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ltY WAY OF THE SOUTH.
The All-South Conference held at
Memphis has extended an invitation to
citizens of the United States to get their
tickets by way of the south in attending
the Panama exposition to be held in
California in 1915. The Conference
adopted the following message, which
was sent by wire to the President:
"Recognizing your statesmanlike interest
in the South and your unvarying friend,
ship, as shown by your public acts, the
All-South Conference, in session at
Memphis, sends greetings to the nation
through you as President of a united
people. The South as a whole is desirous
that it and its prospects should
be more fully understood by the nation
at large. The All-South Conference
therefore invites the nation to visit the
South during the semi-centennial years
of 1911 to 1915, that the nation may come
to realizze how nationally important a
recovery the South has made, shown in
municipal advancement, ' unusually
healthful conditions, educational progress,
commercial enterprise and agricultural
leadership. The heart of the
South is warm with national impulses.
To see the South is to believe in it, and
we ask to have our progress measured
by actual sight, rather than by statistics."
Similar telegrams were sent to
the Governors of all States, and favorable
responses were promptly received
from many of them.
PROGRESSIVE CALIFORNIA.
Returns received from the State elections
in California indicate that the
Woman's suffrage amendment to the constitution
has been defeated by a moderate
majority, but the initiative, referendum
and recall, including the judiciary,
and the employers' liability amendments
were adopted by a great vote. In some
precincts the vote for those radical
measures was nearly unpandmous.
Twenty-three proposed amendments to
the constitution of the commonwealth
were voted on. Of these the three mentioned
and the proposition to make the
state railroad commission an appointive
body and empowering the Legislature
to enlarge the powers of the board,
overshadowed the rest in public interest.
The last, according to the re
iuiub, nas ueen carnea, a two-thirds vote
being necessary. Early returns showed
8,635 votes for woman suffrage, with
8,908 against. The initative and referendum,
on the other hand, showed 10,810
for and 3,610 against, while the recall,
notwithstanding the bitter fight made
against it by many leading Republican
papers, was favored with even more emphasis,
11,280 to 3,488. The Railroad
Commission amendments were favored
by 8,170 to 4,683.
SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL EXPANSION.
Of the $2,049,199,000 worth of merchandise
exported from the United States
in the last fiscal year, $747,448,478, or
36.4 per cent, passed through Southern
porta, says the Manufacturers' Record.
Nearly 47 per cent, of the total, or
$944,000,000 worth of exports, originated
directly or Indirectly in the South. This
southern production was represented in
the exports by $585,319,000 worth of raw
cotton, $40,852,000 of cotton goods, $27,491,000
of cotton seed, cotton seed cake,
meal and oil, a total of $653,662,000
traced to the cotton plant; $25,023,000
naval stores and $9,069,000 phosphate
rock, a total of $687,754,000 of products
distinctively southern 1n their origin.
To that snm. constituting 33.5 per cent,
of the total value of exports, should be
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chandlse exports 1n which the Sonth has
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hardly a monopoly, $75,000,000 of lumber
and its products, $37,000,000 of tobacco,
$35,000,000 of mineral oil, $29,00,000
of coal, and at least $80,000,000 of
foodstuffs iron and steel products, etc.,
totalling $256,000,000 and bringing the
aggregate of merchandise exports of
southern origin to $944,000,000. It is a
remarkable fact, as shown by these
figures, that nearly one-half, or to be
exact, 47 per cent, of the total value of
the foreign exports of the United States
was made up of products of the South.
This section, though having less than
one-third of the country's population,
produced exports to the value cf nearly
50 per cent, of the- total. Galveston,
which ranked second in the
country next to New York, with a
value of foreign exports of $220,504,917,
shinned abroad twico na mnoh on
total value of the combined exportB
from all the ports of the entire Pacific
coast of the United States, and $23,541,.
732 more than the combined values of
exports and imports on he Pacific coast.
Another fact of significance is that New
Orleans had foreign exports to the value
of $172,835,203, or $31,344,831 more than
the combined export values of Boston
and Philadelphia, and $78,f74,161 more
than the total value of exports from all
Pacific ports. Baltimore ranked fourth
in foreign exports with $85,120,843,
which was more than twice the value
of exports of San Francisco, and Savan.
nah came fifth with $72,076,045, or nearly
twice as much as the total value of the
foreign exports from Portland, Ore.
TOO MANY PROFITS.
With a view of ascertaining who gets
the profit from high prices the Department
of Agriculture has made plans
for an investigation of the retail prices
of foodstuffs, and Washington, with its
army of government employes, probably
will be the has? for the initial inquiry.
Should Congress make an appropriation
for the investigation, which Secretary
Wilson has planned some time, the en.
vestigatlon will take in many of the
larger cities and will extend to the farm
itself. Dr. Wiley, chief of the Bureau
of Chemistry, thinks he is on the trail
of the profit mongers and will have the
evidence in by the time the Investigation
gets under way. He thinks the problem
must be solved by elimination of the
needless middlemen and by bringing the
producer and consumer closer together.
Purchasing supplies from public storehouses,
Dr. Wiley advocates, to give relief
to the civilian employes of the government
in Washington, and he says
that a similar system of public supply
can be worked out elsewhere. When it
comes to meats, Dr. Wiley says the
product passes through five hands. The
little broker who goes about the country
buvlne cattle, the hie hroker tho
butcher, the wholesaler and the retailer.
