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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-04-03
Welded 70 Years

NEW YORK. April 3.--Mathias
Shack and bis wife celebrated the
other day the seventy-ninth ami.
yersary OF their wedding The day
also was Mr.. Shalek's ninety-ninth
birthday. The wife IL SO years old.
and both are enjoying good health.
The pair say they expect TO live
past the 100 mark
-We have had our little Tits and
squabbles. but I don't think we
would have been bit happier II
we had not had them" said Mr.
Shalck-
Dance at Dreamland tonight. ss'
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suaIErrINc eEAcH
LANDS.

Dear Miss Grey. WIN you please
tell me why some people try 10 col.
iecs GROUND rent" on beach, A.
near 49, can make out. such IL the
case along Elliott Hay. A. beach az
far a. high water mark n govern
ment property--is n nosg Hos ca
anyone AJAX rent for anything that
does not belong to fhemr
IGNORANT.
A.--Besrh land IL sometimes gov-
eminent land. and sometimes not
If an individual. or company. has
deed or lease to u. he has the
right TO sublet Il.
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~ ttttttt ~
Dear Miss Grey: am rs. have
graduated from the sth grade. Mt
tended high school one year. and
am working now. ! want an edu-
cation. but must continue working
to assist my parents IL there any
thing can study nj home7 WIN
you also name some good books |
might read 1 thank you very
much. HAPPY GIRL.
A Chauiauqua course. just
forming nj the Y. w. c. A. will
cost you about 81 and includes the
books and magazines for the year.
They meet every Tuesday evening
from to = O'Clock. Ask for Miss
Mcbride. Here are few good
books; Rose o. the River" by
Kate Douglas wiggin: THE Blue
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NOTICE TO READERS.


Many people write, asking u
viii advise them II they send their
address. am glad to help any
can. aud II cannot. am often able
TO put them in touch with some one
sho can. A stamped. selfaddressed
envelope always brings a prompt
repIy. CYNTHIA GREY.
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OF
ism. which
cm namely, believe
n fuls
paanbe nutritious,
OF the eoud with safety the exclusion OF all the others
has called vegetable
physical
Of is TO
less a necessity.
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of the seamy side OF life. and ~
temptations that young people meet
than do mothers, and they often 40
10 the extreme OF denying their
children too much Then. children
sometimes think they should be al
lowed 20 go 60 places that the par.
ents KNOW they should not.
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Flower" by Van Dyke. and "a
Gray Knight" II ia too late 10 en-
ter broadway high school night
school this season. but you can
start In next fall. IL "a free.
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FAT VANISHES
ONE POUND A DAY
New Drugless Treatment
CCT NV FREE Q0OK

COMMENCE REDtCs>. ar oscE
Thousa sAs ~ erss~fwt Pssrwss
Praise Ny Wesdrees urugs~ss
Fat Jr~asw~st.
A. 0oa.OO - GOLD ~ FAIL
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My frtand IA
were chArifabi~
and called II
Ob~~ttys Gfhcrs
said l WAS ssout.
hut "a was Just
bulky fat. I was
miserabirs 40 are
sDu N too stout
To reduce your
" eight you must
do ~ I did 4
FOUND r " r.
CAUSE ~ THE
" T. y r w A =
EASY. Before I
succeeded l tried
a.a.-..aa -
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Letters to Cynthia Grey


she WON'T "os1y"

= SHE WON'T "oBEY" 4
= 4
~ $50 ~ 4 4 A
Dear Msa Grey have
and have derived deal OF middle
making
woman about my For worked
salary and have been independent Now that we'd
dns day she writes that the word obey he the
ceremony believe established
the church Neither do think wife should her husband
vice versa do think abe this
e out showing lack please The
Ahblectf SPEECH
sauce for the Is for the sander few like
That In nasshc don't believe
before God and tina. she Will Aud she doesn't believe In
U and doesn't propose make solemn WILL
sonay think
Than 70 omit the word IL sterling quality in her. and lack OF
confidence.
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FOR THE BLIND GIRL.

