The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 26, 1905, Page 9

— ~~ MAGAZINE SECTION. PART TWO. The Butler Weekly Times. VOL. XXVII. — | tor future generations this home of General George Washington. HOME OF i In this connection it is interesting HOW WOMEN PAVED THE WAY) °° “ow that during the ten-day annual meet of the Board of Regents in the FOR RESTORATION OF MT. VERNON | month ot May a banquet is given to the-Governor~of Virginta:After™the feast is ended and the toasts are drunk, the entire association conduct the Gov- ernor about the house and grounds, that he may know, by personal observa- tion, that the pact entered into so long ago is being faithfully kept. It is the custom of the ladies of the association to live at Mount Vernon during the yearly session, At this time the old home wears an air of un- wonted gaiety. The kitchen gives out the most appetizing odors, and, stimu- lated to unusual activity by tales of the old days, the corp of Virginia servants are auxious to show their fitness for the honor of “servin’ de ladies.” Even the brick oven, a relic of colonial days, is called into use, the beautifully browned bread, pies and cakes attest- ing its superiority. WASHINGTON, tilstoric Place is Now Exactly as it Looked During the Lifetime of Great Statesman-General — Thous- ands Visit it Annually, The bell is tolling, the band playing “Nearer My God to Thee” and the passengers know, even before they raise their eyes to the fair sweep of Virginia's shore line, that the steamer is passing Mount Vernon. A pretty custom—the tolling of the bell and the playing of the fine old hymn, A hush falls on the crowded decks, and one Thirty States Represented. The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Associa- tion is a most exclusive body. It is composed of a regent, who is president of the ‘tssociation, and a vice-regent from each of the States of the Union. Thirty States are now represented, The women are justly proud of the work that-has been and is being accom. plished, and so value their places in the council that it has become a cus- tom for the office of vice-regent to de- scend from mother to daughter or other near relative. When a vacancy occurs in the council the Governor of the State is invited to nominate some prominent woman; but should the name not receive the favorable consid- eration of the regent and vice-regents no appointment is made until one ac- ceptable to all is proposed. Miss Cunningham, the first regent, lived at Mount Vernon from 1868 to 1873, when she resigned on account of ill health, She died the following e present regent is-Mrs;Jus- Rennselaer Townsend, of New WASHINGTON AND LAFAYETTE, From a Painting at Mount Vernon, feels the thrill of patriotism stirring the hearts of the people, But do the thousands who annually sail down the Potomac to visit the stately home of George Washington know that to a woman’s initiative is due the restoration and preservation of the beautiful Mount Vernon of to-day? Away back in 1853 this home was in a rapidly deteriorating condition, Augustine Washington, a son of Gen- eral Wushington’s nephew, was the owner of the estate, The descendants of Washington evidently did not inherit the clear business sense of their illus- trious ancestor, for in General Wash- ington’s time the farm yielded a hand- some income, Now the fields were ly- During the Civil War, though in the very midst of the conflict, Mount Ver- non escaped serious injury. This was mainly due to the heroism of Miss Tracy, the secretary of the association, who took up her abode at Mount Ver- House in which Washington Lived. The Kitchen a it wasa Hundred Years Ago. ing untilled and useless, and the house, non, accompanied by only a few serv- and outbuildings were showing signs|ants. Miss Cunningham, the regent, of the passing of the years. The glory| was prohibited from crossing the mili- of that splendid home was departing. | tary lines and could not join her, For Yo Wi four long years Miss Tracy remained at A Woman's Work. the lonely home, managing the estate To the great credit of John Augus-| and guarding tae buildings. tine Washington it-is related that he The plan of the rehabilitation of refused absolutely to consider proposi- Mount Vernon, by returning to its tions advanced by private companies " and individuals to purchase the estate, | '°°™S the original furnishings, or arti to be.converted later into a pleasure resort. Think of the desecration—a vaudeville performance on that magni- ficent stretch of lawn, waiters bearing their burdens of food: and drink through those stately halls, the daily uproar of irreverent crowds. And then came Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham, of South Carolina. She visited Mount Vernon in 1853 and was impends will be precipitated by over- production of manufactured goods. He says “Consumption must have its bounds, and so with the consumption of manufactured articles. When @ man has filled all his requirements in clothes and furniture a mere lowering of prices, which is all that mechanical improvements generally mean nowa- days, can no longer attract him. Therefore, when the output is not re strained the market necessarily be- comes chok@d.” Mr. Rockefeller is specific as to the time when the crash is to occur. It is likely that he errs in this, because pre- dictions as to periods of depression and readjustment are seldom fulfilled as to dates. Crises as a rule come un- expected and the immediate reason is most apt to be due to