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SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS: WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1911.
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Train (service inuuguruted December 15,
1005) leaves international & Great Northern
depot at 3:20 a. m. for Austin, Taylor,
Georgetown, liearne and intermediate
points. This train makes all railroad con-
nection® ©n route. Arrives Austin 0:20
a. m.; Taylor, 8:35 a. m.; Hearue, 11:20
a. m. This is the longest run of u news
special train in the entire South
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being lo2 miles,
THE WOOL SCHEDULE.
The Texas sheepmen are protesting
loudly against the proposed reductions
in the wool schedule, contending that
to lower the duty on the raw product
would ruin the sheep industry in Texas.
Senators and Representatives have
been flooded with telegrams from wool'
men, but, as far us known, the cotton
growers have remained silent. Yet it
is possible that the cotton-growing in-
terests would suffer almost as much
as the wool interests from cheap wool.
With raw wool commanding the price
that now prevails, cotton is a good buy
TO BEAUTIFY SAN ANTONIO.
Co-operation is essential in all under-
takings, and particularly is this so in
the movement looking to a "City Beau-
tiful."
Through the Civic Improvement
League and other organizations a call
has been issued for a convention to
be held in San Antonio May 11>. At
this gathering plans will be outlined
for a comprehensive boulevard sys-
tem which sffall also contemplate the
improvement and 'beautifying of the
river.
No city in Texas is more susceptible
35 Years Ago Today
at a figure that makes it a profitable | of civic beauty development than San
crop for the cotton growers of the South.! Antonio. The contour of the land is
With wool at 6 cents or 8 cents a J undulating and the river winds its
pound, as it was soon alter the passage i serpentine way through beautiful wood-
of the Wilson-Gorman tariff law under
a Democratic administration, cotton
quotations would naturally and inevit-
land groves and places of natural
scenic beauty. However, it will be
necessary that some definite plans be
facturers than is left on the wool which
the manufacturers buy from the farm-
ers and the ranchmen."
This is well enough as far as it goes,
but it does not go far enough. The
are fully pro-
tected against foreign competition and
bio citiks OF TEXAS. | the products of cheap labor. They have
San Antonio .^T.l^Wlu a,Ways been and probably will always
»2.io4 i be so protected. Under the protective
ably decline correspondingly. Answer- j formulated in order that the work may
ing the protest of his constituents,' be systematically undertaken. It is
Senator Bailey says: "I am earnestly j highly Important that every citizen co-
in favor of reducing all the duties of operate and that the city as a muni-
that schedule (schedule K), including, cipality shall also do its share.
wool and woolen goods, but I shall An expert landscape artist, one who
steadfastly resist every effort to levy I has had experience and who, is com-
a higher rate of duty on woolen goods' petent to formulate and superintend the
which the people buy from the manu- carrying out of the entire scheme will
(San Antonio Express, April 12, 1S70.)
The entire road from here to Kingsbury
has been let for gradlug execpt six miles.
♦ ♦
The weather yesterday was excessively
warm. We have every indication that the
summer will be sultry.
♦ ♦ ♦
To suit the hard times, Eugene Dietrich
of the well-known Plaza House, has re-
duced the price of day board to $4 per
week.
♦ ♦
It is remarked by strangers that Sun
Antonio has In proportion t.« the popula-
tion more brass bands and musical organ-
izations than any other city.
♦ ♦ -e
The funeral of the bite A. T. Stewart
will take place Thursday momifrg at 11
o'clock I'roin St. Mark's Ilpisc. jcil Church
in New Iork City, liishop Potter will
officiate.
♦ ♦ ♦
San Antonio retires at an early hour
every evening. Very few pedestrians
strolling the streets after 10. Our people,
unlike Bismarck, do not suffer with in-
somnia.
Pied, in tliis city, Tuesday, April 11.
1870, Kettle Prlscilla, late < ,-nsort of «<ur
greatly respected fellow-citizen. John
l'wohlg. The friends and acquaintances
of the deceased are respectfully invited to
attend the funeral, which will take phi •«»
from St. Mary's Cathojic Church on Thurs-
day, l.'ith Inst., at 4 p. in.
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CURRENT TOPICS DISCUSSED
TARIFF MAKERS
III—William Lyiie Wilson.
BY FREDERIC J. 1IASKIN.
WITH TEXAS EDITORS
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CllteUJLATlON BOOKsi
OPEN TO ADVERTISERS
PROHIBITION A TRAVESTY.
Defiance of law Is a species of
anarchy. It begets in the growing
generation a lack of respect for con-
V atituted form of government and a
disregard of civic proprieties. For some
reason the most flagrantly violated of
all laws is State-wide prohibition. It
has been so in all States and Is still so.
