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Evening star., 1911-06-04
GEMS LOST IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Police Asked to Find Jewelry Be-
longing to Berwyn Victim.

A request came from Baltimore to the
local police yesterday asking that an
effort be made to recover q three-stone
diamond ring with a cat's-eye setting in
the center and pair OF gold cuff but
tons. The articles of jewelry belonged to
Robert Oliver Cromwell Williams, who
was killed in an automobile accident re.
Gently near Berwyn, Nd. while riding to
Baltimore with Miss Helen Griff1th.
Tho ring and cuff buttons were valued
at 1896. the police were told. had they
disappeared at Berwyn tho night OF the
accident
Friends and relatives OF the deal man
have made anxious inquiries about the
lost articles, but no trace OF them has
been found. The ring had an inscription
"A. c. w. to e. c. W." The cuff buttons
contained the monogram Of their owner.
Evening star., 1911-06-04

national issues above the intrigue and
barter Of the political market It is the
part of wisdom to treat a great question
from the point Of view OF the larger
selhshness.' 1t Is something almost
never thought of. but something Which.
the moment 1t is mentioned, stirs our
quickening pride-it is something to be
proud of that along the boundary be-
tween Canada and the United States
there are no forts, no army-no mutual
distrust.
Between their aims and our aims there
is the same simple relationship as be-
tween two great pine trees In the same
to the growth Of the other. In the light
of the larger self1shness,' to say that the
interests Of the one are opposed to the
interests Of the other Is like saying that
the more one man sleeps the less does ne
allow another to Sleep
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EXCURSION FOR POOR.
Navy Yard Employees to Give One to
River View July IL,

About 800 mothers and children are to
be given free outing by the navy yard
employees at River View July IA. Apart
from the days outing, luncheon and
amusements are to be provided and the
Naval Gun Factory Band will furnish the
music OF the occasion.
The excursion is an annual affair
given by the navy yard employees to the
mothers and children OF the city who are
unable. through lack of funds, to go
on such affairs, and has proved in the
past pleasant fresh-air outing for those
going on the trip. Wilmer L. Moody is
chairman OF the committee having the
excursion in charge.
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REMEMBER JEFFERSON DAVIS.
President of the Confederacy Born
1O3 Years Ago.

NORFOLK, Va. June 3.-Today. the
103d anniversary of the birth Of Jefferson
Davis, president Of the Southern Confed-
eracy, was celebrated At Franklin. Va,
by the unveiling OF handsome monu-
ment erected by Agnes Leo Chapter.
United Daughters Of tho Confederacy. to
the memory Of the confederate dead Of
Southampton county.
There was q large parade participated
in by Confederate veterans from Norfolk
Portsmouth. Suffolk and other points in
tidewater, Virginia. Rev. James H.
Owens Of Norfolk was the orator. The
day was observed generally in southern
Virginia by the Confederate Veterans and
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Evening star., 1911-06-04
OFFERS 81, 100000.
Conditional Gift to the Woman's
College at New London.

NEW HAVEN. Conn. June S.-Morton
F. Plant OF New London, according to
information which has reached this city,
has made a conditional offer OF 1000, 600
to the woman's college which is to be
located at New London and to be known
as Thames College. The conditions are.
it is understood. that the name be changed
to Connecticut College. end that the coll
lego raise another million dollars. The
report Of Mr.. Plants offer is neither af-
firmed nor denied by the board OF trus-
tees.
Evening star., 1911-06-04
BOY TAKES HIS OWN LIFE.
Despondent Because He Was an Abb
no and Couldn't Study.

TOLEDO. Ohio. June S.-Despondent
because he was an albino and could
not study on account OF his eyesisht.
John Walkowski. eighteen. committed
suicide while In the front yard OF his
home late this evening. The lad fired .
bullet into his brain. dying almost In.
stantly. Young Walkowslzf had been
downtown all afternoon. On return
ing he saw the nine-year-old child Of
his landlady on the porch.
I'm going to kill myself, do not get
frightened" he said to the lad.
The child ran screaming for its
mother. When he returned Walkowski
was lying dead on the walk.
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PLANS FOR BLUE AND GRAY.
Reunion in Atlanta, Ga., to Be At
tended by Boston Veterans.

