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The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-26

son prison scandal and the depleted
condition of the state treasury at the
clCse OF 1908; recommend a search
aud seizure amendment to the coun-
ty option liquor law, declare for a
tariff for revenue only, demand a non
partisan supreme court and various
state boards
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-26

The Cheerful Workers Of the Cairo
Baptist church viii meet with Mrs
G. b. 5. Penucbaker Of 5l4 Center
street this afternoon.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-26

The worst ordeal child has to face
is lenly of goodies at hand and an
insufficient capacity.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-26

Maurice ]. Farnhak Of Pa luoah
KY who was in the CITY yestcrda
on business. returned to Paducah la t
evening.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-26
kina LeopoId,s Art Treaaure,.

King Lccpuld Of nr'e,Em it is said
intends 10 bequesth al his at treas.
Tres TO The nation 10 be divid .
among the various museums I, IS
or this rees9a. rumcr ha IT, hat
French art eyper, has Tor some u.ae
)ast been busy making. catalogue IL
he collections and yaluing them.
There is nothing wnlcn ~ ~, On
binary TO some one-from revolutions
TO the weather.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-26

II may be true that the Lord helps
those who help themselves. but it is
certainly true that no one else does
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-26

Mr. and Mrs, Leon T. Deuison cf
Twenty.seyenth street returned yes
terday from Il soiourn at Hot Springs,
Alt
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-26

c. b. Dewey and family will move
into their new home on Walnut ami
Twenty-fourth streets about March /
Or. J. p. McLaurence Of Willard,
who is i'll at 81 Mary's Infrmary CON
inues in a critical condition.
Miss Lottie Schaaf who has been
visiting friends aud relatives at Padu.
cab, returned home yesterday
Mrs John Hacker went to Wici-
life Yesterday to spend a few da
on the Hacker farm.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-26

Odd that a woman in love never
reckons ~ita the difference between
4 mans promises and his tempera-
mCnt
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-26

With the lazy person time seems to
be at premium-when yoI ask them
to do anything for you; the busy one
always has plenty of time.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-26
COMMITTEES ZOE a..
President.

'HIL c. BARCLAY, secso ar E..
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-26

II, c. Amber Of Chicago a well
Known public accountant is in the city
On a periodical business trip and is
at The Halliday MIR, Amber audits
the books Of a number of Cairo cor.
pOrations.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12
The Protection Deficit.

In 1897, the Washington Post notes,
the Republican ways and means com.
mittee was kept busy finding things to
protect; now 1T has search warrants
out to find things from which to raise
revenue, the deficit from which will be
$3.50, 000, 900. The Post rejects the idea
of-taxing tea and coffee and also OF
increasing the tax on malt liquors. II
goes on to say:
1.-The ways and means committee
will play with fire when 1t brings in
a stamp tax in time of~peace. A bond
sale for current expenses would be nc
more odious and it would be no an
swer to the public clamor it would in.
cite to say it is. necessary to resort to
it. A stamp tax is q clog on business,
a burden imposed on trade, but the In.
convenience it would entail would
make it far more repulsive than the
cost of 1t would render it onerous. The
stamp tax England imposed on the colo.
MES was for a beggarly sun that eth
err one of the thirteen could have paid
without embarrassment, but 1t made
a revolution and a war, and even In
1862, when 1t was resorted to to save
the union, there rel mutterings that
turned to cursings."
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12
People Demand to Be Heard.

We confess that We have had
much notion that a permanent tariff
commission would be of superlative
value in helping solve the tariff prob,
lem. But We must admit that the op
position of the American Protective
Tariff league to the formation of a
commission is a strong argument In its
favor. The league opposes everything
that will tend to rob the tariff Of mys-
terry into which only the high priests
of the protection cult are fitted to en-.
ter. For the rest the plain people are
to accept with W and gratitude any
thing that this priesthood vouchsafes
and be glad Of paying the price of its
exactions. All government. religion,
observation-disclosures men
was once similarly held as something
about which there vas to be no in
guiry nor discussion, but only submits,
sion. But that day is passing, and the
opponents of light on the tariff may
rest assured that the time is at hand
when the making of a tariff shall be a
process carried forward in the open.
The day has gone by when a few spe-
cial agents of beneficiaries a die
tate to the few leaders of the domi-
nant party what 1--WE" will accept and
have it put acknowledgements
News.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12
TRYING to Corner Water.

