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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29
THE PACIFIC COAST.
It Is for Expansion, and Does Not care
Who Knows 1t.
Washington "star" lind.

Washington "star" LInd.l
The despatch from San Francisco,
signed by Senator Perkins and ex-senator
White, rendering to the Government on
the part of Southern California "a well or
ganized and thoroughly disciplined regi'
ment of infantry for service in the Philip
pines, makes exceedingly agreeable read
ing. These gentlemen, it is evident, are
personally in sympathy with the spirit Of
the offering, and thereby hangs tale.
No two Senators more earnestly opposed
expansion as that question related to the
Philippines than Me-1ra. Perkins and
White. The one a Republican and the
other Democrat, they yet stood together
% against the appearance of the United
Stat as power in that quarter of the
globe. Mir. White, for that matter, had
opposed every step that had led up to the
problem. But, all the time, the people of
California were in favor of American con-
troll of the archipelago.
When the time approached for the Sc
nate to vote on the treaty with Spain the
California Legislature instructed the two
Senators from the State to support the
treaty. Mr.. Perkins accepted the in
structons and obeyed them. Mr.. White,
who WIS marked for retirement from Office
at the clo7e of the Seuate's session, disre-
garded them and held to bis individual
opinion. The vote on the treaty was close,
and Mr.. Perkins support was highly i'm
portant in the premises.
But that chapter is closed. Messrs.
Perkins and White-the one still in office
and the other now in private life-look at
the matter at this time in the light of the
greatly altered circumstances. The Philip
pine Islands are American territory.
American authority there must be asserted
and maintained. Ii is no longer a ques-
ton of extending American boundaries
but of holding the Pr tige of the country.
And they, in a way, highly creditable to
them as. following their former position,
range themselves with those who are en-
deavoring to make complete the American
control of the Philippines.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29
HOW CAN THEY BE REAcHEoa

Heretofore the legislation, Federal aud
State, against trusts has been shaped to
prevent combinations between firms or
pools to advance or maintain prices. The
special acts to prevent such combinations
have received prompt consideration by the
courts. The new kind of trusts or compa-
MES that are now being organized are of a
different character to those against which
legislation has been directed. Now, III
steld of q number of firms being organized
into trust, company is formed which
bays up all the works it can get engaged
in some particular industry, and runs as
one new company, owning and controlling
all the property it has secured by pur'
chase. Here, in Southwest Virginia, we
have an illustration in the Carter Syndi-
cate, known as the Virginia Iron, Coal
and Coke Company. This company has
bought up all the furnaces and mines il
could secure and has made an effort to gel
the Others. 1t has not tried to make any
agreement, so far as we are informed, tC
regulate the price of iron, but it will Ger
tainly be in position to regulate the iror
industry in Southwest Virginia.
Can these companies that have obtained
control of all the industries in their sec
ton, OF all of a certain class Throughout
the country, be reached by antitrust legis
lstion? They may destroy competition
but it will be by purchase and not by
pooling issues. An individual has the
right to regulate his own business as ht
chooses. Will company have the same
right as attaches to the individual. The
Individual can fix the pric' at which hi
sells his products, can the company which
has control of any one article of commerc'
do the same thing? This is serious
question that will have to be treated BY
future legislation.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29
Hyphenated Americanlsm.
Pbildelphia Press

Philadelphia Press.
Captain Coghlan, of the Raleigh, in an
interview given at Terre Haute, Ind, very
sensibly refused to discuss the "Hoch der
Kaiser" incident but was quite outspoken
in regard to what is called hyphenated
Americanism. AS the Captain observed.
'If man is an American citizen, he is
an American citizen pure and simple. I
have no patience with this hyphenated citi-
zenship. There is nothing that Europe
would rather see today than the existence
of factional lines in our citizenship"
And in this the Captain is quite right
Nothing could be worse for the United
States than to have within its borders
large bodies of citizens unable to make up
their opinion on home affairs until they
heard from Berlin, Vienna, Paris, London,
Rome or any other political, national or
racial center of Europe. Ifas some think,
we shall get into all sorts of trouble by be-
coming involved in European politics by
reason of the policy Of expansion, how
much more disastrous for the future of the
United States as a united nation if Euro
pean jealousics and chickering's are mei1-
tanned and perpetuated in the United
States by those who view American citizen
ship as merelya condition that puts them
in position to advance the interests Of the
fatherland at the expense of their adopted
country. Hyphenated Americanism is
pretty poor substitute for the real thing.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29
PERSONAL NOTES.