BOSTON, June 3.-There Is to be a re-
union of the Blue and the Gray in
Atlanta. Ga. next October. Plans were
announced today by tho I'd Coast Artil-
lery Corps, the Boston Light Infantry
and the Infantry Veteran Corps for a
trip south.
The occasion Is the dedication by Presi-
dent Taft of q monument commemorating
the names and services Of the organiza-
tions that helped to create q friendly
feeling beteween north and south after
the civil war. The Boston troops an
nounced today that they are to be .he
guests Of the Gate City Guard at Atlanta.
Many other military bodies from various
sections of the country will be present.
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SHOWERS FOR TODAY.
Forecast That Weather Will Be Un.
settled-Unchanged Temperature.

Promising unsettled weather with prob
able showers for today. the weather man
last night voiced the prediction that the
first Sunday In June would be In marked
contrast to the Sundays in May, all OF
which were bright and filled with sun
shine. Not much change from the
temperature Of yesterday is expected.
yesterdays minimum being 81 degrees at
o'clock In the morning. and its maxi
mum, 81 degrees at 4 in the afternoon.
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or four years, have Injured greatly to
the profit of all engaged In agricul-
Answers Charge of Inconsistency.

Answers Charge of Inconsistency.
IT have been attacked on the floor
of the House and elsewhere as occupy
ing an inconsistent position. 1t has
been said that 1 have urged the reel
procity agreement. with the idea OF
lowering the cost of living on the one
hand, and then have asserted that the
farmers would not be injured by reduc-
tion in the price at which they sell their
products on the other hand. 1t Is asked
is it possible to reduce the cost OF living
on the one hand and maintain the pres
ent prices of farm products on the
other? My own impression is that the
cost of farm products is determined by
the worlds supply, and not by local
conditions. or tariff. or otherwise. and
that SO long as the movement toward
manufacturing and away from the farms
continues, and the supply OF farm la
borers is reduced, continuance OF high
prices for farm products Is inevitable
But / do think that reciprocity will en-
large the reservoir or the supply OF
farm products for our people, and thus
beyond the present standard. If this
be the case. then. neither will the farm
er be injured nor will prices increase
Cost Of Living Compared.
1.-THE argument Is made however. that
to give free trade to the Canadian farmer
in farm products SO as to permit him
to enjoy the markets of the United STATES
is to give him an advantage over our own
farmers, who. living behind high tariff
wall, have to pay a great deal more for
the cost of living than do Canadian farm
ers, whose protective system is not
SO prohibitive. With respect to this
argument, all 1 have to say is that 1t
Is not true. The average cost OF living
in the United States is not higher than
Ii is in Canada. This Is conclusively
shown by two facts-first, that in spite
of the preference given to English prod
ucts imported into Canada. the duty be-
ing 33ls per cent less than that imposed
on goods from other countries, the United
States exports to Canada $225,OOOOO
of goods of the widest variety of man.
cost of living. while Canada. with
preference in favor Of England. imports
from England goods to the value OF only
Sa3, 100000. In other words. despite the
protection tariff maintained by Canada
against the United States. yet Canada, in
the matter of articles entering into the
cost of living Of her people, buys two
and one-half times as much from the
United States as she does from England
again, in our negotiations over this
Canadian reciprocity treaty. l directed
our commissioners to secure as great a
cut in the duties on manufactures in
Canada as they could, but they were un-
able to secure any more than appears in
this treaty, for the reason that Canada
would not expose her manufacturers to
the competition Of United States manu-
facturers, which Is a conclusive proof
that the manufactured products that en-
ter into the cost of living are higher In
Canada than they are in the United
States otherwise they would not fear the
competition Of United States manufac-
turers.
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The discovery OF two browntail moths
at Jamaica has led State Commissions
of Agriculture Pearson Of New York 10
believe that there is colony of the
pests 1 nthat vicinity.
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Hopes for Patriotic Consideration.

