The Mena weekly star., February 02, 1911, Image 8

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MENA’S EMINENT
SOLDIER HONORED
•
The Camp Selected at Little Rock for
the National Encampment of the
U- C. V. Named for General
R. G. Shaver.
The beautiful camp grounds selected
for the National Encampment of the
United Confederate Veterans to be
held in Little Rock this Spring has
been named in honor of a well known
Mena citizen. General R. G. Shaver.
It will go down in history as "Camp
Shaver."
This information was received in
Mena Tuesday through a letter from
James F. Smith of Little Rock, major
general commanding the U. S. V. of
Arkansas.
In addition General Shaver is re
quested to take charge and conduct
the infantry branch of the big parade.
He is to be mounted and have two
aides.
When General Shaver was at Little
Rock a few weeks ago the matter of
naming the camp was discussed, and
he urged that it be called "Camp Cle
burne,” in honor of General P. R.
Cleburne. General Shaver pointed
out that already there were in Arkan
sas two prominent camps named for
him and none for General Cleburne.
The first Camp Shaver was so nam
ed by Lieutenant Colonel Caine at the
beginning of the war. It is near Po
cohontas. The other was given the
name by Colonel Deshler and is at
White Sulphur Springs, nine miles
from Pine Bluff.
NOW DP TO GOVERNOR
Kpwlnl to The 8tar.
Little Rock. Jan. 31. -The deposi
tory bill for Polk and Scott counties,
introduced and passed in the Senate
last week by Senator Logan, passed
the House today. The signature of
the Governor is all that now is lacking
to make it a law.
KELLY GARDNER
Popular Mesa Girl Wedded at Home of
Parents Sunday.
A beautiful home wedding occurred
on Sunday afternoon at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gardner, when
the marriage of their daughter, Mil
dred, to G. N. Kelly of Shreveport was
solemnized in the presence of a few
relatives and friends. In the parlor
where the marriage service was held
were dainty bouquets of violets with
backgrounds of ferns. The marriage
service was read by Rev. M. K. Irvin.
~ Mendelssohn’s wedding march was
played by Miss Ethel Henderson.
The bride’s gown of ceremony was
an exquisite creation of pale blue
mescaline with pearl trimmings. The
bridal bouquet was of white carna
tions and ferns with streamers of
filmy tulle.
Mr. and Mrs- Kelly left after the
ceremony for Shreveport, their future
home. For travel the bride wore a
becom suit of gray.
Mrs elly as Miss Gardner was a
girl of charming personality and has
been known and loved in Mena since
her childhood. She count* her friends
and admirers by her acquaintances
and will be greatly missed in social
circles in the church and in her home.
Mr. Kelly is from Carthage, Mo. Be
fore going to Shreveport a few months
ago to accept a position as a civil en
gineer with the Kansas City Southern,
he was for a short time a resident of
Mena, where he made many friends.
IT’S YOUR KIDNEYS.
Doit Mistake the Cause of Your
Troubles,
Many people never suspect their
kidneys. If suffering from a
lame, weak or aching back they
think that it is only a muscular
weakness; when urinary trouble
sets in tbev think it will soon
correct itself. And so it is with
all the other symptoms of kidney
disorders. That is just where
the danger lies. You must cure
these troubles or they may lead to
diabetes or Bright’s disease. The
best remedy to use is Doan’s Kid
ney Pills. It cures all ills which
are caused by weak or diseased
kidneys. Residents of this vie*
inity are constantly testifying to
curcSi
H. A. Wollum, Eight St., Van
Buren, Ark., says: “I can re
commend Doan’s Kidney Pills, as
they are a most effective remedy
in cases of kidney troble. I was
bothered for some time by an
ache across the small of my back,
particular severe after I did any
hard work. On a friend's ad
vice, I procured a box of Doan’s
Kidney Pills and in three or four
days after commencing their use
my trouble disappeared, bince
then other members of my family
have used Doan’s Kidney Pills
with satisfactory results.”
For sale by all dealers. Price
50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, New York, sole agents
for the United States.
Remember the name—Doan’s—
and take no other.
Cow Strayed—Red and white, bring
calf soon, registry mark round bole in
each ear cut out. Address F. Wyatt,
and receive liberal reward.
5-3i JJ7D-U
Schools. Teachers. Pupils ood Potions
Devoted to the Bettering of the School Interests in Folk County
Moral Tralniog in Public Schools.
