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The leader., 1901-02-20

The Enterprise says the water in
some Of NELSON'S wells would kill tad
poles.
The leader., 1901-02-20

People, generally, are interested in
the unusual-Mrs. Nations Ratchet,
for instance.
The leader., 1901-02-20

Wesson has a new physician in DR.
VIC. Trawick.
The leader., 1901-02-20

McComb had brilliant masquerade
ball last night.
The leader., 1901-02-20

To the engineers who has the powerful
forces of nature under his control, the pos
session of a clear head is an absolute neces-
sity. He must have head that is quick
and ready. wide awake and ever on the
lookout to meet emergencies A clear
head must be free from aches and pains,
because they weaken the nervous force
and divert the attention. 1t must not know
dizziness, dullness, melancholy depres-
sion of spirits, nor nervousness
The leader., 1901-02-20

John Kinslow. negro IS years of
age, dropped dead in Natchez gro
Gerry.
The leader., 1901-02-20

Smallpox is prevalent in 50 counties
of the State.
The leader., 1901-02-20
Head,
A Clear

Il am an engineer and for years wac
handicapped in my work by frequent a..
tacks of severe headache. In sn;to !.
everything 1 could do these spells grew
worse until they became almost continn.,
Hearing of DR.. Miles Nervine throupb .
friend who had used it, began taking !,
for my head, and it gave me relief from tba
start In short time my head was as
clear as bell, and has not troubled M
since" E. W. WILSON, Alcott, Colo
The leader., 1901-02-20
BLOOD AND SKIN a Diseases,

ease most horrible In Its results, completely
eradicated without the use of mercurv So,
erysipeas, fever sores, blotches pimnles nIa
pains In the hands and bones. syphili,, ticers.
throat, mouth and tongue catarrh. etc na. sore
nently cured when others have failed W. PeIla.
The leader., 1901-02-20

LITTLE work and a few
good seed will make it. We
can furnish you the good
seed at the very smallest pos
sible cost.
The Conservative, 1901-09-12
clear, just and righteous decision, he

says:
"Of all the powers conferred upon
government, that of taxation is most
liable to abuse. Given purpose or OBJ
ject for which taxation may be lawfully
used, and the extent of it's exercise is in
it's very nature unlimited. It is true
that express limitation on the amount
of tax to be levied or the things to be
taxed, may be imposed by constitutions
or statutes, but in most instances for
which taxes are levied, as the support of
government, the prosecution of war,
the national defense, any limitation, is
unsafe. The entire resources Of the
people should in some instances be at
the disposal of the government.
''The power to tax, therefore, is the
strongest, the most pervading of all the
powers of government, reaching di-
rectly or indirectly to all classes of the
people. It was said by Chief Justice
Marshall in the case Of Mccullough
versus the state of Maryland, that the
power to tax is the power to destroy.
IA striking instance of the truth of
the proposition is seen in the fact that
the existing tax of ten per cent. i'm
posed by the United States on the cir
culation of all other banks than the
national banks, drove out of existence
every state bank of circulation within
a year or two after it's passage. This
power can as readily be employed
against one class of individuals and in
favor of another, so as to ruin the one
class and give unlimited wealth and
prosperity to the other, if there is no
implied limitation of the uses for which
the power may be exercised.
"To lay with one hand the power of
the government upon the property of
citizen, and with the other to bestow it
upon favorite individuals to aid private
enterprise and build up private fortunes,
is none the less robbery because it is
done under the forms of law and is
called taxation. This is not legislation.
1t is decree under legislative form.
We have established, we think, beyond
cavil, that there can be no lawful tax
which is not laid for public purpose"
Merchants trade with each other SO
long as trade is mutually profitable for
all legitimate exchanges are advanta-
geous to both parties thereunto. When
ever one of your customers finds that
trade with you is Improbable, or when
ever you find that trade with one of
your customers does not pay, exchanges
between you Immediately cease.
If we have great and growing trade
between the United States and foreign
nations and we institute protective
tariff for the purpose allegedly of pre-
venting unfair competition we impede
Ou1v that fro 10 which ic mn 1t1o 11v y,rofif
The Conservative, 1901-09-12
Che Conservative.
does it even mention his election to high
places. 1t simply says:

