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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-17
EDITORIAL
The Tariff In Trouble.

The tariff is having all of trouble these days
N On Monday last while the investigation by the
Senate committee of the increase in the cost OF living
4 was progressing, Baltimore grocer. who said that
& he was neither Democrat nor Republican, but
.dyed-n- the wool Independent, put to confusion
Senator Smoot of Utah by declaring that the cost
of lemons had been increased since the new tariff
went into effect. He said that lemons now cost
$f.2S box more than they cost in 1908 and in
sisted that the increase in cost was due to in
crease in the tariff In vain did MIR Smoot declare
this statement to be absurd. Il am not tariff
expert rctorted the grocer, but one thing know
and that is that | am paying more for lemons now
than paid for them before the tariff went INTO
. effect. He made much the same statement IN
regard To brooms and the Republican members of
the committee were visibly disturbed by this tesi-
mony from practical man against their tariff.
In the same connection Representative Hitchcock
of Nebraska has offered amendment to the
Legislative appropriation bill. requiring American
commercial agents to include in their investigation
7 OF trade conditions the prices at which American
articles selling in foreign countries, compared
with the prices obtained for articles made in Europe.
Speaking TO his amendment Mr.. Hitchcock dis
concerted the Republican side of the House with the
statement that ne knew OF a merchant in Omaha
who conducting profitable business by buying
from European agent Amercan-made goods IN
tended for export and shipping them TO Omaha by
steamer from New York to Galveston.
This merchant, he said, able to buy made
at-home articles of commerce intended for export
cheaper than he could buy direct from the manu-
facturer. Therefore, Mr.. Hitchcock desired a
searching investigation into the prices OF American
made goods in Europe compared with goods
made elsewhere.
On the heels of this, tariff war is threatened
with Canada and another with France. The trouble
with Canada is giving the administration particular
concern Only few days remain until the time
when The tariff law provides that twenty-five per
cent. increase in customs must be imposed against
countries which the president has not proclaimed
admissible to the minimum tariff now enforced.
Canada is said 10 have made little effort to
obtain this preferential treatment. Important tar
If concessions made by Canada 10 other countries
and not similarly to the L. S. said to bar an
agreement. 1t is generally understood that unless
the United States gives Canada benefit of the mini
mum rates tariff will ensue between the two
countries that will be far reaching in its effects.
This difficulty may be settled as also the trouble
with France But the tariff will keep making
trouble for with other nations, and the time will
probably when the threatened will not
be averted. The tariff antogonize5 the natural
. tFKs 81 trade at every turn and the penalty must
be paid by ard by.
The evil day may be STAYED off, but it will come
unless the whole system be reformed by the Dem
Ucratic rule
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-17
NAVY ALpRrcHEs EXIST.

The supremacy of Senator 4aldrich in
washington lis no new thing Twenty
years ago any newspaper correspondent
at the national capital. irrespective OF
political prejudice, Ii asked TO name
the abiest man In the government
would unnesftsrfngfy have said. Aid
rich. And all of them would name AID
rich to-day.
Moreover. there are really thousands
of Aldrichs in this country. the senior
senator from Rhode Island is merely
the Nelson w. OF them, And by them
we mean the type of American who has
exploited the natural resources OF this
country, the captain OF industry---to
Europeans the most distinctly typical
Of our etere en- Gus pappia-
ton What Aidrich is. and what he
has done, are characteristic OF tha
American T+sose influence on our every
day L. In seen and felt by all classes
OF society. For Atdrich thinks he be-
lieves in democracy, but. like millions
of people In this country. he IL intense.
ly indiyiduaiistic, having been born
that way and having seen nothing in
hts sixty-etght years of life to make
him wish to change himself Some men
are more efficient than others. All
should work and be paid. hut Aldrich
would pay by piece wesa as being the
tafrest way. Darwin laid down The law
OF the survival OF the fttest and no.
body accused him OF being rashaeas, for
he didn't make the law. And so Aid
rich, recognizing the natural Law, would
have the UNIT turn for comfort to
their Creator. not to the senate
American Magazine.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-17

