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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20
CALL FOR TRIBUTE
TRUE INWARDNESS OF THE NEW
TARIFF LAW.
Measure Amounts to a Shameful Be.
trayal of the People in the In
terests of the Great
Monopolies.

1t is an exploded axiom that figures
can not lie. In economics the device
most commonly employed to deceive
the public is figures. The country
is to be flooded with tables, compari
sons and other mystifying data tc
convince the people that they will
gain under the operation Of the new
tariff law. The people are not expert In
Analysing figures, much less in dis.
secting schedules and all that affects
them under the administration Of the
tariff; but here are some things that
the people either know now or soon
will learn to their sorrow:
Instead of a reduction in the cost
of living, which was clearly prom.
ised by both parties represented in
congress-
There will be an enormous increase
in the cost of woolens and mems suits,
women's dresses, underwear and hats
made from WOODEN fabrics, not be-
cause the rates on these articles have
been increased, but because the pres
ent excessive rates have not been re-
duced, and because, under these rates,
a vast trust has been formed to con.
troll wooden manufactures.
There will be a large increase in
the cost Of cotton fabrics and nearly
all articles made from these fab
RIGS, including women's and children's
clothing.
The cost of sugar will remain the
same and each family will continue to
pay two cents a pound ore for it's
sugar than the same sugar sells for in
London.
There will be no reduction in the
cost of flour, bread, meats or potatoes,
and there will be large increases in
the cost of lemons and pineapples.
Hosiery will cost more and gloves
will cost about the same, both of
which articles are excessively expen-
sive under the present law.
These are only a few Of the articles
entering into large and general neces
sary use. The cost will be increased
on many others and lowered on only a
few. The reductions granted affect
mainly raw materials, leaving the peo-
pie entirely at the mercy of the manu-
facturers as to whether the public
shall share in the benefits of such
reductions.
It is submitted that a bill bearing
these general features, having this
broad tendency to increase rather
than lower the cost of living, embodies
a fragrant betrayal of the people.
Get your tribute ready. The cost of
living is to be maintained, for a time
at least, in order that the graft Of the
flourish.
Get your tribute ready.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20
District of Columbia Seeks Lost Domain

dlgnl1ed to work for something which
they might justly regard as beneficial
to their municipality" it might even
be regarded as patriotic. The presi-
dent suggested that they might get
some one to introduce a bill in con
gress to bring it about. And it will
be done. Hence congress will have
it's hands full.
That the getting back of this chival-
rous gift of land is somewhat of a hot
coal is shown by the fact that the
supreme court of the United States
evaded passing on its constitutionality,
and congress, which has picked it up
twice, has dropped it in two different
ways.
For the information of those inter-
ested it might be said that this Vir-
ginia portion of the original District
Of Columbia comprises some thirty
odd square miles, now Alexandria
county. The constitution having called
for a plot ten miles square, the bal
ance Of the district comprises some
sixty odd square miles. The one-third
now part of Virginia, President Taft
thinks, ought to come back.
That President Taft was prophetic
in his suggestion the lost third should
be recovered is generally conceded. It
is felt that it will not be long before
this government will need it for yari.
Gus institutions. Already it has bought
back part of it for Arlington National
cemetery, Fort Myer and other pro-
jects. And as soon as the identifying
of the north side of the Potomac river
is finished eyes will be cast to the
other shore with a view to making it
less unsightly.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20
HAS GOOD REASON TO SMILE.
Ample justification for Mr.. Morgan's
Beaming Countenance Just
at This Time.

