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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
SAMPLE OF TARIFF ROBBERY
In Buying Cotton Goods We Pay 80
Cents More for Each One Dollar
Than W. Should.

A fresh-faced young girl. with a ma
tured woman. probably her mother
stood examining some cotton fabrics al
a dry goods counter In a large depart
ment store. The fabrics were Of differ
ent qualities and prices. The girl tooh
the coarsest-ev1dently because It was
the cheapest.
that the tariff robbed them OF the
finest fabric? Yet that would be the
truth. In every dollar our women
spend on cotton clothes generally
dresses. stockings, gloves and other
things-they pay at least thirty cents
more than they need pay because of
the tariff.
Cotton manufactures may be divided
into three grades-coarse, medium and
fine. In the coarser grades we COM
pete with the world in the foreign mar
kets. In some divisions of the me-
dunn grades, we compete to some de-
gree. In the finer grades we not only
do not compete abroad. but we do not
compete at home. The foreign cotton
prints, as well as laces and embrOider.
les, pay our high tariff and beat us In
our own market.
Why is this?
we are the greatest cotton growers
In the world. We not only grow the
most cotton but the best quality. Eng
land, Japan and other people buy our
raw cotton.
Comparisons also show hat per yard
our labor cost is lowest. We work
more spindles' and more looms per Op-
erative than the lower paid operatives
elsewhere.
Thus we have the advantages In re-
spect to raw cotton and labor.
But we are handicapped In our tarin
on machinery. on supplies and on the
very buildings In which manufacturing
Is carried on.
All these handicaps away, It is prob
able that we should be sending the
finest quality cotton goods to compete
at the lowest prices in the world mar
kets. At any rate there would then
not be a Pigment of excuse for an aver
age Of so per cent. duty on finished
cotton goods. And American women
then buying the finest grades would
pay even less than they do now for
the coarsest--Henry George, Jr.. in
the New York World.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Tariff and b

Why are the champions Of the high
protective tariff system so strongly
opposed to a scientific tariff commits
sion, which Is favored by President
Taft and other reasonable-minded pro
te~ctionists? asks the Chicago News,
Are they afraid that the facts will not
support the schedules which Aldrich
and his coterie have succeeded in put.
ting into the present tariff law? If so,
they must go further and suppress
the other governmental inquiries.
Willis J. Abbot, in an article In the
Daily News, has given some Of the re-
suits Of the inquiry by the federal
bureau of labor into labor conditions
at the Bethlehem steel works, the
head Of which Is c. M. Schwab. This
concern is given large contracts by
the government for the construction
OF death-dealing machines for the war
department. 1t Is also protected from
foreign competition by heavy tariff
duties. "Mr. Schwab reciprocates,"
says Mr.. Abbot, basing his declara-
ton on the figures contained in the
report of Labor Commissioner NELL,
'by working his men twelve hours a
and wen days in the week and pay
ing them ar average weekly wage
smaller than ST."
In the face Of their opposition to q
permanent tariff commission the high
tariff advocates will find it difficult to
disabuse the voters of the suspicious
that will be aroused by the publica-
ton Of such facts as those embodied
In the Neill report respecting the
steel works.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Unneeded Tax on People.

Presumably the tariff of one cent 8
pound on oranges-which was i'm
posed by the Dingley law and retained
by the Payne law-represents the DIFF
ference between the cost of produc
ton at home and abroad, plus q rea.
sonable profit for the grower. But
whatever beneficial effect 1t may have
had on the infant industry of orange
growing. 1t would appear that 1t Is no
longer needed. The way the bust.
ness has grown and 1ourished is evi.
denced by. the official figures which
show that in 1890 our orange imports
amounted to $4,000, 900; ten years
later the imports had dropped to ST.
900, 900, and in another decade, which
brings us to the fiscal year ending last
June. they had decreased to. 500, 900,
or practically nothing; while the ex.
ports have grown from $3.50, 900 in
1900 to over 81. 900, 900 during the last
fiscal year. We have found that we
not only a drive foreign oranges
out of this country with the home
product, but that our oranges can
compete with the pauper grown
oranges of the rest of the world to the
extent of over 81. 900, 900 a year. And
yet the tariff makers, in their wis.
dom, retained a tax of n cent 9
pound on this fruit! AS a revenue
producer 1t is negligible and any
claim that it is needed for protection
is pretty plainly refuted by u COM
parative exports and imports.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Great Financier Some Years Ago Con.
sldered That Product Ranked In
Commercial Importance With
Wool and Cotton.