The public has to pay five profits.
Alluding to the cost of milk, Dr. Wiley
said It was about four times what It
should be to the public, because of lack
of a proper system of distribution.
SILENCE, PLEASE.
Anent the President's campaign tour
the Wall Street ournal says:
We are unquestionably in a period of
great unrest, and the Industry and com.
merce of the nation are gravely affected
From the President down, everybody is
listening. It is conceivable that we
have among us those who can bring
order out of chaos. We cannot do It
unless the example of order Is set in
high places. In a time only antedat?
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chair, Presidential speeches were only
occasional and Incidental. The greatest
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Presidential utterance of the year was
the message to Congress. It was more
widely read than anything of its kind,
even 1n the humblest homes. The utterance
was impressive because of its
infrequency. The men who heard the
message sat down and listened. It is
true that at public functions requiring
the presence of the President of the
United States a speech would be made,
and perhaps some brief informal remarks
at minor functions near by. But
the President did not regard himself
chiefly as the spokesman of his party.
H'is administrative duties were even
then considered sufficient to occupy all
his time. He cultivated, in fact, a
strength from reticence which volubility
can never give. May it be asked, with
the deepest respect, whether it would
not be better for the interest of the
country that the President should curtail
his speech-making tour and take
up the urgent administrative duties
awaiting him at Washington? In the
present alarmed state of the public mind
the relations of the country with the
corporations raise a question perhaps
as grave as any we have faced since
the Civil War. Mr. Taft's good faith is
high above all cavil or suspicion. But if
his predecessor's perambulatory eloquence
was disturbing, that of Mr. Taft
is not reassuring. Many of us believe
that the public mind would be greatly
renevea u ne said notaing at all, and
impressed a similar discretion upon the
members of his cabinet.
RELIGION IN BUSINESS.
Papers on "Christianity and Social
Problems" by two members of the English
Parliament and by a former VicePresident
of the United States, were
among those which proved to be of
especial Interest to the delegates attending
the sessions of the Ecumenical
Methodist Conference in Toronto. The
status of the laborer as seriously affected
by vital changes in modern social and
industrial conditions, and the duty and
opportunities of the church in dealing
with the various resultant problems
were among the topics dealt with from
both practical and ethical points of view.
"The keynote should be more religion in
business and more business in religion,"
said Charles W. Fairbanks, former VicePresident
of the United States. "Inequality
of wages for men and women,
working under like conditions, is an
afTront to the spirit of Christian religion.
The progress of nations in the last analysis
is measured by the real progress
of woman herself. The laborer has become
merged In the machinery of which
he is such an important part. And he
has come to feel too frequently that the
great church is not sympathetic toward
him. Industrial peace will come through
the influence of the Christian religion."
CONSUMERS WANT A CHANGE.
Resolutions commending the work of
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the
Bureau of Chemistry, praising President
Taft for his exoneration of Dr. Wiley
from the foolish and unfounded charges
made against him, and urging the removel
from office of Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson, Solicitor McCabe and
Associate Chemist Dunlap, of the department
were adopted by the food com1854
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mittee of the National Consumers'
League at its meeting in New York. The
resolutions indorse Wiley for "his efforts
to nave tne rooa and drugs acta enforced
for the benefit of the consumer, as well
as the manufacturer," and urge Congress
to amend the food and drugs act so
that hereafter Dr, Wiley "may be given
a free hand" In its enforcement. Among
the reasons advanced in a statement
issued by the league's committee for
urging the removal of Secretary Wilson
are the allegations that he "used his official
position to force" the Denver convention
of the Association of State and
National Food and Dairy Departments'"
to vote in favor of the use of the drug,
sodium benzoate, in foods; that he "has
uBed his official position to favor the
manufacturers of food, drugs, liquors
and medicines;" that he allowed the
food law to be "set aside" for the nro.
duction of glucose, labeled as "corn
syrup," that he was Instrumental In
giving the solicitor of the department
the right to decide whether suits shall
be brought for violation of the food law,
after samples "have been found to violate
the law," and that the law dealing
with the labeling of beers "has not been
enforced."
THE SAGE OF SK1B0 CASTLE.
While securing information from MrCarnegie
for this story of steel, says a
writer In Munsey's, I discovered in the
first quarter of an hour that he is
prouder of his authorship than of his
ownership?more pleased that his "Empire
of Business" has been translated
into Greek and Japanese than that his
pension amounts to $44,000 a day.
The story of his charities is in itself a
book. Hastily summed up, they may be
classed as follows*:
1400 libraries $42,000,000
51 colleges 8,000,000
Carnegie Institution 10,000,000
Carnegie Foundation (pensions
for retired professors) .. 10,000,000
Carnegie relief fund 4,000,000
Carnegie Hero fund 5,000,000
Scotch Unuiversitles 10,000,000
Pittsburg technical schools 10,000,000
The Hague Temple of Peace.. 1,500,000
New York Engineers' Club.. 1,000,000
Pittsburg Museum of Art.. 2,000,000
Donations promised (according
to secretary's hook) .. 17,000,000
Grand total $120,500,000
And every dollar of It made from steel.
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