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TUB f xlMi&mp’fi Ctofttlm < FKBD. IsASSCEB, fiDiTO*. TEKMS— fI.OO peryear. Single copiaafioents So subscription discontinued until all arrears are paid unless fit the option of the publisher. BSfAll coiffcspoudence with this office should be addressed to '-The Enquirer.” ADVEKTjsiJfq KATES— Transient a.lver tisemcuts >1 per Inch for the first insertion, 50 cents for the second and 25 cents Tor each subse quent insertion. One inch 3 months, $3; 6 months, $5, 12 months, SB. Business Cards, not exceeding 1U lines, $8 per year. When the num ber of insertions is not marked advertisements will be continued until forbid and charged ac cordingly. Yearly advertisers must confine ad vertisements to their own business. Rule and Figure Wo!i double price. Business Locals 10 oents per line. Marriages and Deaths inserted free. Obituaries and Tersonal Communications 5 cents per que. I . TEA ASD COFFEE SHOULD KEMAIJn ON THE FitEE LIST. We talte it for granted that Hon. Nelson Yj. Aldrich, of Rhode Island the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and the other Republi can members of that committee, while protectionists of the straigh lest sect,' and of the most uncom promising type, realize that it is no trifling mutter to arouse the resent ment of the people, irrespective of party, by'tasiug tea and coffee, says the Baltimore Sun. Throughout the campaign of 19(’8 the voters were encouraged by the Republican part} - to jbelicve that the promised revision of the tai iff would be in the interest of the consumer as well s of the manufacturer, of agriculture and of labor. Now, it is distinctly against the interests of comsumers for Congress to levy, for any purpose whatever a tax on tea and coffee, two neces saries of life which are articles of universal consumption in the United States. But this is precisely what Mr. Aldrich and his Republican colleagues of the Senate Finance Committee propose to do. Their bill provides for a minimum and a maximum tariff. Until March 31, 1909, the minimum tariff, under the provisions of which tea and coffee are on the free list, will be in effect. But on March 31, 1910, the maxi \ mum tfhriff will become “the general tariff of the United States,” and will be enforced against every country discriminating in any way against th e United States. Under the pro visions of this “general” tariff the rate of duty on tea will be 10 cents a pound and on coffee 5 cents a pound while there will bean additional rate of 25 per cent, ad valorem on most of the schedules of the minimum tariff. v If the Senate has wise and just con sideration for the interests of the masses of the people, it will exempt tea and coffee absolutely from the operations of the maximum tariff* It will make these necessaries free of duty under any and all circum stances, No emergency exist 9 which justifies imposing upon the people the iburden of a tax on te a and coffee. To impose such a tax byway of punishing other countries will add to the living expenses of practically every household in the land and will punish Americans more than the foreigners against whom the ratalliation will be aimed. It would be an absurd as well as a grievouly unjust, oppressive and destructive * policy to add to the cost of living of the working people of the United States and, indeed, of all classes of consumers merely to “get even” with the countries which produce tea and coffee. It would be utterly inconsistent with any intelli gent plan of defence against foreign discrimination against the United States. Common sense, elementary considerations of justice and regard for the “pocket nerve” of the masses of the American people should con vince Senators of the unwisdom and the injustice of making tea and cof fee and other table necessaries in uni versal use factors in a tariff war. To compel the people of this country to pay a heavy tax on these necessaries because of an alleged discrimination by certain foreign countries against the product of some New England or Western manufacturer wonld arouse general indignation among the masses of comsumers. Mr. Aldrich and the