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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30
MAKERS OF THE TARIFF.

Protected Interests Dictate Most ef
 the Schedules. -. Ida M. Tarbell in The American Nigga zine.
 Who makes a tariff bill? The ques- ton is pertinent in view of what Is now going on in Washington. Busy and trustful citizens impressed by the hustle and chatter of long g-continued hearings and debates and awed by the seeming authority and painstakins of the thousands of pages of reports is- sued. naturally conclude that 1t is Con- gress. Any member of that body asked the question would scout the very ask ing of 1t. Who, indeed, is not Con- gress? There is body of citizens in the country. however. who think dif- ferentiy. They are those In whose i'm terests the bill is principally made.
 T wrote the bill of 1S70." the late Joseph Wharton. iron master. steel mas ter, and nickel king, once told the writer proudly. Three men will make the next tariff bill. not one of them 6 member of Congress" Mfr. Havemey- CT told David A. wells in 1894. He was right. That bill. like all its pred ecessor for nearly forty years. was made in practice by the representatives of wool and woolsn. of iron and steel and sugar. And in spite of all the signs to the contrary it is probable they will control tIAe bill of 1909. We may say to ourselves this Is impossi- ble. This time the voice of the peo- pie" Is too clear. this time the game Is too apparent. But the game is no more clear and the voice of the peo- pie" no louder than in 1s7o--in 1Ss2-s lin lsss-7-in 1923. Just go long as the committees making tarif bills look to the manufacturers who profit by duties as the chief source of their information. just so long those manu- lecturers will practically frame the bill. They will frame 1t also--as they have always done--without respect for the protective principle itself. No one can study the drift of public opinion in each of the great aEftations of the tarin question in the last fifty years without realizing that at least nine tenths of the people have stood only for such duties as would produce need ed revenue and would give industries which were trying 10 prove their abil- ity to exist in the United States. pro- tection through limited period. But when 1t came to the point the people have never had such duties. and on most articles they are farther from getting them today than they were at the close ot the civil war.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30
AIaban,a's Child Labor Law r Is Far from Being the Best

of factory inspection has been made in Alabama. though they thinksthat an large enough e force for the Inspection of jails and factories. But Louisiana, Kentucky. and Oklahoma have | more complete eystenn of factory Inspection has recently passed law appointing two inspectors for factories only.
 It was perhaps Governor Corners ig- norance of the standard of other Stasest matter, that has led. to his apparent reluctance for . reforrner to. aid. in securing a,really good child labor iaw for Alabama; But tni. erisf ststems,n,r .,,'s verified. We hope his alleged, opposi- tion to any impTovement in the Ala. bama standard will be removed. The GovsrnOr has cssta.rly taksn nna,nt sinE ar,
 egafes to a conference even for talking about the child labor situation in the Southern States. If Alabama had the bees beer M easy for the reprssentativss from Alabama to point this out. and 1t would
 have been to the advantage of Ala
 bama mills from the other Southern saasSs to Ss ssses ue s Of sss the nos a all moving forward tn this. reform. and 1t is easy to Spredicate scprosEess Tor
 other Southern states befoFs the next isYatIfe. 1T Governor Corner was aim. ing at preventing. any agitation of changes in the Alabama law. hs has certainly adopted the best, means to
 defeat his purpose since his action Tn conference called. by . brother Cover nor has simply focused attention Yp- and without the State. The clippings that come to my office show how wide ly his action has been commented-npon Nothing is ever settled until it Is see- tied right. --- :, the Southern States Should be less hu- mane as regards the welfare of her native-born white children, of the best stock in the world. than the Northern
 States are. where the children of the foreigner are mainly those who are
 employed. or. who w0uld he employed
 except for adequate child labor laws. in the mines and factories and sweat
 shops. I am confident, beranse l know
 the people of the South and believe in
 the facts about the employment of the way of this reform. s
 Atlanta. Ga. March ss, 'os. :,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30
TUESDAY, MARCH 90, 1909.
Texas is becoming so ethical that syen whiskers are barred. A professor

Texas is becoming so ethical that even whiskers are barred. A professor in Fort Worth University was the proud possessor of a pair of long and flowing wind teasers, growing out of each side Of his face. The ethical sense Of the students was grieved by this double set of face fringe and they ask cd him as kindly as they knew how. Go 60 get shave. The professor took the position that what mattered with 2 man was not what he wore on the out side of his head. but what he carried pn the inside. This position while. no doubt sound. was in opposition to a popular pre5ndica. So. on dark night. the young gentlemen of the University seized him. threw him to the ground and sheared his face. Thus do we see Texas uplift from old and -Iowly ideals to a higher state of culture and esthet- icism.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30
SUICIDE ON THE INCREASE.
More Misery in New York Than in Mil
 tons Hell.

