The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 17, 1911, Page 2

dass 9 te 8 serine somcennne tae i 4 v4 * people, he is still surrounded ‘‘by men ASHINGTON LETTER. |the referee board was organized and | put into action for the very purpose si of conserving the interests of the Special Washington Correspond-| manufacturers, so you would have a ent of The Times. | safe hearing.” By Clyd H. Tavenner, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson sometime ago made this statement to Washington, D, C.—Today, on the |, committee of manufacturers, ac-| eve of the momentous occasion when . n 4 ~.. (cording to testimony just presented President Taft must sign or veto tariff to the Ratt ee pe Pe coe in legislation of vast importance to the | the agriculture department. a | It will be recalled that the organiza- bid ae w a ad a ition to which secretary Wilson was just as he was when in | fers 1 the inwiditous Bayne Altech bi. [Uae Ehe Reman: eet GLOUS ay) .___ | versed the findings of Dr. Wiley when he seinlrofficlal een given ‘he ruled against the use of benzoate out by the White House publicity !of soda by embalmed beef manufac- bureau (Secretary Hilles, manager) ‘turers, The same board overruled eet He asta intends tis) Seis all Wiley many times, finding excuses tariff revision which Congress may ‘for letting down the bars to the food send to him, indicates that the MEN /dopers on the merest pretense of “who know exactly what they want,’”’ heRtOnG: (an expression coined by the late | The weird rulings of the Remsen Senator Dolliver,) also know what hoard caused friends of honest foods they do not want. ; 'to suspect that it had been organized The President’s advisers are OP! to thwart Dr. Wiley, and to ‘“con- posed, for instance, to legislation of | serve’ the interests of the manufac- any kind that would interfere with the ‘turerg ihtcedl Gf toweanuenres the Payne-Aldrich protection wall, which | public health, and Secretary Wilson’s EANER ND (ty AUCs tariff trusts frank statement to the manufacturers immunity from competition by virtue | merely confirms the justice of that of which they are free to charge con- | suspicion. sumers exorbitant prices without out- | side interference. Why Taft Failed. Playing Favorities. | Allowing 37 of the 83 men under ‘crimminal indictment in connection ministration is written, his ee an | the payment of puny fines upon their win the sympathy af ine teen ae withdrawal of ‘not guilty’’ pleas, is no doubt be attributed to his selection aA ailuetiaigni ob dhe: wackoranarh! as advisers of _men vata are not in’ jolicy of trust breaking. This system | compete against the cheap foreign sympathy with the needs of the peo- | would seem to make the violation of | immigrant and negro labor employed ple of the country. the anti-trust laws merely a_ business labout half the prices charged the ‘ ee |profit, They are learning that men When the history of Mr. Taft's ad- Vth the wire trust to go free with! work in the steel mills twelve hours be-all and end-all of the son of plutoc- racy. Yet he means well. He has a good heart. His great handicap is that he has so many about him who know exactly what they want, and to whom the public good is the last con- sideration. Therefore it would seem that it matters little what large schemes are | promised or prophesied, so long as | Mr. Taft sits in the executive chair, The president has as little chance to as aman in any other walk of life | might have if he tried to~serve two | masters. | Canadians are Wary. | The Republican argument that a high tariff is needed in this country | to maintain ‘‘the high American wage”’ lis shown up as a farce, pure and simple, by the presence in several |American manufacturing cummuni- | ties of agents of Canadian manufac- turers, who are gathering figures to |show that Canada cannot afford to ;have reciprocity with us for the | Teason that Canada cannot compete against American wages. The Canadians are beginning to ‘understand how it is that the steel trust can sell steel in Canada for ; American consumer, and still make a a day, and seven days a week for a dollar and a half a day, and it is for the reason that they do not wish to by American trusts that some of the succeed as the executive of the nation, |. Het us are tine theamen ha know Proposition. ‘The men running the Canadians are urging the defeat of rounding President Taft, who know ‘trusts may pile up millions by paying weetlareeal ta exactly what ‘‘they’’ want; and who, through having practically a monopo- | ly of the President’s ear, have been | ¢,y, iHousande dn finee. able to deceive him into the belief | that he is acting the part of a real} statesman if he vetoes legislation of | the very character that he promised | already passed by the Democratic the people before election in order to House—reciprocity, free secure their votes. “Know What They Want.”’ In his cabinet Mr. Taft has Secre- tary of State Knox, former steel trust Ein AGiorniay (CeaOA ieker- | through the reduction of duties and a high note that promises to throw a sham, former sugar trust attorney, and Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagle, former attorney for the Waters-Pierce (Standard) Oil com- pany. ,no attention to the anti-trust laws, and And yet, the Republican protection- then escape punishment by paying a jsts have argued all these years that the great danger to American labor was the possibility that it might have to enter into competition with the “cheap” labor of other countries. This latest action of the Canadians knocks the last legs from under that Much Already Accomplished. Considered together, the four bills list, wool and cotton—constitute a most compre- x hensive beginning at revision of the ancient contention. | Payne-Aldrich law. The revision ac- National Road Building to Be Demo-| complished by the House means enor- cratic Policy. 