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THE FORT WORTH RECORD: MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1909.
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THE FORT WORTH RECORD
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TAX WEALTH NOT POVERTY
American Tariff Laws
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every word was devoted to the tariff.
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POPULAR DISCUSSION OF
CURRENT QUESTIONS
NEW BEGISLATURE.
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terms for the United States.
XV—RECIPROCITY
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President to the fact Hist the pending
When the treaty was first negotiated
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HOWOSCOPF FOR THIS DAY.
Monday, March 29.
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Kansas City.
But there was no Bryan
prove
earestloveordomesticfmenmakeanawfut mess of sualeide
internal revenue taxs instead of low-
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unanimous support of the party father-
ing them and the unanimous antag-
in this, England. was given a curt RO-
tice that the treaty would be abrogated.
factures and foodstuffs opening our
ports to champagnes, still wines and
chop, «nd finally .got out, "the nastiest,
most bedraggled, muttonless dog in the
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After a chronic rheumatism patient
has been stung by the buckeye the-
ory? the electric belt peddler, every
physician he knows and all the pat-
ent medicine concerns in the country
shpuld be perfectly willing to let the
bees get in on the deal.
On this 88th day of the year, the
moon is ruled by the fruitful and
watery tropical sign of the crab.Mer-
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danger o losing a great benefit by
giving way to a petty jealous and
using a paltry method to gain an end.
The aspect over children born this
day indicates the possesson of many
talents, but there is danger that they
will be destroyed or marred by a ten-
dency to jealousy in girls and quick
temper and anger in boys.
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Auguring many things shall j
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urg today received
cury is in the sign Scorpio, also a
watery and fruitful sign. ...
nes against his 4 wo ar ■
lef Sylvester, in his tele-
grain to (hief Erandenburg, says—tob
Rm Aneient Violin.
Cleburne. Texas, March 28—(Specla1.)
John Filgo, a resident of this city, has
reach them from a place now
thought of
Men with this birth date are
in theory and application.
ditions. The cotrt was neariy
evenly divided tn the last case,
and during the civil war great
some profit by buying the eggs for haw sought to open the gates of Spain
cash, but he Would make muct mere I nnd other countries to American manu-
in his possession
in part?"
A or (lbaon Vt lmuisiana pick'
to lead
violin which is
But the reciprocity of tiro Dingley
Happily the gown with 800 buttons
was not introduced in time to figure
as a theater frock this year. If father
had to get mother into the 500 but-
tons and some cloth he wouldn't have
got her to the theater before the sec-
nnd act was over.
tariff si hedules. Wool
Still there’s no 'need of being so
harsh in your judement of Jim Jef-
fries. some of the reasons for his
not wnneing to meet" Jack Johnson
may he such as you would have un-
der similar ctrcumstances.
•u mii iriaiasm
iri Moau 07 bsu n to* i ♦'
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papers inclosed whisky and tobacco
in, bradreia after the-purase"nternet
taxes," and thereby made the Repub.
lican platform seem a declaration for
tree whisky.
After the convention period was over
the house continued its consideration
of th* tariff bill, and finally passed it
July 21, with only four Democrats vot-
about to witness a further burden
placed on the shoulders of the poorer
classes
Dat us "tax wealth, not poverty."
which he sought to have made th
sue of the presidential campaign
only some seven months away.
The effect of the message n
mously indorsed by the convention, but
that indersemcut was not made a part
o6 the platform. It was a sort or Par-
ker gold telegram, promulgated, how-
ever, by the whole conventten -instent
of by the nominee. The Republieans
When the ladles can follow the
banner at the head of the suffrage
parade without adjusting their hats
or feeling for their belts at the back,
we shall believe that they should
really be permitted to vote.
lost nis
5 r and egg5 mtght make
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changed wui piease state lu <8*??
tion borh the old aud the new .Mrr*
but nine volumes of 1,000 pages each.
The Mills bill was the first tariff
measure upon which party lines wore
drawn so closely as to make it strictly
a party measure. Since then all tariff
to be
POSTAGE RATKS ■
United States and Mexico-
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ertson lays the blame for the killing of
Wvolford on Jones and West. chief
—. ... . Brandenburg made arrangements to-
it conferred on the President a P°W2 day to leave Dallas tomorrow night,
with the necessary papers, to brlngS
Robertson back to Dallas. Robertson,
aAny erroneous renection on the character.
