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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-01-18
a Hold-Up
An Oppressive Trust.

Before the Coffee Roasters' Association, in ses-
sion at Chicago on Thursday, Thomas J. Webb,
Of Chicago, charged that there is in existence q
coffee combine which is 'the most monstrous inn
position in the history of human commerce."
There is very slight exaggeration about this
statement. 1t comes very close to being literally
true. There is a coffee combine in Brazil, from
which country comes the bulk Of the coffee used
in the United States, which is backed by the gov.
eminent of Brazil and financed by il, which CONS
pels American consumers, as Mr.. Webb said, ito
nav famine prices for coffee when no famine
exists"
The worst thing about this is that the CONSUME
ers of the United States have been compelled to
put up the money through which this combine,
to further cinch them, has been made effective.
There were formerly revenue duties imposed upon
all coffee entering the United States. Those taxes
were Denounced as an imposition upon the. people;
as taxing the poor mans breakfast table, and the
like. The taxes we're removed. Immediately
thereafter Brazil imposed an export duty upon
coffee I'D to the full amount Of the former customs
taxes in this country. The revenue which for
merly went into the treasury of the United States
was diverted to the treasury Of Brazil. The poor
mans breakfast coffee continued to cost him the
same old price.
But this was only the commencement. The
''valorization' plan was evolved in Brazil.
Through this plan the government, using the rev"
enues derived from the export duties for the pur-
poses, takes all of the surplus crop in a season Of
large yields and holds it off the market, thus
keeping the supply down to the demands OF the
market and permitting the planters to receive a
much higher price than they would otherwise
have done.
The United States consumes more Brazilian cof-
fee than does the rest of the world. We are the
best customers of Brazil, and Brazil buys little
from us. Now Brazil is promoting, financing and
maintaining a trust designed, and working effect
lively for the purpose, to compel American con.
sumers to pay an exorbitant price for the coffee
thew use. What is the remedy?-Seath P0st-In'
teUiqencer-NoD. 19, 1911.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-01-18

The, more you heal about what them
boomers is goin' TO do the more you
don't hear about what they have went
10 work and did Baltimore Evening
G..-M N4N HNE HtN Nyt8Aat4 N1tlaf
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-01-18
Before the Scrap.

why are you rushing around so to-
day?" I'm trying to get something
for my wife?" Had any offers?"-
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-01-18

Lady" said Meandering Mike,
would you lend me a cake Of soap?"
do you mean to tell me you want
soap?"
"Yes'm. Me partners got de hic-
cups an l want to scare him."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-01-18

"p see that you deal in mill sup
plies"
YES"
well I'd like to buy a pair of
boxing gloves"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-01-18

The trouble with a good bit~of re-
form is that it is badly in need of re-
forming.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-01-18

The easiest thing in the world to
make light of Is a ton Of coaa.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-01-18

Little Nell-I didn't know that they
played II Spy" in church. mamma.
Mamma-What do you mean, my
child?
Little Nell-Why, the preacher said
Lets Play" and everybody held their
hands up to their faces.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-01-18

Standard statistics Of the coffee trade
show a falling off in sales during the last
two years Of over two hundred million
pounds. Authenticated reports from the
Postum factories in this city show o
tremendous increase in the sale Of Postum
in a like period Of time.
While the sales of Postum invariably
show marked increase year over year, the
extraordinary demand for that we'll
known breakfast beverage during 1911 is
very likely due to a public awakening to
the oppression Of the coffee trust.
Such an awakening naturally disposes
the multitude who suffer from the i'll
effects of coffee drinking to be more re-
ceptive to knowledge Of harm which so
often comes as o result of the use Of
the drug-beverage, coffee.-BGtAs Greek
EOsntng NeUs-Dsc, 10, 1911.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-11
San Francisco to Break the Record.