Senator Hoar owns copy of the famous
Aiken Bible which he inherited from his
grandfather.
Don jaime, only son of the Spanish Pre-
tender, Don Carlos, has just won 100000
in lottery.
President Mckinley at the last White
House reception broke the Misunderstanding
record by greeting 1915 persons in an
hour and forty-fve minutes.
A New York friend of General Funston
says that before sailing for Manila Mr.
Funston said 81 wouldn't go into poll
tics for anything. I am afraid have nc
settled ambition at ALL"
While Benjamin I. Wheeler, now presi
dent of California University, was an in
structor at Harvard, President Eliot said o
him Gle seems to have in him the
stuff to make the best college president
know"
Ex-Congressman Richard w. ThomP
son, of Indiana, is writing book of polit
ical "reminiscences. He served in The
House with Lincoln and was born in tit
same year with Darwin, Longfellow, Glad
stone, Tennyson aud Holmes.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, says he haC
only one experience at gambling. Thi
was during his first visit to San Fran
cisco, while quite boy. He began Will
rs cents and stopped with $25, As HI
went out he heard some one say: ..Tha
sucker'll come back and lose it ALL" HI
thereupcn resolved to disappoint tn
prophet and has never gambled since.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29
WORLD OUR MARKET.
Exports This Year Pass the Billion
Mark.

Good crops in all the world in the year
1885, '99 will probably make the export
figures of the United States for the fiscal
year about to end few million dollars less
than those of the banner year 1898. The
figures covering the exports during the IL
months ended with May indicate that DUR
ing this period the total exports are about
Sc, OOO, OOO, less the those Of the cores
ponding months of the preceding year.
While the total for the II months will be
slightly below those of the unprecedented
year 1898, they will be much in excess Of
any other year. For the II months OF the
year 1899 the total exports are ST $50, 629,-
572, while in no other year, except in
1895, did the total exports of the II months
reach the billion dollar line.
The reduction in expectations is entire
ly in agricultural products, being nearly
S5O, OO0, 600 less than that of last year. In
1898 the crops in all parts of the world
except the United States, were unusually
light, and as a consequence the prices re-
allied for farm products exported were
much higher than the average for many
wears. The average price of wheat export
ed in the present year has been 744 cents
per bushel, against 934 cents the corresponds
ing months of last year: Aonr also shows
reduction in value per barrel, while
the average export value of cotton IN the
present year has been 81 cents per pound,
against nearly cents per pound last year
In quantity, the exports of wheat in the
II months whose figures are completed
vas slightly in access of that of last year,
while flour exceeded by more than 2,OO0,-
600 bsrrels the figures of the correspond
ing months of last year. In corn and oats
there has been decided reduction. In
bacon there has been reduction in guam
tity of exports, but this is more than made
up by an increase in the expectations OF
hams and fresh pork.
One curious feature in the reduction Of
our expectations relates to live cattle, IL
which the expectations of the year are q
per cent, below those of the corresponding
months of 1898, the total being S24, 1884,,
S23, against 49,, 352, 1873 last year. in Other
lines of provisions, however, such as saltec
beef, tallow, lard, oleomargarine, poultry
and milk, there has been an increase O
about S, 1000, 900 over those of last year, Oh
sufficient to offset the loss in the exporta
ton Of live cattle.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29
THE MODERN JOCKEY.
His Importance, and the Way He Gains
It in MOrdern Sports.

