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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-21

ber of public addresses In support OF
| II, and sent O specific recommendation
! OF the plan In a congressional mes
sage. The Republican conventions of
IS states adopted resolutions strongly
advocating a statutory Tariff Com
mission, and depfecating any future
revision until needed evidence had
been gathered and impartial conclu-
sions drawn as to the facts upon
which such revision could be properly
made. quote the resolutions from
Ohio. New York. Wisconsin, Iowa,
and Kansas;
What the States Said.
Ohio:
Recognizing inequalities due to
changing conditions or that otherwise
may be found to exist congress has
~ ovitled a Tariff Board, with an am
pie appropriation for the investiga-
tion of the differences in the cost of
production at home and abroad, so
tl'at IL any rates are found TO be
higher than necessary 90 afford labor
a high wage and capital a fair return,
those rates will be reduced.
New York:
7 resident Taft, for a Tariff Board,
1t affords the means OF still more ac-
curately determining the difference in
the cost of production at home and
abroad. A SSepubhcan congress cis
necessary to provide needed appro-
prlations for this board and to assure
business and labor that changes in
rates will be made only to equalize
the difference in cost of production
and not to reduce rates to the free
trade or purely revenue basis favored
by the Democratic party.
Wisconsin:
The present Tariff Board has no
power of investigation and is not re-
quired to report to congress. We
favor the creation OF a non-partisan
tariff commission, empowered to ais
certain the cost of production In
this and other countries. and required
to make frequent reports of the in
formation gained to congress. Upon
the information so obtained, congress
should proceed to revise the different
schedules independently of each other,
according to true protective tariff
principles.
Iowa:
We favor the creation of an inde-
pendent, nonpartistpn tariff commits
sion, which shall be the instrumental
ity Of congress to ascertain the differ
ence between the cost of production
here and in other countries, and pub
lish the facts so that no; only con-
gress but the people shall be advised
of the results of it's Investigations.
Until such commission Is authorized
they approve the effort of the presi-
dent to secure the desired information
through a board of experts employed
for that purpose FSEf
Kansas:
We pledge to the people of Kan
sas that the Republican senators and
congrHsmen from this state shall
Iwarl1, and vote for legislation that will
maintain a tariff commission with
ample power and sufficient appropria.
tionj tV ascertain accurately the DIFF
ference between the cost of produc-
tion at home and abroad, and after
such information has been obtained
We hereby pledge our Republican SEN
ators and representatives Immediate
~ TO hx the duties upon the basis OF
this information.
Essential TO Get Cost Difference.
or course with Republicans, in ord
er To secure a proper. revision on the
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-21

FOR SALES acres OF land on n
pike, running water at the barn and
In the pasture, Ia mile to school,
/ mile to church; land little roll
Ing; gravel soil; adapted to raising
potatoes and all kinds OF grain:
new six-roorh mouse. cellar, barn
3O-50, sheds adjoining. granery
14X2O. new poultry house and other
buildings; new pike tax paid: about
rs fruit trees, some grapes. etc:
owners going into other business.
Also 112 acres on pike road, Ia
mile from school end church, 100
acres of which is under cultivation.
IL acre wood lot, about 300 rods
of tiling, oItlet paid for; so acres
In black land. pa:ance gravel and
yellow clay; 7-room house, cellar.
barn 35x50; two adjoining sheds.
corn crib 20x24, COW barn 10x2O,
1 5-ton scale, living springs in
pasture, good wells and clstern,
plenty of fruit, good market Also
other farms OF 16 acres up. For
particulars inquire of Lippincott
Bros. S-5-tf
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-21

NANTED-Flfty two-norse teams
each drawing a ton of apples to my
hydraulic cider press daily. ON Tues
day, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day of each week. Located H.
miles south of LaRue on LaRue ami
Essex pike. For further informa-
tion call w. A. sager, LaRue, o.
9-2-1St
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-21

to prepare for posi-
tlons now waiting at top wages;
learn the barber trade; few weeks
qualities; no dull seasons; no
strikes; cash every Saturday night,
an army of graduates depending
upon us for help; apply by mail.
Moler Barber College, Cincinnati,
o. 1G-6tp
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-21
Male Help Wanted

