The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-09-30

WIN tnc pcOn Dy reducing or re
moving the tariff on lead. Tina
would be too bad, Every two year
the American miner gets himsel
reduced lin campaign spceches) {
the lawful level OF the Mexican
peon." And, too, most Of us cal
remember IA time not long ago whei
the Mexican peon was getting good
hard silver money for his work, ant
the st. Francois county miner wa
lucky to get an /. o. L. for his
No, dcarie, the tariff was not t,
blame, though we had it, even then
Such things will not happen again
| They can't Polite Elvius says so
and that means something, becaus,
| Uncle Joe Cannon doesn't pat every
body on the back, nor can we all e
a-junketing on the blue Pacific witt
Prince Jonah KuhiO KalaniauaOlt
and the Princess Elizabeth Kahanu
Kaauwai, who used to have such a
hard time around Washington be-
cause the natives thought they be.
lOnged to Booker Washington Is
family.
But the "Prince," ms he is known
to Senators, Congressman, bell-hops
and taXicab chniTeurs around the
Capital City, is one good fellow, be-
ing particularly obliging in the mat
ter of making II fourth hand at
bridge, provided the ingredients for
half dozen or 50 "hOrsc's necks'
are available, and "horses neck, -
let il be said, is only very simple
mixture Of ginger ale, mineral water
and lemon.
The prince has no connection
with tariff on lead, however, but Is
very anxious about several millions
of appropriations for Pearl Harbor,
for fear the Japs will seize the Ha-
waiian Islands. Pearl Harbor, prop
erly equipped, will make an excel
lent place of refuge for princes,
princesscs, sugar plantation mana
gers, rice magnates, Government
officials, army officers and Ameri-
can soldiers. As for the Hawaiian
Democrats, "hOme rulers" plain
and unornamented American citi-
zens and folks without country,
they will either have to make II truce
with the Nipponese or put to sea on
II lockwood raft No Pearl Harbor
bungalows, no l3-inch coast defense
guns, no handy cruisers or battle
ships, no "hOrse's nccks,n no
nothin' for them, because faint
they fightin' them appropriations"
Just now the Thirteenth Missouri
district is in favor OF putting n cop
per bottom in Pearl Harbor, mount
ing II coast defense gun on every
fence post, decorating the officers
quarters in neat little bridge-whist
score-card effects, and making
"horse's necks" the national drink.
We have got the Prince habit.
Now, as to Mexico's "vast guam
titles of lead, produced by degraded
peon labor there is not much to
be said. MeXico's entire annual
production of lead is not two-thirds
OF the production OF the St. Fran
co.'s County Lead Belt. In 1907,
Southeast Missouri produced 100, 594
tons of metallic lead and the whole
OF Mexico produced 1856 tons,
Canada produced BITS tons and
consumed practically all Of it at
home. These are United States Ge-
illogical Survey figures.
Lead Belt Dividends.
The dividends paid to stockholders
by the st. Francois county lead
companies do not, OF course, indi-
cate the whole of the profits In the
lead mining business. Considerable
portions of the profits are held in
the treasury to be devoted to i'm
proyemepts. The resulting increase
In the value of the property and,
In the value of the
stock, amounts to the same thing as
disbursing the profits as actual cash
dividends.
For a number OF years the St.
Joseph Lead Company and the Doe
Run Lead Company have pursued
the policy OF paying fixed 6 per
cent dividend. In 1908 the st. Jo-
seph Lead Company paid 100000 in
cash to it's stockholders. The out
standing capital stock of this COM
pany is $1,000 600, an equal amount
Of the authorized capital stock,
which is $40, 900 600, being held in
the treasury,