In closing President Taft said the pros
poets are the measure will be reported
out next week. probably without recon-
mendation. Ho believed amendments
would be offered, and said some doubt
less would be with view to improving
the present bill and others attempting
revision and reduction of duties on GER
tain articles from all countries.
Mr.. Taft mentioned the Root amend
ment. saying 1t was in accordance with
the agreement but did not offer the in
ducement to lifting Canadian restrictions
which the present provision in the bill
does Some OF the probable meat and
flour amendments. he thought. would be
gratuitous concessions to Canada. The
objection he had to the farmers free list
as an amendment was that to unite reci-
procity and the farmers free list was to
defeat both bills. he urged full dis
cussion and hoped as result the reci-
procity measure would be submitted to
the Senate. without irrelevant and preju-
dicial amendments, for its patriotic con-
sideration.
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Evening star., 1911-06-04
Fair Treatment of Papermakers.

This exact agreement is not embodied
in the bill as recommended to the House
by the ways and means committee and
as passed by the House. Instead. in or
der to induce the Canadian provinces,
over whom the Dominion can exercise no
control. to lift the restrictions upon the
expectation of their pulp wood, it is
provided that when paper is made in
Canada from wood grown on land not
under export restrictions the paper may
come into the United States free and
it is hoped that the difference of $5.15
between the duty on paper from re-
stricted wood and no duty on paper
made froI-l unrestricted wood will in
duce the provinces to lift their restric-
tions.
'It is thus apparent that while a small
amount Of paper may come In free into
the United States under the existing tar
iff, the paper made from nine-tenths of
the pulp wood Of Canada will pay q duty
of 1915. 1t seems to me that this is treat
ing the paper manufacturers OF the
United States fairly. 1t Is a provision
calculated to secure to them a source of
supply where they can get their wood at
s. less a ton than in this country, with
of paper made in Canada from Canadian
1t is provision looking far into the fu-
ture. and which we all hope may create
a condition Of absolutely free trade in
paper and it's materials, condition that
candid and sagacious paper manufac-
turers will admit is the best thing for
the industry. as it certainly Is for the
consumer.
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Value Of Land Compared.

But 1t Is said that the farm land In
Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa. Wisconsin
and other states is much more valuable
than the land in Manitoba. Saskatchewan
and Alberta, the great northwestern
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Our Trade With Canada.

''The general conditions are these: We
have a people numbering 9OOOOOOO oc-
cupying the best part of the North
American continent, with the widest
variety of products and with an
unexcelled fertility OF soil. To the north
Of us are a people just like ourselves, in
descent. in wealth per capita. in educa-
ton, in traditions. in ambitions and as
prations. They have q country nearly
orally and certainly not SO rich, in the
wide variety Of agricultural products
There are 100000 Of people there. With
them We have trade Of 1925, ,OOO, 600 a
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provinces Of Canada, and that to give
Canadian farmers free entry of products
On cheaper lands will be certain to lower
farm lands In value in this country
Nothing could be further from the
fact. The Canadian lands are farther re-
moved from the Minneapolis and Chicago
markets than the lands Of Minnesota,
Wisconsin. Iowa or Illinois, and prox1m-
ity to markets Is most important eie-
ment in the value of farm land. Then
the natural change in farming In this
country is from the raising of grain and
other cereals for export to the raising OF
grain for farm consumption and devel-
opment Of the secondary products in the
form Of cattle and hogs. The live cattle
are bought and fattened. The hogs are
raised and fed. 1t IS farming of this
kind that explains the high value OF
farm lands in Illinois and Iowa ana
value in North Dakota was $11:15 an
acre. in South Dakota, 1892; in Kansas.
$l2.17: in Nebraska. $16.27 At the same
time the value of farm land in Iowa was
sin. s2a71, and in Minnesota, s21.31.
"If the argument as to the disastrous
effect of admitting the crops OF the
upon the values Of our farm land is
correct, then the opening OF lands In
Kansas, Nebraska and the two Dakotas
in the two decades from 1890 to 1910
should have had q similar effect upon
the land of the older states. Now.
what was the fact? What was the ef-
feet upon the farm lands of the older
states Of the competition Of these new
er states? The land in the older states
became more devoted to corn and cat
tie and hogs; while the wheat and
other cereals were left to the new
lands. The effect was that the value
of the land in the older farming states
was in most cases more than doubled.
the average farm value by the acre
Indiana, $62: in Michigan. $31; in Wis
consin, $43, and in Minnesota $37.
"The year book of Canada shows the
average farm values by the acre in the
provinces Of Manitoba. Saskatchewan and
Alberta to be $2S.94. .54 and $50 40, re-
spectively, in 1909. The difference in the
value of the acre between Manitoba and
Wisconsin Is SO, between Wisconsin and
Illinois 1t is $52 between Wisconsin and
Iowa 1t is $40 and between Michigan and
Indiana 1t Is 631. These figures show in
contestably that the fear of q reduction
in farm land values Of this country by
| letting In Canada's products is wholly
unfounded.
"I always feel an mpatience-perhaps
| an unreasonable one-in having to argue
| the question Of schedules with reference
| to the advantage OF the reciprocity agree
ment with Canada, because 1t seems to
| me that the reasons for adopting 1t are
deeper and wider than are to be found In
| comparison of percentages and rates with
respect to special localities and special
| businesses.
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Beneficial to Both.