Continued from last week.
Modern manufacturing methods
have strengthened the drift of popula
tion from country to city. No nation
ever collapsed while it rested on the
shoulders of a strong, clean rural com
munity, and none ever escaped dis
aster when that part of its population
decayed, Our nation' s moral reserves
are in the country; and if, by the kind
of training they give, the schools can
help to keep the bright, clean boys
and girls on the farms, they can do
more for the moral future of our coun
try than by giving direct moral lessons,
because there the ideal citizen will
grow under conditions best adapted to
develop confidence in the world, fair
play for others and a contented spirit.
A country school cannot give an elab
orate course in agriculture, but it can
give the children the germ of desire to
master the complicated science of
farming. A few agricultural books,
from which a pupil can make an oc
casional report on special topics may
be the seed of future good to the
nation, by making him an ambitious
farmer—a combination thinker, worker
and business man. While that can be
done, the moral tone of the nation will
not be affected by inheritance from
the second best.
What has already been said in re
gard to agriculture and domestic
science applies with equal force to
manual training. It is more valuable
as a moral than as an economic dis
cipline, because it awakens the cre
ative spirit—the mother of hope. All
pleasure. History and reason com
bined to lay primary stress on the
people's occupations as the point at
which moral training should begin.
Another tendency that calls aloud
for moral training in the public schools,
because they are the only institution
capable of dealing with it adequately,
is the American tendency toward pre
cocity. Freedom comes early to the
child in America and along with this
freedom comes a growing lack of time
for moral retirement lor the develop
ment of moral fibre. One evidence of
this is the way in which youth in
school and in college try to handle
adult problems with the morals of
childhood. The problem is to make
responsibility the yoke-mae of free
dom.
Possibly the most tendencies are
beyond our power to see. There may
be among them forces at work for mor
al good. We know that freedom, in
the long run, is among those forces.
There is comfort in the fact that evil is
more easily seen than good, for the
strongest forces for good all work un
derground. As has been pointed out,
Greek and Roman philosophers knew
that their civilizations were rushing
to ruin, and peering anxiously into
the future, like a lost child in the
deepening twilight, for some sign of
direction; but they failed to see the
significance of the new power that was
to emerge from the ruins of the old
world. They found out their contempt
upon Christianity and passed it by.
Nations, like men, move in directions
unforseen.
tnese lines ot training Dnng tne ieei
ings to cluster around things with
which it Is desirable they should be
occupied.
The moral feelings take on the color
of a people’s environments and Joc
cupations as surely as a desert fauna
takes on the desert tints.
“While I am a beggar I will rail and
say there is no sin but to be rich;
aud, being sick, by virtue then shall
be to say there is no voice like beg
gary.’’
Even the great Protestant churches
have not escaped this law. Slavery
rent asunder the Methodist and
Presbyterian churches as it did the
nation. European and Japanese feu
dal system developed appropriate
moral codes. How could real ben
evolence be a virture among the
Greeks, when the poor were helpless
not merely by stress of circumstances
but also by law? Race emotions flut
ter about the things that seem great
to the people,and things that are least
suspected undermine the people’s
morals more effectively than the voices
that are openly recognized. The sup
poredly innocent old Roman games
brutalized the people, and in the end
destroyed the capacity for reasonable
ACORN POSTOFFICE
ROBBED OF STAMPS
Sometime during Monday night, the
posioflice at Acorn, five miles north of
Mena, was looted and all the stamps,
about $30 worth, taken. In addition
some money and goods was taken from
the store belonging to the postmaster,
George Corley.
The only possible trace of the rob
bers was a report from some campers
who were located between Acorn and
Mena. They stated that about mid
night two men afoot, came by and
the camp dogs aroused such a row
that their owners went out and called
them off the Stranges.
Democracy has brought many dis
appointments, but undreamed of im
provements have also come. An un
forseen feature of our complex system
of government—which was elaborated
in the interest of freedom and for the
safety of the individual—is its devel
opment into a maze in which the art
ful dodger can evade the purpose ol
the law. This country, far less than
any other, can depend upon its law tc
keep it morally sound. Moral resist
ance of the aggregate ugainst the
aggressions of financial and other prac
tically lawless forms of power is the
line along which our spiritual develop
ment will run. Roosevelt's appeal
in his messuge of 1905, was a confes
sion that the public conscience musi
enforce the rules of righteousness
The burdens of the schools is to creaK
a spirit of moral team-work, a socia
efficiency, a taste for cooperation
The possibilities of play-ground govern
ment as a moral power has beei
scarcely dreamed of yet. Experienci
has 9hown that large burdens whid
I the arm of school authority has burnt
can be judiciously laid upon thepupil’i
shoulders.
