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The citizen., 1910-09-02
TARIFF AND HIGH PRICES.

The whole tariff issue, as far as the
great majority of the people are concern
ed, is the question of prices. All OF the
cavilins of the politicians and the qulb-
bling of those protected by the tariff
cannot disguise the fact that under the
Republican tariff laws the cost of living
has vastly increased, and many people
have not received an advance in incomes
or wages TO meet the average enhanced
price of all that they buy. Nor can it be
denied that under these Republican tariff
laws there has been formed trusts and
combinations which have advanced the
average price of commodities over 90 per
cent. during the past fourteen years.
| The protection theory that competition
between manufacturers for the home
market keeps the price that they charge
for their products here within a reason
able scCpe-even if they were cheaper
abroad-has entirely broken down on
account of combinations which have adj
vsnced prices beyond all that was here
tofore thought possible. The high tariff
rates an most of the articles prevents
competition from abroad, and the COM
bining OF manufacturers has very greatly
eliminated competition at home, so that
if the present tariff is continued there is
no relief in sight.
There are two remedies that will re
duce these high prices: namely, to curb
the trusts and combines SO that home
competition would in certain measure
prevail, and to 50 reduce the tariff that
competition from abroad will compel
reasonable prices here.
The tariff is not responsible for all Of
the vast increase in prices, neither are
the trusts and combines; but these causes
Can be safely charged with more than
half Of the increase. Under tariff for
revenue only, prices have advanced in
England about 25 per cent, and the
causes for such an increase are world
wide. In protected Germany and
France prices have increased as much as
here, and combinations in restraint Of
trade similar to our trusts are prevalent.
The Republican politicians and stump
speakers, will, of course, try to befog the
tariff issue with a great mass of details
and figures, which but very few Of us
can understand; to tell the plain facts
would give away the whole protection
theory, which is already breaking down
of its own weight, and the practical in
justice of taxing all of the people for the
benefit Of the few who are protected.
The citizen., 1910-09-02
Milk as a Curative.

In connection with the fasting regi-
mems that are the present fad much at
tention is being paid to the curative and
nourlshlng qualities of pure, rich milk.
One physician advised patient who
came to be built up to starve herself for
three days, then begin on a milk diet
taking cupful first four times day
then every three hours, then every two
hours. then every hour until four
xuarts day were drunk
No solid food was taken with this
regimen, and needless to say, the milk
must be sIpped, not gulped The milk
diet was kept up for four weeks
Milk is also TO be used in the case of
nervous disorders. 1t draws the blood
from the head and soothes the nerves of
the stomach
Women who are subject to great
strain or who are given to sudden col
lapses of strength, will find that hot
milk slipped slowly, the best kind of a
stimulant.
If milk fails to digest, which rarely
happens when slipped, try putting a little
salt or tablespoonful of limewater in
it. One reason why milk d;saerees
with some people is that they take it as
a beverage, instead Of as food.
When one is subject to insomnia a cup
of hot mik slowly siphed after getting
into bed will frequently induce sleep.
The slow slipping Of hot milk will often
stop paroXvsms of coughing when all
other remedies have failed.
Know that hot milk is not boiled milk.
The latter is injurious
The citizen., 1910-09-02
THE DIRECT PRIMARY.

The first primary election held under
the law passed at the session of the Gen,
eral Assembly of 1910, was held through
out the State in accordance with an
agreement of the two great parties on
August 3oth
The vote was not as large as it should
have been owing, no doubt, TO the fact
that many of the voters were not fully
cognizant of its importance The voters
should realize that the primary law under
which the nomination on Tuesday was
conducted, was in accordance with the
demand made by the people Of the State,
irrespective of party, for direct primary
law, and the same was embraced in the
platform Of the Democratic Convention
of 1908. The elections throughout the
State, from what we can learn, have been
fair and impartial and no doubt every
one is satisfied with the result obtained
by its execution. In our county no fault
could be found. The election in every
precinct was carefully conducted by the
officials, and no disorders were reported
from anywhere 1t is our opinion that
the law is good one and that it has
come 10 stay.
The citizen., 1910-09-02
Is a House a Home.

