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Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17

a billion dollars Of increase in one
year becaus. of Protection. Yet the
suggestion is there; you cannot es.
cape 1t.
Doubtless the Record will scout
the idea that protection has had any
thing to do with the farmers prosper
ity, and will sneeringly ask. What
has Protection to do with big crops"
Let us see about that. 1t requires
no strained argument to show that
Protection may have a great deal to
do with big crops.
Go back to 1S93-1S97. The farmer
was getting so cents a bushel for his
wheat and So apiece for his lambs,
Today, after ter years OF restored
protection, the price of wheat has
nearly doubled and the price of a
spring lamb has more than doubled.
Protection has not increased the
yield of wheat per acre, or the per-
centage of lambs available for the
butchers block, but It has induced the
farmer to SOW additional acres OF
wheat 10 buy more ewes from which
to breed lambs.
II is estimated that farm land val.
ues and the gross values OF farm
products have increased at the rate OF
a billion dollars a %year-fully 100000
000. 000-in the last ten years of ade-
quate protection to American labor
and industry.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17
HARD ON ~FREE.TRApERs.
Trust Development In a Country With
No Tariff.

One of the foulest blows ever de-
livered into the pit of the stomach Of
American free.traders is the forma.
ton of a British steel trust. Ills enor.
NOUS combination now makes no Sc
cret Of the fact that II Is formed to con
troll the iron and steel market of Great
Britain. not to speak Of the kindred
industries dependent upon the mate
rial supplied by the trust.
Over here In the United States our
Free.Traders have preached the gos-
pei, until they almost believed 1t them
selves, that the only thing that made
or could make American trusts was
the wicked protective tariff. There
are trusts in Germany, under protec.
ton, and there are trusts In Great
Britain, under free.trade. for trusts
are made by entering into combina.
ton to regulate production, distribu-
ton. prices and everything that Is in
the control Of those who produce the
articles and get together In such a
conspiracy. In fact, the only thing that
enables an independent producer here
W bldy III tAibtthSc 10 tnt Aalih,
which saves him from fighting more
than one enemy the. home trust. But
our free.traders have always had II
that the American tariff was solely re.
sponsible for the American trusts, and
that but for the tariff they would have
to go out Of business. And TO prove
the argument they pointed to Great
Britain, where there were gentle
mems agreements but no open trust.
Perhaps now the free.traders may
be willing to admit that the way to
end a trust is not to end the whole
home industry by giving 1t to some
foreign nation. Perhaps they will ad-
NIT It, perhaps not, for the thing they
most believe In Is the thing they don't
see; and the thing they deny with
their loudest voices Is the thing that
is plain before their eyes.-Kewanee
Ull.) ~Star.Courier.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17
HIah Prices Universal.

1t is true that the tariff Is respon.
sible for prices In our country being
higher for a great many things than
they are abroad, but that is an old
story. It does not account for the diff.
ference between prices to-day and
prices In 1898 or 1899 or 1900. The
rise OF prices that has taken place in
America has taken place likewise In
Europe; there may have been a some
what greater rise here, but there has
been no radical difference, The phe.
nomenon is worldwide. There is little
room to doubt that the chief cause OF
1t has been the enormous production
of gold. But, whatever the cause, It is
idle to look for 1t in any political
action peculiar to this country. And,
to come back to the main point, the
rise Of prices that has come about
through the action of economic forces
operating throughout the world and
not set in motion by the action OF any
government cannot, without mischiev.
Gus confusion OF thought, be put INTO
the same category with a deliberate
debasement OF the monetary standard
Baltimore News.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17
PURPLE FAD IN PARIS.
Brightest of Hues Find Favor In the
French Capital.