Although the late C.. P. Huntington,
the real creator Of the Southern Pa
cif1c railroad and the maker of one
of the greatest American fortunes,
could not rival James J. Hill or An
drew Carnegie as a public speaker, or
at least never tried to do that, never
theless he was one of the most enter
tanning and instructive Of men when
engaged In private conversation. He
had a fund of anecdotes, he was In
tensely interested in all the greater
undertakings of American capital, and
he had made a study of the personal
tiles of the many Of the great leaders
of his time in railway and industrial
development
1t was my good fortune to meet Mr..
Huntington some years before his
death, when he was in a very chatty
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Starving Their Goose.

Nothing has been more significant
than the comment of members Of the
New York wool exchange to the New
York Evening Post on present condi-
tions in the wool market. There Is
depression in the manufacturing in
1ustry, and wool IL being reshipped
to European points from Boston and
New York. A variety of reasons are
offered to account for the condition,
and not a few of the wool men are
now admitting that the exorbitant tar
IL, under which the cost to consumers
has been boosted, is responsible for
the cessation of demand. and the con
seQuent shutting down Of mills.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Pass tina Roosevelt Returned

letter, but also with equal s~trictness
according to their spirit"
There was only one thing for us to
do after that. concluded my author
ity; I'VE cancelled the pass. And all
the time that MI. Roosevelt was gov
ernor he and Mrs. Roosevelt and their
children rode OF purchased railroad
tickets sometimes economizing by
riding in a day coach between Albany
and New York city, instead Of using
a parlor car"
copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards.)
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
The Nurses Opinion.

A nurse had been called as q wit
ness to prove the correctness of the
bill of a physician.
Let us get at the facts in the
case" said the lawyer, who was do
ing a cross-examination stunt. Didn't
the doctor make several visits after
the patient was out Of danger?" a
mo, sir" answered the nurse. II
considered the patient in danger al
long as the doctor continued his Wis
its"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
OPENLY FOR SPOILS.
ATTITUDE OF REPUBLICAN PARTY
PLAINLY SHOWN.
Golfers Weekly Makes Public Letter
Written by Subordinate Of secre-
tary BaIiInger Which Admits Of
But One Inference.

In q recent issue Golfers Weekly
publishes a letter written by a subor'
dinate of Secretary Ballinger of the
interior department which probably
shows the spirit of the Ballinger ad.
ministration of that great branch OF
the national government. The writer
of the letter is w. H. Batting, a
nephew of Senator Hepburn Of Idaho,
and the interior department official in
charge Of the land Office at Occur
d'Alene. The epistle Is addressed to
the editor Of a newspaper which had
formerly been awarded advertising
patronage at the disposition Of the
land Office.
The letter vas sent In explanation
of the withdrawal of advertising pat
ronage from the newspaper in ques-
ton. Naturally" writes Mr.. Batting,
such notices go to the Republican
newspapers" That is a frank presen-
tation of the spoilsman's view of poll
tics that might have passed muster In
the day of Andrew Jackson and An
drew Van Buren,, but 1t was scarcely
to have been expected from an official
of the Taft administration. But Bat
ting goes further, making the test of
Republicanism support Of the stand
pat group as represented by Ballinger
and Cannon. Two Of the specific
counts against tho offending editor are
as follows:
II. At the time of the hearing Of the
case against the Washington Water
Power company, the Spokesman-Re-
view published an editorial In which
the good faith OF Secretary Ballinger.
Senator H and myself was ques-
toned In connection with that case.
This same editorial was copied (ver-
batim, l believe) by your paper.
z. At the time of the contest In the
house of representatives against
Speaker Cannon you published an edi-
torial attacking Cannon and also our
representative, Hamer.
The letter closes with the following
remarkable words:
The above constitutes the basis OF
my action in not having recognized
your paper as a proper medium for
the publication of notices. II, how
ever, in the future conduct of your pa
per these political a%crobatics are elm
I will be glad to reconsider the
and extend to you the full con-
to which you may be en-
This letter was written as late as
April 10 last, when the Ballinger in
had been under way for
months. Golfers makes the comment
that subordlnates of his may be dis
by Secretary Ballinger for too
much zeal in the public service, but
that nothing is likely to happen to Bat
ting for writing this disgraceful let
ter.
Whatever may be the measure of
IN such matters, the Taft
administration ought to be too sensi-
BILE and too honest to tolerate such a
petty and yet such a dangerous appli-
cation Of the spells idea. Batting's eff
'ort to control the editorial express
'ions of small newspapers through ad-
7ertising notices at the disposal of the
and office division of the department
8 simply vicious. - Chicago Daily
News (Ind. Rep.).
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
11e Years Old When He Died

