The Newtown bee., 1903-07-17
CALCULATIONS:
Ten Pages.
The OUTLOOK.

The OUTLOOK.
 EngIand's Secretary Chamber
 Change lain of England has |
 Of Policy. rather startled the world by a proposal of a change in for eign policy for the nation. For 65y years the British empire has been free trade in tariff and in policy. Secretary Chamberlain, both in addresses and in private talk, has declared that there must be change of front, and that for the sake of unifying the nation they must adopt a protective tariff. This will affect our trade with England to quite an extent as about forty per cent of our exports go to the United King dom The past year about a billion and third of dollars worth of goods were exported, and of that amount five hundred million dollars worth of stuff went to England. Our largest exports are in grain, s175, 1000, 900 worth, cotton, s16o, ,00o, ,oOo worth, beef and cattle, s7o,ooo,0OO worth, pork pro- ducts, s65, ,OOO, 900 worth. Most of these things are food stuffs and if tariff is placed upon them it will simply in- crease the cost of living in the En- pire. The idea Of the secretary is to draw upon Canada and Australia and others of the provinces for the food to feed the artisan classes. It remains to be seen whether there will be food enough raised to supply this great need in these countries. Those who study the questions of food supply for the world assert that it will not be possible for the English people to get along without the food from the prai- ries of our west to feed them. If this is the case tariff will make living mere expensive in England than here tofore. |
 The The automobilists
 Parls-Madrld of the world were
 Automobile interested in an
 Race. effort to lowerthe speed record by a race from Paris t( Madrid, distance of 8214 miles. They succeeded in their effort to lower the record and they made new record in killing people and in being killed, Seven persons were killed outright, eight were seriously injured and the result of the whole affair was that the governments of France and Spain are taking steps to put stop to such pub lie exhibitions of speed on the state roads. Some of the automobiles ran as fast as 88 miles an hour and two million people witnessed the start o1 the 216 machines Automobiles ran into each other, one ran over two sol diers and child, killing all three, some of the machines became un' manageable, running into trees and killing their drivers, and one of the automobiles caught fire and severely burned the owner who was riding. It is evident, not only from this experience in the automobile race, but also from the experiences many people are hay. ing with runaway horses which are frightened by automobiles, that new set of laws will have to be made re- specting this vehicle on tLe public highways. The drivers of the auto mobiles are many of them rich mems sons who care more for their owr pleasure than they do for public inter ests or the lives of the people. Those who have used the public roads with teams want to drive without a run away every few days from an automo bile.
 Storm The first three
 Ravages. months of the pres ent year were quite noteworthy in this country as furnishing few great cata clysms in nature. But commencing with April we have had great floods and much loss of property and life Commencing with that month storms and floods swept through Arkansas an6 Alabama, causing 40 deaths. In the