While the chief executive of Kansas
has been proclaiming that the Sun-
flower State is as dry as Sahara, the
recent elections discredit these state-
ments. In every city In Kansas where
municipal elections were recently held
the Issue of enforcement of the liquor
laws was prominent. "Elect me and
I'll put an end to bootlegging and close
up blind tigers" was the ante-election
pledge. It was so at the last election,
and It will be the same two years
hence.
Prohibitionists themselves last year
appealed to the Federal courts In
Memphis, Tenn., to have illegal liquor
selling stopped. The pros went mto
:ourt and made oath that 1700 illicit
saloons were being operated in the
Bluff City, while before State-wide
prohibition was adopted by Tennessee
there were less than 700 licensed sa-
loons.
Nearly 300 "soft-drink" dealers in
Nashville, Tenn., have recently, by
agreement of the prosecution, paid
fines of $25 each on pleas of guilty
on charges of selling Intoxicating
liquors. This Is proof conclusive that
the prohibition law in Tennessee cities
is not being enforced. The nominal
fine is much less than the license
would be, and at the same time the
law is being defied and the officers
despised.
Citizens of the capital city of
Tennessee are as upright, as honest,
as honorable and aa high-minded as
those of Dallas, Fort Worth. Houston
or San Antonio, yet they make a farce
of State-wide prohibition. It is, there-
fore. certain that in Tezaa such a law
would stand no better chanco c^ being-
tnforced.
It Is foolish to say that the lava
against murder and theft should be
abolished. Argument of that kind is
puerile. The Commandments ssy men
must not steal or commit murder, and
perhaps for that reason these laws are
enforced. Custom, appetite and license
have for centuries before the Christian
era recognized the temperate use of
liquor as not being evil. When, there-
fore, attempts are made to uproot the
petition in foreign markets. But they
are not satisfied with that. They want
free raw material, or such low duties
as will enable them to make the pro-
ducers come to their terms. Our Sena-
tors and Representatives cannot afford
to play politics to the great and lasting
injury of the interests of their con-
stituents under such circumstances.
They must stand out for an equitable
distribution of the tariff benefits as
well as of the tariff burdens.
The free trade heresy Is politics gone
to seed, it is the impractical against
sound reason and common sense, poli-
tical theory and abstraction instead of
plain business. Fortunately we have
two such Representatives a3 Slayden
and Garner in the House to look after
the interests of the farmer and the
stockmen, without regard to the techni-
calities of a party platform that blows' m°St attractiv8 ,nd mogt picturesque
hot and cold. city In America. All should, therefore,
enlist in the cause,
be brought to San Antonio for the
purpose of laying out the plans. He
will have the support of the Civic Im-
provement League, the Real Estate As-
sociation, the Chamber of Commerce,
the women's clubs and all civic so-
cieties.
Already the Improvement league has
secured for free distribution 25,000
plants and shrubs. They will be given
those who will plant them and care
for them in order that they may be-
come a part of the scheme. The front
yard fence Is also to be removed In
order that nicely-kept lawns with at-
tractive flowerbeds and dainty shrubs
may add to the beauty of yards and
gardens.
The plants and shrubs are to be dis-
tributed next winter, and citizens will
be especially urged to plant evergreen
shrubbery as well as roses and other
flowers. Circulars containing directions
for the planting and care of all that
pertains to the lawn or garden will
also be distributed to all who wish
them. Thorough organization will be
perfected not only In wards, but by
blocks, if need be, In order that the
most remote sections of the city may
be beautified and Improved.
Those prominent in the movement de-
sire to enlist the Interest of every
citizen so that San Antonio will be
known far and wide as the cleanest,
VOICE OE THE P20PIE
LIVING AT HOME.
Some of the New York newspapers
have made the discovery that the South
is becoming more prosperous because
the people are living at home.
It has not been so many years ago
that Southern planters were little better
off than peons. They raised their cot-
ton crops on borrowed money, upon
which they paid usurious interest, and
everything they purchased was on a
credit.
Southern farmers bought corn and
meal and flour as well as meats and
vegetables from the North. All they
had to sell was the cotton, and that
was hypothecated to the merchant, who,
in turn, had used it as collateral upon
which to borrow money from the bank.
Suddenly the newspapers opened up a
diversification campaign. They were
at first ridiculed, but the men who farm
with the faber were the more persistent
and tenacious. They pictured In bright
colors the riches to be derived from
a system of diversified farming. Grad-
ually their advice was followed, until
a majority of the Southern farmers
raised more than the one crop, and that
cotton.
