Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1907-06-13
WASHINGTON LErTE R.
From Our Regula, Correspondent,

From Our Regular Correspondent.
Col. Bryan has set at rest so
far as he is concerned the rumor,
always regarded as senseless in
the realm OF practical politics, of
any coalition between the t W o
great parties. His announcement
has been received with considera-
BILE satiefaction in Washington
because while there never W q =
much stock taken in the story
that Bryan was at the last mo-
ment going to throw his infu-
ence to Roosevelt, and while the
President has adopted some
Democratic policies and m a d e
the best use he could of them, he
has never carried any OF these
policies so far as they needed to
be carried, or so far as the Dem
ocratic party would have carried
them had it had the chance. Mr..
Bryan says he does not even
want to influence the Democratic
Iparty in the choice of o nominee
for the presidency, but that wheth
er he did or not, all talk of the
party endorsing Roosevelt is the
merest nonsense.
Steps have been taken by the
government to lessen the profita.
BILE industry of smuggling on the
Mexican border. This has been q
problem with the government fol
many years. The industry -four
ished before the removal of t h
"free zone" between the two cOur
tries and since that zone h a {
been abolished has been easier
and more profitable than ever
1t is not likely that there will ev
er be any effective safeguard a.
gainst the cheating OF the Gus
toms, for there is over 600 miles
of border exclusive of the Rio
, Grande section where there il
nothing but a stone monumen
every three hundred yards to tel
Mexican from American soil. /
is of course impossible to patro
this vast expanse and not onl,
are goods constantly smugglet
across, but many immigrants a
J we'll who have found it impossi
, BILE to pass the Immigration in
spectors. Now The governmen
has declared a neutral strip al
along the border wherefederal oI
ficers are supreme in the dis
charge of their duty and are IN
hampered by state or territoria
regulations. This will aid in ma
s king the work of the smuggler
F. little more venturesome, but s.
far as putting the law on them
concerned, their prosecution wi
still remain in the category c
the receipt for cooking rabbi
first catch your rabbit.
The Navy Department has bee
experimenting quietly with a me-
torpedo that, if it is the success
c it's designer claims it to be. wi
= solve the long discussed probler
G OF utilizing gasoline gas as mC
tive power without exploding
a in an internal combustion engin
!, AS most people know, the ec'
:, nomical and effective littlegast
= line engine that has solved ii
:. automobile problem and is fur
nishing the power for so man
thousands of farmers allover tt
: country, works by mixing gas
line vapor and air in the cyli1
der of the engine and then tirir
o it by an electric spark. This tax
q. the place of steam in an ordin
ID ry engine, but there are certa
4. disadvantages in it chiefly tn,
it has to run at a high and co
slant speed to develop it's fl
efficiency and that for slow
speeds gears have to beintrodu
ed.
~ The new torpedo uses gasolil
as a motive power, but by clev
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