The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-01-22
What's The News?"
The Weeks Happenings.
By CLARENCE H. POE

ceed clifford Pinchot as Forester. Concern
Jug Mr' rlnchot. the whole country deeply regrets
us dismissal from Office and yet admits tba,
f'es'uent tart could not have done less than or
uer MS removal after Pipchot's letter tn senato,
| poiliver But Tafts mistake was made ho,ore
mat ume-began, in fact, when he put in Bal
'inger with his unsavory associations as Secretary
" tue interior. So while we can have no blame
lot MI TAFT for dismissing Pinchot after the ap
| pearance OF the Dolliver letter. the country can
not hold him blameless for permitting the condi
lions which provoked that letter from a splendid
pubic servant to whom conditions in the Depart
ment of the Interior had become intolerable.
Elections held Saturday and Monday for seats IN
The Lower House Of the British Parliament indi-
cate that the Liberals will retain control of the
Government. although with material losses from
their present overwhelming majority-which
means. OF course that the Lords will be forced to
give their assent to Lloyd-George's hated Budget
Al the same time the Liberals will be sobered by
The losses they have suffered. which will probably
prevent them from going to the extreme Of de-
handing the abolition OF the hereditary chamber
The House OF Lords has had It's fangs pulled and
viii probably not stand much In the way Of the
Liberal program from now OF the ninety
one members OF the House Of Commons for which
elections held Saturday. the Liberals lost in
eighteen districts to the Unionists, and In one to
The Labortes. the Unionists in three cases to the
liberals and In sixty-nine districts there no
change OF party majority. Numerous other cleo
lions Will be held during the next two weeks, and
under the English law man can vote in each dis
trict In which he owns land. The nature Of the
Lloyd George budget" or system Of taxation, has
been several times explained in these columns. as
well as the unprecedented action of the Lords in
refusing to assent to the scheme OF taxation pro-
posed by the elected representatives of the peo
pie. The Unionists or Conservatives (the party
of the Lords) propose that England shall abandon
her historic free-trade policy and set up pro-
ective tariff. and 1t was upon this appeal to the
people that they based their unrealzed hopes of
party success
Although similar amendments have been twice
defeated, the Maryland Democrats propose to sub
NIT TO the voters next year another negro dsfran
chising Constitutional Amendment. To this no
~AS -
regular methods by which 1t is proposed to carry
H. 1t is proposed to have an entirely new regis
tration with the machinery entirely In the hands
OF the majority party. and the registrars instruct
ed to refuse to register negroes. AS the Mary
land negro population is not large anyhow. 1t looks
a. II the main motive were the ambition OF the
democratic State machine to perpetuate It's su-
premacy. And never since the days OF Senator
Germans rise to power has the Maryland ma
china bean noted for moral scruples
Like other Southern States North Carolina SUI
fered much In Reconstruction Gays IRON 'ne