A mention of purple Is justified by
the fact that this color in the bright.
est of hues seems a fad in Paris at
the moment. There are entire cos.
tunes Of 1t, large hats and coats of It,
and everything about the toilette is
purple. 1t is as If the women of
fashion were royalty mourning for
something departed, as indeed they
are-"we are mourning the hasty de.
parture Of a too-short summer" as
some n put l.. in one of the smart
ateliers the other afternoon.
There Is nothing unusual about this
new vogue, however. for Paris often
goes mad over a color, usually a diff
cult one; but then compilations and
hair do not matter in a land that o " a.
the best parfarmeurs and coiffeurs In
the world.
A number of exquisite silk frocks
In purple are stamped with motifs of
cloth. They are perfect works OF art,
besides being strikingly original: but,
alas, originality nowadays means end,
less patience In ordering new cloths,
and endless coin, to use a forceful bit
of American slang.
Purple seldom appears in the strip
ed materials, but is used effectively
for pipings, being especially smart
upon light gray. white or even pale
blue.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17
THE Confederate CoIonel.u

No class Of men In the world have
better amer han the southern gen.
tleman. The type of this class is a
dignified man, who insists upon being
treated with respect, but who always
comedies to others that which he de.
mand from them. He is deferential
In his manner and assumes that the
customs and views Of others are en-.
titled to respect. In intercourse with
a Spaniard the typical Confederate
colonel" would never by word or ges.
ture intimate that he considered him.
self In any respect the superior of the
gentleman with whom he might be
talking or that his business methods
were more modern. In other words,
the southern colonel" has charming
manners, and what was written by
Native of New England" was to say
In effect that good me are a bust.
ness assets worth using.-Baltimore
Sun.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17

fingers; in fact, sometimes one is al.
most tempted to drop the tea pot,
even at the risk of breaking the cups
beneath.
1t is a good plan. therefore, to have
at hand a e little contrlvance for
holding the handle OF the tea pot with.
out burning ones fingers, some such
holder, for instance, as may be seen
In the accompanying Illustration.
This little holder is made in quilted
silk, measuring six inches by four,
lined with plain silk and bordered
with a frill, and 1t might be further
adorned at each corner with small
ribbon bows. The color of the silk
should be chosen to suit the tea serv.
ice,
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17
ELEPHANTS ON RAID
VICIOUS BEASTS TAKE HUMAN
LIFE IN RHooEslA.
Head Of Wesleyan Mission Sends Par.
tieulars and Protests Against Pro.
lection Accorded the Animals
In South Africa.

Rev. Mr.. Grantham, in charge Of the
wesleyan mission at Lomapundi,
sends particulars Of a raid made by a
herd of elephants, which resulted in
the loss of life.
He says: Il shall be glad IL you
VIII make known through the medium
or your paper the following incident
and my comments on 1t in the hope
that public sentiment may be aroused
against a condition Of things in which
many suffer for the sake OF q fad Of
a few, who share none of the misery
that their hobby inficts upon others.
In May last the natives on the farm
suffered serious damage from the In
cursions OF a troop of elephants that
visited us seven nights in succession.
In this respect we are not the only
sufferers, for ! am constantly hearing
OF the same kind of thing throughout
the neighborhood. We have no law.
ful means OF protecting our crops, and
application for damages are tx.
nored.
On Friday morning two old ma.
ives Il a p%icannin, who had been
sleeping In a skerm erected in the
lands, woke to find that ten grown ell.
ephants and three calves were within
a rev yards OF where they lay. The
natives fled In terror, pursued by one
OF the beasts. which was apparently
enraged at the sight of human be-.
lngs In such close proximity TO the
calves The ~piccannln was Just on the
point OF being tusked, but saved him.
self Cy rushing on hands and knees
through the branches of a fallen tree,
II elephant tossed these aside, and
continued In pursuit of the old men.
n escaped, but the other was over,
taken In about 100 yards, and the vi.
cious beast transfixed him through
the back, the %protruding tusk pillow.
ing deeply into the soil.
The furious animal then proceed.
ed to rip It's victim to pieces, split.
n one leg from bullock to calf
n an arm from shoulder to wrist.
He Just lived long enough to urge his
friend to fly to the kraal, or no one
would be left to tell the tale.
~ ''iu thu III SlIlCl StlI.0p.
iense they may be fired upon. Are we
then to wait until one of the brutes ia
In the act Of charging upon us ere we
pull a hasty trigger, which is more
likely than m to be our last? And
what is the use of firing at one angry
elephant when several others are
standing by ready to take up the cause
OF their companion II II does fall?
1T Is popularity supposed that ele-
plants will not attack a human be-
ing unless molested by him, but thew
VIII Invariably do so II the herd
contains any calves. A price is set
upon the head of ~lions-beasts that
rarely initiate an attack upon human
beings, and whose %depredations are
generally confined to cattle kraals and
spans OF donkeys. Why, then, should
elephants. which in this district are
a much greater scourge than lions, be
protected. and the killing OF one be a
criminal offen3e?"-Rhodesia Herald.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17
Can't Be Taken Out Of Puditlca.