More Misery in New York Than in Mii- New York Times. .,
 The rate of suicides iu this city has increased tenfold in the last fifty years, while the mortality rate has de. by pr. Edward T. Devine. professor of and general secretary .sf the Charity Organization Society, in the first of the first of three Kennedy lectures given for the New York School of Philanthropy.
 Whatever may be the cause of suicide. the fact, pr. Devine sail. was an evidence of misery. The city al present has 1000 suicides a year; last years record was seventy-seven in ex- Forty-three cases of attempted suicide were carefully investigated. Two were directly due to poverty. and four to unemployment, The remainins i, reasons. which led the investigators to the conclusion that poverty Is mol the greatest cause of suicide.
 Statistics also show that the age al which the greatest number of cases oc- to one woman kill themselves. There are more suicides among Protestantt than Catholics. more among Roman than Greek Catholics. more among Greek Catholics than Jews.
 There are more kinds of misery ir New York. pr. Devine declared, thar Milton imagined in his .'hell." Con- trary to the idea that misery ls re- trlbution for a mans or parents mis- deeds. pr. Devine stated that 1t depend ed largely on conditions which societ, could control.
 pr. Devlne discussed at length ths statement of probation officer the' -tenths of the misery In New Yosl could be traced to the social evil. HS pointed out the fact that since ' tht framing of the model law in 1902 by William Baldwin and the committee o' fifteen to protect the children in thu tenements. there had not been a singi. conviction Of 1.0o4 complaints, S11 were dismissed by the tenement house department. 274 were dismissed by th' corporation counsel. only nine were brought to trial and they were acquit ted '~rhe complete uninforoement Il a most unfortunate breakdown o municipal government" pr. Devine je clared, and he said that the part of thu police courts in it was "a miserable fiasco."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30
Missouri crank. declaring

Tn eodore Roosevelt was only "dum- my" President has submitted to Speak CT Joe Cannon bill for s5O.OOo for one years service as President It Is safe to say that this is one bill which Con- gress will not pass. If the Missouri man really needs t50,oeO and feels that the government should give 1t to him. his methods are crude. He should have gotten in on the Panama bond deal, or if he has no objections to indirect methods. he might get in the divide of the proceeds of the protective tariff.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30

plete failure to cut down the savage duty imposed on all articles of wearing apparel. both for men and for women, is not . thing which should be con- cealed in the interests of party. So far as the three schedules mentioned are concerned. the committee has not fulfilled the pledge of the Republican platform. and that section of the bill manifestIy Is open to those objections which President Taft before his if- auguration declared would result in . vete.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30

With what Is man to satisfy that burning thirst that the best of us out the beer, and here comes pr. Wiley to place a ban on all the soft drinks. Then the microph obists-or whatever we are 10 call them-tell us that water is fairly alive with all sorts of germs and other enemies of mankind. and some of them go so far as to say that water was only intended to bathe in from the start. VIII somebody tell us where We may get a safe drink?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30
WALTER COMPTON DEAD.
Good Citizen of Coffee County Pass
 Away


 Elba, March 29.-(Special )--Wal- ter Compton, a prominent farmer who lived near here, died early yesterday morning He had been a sufferer from sn in- curable malady for a long time His death was not unexpected. The interment took place at the family cemetery of J. L. Prescott near his home five miles northeast of Elba. MT. Prescott is Mrs. Comp tons father. : Rev T. c. Jones. pastor of the Methodist church here. conducted the funeral large circle of relatives the Elbeans who went were: Hon. &. N. Rowe. probate judge of Coffee county. and his brother, Mir. D. Rowe. MT. Compton had many friends in and around Elba who held him in high esteem. He was @ good citizen of unquestionable honor and integrity. and his death is keenly felt. He leaves widow and six children, who will continue to reside on the plantation. Also one brother. Mir. J. D. Compton, of Troy, and a sister.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30

white people wsse knlsd than in any other single massacre on American soil Before Jackson could make them give way at the decisive battle of Horseshoe Bend. more than 800 of their chosen warriors were slain.
 It would seem that the wAriiks characteristics of the Alabama Creeks are fully developed in their Oklahoma descendants.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30

