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Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
10 CONTINUE CALL
SATURDAY MORNINGS
EXCHANGE is UNAFFECTED BY
HALF HOLIDAY
Bunch Turnips Continue Scarce-New
cucumbers Arrive-Imperial
Asparagus is Pen-
tlfuI

After a dull call at the produce exchange
Yesterday the matter of closing the exchange
ON Saturday mornings in the future was dis
cussed The wholesale establishments, COM
mencing today viii close at noon on saturday
the year round. A vote was taken, the ma
iority of the members being in favor Of having
a call as usual on Saturdays.
The receipts were small yesterday. The
only product which was normal was butter.
Features of the call were the sale of $50
rounds Of butter, 10 cases of eggs and 20
crates OF Bermuda onions. Red sweet ota-
toes were marked up on the board at SO.
All kinds of vegetables We're plentiful hut
bunch turnips which have been scarce for sew
eral days The demand was great that the
present crop was exhausted.
Fruit was slow at the same quotations. New
potatoes were in the market In fair receipt
and new crop cucumbers have just commenced
to arrive A plentiful supply of Imperial as
paragus was hand. .
The market was well supplied with small
fish only limited receipts of large fish came
in and were cleaned up during the early
hours The demand was heavy
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
In Alameda County

OAKLAND, April 3.--The crop conditions
in Alameda county were never more prom
Using than today. The aprcots have bud
ded. cherries promise good crop and
peaches, plums and prunes are well adj
vanced. Vegetables are exceptionally cary;
Rhubarb was never better. One more good
rain and there can be question about the
crops in this county being the best In years.
Berries are In abundance. The season Is
early.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
Retail Prices
CARLOAD SHIPMENTS
OF CITRUS FRUITS

o Shipments of oranges and lemons
3 from Los Angeles Wednesday, April 1,
3 reported by the California Fruit Grow
8 ers' exchange, were 2Ol carloads of or
3 anges and carloads of lemons.
8 Total to date there were shipped
3 ned I2 1926 carloads, of which 1888 were
o lemons.
3 Last season to date there were ship
Z, ned I2, ,338 carloads, of which 1888 were
. lemons.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
Butter and Eggs
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, April 3.-Butter--
Fancy creamery 22c; seconds, 20hc; fancy
dairy, 19c.
Cheese--New. 11@11hc; Young America,
12@13nc.
CHICAGO, April 3.--On the produce ex-
change today the butter market was steady.
Creameries, 22@2sc; dairics, 20@2ec Eggs,
Arm at mark cases included. lac; hrsts,
14Nc: prime firsts 15Ac; extras. 16Ae.
Cheese steady, 12ls @13hc.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
PROSPECTS GOOD
FOR LARGE CROPS
VERY HEAVY FRUIT YIELD is
INDICATED
Little Damage Was Done by Recent
Frosts in Sacramento Valley.
Vegetables Exceptionally
Early in Alameda
BY Associated Press.

1ASsONIuIOu
SAN DIEGO. April 3,-Prescnt crop pros
poets almost all that could be wished,
though in Southern California much is
dependent on rain and climate conditions
that nothing is sure until harvest How
ever the grain is in better condition than II
was year ago. Harvest will begin about
the middle of May.
Early sown grain get along without
much more moisture. but late sown grain
Will need more rain inside of a week ten
days. The first new barley may be
pected about the Goth to the 2oth of May.
The acreage in grain is slightly larger than
last year, a little less wheat and consider
ably more barley.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
San Francisco Mining Stocks
Cotton and Wool
BY Associated Press.

By Associated FTess
NEW YORK, April s.-Cotton futures
closed steady; April. $9.5S; May, s9.66; June,
$40; July, SOFA August, 1855; October,
S9.65; December, $3.50; February 1855;
spot closed quiet. 10 points higher; mid
ding uplands, s1O5O; middling gulf, $1O.75'
Sales 200 bales.
ST. LOUIS, April S.-Wool, dull; medium
Grades combing and clothing, 1S1s q zoe;
light fine. ITO Q1sc; heavy fine. 12q1Sc; tub
washed, 2S q soc.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
Financial Record
BY Associated Press.
BY Associated Press.