It was found that the land of the
South was not only rich, but that the
•oil and climate were especially adapted
to the growing of berries, peachfts,
watermelons, canteloupes, beans, peas,
potatoes, tomatoes and other truck. The
packing and refrigerator companies
soon found out what was going on,
and they assisted in developing these
latent resources.
Texas now ships out trainloads of
fruits and vegetables as well as cotton,
and the farmers are prosperous. It
has not been necessary to abandon
Fashion hint: Straw hats for men
will not be ripe enough to wear until
mosquitoes are more numerous.
Crowning of kings and queens comes
high, particularly If the other fellow
holds aces.
The author of "Man Wants but Lit-
tle" overlooked the fact that woman
wants an Easter bonnet.
SNAPS AND SPARKS
BV BENJAMIN ARSTEIN.
. u.h!.. ., . . i cotton as a standard staple crop, but
customs and habits which have comet,. . .
_ ... , It has been found necessary to " ive at
down from the ages the progress is! . . .. . '
naturally slow. e* ,0 r,lse on the f,rm everything
Next July Texas will decide whether
the State shall be in a class with Okla-
homa, Tennessee and Kansas or
whether the sale of liquors shall con-
tinue to be licensed and regulated.
Texans are a practical people. They
will, therefore, prefer to have laws on
the statute books which can be en-
forced to conditions bordering upon
anarchy.
You can almost hear the cotton and
the corn grow so splendid Is the con-
dition of the growing crops In South
Texss.
which is consumed and still have a sur-
plus to sell in addition to the staple
crop.
Texas farmers more than any other
have diversified and rotated their crops.
Other States, however, are falling into
line, and all over Dixie Land the smoke-
house is on the farm and the "live-at-
home" policy is being applied.
See that every candidate pledges him-
self to do all in his power to make San
Antonio a cleaner and better city.
Spring was evidently recalled snd
didn't stay spring. However, old
winter will again resign pretty soon.
Time Is money, especially when one
has the time of his life.
Figures don't 11a except when one has
to give an account of himself.
Bitter controversies usually begin with
friendly discussions.
The world must eventually grow better
since almost every Individual thlnka he
has a sure cure for all National Ills.
There are men who pose as models be-
cause fate considered them too Insignifi-
cant to put them to the test.
Golden silence la usually broken by a
sllved-tongued orator.
Even opportunity seema to knook at the
door bearing the proud monogram ot its
wealthy owner.
The average woman Is fond of fiction,
but not of the kind supplied by har-hus-
band.
The Chieftalna.
Not the first growth of spruce and pine.
Nor the second, nor the third,
Was what I saw In ordered line
And what at night J heard.
But often, when twilight would fold
Their shadows In the lake.
While the sun would sink with dreams
of old
And a first faint star would break.
I watched them come to the w&tar'a edg%
Before their vanished race,
Warrloj^-chlefs from wood and ledge
And a first faint star would break.
I saw them stand with feathered head,'
Unmovlrg and unmoved.
The captains of a people dead—
Which first had fought and loved.
I
Then in the night I heard their prayer
To him they hold divine;
And in the dawn were standing there.
Hemlock and spruce and nine.
—Witter Bynner, in Metropolitan Man-
sine. ~
Our Horizon to Expand.
Last Saturday's San Antonio Express
contained a splendid likeness of George
W. West, the promoter of the railroad
Into the Brownsville country, together
with an extensive write-up In regard to
the progress that has been made, and
the proportlone the project has assumed.
The business men of that elty are en-
thusiastic over the glgantle undertak-
„ 7 ! I and The Sxpreaa boldly proclaims
/viesnwmle what is Aguinaldo do- 'hat ihe road ta now an assured thing
InmO I. h- .! j,-„„ .... , In our estimation this Is the gr
ing. is he siding with Japan or Uncle step ihat Ssn Antonio has ever
Sam, or has he been "pacified"?
: Mep that Ssn Antonio has ever taken
townrd progress, and a development will
e>nsue that has never before been
eqiui led. As eoon aa the road Is eom-
This time next year the road to 'he horison of San Antonio win
D ... . , . , expand and thousands of homeseekera
Brownsville may be two-thirds com- will migrate to the txis Angeles of
pleted.
j T""'*- to ths promoteraT—Plaas-
I antou rrjreea.
A Compliment.
To tlie Editor of The Express: I just
wnnt to compliment you mul every iinui
on tlie stuff on your Sunday edition. II is
tlio best Sunday edition I ever read. Com-
plete in every respect.
M. M. McFAKLAND,
Urnlde, Texas, April, 1011.
Get Down to Business.