•BE
The Hamburg also seems
somewhat ot a Rough Rtder.
naw his image in the water,
dive for st he reflection. he
honor and life itself will be freely
fjveh. it need be. and the impulse is 1
all the stronger toward,the infant or <
immature child. The thief’s, appeal 1
to th la noble jpagej on is the _bas est of.
have reached the $100,000,000
ficit in the national treasury which
before the close of the fiscal year
life. The stealing of money or prop- ’ ' .
them. The bill was unani-
come tax without judicial inter-
ference, and It was tr sup-
posed within the federal power- .
He is known to be firmly commit-
ted to the Jolley at an inheritance
lax. and though that may not be at .
Death of Mrs. S. G, Dnvis.
Dallas, March 28.—(Special.)—Mrs. s.
G Davls, ‘wife of the president of the
K.G Davit llat company, dled today.
The.body. " 10 be shippea to Moo.lv,
Toxae. tomorrow where famll rola-
ll' e reside
Ilka extent,
"ahaiz we pay
from these c
parallels Urottus and la in trine_and
benefic aspect with the moon.
- A good -sign for those who under-
take new tasks which prescu nu-
sunlproblemsorwhtehrequtre new
knowiedge. The augury fa especially
favorable for women in employment.
Consult those who study abstruse
subjects without desire for gain
An auspicious day for all concerned
in business or trade that involve
brewing, distilling, boiling and pre-
serving. ’
In the household the signs suggest
pickling, stewing and preserving. A
good day'to hiremaids.
The day is marked .by the position
of venus as extraordinarily good for
women and all their concerns.
Shopping is under a most promis-
ing sign.
Order, fit, make over or mend
dresses and hats.
Arrange household entertainments.
Deal with caterers, florists, musici-
ans, singers and ’ others engaged in
providing amusement.
Courtships, engagements, weddings
and wedding journeys are under aus-
picious signs.
Women w ith this birth date should
take heed last whimsicality or impet-
uous anger destroy a pleasant friend-
the treaty by adding duties to manu-
factures. The result was that the ex-
portation of American goods to Canada
in 1862 was smaller than before the
enactment of the treaty. An effgrt was
ering tarirt duties. Home „t the new. by iving her goods in exchange—s
----——=--=— "" Theldea impressed President Har-
United States entered into was one
with Hawaii, negotiated by Secretary
Fish. This provided for free trade
between the ports of the two countries.
A renewal of this agreement was nego-
preaching to the North.
Most of the debate was in opposition
to the bill. There never has been a
tariff bill considered in the house
where tho majority was more lenient
with the.minority than the Democrats
were with the Republicans in the con-
sideration of the Mills bill. More than
a hundred times the committee of the
whole took the parliamentary journey
to the house and back in order to
limit the debate on a particular amend-
ment, butthen only after thatdebate
bad gone on for a reasonable tim-.
The Republicans tried their best to
amend the bill, but Mills' held his
forces together as a seasoned general
upon the field, and not once could the
opposition get an amendment past him.
While the bill was pending in "the
house the national conventions met.
The Democrats were about as badly
divided over indorsing the Mills bill in
terms as they were over the proposi-
tion specifically to reaffirm 15 to 1 at
Those Chicago women who ill
make a business ot darning for bach-
elors arert-the -only ones winmg to
undertake that kind of work.
de nt-breaking .annual me
earth. and especially to those of Sguth manifest destiny** who upheld the
America. •• w I tion.
Blaine was a sort of compound tore-1 When the Wilson-Gorman law
*Tneidentally the- Jepanese- way-ef
handlng a deficit isn’t bad. They
tound J17.S09.000 more on the bud-
Rohertson Talks Freely After His Ar-
rest at Washington.
Washington, March 28.— (Special.)—-
Local detectives captured early this
morning Julius Robertson a negro,
from Dallas, Texas, wanted there for
complicity in the murder of Frank Wol-
ford. a wealthy Texas cotton planter,
orf the streets of Dallas. Nov. 1 1. 1908.
“The trouble occurred on a Wednes-
day night, just after the Dalian fair,
about 10:30," said Robertson. “I was
with Jene Jones and a boy called Shine.
We were walking down. Main street and
Shine approached a white man, wup
was accompanied by his to sons, and
asked him if he didn’t ant cotton piek-
era The man cut him oft short. saving
he wasn't looking for cotton pickers.