over-expansion STEM INDUSTRIAL CRASH STANDARD OIL MAGNATE PRE- DICTS CRISIS AND SUGGESTS PALLATIVE MEASURES. Would Have Nation Begin Work of Vast Internal Improvements. Ex- Premier Meline of France Also Sounds Warning. J, H. SHANNON, That the land is the source of all real wealth, has been said by philoso- phers time out of mind, and now with the urban districts draining from the country much of the flower of its man- hood the cry is going up from the lips of legions of wise men, “Back to the| of credit, and overproduction of secur- Land!” All manner of colonization | ities than to actual overproduction of projects are being devised and tried | goods; but when to the cause of over- for the purpose, of diverting foreign | expanded credits is added overproduc- immigration from the cities to fields | tion of manufactures and a lop-sided and to relieve the pressure of conges- | industrial system,recovering from the tion in the over-grown centers.One | ¢rash is more difficult, Day of Distress Near, The richest man in America is post- tive, however, that the crash will come about 1907—year. after next—and so sure is he that the trouble is on its j way, that he is already weaving a plan to provide work for those who will be thrown out of employment, and thus ameliorate the panic, He is certain that the number of men who will need help will be about 7,000, 000, {and when is added to those men the | number of dependents, the total is ap- | palling, Mr, ‘Rockefeller thinks. this |vast army of unemployed should be | set to work by the government on in- j ternal improvements, the building of jhew roads, improvement of old ones, |) dredging of streams, irrigating land, jete. He says; Vast Plan of Construction, “There is enough labor today needed }on the public highways to employ all /the fdle or surplus labor for a century. The improvement of the roads, the dredging streams, and espec lly of | the Mississippi, where annually ‘mill- jfons of damage is done by the over. | | flow, the irrigation of arid lands, the | | preservation of forests and the drain- | }age of the swamps are the great pub- lic problems that should be occupying the public mind. Municipal, state and jfor the building of roads, | When the industrial storm comes. it | | will not be too late to breast it.” ' J.D, ROCKEFELLER AND HIS NEW WIG. feature of the ominous flow of people to the cities is the phenomenal develop- ment of manufactures. There may come a time when manufactures will so overbalance agriculture that there will not be enough basic wealth pro- duced to afford a protitable market for the factory-made goods, When the industrial situation shall become so unbalanced, a commercial crash of stupendous magnitude must ensue. As Helpless Babes. Then the city-trained men who} ‘know not how to make bread out of the soil will clamor for work, curse the economic condition of the period, denounce the state, threaten the re- publie with all sorts of fantastic theo- ries, and there will be acute friction between the few rich and the multi- tude of poor. Gradually men_ will! drift back to the land and learn to make their living with the plow and reaper and a satisfactory equilibrium | between agriculture and manufactures will once more be reached. Before this result is attained, there will be intense suffering. Families that are in comfortable circumstances will know the meaning of misery, and families now affluent will fall into beggary. All this is not a dream Men of clearest vision see it coming JULES MELINE. It makes no difference wh.ther Mr. Rockefeller be right or wrong in his forecast of a gathering storm, his plan for the employment of surplus labor is a practical and profitable one and his enumeration of road building, riv- | national laws should be enacted now \| so that | | | Setts mem BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY; OCTOBER 26, 1905, THE TARIFF PROBLEM. REVISION AND ANTI-REVISION SENTIMENTS IN WASHINGTON, Speaker Cannon between Two Fires Question to be a Live One During the Next Session of Congress. It is rather amusing to those who are on the inside of the political arena in Washington to observe the manner in which discussions of the tariff are conducted throughout the country, In an academic way the theories of the tariff are talked over. But to the men on whom the real work of revising the tariff would devolve there are very dif- ferent considerations to influence them They openly declare that — th ought to be revised, but they danger to busines: 80 great that they fear undertaking it. They insist that a struggle over the schedules would last six months, and that during that time the business in terests would be suffering stagnation that would afflict the country very sorely. This view is scouted by the revision- ists as one that has no standing with men who believe in doing things, They claim that if such considerations are to prevail there never could be a re- vision of the tariff. So Easy To Revise. Not long ago the difficulties in agreeing upon changes in the Dingley | | From the WashingtonPost’ “Ordinarily my experience has been that bears were not greatly rid when I suddenly came upon them,.”"