1t in Mordern Sports.
New York Commercial Advertiser"
The Jockey is an important creature.
There are plenty of men that can ride
horses; there even respectable number that
can race them with judgment;but owning to
the custom that has grown up of racing
horses under-weights they would not have
to carry in ordinary work, the number Of
men that can ride and race horses at the
weight called for by the handicapped is
very small. In horse racing the thing de-
sired is extreme speed, and evidently with
ninety pounds up horse can do far bet
ter than with hundred and fifty hence
no race horse on the flat is required to
carry the weight of an average man. This
state of affairs gives TO midgets like Tod
Sloane and Maher an Importance they
would have in no other way, and is per-
haps natures way of compensating them
for their inferriority in size to the ordi-
nary man.
A really successful jockey, as everyone
knows, can clmost command his own price
Besides bis regular salary, which would
pay those of several college profes-
sors. he is likely to receive gifts Of several
times the amount of his salary after any
winning race. When an owner has won a
small fortune, on few seconds work Of
jockey and horse, he is in an expansive
mood, when the world looks large and
seems to be mostly in his own pocket. The
successful jockey has therefore a chance to
earn a competency as we'll as much short
lived fame, if he be honest-but his hon
esty, unlike mans innocence before the
law, hes to be proved, rather than taken
for granted unless disproved. His opportu-
mites and temptations for dishonesty are
great, and neither his breeding nor his
education usually leads to the greatest
moral development.
If an owner after succ' full race is will
ing to give his jockey good bit of money,
a bookmaker before race, to insure large
winnings to himself, is willing to be even
more liberal with jockey open to induce
ments. And not only jockeys, but start
ers, can be manipulated SO as to alter the
results of races. And the more easily that
while winning race isvery difficult, losing
one is comparatively simple. Horse rae
ing presents a curious circle it cannot be
made to pay without betting; betting leads
to all kinds of crookedness, and crooked
ness kills racing. In England they seem
to have outlived our stage of the game
where alternate waves of disgust and of
reform sweep over racing, In England
racing has social standing it has not at
tanned here, Perhaps the larger leisure
class there has led better and more in
dependent sort of men to take up horse
racing, one not in it for profit alone, and
not to be bulied by those that are.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29
DOUGLAS AS AN ExPANSlONEST.
The Great Democrat Suggested the an
exation of "the islands of the Ocean,"
From the Portland oregonian.l


Here is what Stephen A. Douglas said
on the subject of expansion at Freeport,
ILL.,, August 81, 1858:
cit is idle to tell me or you that we
have territory enough. Our fathers sup
posed that we had enough when our terri
tory extended to the Mississippi river, but
a few years growth and expansion satisfied
them that we needed more, and Louisiana
territory, from the west branch of the Mis-.
sisspi to the British possessions, was ac-
CURED. Then we acquired Oregon: then
California and New Mexico. We have
enough now for the present, but this is
young and growing nation. 1t swarms as
often as hive of bees, and as new swarms
are turned out each year, there must be
hives in which they can gather and make
their honey. In less than fifteen years,
if the same progress that has distinguished
this country for the last fifteen years con-
tinues, every foot of vacant land between
this and the Pacific ocean, owned by the
United States, will be occupied. Will you
not continue to increase at the end Of fif-
teen years as well as now?
81 tell you increase and multiply, and
expand is the law ofthis nation s existence.
You cannot limit this great republic by
mere imaginary lines, saying thus far
shalt thou 20 and no father. ANY one of
YOU gentlemen would be foolish to say to a
son ~ years old that he is big enough, and
must not grow any larger, and in order to
prevent his growth put a hoop around
him to keep him to his present size.
What would be the result? Either the
hoop must burst and be rent ssunder, or
the child must die. So it would be with
this great nation.
"With our natural increase, growing
with rapidity unknown n any other
part of the globe, with the tide of elnigra-
ton that is fleeing from de3potism in the
Old World to seek refuge in our own, there
is a constant torrent pouring into this
country that requires more land, more
territory upon which to settle, and just as
fast as our interests and destiny require
additional territory in the North, in the
South, or on the islands of the ocean, l
am for it."
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29

WE recently heard two Democrats talk
ing, and one of them remarked that he
never saw such business boom as was
now coming upon the country. He spoke
especially of the iron, lumber and coal in
dustries, and of farming interests also
We wonder if these gentlemen will advo,
cate change in the industrial policy Of
our Government in 1900?
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29