The man and his two sons then ‘started
down the street. We walked4behind
them-
“Jene ran around in front of the man
Rhino and I following in the rear. Jene
threw a bun down on the man and told
him to Wrow yp.his hands. The man
drew a knife and Rhine ran up and
caught hold of him. The than struck
at Shine with the knife. Jen* told the
man to drop the knife and then fired
one shot.*’
Rohertson says that he was standing
on the sidewalk with the two sons
when the shot was fired. He and the
other negroes all ran in different di-
rections ami met about half an hour
later. The other two are now locked
up in Dallas. A reward of $300 had
been offered for Robertson’s arrest.
McKay Dies Suddenly.
Dallas, March 28.—-(Speetal )_ E. r
McKay, foreman of work at a cement
plant, died suddenly of heart disease
today. was a native of Scotland, 55
years old, arid has a sister a Mrs.
Bruce, and a nephew. Will Bruce, jiv-
inK At C,rum, in Denton county. Texas'
Mr. M‘ hay was sHtlng on a stool in
a. restaurant near the Union depot in
F*.Dailas, when he snddenly fell tO
the foar An ambulan c hurriedly con -
veyed.himto police headquarters, but
he died before a doctor eola he'oro-
cured to wait on him. ’
those suhject to a revenue duty. They rious existence.
(Copyright, 1809. by Freterie J.
window of the room in which the trag
edy occurred. When he was tried in
Hort Worth the state could not pro-
duce the most important witnesses and
Robertson was acquitted.
of absolute failure tn the senate.
There are several recfprocity agree-
merits in existence between the United
States and other countries. and a few
treaties, but these are compnratively
unimportant, with the exception of Cu-
ban reciprocity'which gives Cuba 20
per cent remission of duties on com-
modifies. coming to the states in ex-
change for a similar remission of 20 to
.40 per-cent op .commodities going to
Cuba from the states. Never was any-
thing fought harder in congress than
Cuban reciprocity was fought by the
home sugar producers,
The present unpopularity of the doc
trine of reciprocity is due to the fact
that the advocates of protection are not
willing that reciprocity should be made
to give free or more ndvantagreous en-
trance to any products that now enjoys
protection. "They want ft to apply only
tn items now on the free list or to
A »ood many men will truth full)
tell you that if you really want cheap
radishes and things you'd better
abandon the idea of growing them.
Tweve Mone. ej aalU.
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skMi WEEELY
PENALTY FOR KIDNAPING.
The extreme penalty for kidnaping
can hardly be too severe. It ia a
dastardly crime.
The T ’ nnsylvania case exhibits the
conditions and the qualities that
pmake it so infamous. There is not
a normal parent who will not w illing-
ly pay the ransom if he can raise the
money—and it is only those who are
able to pay who are placed in such
a dilemma.- and hardly one who will
not agree to protect the kidnaper i
from the officers as the price of inc
restoration of his child.
A man or woman who will steal a
child for the purpose, of extorting a
ransom would not hesitate to kill Lhe
child in order to escape detection.
Therefore the kidnaper is already
May Build Con federal* Monument.
Denton. Texas, March 28.— Specinh)
An interesting social event of the week
past ws ’ the open meeting of the Ka-
tie Dartan chapter, Daughters of the
Confederacy, which was held with Mm,
F. A. Hauslein Friday afternoon. Sev-
er al matters of business wers taken
up, the most important of which was
the proposition to erect a onrederate
monument on the courthouse lawn here
by the Daughters. The suggestton was
favorably received and action will
probably be taken at a later meeting.
The Allowing programme wti ren-
dered:
Roll caO, one of the resources ol
Texas song. "Our Southland.’ chap-
ter; piano solo. "Il Trovatore," Mi**
Irma Berry; paper, “The Line-I p ot
the Great Men of Texas. Mrs. J. D.
Parka; vocal solo, "Sweet Bird ol
Hongs.' Mre. Foreman; paper, "BattIra
Under the Texas Flag," Mrs Hauslein;
piano sop, “Im Norma. Miss Gates:
paper, re Texas Division. J. D. r
Mrs. Bersy; vocal solo, selected, Mre.
bonk*
troduced in the senate may be inferred
from a statement made by him in the
house a month before Blaine wrote
Aad Suggention of Third Term for Gov-
ernor Campbell.
To the Editor of The Record.
Stamford, Texas, March 27.—I would
like to ask a few' questions about the
Thfrty-first legislature:
Why are the people asking the Thr-
ty-first to resign? Is it because they
doubt its ability to pasa on the bills
before it, or Is It because they see it
has done nothing and see no use of
its staying at Austin nnd drawing
salaries?