2 mous relief to the public, partly! Speaker Champ Clark has sounde: partly through the elimination of nice issueintothe nextcampaign. He jokersandspecial-privilege provisions. is a member of the Lincoln memorial | Washington, D. C.—Are the Ameri- commission, and in that capacity he is | can people competent to rule? And | 24vocating the building of a great e| highway from the national capitol to} Then in his immediate family cir- if they are competent, have they th cle the President has Brother Charles | right under the constitution to do so? Taft, who is so constituted temper-| ‘Here are two vital questions direct- | mentally and financially that he can /ly involved in a veto by President \Gettysburg, “as the nucleus of a | great system of national roads, built by the government in co-operation with the states.’” The majority of view legislation only from the view- point that “Big Business’’ views it; and also Brother Henry W. Taft, a|—territories which have these many member of the New York law firm of years been eligible to admission ‘as Strong & Cadwallader, which repre- | states, but have been barred out, first, ; sents the sugar trust, Wall street and, because certain big interests in the) the great industrial corporations. For substantiation of any advice the | cause the Republicans feared Arizona | President may receive from these | would send Democratic senators to} sources, he has but to call in Senator | Congress. Lippitt, Aldrich’s successor from Rhode Island. Mr. Lippitt is one of | House press bureau (Secretary Hilles, | the millionaire beneficiaries of the; manager) is trying to put out to the struggling cotton trust, and knows/ country is that the veto was made | exactly what he wants. Others who | necessary by a provision in the Ari- | know what they want and upon whom |zona_ constitution which established | the President relies are Penrose, | the recall. Smoot, Gudgenheim, Du Pont and | The fact is, both branches of Congress | jccue by 1912 is regarded as’ practi- the balance of the ring of special priv-| were careful not to go on record, cally certain by those who are looking | ilege servers in the Senate. And here is a list of the men whose resolution simply gives to the people advice is not sought by Mr. Taft: of Arizona the right of local self gov- | LaFollette, Clapp, Cummins, Bristow |ernment; the right to vote on the | territories desired it, and second, be-! Taft of the Flood Resolution granting Bia statehood to Arizona ane New Mexico | the commission favors a marble arch in the city of Washington, which the | Speaker says would form a fine meet- ing place for English sparrows but | which would not in any degree fit in | with the practical character of the ‘great Lincoln. The Speaker has in- |duced the President to defer action |on the memorial until legislation can |be passed to permit the building of | |the Lincoln road. He will then work for the adoption by the government} The impression that the White e of a national road building policy. Wickersham an Issue. This vi oe That Attorney General George W. Is view 1s erroneous. | Wickersham will become a campaign | Bates County Sunday School As- sociation. Adrian, Missouri, August 22-23-24, PROGRAMME. Tuesday evening. 8:00.—Praise service in charge of music committee. # 8:30.—Sermon by Rev. Wm. H. Rose, Butler. Wednesday Morning. 10:00.—Music. 10:10.—Devotional services, led by Rev. B, F. Heaton. 10:30.—The utility of Sunday School convention; what we expect of this one, by Rev. W. K.’Chatten, Adrian, followed by a general discussion. 11:15.—Enrollment of delegates. 11:30.--Assignment by committee on entertainment. 11:45.—Recess. « Wednesday Afternoon. 1;30.—Music. 1;40.—Devotional services, conducted by Rev. J. A. Jared, Butler. 2:00.—Primary work, Miss Culver, Butler. 2:30.—The advantages of the new graded series of lessons, by Rev. W. M. Mayfield, Butler, followed by general discussion. ; 3:10.—The organized adults’ class, by Rev. S. L. Williams, Liberty. 3:40.—Temperance teaching in Sun- day School, Mrs. Carrie Hudelson, Adrian. 4:00.—Completing the enrollment.” 4:10.—Business; including appoint- ment of committees, etc. 4:30.—Assignments by committees on entertainment. 5:00.—Recess. Wednesday Evening. Nina 7:30.—Song service. 7:45.—Devotional service, M. Mayfield, Butler. 8:00.—What is the real mission of the Sunday School? Rev. J. R. Lamb, Butler. 8:30.--Echoes from the San Francis- | co convention, Rev. S. L. Williams, | Liberty. Thursday Morning. \ Rev. W. | 9:00.—Music. 9:15.—Devotional ° French, Passaic. | 9:30.—Sunday School week and de-, cission day, Rev. Wm. H. Rose, | Butler. | 10.00.—The home department, Mrs. | F. M. Wilson, Foster. | 10:30.—Leaks in the Sunday School; | their cause and cure, Rev. S. L. | Williams, Liberty. | 11:00.—Teacher training, Miss Mabel Bailey, Rich Hill. 11:30.—Convention business; report of treasurer; election of officers. 11:50.—Recess. 5 \ services, Rev. | Thursday Afternoon. 1:30.—Music. | 1:45,—Devotions, Rev. I. A. Gaither, | Spruce. | 2:00.