To the Editor of The Express: San An-
tonio in to be congratulated on the consum-
mation of the "on to Hrownsville move,"
still don't overlook the fact that Galveston
and Houston are getting all the cream out
of that section. During the month t'
March, while in both cities and visiting
the wholesale district, I was more than
surprised to note the large shipments over
the Sunset, Sap and Katy to towns close
by San Antonio. Commercial anglers and
boosters must get a move on them. Tlie«e
cities where money is needed for* trade
expansion must go down in their jeans as
one man and shell out. Observations «>f a
CLODHOPPER.
uossville, Texas, April 10, mil.
OUR CHINESE STUDENTS
Some 500 Celestials Are Taking the
American College Courses.
if is of interest to learn that no less
than 500 Chinese young- men are now
matriculated at institutions of learning
In the United States. Western Massa-
chusetts, which was a pioneer in tlie
American education of Chinese youth, no
longer bears the prominent part in this
work that it did at one time, although
this State 1s still In favor for the educa-
tion ol R younger class of Chinese bo\ s,
and our Institute of Technology attracts
an increasing number of Chinese. Among
the higher institutions of learning, Cor-
nell University is now the favorite for
our students from China, thlrtv-four or
them being enrolled at Ithaca. The Uni-
versity of Illinois is second in this re-
spect, having twenty-one, the University
of Wisconsin third with twenty, olid
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is
fourth with nineteen students from the
ancient empire. Of the entire number of
Chinese students in this country, it is
said that 245 have their expenses paid
by the government, while the rest ot
them come from wealthy families of
China that send boys here to study at
private expens. It is also stated that sev-
eral hundred Chinese students are pursu-
ing work in Europe. About 11)0 l are
studying in Germany for military serv-
ice, while as many more are beirig fitted
In England for a naval career. Jn France
twenty or thirty Chinese are studying
diplomacy and modern languages. No
less than 8500 have been sent to Japan to
scudy various subjects, chiefly military
affairs.
Thus the natirns of the world are con-
tributing to make Cliina a wiser and
stronger nation, and it is a special point
of interest to note that among the many
young men trained abroad for govern-'
rrer.tal service, the leaders in various
lines are generally found to be graduates
of American Institutions. The overthrow-
ing of ajitlforeign prejudice in China was
slow and difficult at the start, but the
leaven has been working to great advan-
tage in the decade that has elapsed since
the Boxer troubles, and in that time the
confidence of China in America and its
institutions has made great strides.—
Springfield (Mass.) Union.
NATIONAL GUARD RECRUITING
St Louis Militia Companies Are En-
listing Up to War Strength.
More than a score of young men en
listed In the First Kegiment, Missouri
National Guard, as a result of the open-
ing of a downtown recruiting office in the
Mercantile Club building, Seventh and Lo-
cust Streets, yesterday afternoon. The
opening of the office followed the receipt
of a telegram from Adjutant General
Kumbold of Jefferson City, ordering the
regiment to Increase its enlistment to a
war footing. It is estimated 1500 men and
boys visited it yesterday afternoon.
The regiment is to be increased from
500 men and forty officers to 1400 men and
fifty-four officers. Enlistments are also
being made at the First Regiment Armory,
Grand Avenue and Market Streets at
night, except Friday, Saturday and Sun-
day.
The place is decorated with tents, flags,
riflea, machine guns, other implement* of
war, trophies anfl photographs. Every
effort la mad# to attract young men into
th.j building. A physical examination
follows. It Is to strict that only about ^
per cent of the men are accepted. Many
applicant* were barred because of their
age. The limits are 18 to 33 years, but a
large portion of the applicants for the
day were either elder or younger. Sev-
eral men who served !n the Franco-Ger-
man war applied for enlistment, but were
turned down.
Most of the persons entering the office
yesterday seemed to be Intent on enlist-
ing. Women were not barred, but only
one went In. She had a small child with
her. The pair wai escorted over the place.
Many women stood en the outside, how-
ever end looked at the equipment In the
windows.
Capt» H. C. Dadler baa charge of the
recruiting station. Be Is assisted by a
seraeent, a corporal and three privates.
Maj. IL E. Ferret, the surgeon. Is at the
f»lace from noon to 5 p. m.. to make med-
cal examinations, while the office Is open
from 9 a. m. to G p. m. It was opened
about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and
the decorations were not entirely com-
plete. Everything will be ready for busi-
ness this morning.
No reason is given for the enlistments,
except that the militia has long been be-
low Its normsl strength. In case any
8tste Is ssked to send militia to the Mex-
ican border, it is thought Missouri will be
among the first to be celled upon.—St
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Sure, Money Talks.