Mr.. Morgan's beaming c~ountenance
when the dividend on Steel common
was increased to three per cent. was
justified. More than $500, 000, 900 OF
stock not long since almost valueless
even In Wall street was selling at II
and better, and the rise in the divi.
dend, even If it were to be, as many
suspected, for this time only, naturally
added color to what looked like q
financial triumph.
Steel common has been truly de-
scribed as a gambling stock, and so
1t Is in more respects than one. Orig.
1nally it represented no investment
whatever. 1t once sold as low as 8%,
which was than it was actually
worth, but it's speculative possibili.
ties have been great. First Of all,
1t was a gamble on the preserva.
ton of the ~plutocratic tariff; secondly,
1t was a bet on the growth and pros.
perlty of the country, and thirdly, it
was a wager not only on the gullibili.
ty Of mankind but on the reasonable
certainty that, as things were going,
such transactions as that with the
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company,
which Mr.. Roosevelt authorized, would
be feasible and profitable. Results
considered, why should not Mr.. Nor
gan smile?
Steel, like wool, has not been at all
anxious about the revision of the tar
iff. 1t was so sure Of the situation in
Washington that 1t began to mark up
prices long ago. It's securities, re-
fecting speculative confidence in the
value of privilege, kept pace with the
market for commodities. If France,
on which country it was proposed to
unload many millions of these pawns
Of a great industry, had not taken
second thought, Mr.. Morgan's smiles
might by this time have been almost
a laugh.
Messrs. Carnegie and Schwab have
asserted that the Steel Trust needs
no protection and hat it would be
better Off without it. If that could
be said in truth of the trusts gambling
stock, which needs constant watch
ing and nursing as we'll as protection,
a good many desperate players would
rest better at night than they now do.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20
"Concessions" a Farce.

In considering the tariff bill, the
maximum and minimum feature
should by no means be overlooked.
After March 81, 1910, the duties pre-
scribed by the law are to be rs per
cent. higher than those in the bill.
Or rather % per cent. is to be auto
matically added to the duties. A tax
of rs per cent. will then, without any
action of congress, become n Of so
per cent. 1t is made the duty of the
president to lower the duties to the
level established In the bill when he
is convinced that foreign countries
accord to the United States treat
ment which is considered reciprocal
and equivalent" In other words, the
tariff which will be in force after
March next will be higher by rs per
cent. than that enacted by congress,
The chances are that it will continue
to be thus much higher in many
cases. We are to retaliate, not by in.
creasing a few duties to compensate
for increases made in the duties i'm
posed by foreign countries, but by lift
ing all our tariff rates. And this high
er tariff is to be the general tariff,
from which concessions are to be
made to those countries which are
thought to be treating US fairly. In
figuring on the duties therefore it may
be we'll to add rs per cent. to them
When this is done there is not much
left of the Concessions" of which SO
much has been said.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20
Employees to Found "Bungalow Town"

QUESTION Of property Is In itself con-
siderable Of an innovation in Wash
ington, but by far the most novel
feature Of the proposition lies in the
building restrictions" In a majority
Of the newer suburbs assurance Is
given to the purchaser of each lot
that the character of the section will
always be maintained by the writing
of a covenant into his deed hat each
house built in the vicinity shall cost
not less than a stated number OF
thousands of dollars. In Bungalow
Town" this proposition will be exactly
reversed, for it will be specifically
provided that no bungalow shall cost
in excess of $1,000. This will reduce
the maximum expenditure of each
property holder to $4,000, because it
will be provided in the original subdi-
vision that each bungalow must be
surrounded by one acre of ground.
further subdivide and build additional
bungalows, although at no time will
the projectors Of the enterprise permit
a house to stand upon less than n
half acre of ground.
Bungalow Town" will make its
nearest imitation to a sociological col
ony in its purchases Of supplies Of
sorts from the outside world. In
the first place there will be co-opera-
ton in buying the land and then there
will be a determined effort to save *
pense in building by the letting Of
contracts to build the little homes in
blocks of two or more to each o n
tract. When bungalow Town" Is set
tied it is proposed that the ONE
folk shall join in the formation of a
purchasing committee so that
all forms of food stuffs and supplies
may be secured at wholesale rates.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20
Severe.