—Theodore Roosevelt in ‘or October, NO. 52 over the revision of the tariff. He de clared that it would be an easy job, As Simple as Can Be. “What would you do with the tariff?" he was asked. “Why,” he replied, “it’s as simple as can be. All you have to do is-to lower the tariff on woolen goods and to make a big reduction in the shoe schedules. Practically that would satisfy every and if you did no more the coun- The Dlinois representative was in- formed that he had been preceded by a member from Massachusetts who thought that all that would be neces- sary would 'be to put coi, biaes and wool on the free list. “Hides on the free list!” exclaimed the Illinois speaker. “Not while I have the strength to stay here to fight | ag “Now you see what an easy thing it is to revise the tariff,’ sald the speaker, “If L was God,” again remarked the speaker in his quaint style, “I would mike some changes in the tariff. I would put them Into effect before any- body knew what they were to be made, Then there would be no unsettling of business and at least some people would be happy.” Question an Absorbing One. What alarms so many prominent protectionists is what they claim is the danger of unsettling the business conditions of the country. The the- oretical adjustment of the tariff ac- cording to the principles of protection ur- vibe Cannon, prominent Massachusetts member revised. You see, wr, “We over the difficult in yr tariff. It would lly be ple. We would only have to put hides, wool and coal on the free list and the | they would have to pay. country would be practically satisfied. We might do more, but that would really be enough. weeks.” The speaker listened he always does listen to advic ” declared the Massachu- | ch: Il make too much | the ing the | sim-| not buy goods when lower tariff rates There could be no | difficulty in coming to an agreement | on that—merely a matter of a few! views v intently as! But | the prin Rockefeller’s Prophecy of Panic. It is what Mr. John D. Rockefeller sees when he predicts, as he did in a recent interview “an industrial crisis of world-wide extent and unprece- dented severity.” Mr. Rockefeller says the crisis will) be brought on by overproduction in| all lines. The Standard Oil magnate er improvement, irrigation, forest pres- ervation and swamp draining, as the truly great national problems is phil- osophic. The work needs to be done, and eventually it must be done, if the United States is to progress. Waste is national loss—waste by flood and drought as Every acre of land should be made to well as waste by fire. | pay. The government promotes re- }search and experimentation in agri- |culture, with a view to increasing the effectiveness of tillage; there is no reason why it should not give counte- hance and support to reclamation of land and the enchancement of the fer- tility of land already under culture. It is the land—the farm, which is the pedestal of the republic. There should be no effort to mini- mize the worth of manufactures— processes that work up the raw prod- uets of the earth into serviceable forms. The ores from which are cb- tained the metals of commerce are as much a product of the land as corn, wheat and cotton—not as primarily important, but quite as necessary to man in his present highly organized 1 state, It is difficult to draw the Mine between some of the basic manufactures and agriculture, for the iron furnaces and steel mills build the railroads and* bridges which give farmers a. short-cut to markets. French Statesman Also Predicts ‘anic. But the point is, that where mange factures develop out of proportion the growth of agriculture, the world is being, turned wrong side up. Mr. Meline in declaring that the overpro- duction manufactures will lead to an 1 crash, says; “There. is room for everyone under the sun, but inipending evil. Eseentjally thé same on condition of sharing up the things of the earth, instead of ellen is made by tor Jules trating upon one department of actiy- the crisis. which | ity.” thot stand. Alone ‘as a prophet of trailing on the heels of the setts member came a repr | from Illinois who also wanted to re- cent years. study.” —-N. Y. Globe. 133-137 Bast 26th St., New York. vise the tariff. He started in the same | te as his predecessor. He thought there! the revisionists will develop in contest- was altogether too much fuss made | Every reader of this paper should have this book. Cut off the coupon and mail to us with $1.50. 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Times Saturday Review. \ “There is no more dramatic period in history, and the story bears every evidence of careful and painstaking DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. | schedules were illustrated by rep- is having very little effect on them, ! esentatives who called on Speaker It happened that one day | care to discuss that phase of the ques- In fact the protectionists do not even tion, A revision of the tariff with the Hed to impress the speaker with the | declared purpose to simply lower the sy manner in which the tariff! might | schedules they say would have the me effect on the country that they m would follow an attack on tariff principles by the free-trad- They claim that merchants would ers. might still further reduce the price That condi- tions lasting six months they fear would upset all business conditions, They say it might mean panic. But they are likely to have their forcibly contested by the mists next winter. The re- nd the men who believe in ples of reciprocity are band- ff re visionists iu-| ing together to give battle in the halls ve] of Congress The citadel is now dis- ly in the control of the stand pat- d it is to be seen what power ti ing their ascendancy. . in (EA By Eugene P. Lyle, Jr. Published August 1st 18TH THOUSAND ALREADY All Bookstores, $1.50 —St. Louis Republic, Nr aes ae seat ¥