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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27
American Rush Astounds Ad-
rnjral Lord Fisher.
HERE ONLY SEVEN DAYS
Says What He Saw in Brief Visit
Was q Revelation.
CAME FOR SONS MARRIAGE
Also Thinks Our Predictions as to
Development of Political Az
fairs Are Wonderful.

NEW YORK, November 26.-Just one
weeks encounter with the bustle and
rush Of American life made such an inn
preston on Lord Fisher of Kilverstone,
G.. G. B., admiral Of the fleet, and until
recently first lord of the British adj
miraity, that he could be induced to talk
of little else than his experiences in
this country when he sailed today for
home on the steamer Baltic.
Warships, the possibilities of aeroplanes
in naval warfare and the recent revolt of
sailors in the Brazilian navy were SUBJ
jects on which his opinion was sought,
but Lord Fisher was too full Of Empress
sions' to have much time for them.
The British admiral arrived here on his
first visit to America last Sunday for the
wedding of his son. He returned on the
same steamer. but in the seven days spent
here what he saw was revelation.
On the Go Every Minute.
The thing that impressed me most >
he said, 'can all be summed up in a
go since the moment 1 landed and it
seems that every one and everything else
is also always on the go. Most Of our
tliic WdS spent III TllldueIplld--
why, that Is our slow town." inter-
rupted an interviewer.
We'll, we didn lind it So replied Mrs
Neeld, the admirals sister. who was a
member Of his party. There was moth
ing sleepy about it that we could see.'
The most remarkable of his expert
ences, the admiral said, was his visit to
the new Pennsylvania station in New
York.
Wonderful Drinking Cup.
But. again, in even the smaller things.
what you have amazes me-" he continued.
How can any one imagine anything
more wonderful than this?" The admiral
opened valise and took out a paper
drinking cup. Just look at it. I put a
cent In a slot for glass of water and
out comes this remarkable paper. Then
there are your automatic telephones. One
deposits a coin and a door slides back
and you can't see where it is gone to.
Then you step into a booth and, presto,
the door closes. Why don't you men
write of these things? You come to in-
terview me and 1 have to tell you OF
what you have in your city.
Another surprising thing is how you
people are able to tell a year or more
beforehand how your political affairs are
to develop. Let me See-whO is your next
President to be? Oh, yes; his name as
Wilson, isn't It? Now, there's a great
man. He tells the best story ever told
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-03
THE TARIFF AND SOUTH CAROLINA

Although South Cardinals represen-
tatives in congress have fought persist
emily against the protective tariff. that
State has nevertheless enormously prof
tied from the tariff. The State, a news
paper Of Columbia, gives a resume Of
the reports of Commissioner Watson as
to the manufacturing industries last
year, which show a gratifying res ult
In 622 manufacturing establishments
with capitalization of s95. 200. 1879. en-
ploying 70, 2s9 persons and producing
SlOS, 1892 in value, the increase of
wages paid in four years amounted to
seven million dollars, and only half the
enterprises of the State are embraced
In that statement. The Federal censu,
of 1905 showed 1899 manufacting en-
terprises. The State Commissioner had
reports from only part of these. but hi,
report covered all the textile mills. l7e
IN number, and 10s oil mills, 81 fertil-
lzer plants, SO lumber plants, % foundry
and machine shops, and other enter
prises Of that kind, all of which are in
existency practically as a result Of the
protective tariff, If the South Caro-
lima representatives in congress could
have had their way there would be no
tariff and South Carolina would have no
such large number of manufacturers
and her condition would be very differ
snt from what it now is. With contin-
ued protection South Carolina will in
time become a very important manu-
manufacturing State. What is true Of
South Carolina is true of other South
States. II the negro question could be
eliminated from Southern politics there
IS no question that a large percentage
of the people of the South would imme-
diately flock to the support of the pro-
tective tariff.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-03

