Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 1, 1913, Page 6

PAGE FOUR GRAND RAPIRS HERALD-REVIEWWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1913 mi | __ Grand ‘HRapias Weraid-MReview Published Every Wednesday By KILEY © SPENCER TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered 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 become a candidate for the office of judge in the Fifteenth district has met with unusual favo from quarters. For some time past Mr. MeCarthy has been}, urged | t step and his final conclusi« o permit the use of n this connechion 1s very g y o those who have sterling integrily fitness for the bench of Grand Rapids’ dean of | the leg profession. C. C. Me- Carthy has the judicial tempera- mit rience in practice and knowledge of the law to a degree that causes men to turn to him that the ordinary consumer has | Yo make a great sacrifice in or- “Ider ito obtain a small portion. | The producer does not in any | event get the high price. Then} whence the high price? Recently the news columns of | \the Dispateh said that thousands| {of bushels of the finest of fall | aud winter apples were rotting on) the ground in the neighborhood of |Mankate for lack of a profitable jmarket. Over in the market ports it was stated that the whoie- re- sale price of apples was from $2.00 per barrel. A barrel holds | approximately three bushels of} ; that means from 66 cents Sa hurhel. If apples cannot those very distri- | dis- than be profilably marketed at prices there is something wrong with our stem of bution. And that fault in our more system is anything the cause ch lamented “high cost As long as it costs as much s the above figures indicate to get hands tribution else of the of liv- w Minnesota apples into the of the retailer it would seem as a a ts ea aa a te a ts a sa ee Scene at the Launching of the Inter State Iron Com: any’s at Grand Rapids, Sept. 20, 1913. | vegeegeegeegeegeeeegeeteeteeteatestondoetondoegortoedeegoedoedecdoedecgegeatanagerdeegongecdeegeedeegeedeeeteeteeteeteedeeteezeesisroeteetentee The two men standing in Barge, ‘John B,” 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- give up their privileges without a {absolutely honest, and abhorrent of tinctively when judicial timber ) if g looked for in this district.| it No wan in Minnesota stands higher in the law profession than he. In! years when judges were to} there ought to be enough in to give the fruit grower fair play for gathering his crop. There was something said ihe other day about requiring every chants, and the man who never lost faith in hls belief that valuable 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 ve cast aside. Or if the SIXTY YEARS OF TARIFF. | an | ee: statesman votes to continue | A notable victory in the great | " message to congress in December, Morrill of “It is struggle. Congressman Vermont protested mildly. a mistake of the con the extreme rates imposed dur- ing the war. Whatever percentage of duties on foreign goods are im- posed to cover internal taxation: on home manufacturers, should not new be claimed as the lawful prize of protection when such taxes have Leen repealed.” But the protected pnhoved too strong. Out of their nboils they were able to make large contributions to campaign funds of come a law without his signature, however, on the ground that it was better than the McKinley law which friends of a] it cupplanited. sound tariff,’ he said, “to insist But at this time the free silver question was becoming a vilal pol- itical issue. Attention was diverted from the tariff and the split in the Democratic party permitied the re- turn of the Republicans to power. Under the Hanna regime business was in the saddle, and it was the policy of the administration industries | give business men everything they wanted. lo With the presidency of Reose- velt the question of railroad regu- con nan. They talked about} lation was dominant, and the en- “protection for American labor |tire energy of Cleveland’s great against the pauper labor of Eu-| successor in tthe fight for ihe rope,” and waved the bloody shirt.| square deal was devoted toward ‘through a lucky combination of} establishing the authority of the sumstantes they were alle to away with the swag. ‘Then came the election of Grover the great pioneer for the square deal, knowing no fear, Cleveland, frauds and shams. In his first term of office he be- came convinced that the protective sysiem was maintained by political influence as a special privilege. As he approached the end of his term the Republicans were disorganized aud the Democratic leaders felt that all they meeded to do in order to win the next election was to 'el things move along withou! injecting any new issues. They were alarmed, therefore, to learn that the president intended to send for. be el MecUarthy has been appealed time and again to accept a nomina- tion, but he declined for various reasons, principal of which is a _haturally petiring disposition and an abhorence of taking part in aj “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, jon 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. As a jurist he would make good. This is a case whereof it may be truth- his ele fully said the position seeks the man. Poameece nme 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 pricesfor these articles that are charged. Why are many articles so high ted in this district Senator |man to eat at least one Minnesota to j apple every day. It would not be | necessary to resort to any sucl ‘heroic measures if every man in Minnesota could get a chance to ‘eat a Minnesota apple every day lat a fair price. It is a matter of ‘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 | who have leamed how to raise this |superior fruit will have to do will be to work out some plan by which their product can be brought to the consumer at such cost asy will make him a larger purchaser. It is not worth while to raise the fruit unless it can be used. ‘Ihe need of better systems of marketing is not confined by any. meams to apples and is a matter to which nobody can address him- self with greater propriety than, the agriculiural division of the University. It looks like the next step in the better farming move- ment, ————. There is no place where aman 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 be made in such a manner as to conserve equality of opportunity and the statesman who votes for indefensible law he becomes just) fight om special privilege as em-| a public vant. this connection state of Minnesota has an exhibi- tion of improper conduct from its two senators. They voted against the new Democratic tariff law tnd to continue the Payne-Aldrich