Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 1, 1913, Page 5

“PAGE FOUR Two DOLLARS AYEAR INADVANCE |@vent get the high price. €ntered at the Postoffice at Grand Rap. |. ids, Minn., as Second Class Matter. Official Paper of Itasca County McCARTHY FOR THE BENCH. The announced intention of ,ex- Senator C. C. McCarthy of Grand Rapids to become a candidate for the office of judge in the Fifteenth sale price of apples was from $2.00| district ‘has met with unusual favo from many For some time past Mr. McCarthy has been urged to take this step and his final conclusion to permit the use of his name in this connection is very gratifying to those who have long admired the sterling integrity and eminent fitness for; the bench of Grand Rapids’ dean of the legal profession, C. G. Mc- Carthy has the judicial tempera- ment, experience in practice and knowledge of the law to a degree that causes men to turn to ‘him instinctively when judicial timber is being looked for im this district. No man in Minnesota stands higher in the law profession than he. In former years when judges were to be elected in this district Senator McCarthy has been appealed to time and again to accept a nomina- tion, but he declined for , various reasons, principal of which is a ~maturally retiring disposition and an abhorence of taking part in a “fighting campaign” to secure |a place on the bench. This he will not do. But if the sentiment) throughout |the district in favor of his election continues as strong an earnest as it now appears to be, his election to the position is a foregone conclusion. As a citizen, lawyer, public prosecutor} and member of the state senate, Hon. C, C.;McCarthy has made good. Asa jurist he would make good. This is a case whereof it may be truth- fully said the position seeks the man. quarters. nm ne APPLE MARKETING. Many people interested in the apple question and their marketing, are beginning to seriously doubt the wisdom of the present mar- keting system which prevails in the state of Minnesota. This state is not alone in the faulty market- ing arrangements, but it is just. like most other states. Water- melons rot in Texas, fruit of ev- ery kind goes to waste on the Pacific coast while Missouri raises peaches and lets them goto waste in the orchard. The reason for this is that the consumer does not want to pay the prices for Grand tRopits erata- Review ‘io make a great sacrifice in or-, ___ Published Evers Wginessey __ Jer By KILEY @ SPENCER| produces Qoes' not in any Se that the ordinary. ponsumer has to obtain a small portion. Then whence the high price? Recently the news columns of the Dispateh said that thousands of bushels of the finest of fall and winter apples were rotting on the ground in the neighborhood of Matikato for lack of a profitable market. Over in the market‘ re- ports it was stated that the whole- jto $3.50 per barrel. A barrel holds japproximately three bushels of that means from 66 cents japp'es; be profitably marketed at those jprices there is something very jwrong with our system of distri- |bution. And that fault in our dis- \tribution ‘system is more than anything else the cause of the much lamented “high cost of liv- ing.” As long as it costs as much las the above figures indicate to get | Minnesota apples into the hands of the retailer it would seem as if there ought to be enough in it to give the fruit grower fair play for gathering his crop. There was something said ihe other day about requiring every man to eat at least one Minnesota apple every day. It would not ba necessary to resort to any sucht ‘heroic measures if every man in Minnesota could get a chance to jeat a Minnesota apple every day: at a fair price. It is a matter off getting the product to the consu~ ‘mer at such aprice that he can, ‘afford to consume, and it is quite | probable that the next thing those superior fruit will have to do will be to work out some plan b; \ GRAND RAPIRS HERALD-REVIEWWEDNESDAY, OCTO! jlo $t.15/@ bushel. If apples cannot | Sa Scene at the Launching of the Inter State Iron Com: any’s Barge, ‘John B,” at Grand Rapids, Sept. 20, 1913. The two men standing in the foreground are Commodore John Beckfelt of Grand Rapids, and Engineer E. F. Bradt, of Pitts- burg. The Commodore is on the right. This barge was the first constructed by the Inter-State company under the direction of En- gineer Bradt, whose genius it is that planned and is putting to prac- tical test a new method of removing large bodies of earth from ore deposits by means of hydraulic pumps. John Beckfelt, in whose honor the barge was named, is one of Grand Rapids oldest mer- chants, and the man who never lost faith in hls belief that valuable {gel away with the swag. give up their privileges without | struggle. Congressman Morrill — a mistake of thes friends of a on the extreme rates in 1 ing the war. Whatever percentage of duties on forei home manufacturers, chould not of protection when such taxes have Leen repealed.” But the protected industries pnoved too strong. Out of their spoils they were able to make lare@ contributions to campaign funds of congressman. They — talked about “protection for American _ labor against the pauper labor of Eu- repe,” and waved the bloody shirt. ‘through a lucky combination of circumstantes they were alle to Then came the election of Grover Cleveland,, the great pioneer for the square deal, knowing no fear, absolutely honest, and abhorrent of frauds and shams. , In his first term of office he be- came convinced that the protective system was maintained by political influence as a special privilege. Ag he approached the end of his term the Republicans were disorganized and the Democratic leaders felt that all they meeded to do in Vermont protested mildly. “It is| better: sound tariff,” he said, “to insist| But at this time the free sives : ‘was becoming a vital pol- posed to cover internal taxation on | Democratic party permitted the re- now be claimed as the tawful prize | the itical issue. Attention