Of course the tarin will be increased
 on articles of prime necessity. The du- ty on wigs has been advanced to 25
 per cent. We are not advised as to the 1 duty on rats"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30

Benjamin F. Bevsridge. who has just died in washington. was . noted ho- tel man. and it is stated that for near iy forty years practically all the Indias chiefs who visited the Capital put up with him. They seemed to have . iik- ing for his biz wigwam.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30

They charge Castro with saying, "all is lost but honor.' If he should lose his supply of that commodity we don't know. why any one else would care to find 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30

A contemporary wants to know why not try to cross the Atlantic in-' an airship now?" well, if some mans fool enough to try 1t we know of no constitutional inhibition that would interfere with him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30

when President Taft virtually pledg- ed himself to carry out the Roosevelt policies he doubtless made a mental reservation as to the length and frs- quency of executive messages.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30

The New York Mall has a cartoon representing the tarin in the shape of a we'll equipped porcupine. Congress- men are standing around gazing at the animal while Uncle Sam points at him saying Its up to you It tells the story nicely.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30

Accounts from Oklahoma of trouble between whites and Indians indicate that serious conflicts may result. That chief Crazy Snake seems to be bad Injun.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30

If we may judge by the pictures, some of the spring and summer hats for women will be voluminous and vast, as well as expensive.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30

Xst Daily Averngs Feeruasy, leoo .,,SSS, 2sS 6un6ny Average February. tsos '.As'e' e. !. Ffnfean, Circulation Maneger ox Lns Montgomery Advsrtissr. esins oS's
 The forsgoins statement of The AGvss- tisers circulatton for the month ot sa, xpAry, 1903, ts true and correct, ana comvn ed after aii rstuyns from news boye n~ews ~ Srsnts. spoiled and left over copies nave O. I. rINIGAN.
 Circuiation Manager Sworn to and subscribed before me tnis sh s@s VI RIGA ALEXANDER.
 Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30

We no doubt have much to be thankful for" announces The Raleigh Evening Times. Some of your sub scribers been paying up?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30

Tn addition to the city campaigns be- ing held by the united home mission boArds of the country. the ConErega- tIonslists and the Baptists are each holding a, series of city, meetings in the joint interests of all their boards.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30
SWORN CIRCULATION

SWORN CIRCULATION, below 3he nxurss for February prin.so .ii fe- ssDrsssnt the actual net ejaculation turns having been dsdueted.' .s.utses its aAvsrtissrs (and makss 1t part o. circuia- sfast when rsquestsd) that its nn orH mornins tten is larger than that or syh that It's 6anA1y edition hes the lssseat sS,ssrssS is ef eny edition of any newspaper k1Abema without exception.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30
Consumer Has Grievance.

That the new tariff bill is open to serious objection. because of it's com
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30

MT. Taft may not use the Big Stick but he will probably clean some of the dirt out with his fine tooth bun-eomb
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-10-28
farm next year. The Judge used to
be good farmer.
The road overseers are doing bet
ter work on the roads this time.
YOUNG AARON.
Pleasant Valley.

Gathering corn, hauling coal and
digging cellars the order of the day.
Charley Done and Bob Walters are
making cellars.
Mrs. Ella Evilsizer is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Walker.
Mrs. w. r. Jackson, nephew and
family have returned to Illinois after
a weeks visit here. They are so
well pleased with our country that
they promise to return and buy
home.
Mrs. Stokes is going to build new
barn.
David Short is preparing to move
to their new house on Double
Branches.
Mrs. Greenlee and James visited at
w. r. Jackson's.
Mrs. j. j. Walker has been quite
sick for several days, but is some bet
ter at this writing.
Protracted meeting is going on at
Willow Branch.
Mrs. Lizzie Done has been quite
sick, but is some better.
Mrs. Sarah Lee is visiting at w. X.
Jackson's this week. She visited at
Charley Done's last week, A Friend.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-10-28
George BARLEY Dead.

George BARLEY died at his home
three miles northeast of Butler .on
Monday evening at s o'clock. He
suffered stroke of paralysis. The
funeral took place from the home
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock,
and interment was made in Oak Hill
cemetery.
Deceased was a pioneer citizen of
our county. He had always lived an
honorable, upright, useful life and
had reached the ripe old age of 80
years. He was born on the Isle of
Wight and came to America with his
parents when 7 years old. He is sur
vived by a widow and six children,
two boys and four girls. He was
brother Of Mrs. R. q. Hartwell, and
his widow is a sister of the late R. G.
Hartwell.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-10-28
Ballard.

