The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 3, 1912, Page 5

Se ri eee | eae eee een Re ee ee ecg eee Oe eS 8 eS ee a ee ee ee eee ee eee ee SALE OF BIG BONED TYPE Polai.d-China Ho TO. BE HELD AT Appleton City, s Mo. BYRD’S SALE AND FEED BARN Thursday, Oct 1'7, 1912 40 HE: AD Boars, Sows and Gilts, selected from the famous Gold Medal Herd ( HIGHBALL LOOK 58123 Herd Boars: - HADLEY B 57830 ( BIG SAM JR, 62972 THREE OF THE MOST PROLIFIC BOARS OF THE BREED Iam making this, my first public sale offering, after some years of close application spent in building up a herd of the finest of the big bone type of Poland-Chinas. Have spared neither time nor expense in my effort to reach perfection in the breed, and! feel that I have been highly successful. There is not a hog on my ranch that is not pure bred and a credit to his type, and the hogs in this offer- ing will, I believe, firmly establish the reputation of the Gold Medal Stock Farm. All hogs offered are in good breeding and healthy condition, and are the hogs for the farmer ~ because they grow large in a very short time. Come rain or shine, for the sale will be in the dry, and be our guest, whether you buy or not. Free entertainment to all parties attending the sale. Write for catalog, as we have no mailing list. TERMS CASH AUCTIONEERS:—Col. C. F. Beard, Col. James W. Sparks, Col. Dee Donohue, Col. Harry Raybourn, Col. R. H. Calvert. Post Offide Address Butler, Mo. Black Hawk Buggies « « Manure Spreaders ‘Charter Oak Wagons Janesville Plows FOR SALE BY DEACONS 43-tt SOUTH SIDE SQUARE ISEWALL PAINT Will cover 300 square feet 2 coats per gallon. Guaranteed 3. years. Also Southern White Lead and Linseed Oil. \ |Logan-Moore Lumber Company “> PHONE 18 . . BUTLER, Mo. Woodrow Wilson on the Bible. The following is from an address delivered Governor by Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey at Denver, Colorado, May 7, 1911, and worthy of ja place in your scrap-book: | ‘The man whose faith is rooted in the Bible knows that reform cannot be stayed, that the finger of God that | moves upon the face of the nations is | against every man that plots the ma-/| | tion’s downfall or the people’s deceit; | jfearful day of judgment; and that! whether one generation witnesses it) or not, the glad day of revelation and | of freedom will come in which men| will sing by the host of the coming) jof the Lord in His glory, and all of those will be forgotten—those little, | scheming, contemptible creatures | \that forgot the image of God and! \tried to frame men according to the | | image of the evil one. | | “You may remember that allegori- | cal narrative in the Old Testament ot | | those who searched through one cav- | |ern into another, cutting holes in the walls and going into the walls and going into the secrect places where all sorts of noissome things were worshiped. Men do dare to let the sun shine in upon such things and upon such occupations and worships. And soI say there will be no halt to} the great movement of the armies of reform until men forget their God, until they forget this charter of their |liberty. Let no man suppose that | progress can be divorced from relig- ‘ion or that that there is any other | platform for the ministers of reform than the platform written in the ut- terances of our Lord and Savior. “America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exem- plify that devotion to the elements of rignteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scrip- ture. “Ladies and gentlemen, I have a very simple tihng to ask of you. I ask of every man and woman in this audience that from this night on they will realize that part of the destiny of American lies in their daily perusal of this great book of revelajions— that if they would see America free and pure they will make their own spirits free and pure by this baptism of the Holy Scripture.” 'that these men are simply groping). jsilk throwing. These industries have WASHINGTON LETTER. Special Washington Correspond- ent of The Times. By Clyde H. Tavenner. Washington, D. C.—Why do pro- tectionists never point to Italy as an illustration of how excessive tariff rates ‘‘protect’’ the common people? Italy is one of the most highly pro- tected countries of Europe. It is famous as a country ‘‘flowing with milk and honey.” Yet they never talk about Italy, do the upward revisionists. While in Italy three years ago, the writer learned at first hand some of the reasons why our protectionists | never say, ‘Look at Italy.’’ | Italy puts heavy duties on both ag-} ricultural and manufactured imports. She pays her people exceedingly low} wages. She charges them very high prices for the necessities of life. They | emigrate in large numbers. To understand the situation clearly | we must go back to 1887. About that | time a violent revolution in the sys- | tem of Italian customs was brought RET a heater. COME TO US Remember o | about. A powerful political group of | textile manufacturers joined forces! for their own ends with a powerful | political group of large land owners. | Tariffs were heavily increased. But not on everything. That powerful band of textile manufacturers took | good care that lesser manufacturers, | who made articles needed in textile | factories, were not enabled to put up their prices. | Hand in hand with the powerful | manufacturers the big land owners} came out ‘fora slice of the tariff pie.’ | In order that they should be suffi-| ciently compensated for being in pol-! itics, the landowners had a heavy tax | placed on wheat. In Italy it is only the big land owners who grow wheat. | Three out of every four landowners in Italy are possessors of small prop- | erties, cultivating fruit for wine. They | have to buy a considerable part of the | wheat they eat. So it happened that where one large wheat farmer got bigger profits, three small fruit farm- ers got hit. That is the way protec- tion invariably works out. What is one man’s protection isanother man’s | poison. Hark, however, this further result of the Italian tax on wheat: Millions of Italians never eat wheat bread ex- cept in cases of illness or on special festivals. They make a bread maize. In this and in other respects the stand- ard of living of the Italian people is very low, because pricesare too high. An enormous fiscal and protective tax was also put upon sugar. The} prices rose so high that Italian farm- ers watched their ‘‘oranges, lemons, peaches and other products of a warm and generous sun rot on their trees in order that the 33 manufacturers of the sugar syndicate might levy upon} consumers a yearly tribute.” Far and away the chief of the Ital- and staggering in their ignorance to a|/2" industries are silk reeling and been seriously hampered by protec- tion. And Italy is the home of the | silkworm. One of the chief troubles of Italy is that the general rise in prices has so greatly lessened the purchasing pow- er of the wages of the people that the great mass of the small dealers and the workingmen and women suffer bitterly. It is calculated that while ten Ital- ians lose by protection, only one stands any chance of gaining. He does not always gain, for the country does not progress. The interests of Italy are sacrificed to the one in ten. In other words, excessive tariffs increased the cost of living to the} Italian people juast as the Payne-Ald- | rich law is increasing the cost of liv- ing in the United States. Is itany wonder that the protec- tionists never ask usto “‘look at Italy?” Both are Right Theodore Roosevelt, condidate for a third term as president, said recent- ly: ‘Taft now represents the bosses and the Republican party is composed of them and the vested interests of the country.”’ And President Taft said: ‘‘Roose- velt is not a Republican, but repre- sents a one-man party whose chief advisers are the harvest and steel trust magnates.’’ Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin, also a Republican, says both Taft and Roosevelt are telling the truth about each other. And LaFollette has had enough experience with both Messrs. Taft and Roosevelt to know what he is talking about. The answer is: WIN WITH WIL- SON. Divorce the Philippines One tremendous expense now be-| cordially invited. Subject ing borne by American taxpayers that | October 6, ‘‘Unreality.”’ The Great Magazine Feed Soft Coal Heater Don’t fail to see this stove before buying We also sell ESTATE OAK and COLES’ HOT BLAST heaters. Majestic and Quick Meal Ranges and a full line of cast cook and ranges. ench Brothers ORT FOR STOVES ur Furniture will be lifted in the event of the elec- tion of a Democratic president and Democratic House is the cost of gov- erning the Philippine Islands, which is being done against the desire of 95 per cent of the Filipino people. Ten years ago Senator Hoar stated in the Senate that up to that time the cost had been $600,000,000. Since then we have kept in those islands an av- erage of 12,277 troops. It cost the government $1,500 annually to main- tain each soldier. The cost alone of maintaining the military forces in the Philippines last year was over, $26,- 000,000. It is safe to affirm that the sum which would be annually saved were the United States to relinquish sovereignty over the Philippine Islands, would not fall short of $50,- 000,000. Democratic success means the divorcing of the islands and Re- | publican success means their reten- tion. Tariff Tax Extortions Here are some figures showing the tariff tax paid by the average Ameri-, can family which tell their own story: | Wage earner’s family.....