Samuel Gompers was talking in the
smokeroom of the Baltic about a re-
cent newspaper attack on a rich cor
pOration.
1T was a cruel attack" Mr.. Com
pers chuckled. 1T was as cruel as
the J%onesville C%larion's paragraph
about old Deacon Hiram Ludlow.
This paragraph headed the Clar'
ions obituary column. 1t said:
Deacon Hiram Ludlow of Frisble
township, aged 50, passed peacefully
away on Thursday last from single
-blessedness to matrimonial bliss after
a short but severe attack by Maria
Higgins, a blooming widow of 81 sum-
mers.' "-Detroit Journal.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20
They Mere Good Mothers.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is quoted as
saying that a woman's first duty is to
develop all her powers and possibili-
ties, that she may better guide and
serve the next generation. Mrs. STAN
ton raised seven uncommOnly healthy
and handsome children, says an adj
mirer of hers, and the children of Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe testify to the vir-
tues of the noted woman as a moth
er. The eagle may be as good a moth
er as the hen or the goose.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20
The One Test-The Cost of Living

The One Test-The Cost of Living.
There is only n way to judge OF
the value of the tariff law and that
is the probable effect it will have on
the cost of living.
The cause of the demand for lower
duties is the excessive cost of living,
brought about by the extortions of the
tariff-protected interests.
The tariff bill leaves practically In.
changed the predatory powers of the
sugar trust, the steel trust, the oil
trust, the wooden trust, the cotton
trust, the meat trust, the harvester
trust, the lead trust and the other
combinations that have been formed
to exact abnormal profits out of the
prices that the people must pay for
the necessities of life, and out OF
those who are willing and able to buy
the luxuries.
If there shall be any gain to the
people that gain will not meet the
promises of the two great parties nor
the expectations created by the plat
forms and campaign u%tterances. And
no provision that congress may make
that will not satisfy the people will
serve to check the agitation of the
tariff question. The only key to the
tariff situation is the cost of living.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20
Willow Farm Conducted by Uncle Sam

proceeded far enough the engineering
department planted Lombardy poplars
n willows along the retaining walls
These willows spread over many acres
OF the land that had been dredged
from the river bottoms. The north.
western half of this reclaimed land
has been beautified with driveways.
lawns and flower plots, but the i'm.
provement of the southern part has
not been begun. The department oil
agriculture secured the use of this
land as an experimental farm. The
growth of the willow trees probably
suggested the utility of promoting
willowcraft in the United States and
cuttings from many species of willows
there are 170) we're set out in
nursery form. To-day the depart
ment has a willow plantation OF man1
acres extent.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20
The Newer WaV.

Many ideas in regard to women
have entirely changed, and among
the better and wiser changes is that
old thought that the women who
were given to good works must needs
be dOwdy. 1t is undeniable that
good" women used to wear dOwdi-
ness as a sort of hall mark of vir-
tue. AS a matter of fact, dowdiness
is merely a mark of bad taste and a
sign of some lack in the mind. Wom-
en- are no longer lacking in the wis
dom that chooses pretty rather than
ugly clothing, and those who do not
make the best of their appearance are
losing a golden opportunity of giving
pleasure.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20

THAT the Taft official family will
/ begin about January to be rounded
into its permanent form and member
ship is the opinion entertained now.
1t is strongly believed by those who
have looked into the situation of late
that there will be one change in the
cabinet about the turn of the year
which will take out of that body the
veteran, Secretary Wilson. He has
been a cabinet member longer than
any other man ever was in this coun-
try-longer. indeed, it is said, than
anybody ever was continuously in a
responsible government. With his re-
tirement Mr.. Meyer of the navy will
be the only remaining representative
of the Roosevelt cabinet.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20

nNE Of the many activities of the
~ department of agriculture at Wash
ington is the conduct of a willow
farm. The purpose of the department
is to encourage willowcraft. an indus
tryElittle followed in this country, but
extensively practiced in Europe.
There, willow is largely employed in
the making of baskets and furniture.
When the reclamation OF Potomac
Park from the flats and shadows of
the Potomac river at Washington had
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20
compuIsorv PhjIosonbv

Thomas Huxley once said that q
man could not start along the ordinary
road of the questioner without arriv-
Ing at the ultimate. For example,
Senator Aldrich controls the senate,
the infant industries control Senator
Aldrich, the magnates control the In
FAINT industries, the magnates are con-
trolled by destiny and destiny In its
turn is controlled by an all-wise
Providence. Why, then. complain? -
Life
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20
There Are Others.