II is all very well to say that the
revision Of the tariff, being strictly a
problem of commercial science, ought
to be taken out of politics. Undoubt-
eddy; but how Is II to be taken out OF
politics when for years the tariff has
been, and next year is likely once
more to be made a presidential issue?
The ideal procedure would be through
the creation of such q non.partisan
body as the National Association OF
Manufacturers proposes, assuming, Of
course, Its fidelity to the protective
principle; but as things stand 1t is at
least questionable whether the forma-
ton Of a non.partlsan tariff commits
sion comes within the range of posi-
bility, and 1t Is not questionable at all
that a Republican congress would re-
of such a body. The day may come
when the tariff will cease to be a po-
litical issue, Just as the gold standard
has ceased to be such an issue al
ready, but that day has not come yet,
nor Is 1t yet in sight.
Fortunately, there is no immediate
hurry about the tariff. The country is
doing very nicely. 1t Is enjoying all
the prosperity 1t could expect or de-
sire. Indeed, its only complaint is
that there is more business to be done
than there are facilities In the way OF
currency and transportation for doing
It, so that the community Is suffering
from what the doctors call a plethora.
This is an inconvenience, but, on the
whole, the situation is n to which
the remark applies that 1t is gener-
ally prudent to let well enough alone.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17
Love Me, Love NV Doo.

A curious incident, involving a
young and good looking French
woman and her dog, occurred recently
on a Continental railway. For several
hours the young woman bestowed
more attention and tender care upon
the pretty little creature than the ma.
jority of IN do upon their first
born, and at every station 1t was
taken out for exercise. and between
stations it was fed with dainty nib.
bles taken from Its special basket,
which also contained extra wraps.
fresh shoes and a gay collar with a
huge bow. What attracted most at.
tention was, however. the purchasing
of a bottle OF mineral water, the tax.
ing out OF n tiny folding travelling cup,
into which some Of the water was
poured and the tapping of It up by the
pet.-Dundee Advertiser.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17
FEMININE FANCIE,S

Any stain can be removed II rubbed
out at once with a MIXTURE of equal
parts of ammonia, alcohol and water.
After the skirt Is thoroughly cleaned,
brushed and dried. lay 1t on the press
ing table or board. pin each pleat
down in the proper fold, cover the
skirt with q piece of dark wooden
goods, which has been previously
%dampened, ana then press.
To remove dust from silk skirts, do
not use a brush, but wipe them with a
piece OF vclveteen. which will not
wear the silk and will remove the
dust very much more satisfactorily
than a brush.
Silk or RULED skirts should be At.
ted out with tapes sewn on the lower
RULES, by which they may be hung
upside down. This prevents the skirt
from sagging and the ruhles from
dropping.
Gowns Of delicate material should
be put away In long boxes or drawers,
each skirt being folded In pleats, into
which 1t should fall when being worn.
The bodlces should be stuffed with
tissue paper, also the sleeves and
trimmings filled out with the paper.
Wash frocks should always be put
away in trunks. boxes or drawers,
whether they have been worn or not.
for In hanging they grow stringy, are
more easily affected by ~damrness, and
lose their freshness before they are
worn.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17
IL Would Be a Crime,

THE great masses are not talking
politics now They are busy. Their
ambition Is to see that nothing is done
to make them idle; TO contribute in
any honorable way to giving each
man the full reward for the work Of
his head and hands. This country IL
very prosperous. There is the old
state OF uneasiness in Wall street,
but Wall street should look into the
country where the factories and the
FORCES are going; where the farmers
are harvesting their crops and send.
ing them to market; where well paid
men are putting forth enormous pro-
duction for our domestic markets, and
for the markets OF the world. 1t
would be a crime II congress should
do anything at his time to upset bust.
ness."-Joseph G. Cannon.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17
MODERN TARIFF PLATFORM.
The Manufacturers Club Of Philsdei
phia Want to "Be Shown"