Rally Day was observed by Walnut
Grove Sunday School Sunday. The
program and collection came up ia
the usual high standard of Walnut
Grove.
j. E. Warford and family spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. M. L.
Price in Creighton, Mo.
Mrs. Wheeler visited at the home
of her son, B. w. Davidson, last
week.
Mrs. w. d. Keirsey and Mrs. Ned
Cole visited relatives in Cass county
last week.
The Sunday Schools of Spruce
township will hold their annual con-
vention at Bethel church Sunday,
November 7th. Dinner will be serv-
ed on the ground. An interesting
program has been arranged.
BELLE.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-10-28
Married:-In Butler Thursday, Oct.

Married:-In Butler Thursday, Oct.
81, 1909, Joseph A. Gish, of Onarga,
Illinois, to Mrs. Susan C. Woods, liv-
ing 4 miles northeast OF Foster. She
was the widow of the late A. B.
Woods, and is one of the pioneer set
tiers of New Home township, and is
held in high esteem by the people of
this vicinity. She is aged 68 years,
while the groom is II years her
senior. They will depart soon for
Oklahoma to visit her son, Joe, and
after which they will probably make
Illinois their future home.
Miss Pinky Darby, who has been
visiting in Clinton, Mo-, stopped off
to visit her brother, j. w. Darby, of
this place, last week, on her return
home to Oklahoma City, Okla.
Perry Jennings moved to the w.
b. Hamilton property on 9th street
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Lyle returned
last week from their trip to Kansas
City.
d. O. Orear and wife returned last
week from their visit to his brother
at lola, Kan. Mr.. Orear will have a
sale in about two weeks, and will
move his family to that place.
Cleveland Mullis, who has been
absent year, returned home last
week.
Thomas Hart, of San Antonio, Tex
as, who has been spending two weeks
on the Old Camp ground, will return
to his home this week. Mr.. Hart
and brothers, John and Joe, were
formerly in the mercantile business
at this place, and burnt out in one of
Fosters big fires. They lost four
thousand dollars stock of dry goods,
with no insurance on stock or build
ing.
Mrs. Sarah Grant celebrated her
seth birthday Sunday, Oct. Oath, at
her home in North Foster. Besides
her family, only a few relatives and
friends were present, but all enjoyed
the elegant dinner, which Mrs. Grant
had prepared for the occasion.
A. H. Lloyd, who is visiting his SON.
in-law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Robb, Of Thomas county, Kan
sas, will return home Monday. He
will be accompanied by Mrs. Robb,
who will spend the winter with her
parents at this place.
Mrs. Jim Myers arrived on the
noon train from Worland Sunday.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-10-28
VIRGINIA..

ID. c. Wolfe hauled 2 loads of tile
from Rich Hill last week.
0. M. Drysdale and wife of Amoret
spent Sunday with Mrs. G. w. Park.
He has his new building nearly COM
pleted and will soon have it filled
with new goods.
John Foster who was on the sick
list last week is able to be out again.
Do not forget the S. S. convention
at the Virginia M. E. church next
Sabbath, beginning promptly at 200
p, m.
Mrs. Geo. Thompson who went to
visit her parents at Stockton, Kansas,
sometime ago and was injured in a
r. R. wreck, has almost recovered
and returned home last week. Mrs.
Esther Colburn and son, and Mrs.
Ruth Kellogg came home with her to
visit their father, Mr.. Hockett, and
other relatives.
Miss Myrtle Bosely, of Kansas City,
has been visiting her sister, Mrs,
Clark Draper. Her brother Elmer
Bosely was here few days also.
Joe Flemming who got his hand
hurt on a binder while cutting oats is
getting better. He has not been able
to work since the lst of August.
Bert Barr and wife, of Oklahoma,
have arrived at her fathers Will
Eggleson. Mr.. Barr has rented the
Scully farm that H. E. Loveland now
lives on, 2 miles east of Virginia.
c. A. Wallace and wife, of Amoret,
spent Sunday night with their daugh-
ter and family, Mrs. VIM. burst.
Topic for C. E. next Sunday even-
ing: Heroes of missions in the islands
Qsa. 32:1-4, l6-20.) The missionary
committee is preparing a program
for that evening. All are invited to
attend.
Carl Whistler will take charge of a
1850 acre ranch south of Butler the
1st OF next month for w. F. Duvall.
He expects to move his family the
1st of the year.
Earl Kellogg came down from Kan
sas City last week to visit friends and
relatives for couple of weeks.
DR.. Smith reports Mrs. B. F. Jen-
kins, Miss Villa Darr and Mr.. Love-
lands child on the sick list. All ex-
cept Miss Darr were some better
Monday.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-10-28
Mino Mienen began painting D. C.
Wolfe's house Tuesday of this week.