There are women smugglers, Of
course. Every little while one gets
caught with the goods on" But
smuggling is not peculiar to women.
Who can so soon forget the recent
record OF the sugar trust and the false
weighing?-Springfeld Republican.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20
viii Discover One.

From the way some OF the interests
are shying at the corporation tax.
one would be justified In thinking they
have not yet been able to think out
q plan whereby the consumer may be
made to pay it.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20
Must Turn to Democratic Party.

WUSt Turn 10 OemUCTdIIC FdFIy'
No law framed upon the Republican
doctrine of protection can ever pro-
duce a tariff that is not honeycombed
with greed, sharp practice and in
justice. The only honest guide is the
Democratic principle of tariff for rev.
enue, with such incidental protection
as 1t may carry with it.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20

is already bald, she doesn't get all
that she is entitled to.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20
GETTING at the Root.

Fair Patient-Oh, doctor, I'm posi-
lively all run down and In SO miser-
able, l have that tired feeling all the
time.
Physician-No doubt. Let me see
you tongue.-Cleveland Leader.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20

Cycle Dealer-Here is a cyclometer
[ can recommend. 1t is positively ac-
curate; not at all like some cyclone
tiers, which register two miles, per-
haps, where you have only ridden one.
Miss de Byke-You haven't any of
that kind, have you?
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20
Well, What?

Pa!
Johnny, leave me alone and don't
ask me another question:"
cav, jest one more an then I'll
keep still"
well, what is it,"
What relation is a cousin german
to a Dutch uncle ?"-Cleveland Leader.
A Green One.
do you look for news of Towards
hunting trip in the sporting column"
mo, in the obituaries Life.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-20
For Colds and Crjpp-Canudine

o Colds and GrIpp-Capudine.
The best remedy for Gripp and Colds Is
Hicks Capudine. Relieves the aching and
feverishness. Cures the c~old-Headaches
also. It's Liquid-Effects immediately-1O.
Is and Soc at Drug Stores.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-14
MIX. GOMPERS' LAST IErvr,ro

The last Of the series Of 1at+.~
Mr.. Samuel Gompers. presidan.
American Federation Of Labor
pears today. Those who have
lowed Mr.. Gompers in his TOM ~
rope, his observations upon lalo~
carnations and labor corai.f..
abroad, and his conclusions A.a
upon What he saw and heard b.
obtained a knowledge of how mo- ,-.
labor live and what they are do;r-
for the Improvement of thair oer5,
ton they could not obtain elsev hero
Mr.. Gompers has done for the ;ravs-
trial life Of the cities and trades vns-
Mr.. Clarence Poe did in his hoo,, f..
the agricultural life and conditions g.,
Europe. No labor leader has sn.h
broad knowledge as Mr.. Gompers and
the concluding article printed TODAY,
is a strong story of the annoyances
and troubles to which European tray-
ellers are subjected. They are 50
many and SO annoying that. as Va
read, some of us will not very much
regret that a trip to Europe is not
possible.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-14

There were no men more useful and
heroic in the War Between the States
than the surgeons of the Confeder-
ate army. Medicines, contrary to all
ethics of warfare, had been made
contraband and these doctors had no
adequate means of coping with dis
ease and conducting the work Of the
hospital. But they almost wrought
miracles, making bricks without
straw" This week two of these army
physicians dice in Wake cOunty-Dr.
J. w. MCGEE, Of Raleigh, n DR.. K. H.
Harris, who lived near Wake Forest.
They studied medicine together in
Philadelphia and their duties in tho
army often caused them to sleep un-
der the same blanket, and both died
on the same day. Both were deseTV-
eddy held in the highest esteem and
are mourned by a large circle Of
friends who knew what they had sac
rifiiced and the nobility of their lives.
Few remain Of these faithful and
noble physicians of Lees army. They
were the highest type Of the manhood
Of the noblest profession.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-14
Uncle Walt
Tie Poet PHILOSOPHER