should, in their hiking through the
town, wear at least enough ciothers per
man to wad a shotgun. or. as an elder
ly lady said. Ito put In tea
One Of them asserted that your
young daughter would want to sink
into the ground" IL she should meet
one or more of these brawny studies.
The Ladies' Union stands for the old
Ideals, but we fear their struggle liz too
late. Rienzi made hard night against
the decadence Of Rome, but Rome de-
caded just the same.
No, the confession must be made that
IL the young daughter aforesaid should
meet one of these unclothed athletes.
she would probably nod, say Hello.
Billy! Hope you break your record
end go on without blushi she would
be as brazen as he would be II he met
her mother In a ballroom
Neked came We into civilization. and
maybe when our civilization gets old,
II forgets its clothes again. Clothes. IL
may be remembered, were derived not
from modesty. but from ornamentation
After a tribe had got into the habit OF
wearing lot of truck about their
waists--t he first skirt--they felt
ashamed when caught out naked. 1t
was unaccustomed nakedness that
caused biushes---and that's all IL Ii to-
day. There's no question of morals In
We may remember with some COM
fort--considering the rapidly progress
size ltty-ef-ef ethes-that-tifese
primitive peoples who have none are
pure in thought and deed. THE climate
OF the United States will always stand
In the way OF any complete test OF the
principle. we fear. though the North
american Indians approached the ideal
In summer. Amt you cold? p asked
the trapper OF the nude king OF tho
forest. Mo- said the Indian. why
notr asked the trapper. "Your face
cold7" asked the redskin mo-" said
the trapper. Well" answered the
aborigine, closing the debate, 'Iniun
all facet
There you have IL. ladies OF the Ann
Arbor Ladies' Union! The young peo-
pie OF this day are getting to be all
face. Their development OF cheek Is
astonishing. but We can't stop the ten
dency~- Not even the ladies union suit
can do It Let us study our Sartor Re-
sartus, and pray that our purity OF
heart may wax as our need OF clothes
wanes. The City Beautiful' will be
naked and not ashamed That Is the
Edenic status. and the one to which we
should pray to be restored--provided
always. that the weather is suitable
Milwaukee Journal
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-17
Our State
Contemporaries
Need of Coroners.

Every county in Virginia should
have legally appointed coroner
Sixty per cent. of the counties have
no such official. This is a most i'm
portant office. and If the circuit
judges of the Commonwealth will
| take the matter in hand they can
fill the office where vacant in then
jurisdiction without much inconven-
fence. In making a selection for this
important post physicians of unques.
/ toned ability and integrity should
be selected.
The Virginia Coroners' Association
which was organized in Richmond
late last year, serves to impress upon
/ the circuit Judiciary the necessity for
filling any vacancy that now exists
within their authority 1t Is TO be
hoped that the State press will assis,
in the movement now so we'll under
way by the organized coroners, ana
impress upon the courts and the PEG.
pie throughout the State that there
is provision made by law that the
office of coroner should not remain
vacant or inactive, as 1t Is the cas-,
in a large majority of the counties
/ of the Commonwealth.
The coroner is as much an arm
OF the law as the sheriff or the Com.
monwealth's Attorney, and no vacan,
ctes should obtain m any county OF
city in Virginia.-North Emporia In.
dependent
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-17
Court Expenses and Equalization.

The criminal expenses Of Virginia may not
properly be called but if not criminal they are
largely in excess of what they should be and some
means must be devised to reduce them.
1t does not meet the at all to say that we
must reduce crime. In point OF fact crime has been
reduced in Virginia but there is corresponding
decrease in the cost OF prosecuting criminals. The
most eifectual way to reduce the cost is to make
each county and community pay its own court
expenses. That would not be practicable the
now stands, but it would be under the
segregation scheme OF taxation. If the State ever
arrives at the point where she may derive her rev.
enues from special subjects, leaving real and
personal property to be taxed for local purposes
only. each city and county would be in position,
we think to pay its own criminal expenses ex-
cept the of prosecuting felony cases. Once
take the burden from the State and put it upon the
cities and counties, and it will be surprising see
how swiftly the cost will fall.
Another good result would be accomplished by
this plan. The equalization" problem would then
solve itself. If there be State tax on real and
personal property. it will make difference to
one community how high or how low, another com
munity makes its assessment. And, in our opinion,
equalization will come in no other way.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-17
Honor the Uniform.

