Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-08-06
Straps and faets.

enue in the fiscal year ending with
June 80. The loss is calculated from
the returns from spirits and ferment-
ed liquors in the preceding fiscal year.
OF this large sum the heaviest loss
was traceable to the decreasing man.
ufacture and use of whisky. Beer,
porter and other similar liquors came
next in the proportion Of lost revenue.
The acting commissioner Of internal
revenue, Robert Williams, Jr., says in
his report that the revenue from whis-
ky fell off more than $5,500,000. A
people Of the United States, while
throttling a thirst, have left their
craving for narcotics apparently, go
unchecked. The increased revenue
from tobacco exceeded s2,000,000,
and the army of cigarette smokers
contributed a good proportion Of this,
the increased amount paid in as a re-
suit of the growth of this habit being
$722,245.30. That the cigarette is
supplanting the cigar is shown by the
fact that the loss Of revenue on cigars
over the previous fiscal year was near
ly 100000. There were more than
100000 gallons less distilled spirits
consumed, nearly 100000 barrels
ale and beer, and 152, 2,1S5,SS0 fewer
cigars smoked. On the other hand,
the cigarette smokers of the country
burned up 703,105,065 more cigarettes
than in the previous year.
- Washington, August 5: The tariff
has been revised and the extraordi-
nary session of congress has been
brought to close. Both houses ad-
journed sine die officially at o'clock
was taken in the house at 5.3S p. m.
and in the senate at 5.5S p. m. The
closing hours of the session were at
tended by scenes Of a most interesting
character. The revision had been ac-
cording to the desires Of some, and
with the hearty disapproval Of others,
and the last two days had been con-
sumed by members of the senate in
satisfaction. The conference report
on the bill was agreed to by the sem
ate by vote of AZ to 81 The vote
was taken at 2 p. m, and soon after
ward the concurrent resolution MAX
ing certain changes in the leather
schedule was adopted by both houses.
President Taft arrived at the capitol
at 4.45 p. m. 1t was his first appear
ance there since his incumbency as
president, and there was a constant
procession Of handshaking statesmen
..ough the presidents room from
the time Of his arrival until his de-
parture at $50 o'clock. Just as the
hands of the gold clock in the presi-
dents room reached five minutes past
five, the Payne tariff bill as the meas
ure will be known, was laid before
the president. He picked up a pen
supplied by Chairman Payne, of the
house ways and means committee,
and which was used by both the vice
president and the speaker in signing
the bill, and attached his signature.
Why Spain is fighting in Morocco
is clearly explained by Mr.. Vivian,
foreign editor Of the New York Amer
lean, who says: Whether Spain sue
ceeds in crushing completely its anar-
chical anti-militarist revolution by the
simple method of shrapnel at short
range, the war in Morocco remains an
unsolved problem. The causes for that
war are these: 1t is a commercial
war, as are all wars Of aggrandize-
lent; one of those wars founded on
!he proposition: You have some
thing that we want; we will give you
for it either an old brass button or a
new steel bullet" The something"
which Spain in the present case wants
is the riches, the mineral riches that
lie in the sun-roasted hills twelve |
miles to the southeast Of Melilla, the
principal port of the Spanish sphere
of influence" in Morocco. A group |
of Spanish financiers has spent much |
money in digging out these minerals, |
and has succeeded in interesting the |
Spanish government in the exploita- |
tion of the mines of Benz Blu Fruor. |
The mines are rich, but almost mac |
cessible, and it was decided to run |
railroad down to them from Melilla. |
Now, a railroad to the Moors-and in |
deed to most Mohammedans-is as
aggravating as a red cloak to a bull. |
1t means interfering with their no.
madic habits, the seizure of some |
sheik's right of way and a check on
railway, at Casablanca, it will be re-
membered, was the beginning of all
the bloody trouble Whereabouts The |
Riffs and the Kabyles, fierce tribes
railroad with their flocks of armed
horsemen; the sultan of Morocco re-
fused to interfere to protect foreign
ers, whom he considered interlopers;
Melilla was invested, and the old feud
between Moor and Iberian that began
hundreds of years ago is once more
being fought out.
The United States in less than
three centuries has grown from few
struggling colonies along the eastern
coast to one of the greatest nations in
the world. Of its eighty million in
habitants one-third still live in the
original thirteen states of the Union.
Another third live in the territory
ceded by the original thirteen states to
the general government and in which
great states one by one grew to matu-
rity and were admitted to the Union.
The other third live i'm the country
mainly beyond the Mississippi. Still
the growth and progress of the United
States is only just reaching the stage
from which it will proceed in full de-
velopment to it's climax Not even all
the land has yet been appropriated to
the purposes of civilization. Counting
Alaska, there are still 754,S95,000
acres Of unreserved land, practically
free to the adventurous man who will
claim and develop it. Much of this,
however is not fit without irrigation,