Children. hush. for fathers resting:
he is sitting, tired and sore, with his
feet upon the table and his hat upon
the floor. He is wearied and
ed by the labOrS of the
POOR day: he has talked about
FATHER the tariff since the dawn
was cold and gray: he has
lost eight games of checkers, for his
luck today was mean, and that luck
was still against him when he bucked
the slot machine: so his nerves are un-
der tension, and his brow is dark with
care, and the burdens laid upon him
seem too treat for him to bear. Stop
the clock. for it annoys him: throttle
that canary bird: take the baby to the
cellar. where it's bowling won't Nc
heard; you must speak in whispers,
children, for your fathers tired and
sore, and he seems to tfink the ceiling
Is some kind of cuspidor. OH, he's
broken down and beaten by the long
and busy day: he's been sitting in the
fees3store on u bale OF prairie hay, tell
ing how the hungry grafters have the
COUNTRY by the throat. how the tariff
on dr.ed apples robs the poor mar OF
his coat, how this nasty polar rumpus
might be settled once for alan his
feet arc on the table. and his backs
"A quiet and "A Misunderstanding nest. for
the fathers worn and weary, and his
spirit longs for rest.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-14

Keep up the fight on flies, DR..
daniel jackson, a noted health author
ltS' says: Two years might be added
TO the average span of each human
life IN h United States by the eli1ni-
nation of the transmission Of disease
by flies This would mean a saving of
l'0,OOO.OOO years Of human life or 40
100000 lives of the present average
length; incidentally a money saving of
about $4,000, 900. Besides this there
would be the inestimable saving to
lafnlll2s and friends of suffering,
worry and misery and also of an enor-
nous amount of illness which is not
fatal
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-14
LNaaAma%~-
copyright 1909. by George Matthew
Adams.l

France is said to be afraid of race
suicide, and the government proposes
to give a bonus for every child born.
If the State OF North Carolina were
to do his. wouldn't the tax payers
raise a kick? say the Winston-Salem
Journal. Yes, but in the long run it
would be a wise investment, for the
best immigrants are those we raise
at home. North Carolina families are
not so large as of old.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-14

Our correspondent at the Baptist
State Convention writes DR.. Huffman
is still the noblest Roman Of them
all in the estimation of his brethren.
He can still speak with his old-time
fire, true oratory bursting spontan-
eously from his lips, though he has
passed him three score and ten. May
he long be spared!
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-14

Men who go forth to battle with
m conceding that it may be oc-
casionally necessary to do that. sure
~ cahnot afford to employ arms and
methods repugnant to all notions Of
clvI1ized and truly v%alorous warfare"
IS the sensible way the WASHINGTON
herald looks at The Woman With
the Serpent's Tongue"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-14
robson is ALL RIGHT.

Farmers Happy, People PrOSp"rou-
People Not Talking PoliticS. But
Will Do Their Duty When the Time
Comes.
Mr.. A. j. Mckinnon, OF MaHton. WHO
was in Raleigh yesterday, says tha'
the crops in Robson are better man
ever in the history OF that good couA-
ty. Robson county last year TalStd
$4,000 bales Of cotton. This year inc
farmers nave raised so, 600 bales, an"
his increase in the number OF hdItS'
taken in connection with the PFIt''
means that the farmers are in be'l'I
shape than heretofore.
MI. McKinnon has been placed III
the field by his friends as a 'ahuL-
date for Congressman from the SIN"
district. He is one Of the most SUI
cessful business men, planters a"U
truckers in North Carolina, ana T."
leader in the Cotton Growers ASSOC
ion He is a strong man OF ~"
character. who has served his gen
Grafton well, and, If nominated "0~~
make a splendid Congressman.
Asked about the political situatari
in Robson, Mr.. McKinnQn saId: ~
tell the truth, h people IN Ropeooti'
are so busy with arming ana 49,
ness operations that they have ~"
little time this year to talking POI
tics. Our people are MAKING IF
progress in every way ana ~
Years seldom ever talk politics. ~
course, next year, when the caI1p1'7s
comes on. Robson will do its du'S =,
it ALWAYS does and the Democrats nc
rely on the biggest county 10 ~" "
a final majority
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-14

The Lexington Dispatch says that
labor is scarce and quotes q mill man
as saying that he could use % more
operatives easily. A strong demand
for labor means the things that need
to be done are being done. 1t spells
prOgresS.