Possibly the tariff plank in the lie.
publican platform of 1908 was written
when the following was adopted by
the Manufacturers club OF philadel.
phia on Monday evening, September
9, 1907:
That We are opposed to any disturb.
ance Of the present tariff law at the
coming session OF congress and until
conditions have so changed that the
public interest demands a change In
rates of duty, and until It a be
shown that less injury will result than
good be accomplished by such action.
Is there a safer, sounder. more SEN
slble tariff declaration than this upon
which the party Of protection could go
before the people In next years presl.
dental and congress elections? Could
the national convention do better than
to adopt It without the change of a
word or a comma?
This is practically the platform Of
1904. except that 1t more specifically
states the common.sense proposition
that action looking toward a disturb.
ance of the tariff and of business con.
ditions shall not be permitted until
1t can be shown that less injury will
result than good be accomplished by
such action"
Who will say no to this? What rea.
sonable. prudent, patriotic citizen will
dispute that before the tariff Is dis.
turbed evils calling for remedy must
be plainly shown to be of greater con.
sequence than the evils certain to re-
suit from such Disturbance
Upon such a platform the Republi-
can party can without question NC
cessfully appeal to the country for a
renewed expression Of confidence. 1t
would be a practical guaranty that the
wisdom OF a great party are to rule
In a matter which 80 vitality concerns
the business, the industry, the wage
earning and the wage-paying of the
nation as a whole. II would be a no.
tice that protection remains "a cardi-
ton, and that neither the avowed enc.
mics nor the false friends Of protec-
tion will be allowed to subvert pro.
lection and destroy prosperity.
For the sake of the greatest good OF
the greatest number 1t Is earnestly to
be hoped that the tariff resolution OF
the Manufacturers club of Philadel-
phla will be the tariff plank OF the Ma.
tional Republican convention of 1908.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17
ABOUT ECONOMY IN DRESS.


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Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17
The Peaceful Suburbs.

Sort of endless chain war with
your neighbor. eh?" said the visit,
or from the city. How is that?"
WELL" replied the su~burbanite, his
chickens few owe the hedge and ate
all my garden seed. | got even by
getting a big tomcat, and the cat ate
the chickens"
"Ah, al eye for an eye eh?"
Yes; but 1t wasn't long before he
got a bulldog and the bulldog finished
the tomcat."
G. eat Scott! l suppose that ended
the feud?"
mot at all. | borrowed a cata.
mount from a wandering circus and
that killed the bulldog. Now, IL he
don't get an elephant to finish the
catamount before ! a return 1t to
the show | guess I'll come out win.
ner.'
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17
Length Of Skirts.

The walking skirt must escape the
pavement, and II II does so by sew.
eral inches It is that much smarter.
ones & and figure permitting. The
time has gone by, however, when the
slender figure, best suited by the very
short skirt, is possessed by the young
only, and vice versa, Indeed, looking
about in society, one finds almost as
many very plump young girls as stout
mlddle-aged women, while the older
m sometimes possess not only
the slenderness but the thinness that
50 often CharacteriZes the immature
and ~undeyeloped feminine figure.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17
STAPLE FOOD SUPPLY LIMITED,
Comparatively Few Nutritlve Prod
uets OF the Worlds Inhabitants.

Certain great food staples have
proven themselves within the age
long experience of humanity to pos
sess a larger amount of nutritive val
ue. dlgestiblity and other good quail
ities, and a smaller proportion of un.
desirable properties than any others,
SAYS McClure's. These, through an,
exceedingly slow and gradual process
of the survival of the fittest, have
come to form the staples 81 food In
Common use by the human race all
over the world. 1t is really astonish-
ing how comparatively few there are
of them, when we come to consider
them broadly; the flesh and the milk
of three or -four domesticated animals,
the flesh of three or four ana the Eggs
of one species of domesticated birds.
three great grains--wheat, rice and
maize-and a half dozen smaller and
much less frequent ones. n hundred
or SO species of fishes and shell fish,
two sugars, a dozen or 30 starch'con-
tanning roots and tubers. only two Of
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17
LITTLE HINTS AND HELPS FOR
ALL WoMANkIND.
The Careful Woman Rests Her Clothes,
Thereby Keeping Them Always
Fresh and Free from Shah.
hiness-Other Items.