Mino Mienen began painting D. C.
Wolfe's house Tuesday of this week.
Jim Sacre, constable of Charlotte
township says the Sunday shooting
must stop or abide by the conse-
quence of the law.
Louis Schnidewind has returned
from Nebraska where he spent a
week looking at the country.
Everett Drysdale is having a well
drilled on his farm.
The Charlotte Township Reading
Circle met at Mr.. Crosswhite's last
week.
Grant Oldham reports his brother
Frank not improving very fast.
Ollie Walkers sale went well Mon
day. There was a large attendance
and Clyde Robbins the popular auc-
tioneer was in his prime and kept the
people in good humor and Wesley
Denton, clerk, had a broad smile on
his face. If he bought any house
hold or kitchen furniture young
Aaron failed to detect him. Mr.,
Walker expects to move to Kansas
City next Monday.
From the American Issue Oct. 9th.
The State of Mo-, produces $500, 0OO,-
600 year and yet men sit in the leg
islature and argue and vote that the
state could not prosper and exist
without debauching the citizens of
the state by getting 10 percent of the
money they get drunk on. These
same men will ask you to vote for
them in the next spring primary and
intelligent men will vote for them to
make laws for a state they believe
would be bankrupt were it not for
the misery, want and criminals made
by the liquor traffic. -Sedalia Demo-
crat Sentinel.
The wedding Bells will ring before
these items reaches its readers.
W. W, Rubel is buying corn at so
cents.
II you are wanting a Duroc Jersey
male or sow Young Aaron has two
yearling males and some nice young
males and a few tried sows for sale.
Butler, Mo. R. S.
l.. L. Judy was round with his beef
wagon Monday.
S. E. Jones. of Butler, attended
the sale Monday and visited his
daughter, Mrs. Henry Ison.
Judge Harper says he is going to
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-10-28
FOSTER.
Iaw His Sister Eighteen Years Ago.

To The Star: | should like to To-
cate my sister from whom | have
been separated for about eighteen
years. Her name is Ella May Kama
bic. She was given to a family at
Foster, Bates county, Missouri, in
1891 or about that time. | do not
know the name of the family to whom
she was given, but think it was
Roberts or Robinson. She would be
about 81 years Of age now. My faith
er's name was Daniel Kanable.-
Frank Kanable, Wallula, Kan.
Dan Roberts lived 3 miles north of
Foster II or IS years ago, and year
or two later moved to Nabs Creek,
some Is miles north of Foster, be-
tween Virginia and Adrian. Being
acquainted with Mr.. Roberts at that
time, we know nothing of his where
abouts now. We are quite sure
when Mr.. Roberts is located, the lost
sister will be found.
George Hartsock and Will Frost
returned Saturday evening from their
trip through Kansas.
DR.. Rhoades reports Mr.. Grant,
whose hand was amputated last week
as doing well.
Mrs. Havely, who has been quite
poorly for some time, is reported i'm
proving.
Arthur Cobb, who has been spend
ing the summer in British Columbia,
was an arrival on the Sunday morn
ing passenger.
We called in Sunday evening to see
Aunt Jennie Darby and found her
still very poorly.
Mrs. j. w. Parlier and Miss Darby
were shopping in Pleasanton Friday.
Henry and Robert Briscoe and John
Miller, with their well-trained hounds,
succeeded in catching a gray wolf
after two hours chase last week.
II would pay any neighborhood that
is bothered by wolves to employ the
Briscoe brothers. Address, Henry
Briscoe, Foster, Mo.
j. L. Bell, c. B. Cullison and j.
W. Darby were witnesses last week
at Butler in the Cullison-Clouse law
suit. at..
!. H. Scrivner sold his property on
9Th street to Joe Roberts for $3.50.
7. S. McHenry is able to be at the
store again after two weeks ILL
ness.