To be continued.
An Important Inquiry.
The subscriber is much interester
i in the matter of economic fertilizer:
for the crops of cereals, grasses nni
vegetables grown in Polk county
Much of the soil is poor, since there i:
a dearth of humus, this is especiallj
: so in the so-called "worn out" iands
! With this fact self-evident he has con
! sidered and is experimenting wit!
lime for suspected sour soils, sonn
barnyard manures, crop of weeds, t
coat of leaves, etc.
He finds a leaf coat, plowed under
an extremely profitable fertilizer, bu
j the difficulty is in rotting the leaves
if plowed under in the spring they d<
not rot well until late fall and hencr
aic iiul uvttiiduic as pium iuou unil
the following spring. They rot readilj
when used as bedding for stock bu;
the quantity thus used must neces
sarily be limited.
Will some one who has had expert
ence in the matter of rotting foresi
leaves in large or small quantities
kindly write a comprehensive plan fo
preparing this cheap fertilizer for oui
soils?
The chemist promptly decides thai
the most perfect fertilizer in existence
is that of the well rotted leaf; the lea
is both stomach and lungs of the plani
and contains all the elements neces
sary to the reproduction of our staple
crops. Why not use it?
The subscriber would like to heai
from T. P. Fulton upon the topic since
he is especially interested in this di
rection.
A One Hoss Farmer.
S. C. M. A. NOTICE.
Friday February 3, is the regulai
meeting of the stockholders of the
Shipping, Canning and Manufacturing
Association.* The meeting will be helc
at the office of Attorney T. A. Berke
bile over the Farmers &. Merchants
bank. Aside from the annual electior
of officers and other regular business
the quesetion of the acreage and crops
to be planted the coming season wil
be considered. All members of tht
association and all who might be in
terested are asked to attend.
A. L. Durham,
president.
R. R. St. John,
secretary
Remember The Name
i Foley’s Honey and Tar for all cough*
and colds, for croup, bronchitis
hoarseness and for racking lagripp*
coughs. No opiates. lief'ise suhxti
tutes.
Bold by ail druggists. ,
Mrs- W. I. Shi at Rest.
Ila, wife of W. I. Shi, died at her
home at Mena, Ark., Saturday Dec.
31 1910. The body was laid to rest
by kind friends in Odd Fellows Ceme
tery.
Yes, the Death Angel wrapped his
cold arms around the home of W. I.
Shi and took his beautiful, sweet wife.
The loss of a wife is indeed a sore tri
al, but think of what a bright, pure
sweet life she lived. While she was
with us and her husband, only a few
short years, her pure, sweet life was
complete, her mission on earth end
ed, and the Master beconed her up
higher, out of clouds of night—into the
beautiful paradise of God, where her
short earthly life, which was unspotted
from the world, will shine with undi
minishedluster throughout all eternity.
I would say to husband, mother,
.brothers, sisters and daughter: Cheer
up and be brave dear friends. Weep
not, for death has long since met de
feat and been hurled from his throne.
Ila is now resting sweetly in Heaven
and is beconing to husband, mother,
daughter, brothers, sisters and friends
and loved ones to come up on high,
where no tears of sorrow are shed.
A vacant chair is left in the home
of a grief-stricken husband. A beau
tiful life is hushed in death; but the
angel Ila is hovering about the great
White Throne and some day will meet
husband, mother and loved ones over
there.
Mrs. Fred Brown.
San Saba, Tex., Jan. 27, 1911
_
QUEEN VICTORIA OF SPAIN DE
CIDES TO RETURN TO
ENGLAND.
THE WIFE AN ENGLISH WOMAN
King Alfonso XIII Forces His Wlfs te
Leave Him—Parisian Charms Too
Attractive for His Royal Majesty—
Alfonso Keeps Police Guessing.