A5SUVTdItU
NEW YORK, April 3-Money on call easy,
1902 per cent; ruling rate, 13t per cent: clos
ing bid. 1is per cent; offered at IL per cent.
Time loans quiet and easy; sixty days, 1884
per cent; ninety days, 3hq3h per cent; six
months, per cent. Prime mercantile paper.
5m51s per cent. Sterling exchange firm with
actual business in bankers bills at 4s650lg
1856 for demand, and at 4.s425@4 s430 for 60
day bills; commercial bills Asa Bar silver.
5ekc. Mexican dollars 47c; government and
railroad bonds steady.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
Chicago Live Stock
By Associated Press.

NssUCIdtVu
CHICAGO, April 3.-Cattle-Receipts about
2e00; market steady; beeves, $4.60q7SO; COWS
and heifers, $2.0O@6.00 Texans, 4.40q5. .75;
calves S5 759e.75; westerns, 44Oq5 40; stock
ers and feeders, s3.25Q5.4o
Hogs-Receipts about 10000; market steady,
1oc lower; lights. s5. 75q615; mixed S575q6 20;
heavy, $5 100000 rough, $5.7oGl5.90; pigs. 40
as so; bulk of sales, $6o0@610.
Sheep--Receipts about 5000; market weak; ma
tives, 1906 80; westerns s5.OO@6.S0; yearlings.
Sc 25Q1T 40: lambs, s6.OO@7.s5; westerns, $3.50
=
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
In Sacramento Valley
By Associated Press.

SACRAMENTO April S.-Reports coming
in from the various fruit districts in the
Sacramento valley show that very little
damage was done to the crops by the recent
frosts. In Placer and Butte counties the
damage was very slight and was confined
solely to peaches and apricots. All the
damage done was to the crops in the low
lands and this is in no way serious. EX-
perts declare that reports are that the fruit
crop Of the valley and foothills will be the
greatest in years.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
Sugar and Coffee
Ry Associated Press.

NEW YORK. April 3.-Sugar, raw Arm;
fair refining, S.Sec; centrifugal s6 test,
a 3sc: molasses sugar, 361c. Refined,
steady; crushed. e1oc; powdered 5.5Qc;
granulated. 5.40c.
NEW YORK, April 3.-Coffee futures
closed steady net unchanged to points
higher Sales reported of 1880 bags. in
cluding July, s575 and September, $3.50,
Spot quiet No. 7 Rio SC; No. Santos, $
@shc; mild coffee. duh, cordova, u q lsc.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04