ttfxfrt - - y = 4
win the blind girl who asked me
to run contest for her. send her
name and address, know I can
help her. CYNTHIA GREY.
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Fumigating with sulphur win de-
stroy bedbngs. After the room Is
aired. mop with n solution OF cor
rosivc sublimate. Care should be
taken. IA II Is poisonous.
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A trade dollar. 1878. Is worth 50
cents. n proof coin. especially
FURNISHED. u IL valued At 6 OF 70
cents
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Africa ss called the DARK Cont
little was known of its interior.
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Tho city employment bureau Ia
run by the city. aud II DOES MOI
charge a fee. The woman's offics
Is at eos Liberty buiidiRg.
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ttttA tsstts 4
= SHALL JEW AND GENTLE mARRvf

4 - 4 4
Dear Mas years o six
fathers office We enjoyed each others before
realized Gentle.
AGAINST our parents Wishes both sides She ia OF the nohest
E and both consd
erred but continued friendship
10 and sh.
a rs
gold We
ie losing health Shall
mother will = her faith. SOLOMON
A-youra a position I no of young
Jewish families would
a parent a
viii Tell
by all
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Dear Miss Grey: We are two
girls and cant understand why our
fathers do not wish us 10 have any
pleasures. Our mothers do not OBJ
ject TO our going out to entertain
ments and parties, but our fathers
do. Please give MS your advice.
TWO CHUMS.
A.-Fathers usually know more
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. ~>~~~~~ ~~~>~~~~~~~~s~
DIR. WILEY TALKS TO-DAY ON MEAT AND :
VECETARIANISM-H SAYS WE NEED
MEAT IN MODERATION

vegetarianism hardly a
religion the vegetable diet
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A io-cent piece. 1886. uneirculaf
ed. has a sala~ Of 20 cents. cIrcu
lated. II has only face value.
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The statue OF Black Hawk. at Ore
gon. IN. IL one of the largest con
crete statues ever made. II Ia 70
feet high. and ON n clear day can
W. seen 20 miles away.
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To clean white fur. take equal
parts OF flour and powdered salt,
which should be- well heated ia the
oven. and thoroughly rub into the
fur. II should afterwards be thor.
oughly shaken to free II from the
flour and salt
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Some good books for a Girl Of IL
are ANNE OF Green Cables" by
Montgomery: "A Girl OF the Lin
lcrio~t." "ftebecca Mary" and RE
rcca OF Sunnybrook Farm" by
ate ocrgias wiggin.
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There is a state fund for the pro
tecfion and propagation Of game an
imais. birds and fish.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-04-18
Underwood leadership.

At the outset, the real wisdom of the
majority members of the House was
displayed in selecting its leader; in the
wake of this wise step has flown results
which have surpassed most sanguine eX-
pectatiors. Under the Cannon regime
the Craftsmanship of the Ways and
Means Committee carried with it the
floor leadership of the majority but the
speaker appointed all committees, and
was the real head of his party. The
readjustment of the speakers powers
beginning in the Sixty-frst Congress
eliminated at the Democratic caucus of
January 10, 1911, in the determination
TO shift the appointment of commit
tees from the speaker TO the Ways and
Means Committee. The result of this
caucus was to place on Oscar w. I'm
derwood, the chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee, a greater response
bilty than had heretofore devolved upon
any other member of the House, not
excepting the speaker, for while the
committees were to be elected by the
House, the election was but conhrma-
tion of the work of the Ways and
Means Committee, acting in its capacity
of committee on committees.
This new and democratic change in
the rules of the House has. been opera
tive during the first and second sessions
of the Sixty-second Congress, and I'M
der the sagacious management of Oscar
w. Underwood the democratic majority
has worked with remarkable CELEBRITY,
absolute equanimity, and a direct eff
fectiveness during both sessions. The
legislative results have been so marked
as to arouse universal interest, and
have pointed out Underwood as the
safest and ablest legislator that Con-
gress has developed in many years So
true is this, as measured by legislative
results, that all of the 1910 election
promises of the party, as above out
lined, have already been fulfilled; the
House rules have been liberalized; the
bill compelling the publication of cam
paign expenses has been approved; the
constitutional amendment providing for
the popular election of United States
senator's has been passed by the House; ;
marked progress has been made in the
economical handling of national expen-
ditures, and an unexampled beginning
has been made in the revision of the
tariff downward to a revenue basis.
The Edinburgh ReziezU, of October,
1911, reviewing the work of the first ses-
sion of this Congress, says:
oscar w. Underwood, of Ala
\ bama, in the Ways and Means Com
mittee and on the floor of the
House had shown great
discretion in the revision of the
wooden and cotton schedules.
The Democratic Party has increased
its strength in the Senate; and it
ended the session with no obvious
divisions within its ranks and with
out having done anything to forfeit
the confidence that the country be-
slowed on it at the elections of
1910"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-04-18
Conclusion.