With an abundance of money of its
own, with the best. expert taste and
skill available as to designs, and profit
ing by the experience of St Louis and
Chicago, San Francisco is preparing
steadily, perhaps magnihcently, for its
Panama Exposition in 1915. The COM
missioners sent to Europe have re-
turned more than satisfied with the
lavish space and tasteful, as we'll as
plentiful, decoration promised them by
every nation save one. The Orient
also will utilize the great fair with
more splendor than it has ever before
done at an American exposition, be-
cause of San Francisoo's greater near
ness to its own shores, thus offering
better inducements for display of the
industries of China and Japan which
are to surpass anything in the history
of our day. The Mikado's commits
sioners have informed the State De-
partment here that Japan plans to erect
at San Francisco a building with
Japanese gardens to cost million dol
lars, and to present both, at the close
of the exposition, to our government
as an expression of her friendly regard
for the people of the United States.
England, France, and Germany will
join Denmark. Sweden, and Norway
and the minor Central European states
to make memorable the first exposition
on the shores of an ocean. England's
famous master of pageants, favorably
from his wonderful work
at the last coronation, declares that the
extraordinary scenery and surroundings
of the San FRANCISCO fair will give him
an opportunity to elevate his art to a
standard never before seen among men
of any nation.
Thus all evidence points to the fact
that for educative value, industrial
progress, historical pageant, and gen.
eral charm San Francisco means to
gain and hold the record in this line
The Washington herald., 1912-09-11
MISSISSIPPI
NJ GEORGE FITCH.
Author of "At Good Ola siw.sh."

10 reach mississippi leave Memphis
on the Yazoo Valley line and proceed
southward until you hear Senator Var
damant discussing the negro question.
Mississfppf Is . medium sized state
with swayback and a beautiful lace
work front produced by the Mtssts,ippi
River. which acts a. a STATE lin. ana
ABOUT a. stable In that capacity as a
puI snake. The state rests on q shelf
OF Louisiana with one foot in salt water
Ike Alabama, and Is composed of a. an
square miles of rich, damp soil. espe-
cialiy adapted for the production Of cot
ton corn and darkies. Mississippi has
vast natural resources in the negro line.
ana the Yazoo delta has barely enough
white men In 1t to hold the political
Offices.
Mississippi has been a state for ninety
five years. 1t got a good start. but was
iought over and trampled over SO much
IN the civil war that II has been con-
vaiescing In a languid way ever since
II 10 one OF our greatest rural communI-
ties' and cities are amost as scarce in
the state as polar bears. jackson
ana Vicksburg. the largest cities In the
state do not contain as many people to-
getner as the Polo grounds In New York
during championship SERIES and when
Aississippian gets into a town of 5000
ne puts his money in his boots and asks
Tor a guide. The output OF all the fac
tories In Mississippi is not as great as
mat OF the factories In Peoria. ILL.,, or
schenectady. N. Y, but one Mississippi
plantation can produce enough cotton
TO Keep a Massachusetts, wooden mill
running for a month.
mississippi Is one of the most amphib-
ious states In the Union, living above
or below the river with equal content
In the summer the State is dry and a
team can be detected five miles away
by the clouds of dessicated real estate,
The Washington herald., 1912-09-11
The County Fair-A Retrospect.

The present month and the early days
of October are the period of the agri-
cultural fairs - the harvest home"
time These festivals now are in full
blast everywhere. But the character of
our harvest home week and annual
rural fairs has undergone a marked
change in recent years. Beginning in
the New England county towns, their
purpose was educational as they spread
over the land. At least that was the
claim made for them. Now it is quite
different. They were expected to be
an incentive to effort, to emulation, and
a stimulus to the development of i'm
proved methods.
No doubt the effort was there, at
least to some extent. At any rate they
were interesting events to the patrons
who had no direct concern for the in
dustry that they were intended to pro-
mote. They showed-and were meant
to shown concentrated form the
highest capacity of the soil under the
treatment it had received. They ex-
hibited the progress in stock breeding
and crop cultivation from year to year,
and the lessons thus conveyed no doubt
had . wholesome influence upon the
farming communities that participated
in the SHOW"
Cattle and hogs, horses and poultry
still are TO be seen at the gatherings,
but these nowadays are but secondary
considerations. 1t is less cattle show
and more fair There is more machin-
cry than live stock or mammoth corn,
tomatoes, or pumpkins. As an educa-
tionsf stimulus the old fair has been
outgrown.
When agricultural colleges "on
wheels" carry their practical messages
10 the farmers, the latter can learn more
of fundamental value to the tilling of
the soil in one week of demonstration
than they could at a score of cattle
shows.
But this is not to be construed as
meaning that the mission of the old
fashioned fair is ended. They have
merely eonforned to the changing
needs and tastes. The present de-
u,and is for more varied entertain
ment than there was generation or
two ago with its simpler times. The
same class of farmers that in those
days would have been shocked at a
vaudeville show insist upon having it
The Washington herald., 1912-09-11
The Largest moth.