TIS years OTo WHICH ne OIeo.
Paddy Blake, who was born at Bal
lyg1reen, parish Of ~Kilnasoolagh, Coun-
ty Clare, Ireland, 119 years ago, has
died in the Corofn Union hospital.
Paddy had a clear memory Of events
that happened a hundred years ago
and was one Of those who went to see
Daniel O'Connell passing through Bun
ratty Pike on his way to Ennis for
the great election Of 1928.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
True Figure. a. to Rubber TarIfl

True Figures A. 20 Rubber Tariff.
When our Uncle Joe told people out
in Kansas that the tariff on manufac.
lures Of rubber had been raised s per
cent, he meant 5 per cent. OF the
value of the rubber product imported.
To be exact, the duty was 80 per cent.
ad Yalorem and now 1t Is IS per cent
Az we figure 1t, that Is an advance IN
the duty itself of nearly II per cent.
And prices have gone UP In somethins
like the same ratio.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Tools Of Trade.

$50 you pardonsd that convict be-
cause he was a poet?"
"Yes," replied the governor, II
want to encourage American litera-
ture. We have tried our best with
midnight oil and a fountain pen. Now
let's e what we can do with a dark
lantern and a jisnmy."
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
The Fatal Cure

The men die of their remedies and
not Of their diseases.-Moliere.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12

Landlady| cannot accommodate
you. l take in only single men.
WigsOn-What makes you think
I'm twins?
The Dickinson press., 1910-08-13
HIS STUPID MISTAKE.
Much to His Surprise It Was Promptly
Recti7ed,

Much to His Surprise It Was Promptly
Rsctifsd.
A we'll known Londoner was plan
ming an entertainment on an elabo-
rate scale to be given to various friends
in the neighborhood Of his country
seat. Unfortunately his nearest neigh
boz, a close relative, is highly uncon-
genial to himself and his intimates.
and he racked his brains to devise a
scheme by which he might avoid the
necessity Of inviting the undesirable
cousin to be among his guests.
II have it" he announced to his wife
at breakfast on the morning Of the
event. "I'll send him some tickets for
the play tonight in town. OF course
he'll be delighted, as he seldom has an
opportunity of going to the theater."
The tickets were accordingly sent.
and the host with an easy conscience
proceeded to enjoy the company of his
friends. But his satisfaction was of
short duration. At the height Of the
festivities, much to his surprise. in
walked the Objectionable neighbor.
"Such a stupid mistake you made!"
he announced as he approached his
cousin. "As soon as I heard about
your party I knew that you must have
sent me the tickets for the wrong night.
20 l got them changed for tomorrow
evening and anne right over here as
soon as ! could."-London Taller.
The Dickinson press., 1910-08-13
His Discipline.

Pop, you must take this child In
hand. ! have had about ull that I can
stand. She has no notion of minding
me; it il time you took her across your
knee" :
"Send her to me-" said Pop, with a
frown. 1T won't take me long to tone
her down."
But how could he punish her, tell
me, do. when she looked at him with
her eyes Of blue? Looked at him in
the same glad way that her mother did
in that faroff day when she was his
sweetheart and he her beau. How
could he strike her I'd like to know?
But still he took her upon his knee
and ut once was lost in u reverie that
carried him back to u shady street
and a little maid whom he used to
meet, a blue eyed maid whose count
erpart now sat on his knee with a
beating heart, waiting for him to for
get those days and punish her for her
wilful ways. =
Nom peeped In through the half
closed door. They were playing Jacks
on the parlor floor, playing jacks and
quarreling, too, just as two children
are apt to do. She frowned, it vas
more than half caress, II will have to
punish them both, I guess."-Chicago
Record-Herald.
The Dickinson press., 1910-08-13
The Ways Of koIes.