$82 a year) Salary earner’s family. -$140 a year | you will be pleased with it. The Butler Public Schools. Although the enumeration of 1912 was more than 100 less than that of 1911, the enrollment is only sixteen less than it was at the end of the first month last ye We have lost 35 in resident pu- i and we h gained 20 in non-resi- This is a gain in non-residents of 25 per cent. For the first time in the history of our school, the non-resi- dent attendance has reached 100, If these should all remain till -the end of the year we would receive two thous- and doll n tuition. In thetwoyears that I} ad charge of the schools, the non-resident attendance has nearly doubled. Under the management “of the new principal the High School has had a very ssful beginning. There is perfect harmony among the teachers, and the High School spirit is excellent. The pupils are working with the de- termination to win. I will risk the prophecy that we will not have half the failures that we did last year. I wish to invite all our patrons to visit the High School. I am sure you willbe re- paid for your visit. I wish to invite all to visit the ward school of their district. All the work is being well done and I am ‘sure that To those Professional man’s family .$140 a year | living in the Franklin School district, I Senator Clapp Testifies Senator Moses E. Clapp, of Minne- sota, says: | “You will hear it said constantly, | with reference to something on which the price has been advanced, ‘Oh, | that isn’t in the tariff at all. That in- crease has nothing to do with the! tariff.’ But the fact is that the tariff reaches all along the line. You can’t, raise the cost of living toa man who! is producing something to sell with- out forcing that man to raise corre- spondingly the price of what he has to sell.” Query for Protectionists If our protective system is not the “substantial’’ explanation of the ab- normalincrease in the cost of living in the United States, how does it come that British prices, under free trade increased but 7.7 per cent in ten years, while American prices, under protection, increased 34.3 per cent? Points on the Single Tax. It Would— Tax land only. Destroy land values. Make the state the landlord. Force the owners to be tenants. Destroy incentive for gain. Breed indifference and decay. Undermine our social system. Greatly retard social progress. Spread alarm and fear. Check investments in the state. Cause financial disorder. Paralyze industry. | | attend the show. | give a special invitation to visit the pri- | mary room and hear the second grade jread. You will be surprised and pleas- ed too. To make the school more pleasant for the pupils, We have introduced some games. In the High School we will have basket ball and base ball. In the ward schools we have volley ball and base ball. The teachers are supervis- ing these games. The pupils come in from playing these games refreshed and ready for work. At the Franklin School they are just learning volley ball and it is a genuine pleasure to watch the chil- dren play, _ Under the former school law, the ap- portionment of state money was based on the enumeration. Under the pres- ent law, the apportionment is based on “days attendance.’”?’ We draw eleven cents aday for a childs attendance. When the circus was here the first week of school many parents allowed their children to stay out of school ta One hundred days were lost and this cost the district elev- en dollars in state money. During the | fair the Board of Education gave every afternoon, thinking this would be am- ple time for all. However, parents again allowed their children to remain out of school and three hundred days were lost. This was an average of 75 pupils aday. This loss in attendance cost the district in state money $33. I have no doubt that Young Buffalo’s show will cost the district $15 more. This is a cash loss of $50 for our dis- trict for the month of September. In addition to the cash loss mention- ed above, the pupil loses his time from school. When the pupil loses much time from school he falls behind his class, becomes discouraged and wants to quit. When so many are out of Do irreparable damage. | school as were out Monday of this week, Advertise Missouri asa dangerous | the teachers frequently go over the en- state. {tire lesson again. This means the loss Be a great step backwards. | of the whole day for the entire school. It Would Not— | Patrons, I have no doubt the circus is Tax loan sharks. jinteresting, but is it worth the cost? Tax monopoly. | Can’t you take your children at night Tax commodity speculators. | and send them to school in the after- | Tax automobiles and luxuries. noons? I appeal to you to send your | children every day so as not to lower Tax jewelry and diamonds. | the child’s ideal of the importance of Tax great incomes. school and so as to prevent such a loss Tax those most able to pay. of state money. Help a poor man. J. O. HENDERSON, Supt. Help where relief was needed. Se SS Help Missouri.—Ex. en eres bright to one sas 5 with ‘‘the blues.”’ en to one the Christian Science Services trouble is a sluggish liver, filling ‘the Will be held at the court house in| system with billious poison, that Dr. . | King’s New Life Pills would e: the Probate Court room every Sun: Try them. Let the joy of xpel. day morning at 11 o'clock. All are| feelings end “the blues.” Best for stomach, liver and kidneys. 25 cents. F. T. Clay’s.