The careful woman has taken to
resting her clothes.
Nothing induces shabbiness In coats
and gown more than the lines and
wrinkles which show they have been
worn and reworn.
walking creases and sitting creases
make a garment old before 1t has
done It's duty.
Men appreciate this fact better than
women That Is why a man can al.
ways appear well dressed with a
small wardrobe, because every week
or so he makes a change Of suits and
sends the one he has been wearing
to the tailor, and never by any chance
allows a wrinkle to become fixed In
his suit.
Not all women's frocks can co to a
tailor, but she can manage to change
her clothes often enough to give them
an entire rest. And it Is real economy
to do Sc.
Here is a practical plan for clean.
ing and pressing skirts: Brush them
first, then whisk off with a clean
brush dampened in ammonia and
warm water.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17

Each season brings forth something
new in suede articles, either gloves,
shoes, belts or handbags. Just now
ton, for they are deserving of 1t since
the belts attract considerable atten.
they are neatly made, not too wide,
and are finished with beautiful oval
buckles, rather hashy, 1t is true. yet
nicely adapted for a shirtwaist cos,
tune. The colors are numerous, so
one has no difficulty in selecting a
shade to exactly match or nicely har-
monte with the dress skirt.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17
The Duty on Hides.

In replying to the assertion of the
Waterville Sentinel that the tariff on
hides adds ten cents to the price Of
every pair Of shoes and costs the peo-
pie Of Maine $140,0 900 a year more
than under the Wilson law, the Ken.
nebec Journal makes the excellent
point that shoes are as cheap to-day
as they were In the dismal period OF
1S93-lS97. The Journal might have
gone farther and shown that the tariff
affects only the heavier hides used In
making sole leather, and that the duty
OF Is per cent. cannot possibly In
crease the cost more than two cents
a pair. This cost comes out of the
manufacturers profit and not out of
the consumers pocket. Yet a large
number of shoe manufacturers have
become enormously rich, and are get
ting richer very fast in spite of that
10 per cent. duty on hides, Rightly the
journal contends that this duty should
be retained because the farmers want
1t. Abolish the duty on what the farm.
ers have to sell and the farmers would
very quickly demand the removal of
duties on what they have to buy.
That would mean the end Of all pro.
tective duties. Though they apparent.
ly have not sense enough to see 1t,
those who urge the removal OF the
duty on farm products practically ad.
vocate free-trade. That is the size
OF It.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17

which-the potato and the manioc--
are OF real international importance,
twenty or thirty fruits, forty or fifty
vegetables make up two.thirds of the
food supply of the inhabitants OF the
world.
Instead of wondering at the variety
and profuseness Of the human food
supply the biologist is rather inclined
to calculate with the London footman
immortalized by John Leech, who,
when told by the cook that there
would be mutton chops for dinner and
roast beef for supper, exclaimed:
Nothing but beef, mutton and pork
pork, mutton and beef! Hin my opin.
ion, hits Ugh time some new hanimal
was invented"
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-17
H STORY.

w It'll fierce determination David
w sealed the letter he had been In.
scribing on the roll Of parchment be.
fore him, and turning sharply upon
the man standing near, he said:
Deliver this into tine hand of Joab,
captain of the hosts of Israel. Delay
not"
There was harshness almost Of en-.
nifty in the voice Of the king as he
SPOKE, so much in contrast to the ia.
miliar, patronizing n in which
he had greeted hin IN the day before
that Uriah started visibly, He hest
tated as he placed the parchment
within the folds of his robe, and the
king, in evident irritation, said,
sharply:
That is ALI"
With soldierly dignity and precl-
sion Uriah bowed low and strobe
from the apartment without a word.
He had wondered at the strange in