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BLAMES TARIFF LAW. MINORITY MMM it As MBA m?N FOR HU.ii COST OF LIYIX.. Theo?? Members of Commltt?H\ Among . it. Senator Smith, Give Their Reasons for Rising Cost?Say ' rruMte, Combine* anil >l? >n< p< >? i<is" oppre*?w The Musses For Bene? fit of trie Few. Washington, Aug. 15.?The tariffs, trusts. meines and monopolies and an increased money supply are the rfifiMi substantial causes for the ad? vance in prices in the United States, according to Senator Johnston of Alabama. Clarke of Arkansas and Smith of South Carolina, minority members of the select senate commit? tee, appointed during the last session of congress to investigate and make a report on wages and the prices of commodities. Vigorous attack is made, in the minority members' report, on almost all the reasons given by the majority in Its report, submitted some time ago, as to the cause for the advance in prices. "We are without sufficient data," say the minority members in their report Just completed, "to apportion tbs degree of responsibility between these three causes, but that the two | first are the chief malefactors we have no doubt; and they are of our own creation or permission." Attack Tariff. After attacking, one at a time, the 15 principal causes contributing, ac? cording to the majority report to the high cost of living, the minority mem? bers take up the tariff, declaring that when the Payne-Aldrich hill was framed "champagne was put on the schedules at from 54 to 66 per cent., whilst wearing apparel was taxed from 80 to 92 per cent.?drinking champagne was to be encouraged and wearing woolen clothes discouraged. So with hats." they add, "those bring? ing not over $4.50 per dozen were taxed 77 per cent, and those valued at more than $18 per dosen 47 per cent." The result of protection, they de? clare, (s "great fortunes for the few and great suffering for the many. We believe." they say, "that the amount of the tariff Is added to the price and taxed to the consumer; that but for the tariff the commodities we buy upon which that tax Is laid would be cheaper, approximately to the extent of the tariff) and that when we do not buy the Imported articles the protect? ed manufacturer puts approximately the amount of it on the goods pro? duced by him." f It Is Hard. "It Is difficult to understand how any one can favor high rates of duty if he does got honestly believe that It will increase the prices to be real- | Ired by the manufacturers producing the article affected, by diminishing or destroying competition, and thus necessarily increasing the cost to the nsumer, Then we were many times mournfully warned that any reduction In rates would flood our country with lower-pr1< ed German products, and that the smoke of American manufac? tures would disappear from the heavens. Now we are Informed that the tariff has not Increased the cost of these articles entering into every household and administering to the health and comfort of every family." ? wing the effect of the traiff on prices, they Instance sugar, on which the New York nsumer. they say, pay* more than the London consumes, by the difference between the sugar tariffs in the two countries, plus 17 j cents per loo pounds. It Is scarcely necessary," they add, "to mention the iniquitous wo?len ?ebedule?where the tariff rates are | so high on the*e hoccsettloi of our people as to practically pre. l?de any for*dirn competition with the Ameri? can manfueturer. except on high priced goods pUTChaSS' bp the wealthier consumer, who can. lo some extent, disregard price." Tm?.t- and Combine**. Taking up the subject of trusts. ? m'dnatlons and sgogjOpoHtg, tine fieelare that "there are few trusts that could survive a revenue tariff. They flourish only under the shadow of blgh protective walls. Standing bebln I thove walls that shut off for? eign seen petition and destroying do? rn? rows petition by consolidations snd ggf ?rption*. they are limited only to selllnsj at a fraction lees than the fnteggg pftee plm lhe protective, finty. Th >t ihey redu.net of production sc<ms certain, but It i? in tare cases that the pubtie .,r the laborers em? ployed by them pert Id pete In the en? larged profits So enormous ha\o t?. . I their profit! that we find or ganlxations springing tip all over the ? ountry. like tin Klgln board of trade. tb. wnok sale grocers, rambot fieel? pfs> neeoetatlotts that have eontrlb gfed large'y |o the advamc In pfftcei and the frauds perpetrated by man ?lecturers el certain goods in reduo iiur the weight of contents el peck rtkP -? from 20 t ? "') p? r cent, and m ihitetnlngj the 11 rue pri< e, ? Tbe ssethods of the mi it trueV* they de? lure, "seem