ELSEWHERE on this page We publish an
extract from the Portland oregonian,
which gives the expressed sentiments of
Stephen A. Douglas on the subject of ex-
pansion, as held by him in 1858. AT that
time Mr.. Douglas was one of the greatest
leaders of the Democracy. measuring
swords with the great Abraham Lincoln
for control of Illinois and of the Nation.
MIR. Douglas was known as the "Ittle
Giant" and as compared with Mr.. Bryan,
the present leader of the Democracy, was
truly giant.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29
The Achievements of Bailey.
Louisville courier-Journal Dem.).

Louisville Courier-Journal Dem.).
81 praise God," said Josy Bailey in q
speech to the Texans the other day-"l
praise God that have never fallen SO low
as to allow anyone, even though ne be q
gallant soldier, to trespess upon the Con.
stitution of my beloved country" Amenl
Selah! There nowl Is it not about time for
the Aunties to quit lamentiug that the
Constitution is being daily trampled I'M
der foot by the imperialists at Washington
and the soldiers in the Philippines? j.
Bailey is neither dead nor sleeping. He
has allowed no trespass on the Constitu-
ton, and be is still on guard. AS long as
Bailey has a drop of eloquence to shed We
need not put the Republic in safety
vault.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29

The exports from the United States this
yeor have already posed the billion dol
Jar mark. Those who claimed that the
heavy exports of 1898 we're caused by the
shortage of crops in Europe, and that
1899 would show great reduction in our
export trade with foreign countries, are
now shown to be in error. While there
has been heavy reduction in exporta-
ton of agricultural products the gain
in other lines has been sufficient to bring
the export trade up to within few million
dollars of what it was in 1898.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29

THE Kentucky Democracy after being
in red hot convention for three days,suc-
ceeded in making platform which en-
dorses Bryan for the Presidency, Black
burn for the United States, and the in
famous Goebel election law, which was
built upon the Virginia election law as a
model. OF course the platform denounces
the policy of the present Administration,
decidedly a compliment to Mr.. Mckinley.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29
FROM present indications the Pacific
States are almost solid for expansion.

BRAr7rREhr's report on the business con-
ditions last week states that prices show
a strength unusual at this period, and that
the tendency of values is still upward.
There is nothing heard now but good re-
ports from all kinds of business. This is
hard on the calamity howlers.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29

The Richmond Times is very anxious to
make compromise in the ranks of the
Virginia Democracy The Times can
eaqily effect the compromise by abandon
ing it's sound money views and ceasing to
advocate honest elections in Virginia.
Will the anxiety of the Times for compro-
mise continue to grow until an agreement
it reached on the lines we have indicated !?
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29

THE Richmond Times heads an edito-
rial sis Virginia for silver?" We sup
pose the Times means, is the Virginia
Democracy for silver? The Times ought
to know that Virginia Democrats are for
anything that will secure them place and
power. We wouldn't be surprised if they
would advocate honest elections, ifsuch
a position became necessary to win.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29
The Matter With Mr.. Havemeyer.
Phi adelphia Press.

Philadelphia Press.
The American Sugar Refining Company,
the Sugar Trust, makes its money on the
difference between the cost of raw sugar
and the price of refined sugar. Every adj
dition to this difference increases its pro-
fits. Every decrease in it lessons its pro-
6ts.
Under the Wilson tariff the yearly aver
age net price of the standard grade ofraw
sugar (96 degrees centrifugal), the price of
granulated or refined sugar and the differ
ence between them Per pound in cents was
as follows =
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29

Two hundred machinists employed by
a company in Baltimore have struck for a
reduction of working hours from 10 to 8
without reduction of their wages. Some
men are hard to satisfy. If they can't
find one cause for complaint they will
hunt for another.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29

THE Memphis Appeal DEM says /:
"Mr. Havemeyer's position seems to be
that when the tariff is too high it ought to
be lowered, and when it is too low, it
ought to be raised" Yes, on sugar.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29
Tregpass Notice.