denial of right to the constituency con-
cerned. 1t was argued, and properly.
that the Republican representatives
were as duly commissioned to take mart
In the making of laws for the COVER
nance of the whole citizenship as their
colleagues of the party in power, and
that to deny them a place and a voice
on the bodies charged with the duty Of
formulating Legislation would be practi-
cal Acknowledgement to that extent of
the communities which had elected
them The force of this criticism was
irresistible aud the dominant party in
the legislature was quick to redeem its
error
Early in the session bill was intro
ddced making it obligatory on the ap-
pointing authority to give repres enta
ton on the electoral boards of each citv
or county to the political party second
in voting strength at the preceding gen.
eral election. In this proposition ex.
actly the same principle is involved as
was in the case above referred to. That
the conduct of elections should be above
suspicion of unfairness is the equal con-
Germ of all the elements of the elector-
ate, and the right of the people to fair
and impartial elections can never be
guaranteed except by providing that
control of the ballot boxes shall not be
lodged exclusively with one of the par
ha
is not entitled to the assurance that its
vote will be fairly received and accu-
rately returned, it is not entitled to anv
participation whatever in the processes
by which public officials are chosen
There Is no reason which will bear tie
light of day why the Republicans should
not have member of every electoral
board and representatives among tho
judges and clerks at every polling place
Denial of the right almost amounts to q
confession that they have no rights
which their opponents feel bound to re-
spect; and until this negative discrimi-
nation against the minority party shall
be cured by positive enactment. the
public mind will never repose full conf
dence in the regularity and purity of
elections. Fair play is a jewel. The
Democracy of Virginia is strong enough
to avoid even the appearance of evil.
But beyond and above that is a great
constitutional principle, affecting the
good of every citizen of the Common
wealth; and it cannot be violated with
out imperiling the common veal.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-03
Young Men for the NAN.

In special message to Congress on
the 10th President Taft urges leg ala
ton for. improving the personeI Of the
fighting force of the ANY and 70 J. M
edy what the Presid 1T tsrineI IN
abnormal condition. tie Ie.Ll, Of as,
legislation.
To remedy these CO. iii, ne. a.. P.s-
iient indorsed bill r-ps.e y ), ere
tary Meyer, which v uld i,o,, te IN.
GERS to the grade of r, ar-admir Al a, the
average age Of fif.y-four TO lift, five.
and to captain at the average age of
forty-six to forty-seven.
In urging the necessity OF prompt ac-
ton the President ssid:
Il am strongly of the opinion that
the future Of our navy viii be seriously
compromised unless the ages or our
senior officers are materially reduced
and opportunity given for experience
and training for. bsttlestip and feet
commands !"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-03
THEY WERE DECEIVED.

The mass of the membership of the
Anti-Saioon League have been deceived
by the Machine and their own leaders
They were made to believe that the
Machine candidate for Governor was
such an avowed advocate of temper
ance and so hostile to the saloons that
his election would surely bring such
legislation as the State-widers and
other temperance men would demand.
The Anti-Saloon League and the State
Widers, almost to man, were earnest
supporters of Judge Mann both at the
primary and general election. Along
with the Machine and the liquor men
they elected him Governor and filed the
Legislature with Machine men. Nov
when the Anti-Saloon men go before
the Legislature and ask for certain leg
islation they are met with denial by the
Machine men who have control of all
legislation. The Richmond Journal Of
the Goth ult said:
Prominent members of the Le0is-
lature who are recognized molders of
opinion in the Democratic party in Vir-
ginia approve every word ard syllable
Of the article published yesterday as to
the parting Of the ways of the Anti
Saloon League ard the alleged ma
chine" by which the Democrats are
referred to in these discussions.
They were approached this morning
and asked regarding the situation, and
those who were seen declared that the
situation was sized up exactly in everv
way, and that 1.-THE time has passed for
temporizing with the men who have ar
rogated to themselves the duty of CON-
trolling the policies, the morals and the
general welfare of the State"
''These sentiments come from some
men who have never been known tn
look upon the wine when it is red" :
During the recent gubernatoriaI cam
paign we frequently predicted that Just
zach things would happen. It was known
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-03
TIME FOR REFORMATION.