Ban Antonio appears to be regarded as
the "provisional capital" of Mexico. At
all 'events, San Antonio Is being adver-
tised as no other city in the world
Just now.—flan Antonio Express.
With the advertising accruing by rea-
son of the war correspondents being
quartered at 8an Antonio, plus the no-
toriety attained by the presence of many
soldiers during the maneuvers, that city
has come into the limelight to en ex-
tent not exceeded since the days of the
Alamo. The rank war dope sent out by
the war correspondents cannot add to
the glory of that historic city, but tho
Pan Antonio merchants have sold the
army considerable stuff, and. after all,
money talks louder than anything else
In the Alamo City.—Beaumont Journal,
"The scholar In politics" tried bis hand
at tariff making when William L. Wil-
son, of West Virginia was appointed
chairman of the Ways and Means Com-
mittee by Speaker Charles F. Crisp upon
the organization of the Fifty-third Con-
gross, in The general election of
189U had resulted ill a complete victory
for the Democratic party, Grover Cleve-
land was returned to the White JIouso,
the House was Democratic by a majority
of ninety-four and in the Senate tha
Democrats had a plurality of six over
the Republicans, not counting three Pop-
ulists, who nearly always voted with
the Democrats. Thus, for the first time
since the Buchanan administration, tho
Democrats had complete control of tho
executive and legislative branches of
the Government.
The National Convention in 1S92 had
voted clown a conservative tariff planTc
presented by a majority of its resolu-
tions committee arid had adopted in its
stead a radical low-tariff plank, which
<Ji nounced the Mclvlnley law in the most
vigorous language that Henry Wattersou
could command. The party was commit-
ted to radical tariff revision.-
William L. Wilson, born in Virginia
in lf'U. enlisted as a private in the Con-
federate Army, alter his graduation from
Columbian University, now George
Washington University, in 1800. Imme-
diately after tho war he became profes-
sor o_f Latin in his alma mater, retiring
in^ 1ST 1 to practice law in Charlestown.
W . \ a. In JS62 lie was chosen president
of the University of West Virginia,
which position he resigned upon his elec-
tion to Congress later in the same year
ilo was, above all else, a scholar, and
Iiis tariff views were those of the theo-
retical free trader. After his defeat for
re-oleotion to Congress in tho great Re-
publican landslide of he was ap-
pointed Postmaster General by President
Cleveland. Upon the expiration of his
term lie became president of Washing-
ton and I^ee University, serving from
1897, until his death in 1900. While he was
in Congress he declined the proffered
presidency of the University of Mis-
souri.
Wilson's ablest practical lieutenant in
tho tariff fight was Uenton McMillin of
Tennessee. It was AIcMillln who turned
tlie parliamentary tricks and forced the
passage through the House of what tho
committee believed to be a good nlll. It
was McMillin who added to the measure
the income tax amendment, which was
designed to make up the deficiency that
would be caused In the receipt of reve-
nues by reason of the reductions In the
tariff duties. At that time neither Wil-
son nor McMillin even considered the
possibility that the Supreme Court would
reverse its former decisions and declare
the income tax proposition unconstitu-
tional.
No man ever has approached the task
of remaking the tariff under more un-
favorable circumstances than did Chair-
man Wilson. Tho McKinley bill, large-
ly on account of tariff-free sugar and
the 2 cents a pound bounty on domestic-
sugar, had failed to produce sufficient
revenue for the needs of the Government.
When President Cleveland came Into of-
fice, on March 4, 1S03, the Treasury was
depleted. Bonds wore issued and sold
to meet tho obligations of the Govern-
ment. Then the great panic of 1893
burst upon the country, banks failed,
merchants were bankrupted, factories
were closed down and the whole busi-
ness and industrial life of the country
was paralyzed.
In this direful emergency President
Cleveland decidcd that it was necessary
to stop tho purchase and coinage of sil-
ver dollars, that was then proceeding
under the purchasing clauso of the Sher-
man act. With that end in view he
called an extra session of the newly-
elected Congress to meet on August 7,
1893. ,
In Congress a majority of the Demo-
crats were silver men and they had no
sympathy with tho President's purpose
to repeal the purchasing clause. Tho
minority of the Republicans also opposed
tho President. Teh result was that tho
repeal bill was passed with a majority
of the President b own party associates
in both Houses voting against it.
The President and Congress were now
thoroughly out of sympathy with eacn
other; the gold and silver factions of the
majority party In each House were sus-
picious and distrustful, each of the
other; and if 1t had not been that tho
Republicans were almost as badly e.pllt
up it is doubtful If the Democrats could
have retained even the semblance of
control of the organization.
