Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-12-10
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military service, puDllSneu Dy tne VI
u.els d. GOVERNORS Island. DR.. Mau:
recommends that mo one who use:
alcohoiic beverages should be appoint
ed to important positions, civil ol
military, 10 The command Of military
or naval forces, or any other position
of importance and responsibility
rresioent Taft has addressed 6
letter to Governor Wilson offering tc
place at his disposal big battleshiI
10 make trip OF inspection to the
Panama canal sometime before Mr.
Wilson is inaugurated as presi-
dent. The president has a thor
ough knowledge Of the work OF the
army engineers on the isthmu:
through personal visits, and is or the
upInlon Inat ms successor would ike
to know as much as possible about
the nations great engineering feat
ueIore ne enters office. Many ques-
tions of policy concerning the canal
may be looked for in Mr.. wilson's ad-
ministration and Mr.. Taft decided
that il was only fair to the man who
takes his place in the White House
March 4 TO offer him an opportunity
to inspect the canal and gather infor-
nation at first hand.
No matter how much loss a person
suffers because a letter carrier delays
delivery of mail, a policeman fails to
walk his beat, a fireman neglects an
alarm or a water company omlts
to install fire plugs, the sufferer can
not receive damages. Such Is the
statement of Justice Lamar Of the su-
preme court in an official opinion filed
last Saturday among the records OF
me court This utterance was made
in arriving at the conclusion that an
Individual inhabitant of city cannot
sue a water company for failure to In
stall plugs and mains it has con-
tracted with city to install: Ihe
case arose in Spartanburg, S. c. The
opinion is contrary to the law In Ken
lucky, North Carolina and Florida,
but upholds decisions in numerous
other states.
Tt is physically possible to steal
S10O, 100000 from the treasury of the
United States" said Lee McClung, re-
firing treasurer of the United States,
in an informal speech at a dinner in
his honor given by the Pittsburg
Chapter, American Institute Of Bank
ing, one night last week. Further
more" said Mr.. McClung, "the treas
urer of the United States Is the only
employee Of the treasury that Is under
bond to the government of the United
States and is held responsible for any
defalcation in the department and can
be relieved of the responsibility only
by an act of congress, and this in face
of the fact that he does not handle any
money himself personally" Mr.. Nc
Clung also stated that the assistant
treasurers and superintendent Of the
mints did not keep their accounts with
the United States government but with
the treasurer of the United States who
kept his account with the government,
and was directly responsible to the
government.
A stubborn butting contest be-
tween a billy-goat and buck negro,
a regular arena battle waged for some
twenty minutes in the yard Of an At
lanta ice company Friday afternoon,
and resulted in a draw between the
man and the animal. Each had a
head as hard as a billiard ball. Neith-
er was able to but the other off his
feet. The particular negro in ques-
tion, a hefty drayman named Nose,
has the reputation Of being the hard
est headed Ethiopian in that vicinity.
Whenever he gets into a fight with
a fellow man, he uses his head with
telling effect. Some time ago he was
persuaded to try consequences with
a goat, short-horned Of course, and
the goat got the worse Of it, Nose
Dragged about his prowess and was
easily prevailed upon to enter the
arena for a pitched battle with anoth-
er goat yesterday afternoon, for the
edification Of a party of visitors to
Atlanta. A number of Atlanta news
paper men refereed the fight. Nose
had a unique way Of parrying the
.,vats most violent rushes; he would
suddenly fall backward as the goat
approached, and meet the goats at
tack with his two feet; then before
the goat could recover its balance he
would be up again and drive his own
hard pate with telling effect into the
goats Stats.
- President Taft in a speech to
twenty-siX governors last Saturday
urged the adoption Of uniform state
legislation which would make possible
in this country the adoption OF sys-
tenn of rural credits and low interest
bearing loans to farmers, similar to
that in vogue in many European
countries I'VE are not going TO adopt
a system overnight" said the preS-
dent. 1T is going to take a consid-
cradle length of time before the coun-
try shall receive the benefit Of it, but
the earlier we begin the agitation the
earlier we shall achieve the purpose
we have in bringing the matter to the
attention of the public. There is no
subject of greater importance to the
people of the United States than the
improvement of agricultural meth
DDS, the keeping them up to date in
all agricultural communities, the Sc
curing OF profits to the farmer, the
attracting of the young men of the
country to farming as a lucrative pro-
fession and the lowering Of the cost
of producing agricultural products
and the lowering Of their price to the
consumer. We have great capital
in this country and we have farming
property that is producing farm pro-
ducts Of immense value. 1t would
seem clear that with these two ele-
ments it would be possible to introduce
a third by which the farmers engaged
in producing the crops should be able,
in view of the value of what he pro-
duces and the value Of land on which
it is produced, to obtain money on
the faith of the land and the faith OF
the product which will enable him to
expand his acreage and better his
methods of cultivation. An easy eX-
change between capital and farmers
with proper security has been estab-
lished in European countries where
the rate of interest has been lowered
so that the farmer is practically on
the same basis of advantage in the
borrowing of money as the business
man. If this can be done ABROAD, IL
can be done here, and If abroad we
find that government institutions ad-
apted to form the conduit pipe be-
tween capitalists and farmers and sue
cessfully operating, why should we
not adopt them here?" While con-
ditions in this country and Europe are
somewhat different the president said,
yet by modification of the European
plan the idea could find proper
place in the United States. The fol-
lowing committee was named today to
draft uniform rural credit legislation
to be recommended to the states: Gov
ernors O'Neal, Alabama, chairman;
Johnson of California; Plaisted OF
Maine; Foss of Massachusetts,; Had!ey
of Missouri; Harmon of Ohio; Mann
of Virginia; McGovern of Wisconsin,
and Carey of Wyoming.
- Washington, December 5: De-
mails of the mails and prosecution un-
der the Sherman antitrust law as
"conspiracies in restraint of trade
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