trum the London Chronicle.
There has been mounted for exhibition
in the Royal Natural History Museum.
Stuttgart, a specimen which may certain
ly be regarded as the largest mammoth
skeleton ever discovered.
In August, 1910, there were found at
Steinhein. IN the diluvial deposits Of the
River MUIR, a tributary to the Neckar,
in Swabia, a number of fossil bones in
dicating the remains of an unusually
large mammoth. As an indication Of the
huge character OF the remains. II may
be noted that skull weighs nearly three
quarters Of a ton. and the upper fore
leg is four feet six inches long
After many months of painstaking
search a nearly complete skeleton was
obtained. and the remains removed IN
der the care of DR.. Eberhard Fraas,
famous naturalist, to Stuttgart. for the
purpose OF being mounted. The work Is
now completed. and the colossal frame
work towers above the visitors head to
height Of over thirteen feet.
The specimen is remarkable for the
abnormal length OF the legs, indicating
a swift-moving animal, and for a degree
OF general lightness OF frame. indicating
activity. The tusks are well shaped,
with a slight semi-circular curve. but
are much less in size than the normal
type, being only seven and one-hah feet
in length, whereas many of the Siberian
and American specimens have tusks dou-
BILE that size. These features lead nat
uralists to regard il as a late type OF
the diluvian mammoth at a period when
the transition to the smaller and more
active elephant species was commencing.
It is so fine a specimen that many
naturalists who have seen It have hoped
that casts or at least the most important
-
tanned for our Natural Museum at South
KensinRton
The Washington herald., 1912-09-11

now. or the fair is @too tame for them.
And the trained dogs or bears now
adays area better and larger at
traction than all the domestic animals
to be seen at fair. Then the aero
plane, about which so much has been
heard and read, can be seen free.
The present-day fair is not without
its social advantages Old friends
meet there, who perhaps do not see
one another the entire year. And it
enlivens the community where II is held,
which is of material benefit to its peo-
pie. Life in most rural places is Sc
rious. The farmers see none too much
of the lighter side of it. Therefore the
agricultural fair. which gives them their
chief enjoyment in year of hard
work, should be eneouraged-whether
it be old-fashioned or modernized.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-11
Faces a Heavy Docket.

The early return to this city of the
justices of the Supreme Court of the
United States presages the disposition
of important cases when court will
convene next month. More than fifty
suits were under advisement when the
highest tribunal adjourned last June.
II is nothing uncommon to see great
number of them disposed of on the
first decision day. Of course, there
are certain cases that have been re-
viewed and studied by the justices dur
ing their vacation. These may require
still further consideration in confer
ence after the court begins IT'S regular
sessions, October II next.
Further and far-reaching interpreta-
ton of the Sherman antitrust law is
expected early in the next term, as
the court, during the summer, has had
under advisement a number of trust
cases. Among these is the famous
coal case" in which the railroads of
the Pennsylvania anthracite region are
charged by the government with an IL
legal combination to monopolize the
transportation and sale of hard coal.
Then there is the Union and Southern
Pacific merger, which is alleged to be
a violation of the Sherman act, and
which, it is anticipated, may be de-
cided in October.
We understand that most of the
cases under advisement are the So
called State rate suits. These decisions
are awaited with great interest, as
upon them, in a large measure, rests
the authority of the States over local
railroad rates. For the first time the
Supreme Court will have to pass on the
validity of 2-cent passenger rate laws.
The railroads are complaining that the
a-cent rate is too low to be profitable,
and is therefore conhscatory, placing
a burden upon interstate commerce that
should belong to intrastate traffic
Maximum freight rates are objected to
on the same grounds. A number of
Western and Southwestern States are
concerned in this legislation directly;
others indirectly.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-11

but in the spring the river comes I'D.
and In q wet year the Steamboats, work
the rural mail routes over half the State.
Mississippi has a fine university and
10 famous for It's extensive production
Of United States Senators. Seven native
born Mississippians are In the Senate
at present, and whenever a Mississippi
man gets up In Congress and begins to
yank the tide Of discussion this way and
that the newspapers crowd out pure ad-
vertising matter to make room for his
remarks.
Private John Allen and John Sharp
Williams made, being Mississippians, a
very prosperous business for many years.
and SO has Harris Dickson. who paints
The Washington herald., 1912-09-11
Historic Rock of Kansas.
ie Great Bend Tribune