1t is a trite and also trivial English fling
at the French language that it has nc
word for home" the implication being
that domesticity is absent from Gallo life.
international intercourse and better ac.
quaintance have, of course, long ago de-
stroyed that illusion, SO far as it existed
at all among the informed. Now an
English critic makes the comment that
Americans call a house home.
1t is somewhat difficult to perceive the
sting in this. The Euslishman' s tradition
is that his house is his castle. 1t is per
haps true that common phrase in the
United States is that man has "lovely
home" by which is meant merely that
he dwells in costly house. The term is
of wide use; probably it is current from
Atlantic to Pacific. It's not a democratic
term, for It implies recognition of the
arlstocracy of wealth. OF course, there is
no such institution, recognized or unrec-
ognized, IN this republic, unless it be the
aristocracy OF brains or character, and in
either case the true aristocrat is in reality
the most liberal democrat, for he best can
afford to ignore all conventional diStinc-
The owner of a city mansion. of a
country estate, OF marble cottage by the
sea, of private railway car and of pa
latial yacht may amid all his possessions
have no home. He may have such do
mestic luXuries as a wife soiourning in
Nevada awaiting alimony, a son in col
lege and daughter in finishing school
and yet be homeless. The most luxurious
club and attentive valet are not a substi-
tute for the place that has no like Wash-
iRgk0N Post.
The citizen., 1910-09-02
Burden of Housework.

A housekeeping experiment station,
where all manner of work and worry.
saving devices for kitchen and household
will be thoroughly tried, is to be estab.
llsheA under the auspices of the New
Jersey State Federation of Woman
Clubs. 1t will be the second station of its
kind, the first having been for three wears
III successful operation in Connecticut
under the management of Charles Bar,
nard, a retired playwright, who wrote
The County Fair"
1t is the intention of the New Jersey
women to investigate every sort of con.
ttrivance for lessening the burdens Of
hiousework. Dish scrapers, pot cleaners,
dust rags, suction cleaners, iellv makers
dough mixers, freless cookers. COO
poschers and all the thousand and one
things of the kind which American in.
genulty has devised and put on the mar.
ket Will be put TO the severest tests before
they are recommended to housewives.
1t seems like very sensible and nsaf,l
thing to do. For millions IF women s'the
woman question" is largely question ol
household work. Whatever ma iles house.
work really easier will in its wav be as
great boon to humanity as AUTOMOBILES
or flying machines.-BoS2on Globe.
The citizen., 1910-09-02
Americans. Cheese Eatsrs

The Germans, according to stage Jokes
and the humorous periodicals. are the
greatest consumers Of cheese, the TASTE
for it being embedded in the national ii.
gesuon, as it were. But, so far as con.
Germs one brand of cheese, Americans ea,
more than the Germans, indeed, more
than the people of any other nationally
This is the Roquefort cheese, the maxine
Of which involves almost the entire pon,i.
lation of Aveyron in France.
In this section there is made more than
2o,ooo,ooo pounds of Roquefort cheere
every year. 1t has total value of 4, :
500, 1000 and most of it is exported. The
United States bought s3SS, 522 worth OF
It in the last fiscal year. showing a con-
sumption in excess of that of anv other
country.
Popular views and conventional humor
are not always in harmony with the sta.
tistical tables Toledo Blade.
The citizen., 1910-09-02
THE REPUBLICAN ORGANI-
zATION WINS.

The bitter contest between the Repub-
lican organization and the antics came to
a climax on Tuesday last, the 3oth inst,
when the friends of Judge John c.
Motter most signally defeated the anti
organization forces. Warner swept the
county and only five precincts were reg
istered for Blair, who was backed by the
antics. Bitter feeling was exhibited at
many Of the polling places by the two
factions Of the Republican party, and
remarks could be heard on every side:
"They have got him, now let them elect
him." meaning Warner. The colored
element took holiday and could be seen
all day very busy. Much money was in
sight and the boys made good use Of it
The citizen., 1910-09-02
Judge Parker Scores Roosevelt.