was div from the tariff and the split in-the turn of the Republicans to power. “Under the Hanna regime-business’ was in the saddle, and it was the policy of the administration to give business men everything they wanted. ‘ With the presidency of Rgose- velt the question of railroad regu- lation was dominant, and the en- tire energy of Oleveland’s great successor in tthe fight for the square deal was devoted toward establishing the authority of the government over combinations of capital, i ‘The revival of the sentiment against special privilege under Roosevelt, naturally found eventual expression in the demand for, tariff revision. On the president's’ initiative his secretary, of war, Mr. Taft, made speeches at Bath, Me., and at Columbus, Ohio, on be- half of a revision of duties. These speeches made him the logical square deal candidate for president against the reactionary “allies.” iron ore is deposited where the Iuter-State company is now operat- ing. He is owner of considerable — land in the iron belt. | end, must ne cast aside. Or if the statesman votes to continue an indefensible law he becomes just as undesirable as a public ser- vant. In this connection the state of Minnesota has am exhibi- tion of improper conduct from its two senators. They voted against the new Democratic tariff law find ¢o continue the Payne-Aldrich law, which Senator Clapp at the time. of passage denounced as a whio have leaned how to raise this| bad measure. Now the present tariff law is y|mot a free trade measure but on which their product can bebrought|the contrary it is a protective to the consumer at such cost as will make him a larger purchaser. It is not worth while to raise the fruit unless it can be used. The need of better systems of marketing is not confined by any means to apples and is a matter to which nobody can address him- self with greater propriety than the agricultural division of the University. It looks like the next step in the better farming move- ment, There is no place where a-man inust give evidence that he is wise than as a public official do- ing legislative work. It is a well established fact that through the instrumentalities of law and law making, private citizens become paupers or are made millionaries. For this reason the general de- mand these days is that laws must Ibe made in such a manner as to conserve equality of opportunity measure. It does. just what the Progressive wing of the Republican panty asked for during tha ses- sions of congress which framed the present Republican schedule. If Senator Clapp should have stood fearlessly for the best law as did LaFollette of Wisconsin he would have merited , conisderation from the voters of Minnesota; but under the preenist conditions he can hardly be excused for his vote ard it is likely that he will not Le. excused when it comes to a choice. of his successor. or Some men swear off, others off and on and others again pretty much everywhere. pe E A RES SS A traveler who stopped off at Grand Rapids one morning last week when the train was several: hours late said that a woman on the train asked the conducter:-w! it was. He said that “the traim be- SIXTY YEARS OF TARIFF. A notable victory in the great fight om special privilege as em- bodied in tariff legislation is vir- tually won. The honor for the suecess of the final battle goes to President Wilson. But. the credit for Leginning the campaign and making victory possible belongs to his indomitable and ‘couraegous predecesscr, Grover Cleveland. | Before the civil war the tariff system was framed primarily. to produce revenue, and only second- arily to give help in establishing industrial expansion of the ‘50s, when the foundations were laid for the great manufacturing industries of the East, came about under an era of low tariff. In that period nobody would have had the hardi- hocad to ask for the monopolistic duties of a later day. Anyone do- ing so would have been laughed at. The whole country knew that Am- erican labor and management could Jtuke care of itself in competition with the world without government aidy It is difficult for men of the resent; day ot realize the rapidity of the growth of industry in that decade of low tariff. Eighty per cent more cotton goods, 75 per cent more pig iron, 50 per cent more woolen goods were manufactured in| 1860 than in 1850. In that ten years, 22,000 miles of railroad were built. The American merchant ma- rine exceeded that of Great Britain The patent for Howe's sewing machine was granted in 41846. About the same time McCormick was really getting his start im the manufacture of reapers. In 1844 Goodyear entered upon the rubber industry. In 1855 there was little market for American ircm rails, but by 1860 more tham 200,000 tons infant industries. The tremendous)! should be elected president.” order ‘to win the next election was} ‘The to 'et thimgs move along without] the attempt at revision im injecting any new issues. They}4¢c9 is still fresh in the public were alarmed, therefore, to learn|mind. It insured the defeat of that the president intended to send] President Taft for re-election. “ message to congress in December,| The congressional elections of 1910, 1487, devoted to the one subject of | returning to power a heavy Demo- tariff reform. cratic majority in the house, is- In vain they iried to dissuade }sued the people’s mandate for re- him. His mind was made up and| vision downward. no considerations of political ex-| President W*': ~ through the pediency would move him. They|exercise of remarkable judgment told him the message would meanjand executive capacity, is now on the loss of the election. He ad-|the eve of success in carrying mitted it, but said he had a duty | out the policy laid down by Grover to perform. “It is more importamt|Cleveland a ‘little more than a to the country,” he said, “that| quarter of a century ago. this message should be delivered| Im spite of temporary backsets to congress and the people than|special privileges are constantly being lopped off,and the movement The message went in and the|for a larger measure of justice president whipped a reluctant|goes forward, To this fact the party into line to support his pol-|new Wilson tariff bill bears strik- icy. ‘ing witneus. 