Why not repeal the anti-pass law so
that all who could obtain a pass could
ride free upon the railroads. If the
cities of Texas ran furnish free trans-
portation to the legislature? What is
the difference between a city furnish-
ing free transportation and the rail-
road < ompanles furnishing free trans-
portation?
Have we not enough members of the
Thrty-first legislature with backbone
and manhood to stay at Austin, vote on
all bills that are before them for con-
sideration. and to vote against and
defeat all of those bills, whether plat-
form demands or not, that are bad. and
to vote for and pass all of those bills
that are good and for the Interest of
the people of tho state
Or shall the people of Texas be
forced to elect a new legislature and
Campbell governor for a third term?
J o. KELLY.
auld not embrace Cuba
all of them possrssing
as colonies rather than
a intended to inelude
Rico, but not Canada.
bills have received practically themade in .congress to secure
in the fact that we had given them so
much that we, had little left to trade on.
But he was, nevertheless. In favor of
the Blaine idea, although he did not
advocate the specific Blaine plan of
carrying It Into effect,
I nt med lately after Harrison’s mes-
sage and Hlaine’s letter wer read in
the senae. Eugene Hale of Mr. Blaine's
own state offered an amendment to the
pending tariff bill providing open ports
for the products of any American na-
tion that would give a like concession
to the United States. Blaine was in
deadly earnest and wrote another letter
to Senator Frye, who had succeeded'
him in the senate. In which he made
the celebrated statement that there was
not a line in the McKinley bill that
would open a market for another bushel
of American wheat or another barrel
of American pork. He also wrote a
letter to the mayor of his home city,
declaring that if sugar were placed on
the free list we would be giving a free
market to 185.000,0000 Worth of imports
every year without a free market for a
penny's worth of our goods in ex-
change. He was for free pugar, but he
One who signs himself "Pollsh
Voter” has written to the genial
speaker, of tho house that he.has one
year in which to reform, and falling
to do so he will be assassinated. If
life depends on reform. Cannon’s as
good as a dead one right now.
be jade of the congress which re-abie h*
cessed from time to time during theAmeric
Johnsn administration, jand * was only I a da, or
technically in session. • and I*01
The election of Benjamtn Harrison the ag
was construed as a verdictin favqr ot nation" Il wa
tha senate suostitute for the Milin b.ft.1* uba arfd Porto
Buffalo, in which he promised to’ use
tariff concessions as a mieans i ex-
tending our foreign trade Opnosed
b the Democrats and fought by a large
portion of the Rtepublican party,- real
reciprocity has always had a preca-
once achfeved. there I. reason to eizhth.and ForozinM.cong5,08.12
pass the two Morrison tariff bills did
hope for H. It has Veen proponed to not deter ue Democrats in Um house
cial.)— Mayor L. M Bale has just ac-
ceptedgplans for three more new busi-
ness null dings to be built on North
Swenson street. The plans have been
accepted and the contract will be let
by April 1. The buildings will be the
neatest in the town and will be occu-
pied" by the time they are completet.
This will make seven business build-
ings that the mayor has erected with-
in the past few months.
The contract is also to he let w ithin
a few days for five .new husiness
buildings on the north side of the pub-
lic square. These, like the Buie buiid-
tngs, ’ wtil be of brickand first- class
in every particular. These eight bnsi-
ness buildings, together with the large
three-story building to be erected by
the Penick-Hughes company and tto
three-story annex to be built to the
Stamford Inn, all of which will be in
constrction at the same time, win
give the town a very busy appearance
in a' building way.
The tariff taxes poverty. Incom*
and. inheritance taxes would tax
wealth.
The supreme court once held that
an income tax is unconstitutional,
but eyen so. President Taft has hopes
that in time there will be an income
tax. ' In a speech at Columbus, Ohio,
w hen he was secretary of war, he
said.
In times of great national need
an income tax would be of great
assistance In furnishing means
to carry on the government, and
It is not free from doubt how the
supitne court with changed
memMership would view a new
income tax law under such con-
om (hief of Police Syi-
tints a poun. were arrested soon after th* crime.