NEW YORK, April Son steady opening
wheat gradually declined cent per bushel
today on besrish crop advices, including pre-
dctions for shoewrs in Kansas and Nebraska.
A final slightly rally on prospects for small
worlds shipments left the market steady at
A@9sc net decline.
May, si.O1%@1 .Osas closed $1,O15s; July, s6B@
96Tsc closed 961hc.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
CHICAGO GRAIN
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO. April 3.-Thc wheat market was
inclined to be weak most of the day. There
was a little show of strength at the start,
owing to an advance at Liverpool, but the
prediction of wet weather for the southwest
btought out free offerings soon after the open
ing and prices declined more than i2c before
the end of the first half hour. Sentiment
continued to be bearish throughout the re-
mainder Of the day and the market closed
easy. May opened h01Ac higher at 93ssq93isc,
sold off to e2ssc and closed at 92s4c.
Corn was bearishy inclined all day and the
volume OF trade was small. May closed at bt
@66lsc.
The feature of trade in oats was the selling
Of July and September deliveries because OF
the favorable outlook for the new crop in the
southwest. May closed at 53ssc
Provisions were weak all day. At the close
May pork was off 25c; lard was down 1Oa
12!kc. and ribs were 12hq15c lower.
SAN FRANCISCO, April s-wheat. steady;
May si.6lA asked Barley easy; May, sl.s2;
Dec. Sf.16nl. 1914.
LIVERPOOL. April 2.-May wheat. Is; July,
Is lssd; Sept rs sd.
Market Ranges
wheat-May, 92ssc; July, SSlsc; Sept S6isc.
Corn-May, 661sc; July. 6SHq64c Sept. CSC.
oats-May, old, 557sc; new, 52Mc; July, old,
Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour, easy.
Wheat-No. spring, Sl'04W i:Vo' NO D.
esca $i.o5; No. red. 92ss @9sAc.
Corn-No. 9. 65lsG65%c; No. yellow,
65% @66hc.
oats-No. ?, 52%c; No. 3 white, 81 @
SAC.
Rye-No. 2, 76%c.
Barley-Fair to choice mailing 75@sie.
Flaxseed-No. 1 northwestern, $1.lSh.
Prime timothy seed-$4.60@ @4.65.
Clover-Contract grades, $2s.00.
Short ribs-Sides Ooose), $6.50m7.00.
Mess pork-Per bbl., $1400@1450.
Lard-Per 100 lbs. $S17is.
Sides--Short clear (boxed), s7a5 a 1850
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
Treasury Statement

BY Assoc1ated PresS.
WASHINGTON, April 3.-Today's state
ment of the treasury balances in the gem
eral fund shows:
Available cash balances s25a964,S36. gold
coin and bullion $26,S16,74s. gold certificates
$2S,b3S170.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
PRICES OF METALS
IN NEW YORK MARKET

o. NEW YORK, April Stopper, lake
o. S12.87h @13.12k, eIectrolytic S12.15@ {
o 1900, casting S12.50@12.T5. {
o. Lead, $4,000 400. &
% Tin, S31.75 a $500. G
% Silver, New York 551s.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
Treasury Purchases silver
Ry Associated Press.

nv AssOclated PresS.
WASHINGTON. April 3.--The treasury de-
partment today purchased 10000 ounces of
silver at 55.506 cents per fine ounce for delivery
at Philadelphia and New York.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
Woman's Work

Mrs. Jolt: 'I see a woman with pedo-
meter discovered that she covered seven
miles a day in doing her ordinary work"
Mr.. Jolt: Must have had 1t attached 90
her Jaw, somehow. Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
Girl Like

she: 81 see a good many of the girls are
H. ..Yes: girls always like it when they
can get something on string "-Yonkers
Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
FRUIT MARKET
BY Associated Press.

BY AssOclateu FTtss
SAN FRANCISCO, April 3-Fancy apples,
rs; common, soc; navel oranges, 81. 25q2 25:
Mexican lines, $6.00G16. so; common California
lemons, 81 sl.O00D15O; good to choice; $1.75G2 25;
fancy, 50. 50@9. 10; bananas. 75c@sS.50; pineap-
nles 81 500l3 so.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
san francisco shlppIna

SAN FRANCISCO. April s.-Sailed
steamer James s. Higgins, San Pedro
steamer Coos Bay, San Pedro
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
FINANCIAL

Los ANGELES, April 3.--Bank clearings
were s1,9i5,S67.62, against s21sS ,sO4 so for the
corresponding date last year. a decrease of
ment;
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
New York Stocks

BY Associated Press
NEW YORK, April S-Foliowing "ere
the closing quotations today:
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
BANK CLEARINGS
BY Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 3.7-Bradstreets bank
clearings report for the week ending April 2,
shows an aggregate of 81 430, 995, 900 as against
$2 1856 056 900 last week, and 49, 745 900 in the
corresponding week last year Per cent
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
Oil Stocks
Daily MINING GAIL
Listed Stocks
-

Official sales-200O Johnnie Con at SAC; 1000
do at sac (B Coz; 1900 do at Sc; 1900 do at
| SAc 1000 do at S3sc.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
Morning Sales