Wilson was in thorough sympathy with
the President with respect t<» tho money
question, tlie two were agreed on the
tariff, and both of them were opposed to
the Income tax, although they were will-
ing to submit their juu&meiiL to the will
of the majority ot tne Democrats on
that subject.
The Wilsn bill as reported to the House
did not pretend to embody the full meas-
ure of reform to which Chairman Wil-
son was committed, it was, however, a
radical revision downward. Tho main
Idea of the bill was free raw materials,
with a large reduction of ilie duties on
manufactured goods. Wool, coal, iron
ore. lumber, fish, cotton ties and binding
twine were all transferred to the free
list, while hides and raw sugar were re-
tained upon the nondutiablo schedule.
Few, if any, duties on manufactured
products were left untouched, practically
all of them were materially reduced.
The bill was passed on February 1, 1894,
without having been amended in any
material way affecting its low-tariff
character.
But the Wilson bill as It passed the
House was uot destined to reach tho
statute books. It went to the Senate, and
there, after a stormy figiit and a series
of compromises and scandals it was so
mutilated that ever after it was known
not as the Wilson bill, but as the Wil-
aoii-Gorman bill.
At the very first Senator David 13. Hill
of New York announced that he would
oppose the bill under any and all cir-
cumstances so long as it retained tho
income tax provision. But as his defec-
tion was compensated for by the adher-
ence ot the three Populists, who sup-
ported the bill because of the income
tax. Mr. Hill's opposition did not ma-
terially affect the proposition.
It was Gorman of .Maryland, Price of
Ohio, Smith of Now Jersey and Murphy
of New 1'ork who were determined to
emasculate the measure. They succeed-
ed, and their action was characterized
by President Cleveland as "perfidy and
dishonor."
On July 2 the bill passed the Senate by
a majority of five, carying no less than
t>34 amendments. Chairman Wilson, in
support of his motion to nonconcur in
tho Senate amendments, said that the
bill as it passed the House was "based
upon two clear and intelligent princi-
ples," that revenue should be derived
from finished products and not from raw
material, and that duties should bo ad
valorem, as far as possible, and not spe-
cific or compound. He said: "The bill
comes back to the House with these two
great fundamental principles of just tax-
ation and these two great fundamental
principles of Democratic policy in a
large measure overridden and neglected."
He said that while a few of the Senate
amendments were in tho direction of re-
duced taxation, the great mass of them
were designed to increase the taxes upon
the American people and to increase the
protection of the home manufacturers of
the articles thus taxed.
The sugar schedule, about which a
great scandal had risen in tho Senate,
was particularly criticised by Mr. Wilson
and later received tho indiscriminate de-
nunciation of practically all of tho Dem-
ocratic leaders In the lower house.
But, notwithstanding tho fact that
Chairman Wilson at that time, and re-
peatedly at later times, repudiated the
bill as amended, party considerations at
last prevailed and the House surrendered
unconditionally to the Senate. It was
perhaps the greatest error ever made by
a majority of tho lower house in Con-
gress. Chairman Wilson was careful to
announce that it was against his will,
and only because of the direction of tho
party caucus, that he whs willing to give
up tho fight against the Senate. The
Wilson-Gorman bill became a law with-
out the signature of tho l*resldent, Mr.
Cleveland declining either to sign or veto
the measure.
Of course the Wilson bill was not, and
could not have been, responsible for tho
panic of 1893, although it since lias been
often charged with that retroactive
crime. It was, however, responsible for
a deficit in the treasury, because the in-
come tax feature was declared uncon-
stitutional. It also was responsible for
the overwhelming defeat of the party
which had violated its platform pledges
in enacting it. In the election of Novem-
ber, 1894, the Republicans carried the
House of Representatives by a majority
of 139, and also gained control of the
Senate, then beginning the long period
of sixteen years of absolute Republican
control in both houses of Congress that
was not interrupted until the Democrats
carried the House last November.
Tomorrow: Tariff Makers. IV—Neliion
Dingley.
Here la a Roast.
It is none of our business, of course,
how the people of San Antonio meet
their bills and rescue the perishing; we
are for home rule.
But if we lived in that town, which is
quite unthinkable so long as Waco is on
the map, we would move for a change
from Sixteenth Century methods.
Doubtless we would get the merry
ha-ha and be placed under the table, but
the motion would be forthcoming, nev-
ertheless.
The lighting Is abominable; nothing
quite so bad, it seems to us, outside of
Albuquerque, and we know nothing of
what is taking place in that town.
The streets are pretty much as nature
left them; after a rain the mud Is in-
vincible, like It used to be in Temple.