Madrid.. Jan. SO.—Queen Victoria
wife of Alfonso XIII, king of Spain,
has decided to return to her home in
England for an indefinite stay From
confidential court sources it was learn
ed that the queen's visit will virtually
amount to a royal separation, as she
has declared that she cannot longer
tolerate the insults of the king
There is a long list of Alfonso’s
charmers, past and present, and In
the number is Gaby Deslys, partly re
sponsible for the downfall of Manuel
of Portugal Alfonsos frequent in
cognito trips to Paris, knowledge of
which the cabinet tried hard to sup
press by official announcements that
the king was spending a few days in
the retirement of his home, it now
transpires, have been nothing more
than escapades in the gay life of the
French capital On one of these trips
Alfonso remained in Paris for nearly
three months.
This Is the third time that Victoria
has been on the verge of renouncing
her qucenshlp and returning to Eng
land. The first was soon after their
honeymoon, when there were stories
of violent differences between the
royal pair. The second time was dur
ing the Catalan revolt in 1909. The
British government sent special emis
saries to Madrid to investigate the
situation and secret agents were in
readiness to assist in the contemplat
ed flight.
Minister Denies Story.
Washington, Jan. 30.—The attention
of the Spanish legation having been
attracted by eeraln publications to the
effect that domestic infelicity has
brought about an estrangement be
tween King Alfonso and his royal
spouse, Queen Victoria. Ministei
Kieno entered an emphatic denial ol
the story.
The minister's denial, he declares
U based on his personal knowledge at
well as upon that acquired in his off!
cial capacity and he asserts unhesi
tatingly that the royal pair enjoy the
happiest relations. The rumors of i
separation are believed by him t(
have been set afloat by anti-dynastii
influences.
IN THE iNTtREST OF GOOD ROADS
Legislature of Missouri Considerin)
I Many Measures—3ill for New
State Reformatory.
Kansas City, Jan. 31).—Walton o
1 Howard county introduced a till b
i ubolish a great many useless jobs a
i road supervisor. It provides that eacl
, county shall be divided Into district
containing not less than 20 and no
more than 10 miles of road.
The senate committee on judicial;
reported unanimously Senator Casey'
bill to make invalid all assignment
of wages made before the wages ar
, earned.
Other bills introduced were:
1 Requiring all railroad companies t
I furnish sufficient passenger coache
to meet the requirements of the tra\
( cling public. Requiring railroad con
paniea to place cuspidors in all pat
senger coaches. Requiring railroac
passenger and freight conductors t
• report accidents to the secretary c
ihe railroad commissioners.
Requiring railroad companies t
transport the railroad commission
1 and employes of their office free whe
on official business.
The stale reformatory bill udvocai
■d by Governor Hadley was imrodm
d in the house by Gillispie of S'
Louis. It provides for an npproprli
' ion of $!■'U.UO0 to b» used for the put
* base of a site and (lie erection c
[ '.lie first building for a reformatory
OR. COOK TALKS FOR HIMSELI
Get* Hi* Second Wind and S*y* Hii
Proofs Are A* Good A*
Peary'a.
New York, .Ian. 28.—After an inter
val of silence, Dr. Frederick A. Cool
took the lecture platform and tol'
the German-American Pioneer club o
Harlem lliai he was more posilivi
. than ever that he reached the Norr!
Pole. Within his ow n bosom, he said
there was ‘‘the satisfying thump o
success, won at great cost"; but a
the same time, the geographical prou
that any one man, himself or Captai.
Peary, stood at the exact pole, oiui<
never be laid before "arm chair gc
ographers."
He had as good a right to ciain
the poie as Peary, he insisted. For thi
first time he accused Peary, in com
pany with friends, of forcing "by ai
organized campaign to discredit m;
achievement." Hitherto the docto
had never questioned that Pear;
reached the pole. Specifically attack
ing the accuracy of Peary’s records
be said they were in no better shapi
than his own.
Backache, Rheumatism, Sleepless
ness
Hesult from disordered kidneys
Foley Kidney Pills have helped others
they will help yon. Mrs. J. B. Miller
Syracuse. N. Y.. says, “For a Ion*
time I suffered with kidney trouble ant
rheumatism. I nad severe backache!
and felt all plaved out. After takinf
two bottles of Foley Kidney Pills mi
backache is gone and where l used t<
j lie awake with rheumatic pains T nov
j sleep in comfort. Foley Kidney Piili
I did wonderful things for toe.’’ Trj
l them now. For sale by all druggists
80a. homestead to relinquish, $20<
I improvements. Address Charles San
ford. Board Camp, Ark. 2773u5 4i
LONE BANDIT-FAILED
TO PULL OFF ROBBERY
After Collecting $117 and a Bunch el
Jewelry from Passengers He
Was Stopped by Bullet
From Detective.