Judge Alton B. Parker, who wrote hhe
prevailing opinion of the Court of APP
peals Of New York in the "bake-shop"
case, approved by Theodore Roosevelt
in his recent address to the Colorado
dent criticised the Supreme Court of the
United States for quashing the lower
Courts opinion, made the following
statement few days ago in defense of
the Supreme Court.
Ii is safe to assert that the attack
upon the Supreme Court of the United
States by Mr.. Roosevelt IN his address
to the Legislature of Colorado will not
be approved by the Bench and Bar and
the thoughtful people of this country,
who appreciate the importance of the
judiciary in our governmental system and
the necessity for a continuance of the
existing public confidence in and affec-
ton for our courts.
1t happens that in the case of People
VS.. Lochner, referred to in the address
as the "bakeshop case" the prevailing
opinion of the Court of Appeals of this
State was written by Judge Parker with
concurring opinions by Judges GRAY and
Vann. Judges O'Brien and Bartlett
wrote dissenting opinions, so that IN all
hve opinions were written in the Court
OF Appeals, showing the appreciation by
that court of the fact that the question
was a very close one, about which
minds must differ; indeed, this fact was
made very prominent in the interesting
debates around the consultation table
as well as in the opinions written.
The history of this case indicates how
narrow vas the dividing line between
upholding and rejecting the statute.
The trial Judge held the statute constitu-
tlonal, the Appellate Division affirmed
his decision by a vote of three to two.
and the Court Of Appeals affirmed the
Appellate Division by a vote of four to
three. The Supreme Court Of the United
States reversed the Court Of Appeals
by vote of five to four.
Every Judge in every Court gave to
TINS important question his best effort,
which is strongly evidenced by the diff
terences ofvicw of the members in the
several courts. That fact should be
quite sufficient to protect the greatest
court in the world from offensive criti-
CSm from any source, and especially from
one who heretofore manifested his dis
satisfaction with department Of govern
ment, which was performing the indie
pendent functions conferred upon it by
the Constitution SO as to neither en-
croach upon the coordinate depart
mentS OF government nor to allow them
to encroach upon it.
The citizen., 1910-09-02
Good Year for Railroads.

1t is a surprising and reassuring fact
that in the past months of depressed
trade, slackening building operations, de-
creased bank clearings and slumping in
the security markets, the railroads of the
United States are showing very hand
some gross earnings. This by itself is
no legitimate argument for opposing GER
tain advances in rates, for it is undeniable
that the expenses of the transportation
systems have been markedly increased
by the raising of wages; but it is of inter-
est in measuring the reason behind the
prevailing industrial pessmism. Gross
earnings of the rs leading railways for
last January amounted in round figures
to S37, 800, 900. There has been no
month since last February in which the
earnings Of these same roads fell so low
as $40 600, 600, and the figure for July is
$42, 600, 900. As the year 1900 was little
less than S48, 900, 600, there is ample
room for argument in these figures that
general trade conditions cannot vet be
considered very bad. There is a con-
slant tendency TO spend more for trans
portation-AmeyicW Re0iew Of Re0iea0S
Ter SEPTEMBER
The citizen., 1910-09-02
GENERAL UNREST.

There is always some insurgency" in
every party, but the existing unrest desig-
mated by that name in the party of Lin
coin and Grant and Mckinley is more
widespread and insistent than has been
noted in a generation. That insurgency
means something different in Ohio from
what it means in Kansas; that the brand
of insurgency in California is unlike that
in Maine, does not help the situation.
And insurgency is not merely a manifes-
tatlon of dissatisfaction by the "outs"
who want to oust the ''ins." Ii is more
or less sign of dissatisfaction among the
people themselves. There seem to be
something wrong, but the political doc
tors are at variance as to whether the
disorder is functional or organic. and in
consequence they don't know lust what
kind treatment should be administered.
That the country is admittedly prosperous
does moi save the situation. The only
positive prognostication which it seems
safe TO indulge IN is that there are definite
signs of trouble ahead with indications
that there will be a retirement of old
leaders and rising up of new ones.
The citizen., 1910-09-02
IMPORTATION OF LUxURIES