Milltown FractionA1000 at 115c
Johnnie-30O1 at (B. 800; 1000 at &c (B
20); 1000 at &c; 1900 at SIC; 5000 at sIkc; 81
COO at Sc: 1000 at SIC.
Goldfeld Bank-3000 at &c.
Florence-100 at 81. 35.
Daisy-20G at 81. 40.
Baby Florence-2O00 at &C.
Triangle-2Oo0 at 7lkc
Consoidated--100 at $40.
Fraction-12e0 at 70c
Pittsburg Silver Peak--100 at 81 .o5.
Balloon Hill Fracton-2000 at 3I4c; 5000 at S1s.
Afternoon Sales
Balloon Hill Fraction-10OO at 31kc
Combination Fraction-900 at Zoe.
Consolidated-1500 at $5.65.
Daisy-100 at si42.
Johnnie-2Oo at Sc (B. 3o); 5000 at &c CB. 3N I;
10000 at Sc; 1000 at I%c; 5000 at 7isc; 2ooO at
7lzc; 1000 at &c.
Jumbo Ex.-100 at 33c.
Adams-10oO at 4Zc.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04

do per DDI OF 10 IUs. Htk'. Ia
Wheat. No. 1 400 lbs), sl.s5: wheat. Q0o-
lb. sacks). No. /, $1.9O; corn, 400 lbs), $3.50;
cracked corn 400 lbs.), s185 feed meal 400
lbs.), $1.9O; rolled barley Goo lbs.), SLIGO;
oil cake meal 600 lbs.). s2.5O; shorts 600
lbs.), $40; bran. heavy Goo lbs), $1.55
Retail Prices
Following prices for leading articles of
consumption prevail at the Los Angeles
stores:
Butter, Glib. roll fancy cy.........,..... 80
Butter, glib roll. Santa Ana. .......... so
Cooking butter Glib. roll ............. so
Eggs. fresh ranch. per dozen. ........ 20
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
LOS ANGELES STOCK EXCHANGE

Official sales-20 Amalgamated Oil at $50; so
do at S54 50 10 Union Oil at s207.
Bonds
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-04
MINING QUOTATIONS

Yesterdays quotations Of they Los Angeles
Nevada Mining Stock exchange were as fol-
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lists, while blindly Indifferent to the
causes that have contributed to the
growth of socialism. The Democrats
recognize that socialists are honestly
seeking a remedy for the know
abuses" admitted by Secretary Taft.
Democrats dissent from the remedy
proposed by the socialists. believing
the Democratic remedy is better, but
it is time for thoughtful people to
recognize that individualism can only
be retained and defended by remedial
legislation which will remove the
abuses which have been allowed to
fasten themselves upon the country.
The Democratic party, believing in
individualism, addresses itself earn
estly to these abuses, and instead of
~ridiculing and maligning the social
lists, invites them. as it does Repub-
Leans, to examine the Democratic
platform and the remedies proposed
therein. 1t submits its plans to the
honest citizenship of the country,
without regard to section Or party.
In my notification speech l called
attention to three demands made by
our party. 1t asks, first, that the gov
eminent shall be taken out of h
hands of special interests, and res
tored to he people as a whole; it
asks, second, for honesty in elections
and publicity in regard to campaign
funds, that the people may freely
choose representatives In sympathy
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with them and pledged to guard their
interests; it asks, third, for such a
modification of our governmental me-
thods as will make the senate an
elective body, and place the control
of the house Of representatives in
the hands of a majority of the mem
bers. A few days ago, in discussing
the tariff question, I dwelt upon the
fourth demand made by our party,
namely, hat taxation be just, that
the evenu laws be made for the pur-
pose of raising revenue and not for
the enrichment Of a few at the ex-
pense of the many, and that the tar
if law be supplemented by an in
come tax which will more nearly
equalize the governments burdens.
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agement to socialism. While profess
can party has gone half way toward
socialism in endorsing it's fundamen-
tai principle. The socialist bases his
contention on the theory that compe-
tition is bad, and that an economic
advance is to be found in monopoly.
The socialist, however, wants the pub
lie to have the benefit of the monopo-
ly and therefore, favors government
ownership and operation of all the
means of production and distribution.
The Republican party has gone al
most as far as the socialist party in
the economic defense of the monop-
oily, but it permits the benefits of mo-
nopoly to be enjoyed by a compare
lively few men, who have secured a
dominant influence in the govern
ment. I beg to call Mr.. Taft's atten-
ton to the fact that the Republican
party has stimulated the growth of
endorsement that it has given to the
theory that trusts are a natural and
| necessary outgrowth of our economic
conditions, and, second by permitting
the development of abuses which
have been charged against individ-
ualism.
The Republican leaders have been
in the habit of sneering at the social
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Mr.. RRYAN'S INDIANAPOLIS
ADDRESS ON TRUSTS