other aggressive and uncom promising protectionists would soon find they had stirred up a hornets’ nest at home. The Republican party must ac cept the consequences of the tariff revision which the special session of Congress was convened to efiect. It will be an extraordinary revision indeed if it results in taxing tea and coffee, herefore on the free list, and in adding 25 per cent, ad valorem to cost o? sugar. What ought to be done in respect to sugar is to reduce materially the Dingley rate on the refined article, thus probably increas ing the revenues from that sourse, while enabling the American people to buy at less cost than they do now with sugar practically controlled by a monopoly and enjoying a grossly excessive rate of protection. If the Republican majority in the Senate has just consideration for the people as well as political wisdom and pru dence, it will pass a tariff bill which will afford the consumers of the country a proper degree of protec tion from interests which long fat tened un taa;tf. And this program of protccjjffflii for the people must in clude tea and coffee, under all con ditions and . cheaper sugar. THE PRINCE GEORGE-5 ENQUIRER— UPPER MARLBOnOv. vO .vAuALAND, MAY 2s n>v=-> Pennsylvania Railroad BULLETIN. j 1 SUMMER TRIPS AFAR AND NEAR. f Summer days are coming fast. Already vacation da; nio being discussed in the home and in the office, and in a tow weeks the t annual exodus to country, seashore and mountain will have been < begun 1 America abounds with delightful summering places, in valley r on mountain and beside the sea —thousands of resorts whither s wend the pilgrims in search of pleasure and retreat on. Pennsylvania Railroad ticket agents now have vn sale ox cur- j sion tickets to the greater number of these resorts: by the first week in “June there will be about eight hundred points covered by Pennsylvania Railroad summer excursion tickets. From the rock-bound bays of Newfoundland to sunny slopes of the Virginia shores; from the White Mountains of New Hamp shire to the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee ; along the forty < beaches of New Jersey ; even to the far coast of the Pacific Ocean these summer resorts stand ready to entertain the transient ©r all summer guest. / Any Pennsylvania Railroad Ticket Agent will cheerfully give information concerning routes and fares to these resorts enabling summer pilgrims to plan their outing at a minimum of time and cost. Information may also be secured by addressing Geo. W. Boyd. Gen eral Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station I hiladeiphia, C . Sludds, D. P. A , 263 Fifth Avenue, New York; City; Am. Peduck ,D. . A., 1433 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia; Thos. E. Watt, D. i. A 401 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburg; B. P. Fraser, D. P. A , 307-Mam Street, bmlaio, 11. Hasson, Jr.. D. P. A., Baltimore and Calvert Streets, Baltimore; B. M. Newbold, D. P. A., Fifteenth and G. Streets, Washington: A. C. vVeile, D P A.. H Seuth Fifth Street, Reading; Jas. P. Anderson, D. 1 A. Union Station, Pittsburgh, or E. Yungman, D. T. A.. Williamsport. I a. OUK WASHINGTON LETTER ! Washington, D. C., May 22th, 1909 1 1 Mr. Editor : . ( President, Taft on his recent trip in- s to the South predicted that Congress would pass the tariff bill and adjourn by June 20th. It is, of course, barely J possible that the President had some inside information which led him to make that prediction and that time will prove him a true prophet, but from a careful observation of the situation in the Senate it is difficult to find warrant fer such sanguine expectation. The 1 Democrats are not delaying the final i disposal of the bill. They realize, as 1 Senator Tillman said in debate, that Senator Aldrich has the votes to do practically what he pleases with the bill, that farther talk is a waste of time and they are ready to agree on a day for a vote at any time. They are urging a vote on the income tax proposition but that Mr. Aldrich will not permit. Sena tor Bailey spoke unusually frankly when he said on the floor of the Senate, “We feel the ground