places. 1t simply says:
Here was buried Thomas jefferson,
Author of the Declaration of American Inde-
pendence,
OF, the Statute Of Virginia for Religious
freedom,
And Father of the University of Virginia"
Mr.. Jefferson thus asserted that those
three acts of his life he wished recorded
"as testimonials that he had lived and
as evidence that he wished by them
alone most to be remembered"
The power to tax has been too often
perverted both by the national and
state governments of this republic The
mathematical absurdity that a part is
greater than the whole has been made
a fundamental dogma, a declared princi-
pie in the economics of national po-
litical party, and the relatively few, the
comparatively small part of our citizen
ship who have been engaged in the iron,
tin, woolen, and some other industries
have secured laws for their own benefit,
by which artificial prices have been
placed on things which few
make, and whi IN all use. Per-
fectly protective tariffs put shut
out tax upon would-be compet-
ing articles from abroad, for the sole
purpose of making possible an arti-
ficially profitable price on like COM
modities manufactured at home: Ever
since the Morrill, tariff the people have
been burdened with various tariff
schedules most of which ought to be
repealed because they enrich the few
engaged in certain lines of manufacture,
at the expense of the many. To my
mind it has long been perfectly clear
that the constitutional provision which
limits the power of taxation on the part
of the federal government to the rails
ing of money for the payment
of the public debt, for the COM
mon defence, and to promote the
general welfare, intended to prohibit all
taxation except for the public revenues.
Then it logically follows, that any and
all taxes laid for any other purpose than
getting money into the public treasury,
are unconstitutional and ought to be
utterly abolished. A tariff purely for
protection brings little or no revenue,
and tariff purely for revenue brings
little or no protection.
At the October term of the Supreme
Court of the United States in 1874, the
Court consisting then of Chief Justice
Morrison R. Waite, Nathan Clifford,
Samuel F. Miller, Stephen j. Field,
Joseph P. Bradley, Noah H. Swain,
David Davis, William Strong and Ward
Hunt, Judge Samuel F. Miller rendered
the opinion of the court in the case of
the Citizens Saving & Loan Association
of Cleveland versus the city of Topeka,
The Conservative, 1901-09-12


Poverty. The history of the
world demon
strates that monarchies, democracies,
oligarchies, republics, and in fact every
form of government as yet devised by
human ingenuity, have been established
and maintained, not out of an inherit
ance, but by the taxation of either sub
jects or citizens. A legitimate tax is
payment by the citizens to the govern
ment for service, and the true service
is protection to his natural rights. The
power to levy taxes was originally vest
ed in governments for the sole purpose of
raising public revenues, and those rev.
enues were intended primarily for the
protection of the life, liberty and prop
erty of the people. Offices were created
and men appointed or elected thereunto,
because the functions of government
could only through them be properly
exercised. No one, in the beginning of
show, ever conceived the idea of creating
Offices for the emoluments and honors
which might accrue from them to the
benefit of favored individuals. In the
earlier and purer days of this Republic
the youth in the schools, in fact every
man, woman and child, was instructed
by high examples and by common con-
sent, from the beginning of an educa-
tion in the district schools up to and
through the hustings, the church and
the lecture room, that it was the duty
of each American to do all in his or her
power for the elevation and advance
ment Of citizenship, for the commonweal.
The sole trend of ambitious and intelli-
gent effort among the best of the found
ers of this republic, was to do for the
people, for the government, everything
elevating and honorable The epitaph
on the modest tomb of Thomas Jeffer-
son at Monticello is pertinently illustra-
tive of the fact that the far-seeing
founders and leaders of the thought
of the eighteenth century on the
West side of the Atlantic Ocean,
were animated by the loftiest am
bition to accomplish great deeds for
the age in which they lived and for the
benefit and exaltation of the generations
following. This epitaph, written by
Mr.. Jefferson himself, does not boast of
his having been elevated to the position
of secretary of state or to the presidency.
1t tells not what the people had recog-
nized in or accomplished for him, nor
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-01-17

justing. A committee with authority
from the State Teachers association
is under instructions TO ask from the
Legislature encouragement for county
training schools to better qualify
teachers for district schools, and for
the extension of the existing system
of state aid to high schools, in order
to reach and improve the weak graded
schools in the country, and establish
others where they are so much need
ed. | believe that legislative action
to meet this emergency in the life OF
district schools cannot be too strongly
recommended
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-01-17
MANY SUGGESTIONS
GOV. LA TOILETTE MAKES THEM
IN HIS MESSAGE.
TAXATION AND PRIMARIES

These Are the Leading Themes
Though Many Other Subjects Are
neutrality-suspicious. of No
men on Various Boards Is Novel
Recommendation.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-01-17
District Schools.