II do not advocate this treaty in view
OF its benefits to the United States alone.
but because am sure 1t will be beneficial
to Canada also. II I did not think so
my earnestness and enthusiasm for the
treaty would be much abated; not that
/ have as much interest in the people
Of Canada as have In the people OF
the United States, for l have not reached
that altruistic point; but because no such
agreement can become permanent unless
il does result in the common benefit to
both countries: and if this were a Jug
handled arrangement, il all the benefits
were to accrue to the United States and
none to Canada. then. as the treaty
might be repealed at any time. we could
look forward to Its early abrogation by
the Canadian authorities.
''It is because I am confident 1t will be
seen on both sides to be great states
manlike measure, one looking to the bene-.
fetal interests of both parties to the con-
tract, that 1 SO urgently press its adop-
ton upon the Congress and the people of
the United States"
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year. We export to them 500. 900 900 a
year. II we deduct from our exports to
Germany, which is nearly twice as popu-
lous as Canada, the value of cotton and
the copper that we send there, it will be
found that we export more Of our man
ufactures and agricultural products to
Canada than we do to Germany. and that
England is the only foreign customer
we have that takes more of our goods
than this comparatively small population
of Canada.
IF that be true and Canada continues
to grow, what may we expect to sell her
If we reduce the tariff wall. introduce as
nearly as we can free trade and she in
creases her population from seven mill
lions to thirty millions? Shall We not be
flying in the face of Providence to main
tain a wall between us and such a profit
able market as she will furnish? The
conditions between Canada and the
United States are the same in point OF
labor cost. in the point of cost of living.
in point of the general conditions pre-
vailing in both countries. If either coun-
try has the advantage the United States
has 1t, and yet for both the opening of
the markets Of each to the other Is GER
tain to introduce a measure of prosperity
that we have never seen eQualed In the
trade between the two countries.
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the United States the relatively mex
haustible supply to be found in Canada.
Cost OF Making Print Paper.