The fact that every tariff measure ex-
cept one which has thus far been pre-
sented to the Sixty-second Congress has
passed the House by more than the
Democratic majority in the House of
Representatives, prompts and iustifies
the following differences:
Cd That the revision of the tariff
downward to a revenue basis in the in
terest of the consumer is prominently
the issue before the people.
(2) That the Democratic majority in
the House have, during the Sixty-second
Congress, met the responsibilities of
tariff revision entrusted to them by the
election of 1910.
go That by wise, courageous, and
efficient work the Democratic majority
of the House have held their own forces
intact and won to their assistance Re-
publican Representatives, who appreci-
ate the necessities and demands of the
people to Tighten the present excessive
tax burdens and to reduce the high cost
of living.
"a That the real secret of these eff
fective results is found in the efficient
and effective work of the WAYS and
Means Committee under its popular
chairman and to the splendid House
floor leadership of the Honorable Oscar
w. Underwood.
50 That the political situation points
Enthusiastically to tariff revision as the
1917 issue between the two great politi-
cal parties and to Underwood as the
logical standard bearer for the Demo-
Gratis.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-04-18
Metals.

A very thorough revision was made
of the metal schedule by the Underwood
bill of this session; it reduced the ad
valorem rate of duty from 1885 per
cent on imports of 1910 to 2242 per
cent. This indicates a saving TO Ameri-
can consumers in the course of a year
of more than eighty millions of dollars,
causing at the same time a loss to the
Treasury of only about four and three
quarter millions of dollars.
A survey of the iron and steel indus
try shows convincingly that it has
reached a position of such strength and
independence that the industry does not
need the helping hand of the govern
ment in order to stand in competition
with foreign countries. This desirable
state of affairs has been reached as a
result of progressive Improvements in
industrial methods coincident with steady
reductions of the tariff, which have i'm
pressed upon steel producers the neces-
sity of shaping their methods in accord
ance with the recent inventions and proc
esses and with the principles of effec-
tive business organization. Under these
conditions the Ways and Means Com
mittee feels warranted in recommending
that the duties on metals and manufac-
lures thereof be placed upon a distinct
ly revenue basis, while definitely ad-
herring to the object of securing from
the Treasury as large an income as can
be obtained from this schedule consis-
tent with conserving the general inter
ests of the consumers. (See House
Report. No. 26O, Seixty-second Con-
gress, lst SESSION.
In his speech delivered on the Metal
Bill in the House of Representatives on
January 70, 1912, Mr. Underwood said
~ do not believe to-day that as
manufacturer of pig iron and you
| as a producer of steel rails have
any more right to have the Gov
| eminent protect your profits than
has the banker, the broker, OF the
baker to have the Government pro-
tect his profits. If you are going to
protect profits, why do you not pro-
tect the wages of labor as we'll as
the profits of the manufacturer? /
believe that the only function of
| levying taxes at the customs house
is to levy them for the necessary
revenue for the Government and I
believe that in this bill the Demo-
cratic Committee on Ways and
Means have cut out the protection
4 of profits and presented to the
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-04-18