We call the attention of the fair
minded men of the Ninth district and Of
Virginia to the article on this page
winch we have taken from the Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot. Our Norfolk contem-
porary is the first Democratic news
paper in the State to take a stand for .
fair administration of elections under
the provisions Of the new constitution
We say this advisedly, for we cannot
recall a single instance previous to this
where Democratic paper has openly
advocated the putting of Republican
member on each electoral board in the
commonwealth. No elections can be
fair that are held under laws that give
to one party absolute control Of their
administration. In Virginia the cleo
toral boards in the counties and cities
with single exception, the city of Roam
oke, have heretofore and since 1902 been
composed entirely of Democrats. Most
OF these no doubt have been honest men
but they have been partissns. They
have selected the officials who hold our
elections without the advice of the Re-
pubhcans as to the appointment of the
Judge allowed that party at each pre-
cmct. The electoral boards have the
ballots printed in secret and Democrats
alone know who and what person, g
names appear upon them until the infor-
nation is derived in the booth. With such
advantages as these held by one party
ample opportunity is furnished for
frauds in electors. How easy it is for
Democratic electoral board to select 3
man who pretends to be a Republica,
as judge of election and use him for
stuffing the ballot boxes and falsifving
the returns. This was done frequently
before the new constitution went into
force, and we doubt not that it has been
done in many places since the new or
ganic law was written.
1t is gratifying at this late hour
eight years after the new constitution
was proclaimed-to find even one Demo-
cratic newspaper in the State advoca-
ting reform which would prove the
basis of fair elections. How many more
OF our Democratic contemporaries will
follow the lead of the VirRinian-Pilot in
what they must know will be a righteous
reform?
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-03

you for little spending money. don't
oraw wry face as though sue had trod
upon your corn Just shell out with
smile, remembering all the while thst
the half of what you have is hers by
right.
How natural it is when one man
makes pretty good thing of any one
crop, for everybody to rush in and trv
70 do just as he has done! The best
way, though, is to take it STEADY. II
you do venture into a strange crop. do
It conservatively. The middle course !.
always best in all such things.
The farmer should hustle around in
early spring, order new tools and fix nm
old ones. In many localities the black
smith is overburdened in repairing farm
ing tools just at the time when the tools
are needed for spring work. Not hav.
ing implements ready for work at the
first opportunity means loss of several
days in getting in a crop. Let US be on
hand with the season. If we have been
alternating during the winter like the
frog, we had better wake up and stir
around some now.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-03
What Bad Roads Cost.

Ii you want to know what bad roads
cost the country as a whole. k.e, in
mind that American farmers are paving
twenty-three cents ton for hauIIn9
when European farmers are PAVING
from seven to nine cents. Nov the In
terstate Commerce report shows that
the railroads yearly haul 265 900 o00
tons OF farm produce, and that the AYR
age haul from farm to market for m.
whole country is nine end fraction
miles. Put the cost of hauling a. q
round two dollars a ton FOR the nine
miles, and you have the cost of hsulin~
farm produce at ro-nJ Ia billion dol
lars year. Half that cost is waste
solely owing to bad roads.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-03
BISMARCK ON PROTECTION.

Prince Bismarck was considered one
Of the most austere statesmen that Ger.
many ever produced. In one of the
most eloquent speeches ever delivered
before the German Riechstag he said:
The success of the United States In
material development is the most illus
trious of modern times. The American
nation has not only successfully borne
and suppressed the most gigantic and
expensive war of all history, but imme-
dIately afterward it disbanded it's arnv.
found employment for all it's soldiers
and marines, paid off most of its debt.
gave labor and homes to all the uneno-
ployed of Europe as fast as they could
arrive within its territory, and still by a
system of taxation so indirect as not to
be perceived, much less felt. Because
1T Is my deliberate judgement that the
prosperity of America is due to its sys-
tenn of protective laws, urge that Ger
many has now reached that point where
1t is necessary to initiate the tariff sys-
TEN of the United States 4"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-03
PARTY STANDS FOR WORK.