When the educators of the state
agree On the proposition that the dis
trict schools are inadequate for their
work, and are steadily losing in use
fulness and depreciating in popular
favor; when this judgment is con-
firmed by decreasing attendance
upon the district school and CORE
spending removal to the cities for
better common school advantages;
when the best auth )r,ties give as
surance that for every hundred
pupils now attending district school
only one pupil reaches a high school, !"
then II must indeed be time to pause
In praise OF our colleges and city
schools long enough to emphasize the
necessity Of more generous support
and Of more successful supervision
for the too long neglected country
schools. The valuable results of
ed ication in farm work are shown In
the awakened interest and progressive
methods which have come from the
university dairy school and agriculture
al college. | beneve that this branch
Of educational work should be broad.
ened in scope by adding elementary
training In agricultural knowledge TO
the course Of study in district schools.
Plainly our educational system is get.
ting out Of balance and requires read.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-01-17

The creation of commission to
make such investigation as the char
acter and Importance of the subject
demand. to report to the legislature
the results of it's examination. and
TO make recommendations in aid OF
lust and efficient tax laws. could not
fail of public approval. Chapter zoe,
Laws of 1899, authorizes the appoint
ment of a tax commissioner and two
assistants to the commissioner, for the
purpose of investigating the tax sys-
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-01-03
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

August Belmont. who has hecr i'll at
Hampstead, L. l.. Is rapidly recover
Ing.
Ambassador Choate, at London, aas
denied the report that be is about to
resign.
Princess Glenn mentine, daughter Of
King Leopold Of Belgium, has become
nun.
Frank Rockefeller Is said to be
about to purchase 100000 acres Of
land in Kiowa and Clark Counties:
Kansas, upon which to raise blooded
stock.
The President has promised to ex-
tend his trip to San Francisco in May,
to include Seattle, Tacoma, North Va.
kima, Spokane and other towns in
Washington.
Robert w. Wilcox, the Hawaiian
Delegate to Congress, has been royal
ist and revolutionist by turn, and is
now married to the last descendant Of
Kamehameha III.
Dom Paul Kruger, according to the
sentimental trencn papers. Is llot ny
any means so homely as he has been
described. One reporter writes that
his face, though rough, is that of a
hero"
The Kaiser has made Queen Wilhel-
nina a present Of bottle Of water
from the River Jordan, to be used in
the baptism Of her future heirs. The
Kaiser's generosity has caused some
amusement.
Secretary Long has purchased site
for a residence, which he will erect in
Colorado Springs, Col. Mr.. Longs
daughters, who have been there for
the last year for their health. will
make that city their permanent home.
Senator Baker, of KansaG, carries an
odd pocket piece. This is a small
crystalline cube, about an inca square
and as transparent as glass. 1t is 4
piece OF the huge saltbed that under
lies Kansas, where it is supposed the
ocean once was.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-01-03
LABOR WORLD.