colleagues on the Ways and Means
Committee favored an income-tax law,
but did not report such a measure for
the following reasons: Cd The Supreme
Court has declared a general income
tax law unconstitutional for lack of
power to apportion it and provision has
been made whereby the States are now
considering the acceptance or rejection
of proposed sixteenth amendment to
the Constitution giving to Congress the
undisputed authority to impose such q
general tax; and (2) following the de-
cision of the Supreme Court upholding
the constitutionality of the existing cor
poration-taX law the committee has con-
ceived the idea of extending the provi-
sicnS of this law in the manner pro-
posed in the Underwood bill, seeking to
secure in this way the practical results
of an income-tax law without violating
the ruling of the Supreme Court in re-
Jecting the income-tax law of 1894
The proposed income-tax amendment
has been favorably voted upon by Is
States, leaving only the votes of States
yet required for its approval The
enactment of the Underwood bill will
serve the valuable purpose of meeting
the immediate revenue requirements and
at the same time prepare the public mind
for fuller appreciation of the justice
ard desirability of an income-tax law.
(See House Report, No. 4i6, Sixty
second Congress, lst SESSION.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-04-18
Farmers Free List Bill.

The adoption of the Canadian reci-
procity agreement involved the necessity
Of further immediate legislative action
removing dutieS-On like imports from
other countries, in order that injustice
might not be done our agricultural pro-
Cucers, who, in the Canadian reciprocity
agreement, lost the protection on GER
tain of their products without the recip-
rocal removal of protective duties from
articles needed in sustaining their lives
and industries. To offset this condition
and properly to care for the agricul-
tural masses, the Ways and Means Com
mittee submitted to the House imme-
diately after the passage of the Cana
dian reciprocity agreement the so-called
Farmers Free List Bill" The re-
suits which would have followed the
enactment of the free list bill, meas
uring the great saving to the people
which would have been realized, are set
forth in this table:
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-04-18
Excise Bill.

This bill provides for the extension of
the corporation-taX law so as to in
clude individuals, firms, and co-part-
nerships. 1t is estimated that it will pro-
duce more revenue than was sacrificed
by placing sugar on the free list, and
will accomplish further the very desira-
bic purpose of transferring tax burdens
from those less able to carry them to the
shoulders of the wealthy, who have here
tofore escaped from a proper share of
taxation for the support of the Gov
eminent.
Under a system of national taxation
based wholly on consumption, wealth
necessarily escapes its fair share of the
burden of supporting the Government,
which gives wealth the necessary protec-
ton under which it increases its gains
On the other hand, when he purchases
for himself and family the necessities
of life, the man of meager earnings con-
tributes out of his daily wage to the
support of the Government. When a
citizen pays taxes according to his earn
ingS, from whatever source, he gives
support to his Government, and receives
protection from it in a more equitable
manner than under any other plan of
taxation yet devised. If his earnings
increase his taxes increase, and Justly
so, for he is better able to pay increased
taxes. If his gains decrease, so do his
taxes. and fortunately for him, because
he is less able to pay them. A tax on
earnings is also preferable to taxes on
bought and sold commodities in that the
rate can be raised or lowered to meet
the exigencies of revenue requirements
without consequent disturbance of prices.
The burden of the present indirect
taxation falls upon people having in
comes of less than $1,000. The large
percentage of the customs taxes is paid
by people whose incomes do not exceed
that amount This excise bill aims to
distribute more justly the tax burden
by shifting it to the shoulders of those
of larger earnings.
Mr.. Underwood and his Democratic
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-04-18

There are 23O Democrats in the House
of Representatives, 16l Republicans, and
one Socialist. The Democratic majority,
therefore, is 6S. AS shown by the rec
ord of the passage votes, every Under
wood bill except that revising the Chem.
ical Schedule received not only the solid
support of the Democrats in the House,
but enlisted many Republicans. While,
as stated, the Democratic majority is
only 65, the free list bill passed with
majority of ~; the wool bill by l2O
majority of last session and by % ma
jority this session; the cotton bill by
112 majority; metal bill by 1O1 majority;
and the excise bill by a majority of 1872
votes.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-04-18
Wool.