The same organized greed which has
already exploited the other natural re-
sources of the country for personal
gain is now doing its audacious and
crafty best to secure control also OF
the water. To the myopic and indif.
ferent public the idea of a few men
getting control of the water supply
and of drawing vast wealth from that
control will sound like the foolish
wall of a crack-brained sensationaiist;
it will arouse only a fatuous smile OF
ignorant contempt. But the readers
of this magazine may have heard OF
the turbine water wheel; they know
what is meant by the long-distance
transmission Of electric power; they
are able to realize what 1t means to
hand over. forever, as a free gift to a
little coterie of men the absolute con-
troll of the incalculable power devel
oped by the rivers and streams of the
United States. And pray God-once
they do understand the situation, they
will not smile, but smite. The con.
gress of the United States and the
legislatures Of the various states are
the danger points which must be con-
stantly watched If the people are to be
saved from OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
World,
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12
Mr.. Roosevelt and the Trusts.

When John Moody, editor of Moody's
Manual Of Corporation Securities,
compiled a list of trusts in 1904 he re-
cited the names of 298 lesser indus
trial trusts, Of seven greater industrial
trusts, besides Is trusts in process OF
reorganization, eight telephone and
telegraph trusts and 103 gas, electric
light and street railway consultations.
Besides these there were 100 railroads
controlled in six groups and ESQ roads
in nine or ten minor cancellations.
From the time of this statistical
computation In 1904 to March 4, 1909,
Mr.. Roosevelt was president Of the
United States, with full power to en-
force the Sherman anti-trust Law, with
ample appropriations at his disposal
and with the decisions of the supreme
court Of the United states to back him
up.
What did he do. What monopoly
did he crush out? What necessary d
life did be cheaper to the c~onsQrnerss
TATEE 80 ~
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12
THINGS HARD TO BELIEVE.
Peculiar State Of Affairs in the Steel
Trust Merger.

If the senate investigation results II
nothing else. it has amply justified 1t
self by the interesting glimpse into
high finance which sundry Of its wit
nesses have given the American public
That the steel trust should have
hoodwinked a man of Theodore Roose
velt's keenness into believing that the
sale OF the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Company to the trust was the only
means Of allaying the panic Of 1907 is
remarkable.
That the secretary of the treasury
should have been hoodwinked into be.
lieving that the Trust Company OF
America could only be rescued by re
placing less than $500, 900 of Ten.
nessee Coal and Iron stock with five
per cent. second mortgage steel trust
bonds is also remarkable. when we
remember that on October %, 1907,
Secretary Cortelyou ordered $25, 900,
900 of United States funds to be de-
posted in New York banks, the steel
trust crowd Immediately offered to
loan $25, 900. 900 at ten per cent, and
this was followed by the trust com.
pany's announcement that it had $12,
900, 600 cash on hand.
We are asked to believe it was inn
possible to stay the panic except by
this merger. Yet the Trust Company
of America needed cash to pay it's de-
positors, not bonds, and the only cash
in the merger deal was not paid until
December.
But the peoples $25. 000. 900 cash was
available for loans to banks October
"a. 1t would be interesting to know
exactly from what sources the Trust
Company Of America secured $12, 900,
600 over night, and why, with such
a fund, 1t was necessary for the steel
trust to absorb its only dangerous
rival, unwillingly, but in the interest
OF saving the trust company and stop
ping the panic.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12
MUST PAY
FOR REPUBLICAN, ExTRAvA.
cANcE AND INDIFFERENCE.
Now II Is Proposed to Add War Taxes
to the internal Revenue Laws
incompetency Enthroned
in Washington.