From the Great Bend Tribune
Pawnee Rock. the historic bluff on the
Santa Fe Tran at the edge OF the town
OF Pawnee Rock, was at one time much
larger than it now is.
There were many names, now historic,
carved in the old rock, but a good many
Of these were cut away when the rock
was quarried Back in 1915 Robert e.
Lee.A the noted Confederate general.
carved his name on the face of Pawnee
Rock beside those of Custer. Grant. Sher-
idan. and other men noted in the coun-
try's history.
As near as can be learned's Lees
name. as 1t appeared on the rock. is still
intact and is in Virginia at Lees old
home. showing just as It did when he
carved IT on the silent sentinel of the
plains The name was quarried out by
party of virginians and shipped back
to the native State. and Is among the
possessions Of the famous generals des-
cendantA
The Washington herald., 1912-09-11
Debs Pessimistic but Honest.

Eugene Debs has decided to run, not
being willing to trust to the third
term candidate, who has borrowed"
so much of his platform, the interest
of the Socialists, whose leader he is.
Debs declares that the Bull Moose
party is one of progressive capitalism,
lavishly financed and shrewdly adver-
tised; but not at all the party for any
sincere Socialist, who wants to break
the capitalists of "enslaving and rob-
bing" the workers.
Debs takes a wrong and a very de-
pressed view of the present conditions.
But he means well from his point of
view, which, of course, is not that of
the great majority of our people. But
here is hoping that he will get such
votes as are his by right of party and
opinion, and that after borrowing" his
platform, T. R. will not also succeed
in borrowing" some Of his Socialist
votesi
The Washington herald., 1912-09-11
Maine.

"Not being in a position to meet the
many State issues in Maine, the Demo-
erat. made their fight on the national
questions" is what we read in the
Portland Official reports. They lost,
which should indicate Republican sue
cess also when the national issues only
will be fought out in November.
But we also read that the third party
men, having no State ticket of their
own in Maine, stayed away from the
polls in numbers. The logical conclusion
10 be drawn from the above two facts
is that the Republicans stand pretty
fair chance of winning the Presidential
election.
To US there is nothing surprising in
the result showing reduced Republi-
can majority. The official report tells
the reason. Roosevelt men in num-
bers failed to cast their vote because
there was no third party State ticket." |"
Had there been and had the Bull
Moosers cast their ballots, the reason
for the reduction of the Republican
vote would be before Us in figures.
But, beside the national split in the
party, compared with the State election
of two years ago, there was enough
Republican gain, with a corresponding
Democratic loss, to turn the State over
to the Republicans. And compared to
the result at that time the showing
should be pleasing to the Republicans.
They elected the Governor, one United
States Senator, and three out Of four
Congressman. To comprehend fully
what this change of the last two years
means, the figures show that Plaisted,
Democrat, for Governor, won in 1910 by
27so majority, while this year he is de-
fested by 5000.
On the other hand, if the Maine Bull
Moosers can and will do in their State
in November what their fellows did in
Vermont last week, then the Maine Re-
publicans in Mondays vote have no
margin of safety. With such a possi-
bility before them the Wilson outlook
for November seems better than one
would suppose in the State that up to
two years ago gave record Republican
majorities.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-11