In recent speech Wade Ellis. the
new chairman of the Ohio State Repub-
lican Executive Committee, said:
The Republican party has one char
acteristic which always has and always
Will distinguish it from Democracy. 1t
stands for work as against words. 1t ia
the party that does things as opposed
to the party that dreams things. No
man can point to single promise ever
made the people of this country bv the
Republican party which has not been
kept. No man can point to a single
promise made to the people of this coun-
try by the Democratic party which has
not been broken. All we need, in order
to be sure of the future, is to be true to
the past. The Republican party made
certain promises to the country 10 the
last national platform, and if God give,
him the strength, as He has given him
the will, those promises will be redeem
ed by the man who was elected on that
platform.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-03
A. w. GLEASON,
Notary Pnhlic
Sumption on the Farm.
From March Farm Journal.

From March Farm Journal.
Better than gold is the sweet repose
OF the sons of toll when their labor.
| close;
Better than gold is the poor mans
sleep,
And the balm that drops on his
slumbers deep.
Talk things over with the hired man:
1t will help both you and him.
Many of the troubles that we see
coming down the road towards our farm
pass by without stopping.
When hoops come off barrels, hoop
them with wire. Cheaper than buying
new barrels and anybody can do it.
The windy days of spring are here
Rattle log chain down the chimney
and get the SCOT out before it burns ont
and maybe burns the house, too.
Two good eyes to a hill of potatoes
are a-pienty. We make mistake manv
times In seeding too heavily. Good
stocky shoots are better than spindlipg
ones.
Burn all the old brush heaps now and
get rid of thousand and one pests that
have had their home there waiting for
warm weather to bring them into activ-
ity again.
Don't wait till the last minute to pol
ish up that rusty old pillow, or to get new
bolts, or to grind the moving machine
knives. Preparatory ticks in time blaze
the way to final success. Delay is a
dragging anchor.
Dear brother, when your wife asks
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-03
ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN
CIVIC IMPROVEMENT.
Norfolk and Western Will Help to Beauty
Cities and Towns Along Line Without
Charge.

Roanoke, Va, Feb. 2S.-Civic i'm.
provement is work in which the Nor.
folk and Western Railway is actively
engaged all along it's lines. For that
purpose this company keeps an expert
landscape gardener, who assists cities
and towns by making their localities
beautiful, laying out parks. school
grounds and court house grounds with a
view OF producing artistic landscape eff
fects. The company also furnishes blne
prints of small park ways containing
from one to five acres for the benefit of
the communities along its line.
This department is under the charge
OF Mr.. F. H. LaBaume, agricultural and
industrial agent of the Norfolk and
Western, who is now being frequently
called on to visit cities and towns. to
confer with COMMITTEES and with the
assistance of Mr.. Foy, railway land
scape gardener, helps them Law ont
parks, school grounds, court house
grounds, etc. Everybody knows that
these grounds are too often neglected in
many sections and, where such is the
case, the community has a cheap. i'm
poverished, don't care appearance to
the visitor.
Wherever artistically arranged land
scape effects are to be seen the COM
munity is Immediately recognized as a
thriving locality and the value of the
real estate generally enhanced. In adj
dition to the artistic benefits, gathered
from the work of this department.
generally is benefited and in
creased in value wherever this work has
been done. So far, Mr.. LaBaume and
MIR. Foy have visited localities and done
this work for them without any charge.
whatever.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-03

There Is not an Issue now at the front
IN regard TO which President Taft 10 NOT
on record in his own words. We never
had President who was so absolutely
frank about taking the public into his
confidence. For the present President
TAFT should be judged by what he saws
A little later he may be judged by what
ne Is doing. Eventually he will be
judged by what he has done. The last
judgement is the one that will count
Mr. Tafts future and that of his party
will be vi,al'y involved in it.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-03

1t is becoming more and more evident
every day that thu Democratic cam
psign of the present year is to be based
largely upon misrepresentation. not 10
use term more harsh. CONSEQUENTLY
the Republican effort must be largely
devoted to correcting these Democratic
misrepresentation and promulgatine
the truth about the policies of the Re-
publican party in general. AMI the new
tariff law and the presnt administration
in particular.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-03

When you hear a man sneering at the
local paper because it is not big. cheap
and newsy as the city papers, you can
safely bet he does not squn d any of
his wealth in assisting to make i, bet
ter, and that generally the paper has
done more for him than no has for it.
The man who cannot see the benefits
arising from local newspaper is about
as much value to town as delinquent
tax list.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-03
DEMAND FOR RAILROAD TIES INCREASES
problem Of Suitable Substitute Promises to
Become One of Much importance.