Prussia has 81 beet-sugar factories.
Over $4,000 railroad cars were built
In the United States in 1899.
The strike of dock laborers ut Cal
lao. the port Of Lima, has ended.
One hundred puddlers at the Leba-
non PENN rolling mills are striking
for $50 ton.
The Scranton PENN Railway Com
pany refused its employees petition for
an increase Of wages, and strike is
possible.
The Southern Car and Foundry Com
pany is to erect pressed steel car
works at Birmingham, Ala, with al
annual capacity of G0o0 cars.
Thirty railroad companies have
opened their shops to the apprentice
ship Of students Of the railroad depart
ment Of the Cornell University.
At Wilkesbarre, Penn. the employees
of the Wyoming Valley Lace Mill have
struck in sympathy with the weavers.
who were locked out nine months age.
The National Steel Company's blast
furnace at Sharon, Penn, mas resumeu
operations, with several months busi-
ness on hand. About 175 men are en-
ployed.
The overseers of machine shops in
the larger cotton factory towns OF
South Carolina receive as high as
$3.50 a day, and the second hands
from 81 to S225 day.
Each of the 5000 employees Of the
Crane Company, Of Chicago, received
n Christmas present to an amount
equal to five per cent. Of his years
earnings, the aggregate reaching $780,
goo.
The Edgar Thomson steel mills OF
tile Carnegie Company at Pittsburg,
Penn, have been put in operation
Work was suspended several weeks
ago to allow extensive improvements
in the rail, roll and finishing mills.
New machinery has been placed in the
irau mills. It cost about $2oOOOo.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-01-03
Heavy London Failures.

London, By Cable.-The London and
Globe Finance Corporation. limited,
has suspended payment. When the
brokers delivered stock purchased on
account of the London and Globe, and
asked for payment. they received
checks which were dishonored. This
was followed by the failure on the
sock exchange of Haggard, Hale and
Pixley, earle and Driver, Douglas Jr.,
and Company; Cornfoot Bros. F. a.
Choen, Blockey and Buckingham,
Gum ard Aubrey, Richards and Slop-
er, Baker and Smith F. G. Watts and
Co., Flower and Company and F. Boul-
ly and Co. The first named IS a big
firm with important connections. 1t Is
fA;red a number Of smaller jobbers
will be effected. While the difficulties
of the firms closely CONNECTED with the
Lou don and Globe division were large
ly discounted, the repeated fall of the
hammer this morning caused a great
sensation. 1t is feared the full list OF
failures Is not yet known.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-01-03
The Cotton Supply.

New Orleans, S2e2ial.-Secretary
Hester's statement of the worlds Wis
ibIe supply c: cotton shows the total
visible to be 4,O73,393 bales, against l.
2s4.A7G last year. CT this the total Ct
American cotton is 3.405, ,S93, against
9.625.476 last year, and OF all other
kinds. including Egypt, Brazil, India,
etc. $4,000, against 100000 last year.
The total worlds visible supply OF
cotton shows decrease compared
with last year of 221,OS3. OF the
worlds visible supply there is now
afloat and held in Great Britain and
continental Europe 1,79S,O0O, against
1890, 900 last year; in Egypt, 11o,CJo
against $4,000 last year; Indian 2Il,-
600 against 100000 last year. and the
United States 1,21S,G00 aCai--t 80
600 last year.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-01-03
Fighting in the Philippines.

Manila, By Cable.-Sunday brought
many reports OF captures OF insurgents
as the result Of scouting throughout
Luzon. The Americans in this work
sustained no causualties. A detach-
ment of the Fourth Regiment captured
60 in the province Of Cavite. General
Wheaton reports having captured and
burned Gremoro's camp in the penin-
sula, near San Antonio. Genral Fun
ston reports that five insurgents were
killed and several captured near Gay
say. General Smith wires that the pro-
clamation of the governor general has
had good results in his district.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-01-03
CLEYELAkD'S IDEAS,
The EI.Piesideat Writes on 2Gtt
Century Politics.
FOR LONGER PRESIDENTIAL TERN.
Argues That Numerous Presidential
Elections T.nd to DemoraliZed
Business.