The sprinkling is about as little In evi-
dence as the dividends from our Nevada
mining stock; even New Braunfels docs
better.
Take the Southern Pacific station,
which the Katy uses; it's about as sorry
in its appointments as some of those
mado by Governor Colquitt, taking the
version of some of our dry friends.
The street oar service Is a standing
Joke; that is, you stand on the corner
an unreasonable length of time and
then you stand up to get your money's
worth.
All of which may be perfectly satis-
factory to the people in that town as
they are now constituted. But a Waco
WATCHING A NAVAL BATTLE
Little Affair Between the Wechawken
and the Atlanta Recalled.
T*icnlo parties recently assembled on
the Mexican border in the hope of wit-
nessing a fight between the Mexican
troopa and the rebels. The fact recalls
a graphic incident of the late Civil War,
v.hen eager spectators went out on the
water and witnessed a fight between
warships and saw their supposed In-
vincible engine of war badly whipped.
Tho Army and Navy Journal tells the
story: "The Federal monitor Weehaw-
lcen, under Capt. John Rodgers, left New
York for Southern waters in 1863. Off the
Delaware breakwater she encountered
such a heavy gale that Captain Rodgers
was urged to run In and remain behind
the breakwater until the gale abated.
The doughty captain, however, having
faith In his craft, declined to run to
cover, and prepared for the fury of the
gale in order to test the seagoing quali-
ties of the monitor type. She weathered
tho gale admirably and reached Port
Royal in fine shape. In the meantime
the Confederates had constructed a pow-
erful ironclad ram, Atlanta, a vessel of
much greater tonnape than the Wee-
hawken. It was boldly proclaimed that
*he could whip anything afloat, and her
supporters believed It. She had heard
or the Weehawken, and Intended to make
a scrap heap out of her. On June 17,
1563, when the Weehawken arrived In
Warsaw Sound, Georgia, the Atlanta got
her opportunity.
"So confident were the Confederates
of an easy victory that their powerful
warship was accompanied from Bavannan
to the scene of action by excursion
J'^^Plhlrt^Zu.V'rnnm'ui'vrr, steamers, loaded to the ^nwale. wltn
nf In (ti Jh«n s! ecta,ors' "aKs flying and mUBlP play-
nf 1 lng. to witness tho triumph of their fa-
IT™.!!-"TSivorlte. The hop_es of the spectator,.
out threatening, and take delight In Ills
Sixteenth Century surroundings.—Waca
Times-Herald.
WORRIES
'He's always worrying aboU*
Ihe money market*
*Y«s. and his wife is always
worrying, about the marhat
however, received as great a shock
did the Atlanta, for It only required three
thots rrom the 15-lnch uuns of the Vvee-
hawken to knock out th® prld© of th*
Cor.rederates, and In the short space of
nftten minutes the Atlanta surrendered.
"The first shot from the 15-lnch Bun
of tha Weehawken prostrated forty men
of the Atlanta and the third shot carried
off the roof of her pilot house aJtogether,
wounding the two pilots and stunning
the men at the wheel. Captain Rodgers,
li. his otnclal report, said: 'The first
shot took away their disposition to fight
and the third their ability to get away."—
Chicago News.
MOHAMMEDAN SCHOOL IN INDIA
Mohammedan dreams of a university
at Aligarh, in India, to rival the tradi-
tional schools of Cordova and Bagdad.
s*em In a fair way of being realized
soon. The foundation of such an in-
stitution exists In Aligarh College, which
Is already credited with having given an
impulse to Mohammedan education
throughout Ind'a. Conditions in India
are particularly favorable for the con-
templated university, owing to freedom
from tho disturbing Influences prevail-
ing In Cairo, Constantinople. Mecca and
Bagdad, while the Mohammedan com-
munity in India is wealthier than the
same element In any part of Islam.
The real difficulty is the curious pre-
dilection in the Mohammedan character
for dialectics and the most subtle meta-
physics, side by side with a thirst for
the exact sciences. Argument for the
sake of argument has a strong attrac-
tion for all Mohsmmedans. In India
their tendency to discuss trifle* haa
passed in to a yroverb.—Calcutta Sag*
Galveston is well pleased with the sol-
diers sent to this post and directs at- I
tention to the fact that the war office I
is receiving no eomplanit from either the
citizens or tho soldh rs.—Galveston News.
l^ike Galveston, San Antonio is pleased I
with the soldiers. Never was a more ex- f
emplary body of men assembled to-
gether. There has been no rowdyism at j
all, and as for drunkenness, an intoxl- [
cated soldier is a rare individual.