Engaged in an apparently hopeless
struggle to make both ends meet, the
ways and means committee OF the
house of representatives is discussing
the ~adyisability of adding war taxes to
the internal revenue laws. The deficit
for the fiscal year is mounting rapidly
and will expand from the present $780,
900, 900 to $3.50, 900, 900. or more. by the
end of the fiscal year. The Dingley
law has failed dismally as a revenue
producer, and the hope Of increase
from a new tariff law is not only i'm
possible, but there is the certain pros
pect that there will be a falling of in
customs. receipts as the result Of the
scheduled readjustment of duties.
Extravaganza and indifference are
the twin" sins for whose commission
the Republicans must pay the penalty
OF restoring war taxes in time OF peace.
1t is a bitter dose. A duty on coffee
and a duty on tea would be to pattern
after the English system of raising
money on articles not produced in the
country. Their imposition would be
to represent an indefensible, mixture
Of the Numerically opposite English
and American systems. 1t Is a wOeful
comment on the protection system.
which has been strained to the crack
ing point for the last IL years, and is
still unable to both protect and raise
revenue at the same time.
With the cost of living at home op-
pressive and prosperity delaying its
heralded return and still out Of sight,
it is doubtful whether the people will
take kindly to a tax on their break
fast table. An increase of the tax on
beer will cause little public concern,
but the temperance of the stamp
taxes will place before the people the
constant reminders that incompetency
has been enthroned in Washington.
The Democrats may heave a sigh OF
relief that they did not win last No
vember. They have, at least. avoided
a heritage of the kind that came to
them in 1892, when they were made
to suffer for the sins of their reck-
less predecessors.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12

vious to accepting the place in Mr..
Taft's cabinet he was general counsel
for the Illinois Central Railroad Com
pany. When not living in Chicago,
Mr.. Dickinson makes his home at the
Hermitage, the estate upon the out
skirts of Nashville, Tenn, once the
property Of Andrew Jackson. Like
Mr.. Roosevelt, he is very fond OF
hunting and fishing. Though a Demo
crat, Mr.. Dickinson has always been
an opponent Of Bryan.
Wilson Retains His Place.
Only one member Of the Roosevelt
cabinet retains his portfolio under
Mr.. Taft. That is James Wilson OF
Iowa, secretary of agriculture. So ex-
cellent had been his work in that posi-
ton that there was M serious talk OF
making a change. Born in Scotland in
1886, Mr.. Wilson anne to the United
States in. 1852 and three years later
settled in Iowa. In 1851 he engaged in
farming in Tama county. He was a
member Of the Iowa assembly for
three sessions and speaker of the
AOuSC xOI OuC 0SooAOH, dAu dASO was q
member of the Iowa state railway
commission. In 1873 he was elected
to congress, serving two terms, and
was Sent to the national legislature
again for one term In 1883. He was
regent OF the State university Of
Iowa in 1904, and in 1890 was
made director Of the agricultural ex
pertinent station and professor of agri-
culture at the Iowa Agricultural col
lege. Ames, Ia. In 1897 he became
secretary OF agriculture.
Postmaster General Hitchcock.
The first cabinet officer selected by
Mr.. Taft after his election was Frank
H. Hitchcock of Massachusetts,, who
gave up his place as first assistant
postmaster general to manage success
fully the Taft presidential campaign.
He has been given the Office OF post
master general in the new cabinet.
MI. Hitchcock "a born at Amherst,
O., in 1867, and graduated from Har-
ward in 1891 and from Columbia Law
school In 1894. Since 1891 he has
been a government official. having
served at different times as chief OF
the division of foreign markets Of the
department Of agriculture; chief clerk
Of the department Of commerce and
labor, member OF the government ex-
position board and first assistant post
master general. He is q member OF
many scientific and social organiza-
lions and is the author OF numerous
bulletins, reports and circulars on for
eign trade and customs tariffs. His
work In the post-ofice department un-
der President Roosevelt was especial
" noteworthy.
Nagel Has commerce Portfolio.
Missouri has been rewarded for Its
switch to the Republican column by
the appointment Of Charles Nagel ~
secretary of commerce and labor. Mr.
Nagel IS q leading lawyer OF St.
Louis and the west. He was born in
Texas In 1S4s, moved to st. Louis
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12