Tory have since been in the Dallas
» ne j county jail. One of themi, at the time
their favorite party principle. They
deny that McKinley advocated anything
further In his memorable speech at
Venus denouncedthe MHsband camo out
for the RandaH idea of repealing high
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Tomorrow—American Tariff Lawa
XVI—The WI6n Bin.
treaty for reciprocal trade relations tiated in 1884, but was not ratified un-
was ratified between the Unitet States til 1887. It conceded to the United
and Canada. It was pronounced a fail- 1 states the harbor at Pearl Isand, stip-
ure, and was finally repealed by theulated ‘that the king should not dispose
Republicans. That was the last heardof any port or territory, neither give
of reciprocity for many years. Whenany special rights to any other power,
the McKinley bill was pending, after it nor enter into reciprocal relations with
had passed the house and was being any other country. In addition, the
considered in the senate. ames <1.1 word “bananas" was substituted for
Blaine, secretary of state at that time. I ♦•fruit” in the treaty, thus exempting
startled the country with a letter in I California fruity from the danger of
which he called the attention of the | Hawaiian competition.
JLHIUS BUBBEE
nt might
Denton studenta Prepariag }o Meet
south Texam Normal.
Denton. Texas, March 28.—<Special >
The students of the North Texas Nor-
mal college are preparing for what 1s
annually one ^t the most interesting
features of local college life. It la the
third annual debate between the Routh-
west Texas normal’ (San MareoB) stu-
dents and the local institution. The
debate win he held at the coile«e audi-
torium th* night of April 3 and a num-
ber of the San Marcos students will
accompany their representatives in the
debate.
mark. Both houses of congress are
concerned at present with the tariff
questioa and while everybody is
pledged to s tariff revision which
was to have been downward, the
treasury deficit hss reised a difficul-
ty which is working toward raising
instead of lowering duties, and in al-
most every change quoted it is the
poor man who will suffer heaviest.
The new taritf sehedules bid fsir to
be what tariff schedules have always
been, a heavier tax on poverty than
on wealth.
rEaMS OF SUBSCRIPI19N.
DAILY.
omplices (‘hi
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.
Several years before the civil war a
erty. bad as it is. is to be condemned
~~ an dpu n ishod only an e xamip l e f or
------the -proteetien - of -maternal thing*.
But the stealing of a child, the threat
to mair or Kill it or forever keep it,
is a monstrous sin as well as a repul-
sive crime, for it robs the parent of
that which nohumaneffort can re-
store. Even recovery by ‘ ransom is
effec ted only after unspeakable an-
guish and in any event the parent
has suffered an injury which no other
loss nr deprivation can approximate.
H ever vengeance is to be allowed in
legal punishment the crime of kid-
naping warrants it.
The only point to he considered in
providing a punishment for kidnap-
ing is to guard against ths extreme
penalty in cases of parental or fam-
ily disagreements, which sometimes
inspire the stealing or the taking of
children from their legal guardian
for possession of ths child ahd not
OVERTONS FROM CIEBURNM
Vineennes’ Mysterious woman once
Lives ‘There.
Cleburne, Texas, March* 28.- (Speclal ,
Mrs. Russell Culbertson, whose mvste.
Hous suicide at Vincennes. Ind. nas
been the sensation of the past- rew
days in American newspaper circles,
was for some time-a resident of cc-
burns. Her father, J. H. Overton. c.,_
ducted a drug store in this city untit
the time of his death, which oceurre,
here .A number of years ago, „
daughter, Miss Jessie Overton wns
graduate of Sealey hospital at ‘dalv,.
top, and after practicing her profession
a5 a trained nurse in this state for a
time, went North. A brother, who
engaged in the furniture business, re-
sides at Duncan, Okla., and another
Brown Overton. Is now a resident of
Hico. Texas. The family made mufiy-
friends and were highly regarded wKi.
residents of Cleburne all of whom
have Teamed with regret the tragic ent
of the daughter of a former citizen.
Urge Poindexter for Governar.
_ ,C1 eb u rne, Texas March —(Special)
A strong effort ia being made by many
friends mid suJudge Wh- -
Nam Poindexter of Cleburne to make
the race for governer in 101 A. Urgent
letters and telegrain have been re-
eei ved- by Judge PoinAextegfrem aH-
quarters of Texas, asking him to enter
the.ppitca arenA.Anfo.shyltscas=
lor at the gubernatorial chair.
. Henefit Concert.
Cleburne. Texas, March 28.— (Speclal.)
Arrangements have been mado for a
concert to be given in this city Tues-
day night, April (J. by the Weatherford
Concert band. It wiil he for the bene-
fit of the new Cleburne Concerf oand,
which is being organized In this city
by Prof. D. H. MeCosh, recently ' ot
Haskel), and one of the best khw n
band leaders in the South among the
younger generation of musicians. Mis*
Faker of Weatheford. who has studied
will act as the prime donna
nt that mysicI occaston. which le e.