1t is related that one night last week party of
sailors who presented themselves at theatre in
Washington were denied admttance because they
were in the regulation uniform That was an af-
front to the whole nation and we glad to see
that bill has been introduced in Congress making
it misdemeanor to discriminate in any way against
person wearing the uniform.
There is no sense in such exclusion, so long as the
persons wearing the unrom behave themselves.
So far from it, the uniform of our sailors as we'll as
soldiers should be regarded and accepted a
badge of honor Ii is not only poor patriotism but
poor policy for lis to make it otherwise 1t is diff
cult enough the case now stands to induce young
men to enter the army and navy and if they to
be ostracized in the social world, if their uniform is
to be a mark of disgrace it will be more difficult
still to secure enlstments. The time may come
when this country will need its sailor lads protect
it from foreign invasion, and should encourage
them in the service they rendering, instead
of trying to humate them.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-17
Death of Editor Herndon.

The tragic death of Editor Edward A. Herndon, oil
Lynchburg, is 10 a personal sorrow We had
known him since he began newspaper work, twenty
odd years ago, and followed his with friendly
interest. Mr.. Herndon's first work was on the
Danyille Register From that paper. he went to
the Charlotte Observer. Later on, he was a re-
porter on the Richmond Wing, and finally he
went 10 Lynchburg, where he rose to the position OF
managing editor Of the News,
MIR. Herndon was so modest and retiring that he
Stunned publicity, but he was an able editor and
one OF the best all-found newspaper men in the
State He was held in high esteem and sincere
regard by all his intimates, and by none more
highly or more aifectionately than by Mr., Garter
Glass owner OF the News, and Mr. Walter E. Adj
olson, editor. Mr.. Herndons death is a distinct
less to Virginia journalism
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-17
Fer the Horse.

When Senator Dick OF Ohio stopped
In to chat a bit with President Taft tho
other day. says the Cincinnati Tines
Star, he had occasion TO illustrate Q
point with an anecdote culled from his
own rich Nfe's experience. This hap
pened In the callow days of Dicks ca
reer, when he was yet in the hay and
feed business In Akron. One day he
was called to the telephone to take
an order.
"a want a bale OF hay" said the
distant voice.
"a bale of hay" repeated Dick. taxi
ing copfous notes.
And twenty bushels OF oats"
yes, sir"
And half load of straw"
Yes. sir. Anything else 2"
mo. that's all send Il right away
Yes. sir" said Dick. politely. And
who is this fory'
why. who do you SUPPOSE" the
other demanded. angrily. its for the
horse. of course. you darned fool
Don't get gay with me"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-17

Should craft Of this character
become numerous, serious interna-
tionai problems would unQuestion-
ably arise. Many bloody wars have
peen fought over disputed boundary
lines on earth and ocean. How nu-
mercus, then. might be the compli-
cations coming nom differences over
the airt"
These air craft are already becom-
ing numerous and the law makers Of
the different States should not wait
until we are having fixed journeys
through the air.. before these rights
are clearly and distinctly defined
Montgomery Journal
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-17
Southern Drift
Exit the Family Physician.

me old family physician liz endan-
gered. With the arrival OF the spe-
cialist he Is being pressed farther
and farther to the rear.
1t Is to the treatment of specific dis
eases that the modern disciple OF Hip
pocrates is devoting his attention.
AND some idea of the change which
has already come over the family doc
tor under the modifying touch OF mod
ern conditions may be obtained from
the remark which was recently made
by physician in Boston. Said he:
Il heard of a woman who was very
proud of her family doctor. and was
urging friend to employ him.
Why, he's the best family physi.
Clan / ever saw, she added as a final
recommendation. He can tell you
right away which Is the best special
list to call in whenever you are i'll.
He knows all of them by name and
doesn't keep you waiting for a second
to tell you just the one you need.
SO you see that Is what the family
physician has become he concluded,
only the walking directory of special
ists.'"
or course. the remark smacks of
hyperbole. But 1t states in exag
gerated form what is nevertheless
"a ~ III CSSSN@Ct ipi DAtcPl iu tht
raj districts and in the sparsely set
tied communities the family physi-
clan Is gradually withdrawing from
serious professional activities
And even upon the country roads
his familiar figure may eventually re-
treat before the curling dust and the
ominous honk of the motor car.
Progress Is no respecter of senti-
ment. We love the family physician.
He is endeared to us by ten thousand
tender memories. But the edicts of
the age are stern. The times are in
tensive. Depth rather than area
gauges the work of VISIONS piew-
shares, Atlanta Georgian
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-17
South America Beckons to us.