MEN WANTED-Age 1885. for fire.
men, 800 monthly; brakemen $50
on nearby railroads; experience un-
necessary: no strike; positions guar
antesd competent men; promotion;
Railroad employing headquarters
260 men sent to positions in August;
state age send stamp. Railway AS
ISOLATION Box, Mirror. 1G-23p
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-21

FOR SALE-45ix room house on ths
Boulevard near Columbia strestS
rents for 312 per month. VIII sell
for a very reasonable price II sold
at once. 1-21-h
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-21

5000 PEOPLE-Wanted In Marion
to use Sure Shot Remedy for neu-
raIgia and rheumatic trouble. Lab
oratory, 316 north stats. roS
Eals by sll druggists. surs Shot
Remedy Co. f-1t-tf
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-21

FOR SALE-White pine lath; fine
ones. Inquire before purchasing.
Yours truly, ]. l.. Price Co.; also
cedar posts. Telephone 2s4. loft
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-21

WANTED-Work by boy of II years
Address w. ID. NJ, care Mirror
1S-3t
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-21

to know that Pana-
mas should be cleaned and blocked
before laying them away for the
winter; now is the time; our 1912
styles are in; we can make new
Panamas to order at reduced price
through winter months; plenty Of
stock to select from; stin and soft
hats made to order: old hats clean
ed ana blocked, rctrimmcd I'm the
latest styles. Starr Hat factory,
1SS IL S. Main St. Upstairs.
1j-3t-cod
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-21
Passage OF Wool Bill Would End
Tariff Board.

Tariff Board.
Schedule X had been in force SC
| long and its percentages were so high
in many respects that had not hesl-
tated in past to say that 1t ought to
be reduced, and to explain how 1;
came not to be reduced in the Payne
bill as 1t ought to have been. But
II Is one thing to know that sched-
ule of this sort is too high. and it is
a very different thing in such a com
plicated schedule to know upon what
items the reductions should be made
and how great the reductions ought
to be. If the principle which / am
committed, and to which the party
is committed in the strong terms of
the resolutions, which l have quoted
above, was to be observed as a policy
at all, here was the occasion for fol-
towing it. If | had allowed the wool
bill to become a law, the progress
made in pubic opinion toward a bet
ter method of revising the tariff
would have been entirely lost and
the policy cast to the winds.
Some defense is made on the bill
on the ground that the committee on
ways and means had considered 1t
carefully in committee for a month
or more, but the point is that the bill
they prepared Is not this bill. 1t Is
changed in all of its rates and mate
rally changed to meet by compro-
mise bill that was never in COM
mittee at all and the blending was
done, as was said with "blaclxsmith's
tools" The house bill was free
trade or at least an antiprotectlon
bill; what the hybrid was, who
could tell? In view of the enormous
value of the wool and wooden in
dustry which might be disasterously
affected by the bill, was 1t asking too
much to delay the bill, under the cir
cumstances, for 80 days to secure ac-
curate information? thought not. In
deed, l could find no argument which
would satisfy my conscience in sign
Ing the bill.
hfce List Bill Not Farmer Measure.
The free-list bill was called the
farmers free list" for the purpose
of giving an impression that II was
passed to compensate the farmers
for some sort of injury supposed to be
done by the Canadian reciprocity
treaty. This reason was finally repu-
dated by the leader of the Democracy
ON the floor OF the house of repre-
sentatives. and Is certainly not true.
There was nothing in the Canadla1
reciprocity bin that required any COM
pensatlon TO the farmers, for IN very
short period after actual operation It
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-21

to work and deliver; must have
wheel. Call at once. Crafts, 1873
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-21
Wanted,

WANTED-Fifty thousand people to
know that we will make cider on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
of each week with our new hydrau-
lie press at our mill on Nye street,
1st block south of Bennett street
west Marion. j. j. Parrish.
-9-13-1mo-eo
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-21

WANTED-Colorcd woman, unmar-
ried, 20 to 25 years old, as janitress
at Columbia theater. Ask for w.
H. Clark. 2f-3t
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-21

breed for wool and mutton. Cali
A. f. Goerlich, s miles southeast Of
Marion on the Richlsnd pike.
Phone B602. 1e-21-tf
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-21

Female Help Wanted.