Give me the luxuries Of life" said
Mark Twain, ''and care not who gets
/ the necessaries.
In thathe seems to have hit the key
note for the American people. Our i'm
portations Of luxuries during the year
1910 exceeded in value similar importa-
tons for any previous year. The valua-
ton placed upon articles classed as lux
uries in 1910 by the Department of
Commerce and Labor was $3.50, 600. 900.
"Luxuries. " according to this authority,
includes diamonds, jewelry, laces, en-
broideries, furs, feathers, beads, per
iumery, cigars, tobacco, wines, liquors,
automobiles, art works. decorated china.
bisque, musical instruments, toys, or
chids and palms.
In 1900 we imported diamonds valued at
sI4, 100000 and in 1910 S47, 100000. The
impoitaions Of cigars and tobaccoes in
1910 were so per cent. greater than in
1900 Laces and embroideries in 1910
were valued at $50, 500, 600; furs and
skins at $4,000 600; spirits and other
fermented liquors, S2s 400, 900; art works,
$2I, Ioo, 900, although ten years ago such
goods amounted to only $2,6oo, 600;
feathers Sra, 900, 600, Notwithstanding the
efforts of the Audubon Society. It may
be surprising to most people that i'm
ported toys were valued at s., ,6oo, ,ooo
The citizen., 1910-09-02
THE PRESIDENT HAS GONE
OVER TO THE INSURGENTS.

According TO the public press Mr..
Taft has written a letter to Congressman
Mckinley as a key note letter for the
Congressional campaign, in which he
recommended that certain schedules of
the Payne-Aldrch Tariff Bill are to be
opened and the tariff reduced.
The Republican papers have been ex-
planning and apologizing for this letter
ever since. but their explanations and
apologies have proved dismal failure,
simply because they all fall short of the
real purport Of the Presidents letter and
his change Of policy.
The real and only explanation OF that
letter is that the President has gone over
to the Insurgents.
Mr.. Roosevelt has driven him over
Just as the Roosevelt shriekers said that
he would do as soon as he returned
from the wilds of Africa. The lion has
been captured and tanned by the lion
hunter.
The big elephant has been driven into
a corner and has sought shelter under
the guns of the mighty huntsman, and
hereafter the political scalp of Mr.. Taft
will dangle from the belt of Mr..
Roosevelt.
The people must now realize that
while in Mr.. Taft, they may have a
kindly man in the White House, they
have only weak man for President.
Before his election Mr.. Taft repeatedly
promised in his public speeches that the
tariff should be reduced, and upon those
declarations and promises secured his
election. After his election when Con
gress was framing the Tariff Bill, Mr.
Taft had it in mis- power TO force Con-
gress to pass such tariff bill as he had
promised but he was so weak that the
standpatters forced him to sign the
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill, which i'm
creased the tariff wherever the stand
patters were benefited.
Not only did he sign the bill, but then
the stand-patters got him to 20 through
the Western States and speak in defence
OF the outrageous robber tariff bill.
In those speeches he told the people
that it was the best tarid bill that was
ever passed, and also said that Aldrich
and Cannon were the greatest statesmen
in this country. The people did not be-
lieye it then and they do not believe il
now.
He turned Pinchot out Of Office md
defended Ballenger. and now we are told
that Balleuger is to go. The President
then sent his Attorney General Mr..
Wickersham to Chicago to make
speech in which he read all Of the Insur-
gents out Of the Republican party.
~ But change has came over the spirit
of the Presidents dreams, and now poor
Cannon, who has so valiantly fought the
Republican battles, is to be sacrificed.
and Aldrich is in such bad health that he
has to retire. Whether or not Mr.. Aid
rich is suffering from physical or political
Ill health is not stated, but the public
surmise that it is his political i'll health.
Mr.. Aldrich is suffering from Payne
Aldrich malaria. We do not blame the
The citizen., 1910-09-02
Poisonous Reptiles Shun Titled
Areas.

While poisonous snakes are fairly abun-
dant in some districts, they shun the cul-
tivated areas. The rattlesnake prefers
lodges in mountainous places and is hon
est id giving warning of its presence. The
cOpperhead freqnents damp woods or
rank, overgrown meadows. 1t is moi
quarrelsome and glides away when sur
prfSed If escape is not cut off
The treatment of snake bite is neces-
sarily prompt and vigorous. The first
thing to be done is to tie ligature tight.
ly above the bite 10 prevent the circulation
of the poisoned blood. The fang pune
tures must then be opened with a sharp
knife and the lips applied to the wound,
in order to as thoroughly drain it as pos
sible. There is no danger il the mouth
and lips are free from abraSions. Per-
manganate of potassium is applied as a
wash, for this ncutralizes the venom. The
sportsman who goes into the country
known to be infested with dangerous
reptiles should carry with him a tube of
antivenomous serum, a Pasteur product,
which is injected hypodermicaKy after the
fang punctures have been washed with
the permangsnate and the ligature has
been removed. Even with these precau-
tons the bite of venomous snake had
best be followed by an immediate return
to an efficient doctor.
Though the measures following the
bite of a poisonous reptile may form what
looks like sinister paragraph, there is
little need to worry about dangers lurk-
ing in the woods and thickets. From his
personal collecting experiences, when he
was looking for Just such reptiles in what
appeared to be the most favorable places
for them, the writer has usually found
poisonous snakes to be rare-except in
almost inaccessible districts that are never
visited by summer tourists.-R. L. Dit.
more, in Golfers.
The citizen., 1910-09-02
Interests Private and Public.