—Requisites of a well regulated country Sunday School, E. E. Lacey, state secretary, St. Louis. either for or against the recall. The: ahead. Wickersham has permitted Taft to be blotted and be smirched in the Pinchot and other matters. Wick- t ersham was on the side of Ballinger | and all genuine progressive Repub-| question of recall, and to themselves against Pinchot, just as he is at pres: | licans. These facts tell their own story. | recall. There’s no chance for the President to do anything for the people as long | recall of judges when he vetoes state- as he has his present advisors around, | hood. determine whether they desire the) ont against Dr. Wiley. Develop-| = 7 P ‘ | ments at the hearing before the Stan-| So the president is not vetoing the léy steel committee, against the U. S. \ Steel corporation contain many | What he really is vetoing is’ fresh evidences that Wickercham ex- | and from present indications he has ‘the right of the people of Arizona to no intention of taking on a new set of decide for themselves the form ‘f emplified the alliance between the’) Republican party and the capitalists | 2:30.—Township organization and as- sociations, Hogan M. Davis, Pecul- | iar, Mo. | 3:00.—How the Sunday School bet-| ters the individual, Rev. A. S.} Gwinn, Butler. 3:30.—Business: report of county secretary, committee on resolution. Thursday Evening. | 7:30.—Praise service. | 8:00.—The men and religion move- ment as related to the Sunday School, Mr. Gribben, Kansas City. Norfleet & Ream’s Headquarters for Everything in Grocery and Hardware Lines-Get Prices CAR FLOUR +> FEED JUST RECEIVED Old Glory, per sack.............$1.25 Indian Girl, per sack.........:.. 1.25 Perfection Flour, per sack...... 1.20 Canned Goods and Sundries Hand packed tomatoes, fine quality, 10c can, don’t pay 15c when you can buy at per can Can beets, can................ Can hominy. Can corn..... Can kraut.... 3b can peaches, per can. 3ib can apricots, per can. 31> can pork and beans Loose- Wiles crackers. .. Cream of Wheat...... Jello, any flavor.. Ice Cream Jello.. Junket tablets Shorts, Bran, Corn-Chop, Salt in Fact Every Thing you Want. 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The attention of the Graham inves- tigating committee which is probing the action of the President in secretly aiding the Ryan landgrabbers to seize Controller bay in Alaska, has been directed to a report of the geological survey which shows that the entire tract is underlaid with oil. The land which President Taft threw open for exploitation, it now develops, is of far greater value than was at first dfeamed. explanation of the Controller bay jugglery the President attempted to make it appear that the tract is really He claimed that the grant did not give Speculator Ryan, supposed agent of the Morgan-Gug- genheims, a transportation monopoly to the great Bering river coal fields. Both former President Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot declare that the Pres- ident’s statement is a misrepresenta- tion, and that to all practical ends he has given away valuable public rights i Republican government under which they wish to live. “You folks in Arizona are not in- telligent enough to select the form of government under which you are to| live,”’ is the ultimatum the president lays down by vetoing the statehood resolution. will prevail instead of the will of two thirds of the people of Arizona. A White House Influence. In the haze of scandal that hangs over the Taft administration the form In his recent attempted of Charles P. Taft, capitalist, busy multiplying his dollars, is plainly dis- cernable. As the curtain is lifted on each succeeding scene of scandal the president is in evidence, and around him, shaping his course, are men who are the acknowledged agents of those forces that are trying to shape human- ity to the dollar. When he was elected he inspired in many who are known as “progressive Republicans” the belief that he had made his choice between public and i interests. Perhaps he had. ; 2 private which it was his sworn duty to! But always before him he must quite protect. naturally see his brother and his Wiley’s Enemies Exposed. brother's wealth. From his nativity, - “I want to say frankly to you that wealth and its emblems have been the F. T. Clay's. and monopolists. ‘The sequence’ of |8:30:Address by State Secretary E. Mr. Taft would have his} ‘all this will be that Taft will get many a whack over Wickersham’s shoulder. | Which? i When the Sherman law was passed | legislation was directed toward the prohibition or destruction of monopo- listic combinations. land Wickersham have not the idea of trust dissolution. They advocate in- stead that the existance of the trusts be recognized and legalized, but that their greed be curbed by government regulation. It remains to be seen whether the majority of the people are willing to confess that the com- petitive system is obsolete; to abandon | Competitition or Trusts! individual enterprise, and to establish in its place a centralized government. Accused of Stealing. E. E. Chamberlain, of Clinton, Me., boldly accuses i Salve of i e sting from barns or acalde—tne_ pai from sore Roosevelt, Taft, | a system which affords free rein for! E. Lacey, St. Louis. 9:00.—What have I gotten from the convention? Free for all who car- ry the basket to gather up the frag- ments. Adjournment. Things the Chef Knows. A half pound is the correct allow- ance of meat for each person. Choice cuts of beef for roasting are sirloin and porterhouse cuts and the sixth, seventh and eighth ribs. The best bacon is white and firm, not yellowish and flabby, and has a distinct streak of lean running | through it. Fruits and vegetables are injurious | when green or wilted. 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