InE cagerlyeoked forward te hr the
citizens of Cleburne.
guilty of consent to do murder as
well as to al get than there was in the treasury.
Ties there are two particularly | aydbut th* budget down 817,800.000.
for ransom. This kind of kidnaping
is tempered with the very parental
quality which thieving kidnaping nd
cruelly punishes, and it ought to pro-
voke only the lightest penalty of the
law, according to extenuatng circum-
stances.
“But that point can be guarded
i providing a flexible penalty, or a
W mninfmum and a maximum penalty.
[ Jurors will have no difficulty in dis-
corning between the parent who is
[ ■ ,
And yet some women as well as
: s 1'.. and he sent a message to . ■ oth
gress, hi which lie called attention toeordance with the provision of the
the fact that more than 87 per cent of Dingley law. President McKinley, ap-
the imports coming from-South and I pointed John ■ M. Kasson and several
Central American states ware admitted orhers numbers of a commission with
free of duty, and that if sugar were ad-power to'hgotiate reciprocity treaties,
mitted free, as was then proposed, wool I They met with considerable success in
would be about the only Important hue negotiations with other govern-
product that those countries sent to thements, but when they came to nego-.
United States left to pay a duty. He Unto with the United States senate it
thought that the real difficulty in sue- was quite a different story. There is
cessfully negotiating reciprocity agree-L, fine a Uno ot reciprocity treaties
ments with these countries would lieutwed away in senate pigeon-holes ns
runner of Elihu Root and John Barrett passed it abrogated the reciprocity
in his desire to build up trade rela-clause of the, McKinley tariff, and the
tions between the Pan-American states. Republican national convention roundly
He pointed out how tiie United States I denounced the Democrats for that ac-
was a large buyer from South and Cen-tion, saying it was a national calamity,
tral American countries, but * shipped i When the Dingley tariff law was en-
them comparatively little in exchange, acted reciprocity was re-enacted with
They were right at the nation’s door, lit, And at the same time extended to
yet we w ere, allowing Europe to supply I other western hemisphere countries,
them with all their imports. It was The reciprocity of th.. McKinley law
like a country merchant overlooking became known as‘"tropica reciprocity"
the opportunity of selling the farmer's because Itwas made to apply almost
wife a bill of goods in exchange forentirely io tropical countries
Stnmford Threatens to Become Big City
in Day.
' Stamford. Texas, March 27. — (Spe-
k.MmM IN DAL.
movea by love to violate the law and
the felonlous kidnaper who is bent
only upon money and is willing to do
murder.
and as wun as congress reassembleawith whose products The advocateS OI | Arrest Made ha Connectien With the
the senate bega» the consideration ot reelprocity thougnt it unwie to orin
.h. measure. Th. Repubilcan eenatethe American producer into compet-
knew its 1.111 could not pass te bemo-uon Th. prpositonalotnvniea/re
eratiensuse. and that evenir .1 did it|wool from Arentina, and th. ho
would be vetoed by the outgoing Prean-5rower: would never conzent to "5
dent, Mr. cleveland, but th. bill wae|I aiso tuvoimed free c2prer, which Ma
considerea for a ......th and a hair ... H subleet of a nigh duty. "Thuhe
then passed. Th. house Eave ne ..n excletmed. "he 7"P;*rd7crook ’
a - ,1 .. ,1 .. . , I down before the shephe rd a crook
ate an old-fashioned tongue-lastmg for . -.lus (Bubber) Robertson, a noted ne-
suhatituting another measure 'or tne The mcpociy.claune 41 1 2 erfminal ot Dalias, Fort Worth and
on. U had sent that body—just-apanedEave • . ‘ ' .rklahoina. ad bon arrested, adnit-
other hpuses had done when .......at. step the entry o w hU slentity. ana Ulal he was one
violated. In ettect if not tecnnicaity, entee tea and . | „t the three negro highwaymen who.
the conatitutionai provision mat altan" country ne totwLon the night of Nav 1908, held upin
revenue legislatlon shall originate in proper conees8-v-8 to .. P ’ f Dallas and murdered Frank Woolford,
th. house. There it ended, .ud th. Euzted states. II- culd 1ev‛ du’ th. Rone Hill tarmer. Th. other two
MUH bill became forever a measure up to 2 cents a pound 4 cnti neKro
that might bava been. a zallon on molanses..
Th. debate on th. Milla bill whue on cotfee and 10 se" .....
pending in the two houses of eonerena lacbate n.theseua o wry <>
constittes not onty the most volu-lstinK.xhowinsan.ctoututu30
minus tariff debate in the hwtory ore “r pos 1 onin ' K! t1 th.
