisconsin
was tho chief sufferer of tho
season, with a total of 2 9 dead and
2 7 injured. Michigan was next with
28 dead and 16 injured. New York
was third with 19 dead and one injured.
Tho careless handling of weapons
was tho chief cause of death. Thirtyseven
persons lost their lives at their
own hands. Twenty-four others shot
themselves, but escaped with lesser
injuries. Tho careless traveling
companion was held responsible for
24 deaths and one injury. The man
who shoots everything he sees moving
was held responsible for 17
deaths and ten injuries. Sixteen
hunters wero downed while searching
for game.
The killing of 5,180 deer in Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts
cost the lives of 13 persons
and more or less serious injury to
72 others. Of tho 1 I persons killed
In Maine, four wero mistaken for
deer ami shot by other hunters.
A total of 7,500 deer fell before
tho onslaught of shooters in Minnesota,
according to an estimate made
by H. A. Rider, of tho State Game
and Fish commission. It was tho
best season for shooting tho animals
in a decade, despite tho absence of
snow in tho northern woods. Eight
hunters wero killed and two injured.
Most of tho fatalities were duo to
men boing taken for deer, though a
majority of tho hunters wore red
caps.
No one was killed during tho Massachusetts
open week on deer, but
eight were injured, one hunter being
shot as he was taking a deer out of
tho woods on his shoulders. Deer
seemed to have been more plentiful
in Massachusetts than in other parts
of New England, 1,580 animals being
killed in a season of one week's duration.
BOGEY MAN IS BURIED.
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Tho New Tariff Ijuw is Working Well
for the Country.
In every Presidential and Congressional
campaign for tho last forty
years the protected interests, represented
by tho Republican party, have
trotted out their bogey man to scare
the business men and other timid
people into keeping tho Republican
party in power so as the protected
interests could continuo to plunder
tho masses through the high protective
tariff. As was the case in 189(1,
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? ucii me eiecuon 01 Air. uryan seemed
almost a certainty, a panic was
threatened to prevent it. For years
the people were in the hands of the
tariff barons, who plundered them
without mercy.
The influence which this threat to
bring on a panic has exerted has
manifested itself in many ways.
Ranks controlled by the interests refused
to extend loans except for those
politically friendly; conditional orders
were placed for largo amounts
of material, to bo delivered if tho Republicans
won or held up if tho Democrats
were successful. Railroad and
mill employees were warned not to
return to work the day after election
unless the Republican party was successful;
every possible device was
employed to compel voters to substitute
fear for intelligence in the casting
of their votes.
Rut these tactics failed in the last
campaign. A united Democracy, aided
by a division in tho Republican
party, succeeded in obtaining control
of the White House and of both
branches of Congress. Tho time was
opportune for a reduction of tho
tariff. The discussion that preceded
the enactment of the Rayne-Ahlrich
Dill bad revealed more clearly than
ever before the true inwardness of a
protective tariff measure. Progressive
Republicans, led by such men as
LaFolletto and Dolliver vied with
Democrats in showing up tho manner
in which tho beneficiaries of protection
conspired together to collect
their tribute through laws written
by themselves.
President Wilson, with the co-oporation
of Congress, succeeded in enacting
a law which materially reduces
import duties and puts a part of the
burden of government upon incomes
And how that law has opened tho
eyes of a multitude of honest, patriotic
men who were really led to believe
that disaster would follow in
tho wake of tariff reduction. As the
Commoner says, they must have been
surprised when tho sun rose as usual
the morning after the bill was signed.
Since then tho world has wagged on
in its usual way; tho timidity has
gone; the nervous prostration is
over, and tho country is freed from
a terrorism which has lasted for a
generation.
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lint. Held up Seven Trains.
Three express trains and four fast
freight trains on tho Pennsylvania
railroad were held up for 30 minutes
becauso a rat had eaten tho insulation
of a signal wire.