WANTED-Girl To work I'm Elias
Candy store on south Main street.
Good pay. 19-3t
Glasses Fitted.
J. s. LUNGER. NJ. d., fits glasses. re-
moves adenoids, treats the diseases
of the eye, ear. nose and throat.
Office 202 S. Main St, opposite Ma
sons temple. Phone S5 6-24-tf
Ii. N. NIECE, opticlan, fits eye glasses
200 Neil avenue. 7-19.tf
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-21
BINS Best on no Information.


Although many of the Democrats
had assisted in the support of the
statutory tariff board bill and had ad-
vocated such means, of securing ac-
curate information in respect Of the
probable operation of the proposed
revision. the house at once began 10
make a record for political purposes
by passing three tariff bills. the wool
bill, the free-list bill and the cotton
bill. They gave no public hearings
of any kind on any of these bills and
they presented no satisfactory infor-
nation upon which the effect OF any
of them upon the industries involv-
ed could be judged. Their investiga-
tions may have been sufficient to sat-
isfy the conscience OF a tariff-for-
revenue man who believes in any re-
duction, however great, of existing
duties but for one pledged as I am
10 maintain a tarlfr high enough to
enable existing industries to live, tho
case is different.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-30

of rich mud taken from the states of Indiana Illinois
and Iowa.
This work has been going Cd throughout the ages
and the earth washings increased by bad Gull
tvation. They carrying away the best elements
of our SOIL and much of these stored up in the
swamps indeed, the swamps contain the richest fer
tzing materials earth; they full of the stuff
for which our farmers give their hard dollars the
chemical companes they are loaded with phosphates
and lime the latter coming largely from the shells
OF minute crustaceans including crabs and crawhsh,
which live in the swamps, and, dying leave their
shells there in such quantities that they have per-
meated the mud with phosphate of lime. This rich
stun Is found in all of the swamps and there are
great quantities of in the delta of the Mississippi
In the Delta.
And what mighty delta the Mississippi has! 1t
is one of the greatest earth. You could lose that
of the Nile within it and its lands would make a sec
ond Egypt 1t is bigger than the delta of the Ganges;
it is many miles wide and is as long as from New
York to Cleveland The swamps in it comprise alto
gether 10000 900 acres, and they are SO rich
that any forty would make a good farm. The
lower part Of the delta has millions Of acres which
will raise and rice. North of them are millions
that could be devoted to cotton still farther north
millions fitted for corn. We all know what HoI-
land has done by dikng the sand hills of the North
sea. This land might be diked the same way but IL.
would be walling in hot beds rather than sand
The government geographers have already made
topographic maps of great part of the lower Missis-
sippi; they have gone over the swamps on foot on
horseback and in boats and have charted 1t section
by section have before me, as write one of their
maps which covers an area perhaps the size of a
Continued Page Three)
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Continued on Page Three.

using that road, telling them to be there Thurs
day, April g. and to bring everything that they could
use to make roads, also that the business men would
furnish the dinner to all of those who were on the
job These cards brought out thrty-eight teams and
142 men, who graded the hill filled up the hol-
lows on each side. On April IL they agreed to help
the farmers northwest of town grade mile of road
and the 18th they went back and finished up
Three years ago Diller only an obscure viii
lage, but since the Business Mems association has
gotten busy IL has advanced by leaps bounds until
It is now one of the best known towns in the state
and all on account of its spirit of cooperation with
the farmer the good roads question.
The roads around Diller have shown a marked i'm
provement under the direction Of the business men
and the county commissioners Hills have been re-
auced roads Strengthened draws filled brush cleaned
up and surface forty feet wide made through
out, After the road is graded It is an easy lob to
keep It in shape by using King road drag, as II
only takes few hours work after each rain.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-30
FLORIDA Has 20 MILLION ACRES OF SWAMPS