Pueblo, Col., Jan. 30.—A score ol
passengers in the Pullman sleeper at
tached to the Texas fast mall, on
the Colorado & Southern railroad
were held up and robbed by a young
man, who, single-handed, compelled
them to hold their hands above ttaeti
heads while he went through the cat
from end to end and relieved them o!
all they had in the way of money nnc
jewelry. His total loot amounted ti
3117 in cash and a quantity of Jew
eiry. After having robbed the cat
full of psssetsgers he failed to inalu
good his escape and ts now la Jai
here with a bullet through his rlghi
wrist. •
Tlfc train left Denver bound foi
Texas points. When tt, stopped al
Hessemer, a small station a few mllei
from Pueblo a little after 4 o’clock i
well dressed young man hoarded th<
coach. After the train had started b<
went through the train toward tbi
rear, passing the conductor on tht
way. Reaching the Pullman at tht
tall end of the train he drew a revolt
or and yelled "Hands up!" Kveri
person In the sleeper obeyed the com
mand. The robber then searched eaei
of them, taking everything of valu<
they possessed. As he completed hi:
work he pulled the bell cord, btlng
tng the train to a stop.
Just as he jumped from the, trail
William McCafferty, a special ngen
of the Denver &. Rio Grande cathead
who was in. the forward part of th
train and who had started back ci
hearing the signal to stop the train
reached the Pullman and poked hi
head in the door.
A yell from the passengers tha
they had been robbed brought th
situation home to McCafferty at one*
The robber had In the meantim
jumped from the car and started t
run. McCafTerty drew his gun an
fired at the retreating bandit, wounc
ing him in the right wrist. After
short chase he gave himself up an
all the money and Jewelry was rt
turned. He was brought to Puebl
and placed in Jail. He gave his nam
as A1 Buckley, but refused any fui
ther Information concerning htmsel
BIG CORN EXPOSITION OPENEI
Agricultural Show at Columbus Ha
Broad Scope and Future Ones
May Be International Affairs.
Columbus, O., Jan. 30.—An attemp
will be made by those Interested 1
the raising of grain in the Unite
States to Interest the promoters o
1 the National corn exposition, whicl
opened here today and will ast untl
l February 11, in a scheme to make th
corn expositions of ihe future intci
national affairs. This project is chan
ploned by some of the foremost gral
1 experts of the country and has gatl
ered such prestige that it seems a
sured of a favorable hearing.
The agitation is due to the enorn
ous success met with by annual expi
sitlons of this American staple an
the ever increasing list of grains an
grases that have come to be exhibi
ed with it. When the first show wa
held In Chicago in 1907, only corn wa
shown. At the next two annual show
It was found necessary to enlarge tb
scope by adding classifications for a
grains and grasses Interest, howeve
has become so great, because of th
extension and broadening out, ths
npt alone all the states, but the go1
ernment department of agrlcultur
has become directly interested an
benefitted.
The present exposition is the lari
est ever held and includes such inni
vations as lectures and demons!ri
tlons in domestic science, dairy e;
hlbits, government tests to exciud
moisture from corn, and many othe
novel and interesting features.
Fxhihiis from 36 states fill ever
nook and corner of seven of the larj
est buildings on the Ohio state e;
positions grounds. These exhibit!
which are in charge of expert demoi
sfcators, deal In a practical way wit
nearly every phase of the science c
agriculture.
The federal department of agricu
i ture Is represented with its famou
exhibit which tills two large furnltur
cars, and which has just been r<
turned from the International expos
i tion at Buenos Ayres.
Important among the many mee
1 lngs, exhibits and other special fei
tures may be mentioned the meeting
i of the American Breeders' associatloi
i the National Rural Life conferenci
and numerous live stock association!
There are special features of vital li
terest to the Y. M. C. A., churche
colleges, schools, the farmer and tb
i city man and their families aliki
i Special entertainment features it
elude a two-ring winter circus, ban
concerts with vocal soloists, and mo'
i lng pictures.