with their schemes by which Poland and
Finland are crushed. by which they may
creep farther into the Chinese Empire
and threaten more seriously the Scandi-
navian Peninsula.
Russia protests that she does not wish
the Dardanelles to be opened to her
ships OF war. The Indications, however,
all point to the fact that her policy is
leading up to that very thing In this
case Russia has the support of France.
for despite N PoIncares alleged excuse
II Is almost ''conditio sine qua nom
that the Russian and French fleets
should meet in the Mediterranean Sea.
Again Russia supported Italy in her
Tripolltan venture and in turn expects
Victor Emmanuel to support her to break
through the Dardanelles barrier
Hence when the time will have arrived
for Russia's long prepared and long con-
templsted move from the Black Sea to
the Bosphorus, all the great powers will
be fairly well placated. II Is mighty
skillful chess playing and the result of
1t will be that the Mediterranean naval
question viii be once more a very seri-
Gus matter. especially for Austria Hun
gary, which has been showing a marked
disposition to set an example to Europe
in modifying her naval programme.
Yet there is not so much faith in
agreements as TO believe that Russia has
definitely bound herself to France rather
than Germany. She will use both as
occasion seems to her best. There will
be extremely little encouragement 10
lessen the pace in the mad race OF arma-
ments France will expect Russia to
have a strong navy. and Germany will
be forced to keep an eye on the Russian
shipbuilding programme.
such alliances may theoretically create
combinations too powerful to be attacked
successfully. but they also stir up COM
petition which may bring about a state
OF affairs only to be relieved by war and
place upon the already oyerburdened ma
items further and intolerable burden.
NJ. Poincare. acting for the French gov.
ernment may have achieved renewed
success. but alliance with Russia means
the assurance to st. Petersburg Of an
other. and another. and still another
loan for more military and naval arma-
ments.
Russia, as a friend. well and good
But to fall in with Russian methods
.et France bewarei TANEUR
Copyright, lsls. By Court Gossip syndicate)
The Washington herald., 1912-09-11
Queer Postal Facts.
From the Kansas City Star.

Prom the Kansas City Star.
An official OF the post-office was ex-
planning some of the funny" things in
the rules. For instance, IL you drop a
letter in the box in Kansas City that is
addressed to some point in a foreign
country, your oversight in failing to put
a postage stamp on the letter will result
in no delay. II will go right along to
England. Germany or France. or wher-
ever 1t is marked for. At the other end
the recipient will have to pay double
postage.
Now. if the same letter had been ad-
dressed TO some one in Kansas City
Kans.. and there was no stamp on it, il
would be held in the post-ofiice and a
card directed to the party addressed, in
forming him that the department was
holding his letter and would continue
TO do so until he profered a e-cent
postage stamp.
On the other hand. II you place a .
cent stamp on tirst-class parcel, whose
weight will require a much greater post
age fee, the package goes to its desti-
nation just the same, the consignee
paying the postage due when the mail
carrier delivers the parcel.
An official pointed out this odd condi-
ton: Four pounds is the parcel limit on
merchandise matter in the United States
post-office. To send that parcel from
Kansas City, say. to Lawrence. Kans.,
via the post-office route. would cost 81
cents in postage. You could send the
same package to England or Germany
for IS cents. When Uncle Sam takes
business for foreign countries in the
postal union he has to abide by their
rules not his.
The letters that never reach their des-
tination and ultimately go to the dead
letter office reach an amazing total The
average weekly consignment 10 the dead
letter office from the two Kansas Citys
goes away beyond 1000 pieces, in spite
of the fact that officials in the post-office
exhaust every means to locate the per-
sons to whom so many OF these letters
are insufficiently addressed.
Another thing learned from the post
office man is that an ordinary letter
shrinks in transit letter that will
weigh slightly more than an ounce when
dropped into the box in Kansas City
is likely to weigh slightly less than an
ounce il its destination be New York.
New Orleans or some other distant
point. Letters on which postage Is due
always are registered at the ofice of
origin. II they were TO be weighed at
the office of destination the government
would lose money. for II too frequently
would happen that the letter. like the
hard-working pugilist. had made the
weight
The Washington herald., 1912-09-11
In Future.

From Judges Library.
What's your idea of the future jour-
nal?'
1T will be written by advertisers.
and 1t will contain nothing calculated
to bring a blush to the cheek of the
young person except cosmetics"
The Washington herald., 1912-09-11
Alyyays the Way.

From Judges Library.
do you think woman can keep a
secret?''
mo; she always tries to syndicate IT,"