diamond field in the plateau of South Africa; they
contain thousands of millions of easily available
wealth and they are scattered all over the union.
First let me tell you what they amount to. The
experts of the government have estimated their area
at between 600 900 and 100000 acres and the
probability is that they will millions more, AT
the lowest calculation they represent country bigger
than Great Britain and Ireland and equal the three
states of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. They have
soil which is richer than Holland and their area is
ten times as great. Holland is now feeding almost
5000, 900 people, and at the same ratio these wet
lands have potential food supply for almost 6OOOO-
OOO or 10000, 900 more than the half of our whole
population
Where the SwaInps Are.
And now take your map Of the United states and
where they They are not scattered over the
desert away off from the railroads amid the canyons
and valleys of the arid west; they close to the
centers of population and to be found in al
every state of the live, up-todate east; of
them lie the big cities, others surrounded by
farms worth 500 and nearly all accessi-
BILE by water and rail to the markets.
OF this swamp land 900 acres lie east of
the great plains and 100000 or 3O,000,000
found in the Mississippi delta. There vast tracts
in the northern states Minnesota alone has some
thing like 100000 acres, and Michigan one-fourth
much more. The state of Maine has between
North Dakota, and Wisconsin has several millions
which need only to be drained to be turned into farms
We look upon Illinois thoroughly settled. We
know it is of greatest states and that
the land is worth from 500 to $500 an acre Never
theless that has than 100000 acres of
flooded lands that might be redeemed, and which will
be richer than any farmed. There altogether,
in the east seventeen states every of which has
more than million acres of swamps, and there are
twelve others, each of which has quarter of mil
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-30

lion to million that could be easily drained
The average man of the east thinks of California
as arid rather than wet. He knows that great part
of it is irrigated and he looks upon much of it as
desert Nevertheless that state has of the rich
est swamp lands of the world. The Sacramento river
which through the middle Of it, has a valley
eral hundred miles long, and in that basin there
some millions of acres which the government geog-
raphers have just finished mapping. Great drainage
works going there, and these include some of
the biggest reclamation schemes OF the union
A few years ago that land worth nothing fast
it is reclaimed 1t will sell for from 500 to $1,000
acre, and of it is already covered with farms
where asparagus, celery, tomatoes and potatoes are
raised for shipment to San Francisco and other parts
of the west, In the Sacramento river they have put
bikes about island and pumped out the water, and
that island has the largest asparagus farm of the
world They have made great drains which have re-
deemed lands devoted to celery, and vegetables
raised which are shipped from there TO the east
Some millions of dollars have already been expended
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-30
Copyright. 1911, by Frank C. carpenter.)


o-uzu-s-zuuls ASHINGTON, d. C.-(Speclal Core
EEAYk spondence for The Bee IL write today
4 wv of one of the biggest schemes of Uncle
kuu--E Sam, patriarch. 1t is scheme which
FaESENaI means the erection OF millions of farms
Giz@@SSSASSs@SY and of soil which will feed
than 5ooO0,OO0 OF people 1t means
the bringing under cultivation land which
tains some of the richest earth on the face of the
globe, and the creation OF new real estate wealth
which will aggregate from 1000, 900 900 to $751;
o00,000,00o. refer to the drainage of the swamps
scattered the union. The scientists of the
government engaged in surveying them. They
have already plotted something like 10000 900 acres
and there are 6O,OOO,O0O or 7O,Ooo,OOO yet to be
mapped. They going the country with spirit
levels measuring the hills and hollows and sounding
the depths Their work is carefully done that the
civil engineers their canals by look at the
maps, and they really form the basis of the working
plans for the swamps.
This great undertaking is in the hands Of the
geological survey. 1t is done by the topographic
branch and the scientists in charge Of it are known
as geographers. The chief of them is Mr.. r. B. Mar
SHALL and under him are four others each of whom
has great division.
The swamps Of the Atlantic states are under Mr.
Frank Sutton; those OF the central states under Mr.
W. H Heron while the Rocky mountains and Pacific
coast respectively managed by Mr. Sledge Tatum
and Mr. T. C. Gerdne. Each Of these men has a
large corps of surveyors and all visit the various
lions and work together after fixed plans During
the last week have talked with these geographers,
and through my Investigations at the geological sur
vey and in the Agricultural department am able to
give some idea of what may be done
Big Wet Spots in Uncle Sans Back Yard.
Talk about your of diamonds These wet
spots on Uncle Sans farm are worth more than any
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-30