to be admliably adopted to taking from the consumer and tio? prodneef th* sargest emovnt th:?t the tariff wilt hear. Their do atructlon of local conpetltlon can :iot bo improved upon." As what they call a "sample of the working of our combines," they say that "while ? ?v? iywhere else In the world the price of harvesting machinery has been appreciably reduced since 1900, in the United States It has been ma? terially Increased. Tie Increase," they add, "started nearly contempo rant ously with the Dinghy tariff." A ; to wages, they say that "the fear that wages would fall If the traiff were removed, and the fall in prices would not be a clear gain to the con? sumer, is not warranted by the ex? perience of Great Britain. Great Britain Is a free-trade nation, and it is the most prosperous nation in the world except our own. Shoals of emigrants from the tariff-ridden na? tions of France, Germany, Italy and Russia go to England to work. But Englishmen do not emigrate to those countries because the standard of living is lower, The general testi? mony that the rate of wages for all mechanical trades is substantially higher in Great Britain than in those protectionists countnet while the prices of necessities art low er, leav? ing the Englishman a wider margin to live upon. "It is about 60 fi in since Great Britain adopted free trade, and dur? ing that time, according to a table published in Whltaker's Alamanac. wages have increased 81.7 per cent, and prices only 3 per cent. It is, therefore, well seen that the abolition of the tariff in England did not bring down the rate of wages. Neither would It In this country. If we re? move the obstruction allowing prices to sink to their natural level, the question of wages may be trusted to take care of itself." Replying to the majority's state? ment, 1: its report, that an 'increased demand for farm products' is a cause of advancing prices, the minority cite the wheat crop as having In? creased from less than seven bushels per capita In 1 900 to more hi n eight in 1909; corn from 27 to J;0 bushels per capita, and potatoes from almost three to more than four bushels. Not? withstanding the increase in the price of farm products, the farnrer, they say, "has realized a small ret return on his labor and Investment by reason of the increased cost of the articles necessary for him to purchase to carry on his business." As "Hagood" B*M Tho Crops. Knowing what to do, with the how and when, is nowhere mo/e neces? sary to sucess than In farming. Five weeks ago we were on the L. D. Jen? nings farm four miles west of your city. The prospect there for a cot? ton crop was verv indifferent Indeed; at that time it seemed impossible to make even half a crop of cotton. In two weeks the corn had Improved very much, but the cotton still continued small and dwarfish. Two I weeks more passed, and the cotton had Improved so much as to promise on many many acres more than a bale. We have been told that Mr. Jennings personally directs the man? agement of his farm. Mrs. Willie Burkett, who lives in the same community has a good crop of cotton. Since the death of her husband this lady has succeeded ad? mirably with her farm, but then sin has BUCh an admirable lieutenant In her son, Charlton, a tine young man. Making the desert blossom as the rose Is thought by some to be pecu rlj Jewish, but it is not. Saturday morning 1 was driven over the old Carson pines Just west of Little Raft? ing rreefc on the Camden road, by miri" host. c. L. Bmnnuel, and saw acres of tine cotton. One Held of which, thirty acres, with no un? toward disaster will make not less than forty-five bales. I saw on the Name farm an acre of corn (he Is not In the contest,) thnt competent Judges ?ay will produce tv\o hundred bush" ? is or more of corn, und all of this on that land so long an eye sore to the traveling public, Do you know the "creekera" the Rafting creek folks have, and alw.i's generally, or I generally always, as you ohoose, the i>? st crops in the county? "But."' you say, "you are from there and are blowing your born." If I am accord* Ing to i >r. Brown, I am consistent. And vv e hav e some men, too, such men. on?> or two of Whom are un? married, md because tiny are hid? eously ugly, for they are not, are i>. V. Keels and Algv Alston. Said a young man of the former "His beau? tiful devotion to that mother shows the tine stuff he is made of." Every one yon meet says it Is just a treat to i.a at Charlie Banders' crop, Corn and cotton are vetv fine, But In this In is not alone; there is Julien, Craw lord and T. n. Sanders, Mr. BUTfleld, B, B. Humbert. Keels, trie. McLeods, Davis Brown, and others too numer? ous to mention, whose crops are ex? cellent. "Hush" says one M you will spoil the price of cotton." You goose donl you know the real of the coun? try Is very spotted "Hagood " ?In buying a eough medicine, don't be afraid to get Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, Tin re li no danger from it, and relief la rare to follow. Especial? ly recommended tor coughs, colds and whooping COUgh, Bold by W. W. Blbert K?