Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1915-10-02
ALONG THE FIRING LINE.

ALUM lie FlKlNO LINE.
The net balance in the Federal
Treasury on September 20 was $45, ,907,
745, as compared with a balance OF
$12S, 4S7, 7l5 on the corresponding date
two years ago when revenue laws and
appropriations enacted by Republican
administrations were in effect. The
deficit to September 20 was $35, 120, 1906.
The value of imports at the 13
principal customs districts of the United
States for the week ending September
II, 1915, was $26, 921, ,467 on which
duties were collected to the amount of
$2,S13,917, an average ad valorem rate
of duty of 1914 per cent. compared with
an annual average ad valorem rate of
duty of 176 per cent under Republican
law. This means large volume OF i'm
ports which are paying no revenue to
the Government, but are entering into
competition with home products. II
furnishes one reason why our Treasury
balance is melting away.
The President declined an invitation
to visit the Bull Run battlefield for the
dedication of tablet there because, as
he told the committee who waited on
him, he could not take time to prepare
worthy address. But, as the Chicago
Tribune" points out, an address at
Bull Run just now would make ITSELF
for Bull run is dedicated to the Amer
lean fallacy that for self-defence no
preparation is needed" 1t is difficult,
the Tribune" says, to believe that any
President could have been through the
anxious days that Mr.. Wilson has with
out finding that the Bull Run memorial
was full OF meaning and that something
worthy of an occasion on that battle
field was not only definitely in mind
but even insistent for utterance. Mr..
Wilson might even feel it the highest
duty he could perform to 90 to the
place the Southerners know as Manas-
sas and there say something SO earnest
ly that it would demand and receive
national attention. He might tell the
Virginians that if the overwhelming re-
sources of the North could have been
brought effectively into action in the
beginning, at least three years of blood
shed would have been avoided. He
might tell them that unless the re-
sources of the nation now were or
ganized the next trial would bring an
other disaster. If experience has not
suggested this to the President he has
closed his mind
Commercial Attache Julean H. Arnold
Shanghai, China, in communication to
the Department of Commerce states
"The reports of the withdraw of the
Pacific Mail steamers and the sale of
two OF the Robert Dollar Pacific steam
ers have had very depressing effect
on trade with the United States" Also,
it may be added, on our trade with
China, thanks to the seamen's law en-
acted by the last Congress and defend
ed by Secretary Redfield.
In an effort to excuse the falling off
of revenue, Democratic papers point
out the fact that in 1914 there was
shipped from Madeburg, Germany, to
the United States goods valued at $3,-
216,0 while in 1915 the shipments ag-
gregated only $l95,000. Doesn't our
Democratic friend see that he is prov
ing that it was the war that shut off i'm
| ports and took the place of the pro-
tective tariff which the Democrats re-
pealed? That sort of protection ends
when the war ends, and then Made
burg will again send us s3,216,O00 of
the products of her labor and take
away $3,216,000 of our coin.
When Congressman Burleson, of
Texas, became Postmaster General he
had no practical acknowledgement what
ever concerning the $300,000,00 bust
ness over which he assumed control.
He has now appointed a second as
sistant postmaster general whose
knowledge of the railway mail service
is almost as limited. The postal deficit
is about $10,000,000. No wonder.
Some women put on airs and some
others try to whistle them.
Satan's best servants are people who
love money and hate work.