question of good roads came for consideration and
after threshing the matter pretty thoroughly
enough money subscribed to grade and straghten
one and one-half miles of road each way from town
The next year the farmers taken into the
plan and they could the difference they were
willing to do their share in the work Accordingly
outline was made of the territory that was adjacent
to Diller ten miles from east to and eleven miles
from north to SOUTH which divided into two sec
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-30
An Empire on the Mississippi.

About the same might be said of the lower Missis-
sppi valley; 1t is still earth in the making The Gulf of
Mexico, the scientists tell me, extended more
than 600 miles farther north and all the land Of the
delta is made up of the rich earth washings brought
down by the great river They have built up the bed
of the gulf and forced the back Moreover, the
streams have dropped their deposits close to their
banks and have thus gradually built troughs each
side of them. 1t is in these vast troughs that
find the swamps. The Mississippi carries stuff
into them every food; it comes down loaded with
the richest materials of the uplands and the noun
tains, and drops great part of it there. From the
of Missouri alone, 1t is estimated enough soil to
make a shaft mile square and higher than that
of the Washington monument is annually dropped
into the Mississippi. Within this period the
Missouri carries down pile of equal area which is
400 feet high, and this is mixed with billions of
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-30

tons Five prizes were put up for each section being
divided $780, $40, SIS, $40 and IS. Something like
twenty miles pledged for this contest, but not
all finished. The roads to be finished
according to the rules OF the association, thereby
surfing symmetrical results The contest closed last
November when the judges went the roads and
announced the decisions at banquet held in the
opera house for that purpose. Nearly 200 farmers
a&d business were present, every of whom
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-30

had contributed to the work. either by cash labor
This year the plans to be carried out
with the exception of the prize money. Already over
thirty miles of road has been pledged and work has
been started on over ten miles at this writing.
In order to stimulate further interest and do
more work on the worst places the business men
voted to suspend business for day and help the
farmers tackle hill two and one-half miles south
of town. and postal cards to the farmers
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-30
and farmer

The farmer wants good prices for his products
and yet he seldom finds time to do his share in work.
ing the roads He has idea that the county should
Keep up the roads when he should be satisfied if the
county would only furnish the materials and tools to
Keep the roads in shape On the other hand the bust
ness man may realize wherein the trouble lies and
then KICKS to the county commissioners about II In
stead of trying to help himself and the farmer too
Diller' Neb', is town Of only 500 population yet
can boast OF one Of the best systems of good roads
In southeastern Nebraska and being pioneer in this
work can well be taken for example
FIRST Diller has Business Mems association in
whleh nearly every man in the place carries a MEM
oershp and takes an active part Two years ago the
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-30

upon that work. and that the surveys have been
completed the drainage projects will increase
manifold.
In talking with the geographers to the Sacra-
mento valley Of them told me that the trouble
there was that man had taken possession of the
try about 1000 too For ages past nature
has been bringing down the earth washngs from the
mountains, but she has not by about 1000 years
finished her job The silt has lodged along the banks
OF the rivers and built up the land there, leaving
>roughs each side which the foods have turned
into swamps, These can be reclaimed, but channels
must be cut and the land protected that the
will not overflow Some of the islands which have
been redeemed at the mouth Of the Sacramento will
have to be taken away and channel sufficiently large
for the river created.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-30
Sets Good Example Sep the Ambitious Towns of Nebraska

GOD roads are today a vital factor in favor
of town as a trading point, to say
nothing of the pleasure derived in driv-
ing over the country. and should be of
interest, especially to the business men
and farmer.