slipping from un der our feet and we would like to vote on the income tax amendment right away.” The ground is slipping from under their feet and that is why Mr. Aldrich will not. permit the mea sure to come to a vote. He is convinced that one by one the Republican sup porters of the income tax proposition will he picked off and that when the vote finally comes it will be supported by the Democrats and only three or four Republicans. Senator Culberson has dissected the tariff bill so that who runs may read, has shown that it is not an honest revision of the tariff and has made it evident that the Republicans are in full control and, therefore, must be held wholly responsible for the measure by the people. There is real ly nothing more for the Democrats to do and they might as well vote now as later. The great obstacle to progress is the progressive Republicans. That may sound like a paradox but it is a fact. They have in their ranks men who live by newspaper notoriety, men such as La Follette, Beveridge and Burkett. These men miss no opportunity to ex ploint their views, not with the hope or expectation of changing a single vote, but with the confidence that their speeches will be reported in the press and that thus they will gain something in the public estimation, and until such as these are satisfied that have nothing further to gain from talking there will be no agreement to vote. The President has said that he be lieves a satisfactory bill will come out of the conference between the House and the Senate, whatever may be the character ef the bill passed by the up per house. This also may be true, but it probably depends largely on what is termed a satisfactory bill. Only a comparatively short time ago Mr. Taft was an advocate of lumber. He said so himself. Now hfe admits that he will sign a hill which imposes a duty of dollar a thousand feet on lum ber. Will that be his course with re gard to his other convictions V If he yields half of each of them and then pronounces the tariff bill satisfactory it will not be a revision downward worthy of the name and that it will ot be is the expectaion of most of the Demo crats. Disquieting news from Cuba has reached Washington and it is now learned that the chief purpose of Secre tary of War in his recent visit to Havana was to ascertain how much foundation there was for the disquiet ing rumors and to whisper a word of advice to the Cuban officials. Unfor tunately, Secretary Dickinson was taken ill just as his ship, the Mayflower, reached Havana and he was unable to land. It was, in fact, necessary to hurry back to this country, without even waiting for the Postmaster Gen eral who had left here with the pur pose of joining Mr. Dickinson in Havana. This is one occasion of considerable disappointment to the administration although it is possible Postmaster General Hitchcock may be commissioned to conduct something of an investigation and to impart to the Cuban authorities the words of warning Secretary Dickinson was expected to convey. The Secretary of the Navy Las deter- ' mined to make a complete investigation 1 of the question involved in the contro versy which has rent the Navy Depart ment into factions ever since the re tirement of Secretary Newberry, and among all save those who were wed ded to the Newberry plan of navy yard reorganization there is rejoicing. It is believed that Secretary Meyer has ample ability to solve the- several pro blems accurately, that he will bear in mind continuously the fundamental 1 proposition that the highest efficiency ( of 4he fleet is the first consideration j and that, while he will supply excellent t business judgment to the solution of i the navy yard problems, he will not subordinate efficiency afloat to simpli- 1 city and business administration a shore. REDUCED KATES TO GETTYSBURG Dedication Regular Army Monument.