-|Mining Progress from Beaufort. It has been my purpose for two weeks. Mr. Editor, to send in some sort of report concerning myself for the enlightenment of my Sumter friends and constituents; but really I have had no time to write. I am down here in Beaufort, trying to fix up a decent home for rse in my old age. For two weeks, I eve been up to my eyes, so to say, in orlcks, lime and mortar, overseeing two overseers and some ten or fifteen colored labor? ers. One 01 these days, you ki ow, I shall have to leave Sumter. No mat? ter how many my friends nor great the charms of the place, aye and ad? vancing years will indicate that I ought to get away. While my work there has not been a failure, it is yet fully possible for me to hang on to it too long, and undo much that 1 have done. The inability of old men to perceive things is pathetic. The senses grow old along with the body, and often become dull and percept ionless. Many an old man thinks he is ripe when really he is rotten. He mistakes age for wisdom. His facul? ties are dead, but he imagines he is just as able to do things as ever be? fore in his life. The very sense by means of which he detects his age is the thing which has weakened, and hence he has lost the power to know his real condition. For this reason, not a few preachers hang on to their pastorates long enough to undo all they ha' e done. The full congrega? tion dwindles away to a handful, and all the while, the old man is flat? tering himself that he has just now learned to preach. I know of places in South Carolina where this condi? tion exists, and I am very anxious that trey shall never exist in Sumter. Hence I am looking to the future in my own interest and in the interest ^of those I have been serving so long. As soon as my Sumter constituents begin to call me "Old man Brown." I intend to fold my tent like the Arab, and silently steal away." I have a lovely home down here by these Beaufort waters. Right now as I write, the tide water is scarcely a hundred feet away from me. The mullet are leaping up, the shrimp are seeking the marshes, and the borders of the river seem to be in quite a commotion. In my front, to my rear and on the east, all is water, water, water. To the south, for a mile or more, there is no sort of ob? struction, and the winds from the sea come up to bless me almost the whole day long. The entire prospect is beautiful to look upon. It will be a grand place for an old man to sit in life's evening, to review the hallow? ed past, and await the more hallowed future. So I am here getting ready ?not that I have any purpose now of leaving Sumter, but only to be ready when the time comes, and the good sense of my friends indicates that I should get away. Sure, I can never find another place on earth which bristles so with friends?friends, too, of the best kind, who know how to condone my faults and bear with my shortcomings?friends who are not of a day, nor yet a year, but largely of my whole life. Nothing could tear me away from them, but a profound sense of duty and the deep convic? tion that when a pastor surrenders his pulpit, he should move away, and not hang around his old field to har? ass his successor, or, as is sometimes the cast1, to become his sorest critic. So, my busy days down here go rapidly by. I have not had time to Waste in fishing or crabbing. Now and then the little family here slips out from our back door for a dip in the tide and 1 go with them, but beyond that 1 am at work, and not at play. My good friend, Deacon Danner, has placed his beautiful gaso? line boat at my disposal, but 1 have used it only once, However, we have -??t apart Thursd-y tbe 18th as the day for a frolic, and a party of us win go on a pilot boat to the black fish banks, outside the Port Royal en? trance, On our former visit to the banks, We caught more than a thous? and fish with lines ?tin- nine of us who did the Ashing. Once, however, We failed to reach the banks at all. A rough sea made navigation impos? sible, i have asked several Sumter friends to come down and join us on this present venture, but politics and business and what Horace called t.ie sacra fames aurl win prevent most ? f them from spending oven one day at sea. if we have any success as pis eators, I will send in a report to the