Hon. Bryan Callaghan and Judge Webb I
of Kan Antonio will measure popularity
in May. There Is a redhot campaign on
In tho Alamo City and, as usual before
the election the opponents of Mayor Cal- I
laghan have him "on tho run." After
an election Bryan has his opponents on |
the run.—Dallas Times Herald.
Roth Mayor Callaghan and Judge Webb |
have promised to give San Antonio
thorough cleaning up and to make it a I
greater city, the prettiest In the South. [
After tho campaign is over and when |
the people cool off all will join In work-
ing for a greater and better San An-
tonio, but just at present there is no in- j
dicatlon of any particular hotness.
A good hotel is a city builder second I
to nothing t ::ae. Good hotels are a guar-
anty of greatness for the city that has '
them. This fact is known by a number
of enterprising men and it is being learn-
ed by others every day. Galveston Is
learning It now and will soon be most
enthusiastically In favor of the lesson.— !
Galveston News.
With tho best hotels In San Antonio
of all Texas this city can appreciate j
what the news says. Jt may be said that
San Antonio's real development com-
menced with the building of tho St. An-
thony and Gunter Hotels. Visitors can
here find every first-class accommoda-
tion they desire. What is most needed
is a first-class hotel on the sea coast. I
Of course such a hotel must be supplied
with an abundance of fresh, pure water
and have a sewer system. These essen- I
tlals are lacking in most coast country
towns. With these two problems solved
thousands who now go to California will
spent the winter gravitating between San
Antonio and tho coast.
If Congress would only do It without I
so much talk, the people would favor an |
Immediate increase in the salary of rep-
resentatives at Washington.—Wichita
Falls News.
Congressmen do not fare bo badly aa I
some may think. Tho salary la $7500 a
year. To this may bo added $1200 a
year for a secretary, which means, as a
rule, the 'wife of the M. C. Then there
is mileage twice a year at 20 cents a
mile, and other etceteras in the way of
stationery and franking privilege. In |
round figures tho tot/il is better than
$10,000 a year. Surely that's not so bad,
when It is considered that a few men do j
all the real work of tho body.
Having secured his own consent to send I
magazines by freight instead of by pas-
senger trains, we merely ask the Post- j
master General for curiosity, how would
It do to send tho Congressional Record
by a messenger boy.—Laredo Times.
What a pity it is the Postmaster Gen-
eral has not the power to regulate or |
put an end to tho franking privilege. Both
politcial parties abuse this right. Hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars worth of
postage is saved to the campaign com- |
mittees which should be paid for. In
Texas there aro SCO,000 votes. The proa j
and antis send each and every voter |
their campaign literature. It costs each
committee $3000 postage to send out a I
single paper or circular. With voters in J
all the other States to be reached in a|
National campaign it may readily be]
seen tho abuse of tho franking prlvilegt
is nothing short of a scandal.
That portion of Uncle Sam's army sta-
tioned in this section of Texas has made
a favorable impression on the citizenship
at large and dispels the old saying that I
soldiers are rowdies and ruffians.—Alpine f
Avalanche.
Without any State-wide prohibition, j
Uncle Sam's soldiers have gradually 1
changed their customs. Tho boys, as a
whole, drink very little. They are intelll- i
gent and their deportment Is that of the |
"soldier and the gentleman."
It Is Just as easy a matter to have
a clean town cs it is to have a clean
house. All you have to do is to clean up J
—that's all, and a clean town Is what at-
tracts tho visitors.—Alpine News.
Almost every city In Texas is discuss-
ing civic beauty and cleanliness. It Is
essential to health that towns as well as
Individuals should be clean. Filthy
towns are not only unattractive from a
beauty point of view, but they are dan-
gerous because fllfth Is a breeding place
for disease,
Mr. Bryan made a speech on mission.
In Washington and said some sharp
things about "dollar diplomacy." Dollar
diplomacy and nearly all other dollar
things are wrong, excepting always, of
course, the dollar dinner —Houston Post.
What's the matter with the dollar lec-
ture?
It Is Interesting to note that the al-
leged conversation between Clarence 8.
Funk and Edward Hlnes regarding tha
1100,000 bribery fund used to elect Lori-
mer to the Senate did not take place at
a 'low jgroggery," but In tha Union
Learua Club. The "dangerous classes
In this country wear good clothes and
speak grammatically.—New Yorlt World.
Neither the club of the rich man not
the rendesvous of tho poor man can
properly be blamed for what frequently
takes place within their rooms. It Is
the Individual and not the building which
does the wrong. Some of tha "danger,
ous classes" are to be found In our legis-
lative and congressional halls, as well
aa elsewhere.
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