law, which Senater Clapp at the time of passage denounced as a bad) measure. Now the present tariff law is not a free trade measure but on the contrary it is a protective measure. It does. just what the Progressive wing of the Republican panty asked for during the 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 preenst conditions he can hardly be exeused for his vote arq@ it is likely that he will not be excused whem it comes to a choice of his successor. —————— Some men swear off, others off and on and others again pretty much everywhere. as undesirable as ser- In the 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 -why,i2dustry. In 1855 there was little it was. He said that “the train be- fore was behind and this train, was any law that does not answer that | behind before besides.” Copyright 1913 by The Buck’s Stove and Range Company Folks Gare apt to think that a ardware store only car- ties things that 2 man is likely to buy. QNot at all—you would be sur- prised at our complete line of hardware furnishings for the home—things that the /acy of the house is interested in and wants to pick and choose /erse/f. QWe keep a big stock of practi- cally everything needed for the kitchen. @ There is lots of pleasure in buyir this 4ome hardware store, where you can Lok things over, and personally examine before you buy. There’s even more Satisfaction in &: g that if you find that what you bey doesn’t just answer your purpose, i 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. QWhen you need anything in the line of hardware, come here to get it. This is the Home of Hardware bodied in tariff legislation is vir- | itually won. The honor for the | success of the final battle goes to | resident Wilson. But the credit fer Leginning the campaign and| making victory possible belongs to| his indomitable and couraegous predecesecr, Grover Cleveland. Before the civil war the tariff sysiem was framed primarily. to} produce revenue, and only second: | arily to give help in establishing infant industries. The tremendous; 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 herdi-| hoca 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 take care of itself in competition with the world without government aidy | It is difficult for men of the | },precent; 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 ceut more woolen goods were manufactured in 4860 tham 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 1846. About the same time McCormick was really getting his start im the manufacture of reapers. Im 1844 Goodyear entered upon the rubber fmarket for American ircm rails, but by 1860 more than 200,000 tons ‘were made in the United States. All of this development came about under a tariff so low that it would have been called “free trade”, by 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. “Tf 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- ufaeturers 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. H. D. POWERS But the privileged interests had found a monopolistic tariff too rich 1487, devoted to the one subject of tariff reform. In vain they iried to dissuade him. His mind was made up and no considerations of political ex- pediency would move him. They told him the message would mean the loss of the election. He ad- mitted it, but said he had a duty to perform. “It is more important to the country,” he said, “that this message should be delivered I should be elected president.” The message went in and the president whipped a reluctant party into line to support his pol- icy. Representatvie Mills of Texas framed a tariff revision measure that went through the Democratic house, but was defeated in the 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. Im the Democratic convention of 1892 the conservatives controlled the committee on resolutions and brought in the ambiguous tariff plank. The delegates voted it down) 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 busi- 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 in the bill introduced im [the house at the finsh regular session by Representative Wilson. The story of that bill has recently been recalled in the Star. As iit was amended by the senate reactionarias it was denounced by President Clevelanc, who declared to congress and the people than |special government over combinations of ‘capital, The revival the sentiment against special privilege under Roosevelt naturally found eventual exp. ion 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 logical square deal candidate of the for president against the reactionary “allies.” The — fiasca that attended the attempt at revision im 4°C9 is still fresh in the public mind. It insured the defeat of President Taft for re-election. The congressional elections of 1910, returning to power a heavy Demo- cratic majority in the house, is- sued the people’s mandate for re- vision downward. President W'': through the exercise of remarkable judgment and executive capacity, is now on the eve of success in carrying out the policy laid down by Grover Cleveland a little more than a quarter of a century ago. {In spite of temporary backsets privileges are constantly being lopped off,and the movement for a larger measure of justice goes forward. To this fact the new Wilson tariff bill bears strik- ing witneys. ™ ——_ WISE OR OTHERWISE. The prediction was made a long fime ago by some one that the suresh way to have a rain is to have a fair. The interpretation of this is that fair weather is gen- erally foul weather. ————<—_____ 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, 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 caleu- lates that he has crawled twenty- two miles on his hands and ‘knees weeding onions. A kneezy way to get a living, but weed rather not adopt it. pI SEER eNOS EN The chairman of the canary bird group of an orithological society in Germany rejoices in this title, CARL Quality Grocer in a leter fo Mr. Wilson that it|W@ch ornaments hie visiting meant “party perfidy and party cards: Kanarienvogeelzuchtvere- dishonor.” He allowed it to’ be- | insvorstand. ee a a a ee large, $1.00; medium, 75c. : ! There are only a few left. full line of Green Stuff and 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. White China and Aluminum Ware. A fine line of Wash Tubs, Water pails, galvanized, 15c each. Try acan of Carl’s high grade Baking Powder and get a chance on a Kitchen Cabinet. 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 Fruits always on hand. a prize to abardon so readily. The advocates of lower d&ties learned that the manufacturers would not CAR GRA The Live Grocer ND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA INTENTIONAL DUPLICATE EXPOSURE