2 Representatvie Mills of Texas Serres framed a tariff revision measure WISE OR OTHERWISE. fiasca that attended these articles that are charged.|and the statesman who votes for fore was behind and this train, was|.were made in the United States. that went through the Democratic house, but was defeated im thie sen- ate. The Republicans rallied to the old war cries, and through Demo- cratic treachery in New York, President Cleveland was defeated. But the tariff issue had aroused thinking men throughout the coun- try. In the Democratic convention of 1892 the conservatives controlled the committee on resolutions and brought im the ambiguous tariff and adopted a resolution denounc- ing the protecitve system as “a fraud, a robbery of the great ma- jority of the American people for the benefit of the few.” Mr. Cleveland was re-elected with a Democratic house and sen- ate just as a panic was coming on, due to the long period of Dusi- ness. expansion. The silver ques- tion ‘was pressing and had to be dealt with first in a special sassion of congress. “A genuine tariff revision was provided for im the bill introduced The prediction was made a long fime ago by some one that the ‘surest way to have a rain is to have a fair. The interpretation of this is that fair weather is gen- erally foul weather. pects 88 AeA Ey ‘The only man in’ the ‘country who has a name ‘which reads the same backwards and forward so jar as is known is O. M. Reger, plank. The delegates voted it down| Reger, Mo. A gram of radium has been sold to the Prussian government for the neat sum of $87,000. It wants to buy more. Here is a chance for you to dig some out of those old clothes that have been hanging in the closet so long. A Grand Rapids gardener calcu- lates that he has crawled twenty- two miles on his hands and knees weeding onions. A kneezy way to Why are many articles so high rt Copyright 1913 by The Buck’s Stove and Range Company any law that does not answer that|behind before besides.” Gare apt to think that a hardware store only car- ries things that a man is likely to buy. QNot at all—you would be sur- rised at our complete line of ardware furnishings for the home—things that the /ady of the house is interested in and wants to pick and choose herself. QWe keep a big stock of practi- cally everything needed for the kitchen. @ There is lots of pleasure in buying at this ome hardware store, where you can Lok things over, and personally examine before you buy. There’s even more satisfaction in éxcwing that if you find that what you bey doesn’t just answer your purpose, ycu can come right back, and we’ll make it good. Our prices are as low as you'll find any- where—here or out of town. @When you need anything in the line of hardware, come here to get it. This is the Home of Hardware ' H. D. POWERS —— All of this development came about under a tariff so low that it would have been called “free trade” Lby modern protectionists. The war upeet the country’s tax- ation system. Enormous expenses called ior the highest possible tax rate. Everything was taxed—in- comes, checks, notes, wills, deeds, mortgages, business agreements, medicines, salt, matches, transpor- tation. ’ So the manufacturers went to ‘Washington to insist! that ,under |the tremendous burden of taxation they could not compete with for- eign goods made by manufacturers who escaped the American system. Congress listened to their plea, fearing that if it did not many fac- tories would be forced out of busi- ness. “If we bleed manufacturers,” said Congressman Morrill of Vermont, “we must see to it that the proper tonic is administered at the same time.” The ‘“tonic’ was im the shape of high protective duties that tended to give American man- ufaeturens control of the domestic market by putting out foreign con} petition. The country consented to the sysbem as a war measure. It was regarded as a temporary arrange- ment, like the stamp, taxes. With the close of the war it was as- sumed that duties would go back to the old level sinee the lifting of the burdens under which manu- faturing was conducted would end the situation that called for protec tion from foreign made goods. But the privileged interests had found a monopolistic tariff too rich a prize to abandon so readily. The advocates of lower dities learned that the manufacturers would not in the house at the fins regular |8et @ living, but weed rather not. session by Representative Wilson. |adopt it. The story of that bill has recently —— been recalled in the Star. The chairman of the canary bird As jit was amended by the senate | group of an orithological society im reactionaries it was denounced by | Germany joices in this title, President Clevelan, who declared | 1:04, oe is hi % ns id in a letter fo Mv. Wilson that it ees pA onceais. meant “party perfidy and party cards: Kanarienvogeelzuchtvere- dishonor.” He allowed it to’ be- | insvorstand. CARL uality Grocer Why is Carl the man to trade with? Because I have put down the high cost of living in Grand Rapids. You could never buy goodsascheap sayou can now. Carl didit, and Carl will always doit. I now sell gasoline and feed of all kinds; Bran, Shorts, Cracked Corn, Whole Corn, and Chicken Wheat at the lowest market price. A fine line of White China and Aluminum Ware. Wash Tubs, large, $1.00; medium, 75c. Water pails, galvanized, 15c each. Try acan of Carl’s high grade Baking Powder and get a chance on a Kitchen Cabinet. There are only a few left. My aim is to please everybody, and if anything you buy of Carl is not satisfactory, return it and get satisfaction. Good goods at lowest prices. A full line of Green Stuff and Fruits always on hand. CA The Live Grocer GRAND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA