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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22

in the Chronicle has aroused his slum bering
nurnor He writes to the editor of this
200 pages of written matter composed last sixty
Gays, which Is in the of the dead hope there
Is little fault of conception weakness expressions
In these pages, would inferred from the
suggestion that had lost trigger In writing
noble joke. The heat possesses my mechanism. Ny
crops the best saluted from the coming
cumber my lands. have read Burns awakes Firths
TO influence my temperature I shall write now and
then for your sake and that of all OF us The best
letter of my seventy-hrst year was to Professor
Paschal. Of Sier City:
The trembling steed fell PROSTATE at the sight
And Nestor's trembling hand confessed his plight
rope was the greatest poet since Shakespeare
May God give you wisdom"
The sentence in editorial which drew forth
this gem of literary medley Who 1t said Judge
be taken not that anybody had said It. but
BODY who might itw both unbalanced and
IN the woods. We welcome his expressed intention of
keeping his pen going.-Charlotte Chronicle.
Profits Berries
The strawberry section of which Wilmington Ia the
centre this season shipped the Northern markets
42SbS1 crates of strawberries of the gross value
S325 crate, aggregating nearly $1400.o09 Refrig-
Grafton. transportation, commissions other ex-
penses amounted to S47l439.10, leaving balance
OF ss21+4s1b These Interesting figures pick from
East Carolina Truck and Fruit Association,
which held Its fourteenth annual meeting Will
mingten on Wednesday. An industry of such magni-
tude and tremendous importance requires the
vision of just such organization the East Caro-
lima Truck and Fruit Growers Association and the
work and increased determination support
ganzaton welt calculated hundreds oil
thousands OF dollars annually to the berry growers
Wilmington Star
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22

bernians will find the city's arms open to their
reception, the city's heart beating strongly witt
sympathy, the city's color green in their honor
Richmond is glad to welcome the order as great
and growing enterprise Of good. 1t will be glad
der TO greet its membership as 1rishmen and
friends
No race makes stronger appeal to the uni
versal heart than this sad and happy, free-spoken
sunny and tempestuous people. Scattered over
the world, always on the move, ready to become a
vital part of any community in which he casts
his lot, the Irishman means home typihes pa
triotism, breathes JOY, and simplicity and kind
ness. He meets life at the food and rides upon
it, dispensing as he goes the sunshine of his
temperament Tragic as his history may be as
race-rich or poor he may be as an individual
the freshman loves strong and loves long, hates
deeply and quits hating shortly, and everywhere
and all the time blesses with his humor and re-
proaches with his generosity.
When he comes to Richmond in convention,
every citizen whose ancestry holds a trace of
Celtic blood will boast him as brother and
treat him the same way.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22
NEWSPAPERS FRANKS.

We fail to see the hypocrisy which the Roa-
noke Times implies in noticing the dead silence
on the part of the press upon the passing OF the
telegraph and telephone frank from the constant
Ily diminishing store of newspaper perquisites.
1t has it says watched with some curiosity to see
our friends the daily newspapers burst forth into
editorial rejoicings', but, Nary a rejoice have
we seen the withdrawal of these special priv
ileges and means of small graft
Why should the daily papers especially re-
joice at law which removes small benefits
from themselves, when laws that in very large
way benefit real special interests are carefully
fOstered What does it signify that these same
papers which are silent upon the occasion of the
emitting off of the courteses to which they have
bdn educated by public service corporations
should in the past from time to time have in
dulged eloquent and impressive outcries against
the abuse of the ranking privilege-the free
use of the mails-by members of Congress" Z
The cases. as we see them, are not remotely
analogous. The newspapers, indeed, are the
best customers of the telegraph and telephone
companies; they pay for what they get and it is
recognized business tactics to show courtesy to
a good customer. 1t may be that in the long run
it will be better for the papers not to have the
franks, but wherein their possession Of them CON
stituted an abuse similar to that of servant of
the public employ adding to his salary by in
direct means, we are unable to say. If any com
ment upon this question is specially pertinent is
1t not rather that the newspapers knowledge of
the withdrawal of favors from themselves has in
no wise served to keep them silent as to the prin-
clple which Is i'll constant antagonism to special
privilege. Wherever found The very newspapers
that are now conspicuousy silent did not hest
tate to endorse the bill to include the telegraph
and telephone companies in the class of inter
state commerce corporations, although they knew
full well that such bill would have the effect of
bringing both companies and newspapers under
the inhibition of the Hepburn law as respects
the giving or acceptance of franks or passes
The case cited by the Times is we think. diff
ferent from the position in which many papers
found themselves when the Hepburn law was in
committee At that time there was loud outcrv
for an anti-pass provision, most of it in the ex-
pectation that the amendment would not be in
cluded in the bill. Had it not been included.
many papers would have continued to use their
passes, while crying to high Heaven against the
lniquity of the law permitting them to do so. To
their everlasting undoing Congress adopted the
amendment, and there was woe in Israel-a woe
at which even those most afflicted were forced TO
grim guilty. IN private. But we do not see
wherein thing that was asked for hypocritically
in 1906 implies hypocrisy when the same thing
was asked for with open eyes in 1910.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22

The latest reports from Nicaragua indicate a
glorious victory for Secretary Knox Madriz
Is stated to be on the run and mobs in Managua
are shouting "Down with the Yankees.
good start for the era of good feeling and closer
trade between the United States and Central and
South American countries which was prophesied
when the Panama Canal commenced to take the
form of fact
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22
Virginia Highway.

The suggestion OF the Tarheel editor that North
Carolina construct Mountains to the Sea Highway"
Is receiving the vigorous support brother editors
In practically every section of State. why nor
similar highway for Virginia? And why not make
the beginning with the proposed highway from Nor
folk to Richmond via Petersburg? movement to
that end was inaugurated. believe. time ago
but FOR some reason other allowed to lapse
It ought to be revived and pushed the earliest pos
sible consummation.--Virgin Pilot
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22

What is to become of the Roosevelt speech for
Slemp! If the Colonel aligns himself with the
Insurgents he attacks his candidates platform
if he sticks to Taft and Cannon. he sacrifices his
own hopes. If he does the one, he ruins Slemp
if he does the other, he ruins himself. The signs
all point to the Colonels regrets instead of the
Colonel.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22
THE PEOPLES FORUM

- As 10 Grade Crossings.
To the Editor OF The Virginia:
Sir,In interesting article in your paper of Fri
day. styled Highway Death Traps the general tone
OF which is good. and with within I agree. you say:
IN England and on the continent such thing as
the American grade crossing is known" etc
In this you are mistaken. for there are a great
many, though in majority of the crossing il
either above or below grade, / have found In a
recent extended trip through Europe Believing you
wish 10 be entirely accurate in any statement you
make have written you thus in this
PETER J. WHITE
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22
Let the Virginian Follow You.

II you intend leaving Richmond for a vacation,
have The Xireinian sent daily to your cottage
or hotel. You may then enjoy the mountain
seashore air and at the same time keep i'm
close touch with all that Is happening In the
city and State, and country-politicai, social,
business and sporting circes.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22

Senator Cores statement that all the evidence
tends to negative the idea that Vice President
Sherman was involved in the Indian graft
scandal confirms us in our first impression that
neither the size of the stakes nor the assurances
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22

Colonel Roosevelt stretches the Ananias Club
to include those persons who stated that he had
sent President Taft an ultimatum. No doubt
the Colonel bides the time when he can hand him
quietus.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22

Inspector Dews action in going to the trouble
of taking passage under fictitious name shows
that the man from Scotland Y ard is not so averse
to publicity as he may have led some people to
believe
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22
Refutation in the Clnrre.

We do not believe word of the story to the effect
that Southern editor drew his on a man in
New York and when arrested and taken before 4
magistrate to give bond flashed thousand dollars In
bills No real Southern editor has a thousand
dollars at time. and, If he did he would have
too much sense to take ii New York with him
Virginian- Pilot.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22
A Su1reSsfop

street in Stanton Va hass unk over forty feet
The cavern is attributed many causes. How about
1t being rebuke TO the August County Argus for
hoasting of Stauntons high elevation above the sea
level-Northern Neck News
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22
Eof safety in the game were such as to appeal to
a sport of Sunny Jim's" size and genius.

The latest revolt against the Standard Oil
Company has at least the theory of science be-
hind it, "The hair of the dog is good for the
bite, and perhaps the way to kill the trust is to
sick another one ON it.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22

Hoke Smiths own paper forced him to run for
Governor when he didn't want to do so. If the
people give him another kick, he will have to
kick himself for getting himself kicked.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22

The census returns indicate that the Amer
lean people have been ''holding families down"
The average citizen has an impression that the
difficult thing is to hold them up
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22
Anniversary OF Steam Nax,eat.on

anniversary OF steam Navigation.
1t was hundred years ago on Wednesday that Rob
ert Fulton made his first trip the Hudson in the
Ciermont The American Citizen of August II, 1910
contains this paragraph:
Mr.. Fultons ingenious boat. invented with a
view TO the navigation of the Mississippi from New
Orleans upwards. Sails to-day from the North river,
near the State prison. to Albany The velosity the
steamboat Is calculated at miles hour. II Is
said that 1t will make progress of two against the
current of the Mississippi and II 1t will be
very valuable acquisition to the commerce OF the
Western States
According to Edward Hagaman Halls history. the
Clermont made the trip to Albany In hours
The State prison referred to stood the block now
bounded by Washington. West Tenth, West ana
Charles streets in old Greenwich Village. New York
ctty.-Alexandria Gazette.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22

The straw votes now being taken in the Georgia
gubernatorial contest are about as conclusive as
the popularity" contests at the motion picture
shows.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22
Poesic Tex,sx,s

William Dean Howells is Of the opinion that the
poets of America have great failure
or that We know not They have a respectable past
thanks to Poe and Sidney Ianier, but present to
speak of Further than that your deponent speaketh
not.-Vrgnian- Pilot
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22

The only sound that proceeds from Sycamore
Hill IS one that resembles the grinding of teeth.
Perhaps the Colonel is sharpening his weapons
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22

Korea has merely discovered that hermits,
necessary, will be washed by force.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22
THE IRISH

Richmond could not more warmly welcome
my gathering than one which harks backs to
"Dald sod. The Ancient Order of Hi.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22

Unique Writer.
Judge Risden T. Bennett of Wadesboro Ia not only
unique, but forceful writer. and recent reference
nninna. bnta forceful writer and recent referenca
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22
THE " LAND BREEZE CA -.

or, Thou invisible, eternal, in
finite. force, power, Intelligence, or
Whaterer Thou art, caiied God.
IF Thou are net being lake unto
ourselves, ,ehy should ese', bltadly ,eor-
ship Thee as such?
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22
The Talk Down Home .
Some, Srake~

J. Reid Baird captured twenty-three water moe
casions Sunday in the river here with one rock
This sounds very much like original snake story
but he has the goods prove his statement twenty
one can be seen In alcohol at the Souhsde Pharmacy
the other he skinned and has only the skin from
which he says he intends making himself a belt
Monroe Enquirer
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22

But If a being Thou art, ,0hy may
not men hare some knou-ledge Of Thy
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-22

This is not the imagined prehistoric cry of
some wounded soul in the childhood of the race
raising impassioned hands to unresponsive
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-08-04
Announces Candidacy.

A candidate for the United States
Senate ought to declare his policies,
and has the right to refer to his party
history.
Believing that the government can
not in justice levy tax upon one man
for the benefit of another, stand for
a tariff for revenue only.
Recognizing the fact that the bur,
dens of taxation should rest most
lightly on those least able to bear
them, would, as far as possible, gath
er the tariff revenue from luxuries,
rather than necessities.
In order that there may be real
relief from tariff exactiOns, and for
other good reasons, l favor a tax upon
the income of both persons and corpo-
rationS.
The powers of the Interstate Com
merce Commission should be so ex-
tended as to enable that body to COM
pei fair and just rates upon all In
terstate Commerce.
Discrimination by public carriers
against either individuals or commun-
tiles is unjustifiable, and ought to be
no longer tolerated.
The integrity and powers of the va
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-08-04

In demonstration, lagOr never did
receive a single benefit from all these
laws-we only need to contemplate the
fact that if benefits did really flow,
they would be first felt by those who
toiled in the protected Industries.
Who is there does not know that
of all skilled labor, the poorest paid IS
the vast army of pale-taced men and
women and unhealthful children toll
ing in the great mills whose owners
clamor for PROTECTION in the name
of their employees
Nay, more! The argument is re-
duced to the absurd when we consider
that the total cost of labor on an aver
age entering into manufactured prod
ucts is but l712 per cent. OF their TO-
tai value, while the tariff tax ranges
beyond 80 per cent! An ordinary tar
iff. levied for revenue purposes alone,
will more than equal the entire cost OF
labor entering into the finished prod
uct.
The American laborer in protected
mills. because of superior machinery
and the possession of greater intelli-
gence. energy and skill, produces so
much more than can the man OF other
lands, that, measured by the product
of his toll, he actually receives the
lowest wage paid upon the earth. In
sharp competition with him each day,
stand hundreds waiting for his job
willing to work at any price if it but
yield the bare necessities of life and
keep starvation from the home.
Thus the old cry by which our enc
mics conjured the votes of those who
knew they felt the pangs of want and
hoped for succor from some source,
has lost its potency among the men
who toll!
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-08-04

Then came the organization OF the
Guggenheim combination to take in
new deposits, keep the market IN COM
plete control, perpetuate graft and
force our people to submit to william
Gus eXtortiOnS, while foreign purchas-
ers are supplied at reasonable prices.
These are but samples of the gener-
al scheme-incidcnts of the vast pan
in which each great concern Is join
ed-by which they glut their greedy
appetite.
For all these evils, the Republican
party has been sponsor, defender, and
willing tool.
1t has sought to justify its Iegisla-
tive outrages by various sophistries
and CLOSED them over by the tnin We
neer OF pretended patriotism!
Infant Industries"
Republican leaders raised the cry
Protection for Infant Industries!" In
this guiSe tax was levied for the
benefit of industries established before
the republic was born and which we're
prosperous in the days of Washington!
We have seen these infants combine
together until within their mighty
arms they embrace the continent and
with insatiate fingers gather the toll
Of monopoly in every home! The peo-
pie are beginning to understand that
they have permitted the creation of
monsters more dangerous than a horde
of foreign enemies coming in armed in
yasioni
Declaring its love for the laboring
man, the Republican party insisted
lie should not be brought into competi-
ton with the paupeT labor of other
lands-bOasted the wages he receiv-
ed-and asserted that the benefits to
flow from tariff would inure to labor.
False to American Labor.
In proof that this was but a sham
and false pretense, | call attention to
the fact that for two-score years, the
Grand Old Party" permitted and the
protected industries practIced the i'm
portation of foreigners under contract
to take the places of American citi-
Zens who were cOntending for a living
wage.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-08-04