Item readers. Reaufort Is tbe home of the blue hlack fig atel the cantelope, The lat? ter were just going out as we came down, but of the Agg we have had abundance - - large, luscious, with shining black skins bursting from fulness, Pish at this time are scarce, and tbe supply seems to depend upon the time of tbe tides. However, 1 have bad no just cause for complaint, as an old negro man. who fishes within two hundred yards of my home, often offers ten whiting on a string for ten rents, or for fifteen, if tbe fish l?o extra largo. My household pet, George, and bis nurse are able to supply us with <iabs for "deviling." So that out- .'tor. of edibles cannot well ft i 1 US entirely. And BO the days gon on. but this epistle must not. (\ C. Drown. "UNCLE JOE" MUST ?KTIHE. Ills Fate Apparently Settled by Bev? erly Conference, Beverly Mass. Aug. 17.?For nearly three hours this afternoon President Taft and Vice President Sherman talked over the defeat of Col. Roose? velt hy the New York State Republi? can committee yesterday, and the selection of Mr. Sherman over Mr. Roosevelt as temporary chairman of the Saratoga Convention. Mr. Sherman said he had no In? tention of withdrawing in favor of Mr. Roosevelt, and he treated lightly the stories that there might be a fight to repudiate the action of the State committee in the Convention. The Vice President also talked with the President regarding the Congres? sional campaign. He wants the fight to be waged along the old lines. "A straight Republican fight on the Republican platform and the record of the party, Including the tariff,' is the way he put it. At Mr. Sherman's solicitation, Presi? dent Taft agreed to point the way In the campaign by writing a letter, wfhleh is to be made a part of the campaign text-book of the Republi? can committee. While the fight ap? parently is to be directed along the lines of the past, It can be said au thoratlvely that the feature of the party reorganization plans, which call for the retirement of Speaker Can? non, will be strictly adhered to. It Is even said that Vice President Sher? man, one of the staunchest support? ers the Speaker ever had, had become reconciled to the fact that Mr. Can? non must go. A statement is being prepared in quarters close to the Ad? ministration, in which the attitude recently taken by Mr. Cannon in pub? lic interviews will be deplored and In which it will be made plain that there is no thought on the part of many of his former supporters again to name Mr. Cannon. EFECTIVE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. Railroad Law Prohibits Iner-Statc Telephone and Telegraph Pranks. Washington, Aug. 17.?At midnight tonight the new railroad law will be? come effective. Immediately upon the passage of the Act sixty days ago, sections of the law relating to the sus? pension of rates went Into effect. Since then the Inter-State commerce commission has been prorating under the law. It Is not the intention of the com? mission to take formal notice of the effectiveness of the law by Issuance now or at any future time of a for? mal statement concerning Its publica? tion. All of them are assumed by the commission to be well understood. A conference was held by the com? mission with representatives of the telegraph and telephone companies concerning the law as it applies to them. The companies expressed a desire to do all in their power to facilitate the work of the commission so far as it might relate to them Hereafter, of course, as common car? riers under the law, the telegraph and telephone companies will have to file reports with the commission concern? ing their business, just as the rail? roads now do. The officers were in? formed also that after today no franks for messages could legally be issued except as governed by the anti-pass provision of the Hepburn Act. After loday, therefore, the Issuance and use Of telegraph and telephone franks are barred by the statute. The long and short haul provision of the recently enacted law, while it becomes effective at once, actually will m>t be operative for six months, as that time is allowed for the car? riers to adjust With the commission their tariffs with respect to that pro? vision. No announcement has been made by President Taft of appointments to the Commerce Court or to the com? mission to make investigations un? der the new law. It Is scarcely likely that the Commerce Court will be in operation before some time early In the coming year. They Have a Definite Purpose. ?Foley Kidney P;lls give quick re? lief In cases of kidney and bladder ailments. Mrs. Rose Glaser, Tcrre Haute. Tnd., tells the result In her case. 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