The Panama canal will be doing business by and
BY 1t will open up great trade on the western
coast OF South America to the cities lying along the
Atlantic seaboard. One is apt to think OF the
western slope OF South America being far to the
west- IL IS not 50. Get out your map and learn a
little lesson in geography. Draw line from Rich
mond southwark and you will find that most of
the continent OF South America lies east OF the
line~ That means that when the canal is opened
ships going from Norfolk and Newport News to
the ports OF Peru and Chill will sail due south for
the most part. 1t means that this vast and rich
41erritory Is nearer to doors than the eastern
sEDasy vi South America A fine trade viii be
SApened up, when the canal begins operations Who
sgill get its Will Richmond get her share? If SO,
he 5nasss be ND and doing. 1t is none too soon TO
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-17
HOW PICTURES ARE NOW
SENT WITHOUT WIRES.

For telegraphing sketches or photo
graphs without wires, G.. J. de Cullen
Garcia, a Spanish engineer. proposes
to use two ordinary wireless stations
of any system. For the .fsua! trans
mitter and receiver he substitutes two
equal cylinders. rotated uniformly by
clockwork or otherwise, and each car
rying a tracing stylus describing a
helicai path on the surface Of Its cyl
inder.
The sketch placed on the metal cyl.
inder at the transmitting end Is drawn
in insulating ink. The current pass
ing between the stylus crosses the Ink.
and this causes relay TO close the
circuit sending out Hertxian waves.
At the receiving end the cylinder II
covered with paper moistened with
potassium ferrocyanide or other solu-
tion. AS the HertzIan wave arrive, q
current passes through the stylus. Civ
ing black line on the paper. and a.
the two cylinders are turning In the
same time this line corresponds to the
path OF the sending stylus across the
ink
When each cylinder has been CONS
pleteiy traversed by Its stylus the lines
received will have the form OF tho
original drawing.
For sending photographs the posi-
tive or negative Is produced in relief
In bichronated gelatin, and the trans-
hitting apparatus Is somewhat modi-
fed. AZ the stylus travsrses the re-
lief. which varies in height for light
and shade, o sensitive lever causes
four different contacts to be made.
One contact leads the current to this
relay through smooth-edged dislg,
and the other contacts lead through
toothed disks having different spac-
ings. so that the waves sent out are in
a continuous series or broken into DIFF
ferent intervals. The long lines and
graded dotted lines received repro-
duce the picture in Its varied shading.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-17

begin Last week deputation of New Orleans
merchants and manufacturers sailed for Central
American ports with view of opening up and es-
tablishing more extensive and intimate trade reia-
tons with those countries.
New Orleans is also planning to have an industrial
exposition to celebrate the opening OF the canal.
Richmond is of the leading financial
centres, manufacturing centres and commercial
centres m the South. She must not let other South
ern cities beat her in reaching for South American
trade, She used to have fine trade with Brazil,
taking the coffee of that country and shipping
thither large quantities of flour In fact, Richmond
was the greatest coffee market in the United States
Of course conditions have changed since then, but
what has been done can be done again. There is a
field for Richmond in South America. 1t should be
cultivated to the utmost Now is the time to
begin.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-17
Endorses Capt. Mccarthy.

CultoT Oh Inc tirxlnian:
Sir,--I am indeed glad to see that
Captain Mccarthy will. in all prob
ability, be elected to the position of
State accountant. which he Is emf
nently qualified to fill, and l believe
will do SO, If elected, to the entire
satisfaction of every one concerned.
Captain Mccarthy is brave and fear
less man, and stands for that which
is right and for the best interests
of society. and 1t should be the pleas
ure of us all to honor such true men
whenever we have an opportunity.
! fully believe that the committee
will be doing the viii of the good
people of Virginia to make the APP
pointment. We need men in public
office who will do their duty without
fear or favor. and l fully believe he
is such a man. I will say that / only
know him by reputation.
r.. s. BARBOUR.
South Boston, Va, March IT.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-17
be a producer in this respect as well
as a consumer.---Roanok World.
Danriile.s Ambitions.

