The Lamar register., 1915-09-29
Washington Notes

| Treasury on September ~ was S45,-
9O7, ,745, as &C pared with balance
of Sl2S,4S7,7l5 on the corresponding
date two years ago when revenue laws
and appropriations enacted by repub-
lican administration were in effect
The deficit to September 20 was S35,-
l2O,396.
The value of imports at the 10 prin-
cipal customs districts of the United
States for the week ending September
In, 1915, was S26, ,921 ,467 on which du-
ties were collected to the amount Of
S2,813,917-an average ad valorem
rate of duty of 10.4 per cent compar-
ed with an annual average ad valor-
EN- rate of duty of 17.6 per cent un-
der republican law. This means a
large volume of imports which are
paying no revenue to the government,
but are entering into competition with
home products. 1t furnishes one rea-
son why our treasury balance is melt
ing away.
The President declined an invitation
to visit the Bull Run battlefield for
the dedication of a tablet there be-
cause, as he told the committee who
waited on him, he could not take time
to prepare a worthy address. But, as
the Chicago Tribune points out, an
address at Bull Run just now would
make itself; for Bull Run is "dedi-
Gated to the American fallacy that for
self-defense no preparation is need
ed" 1t is difficult, the Tribune says,
to believe that any President could
have been through the anxious days
that Mr.. Wilson has without 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 10 go to the
place the Southerners Know as Man
assas and there say something so
earnestly that it would demand and
receive national attention. He might
tell the Virginians that if the over
whelming resources Of the north could
have been brought effectively into
action in the beginning at least three
years Of bloodshed would have been
avoided. He might tell them that un-
less the resources of the nation now
were organized the next trial would
bring another disaster. If experience
.l / 20 "a
dent he has closed his mind.
| Commercial Attache Julean H. Ar
mold, Shanghai, China, in a communi-
cation to the Department Of Com
merce states: "The reports Of the
withdrawal Of the Pacific Mail steam
ers and the sale Of two of the Rob
ert Dollar Pacific steamers 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 enacted by the
last congress and defended by Secre-
tary Redfield.
In an effort to excuse the falling of
of revenue, democratic papers point
OuL LUt ldGL LlAeAl All AgAf biltlt was
shipped from Madgeburg, Germany, to
the United States goods valued at 3d.
216,OOO while in 1915 the shipments
aggregated only $4,000. Doesn't
our democratic friend see that he is
proving that it was the war that shut
off imports and took the place of the
protective tariff which the demo
Gratis repealed? That sort of protec-
ton ends when the war ends, and
then Madgeburg will again send Us
SO, ,216,OOO of the products of her
labor and take away S3,216,OOO of our
coin.
When Congressman Burleson of
Texas became Postmaster General he
had no practical knowledge whatever
concerning the $3OO,OOO,OOO business
over which he assumed control. He
has now appointed a second assistant
postmaster general whose knowledge
of the railway mail service is almost
as limited. The postal deficit is about
SO, 100000. No wonder.