,, ..1. a . a election. The excption as w nen i •
rezarded by many conatittlonality of the Viau., wa. or-
• ■ the ablest and moat comprehensive, , m• pemocrats contendea that
in Iha whole Rat of tariff discussions.
Wiliam M. Springer, long a member, ot that was vested in < onures. ani that |
the house, predicted that It would al-when lett to his atscretion rather than
ways stand as the foremost of All tarirt to-that of congress, it was dangerous.
debates. It was in the course of ne Lf Indeea not unconstittional. This
conshleratton of the Mills bill that view was shared by Edmunds of Ver-
Thomas D. Reed first awoke the na-mont ana Evarts of. New York, two of
tion to his powers as a depater Hethe ablest men on the Republican able
told A paraphrase of Aesop's table of or the senate. The Republicans as-
the dog which had a bone and lost 1t sertea that th* power conferred upon
by trying to get th* bone from histhe President was merely admninistra-
claimed to be nearly 400 years old. It
bears the inscription. “Gal pa Duffo
Prugger. Anno 1519." The violin has
been in the family of Mr. Filgo’s wife
for many generations and came down
to his 8-year-old son from his great f
grandmother. Mr. Filgo would netenn- j
sider any price for this ancient Instru- 1
ment, which is still in splendid eon di • *
tion, and is of wonderfully mellow
tones
Democrats la congress was remark-
able. and brought down to* five th*
number of those opposing the policy of
their own party. Under these condi-
tions it was easy to pee that lb* third
effort to drive a low tariff meavure
through a Democratic house would
succeed. Roger Q. Milla of Texas, a
dyed-in-the-wool low tariff advocate,
was made chairman of ways and
means. He and his committee took
four months to report a new tariff bill.
The measure was in reality only a par-
tial revision of the tariff. It extended
the free list, substituted many ad
valorem duties in the stead of specific
duties, and reduces most of the high
Itv against it. Samuel J. Randall
wanted to be paired against tiie bit,
but was not. After this the scene
shifted tq the other end of the rapftql.
which was Republican. The senate was
bitterly opposed to the Mills bill. The
finance committee got hold of it and
ostentatiously did the things the ways
and means committee failed to do. The
committee accorded the fullest hearing,
allowed the minority—this time the
Democrat*—to participate in its delib-
erations, and, in short, sought to make
the coarse of the house committee look
petty and unfair by contrast. Th* bill
was kept in the finance committee un-
til Oct. 3. when it was reported back.
Parliamentarily speaking, it was the
same bill. Actually, however, it was
as if a blue pencil had been drawn
through every word of it except “be
it enacted," and a new bill substituted.
The measure was then perfunctorily
discussed until Oct. 20, when congress
adjourned. No effort was made by
the senate to pass its bill. The two
party measures, the house bill and the
senate bill, had been sot before the
country, and that was all anybotly had
expected, even if a few did hope for
more. Congress had been in continuous
session longer than ever before in the
history of the uation—321 days. A nos-
nee onp rnAVELNG ...
TW deuelse K..VUM zerent!J?
aLS-ria-a W vriga tor subecntotso: ..
vertisemen t« wlain Fay Kingebur. E <
hingabury B F Petaou, « F. Goldenn Ul<L
ingins. r. k West, E. aw Adolph --
man a. F.. Windhorst. ____________
several years ago, killed a negro man
in Fort Wurth and compelled a negro
woman -to jump from a second story
ship. Strange news will probably
on ism of the opposing party.
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Haskin.)
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the free list, most lumber and lumber
prodcts were put there. Woolens
were given a duty of 40 per cent Cot-
ton goos came in for a like duty.
Mr. Mu got figures from the bureau
of statKtics, going to show that the
total remission of duties under the
Mills bill wpuld amount to $60,000,000,
of which $30,000,000 result from reduc-
tions in duty; the remainder from ad-
ditions to the free list.
The house debated the bill for more
than a month. The Republicans at-
tacked it on many grounds, for the
tariff had now become a full-fledged
party issue. First, they asserted that
it had been framed by farmers, and
that the manufacturing states had
next to no representation on the com-
mittee that drew the bill. They
claimed, furthermore, that it had been
t oncocted secretly by the majority, and
that the mnority had been ignored
until the time of reporting the meas-
ure. They got together a list of the
articles affected by the bill, and krom
that showed that the cotton states pro-
duced them to a value of 891,000,000,
while the other states produced them
to the value of 31.715.000,000, nearly
twenty times as much. Then they
charged that free trade pamphleteers
had written* the measure, and that
clerks were detailed from the treasury
department to assist in making it as
harmful to manufacturers as possible.
