Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-02-05

pared with s64,7Ss.1O for the same
period last year, was the Information
given by w. M. Riggs, president OF
Clemson college, who Is among the
visitors in Columbia. The tag tax
from July l, Of last year, to u
81, 1915, amounted to $4,000, as COM
pared with $4,000 during the same
period Of the last fiscal year, DR.. Riggs
said. Clemson college will not ask the
legislature for an appropriation. A
loan will be asked with which to con-
tinue the public work Of the institu-
ton.
WASHINGTON, February 8: The
break in German cotton prices from
10 lie to 16 1-2c a pound Is Que,
American Ambassador Gerard stated
in q dispatch today, to arrival OF cotton
steamers at Bremen, opening or the
port of Rotterdam, slackening OF de-
mand from spinners on ccou OF
freer offerings and anticipated decline
in prices and sale Of captured cotton
stocks from Lodz and Antwerp. Cot
ton mills in Germany are running
three quarters capacity, and using
10000 bales a month, Commercial
Attachee Thompson at Rotterdam re-
ported. This amount Is apparently
provided by ships arriving and af1oat,'
he stated. Cotton prices are declin-
ing. Shippers are cautioned against
expecting continuation Of present
high prices. They should go slow
about chartering ships at the present
inflated charges"
Columbia special Of February 3,
to the News and Courier: DR.. ]. w.
Babcock, former superintendent Of
the state hospital for the insane, called
attention tonight to the fact that the
greater part Of the recommendations
made by DR.. A. P. Herring. the eff
ficiency expert, who has just COM
pleted an investigation Of conditions
at the asylum, were made by him in
his testimony before the asylum in
vestigating committee on April rs,
1909, when in answer to a question
from the chairman, he gave his rea-
sons for asking for the investigation.
DR.. Babcock also referred to an article
written by himself for the Centennial
edition Of the News and Courier, in
which many Of these same recommen-
dations were made. He said he
thought it only justice to himself to
bring these facts out, as these recon-
m~endations, he said, were made to the
general assembly several years ago,
and that they are only repeated by
DR.. Herring.
kRlu Ny SSA &C. 80
British commerce might make a United
States merchant marine valuable to
Great Britain as q means Of supplying
food, in the opinion Of the London
Daily News, which prints an editorial
justifying President Wilson's attitude
on the ship purchase bill. The paper
says this unprecedented development
Of state socialism," is the only means
whereby the United States can recov-
er its place in the world Of shipping.
The editorial set forth that the SUBJ
marine has become a serious menace
to England's food SUPPLY, and in any
future war will dominate her position
unless in the meantime science should
Tense. Should 1t then threaten our
shipping, with destruction and our
selves with starvation" says the Daily
News, 1T will not be an unimportant
fact that q great neutral country, pos
sessing a mercantile marine of its
own, can sends its ships into our ports
unmolested and unafraid."
The balance of trade in favor Of
the United States during January, vas
the greatest for any month in the
nations history. Returns Tuesday
from thirteen ports, which handle Sc
per cent Of the country's total imports
and exports, show a favorable ad-
vance from January 2 to January 80,
Of s131, 133, 1888. officials pointed out
tina a complete report probably would
materially increase that figure. Ex-
ports for the four weeks through the
thirteen ports reporting were $685.
574,096, an average Of S59,643,524 a
week. Imports were S107. 440, POS, an
average of $26, $780, 52 a week. The
week ended January 80, produced a
favorable balance Of 5,901, 535, the
largest for any one week in more than
ten years. Exports totalled $63,66S, 139,
and imports s27, 766, 604. The year
1908 produced the largest yearly ex-
cess Of exports over imports, the
figures being approximately 66,O0O,-
900. Cotton exported during the week
bales, making a total Of 2,250,699 bales
for the last eight weeks.
For the first time in history
England ian say the sea is Free"
declared Winston Spencer Churchill,
first lord Of the English admiralty, in
an interview with Hughes LerouX, ed
itor Of the Paris Matin, a few days
ago. In the days when you and we
fought each other" he continued, "our
most important victories never brought
us security comparable with that
which we enjoy today. Even after
Trafalgar, we knew nothing like it.
Surprising Germany has friendships
and relationships in South America,
now? There remains the United
States. Public opinion there hesitat-
ed, perhaps, in bestowing it's sympa-
thies, but at the present moment, 1t is
fully unified. We shall arrange to
take precautions fully compatible
with the rights Of belligerents and the
respect due to n%eutrals. Our adver-
sary, perhaps, can obtain a few sup
plies from Turkey and Asia. i cherish
no illusions, for as long as there are
neutrals a complete blockade must be
a chimera. Germany will continue to
receive a small quantity Of the where
of she has considerable need, but
while you and we breathe freely.
thanks to the sea, we have kept and
can keep open, Germany is like a man
throttled with a gag. You know the
effect Of such a gag when action is
necessary. The effort wears out the
heart, and Germany knows it. This
pressure shall not be relaxed until she
gives in Internationally, for If even
you Of France and if our ally, Russia,
shall decide to withdraw from the
struggle, which is inconceivable, we
I<ii6iiSh NouiN NoAiy vi SN "N
bitter End. The action Of a navy nee
essarily is slow, but the pressure it
exercises on an adversary is unrelent-
ing. Compare it to the forces Of ma
ture to the memorable grip of winter
and remember that it is a stress moth
ing can resist"
Ambassador Page at London. ca
bled the state department last Tues
day that the British fleet had been or
dered to treat grain and flour cargoes
destined for Germany or Austria as
conditional ~contraband, subject TO
seizure and c~onfiScdtion. This step, the
ambassador explained. was taken be-
cause Germany had decreed confisca-
ton Of all grain and -four to conserve
the nations food supply. Since the
publication of the German order. the
ambassador at Washington. Count Won
Bernstorff. has personally assured the
American government that no food
stuffs imported from the United
States or other neutral countries would
be seized by the German government
and press dispatches have announced
the issuance of a modifying decree
making such exemptions by the gov
eminent. Ambassador Page said Great
Britain had agreed that an exception
would be made in the case of the
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