- Gjn Monday, May 81, Memorial Day the monument to the regular army en gaged in the battle of Gettysburg will be dedicated on the Battlefield by the United States Government. President Taft will participate in the ceremonies. Excursions tickets to Gettysburg will be sold by the Pennsylvania Railroad from all principal stations May 27 to 30, good to return until Juue 3, inclu sive, at reduced rates. J. J. F. Shaw, \ q a , es . m „ n John M Talbert, \ ' aiesmen trus: Maryland Commission Agent OR BALTIMORE CITY, For the Sale of TOBACCO. GRAIN WOOL, LIVE STOCK, PEAS, PEACHES and FARM PRODUCE gen erally. 6 WEST PRATT STREET, BALTIMORE, - - Baltimore Directors: W- McK. Burroughs, Prest. John B. Gray, Sccty- F. H. Darnall Thomas Parran T. Van Clagett S. E. F. Paimer Wm H. Detricfe. Mr. John M Talbert will give his personal attention Co the inspection of ail Tobacco consigned to us. Order of of Ratification HARDEN, et ai. vs. AMBROSE G. SASSCER. In the Court for Prince George’s County. No. 3632 Equity. ORDERED hy the Circuit Court of Prince George's County May 19th, 1909 that the sale made and reported by John H Dumler and Edward A O’Mara, Trustees in the above entitled cause, be ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary b# shown on or before the 14th day of June 1909 provided a copy of this order be inserted in some newspaper published in Prince George’s County once in each of three succes sive weeks before the said 14th day of June 1909. BENJ. D. STEPHEN, Clerk. True Copy Test; BENJ. B. STEPHEN. Clerk. Mjl9to9 Order of Ratification JAMES ADDISON INGLE, et. al. vs. MARIA INGLE WEBB, et. al. In the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. No. 3500 Equity. ORDERED, This sth day of May 1909 by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County in Equity, that the private sales of a portion of the proper ty mentioned in these proceeding to wit:—lst, the sale of 10 acres of said property to Nathaniel and Grace Eliza beth Loveless; and 2nd. the sale of 2 acres of said property to J . W. made and reported by H Randall Webb trustee, appointed by a decree of this Court to make sale of said property, be ratified and confirmed, un. ns cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 31st day of May next; pro vided u copy of this order be inserted in some weekly newspaper printed in Prince George’sCounly once in each of three successive weeks before the 31st day of May 1909. There.pi rt es an mut of sales to be:—for the Ist oar cel SSOO for the 2nd parcel SIOO BENJ. D STEPHEN, Clerk, True Copy Test : BENJ, D. STEPHEN, Clerk. May73to9 Foley’s Kidney Remedy a ill cure any case of kidney or bladder trauble that is not beyond the reach of medicine. Cures backache and irregularities that l if neglecjted might result in Bright's disease or diabetes. H. l.ali. I i castor ia ; i'or Infants and Children. i The Kind You Bass Always Bought Notice to Creditors IN THE MATTER OF THE PER SONAE ESTATE OF FRANK E FITZPATRICK, deceased; mniS is to give notice that the sub- X scriber lias obtained from the Or phans’ Court for Prince George’s Coun ty letters testamentary on the personal e; ! ate of Frank E. Fitzpatrick, late of said Count}’, deceased. All persons having claims against the said estate arc hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof, to the sub scriber on or before the 9th day of No vember, A. D- 1909, they may other wise by law be excluded from all bene fit of said estate. Those indebted to said estate am requested to make im mediate payment. Given under my hand this fourth day of May 1909. ELIZA FITZPATRIC. Executrix of Frank E. Fitzpatrick, deceased. M ay74109. "NOTICE, BT MUTUAL AGREEMENT WYVILL BROTHERS. Contractors and Builders HAVE DISSOLVED partnership, but will not bid in opposition to one anoth er. Persons wishing work done in their line will please notify any one of the three parties. A. J. WTVILL. ™. H. HYVIU M. J. WTVILL. Janlltc UPPER MARLBORO’, MD. Farmers’ Restaurant —DINING-ROOM AND SALOON BEST 15c, and 25c. DINNERS IN WASHINGTON. —CALL AND BE CONVINCED— Purest Wines and Liquors in the City. ALL MIXED DRINKS, 10 cts. Samuel Taylor, 212 9th Street Tl?., OPPOSITE CENTER MARKET * WASHINGTON, D. 0. MR. ROBERT PUMPHREY, for merly of Mellwood, this county, is permanently employed at Taylor’s and requests his friends to call. Treasurer’s Notice —to— Taxpayers The UNDERSIGNED, Treasurer, will attend in the several Election Districts in Prince George’s C uuty, Md., at the following named places ou the day named, in the month of June, 1909, between the hours of 10 a. ra. and 3 p. ra., either in person or by Deputy for the purpose o collecting State and County Taxes levied by the County Commissioners of said County for the current year of 1909. 