New York, Special.-Writiag On the
President CT the twentieth century, for
copyrighted special issue of The New
York World. eX-President Cleveland
refers 10 The presidential tenure in
these terms:
Thoughtful citizens will more and
more appreciate the objections u.gel
against the present indirect and cum
bersome mode OF electing their Pres-
denis. Tie circumstances In which
this plan originated, if ever Of ool-
trolling Importance, ought no longer
to excuse such a battling confusion OF
ideas as grows out Of proposition that
in a popular government the peoples
chief officer and their most direct
representative may be made the recip-
lent Of their trust and the depository
Of their power in fragrant opposition
to the declared popular will.
Strong arguments are from time to
time urged in favor Of change in the
tenure of the presidential Office. These
should challenge serious attention, to
the end that the present constitutional
limit be removed and more reason
able and useful one be substituted.
There has been a continual increa e in
Federal legislation OF peremp ory
character and related to the imme-
diate and routine necessities of the
country; and so It has come to pass
that of the four sessions Of Congress
held during presidential tern two are
so brief as to scarcely permit the pas
sage of necessary appropriation bills
while Of the other 0ne occurs when the
President is usually strange in his new
Office and burdened with opportunities
and labors irseparable from a change
Of administration: and the remaining
one encounters during its continuance
the Interruptions, timidity and demor-
alization of presidential and congress
sional canvass. These conditions sug-
gest the scant opportunity allowed for
the initiation and adoption Of new and
important remedial legislation during
single presidential term.
Another argument CT considerable
weight in favor CT the change is based
upon the complaint that the business
ard CHER important inte"es's Of OH
people are now too frequently disturb
ed and disluieted by the turmoil and
heat CT a presidential election. 1t is
no. Gcniss to add that substantial ex-
tension Of the executive tenure would
pave the way for establishing the in
eligibility cf an incumbent to succeed
himself, watch has long found favo.
with a large class Of our people as a
consummation much to be desired.
"Thus American citizens in the
twentieth century. will be charged with
the duty OF securing for themselves
the actual substance Of popular rule
by establishing more direct mode OF
selecting the peoples chief executive
in strict accordance with the peoples
will. and by so extending the tenure cf
his Office, as TO enable him to better
serve his countrNmen and more thor
oughly protecs and defend all their in'
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-01-03
Another British Reverse.

London, BY Ca5le.-The War Office
has received the following dispatch
from Lord Kitchner:
Pretoria, Dec. 80, 7:15 a. m.
General L;ttleton reports that our
pest at Helvetia was captured satur-
Gay morning by the oBers. About fifty
we're killed and wounded and 200 taken
prisoners.
Colonel Kitchener reports that he is
following with a shall force in the
track OF the enemy, Helvetia being re-
occupied by Reeves, who has been re-
enforced from Belfast.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-01-03

American enterprise in Great Brit
ain now promises to revolutioniZe the
methods of the war Office. The prob.
lem of the transportation of stores,
guns and men over a country having
no railroads has long excited the army
experts. Traction engines, bullocks,
elephants, horses and mules have been
tried with only moderate success.
With the view of displacing these 6
series of experiments is occurring in
England, before a war cffice commits
sion, in which an American motor car,
suitable for war service, having on
board the driver, an American, and
the inventor, attained speed of 80
miles an hour on grass, going over OBJ
stacles and undulations without the
slightest difficulty or injury. Further
trials are still necessary, but the
British officers were favorably i'm
pressed with the performance of the
motor car. and are likely, to recon-.
mend its adoption by the war Office.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-01-03

In the last year or TWO a number of
American horses and jockeys hayet
been carrying off the palm at the big
English races. Lately there have been
many complaints among English turf
men that English racing is becoming
too Americanized, and rules have now
been adopted that will shut out Amer
lean turfmen. In recognition Of thii
anti-American feeling, the Prince o
Wales has discharged an Americai
Jockey whom he had engaged.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-01-03
To Open Headquarters &.

Cincinnati, Special.-It is announced
That Ed. Cook, as the representative OF
Manager VIM. A. Bradley, will be here
to open up Jeffries' headquarters this
week, and that Jeffries is expected TO
20 into training at West Baden. Ind.
next week. Gus BeesoHah is trying to
make a match for the preliminary OF
the Jeffries-Ruhfr fight here Febru'
ary 18th.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-01-03

A Boston school teacher who re-
Gently returned from the Paris expo
sition was allowed to bring in free
OF duty a passionate conviction that
we need new and universal Ian
guagc. Something may have hap
pened over there about which he is
unable to express his mind adequately
in any existing tongue. or he may
have added to the gayety of Paris and
suffered modification by his efforts to
address the people in their own
speech; but, whatever the cause, he
clamors in a Boston newspaper for
a universal language to be constructed
on strictly scientific principles by a
commission of wordsters represent
atve of all the different races Of
civilization.