when a child and graduated from the
st. Louis Law school in 1873. He has
been senior member of the law firm
of Nagel & Kirby. professor in the
st. Louis Law school and a trustee
of Washington university. In 1898
he was a member of the Missouri house
Of representatives, and In 1S93-97 was
president of the st. Louis city coun-
ell. He Is a member of the Repub.
lican national committee and for years
has been an intimate friend OF Mr..
Taft. He was one of Mr.. Roosevelt's
most enthusiastic supporters. AS an
attorney Mr.. Nagel was identified with
several important Eases dealing with
the numerous complications in the
affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes In
the then Indian territory.
Navy Under Meyers Charge.
President Taft's secretary Of tho
navy, George Won l.. Meyer Of Massa-
chusetts, has had wide experience as
a business man, legislator, diplomat
and cabinet officer. He was born In
Boston in 1858 and graduated from
Harvard in 1879. He then entered
business and has been prominently
Connected with a number OF financial
and mercantile concerns. His career
as a public official began in 1889, when
he was elected to the Boston common
council. He then served on the board
OF aldermen, and In 1926 he was a
member of the Massachusetts, isgisla.
ture, the last two years being speaker
Of the house. In 1900 Mr.. Meyer was
sent to Italy as American ambassador,
and In 1905 was transferred to-Rus-
STA. In January, 1907. President
Roosevelt called him home to enter
his cabinet as postmaster general.
BaIlinger Secretary Of Interior.
After about one years service a.
commissioner OF the general land Of
fee, Richard A. Ballinger OF Seattle,
Wash, has entered the cabinet as
secretary Of the interior. He Is q
native of Iowa, having been born in
Boonesboro In 1858. After attending
the University OF Kansas and Wash
burn college at Topeka. he went to
Williams college. graduating In 1884
and afterward studying law and re-
moving to Washington. He was
United States court commissioner In
1S90-92 and later was Judge of the
supreme court in Jefferson county.
Wash.
Attorney General Wickersham.
George w. Wickersham. who be-
comes President Taft's attorney gem
eral. has had the reputation OF being
one OF the ablest lawyers in New
York city. Born In Pittsburg In 1853,
he studied civil engineering In Lehigh
university and In 1880 graduated from
the law school of the University OF
Pennsylvania. For two years be prac.
ticed law in Philadelphia- IN 1884 he
became associated with the law arm
0f Strong & CadMalfadare. to which
Henry w. Taft. brothar q The prest
dent, belongs.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12
Result Of w~asteful Spending.

Facing the growing deficit and in
creasing expenditures will not be a
particularly cheerful attitude for the
new administration. Since the close
of the civil war there have been only
ten years in which the expenditures of
the government exceeded its revenues,
and only two years in which the deficit
equaled that of last year. In 1908 the
net ordinary receipts of the govern
ment were $599, 895, 1853 and its net or
binary expenditures we're 1858. $50, 125,
making a deficit of SIS, $50 1862. This
deficit will be nearly doubled during
the current fiscal year. This situation
is due to the growing extravaganza
of the government along with the i'm
perial enlargement of it's functions.
For many years the ordinary expendi'
lures Of the government have been
growing out of proportion to the
growth of wealth and population. The
net ordinary expenditures of the gov
eminent increased from $~246,847,637
in 1880 to 1927. 730.487 in 1890, to
$4S7, 713. 792in 1900. and to 1853. $50, 125
in 1908. From 1880 to 1908 the net
ordinary receipts of the government
increased from $3.50, 1872, 293 to $685..
S45, 1853. From 1901, the first year of
the Roosevelt administration, to 1908,
the expenditures increased from
$509, 967,353 to 1858, 552, 125. And con
gress is still piling up expenses. Mean
while the deficit growsan M with all the
talk about economy-talk, mind you
congress continues to make extrava-
CANT appropriations.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12
All Prey on the people.

All tariff experts say that "protec
ton" must be neutrality-suspicious. t.
labor and protection to the capita
that employs labor. In other words
as long as the American tariff retains
the protective principle, it shoulc
be equa1ized to give both labor ant
capital their rightful proportions.
This is where the great cleavage
exists between real values and pape1
values. Labor can not be inflated
Capital is inflated as far as 1t vii
bear imitation. Every one of the grea'
American trusts is earning interesl
on inflated capital out of the peoples
necessities.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12

President Taft's cabinet of nine men
is headed by Philander Chase Knox,
secretary Of state, who was born
in 1853 at Brownsville, Pa. He
graduated from Mount Union college,
Ohio, in 1872, and three years later
was admitted to the bar. During the
years 1875 and 1877 he served as as
sistant United States district attorney
for the western district of Pennsyl-
vania. In the latter year he formed
a law partnership with James H. Reed
which still exists and which has rep
resented many large corporations, in
Guiding the Carnegie Company. Mr..
Knox entered President McKinley's
cabinet as attorney general In April,
1901, serving until 1904, when he was
elected United States senator from
Pennsylvania. The latter position he
resigned to become the head Of Presi-
dent Taft's cabinet. He was q cand4
date for the presidential nomination in
the Republican national convention OF
1908. Mr.. Knox Is recognized as n
of the foremost constitutional lawyers
in the country.
Macveagh for the Treasury.
Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of the
treasury, was born on q farm In
Chester county, Pennsylvania. gradu-
ated from Yale in 1862 and from
Columbia Law school in 1854. He be-
gan the practice of law in New York
city but ill-health forced him to aban-
don 1t and in 1855 he went to Chicago
and engaged in the wholesale grocery
business. In this and other CONNER
cial pursuits he has amassed 2 large
fortune. Before entering the cabinet
he disposed OF his holdings in the big
grocery firm and resigned as director
of the Commercial National bank of
Chicago. Mr.. MacVeagh has always
been interested in movements for the
public welfare, locally and nationally.
He has been president Of the Chicago
Citizens association, the Chicago
Bureau of Charities and the Municipal
Art League. vice-president Of the
American Civic association, and chair
man Of the immigration department Of
the National Civic Federation. Mr..
.MacVeagh formerly was q Democrat
and in 1894 he was nominated for
United States senator by the Demo-
Gratis Of Illinois, but was defeated In
the legislature. He supported Grover
Cleveland, but afterward changed his
party allegiance because of the attf-
tude Of the Democratic party on the
money question.
Dickinson 10 War Secretary.
Jacob M. Dickinson Of Tennessee
and Chicago, the new secretary Of
war, was born in 1851 at Columbus,
Miss. He graduated from the Uni
yersity of Nashville In 1872 and after
ward studied law at Columbia college.
at the University Of Leipsiz and In
Paris. He served several times by
special commission on the supreme
bench OF Tennessee and was assist
ant attorney general Of the United
States in 1857. For ten years pre-
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12
Favor canitaf. Not Labor.

Real tariff experts agree that {
adownwards revision of the tariff vii
still yield to American labor all thu
~protection necessary to sustain higl
wages as compared with the wag.
scale of European laborers. The higl
tariff standpatters are therefore no
fighting to protect american labor
but to protect inflated capital
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12

A $4,000 amphitheater and annex to
the State Charity Hospital at Vicksburg
will be built at once to accommodate the
University of Mississippi medical stu,
dents, who will begin their studies there
in September.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12

A white man named Worden was ar
rested in Leake County charged with i'm
p~ersonating a United States official.
Complaint was made that Worden was
selling a boil weevil and potato bug
powder, representing himself as a special
agent of the agricultural department,
and United States District Attorney Lee
den gives his residence as New York
State. He was committed to jail by
United States Commissioner Gully.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12

Hon. Jacob MeGavock Dickinson,
whom President Taft has appointed
secretary of war, is not only a native
of Columbus. but a member of Isham
Harrison Camp, No. 81, United Confed-
crate Veterans, of that city.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12

Chambers having been discovered to
exist among the stock of Mr.. Thomas,
near Walden, State Inspector James
Lewis Of Starkville ordered two mules
killed and all the other stock carried
away and quarantined.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12

The people of Monticello, Lawrence
County, have secured their own new
trunk line and are getting ready to ce'-
citrate the opening up of traffic on the
New Orleans Great Northern in a hearty
fashion. This will be the programme
followed at Jackson, Georgetown, Silver
Creek and other communities which The
new line will touch and develop further.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12

R. E. Duncan has been appointed mar
ager of the Farmers Union warehouse
at Oxford to succeed J.. r. Harkin, who
recently resigned.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12

Rev. E. S. Lewis, presiding elder Of
the Ninona district, announces that ths
Winona district conference will be helt
at Schlater, Miss, April 22-a5. A large
attendance is expected and ample accom-
modations will be provided for all whs
attend.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-12

As usual the Tunica County crimiaal
term has resulted in . good run OF gris'
for the ~penitntiary mill, as showa BY
the official notice sent to Secretary iey
ger By Circuit Clerk Ed NJ D~ousherty O
that county. Five men were convicted
Of mqylsr and given life sentence.