1st —Vansville district, at Ulle’s Store Tuesday. June Ist. 10th—Laurel distreit, at Laurel Bank Wednesday, June 2nd. 11th —Brandywine district, at Postoffice Thursday, June 3rd. 2nd—Bladensburg district, at Garges’ Hotel, Friday. June 4th. ICth—Hyattsville district, at Hyatts- Bank, Saturday, June sth; 7th—Queen Anne district, at Baxter’s Store. Monday, June 7th. 13th—Kent district, at Gregory’s Store,' Tuesday, June Bth. 6th—Spaldings district, at Dove’s Store Wednesday, June 9th. 9th—Surratts district, at Thomas’ Store Thursday, June 10th. 13th—Oxon Hill district, at Cornell’s Store, Friday, June 11th. 5th —Piscataway district, at Boswell’s Store, Saturday, June 12th. 17th—Chillum district, at D. M.Nesbits Office, Mount Rainier, Monday; June 14th. 15th—Mellwood district, at Mrs. Padgett’s Store, Tuesday, June 15th. 4th—Nottingham district, at Baden’s Store, Wednesday, June 16th. Bth—Aquasco district, at Postofflce, Thursday, June 17th. 14th—Bowie district, at Edlavitch’s Store, Friday, June 18th. In Washington, D. C., at the Office of Wells & Wells, Mutual Fire Insurance Company Big, Corner 13th St, and N Y Ave, N W, June 2Glh, 28th, 29th and 30th. To all persons who pay their County Taxes, levied as aforesaid, tome or any person authorized by me to receive the same, on or before the first day of July 1909, no interest will be charged After which date interest will be charged at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum until November Ist, 1909. After November her Ist, 1909, an additional interest of one-half of one pet cent per mouth will be charged until said County Taxes are paid. Those who pay their State Taxes, levied as aforesaid, ou or before the first day of September, 1909, will be entitled to a deduction of five per cent. Those who pay their State Taxes, levied as aforesaid, after the first day of September and on or before the first day of October, 1909, will be entitled to a deduction of tour per cent and those who pay their State Taxes levied as aforesaid, afte' the first day of October, 1909, and before the first day of November, 1909 will be entitled to a deduction of three per cent. As the aforesaid referred to Taxes respec tively become due and in arrears; the Treasurer xvill proceed to enforce the payment of same as directed by law. C. A. M. WELLS, Treasurer and Collector of State and County Taxes for Prince George’s County, Md. Mayl4tfo9. Simple Kcinedy Tor La Grippo. La grippe coughs are dangerous as they frequently develop into pneu monia. Foley’s Honey and Tar not only stops the cough but heals and strengthens the lungs so that no serious results need be feared. The genuine Foley’s Honey and Tar contains no harmful drugs and is in a yellow pack age. Refuse substitutes. H. Half. 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''Everything for Everybody/ Pennsylvania Avenue and Eighth Street S. L HERE YOU can buy everything for MAN, WOMAN and CHILD at prices that will surely please you. FOR THE HOME|||| FURNITURE, CARPETS, MATTING, OILCLOTH, LINOLEUM, WINDOW SHADES, PORCH CHAIRS and ROCKERS, HOUSEFURNISHINGS of ever y description Chinaware, Glassware, Graniteware, etc.. Window and Door Screens. Small sizes at very low prices. WOMEN’S Full-length TAN DUSTERS special sale . price - - - - $2.98. | ■ ■ ■ - OSPRINO OPENINGQ ' \ Granulated Sugar, per lb, 4Jcts 10c Ladies’ Gauze Vests 5c each Rumford Baking Powder 6 cz. bottle.Si Bpring 12A and 15c percales— .10c yard | Oleine Soap, bar 4c New Dress Ginghams. 7c yard Arbuckle’s Coffee, per lb 150 1 B >y’s Knee Pants all sizes 85c 50c Gunpowder Tea. per lb S 3; Boy’s Knickerbocker Pants 49c Men’s and Bovs Underwear....2sc euch Men’s Pants worth $2 50..51.48 special 10 Ladies’ Black Hose 5c pair Boy’s New Spring Suite all sires. .|l.7i . 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