! Tonight the official opening exe
cises will be held, Including address*
i by Governor Harmon, Mayor Ma
shall of Columbus, President Prit
• man and Secretary Hassell of the Ci
' lumbus chamber of commerce and th
■ chief officials of the exposition.
> Say Kansas Slayer la Intana.
Formosa, Kan., Jan. 30 —Harve
Wadlelgh, who murdered Mr. and Mr
■ Bales in their home near Reubens, 1
this county, is In jail at Mankati
awaiting a hearing regarding his sat
lty The coroner's Jury decided tb
man is insane.
I ? peedy Relief from Kldne
Trouble
•
“ I bad an acute attack of Bright'
1 disease with indentation ofthekidney
and bladder, and dizziness.” say
Mrs. Cora Tborp, Jackson, Mich. ",
bottle of Foley’s Kidney Remedy ovei
come the attack, reduced the lull amt
tion, took away the pain and made tb
bladder action normal. I wish every
■ one could know of this wonderful ran
edyFor sale by alt druggists.
Cotton Plants Need Plant F
Good plant food on cotton or any other crop means a large
yield per acre and more profit or money that you should or
can get, if yoai
Use
Virginia=Carolina
HlRh-Qrade
Fertilizers
liberally, before planting, as well as several times during the
growing period. The cotton buyer will pay several times the
cost of your investment in this—the very best plant food.
Our new free FARMERS’ \ EAR BOOK or almanac will
tell you how to get more than a bale cotton per acre.
Ask your dealer, or write us for a copy.
SALES OFFICES
Richmond, V*. Charleston, S. C.
Norfolk, Va. Baltimore, Md.
Atlanta, Ga. Columbua, Ga.
Savannah, Ga. Montgomery, Ala.
' Columbia, S. C Memphis, Tenn
Durham, N. C. Shreveport, La.
Alexandria, Va. Winston-Salem, N.C.
i AMERICANS ARE LITERALLY
SATURATED WITH OPIUM
i __
Dr. Hamilton Says We Are Full of the
I Drug—Stringent Exclusion Act
i Not Improving Matters—
, More Laws.
! -
Washington, .lan. 28.—“America is
I literally saturated with opium. This
> smoking of the drug is on the In
.Tease, despite the provisions of the
, opium exclusion act a? it now stands.
1 It is reaching alarming proportions
] and conditions are such at the pres
ent time that it is up to the federal
i government to enact additional lcglH
3 latlon that w ill make Us control effec
tive. It Is Imperative that something
D he done at an early^ date,” said Dr.
e Hamilton Wright, chairman of the
■. United Slates opium commission.
!. ”1 have not the data at hand that
will give llgures of the exact Increase
. In opium smoking in the last decade
' or In the past several years, but an
increase of 360 per cent to an increase
i of 120 increase In population since
1860 is enough to draw deductions
from. There Is nothing to be said In
palliation of It. Conditions are Buch
t that the average layman cannot sus
l pect their true character. The United
i States smoked up last year 450,000
f pounds of smoking opium against 16,
i pounds In Germany. Opium consump
I tiou in (his country Is equal to the
b combined consumption of Italy, Ger
many. Austria and Russia.
i- " rons of It are purchased from ]
d smugglers at prices ranging from $100
i- to $120 a pound, despite the exclusion
i- act. Previous to the passage of the
act it was sold at from $12 to $13 n
i- pound. The rise In price has not re
). .lured the quantity of the stuff In the
d slightest.
d “The Increase year after year means
out one thing since Chinamen have
s hern barred from the country and that
s Is that Us use among Americans,
s Women have become addicted to it
e as well as men. You can find native
II born opium smokers—dozens of them
\ —In practically every large town and
e city from one end of the country to
t the other.
r- “I have prepared four bills that are
e now in the hands of the ways and
d means committee of the house that
will do much toward remedying condl
Hons, In the event they become laws,
i- They will prohibit the sale of any
l- kind of opium or habit forming drug
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TREATY JH HU
MUCH OPPOSITION DEVELOPS TO
PROPOSED CANADIAN RE
CIPROCAL AGREEMENT.