The Democrats responded by calling
to mind what theRepublcans had"said
in 1833. At that time the Democrats
were plinly told that the Republicans
were responsible to the country for
what congress then did, and that they
i were not going to permit the Demo-
crats to thwart them in their efforts
to live-up to their responsibility. Now
it was the Democrats who were telling
that same thing to the Republicans.
Republicans replied with taunts to the
effect that the South had not reduced
the tariff on articles in which it was
. interested, and was not willing to
practice itself that which it was
I of his rapture, confessed, told the story
I of tiie crime and may b* used by the
atrocious qualities in the crime. The
first, of course, is the appeal to pa-
rental affection which is the strong-
est of the human emotions. No sace
rifice is too great for the parent to
make for his offspring. Fortune.
I in th* Fiftieth eongress from repeal-
ing their former effort* in th* diree-
tion.of a low tariff The Democratic
majority had been dwindling, and was
now down to ieaa than one- fourth of
what it had been when Motrison tried
to pats his horizontal bill. President
Cieveland cam* forward with a prece-
tax inheritances ranging in value
from $10,000 to $100,000 at 1 percent,
$100,000 to $500,000 at the rate of •
per cent, and above $500,000 at 3 per
cent. Th* rate seems a httle out of
proportion. It would seem that an
inheritance up to $20,000 or $25,000
should remain free of taxation, but
th* rate should rise sharply after the
$500,000 point ha<f been reached.
These, however, are but minor details
— the main thing is that the principle
of taxing great fortunes is sound and
one in which every citizen should be
interested
The inheritance tax has a double
value. Resides being a auro and di-
rect method of raising Revenue, It
would tend in a small degree to re-
duce great fortunes. There ere tn
Chicago alone ten estates which are
valued at 8158.AOO.OeO. ranging from
the Marshall Field estate of $80,000,-
000 tn the Farwell estate of $2,000,-
000
The tariff has made possible many
of the fortunes in America Hence,
despite the fact that it has been
proved that the tariff is wrong both
image in the water. Reed pictured onetive-to do certain well defined things
of the finest dogs going, carefull y | !n event certain equally well defined
groomed, fat. sleek, and with a nice contingencies developed They quoted
mutton chop in his mouth. Th* dogmany precedents for their position,
came to a bridge, and in crossing it he That William McKinley did not think
motives because it
world.” To him the Democratic party his celebrated letter. He was talking
was that dog. It saw the markets’of I about tariffs in general ami stated that
th* world reflected, and was seeking I “whenever we have had low tarift or
to dive into the water to secure them, reciprocity we have been the loser.”
tiie while neglecting’ th* markets at The parties had both faced about on
home, and figuratively, in its mouth. reciprocify. President Pierce had ne-
rhere were 151 speeches made onzottateda reeipreity treaty with Can-
the Mills bill in the course of general ada in 1854, which received the sanc-
debate in tiie house. There were 240tion of congress the next year. It was
hours of actual talk expenied, upon it,sald_that Canada got the long end of
or 88 days of 8 hours each. William I the bargain, and that the only part of
McKinley, in speaking of it in his the United States which received a
“Tariff in the Days of Clay, and After," benefit from the treaty was the, South,
says that the debates would fill someCotton, rice, pitch, tar, turpentine and
twenty-five quarto volumes the sizetobacco were the only articles in a
of an unabridged dictionary. But he Jung list for which ’ Canada offered a
seems to be, mistaken about that, as I market? Canada sought to compensate
the entire proceedings of the first sea- for her loss of revenue through the ad-
sion of the Fiftieth congress occupy | mission of free raw materials under
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T1 o—*» *■♦ *“** *“"^1---i wealth not poverty." stands out
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------.w.’uttered nor can too much emphasts
Eutereg M tto petethic at Muct po"
•20 de- -i atueE ♦ be placed upon it.
tariff bill, while taking care pt the I th* New York Tribune said: “And ,
home markets, didLaoL provide thequkte prebably . some of our sons of
slightest means for building up an ex-i manifest destiny believe it may open 1
port trade. He could not see where the It lie way to the ultimate annexation of (
bill would carry a single dollar’s worththe-isands." It did open the way, and ,
of new exports to the nations of thejthe Tribune ws one of the "sons of 1
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