Second. as to print paper. The tariff
board has made a most exhaustive ex-
animation of the comparative cost of
production of print paper in the United
States and in Canada. Indeed. the report
is SO complete as to vindicate the judg-
ment of those who proposed the use OF a
board for the purpose OF determining the
difference in the cost of articles at home
and abroad with view to assisting the
Congress in a rational readjustment Of
the tariffs.
This report shows that the mills best
situated In the United States. with the
best machinery. can manufacture print
paper at slightly less cost than the
mills best situated in Canada: that the
Canadian mills on an average have newer
machinery than the United States mills;
that there are quite a number of United
States mills that use old machinery, and.
therefore, do not conduct their business
on economical lines: that the average
cost of production in all the mills of the
United States, including the poorest
mills, is about So more ton than the
cost of production in Canada with its
newer mills: and that this SIS Is just
about the difference between the cost of
pulp wood In the United States and the
cost of pulp wood in Canada 1t seems
fairly reasonable to suppose, too, that the
pulp wood. which only grows north OF
the 45th degree Of latitude, Will be eX-
hausted in the United States. or remain
in the control of few persons. because
of the drain Of the United States mills.
''It is Of the highest importance, there
fore, not only to the consumers. but to
the manufacturers of print paper in order
that they may secure their raw material
at reasonable price. to secure a letting
down of the bars in Canada for the ex-
portation of pulp wood. The provinces
of Canada have control over the crown
lands. In which nine-tenths of the pulp
wood is grown. and they have imposed
restrictions and export duties of various
kinds upon the pulp wood in the crown
lands in order to prevent the export Of
the wood except In the form of paper.
The agreement provides that whenever
the Canadian provinces remove all re-
strictions upon the expectation of pulp
wood then Canada will permit United
States paper to come into Canada free
and the United States will permit Cana
dian paper to come in free into the
United States.
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Interests Not Opposed.

Prof. Laughlin, who indorsed reciproci-
ty, said in part:
1T is the part OF wisdom to raise our
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Sources of Opposition.

Prom what source does the opposition
proceed? In the first place. it comes from
two classes of the business interests of
the country, those who own and control
the lumber supply of the United States,
and those who are engaged in the manu-
facture of print paper, and Of whom the
largest manufacturers own much of the
spruce wood supply of the United States
from which print paper Is made. And
the second class opposed to the treaty
are those who claim to represent the
farmers and agricultural interests of the
country.
In the consideration of these three
classes OF opponents to the treaty I
should premise that one of the great
objects OF the treaty. one Of the great
reasons for its making and submission
TO Congress. was the conservation of our
natural resources. 1t is perfectly evil
dent from the statistics that our general
lumber supply and our supply OF spruce
wood for papermaking are being rapidly
exhausted and that the effect of the
diminutfon of the supply and the increase
OF the demand is to put high price upon
the rough lumber and wood pulp. Under
the Payne tariff bill rough lumber is
dutiable 1T $1.25.
Under the reciprocity agreement that
duty is removed. I submit that as lum-
ber is essential to all classes, farmers
and merchants, as the price has gone far
beyond what II ever was in the past, and
as our supply is being exhausted, We
ought, when we can, to enlarge the
so0rces from which our people may se-
cure II at reasonable prices. The report of
the chief Of the bureau OF corporations
shows that the control of lumber in the
united states Is In comparatively few
hands, and that they are so friendly to
each other that the possibility of a
monopoly is neither remote nor improb-
able unless We bring TO the markets Of
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Dependable qualities in all
the new styles at the lowest
prices anywhere.
Go-Carts ......... SI.85 up.
English Coaches. Sass up.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-05
New Country Magazine
By Wisconsin Students

The first issue of the Wisconsin
Country Magazine has just appear.
ed. This is an illustrated monthly
devoted to the best in Wisconsin
country life, issued by students in
the College of Agriculture of the
University of Wisconsin. The De-
cember number outlines the scope
of country life as it appears to the
student editors, and includes COM
ments on the farm, the country
home, the school, the church and
other organizations. Among the
articles on country life are a dis
cussion of "Other Things Worth
While" All argument for more
music and reading matter in the
farm home. Fresh air and rural
sanitation are also discussed with
particular reference to rural con-
ditions.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-05
u. S. Inheritance Tax
Creates Discussion

AS a consequence of the interest
played in the discussion Of the in
heritance tax in England during
the recent election, the University
of Wisconsin extension division has
prepared a new bulletin on the in
heritance tax, as found in the Unit
ed States. That the United States
has an inheritance tax operating in
thirty-six Of its states will come as
surprise to many people.
Inheritance ia res, in various
forms, have been source of rev.
enue in European countries, at var
ious times, for centuries, but the
form of the tax as presented in the
United States is the result of a
modern development of this form
of taxation.
Besides presenting full argu-
ments both for and against the in
heritance tax, the bulletin gives a
list Of twenty. three sources where
the question is discussed at greater
length.