Among common animals few have
been less studied in their life history
than the mole. An English natural
list, Mr.. Lionel E. Adams, says that
under the fortress which the mole
constructs above the surface Of the
ground will always be found a series
Of tunnels running out beneath the
adjacent field. A curious feature al
most invariably found is a perpendic-
ular run penetrating about a foot be-
low the bottom Of the nest and then
turning upward to meet another run.
A mole is never found in his nest, al
though 1t may be yet warm from his
body when opened. Guided by smell
and hearing. a mole frequently locates
the nest Of a partridge or pheasant
above his run and, penetrating it from
below, eats the eggs. The adult mole
is practically blind. but there are en-
bryonic indications that the power Of
sight in the race has deteriorated.
The Dickinson press., 1910-08-13
A MODERN scALPER.

The Little Comedy That Was Played
Between the Aets.
"A little comedy between acts enliv-
ened things at a Broadway theater one
night last week. a middle aged man
accompanied BY his wife rat directly
behind q pretty young girl and her e.
coet At tho end of the 6rst ct the
mtddle ared man went ont for ssfreah
The Dickinson press., 1910-08-13
An lnaeniou. psfsnss.

An Ingenious Defense.
Nimble wits and a glib tongue fire.
Quently ave erring 'coppers' on trial
before the deputy commissioner at
headquarters. Some Of the "defenses''
put up by offenders are more ingen-
ious than convincing. Not long ago a
giant patrolman, accused of being
about a quarter Of q mile of his beat,
evolved this excuse. "You see. it was
like this. your honor, I was p~atrolling
my post when l thought I heard a
man up the street yelling Fire!
Firev I ran in the direction Of the
sound, and, would you believe me, Mr..
Commissioner, there stood a fellow out
on the sidewalk trying to wake up a
friend Of his on the second floor, and
he was yelling with all his might
Meyer! Meyer!'" "Well, that's a
brand new one," said the trial commits
sioner, the suspicion Of a smile cross
ing his face. Complaint dismissed"
New York Tribune.
The Dickinson press., 1910-08-13
surprises In Chinese,

"some people," said an American
consul to China, Give as long rs
twenty years in China and never learn
more than a dozen Chinese express
sions. But not 50 my little girl. She
used to meet me each evening with
some new Chinese expression which
she had learned during the day. Now,
the Chinese language, like the Japan
csc, is full Of honoriacs, and I fondly
imagined n evening, when my little
girl greeted me with some entirely
new expressions, that she was saying
something like this: Here comes the
honorable parsonage. my father
ITO verify my guess I asked a little
Chinese boy to translate. At first he
was rather backward. but l urged him
until he finally said:
"sYour e%xcellency, your daughter
says, Here comes that old wooden
headed bottle."' Yes. there are some
surprises in Chinese"
The Dickinson press., 1910-08-13
What Napoleon Couldn't Do.


An incident connected with Napoleon
when he was in exile in Elba Is CON-
memorated on the island to this day
by an inscription affixed to the wall Of
q PEASANTS house. A man named Gia-
conf was blowing when the famous
exile came along n day and ex-
pressed an interest in his work. Ma
poleon even took the plow handles and
attempted to guide it himself, but the
oxen refused to obey him, overturned
the plow and spoiled the furrow. The
inscription runs thus:
Napoleon the Great, passing by this
place in MDCCCXIv, took in the
neighboring field a plow from the
hands Of a peasant and himself tried
to pillow. but the oxen, rebellious to
those hands which yet had guided Eu-
rope, headlong fed from the furrow.''
st. Louis Republic.
The Dickinson press., 1910-08-13
FORTUNE ISLAND.

The Story Of the Buried Prize Of an
English Buccaneer.
An English b%uccaneer, having looted
and fired a rich prize, found himself
pursued in turn by a Spanish pirate,
and in order to save his treasure sought
some isolated shore on which to bury
it until the time came to divide the
spoils with his followers. So he ran
into the Bahama group and, landing on
a low lying strip of sand and palm
trees, cached his plumber and, naming
the place Fortune island, sailed away.
He left a number of negro slaves be.
hind to guard the buried treasure, and
the present inhabitants are said to be
descended from these slaves. The For
tune islanders believe the old sea rover
never returned for his chest and that
it is still hidden somewhere near the
tide level. 1t is no uncommon sight
for tourists on the rare occasions when
a steamer stops there to see some halt
naked black man digging in the sand
probably in obedience to q dream OF
other sign.
The natives r half civilized, exceed.
ingly superstitious and very poor and
live mostly on fish and fruit. They
do not attempt to plant vegetables, pre-
fering to rely on the bounty of nature
a the fierce hurricanes that sweep the
Bahamas soon uproot and destroy gar
dens. The little colony is huddled to-
gether in a collection Of squalid huts
that r blown clear away in nearly
every storm and have to be built anew.
The island is nine miles long and a
mile wide at the broadcast part and lies
no miles. northeast Of Cuba. - New
York Press.
The Dickinson press., 1910-08-13
INDIANS AND BULLETS.