CONTINUED from Yesterday
The business men of the country
have felt the pressure of the trusts.
The retailer has been compelled to
enter into contracts which restrict
his management Of his own affairs,
he has found the terms of sale and
payment changed to his disadvantage
and he has been forced to carry more
and more of the risks of trade. He
is convinced that there are no good
trusts and that his only safety is in
the Democratic plan which lays the
axe at the root of the tree.
The travelling men naturally take
especial interest in the trust Ques-
ton, because the more complete the
monopoly secured by a corporation
the less they are needed. We ave
no more intelligent class than he
representatives of commerce, and
their retirement from the road would
mean a serious loss to the country
while a few promoters would be the
only persons benefited, they gaining
by the capitalization of the salaries
saved by the elimination of compe-
tition.
Mr.. Taft either misunderstands or
-misrepresents the Democratic posi-
ton ia regard to the determination
OF the principle of private monopoly.
In his notification speech he says:
"Mr. Roosevelt would compel the
trusts to conduct their business in a
lawful manner and secure the benfits
of their operation and the mainten-
ance of the prosperity of the country
of which they are an important part;
while Mr.. Bryan would extirpate and
destroy the entire business in order
to stamp out the evils which they
have practiced."
Here is a concession by Mr.. Taft
that he regards the trusts as neces-
sary to the nations prosperity, for
he declares that they play an import
n part in the maintenance of pros
perity, and he charges that 1 would
"extirpate and destroy" business in
extirpating and destroying the prin-
Iciple of private monopoly. Surely, his
study of the trust question has been
very superficial, If he sees danger i n
the restoration Of a reign of compe-
.tition.
Let us take an Illustration: Sup
pose the Democrats succeed in the
enactment of a law in harmony with
the Democratic platform law re-
.quiring every corporation to AXE out
a federal license before it is permit
ted to control twenty-five per cent OF
the business in which it is engaged.
Would this "extirpate and destroy"
the business of the country? AS al
ready stated, but a very small per
centage Of the corporations would be
affected by the law. and those AFFECT
ed would be the ones that have been
giving the officers OF the law so much
trouble during the last eighteen
years As the licensed corporation in
creased its business from twenty-five
to fifty per cent, 1t would be under
the watchful eye of the government,
would be compelled to make such re-
ports As the government required.
would be prohibited nom watering
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its stock, and would be required to
sell to all customers upon the same
terms, due allowance being made for
cost of transportation. Would it ."ex-
tirpate and destroy" business to re-
quire these licensed corporations. to
do business on an honest basis and
to be reasonable in their business
methods? Would not the benefit &C
cruing to the ninety-nine small cor
porations thus protected from con-
scienceless methods be enough to Off
set any evil effects tlat might follow
from such restraint of a few big cor
p%orations? Is business SO dependent
upon dishonesty and unfairness that
it would be "extirpated and destroy
ed" if morals were introduced into
it? When the licensed corporation
reached a point where it controlled
o1e-half of the business in which it
was engaged, it would, according to
the Democratic plan, have to stop ex'
stroy" business to put this limitation
upon the greed of a few corporations
Surely our plans would not injurious
ly affect corporations that might here
But possibly Mr. Taft thinks thai
it would "extirpate n destroy" bus
mess to apply the plan to existing
monopolies. Let us ee: Suppose we
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Retail dealers right here in Ros-
we'll are in some respects as much
victims of the trusts as are the con-
sumers of goods. In order to secure
many trust-made articles the merch-
ant must agree to sell at a certain