any instance in all history. oil monopC-
lies continuing to clamor Tor pro-
lection against foreign competition al
the very moment they were underse!-
ling the foreigner in his own market.
Surely. the patience OF the American
people 'passeth ali understanding.
The mind can conceive of no prop
csiriUn more monstrOus, more absurd,
more unthinllable, than that by iaW
we should compel
The American farmer to pay the
International Harvester Company =
per cent. more than the Canadian farm
er pays it Tor his agricultural impte-
Inents;
The American mechanic to pay from
10 to 80 per cent. more than the me
chanic OF other lands pays for the
same tools;
The American railroad to pay TO the
steel trust from 500 to $1,000 per ton
more Tor steel rails than the price at
which the trust sells in foreign parts:
The home purchasers or the great
steel beams and girders which form
the framework of modern buildings
and span the creeks and rivers OF our
lands to pay an advance Of % to 40
per cent. over that charged when pur-
chased for use in other countries;
The American farmers and business
men to submit to tax OF from 90 to
80 per cent. upon every wooden gar
ment they wear;
The laboring man to endure the
enormous increase of the Payne-Ald-
rich bill upon the cheap cotton under
wear he uses to protect himself from
the cold;
The poor man to pay 100 per cent.
to Il trust before he can be permitted
to cover himself with a WOODEN blan-
ket on a winters night.
All these must buy in monopoly
controlled market at monopoly prices!
They are denied the benefit, but are
forced to bear the burden OF compe-
tition.
All of them compete, each with the
other. The working man sells his
days labor at whatever price he can
obtain, after bidding against the many
who seek the same Job.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-08-04

miIted TO have the protection OF our
courts when they desire; to use our
machinery of Justice; 10 enforce claims
against any Of our citizens, but
+ citizen Of the state has
complaint TO make against them, he
can be dragged into federal courts to
there litigate his rights.
3Id The Federal Incorporation Act
will either be drawn so that all con-
Germs engaged in interstate commerce
must. or at least may avail them
selves Of its privileges; OF, it will be
so drawn as to apply only to certain
class of corporations: or. again, the
right to grant or refuse Incorporation
will be vested in some federal office
holder
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-08-04
Birth of insurgency.

Against this betrayal has arisen a
cry Of universal protest.
Welded as they were to party
bound by the ties holding them to the
organization they have so long served,
yet not utterly lost to the demands
of decency nor entirely forgetful of
the sanctity of pledges-a few brave
Republican Senators have dared tn
keep faith with the public.
When rOgues fall out, just men get
their dues"
| shall not apply this maxim to the
Republican insurrectionists. A more
proper statement is found in the ex-
preston that-"Honest men quit the
company OF thieves" So we find the
greatest men in the Republican party
in open revolt against the wicked be-
trayal of the people. They have SIM
ply undertaken to carry out in good
faith anti-election promises.
We had the right to believe that the
President, who, on a hundred plat
forms pledged tariff reform, would
have welcomed to his heart those who
championed the redemption of his
plighted word On the contrary, he
seeks to drive them from his home.
They are politically excommunicate
They stand as conspicuous evidence
of the fact that the machine organiza-
ton of the Republican party can never
be trusted to relieve against the mi
quities it has so long fostered and in
which many of its leaders are financial
ly interested.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-08-04
States Robbed of Power.

1t will reduce the powers of the
sovereign states so that they will
scarcely exceed those now possessed
by county governments.
The plain purpose is to give to the
monopolies of this country habitat
in the City of Washington, and to
place them beyond the control of the
various states. To enable them to in
wade the territory of these states-set
at defiance the will OF the people there
of, and to exercise the powers OF COM
plete and criminal monopoly under the
wings of the federal government.
To what condition will this lead ?
list. These institutions, operating
under a federal license, can enter our
states against our will and can trans
act business despite our protest. We
will be compelled to grant them the
protection of our laws-through our
police and officers to protect their
property. We will be forced to do all
this, even though their objects, pur-
poses and methods may be in con-
fiict with those which (under the
policies of our laws) are denounced
as illegal or even criminal.
End These concerns will be per-