Smyrna times., 1896-01-15

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of Music at Baltimore, on Saturday even
ing from heart disease. He was 81 years of
age and man we'll known throughout the
state. He leaves a wife and two sons, DIR.
Henry Clayton and Thomas Clayton. He
was member of the NJ. E. Church at Mid
dletown, and of Union Lodge A. f. A. M.
Fruit, nut and shade trees, vines, aspara-
gus roots, small fruit, vegetable plants,
Prices and stock safe and trustworthy. P.
Emerson nurseyman, Wyoming, Del Il
INDoRsING THE DoCTRME.-The Foreign
Affairs Committee yesterday decided to pre-
pare resolution based upon the Lodge
resolution enunciating the Monroe Doctrine,
thus giving it the sanction of legislative APP
proval. So far as known, Senator Gray
OF Delaware is the Only man who is averse
to applying the Monroe Doctrine to the set
tlement of the Venezuelan boundry dispute.
He Is a member of the Committee on
Foreign Relations and has expressed him
self IN the committee against the proposition
to enunciate the Monroe Doctrine in the
form of a resolution. But Senator Gray
found that his suggestions did not meet with
any approval among his associates.
A DRY YEAR.-The year 1895 will be long
remembered as very dry year, especially
by the farmer, trucker and gardener. But
very few people realize what is meant by a
dry year; very few know the amount of
rainfall required to insure reasonable
fertility. The average annual rainfall in
this latitude ranges from forty to fifty inches,
that is from three and a-half to four feet
in depth. In 1895, the year just closed the
rainfall was only thirty-fOur inches and
tftyOne one-hundredths of an inch 1t will
thus be seen that the fall of water for 1895
was short of the fall of 1894 by twelve inches
and thirty-hundredths of and inch tr
A report was received in Wilmington last
week that Ebe W. Tunnel, of Lewes, has
declared that under no consideration was he
to be regarded as a Democratic candidate
for the nomination for Governor. He is al
so reported to have said that he would not
accept the nomination if rendered him. If
Mr.. Tunnel is reported correctly there will
be great stir among the Democratic poll
get man to capture the delegations from
either Kent or New Castle county, and then
throw his support to Tunnel. The friends
of ex-Speaker of the House w. L. Sirman,
of Delmar, and Colonel William H. Stevens,
of SeafOrd, have started ''booms.' for the
GubernatOrial nomination.
Hoe COMBINE" Wins IN DOVER The
Hog Combine" carried the town election
in Dover Monday and there is general re-
joicing among the working people. Every
member of the old City Council was de-
feated. The election did not take political
turn, but the absorbing question was
whether hogs could be raised in Dover and
the people said yes. The Hog Combine
declared that to prohibit people raising hogs
in Dover would work hardship on the poor
people on the outskirts of the town, and
that if a nuisance was committed by the
people who owned the hogs the Board of
Health could abate the nuisance. On the
other hand the anti-hog combine claimed
that the raising of hogs within the town
limits was detrimental to health and dam
aging to the property. More interest was
taken in the election Monday than in any
town election of recent years. Nearly $50
votes We're cast. The tickets were: Hog
COmbine-President, William Fisher; coun-
cilmen, First district, G. A. AIillington
Second district, Severn Taylor: Third dis
trict, William NJ. HAZEL; Fourth district,
c. G. Wright assessor, Maurice Hartnett
Anti-HOg ticket-President, Hirman Reedy;
councilmen, First district, Enoch Clark
Second district, Stephen Slaughter; Third
district, William H. Walker; Fourth dis
trict, A. A. Watson; assessor, w. W. Cliff
ton. The average majority was about 80 for
the hog ticket.
STATE SENATOR PYLE DEM.) RADICAL
REFORMER.- Justice" the Single Tax
paper in Wilmington has the fallowing in its
issue of Saturday: Senator Pyle is also
old-fashiOned enough in the best sense to
believe in the Reign of Law and to stand
for the right of religion in politics, con-
tending that all human law must conform
with the law of God if civilizations is to be
maintained" Therefore Senator Pyle did
not hesitate to say on Friday last to a repre-
sentative of Justice that he believed in
the Single Tax because he believed that it
was in conformity with the law of God. He
had been reading Progress and Poverty
he said; and he had been a regular at
tendant at the Opera House meetings.
Therefore, he added, L am good deal of a
believer. I believe that God made room on
earth for all the children born on earth,
and if we would make our laws according to
the laws of God, things would be better.
But it is hard to get the people to live up to
the law of God.'
p" But you believe, Mr. Pyle that it is the
duty of every honest man to make some ef-
fort to get the people to live up to that law?
Yes, do, and as 1 said to Mr.. Kreer some
time ago, if the old political parties of Della
ware had stood for equity in this matter of
taxation there would have been no room
for the Single Takers. But there must be a
revolution of our taxation system. 1t is
radically wrong. / studied up the subject
considerably when l was elected to the
Senate, and know there is no equity in
our present system. l can tell of twoparties
in Wilmington, one worth $500, 900 and the
other worth 81 200, ,OOO that pay not one
cent of taxes. Two million dollars in two
cases that pay nothing, while the pretence
Is that everything is taxed pn