All the citizens of Danville, and
particularly It's tobacco, banking and
mercantile interests. are vitality In
terested in the meeting at the Com
mercial Association tonight for the
purpose OF increasisg the city.s al
ready paramount importance as a leaf
tobacco market. II IL proposed at
TINS meeting to devise plans for the
further advertisement of the. advan-
tages to farmers In the adjoining
counties of Virginia and North Caro-
lima of selling their tobacco and other
produce in this city, purchasing their
supplies here. and doing their bank
Ing In this city, the natural trade
center and distributing point of the
tier OF counties contiguous to it.
Danville Bee.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-17
The Insurgents.

What are knowa as the insur-
gents" consists OF a little squad OF
Senators and congressmen---all Re
publicans and all coming from the
Nest They are causing II! safts-et
trouble in the Repa eiiean- party ant
viii surely cut figure In the cam
paign fer ~Consress this fall. as wel
as In the next presidential hight IL
1912.
The insurgents proper are only
about score in number, but the,
undoubtedly represent the healthy
progressive sentiment in the Repul4l-
can party. The one object of their
present activities is to eliminate
Speaker Cannon, Leader Aldrich an
all their works. The West is behind
them. and II IS hard to see how tn.
Republican party can long continue
in power unless they bow to tn.
Will of the insurgents.
AS to governmental policies, the
insurgents stand Tor the Roosevelt
policies carried out to the extreme
limit. They want rigid railroad
regulation. severe and exacting con-
troll of the trusts. further downward
revision Of the tariff and the con-
servation of the nations resources
along the Roosevelt Pinchot lines in
contrast to the Taft Ballinger meth
DDS.
The insurgents differ from Presi-
dent Tart in one respect, The Presi-
dent tries to work in harmony with
Cannon and Aldrich, accepting and
expecting compromise Of all the
measures in the Rousevelt-Tafr pro-
gram, on the theory that half loaf
is better than no loaf at all. As the
nations chief executive 1t Is difficult
to see how Taft could accomplish
anything in any other way. On the
other hand. the Insurgents contend
that by keeping up a stiff light
against the Aldrich-Cannon forces.
progressive leaders can be placed at
the head of the party and then the
President will not be under the ne
cessity of compromising. He can ask
Tor what the people are demanding
and get it.
Ii looks now as though the insur-
gents are either going to win their
fight or turn the country over to the
Democratic party - Harrisonburg
News.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-17

Commenting on the fact that Editor Bell of tn
Shnnydoo" paper Whatever that means) ha
quit the job to become a preacher, the August
County Argus makes these worldly remarks:
IF the preachers are not better paid than
county editors we believe we will stick to
editing as more independent calling than
preaching, if a wickcder one, as the editor
who is not hired, but is boss of his paper and
plant, can more freely and fairly express his
views than the average preacher who fears
he'll empty his peWs. Preachers have one adj
vantage, however, if they above the aver
age; they now and then get chances to move
and get pay, while the editor-owner
must stick to his post and keep hammering
away trying to interest his patrons and the
general public enough to allow him a small
margin OF profit on his investment, his heavy
cash paid for expenses and his never ceasing
work. Migrating ministers of that sort of de-
nomination have some advantage: If they do
not like their jobs and are not liked they can
soon move to new fields and change of
fried chicken"
These be bold words We print them as an ex
nibit of editorial courage OF course we do no
stand for them in any degree.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-17
THE PEOPLES FORUM

All letters cont for publication
In The Peoples Forum" of The
Vir9inian" should be concise and,
as far as possible. kept within 800
words.
No attention win be paid TO
anonymous letters, but names and
addresses signed as an evidence Of
good faith will not be printed If re-
quest is made that they be omitted.
The freest discussion of topics of
public interest h invited, with the
understanding, of course, that
publication Of a letter Is not to be
taken necessarily as approved by
the editor of the writer's views.