With the diminishing supply of hard
Woo suitable for railroad ties, and the
rapidly increasing demand, the problem
OF hnoing some eff lent substitute is
becoming increasingly urgent. Taking
the statistics for 1907 it is found tha,
the total number of ties used in tho
Umted States was 153. 700, 600. of WI icb
nIteen per cent were used under new,
tack and eighty-fve per cent for re-
n4walS under old track. or the total
number forty per cent were oak twsn-
ty-t~o per cent southern pine and the
remaining thirty-eight per cent were
made up of fifteen other kinds of wood
The total cost Of these ties represantaa
the enormous sum of sS7, 500. 900. or an.
proxinately $500 per mile of road. in
Guiding street and interurban roads.
It Is claimed that if the rate of in
crease IN the consumption which has
prevailed for the past two wears 10
maintained the tie requirements will
double In about fifteen years. and will
be close to 300. 600, 600 by 1925. Bv
using a softer variety of wood and
treating 1t with creosote and other de.
cay-arresting chemicals, it is though,
.nose woods can be made to give
longer useful life as far as general de.
oAy Is concerned that oak and other
hard VOC DIS which ere untreated. A
recent report of the u tied States gov
eminent states that fifty-eight per cent
OF the amount spent for ties per year
would be saved if all ties were treated
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-03

A good county road is ALWAYS to he
desired and is source of comfort and
convenience to every traveller Good
roads and streets attract population. as
well as good schools and churches. Good
roads improve the value of the property
A farm lying five miles from market
connected by bad road is of less value
than an equally good farm lying ten
miles away connected by a good hiyb-
way A larger load can be drawn nv
one horse over good road than by two
horses over bad one. Good roads also
encourage the greater exchange of pro-
ducts and commodities between one Sec
ton and another. TazeweI county
ought to have good roads in every d.
rection.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-03
Ealing an Apple.
New York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
''Do you know what YOUR eating -.
said the doctor to the gi,l
IAN apple, of course
You are eating" said the doctor
'sihumen. sugar. gum. malic ACID. gal
nc acid. fiber, wat r and phosphorus. -
Il hope th,se things are good. Thew
sound alarming"
Nothing could be better. You ate
observed, rather too much meat at
Inner. The malic acid of apples neu-
tralizes the excess of chalky matter
caused by too much meat and thereby
neips to keep You young. Apples are
good for your complexion. Their acids
drlve out the noxious matters which
cause skin eruptious. They are good
tor your brain, which those same nox-
'ous matters if retained render sluggish
Moreover, the acids of the apple dimin-
lsh the activity of the stomach that
comes with some forms of Indigestion
The phosphorus, of which apples CON-
tain larger percent. ge than any other
truit or vegetable, renews the essential
nervous matter of the brain and spinal
column. Oh, the ancients were not
wrong when they esteemed the annie
the food of the gods-the magic renew
er OF youth to which the gods resorted
when they felt themselves growing old
and feeble. think I'll have an apple -
concluded the doctor.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-03

from pretty well grounded reports. that
the liquor men We're standing with the
Machine and were very liberal in their
contributions to the Democratic cam
palgn fund or course they had an un-
derstanding with the Machine that there
was to be no hostile legislation against
the liquor interests.
1t is reported in the Richmond papers
that the Anti-Saloon forces have made
approaches to the Republican members
OF the Legislature and are trying to en-
list their support for the Statewide
movement. But it is also reported by
the same papers that the Republicans
are keeping hands off. This is exactly
right on the part of the Republicans.
Inc Anti-Saloon leaders last year en-
tered into an unholy alliance with the
Machine when they must have known
that it had made a secret alliance with
the liquor forces. This triangular COM
olnation was unique, but it won. Now
let the members of that combination
light out their differences among them
selves. 1t is family quarrel in which
the Republicans cannot participate with
out great injury to their party. We
again say to the Republicans: Keep
out of the fight