The most compact statement that has
been made of the issues between the two
wings of the Republican party, says the
Philadelphia Record, comes from State
Senator Davenport, of New York, who
has been working hard for Governor
Hughes Direct Primary Bill" This,
he explains is now only an incident in
the fundamental division between the two
wings. AT the root, he says, we are
IN the midst of great struggle between
selfish private interests and the public
interest.
This is what the Democratic party has
been saying for years. The Republican
party has been serving selfish private
interests nationally and locally. 1t has
been controlled for years by men who
were not seeking TO establish any public
policy, but merely to maintain them
/ selves in power. This explains the op-
| position of the stand patters to tariff
reform, and Of generally the same per-
sons to currency REFORM and of most of
the Republicans to electoral reform by
requiring publicity of campaign contri-
buttons. The party has allowed the
tariff beneficiaries to write the several
schedules. 1t has done just as little as
possible TO restrain the expansion of the
trusts Under the guise OF protecting
the business interests it has legislated in
the interest of all the powerful combna-
tions that are suppressing competition
and exploiting the public.
insurgency in the Republican party
is due 10 a growing recognition of this
injustice in which the party has been
guilty. The Insurgents are realizing
what the Democrats have been saying
for years is true. Insurgency in Cali
fornia is fight against the Southern
Pacific Railroad. In Kansas and Iowa
it is fight against tariff graft In New
York it is resistance to a powerful oil
garchy of predatory politicians who
have been using all of the party power
10 keep themselves in office and to leg
islate at Albany for personal advantage,
and often for money. Senator Daven-
port says:
"What is involved. as every man who
knows the internal conditions is aware.
is the question of whether government
and legislation and certain Of the de
partments of the State in Albany shall
continue to be used as a good thing by
the shreWd and cunning. 1t is a ques-
ton OF whether the private land COM
panies shall make exorbitant profits by
buying land at bargain and selling it to
the State through the agency and with
the approval of political friends who
happen 10 be in places of political trust
and power
insurgency is aimed at rascality in
politics and the suppression Of public
opinion and public right in the interes'
OF the professional politicians.
The citizen., 1910-09-02
Prices in England and the United
States.

Chairman w. B. Mckinley, of the Re
publican Congressional Committee. a
millionaire speculator in politics and
street railway shares, SAYS that prices
are as high in free trade England as in
this country He knows as well as that
he lives that his assertion is utterly untrue.
In recent number of The Wold'S Work,
a non partisan monthly, presented the
comparative data showing how much
lower the prices Of neCessaries of living
are in manufacturing town in England
than in Chicago. But if evidence of this
kind did not exist in riotous profusion,
every man with grain Of common sense
understands that prices Of commodities
are lower where trade is free than where
they are subject TO high taxes and to the
manipulation of monopoly. Where trade
is free industrial combinations cannot
prosper save on condition of being able
to produce commodities of better quality
and cheaper than those Of their rivals.
To such associations, owing nothing to
tariff favoritism. there can be no reason
able objection.
In free trade England a Sugar Trust a
Cotton Trust and the like are out of the
question, for the simple reason that upon
any attempt that they might make to I'M
reasonably raise prices free imports would
flow in to redress the balance in favor of
consumers. This was seen few years
ago when a combination of English soap
manufacturers to control prices met with
a disastrous failure. On the other hand,
with combinations that are fortified against
competition by high tariff wall, the pro-
cess is quite easy. But politicians of the
calibre of Chairman Mckinley will con-
tinue to assert what they do not believe
with the faint expectation that some gud.
geons will be found to give them credit