All persons are hereby warned not tc
trespsss on our land, known as the j.. ID.
and Ella B. Claire place, on the ridge
west of Pocahonte9, Va. Any trespass
by driving stock, throwing down fences,
opening gstcg, disturbing fruit, or other,
wise will be met by rigid enforcement OF
the law.
PIP. D1ELIoN and R. BRYANT.
June, Goth. 3-m.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29

Hon. JOHN GooDE has declined to be.
come candidate for U. S. Senator against
Senator Martin. He saws he does not
wish to embarrass the Reform League by
becoming candidate, but we expect he
doesn't wish to tackle the Martin machine.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29
A PuzzIinq Situation.
d1anapolis News" lind,

Indianapolis News" Qnd.).
The Democrats are seeming to grow
more and more certain that firm stand
against trusts is the thing. But how are
they going go get up an issue with the Re-
publicans on that score? The Republican
platform will doubtless declare Just as
strongly against trusts as the Democratic
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29
vYIRGINIA: In the clerks Office for
v tie circuit court of Tazewell county,
June oath, 1899:
Mrs. L. E. Hodge, complainant,
VS.. In cbancery.

a. j. Hodge, u6I6HuaIII.
The object of this suit is to obtain di.
vorce a uinculo n.mromonii, by the said
Mrs. L. E. Hodge from the said a. ].
Hodge. And it appearing from affidavit
or file in the said Office that the said a. j.
Hodge is nonresident of the State OF
Virginia, it is ordered that the said A. ].
Hodge appear here within fifteen days
after due publication of this order and do
what is necessary to protect his interests
in this suit, and that copies of this order
be published and posted IS prescribed by
law.
A copy; teste: H. BANE HARMAN,
Clerk.
w. B. sPRArr, p. q.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29

600 pounds, which is about the average
annual melting of the trust. The Dingley
tariff came in 1897, and this is what hap
pened with the difference on which de-
pended Mr.. uavemeyer's profits =
Differ
Raw. Refined. ence.
1895. $500. .....4. 235 1866 0.730
The margin which Mr.. Havemeyer had
raised TO .94G under the Wilson tariff
sbrank to $50 under the Dingley tariff.
This is difference of .2l6 Of cent, or a
little over fifth of cent. All by its
lonely self this is not very much to have
in your pocket.
But if you are melting 100000 900
pounds of sugar and .2l6 measures the
decreased profit on each pound--then
PIG, the reduction in the difference be-
tween raw and refined under the Wilson
and under the Dingley tariffs, amounts to
S6,5SO,OOO.
This is two-thirds the dividends paid
by the Sugar Trust and one-third the pro-
fits, Mr. Theodore f. Havcmeyer admit
ted, the American Sugar Refining Com
pany made. After losing this in passing
from free trade to protective tariff, anC
losing also the good sense which departed
with Mr.. Theodore f. Havemeyer's death
it is natural for Mr.. H. o. Havemeyer tt
discover that the tariff is the mother o
trusts" If it had been as kind a nursiI
mother to his trust under the Dingley al
under the Wilson tariff he would havo
been silent.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29
Differ.

AS will be seen, under the Wilson tariff
this gap steadily widened, and every in
crease must be multiplied by 100000
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29
NOTICE.

All parties having old prescriptions which
they wish refiiled can do so by sending
the number of the same to Pocahontas
Drug Co., Pocahontas, Va. We have all
the old files of 1azewell Drug Co.'s pre-
scriptions.
PocAHoNTAs Drug Co.,,
Pocahontas. Va.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29
STATE OF ONO, CRY OF TOLEDO,
LUCAS COUNTY. J S

FRANK ]. CHENEY makes oath that he
is the senior partner of the firm of +. J..
CHENEY & Co., doing business in the City
Of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and
that the firm will pay the sum of ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and
every case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured
Ivy the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
nv presence, this 9th day of December,
A. D. 1856.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29
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with Devoe Gloss Carriage Paint, ready
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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-29

Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Send Tor testlmo-
malls, free.
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