The overwhelming manner in which
the Democratic Party was given the
control of the House of Representatives
in the election of 1910 clearly repu-
dated the Republican failures at tariff
reform in the Payne-Aldrich Act of
1909 and plainly instructed the Demo-
Gratis to proceed at the earliest prac-
ticable moment with a downward revi-
sion. Hence it was that upon the con-
vening of the Sixty-second Congress in
the special session of April 4, 1911, the
Ways and Means Committee, under the
guidance of Underwood as Chairman,
in an effort to make Immediately effec-
tive the mandates of the people with
regard TO tariff revision, at once applied
itself to the work of revising Schedule
K, which the President of the United
States had so repeatedly detained ut
terly indefensible
The Underwood bill was the result of
elaborate and painstaking Investigations,
during which all the information avail
able with regard to the production and
manufacture of wool was assembled and
examined. The rates of duty worked
out and embodied in this bill were fixed
without any reference whatever to pro-
lection, but with an intent to reduce
the 'indefensible" rates which have been
so long a burden TO the consumer and
with the only other view of producing
the necessary revenue from this sched-
ule. This bill reduced the average rate
of duty on wool manufactures (im-
ports of 19l0) from oOl0 per cent to
Ass per cent. The analysis of the
Report of the Tariff Board failed to
reveal anything that required a single
change in the rates fixed therein, and
Mr.. Underwood and his committee
again presented without any change
the results of the committees inveStiga-
ton of last summer, and embodied in
the bill presented TO the House at that
time. Therefore, the only real effect
of the l2-months' delay in the revision
of Schedule K, based upon the ne
cessity, as stated by the President, of
awaiting the report of the Tariff Board,
was to allow manufacturers another
year of excessive rates and to compel
the people to pay for their wooden cloth
ing during the year over $5O,OOOOOO
more than they would have paid under
the rates of the Underwood Bill.
blouse Report No. IS, Old Congress, LIST
SESSION. In his speech, delivered in
the House of Representatives March
%, 1912, Mr.. Underwood showed that
the practice of the Republicans in ad-
herring to specific duties in the Wool
Schedule was to conceal from the pub
lie the real effect of the rates. Under
the Republican Wool Bill of this SEES
sion. which was framed through the
assistance of the Tariff Board, the high
rates Of duty were placed upon the
cheaper goods used by the poor people
and lower rates on the more expensive
articles used by the rich Furthermore,
when carpet woods are used in the man
ufacturing of the cheap clothing for
the poor-and such is the case to some
eXtent-the duty would be increased by
the Payne proposed bill from the rate
of the present act of cents per pound
to ] cents in the Republican proposed
bill, an increase of Is per cent. This i.
a serious Joker" on the poor people o.
| the country.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-04-18

duties on food products, the necessarie
of life.
In his speech defending this agree,
ment made in the House of Represen-
tatives, April Fl, 1911, Mr.. Underwood
said:
This bill marks the end of an
era in the economic life of the Ma
ton. Why? Not that the imme-
date results will be far-reaching,
but because it takes one step in the
right direction, step away from
the exclusive protective policy, a
step toward an honest competitive
policy. The advocates of the Re-
publican policy of protection have
always heretofore insisted that
reciprocal trade agreements should
only be made to affect non-com-
peting products.
This bill embraces in its terms
competitive products of both nations
and recognizes the Democratic posi-
ton that no tariff law is either war
ranted or just that protects the prof
its of the producer and destroys
honest competition"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-04-18

Had the tariff revision bills of the
Sixty-second Congress passed by the
House been enacted, it is believed that
the sum measuring the saving resulting
to the consumer shown in Table 2
would have proved to have been con-
sentative. AS indicated by the table,
the total saving of a l2-month period is
estimated at $743,0OOOO0, or an average
saving of over So for every person in
the United States. In other words, the
Treasury would have sustained a loss
of only about $6,0O0OO0, and for each
dollar that the Treasury was asked to
forego, the people would have received
relief in prices to the amount of $l23.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-04-18
Canadian Reciprocity.

The first tariff work of this Congress
was the Canadian Reciprocity Agree
ment, which prompted the President TO
assemble Congress in the extraordinary
session of April a, 1911. So marked
was the dispatch and effectiveness with
which Mr. Underwood handled the Ca
madam Reciprocity Agreement in the
WSvs and Means Committee and on
the floor of the House that the meas
ure was passed within three weeks after
abe converting of Congress. This bill
was fully in accord with Democratic
principles, reducing. as it did, the tariff