AGRICULTURAL STATES OPPOSE \\
Republican Members Generally Not
Favorable—Democrats May Be In
duced to Vote for It—Some Pecul
iar Features of American Political
Washington, Jan. 30.—Canadian re
ciprocity faces defeat in the present
temper of congress. A poll of the
two houses disclosed such opposition
to the reciprocal trade agreement
which President Taft made public as
to suggest that all the force of ths
administration will be necessary to se
cure action at this session of con
gress. The big committees to which
the proposition has been referred—
finance and ways and means—are ap
parently lu agreement against the
plan. By delaying their report on the
agreement either of these committees
can defeat action at. this session. Ar
tayed on the side of the members
of these committees are mast of the
standpatters in hot it branches of con
gress. The. republican leaders have
learned nothing as a result of the No
vember election. On the other hand
the democrats are almost, solidly In
favor of the agreement. An er;.ra ses
sion of congress looms up tn conse
quence. President Taft is averse to
this action, but there is reason for
believing that If assurance could be
given that the democrats would ratify
the reciprocal agreement as submitted
without attempting to tack onto 'i
amendments that would upset the
plan, the president would issue a call.
Many Are Non-Committal.
There Is a large non-com lnlltf!)
vote in both branches of congress dis
closed by the poll. President Tuft is
concentrating ail of his powers o' per
suasion on these memhes, who hold
the key to the situation, following is
an analysis of the call
In the senate but six republican
members would consent to dfcthft
themselves for the bill. Ten repub
licans and one democrat also declared
themselves against the agreement. Of
the non-committals there are 37 re
publicans and 22 democrats.
In the house 74 democrats avow
themselves as favorlr*' the agree
ment, as do also 38 republicans. But
while 22 republicans vote no. Thors
are 57 it-pubiicans, however, who de
clare themselves as non-coramttta!
one democrat Is openly against it,
and 32 democrats.
' BLIND MAN CLIMBS STATUE
a _
f Goes to Top of Liberty Monument
I and I* Told of 8ights Ho
Cannot See.
0 Coming over from the Statue ofi
Liberty In New York harbor, a pas'
mnger fell Into conversation with a
blind man who boasted that he had
jlimbed to the top of the statue.
l' "It was a pretty good pull,” he said,
8 'but 1 have done better. Bunker Hill
'• monument tired me a lot more, and
'■ the Washington monument In Baltl
'■ jntre was something of a clip; but the
'• jllmb that pretty near tuckered me
*> vut was coming down the monument
e In Washington. Maybe you can't call
*■ that climbing, since It was walking
down Instead of up, but for a man
J who can't see the coming down from
'■ these high places Is always harder
than going up.
“Everybody you meet on top of a
* tower Is mighty good to a blind man.
•- They point out the bay on this side,
the river up yonder, the Islands to
>■ the front and the tip end of the city
e aver there. While 1 was doing Liberty
statue a shipload of Immigrants
passed within hailing distance. I
;ouldn't see them, but a woman told
y me all about them, bow they were
i, all packed together In the bow of the
n ship for their first glimpse of the city
>, snd everything. 1 suppose some folks
i- wonder why a man without eyes is so
• anxious to climb 400 or BOO feet to the
top of a place that Is noted for Its
view, but the ehnrm is not all lost,
and anyhow I've got the satisfaction
^ saying I’ve been there,”
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Summed up the republicans are op
posing the agreement on the ground
that It is an opening wedge in the
protective tariff.
The democrats favor if because it li
in line with their promise to reduce
the cost of living.
Farmers Are Opposed.
Republican opposition comes largely
from the farming sections and there
is significance in the fact that the
fanning and the manufacturing inter
cats, long in a close combine to keep
up the high rates of duty, are at last
on the verge of a split.
As a side light it ig Interesting to
note that the Insurgent republicans
who battled during the debate on the
Payne-Aldrich bill for lower duties,
are solidly opposed to the reduction*
supposed to be brought about by till*
agreement.
On the other hand the friends of ths
administration profess to a belief that
this is a temporary storm which will
blow over when the agreement ia
studied with more care.
Tlie republican party, they claim
may as well put up its shutters and
give the democrats a clear field in
1912 if this opportunity to reduce the
cost of living is not seized now.
Friends of reciprocity are hard at
work in an effort to find some means
by which the conflicting element*
may he united and the republican ad
minis*ration be given credit for this
final effort to revise the tariff befors
the democrats take control of the
house for the remainder of the Taft
administration _
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