price, and IL he sells below that he
loses the agency for the goods. Ask
any merchant in own if this is not
a fact.
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The Record is informed that r. D.
Bell is being groomed by local poll
ticians for the nomination for repre-
sentative from the 10Th district. 1t
is understood hat these politicians
are the parties who were back of the
seventh section in the platform adop-
ted in the two Roswell precincts and
turned Town with a thud in b coun-
ty convention.
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Today l present another demand
made in our party platform-the de-
mand that the grip of the trusts be
broken, that competition be restored
and that the door of opportunity be
opened to the business men and the
toilers of the land.
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One of the most eloquent political
speeches we have read in many a day
was that of Judge Kern, in which he
simply endorsed the Democratic plat
form and sat down to listen to- an
ADLER speaker discuss the issues in
detail.
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80
have a corporation now controlling
seventy-ive per cent of the output
of hi article in which it deals, and
through this control regulating the
price n the terms of sale. How
would the Democratic plan affect it?
A date would be fixed at which the
law would take effect, and on or be-
fore that date the corporation would
be required to apply for a license. The
evidence would show that it CONTROL
ed a larger proportion of the product
than the law permitted, and it would
plants to reduce it's output to fifty
per cent of the total product. 1t could
then comply with the law. obtain it's
license, and proceed to carry on it's
business in accordance with the law.
Would it "extirpate and destroy" bus
to dispose of enough of it's plants to
reduce it's production to fifty per
cent? h people would still need the
article which it produced, nj the
plants which it was compelled to sell
would become independent plants
competing with it. This competition
would reduce prices, and the reduced
prices would increase the demand for
the article, and this increased de-
mand would stimulate the building
of more factories and give a larger
employment to labor. The restoration
of competition in that industry, in
stead of "extirpating n destroying"
the industry would evive and enlarge
it. "A part of h benefit would go to
the consumers in the form of a cheap
would go to the producer of raw ma
terial in the form Of a better price,
and part would go to the wage earn
ers in the form Of better wages. The
only persons to lose would be the
trust magnates. who would no longer
be able to collect dividends on water
ed stock by controlling the. market.
When the subject is analysed it will
be seen that Mr.. Taft must either be
in darkness as to the remedy and its
effect. or he must argue that the In
PRODUCTION of morals into business
would '%extirpate and destroy" bust
ness.
1 ave quoted and re-quoted Mr..
|Taft's language because I want to
impress upon the minds of hose who
listen to me the absurdity of the OBJ
lection which he. raises to the Demo
cratic plan of exterminating monop-
olies. He fails to distinguish between
the honest business that makes a
country prosperous, and the brigand-
age practiced by private monopolies.
The people have been robbed By the
trusts to the extent of hundreds OF
millions a year. and if Mr. Taft is
not get conscious of what is going
on, and not yet aroused to the iniqui-
=ty of these trusts, how can the coun-
try hope for relief through his eiec-
ton?
The Democratic party is defend
er Of competition m the only great
party which is seeking to restore con
petition. MI. Taft has, in the discus
sion of this question. employed harsh
words instead of argument The word
ssocfalistic' is hurled at h Demo
cratic party and the Democratic plat
form. Now. as q matter of fact. 1t is
Taft's party and not b Demorj
cratic party which has given G
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In order to keep entirely upon safe
ground, Judge Taft has taken up the
discussion of missions in China.