A Sample Of the Strenuous Life In
kentucky In 1777.
In 177, while Harrodsburg, KY,
was 20 beset with Indians that the
Inhabitants were in straits for daily
bread. a young man, only sixteen years
old, made himself extremely useful by
venturing out Of the fort before day
break and returning with q load Of
game after nightfall. This intrepid
youth was James Ray, afterward Gen
esal Ray. -,
One day in the year just mentioned
Ray and another young man were
shooting at a mark near tho fort, when
the second man was suddenly shot
down by the Indians. Ray looked in
the direction whence the shot had
come, saw the enemy and was on the
point Of raising his rifle when he was
set upon by another band who had
crept near him unseen.
He took to his heels and, being a
quick runner. reached the fort amid O
shower Of bullets, but the gates were
shut, and the men inside were SO
frightened that they dared not open
them. Finding himself shut out, Ray
threw himself fat on the ground in
the real Of a stump, and here, perhaps
seven steps from the fort and within
sight Of bis mother, he lay for four
hours, while the bullets Of the Indians
tore up the ground on either side OF
him. .
At last be grew impatient and called
out to the garrison:
"For heavens sake, dig a hole under
the cabin wall and take me in!'
The men inside set to work imme'
diately. and the brave young hunter
was speedily safe inside the fort.
The Dickinson press., 1910-08-13
An Arab leuend.

'.There is none 80 poor but there Is
one poorer"
A poor Arab spent his last bara on q
handful Of dates and went up on q
high cliff to eat them and die. AS he
threw the stones over a lean hand
shot out below and caught them.
"Ho!" said he. "Why do you catch
my date %stones?"
Because. o brother" answered q
weak voice, II have not eaten these
three days, and Allah has sent these
stones to save my life."
"Praise be to Allah" answered the
first man, "for he has saved me also,
for here is one poorer than l."
And both men went into the city.
The Dickinson press., 1910-08-13
DIVIDED THE MESSAGE
The Way . Pfnanoisr's clsrk Extern.
porjIod q cjphnr.

s"s Wy Clerk Extssa'
Pos,1eo Sspner.
Wnen wan street nrst caught the
1eves 1of INDUSTRIAL combinations"
.na Deesn tne FeoreaniEadon OF every
saanS - slsnt one q the votar1es OF
- nnancs FOUND himself ~ Chicago
~ e1uelae mesa q Communicating
WsIn ~ NsM xofk odace.
10 Almost eoWpleted N arrange.
Aeat 1oe tne CONSULTATION Of several
1890 e~ntetpeaseA, but IN order to
ees the nnal authority he needed from
New OH he must explain IN he had
.dooe BY wire to his partners.
The Dickinson press., 1910-08-13
Making Sure.

"Johnnie!!
"Yes'm?" .M
"Why are you sitting on that boys
faceY'
"Why, p .-.
did I not tell you to always count
a hundred before you gave way to pas
sion and struck another boy?"
"yes'm. and I'm doin' it; I'm just
sittin' OF his face SO he'll be here
when I'm done 'countin' the hundred"
Houston Post.
The Dickinson press., 1910-08-13
sumnsr's Ready Reply.

Charles Sumner when In London
gave a ready reply. At q dinner given
In his honor he spoke Of "the ashes. Of
some dead hero. "Ashes! What Amer
lean English" rudely broke in an Eng
lishman. 'Dust you mean, Mr.. Sum-
ner. We don't burn our dead in this
country" yet" instantly replied Mr..
Sumner, with 9 courteous smile, your
poet Gray tells us that Even in our
ashes live their wonted fres.'" The
American was not criticised again that
evening.-Argonaut.
The Dickinson press., 1910-08-13
First Test Of tho Air Pump,

The first public test Of the air pump
was in 1854 by its inventor, Otto Won
Guericke, in the presence Of Emperor
Ferdinand of Germany. Guericke ap-
piled the carefully ground edges of
metallic hemispheres. two feet in d.
ameter. to each other. After exhaust.
ing the air by his apparatus he at
tached fifteen horses to each hemi.
sphere. In vain did they attempt to
separate them because Of the enor.
nous pressure of the atmosphere. The
experiment was a great success.