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POPULISTS HEAR
CALL OF MOOSE
People’s Party May Indorse
Roosevelt and Disband Na
tional Convention.
CHICAGO, Aug 10.— The People’s
Party, better known as the Populists,
who meet in national convention in St.
Louis next week, may indorse Theo
dore Roosevelt and the Progressive
cause and disband as a separate or
ganization.
This plan was suggested as the pos
sible action of the convention by James
H. Ferris, of Joliet. 111., chairman of the
T’opulist national Committee. Ferris,
an editor, has devoted considerable
space in his newspaper recently to
commanding the Progressive party.
The amalgamation, if it should come
about, would probably only come after
a sharp clash in the convention, ac
cording to many Western members of
the party. Steam roller methods and
I’i-vvJsni are likely to be charged, it is
asserlcd. For. some of the Westerners
sty. Roosevelt men have packed the
delegations with the.colonel’s follow
ers in the Eastern states. It is likely
their right to sit in the convention
■-T1 be questioned.
One Man Party,
Says LaFollette
MADISON. WIS.. Aug. 10. -Senator
l.aroiiette. in LaFollette’s Magazine,
today opens his tight on the Progres
sive party and Theodore Roosevelt. He
•!< clares lite Progressive party is a one
man party. The editorial says:
"The last thing to be tolerated of a
new political party, professing to stand
for progress, is to hark back to boss
and machine rule through- threats and
coercion of candidates for office. And
yet Roosevelt threatens to beat sena
tors. congressmen, governors, sheriffs
and coroners unless they declare for
him.
If Cannon and McKinley, fright
ened at the sight of the big stick, should
promise to come out for the Roosevelt
party, they would have no Progressive
opponents in their district. On the oth.
er hand, Hadley, of Missouri, and Bo
rah. of Idaho, neither of whom will go
into the»Roosevelt party, are to be pun
ished by having Roosevelt tickets put
up against them in their states.
‘Hov. do you stand on me?’ is
Roosevelt’s sole test of qualification
lor a Progressive,”
GREAT SOUTHERN RISK
COMPANY TO CHANGE
HANDS AND QUIT FIELD
Purchase of the Great Southern Ac
cident and Fidelity Insurance Company
, of Atlanta by the Hillyer Trust Com
pany will be ratified at a meeting of
the stockholders of the insurance com
-1 pany at a meeting August 19. All as
’ sets of the company, which will go out
of business, will be transferred to the
trust company, while its insurance
business will be turned over to an East
ern company of known financial in
tegrity.
Three hundred thousand dollars is
involved in the deal, which will be for
mally completed at the stockholders’
meeting.
The Great Southern was organized
in 1909 and according to insurance re
ports did a profitable business. Its dis
solution is said to be based on the de
sire of stockholders to place their
money where the returns will be quicker
and larger.
restrict Tons placed on
EXPLOSIVES IN VALDOSTA
VALDOSTA, GA.. Aug. 10.—The city
council has passed an ordinance for
bidding the storing of dynamite within
the city limits, also ordinances regu
lating the keeping of gunpowder, gaso
line, benzine and naphtha. The regu
lations regarding the latter are much
stricter than heretofore, but not ex
cessively so, and dealers will have no
trouble in complying with them.
An ordinance was also passed requir
ing certain office buildings in the city
to be. equipped at once with adequate
fire escapes. The council had ham
mered on this question for several
months.
DENTIST DIVORCES WIFE
WHO “STAYED OUT LATE”
ST. LOIRS, Aug. 10.—On testimony
that bls wife had an ungovernable
temper, stayed out late at night and
neglected him. Dr. C. W. A. Spies, a.
dentist, got a divorce in Judge Hitch
cock’s court from Mrs. Bertha Spies.
Mrs. Spies did not appear in court,
REBUILDING Y. M. C. A. HOME.
THOMASVILLE, GA., Aug. 10.—
Work on the Thomasville Young Men’s
Christian association building, with the
addition and changes which will make
it practically new, is progressing rap
idly and is expected to be completed
by October 1. These improvements
were made possible by SIB,OOO subscrip
tions raised by a whirlwind campaign
some months ago.
WAREHOUSE DIRECTORS NAMED.
JACKSON. GA., Aug. 10.—The stock
holders of the Farmers union ware
house met here this week and elected
directors as follows: J. A. King. G. P.
Sanders. H. L. Gray, W. E. Foster, J.
D. Brownlee. S. J. Smith was re-elect
ed president, F. L. Walthall secretary
and J. M, Gaston general manager,
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THE ATTANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1012.
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Sarah < ’obl» Orme. 9 years old, and Cornelia -Jackson Orme,
16 mouths, of 915 Peachtree. '
’RABIES ROBBED
OF ITS TERRORS
Free Treatment by State’s Ex
perts Reduces Hydrophobia
Deaths to Minimum.
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Deaths from hydrophobia in Georgia
have been reduced Ao a minimum
through the campaign of education and
the free Pasteur treatment of the state
board of health, despite the fact that
rabies has been a constantly growing
disease among animals throughout the
South.
So rarely have there been losses after
treatment at the state institute that
the disease has been robbed of the dread
it once possessed. According to fig
ures given out by the board, more than
1,600 cases have been treated since the
institute was established three years
ago, and there has been no loss of life
except in rare cases when the disease
was far advanced before the patient
> was given treatment.
Local physicians throughout the state
have been taught to ship to the institute
in Atlanta the head of any animal which
had bitten a human and suspected of
madness. Examination lias shewn that
’ 70 per cent of these were afflicted with
rabies.
The person bitten is then sent to
Atlanta, where absolutely free treat
ment is given, or on application can
have the treatment mailed, to he ad
ministered by a local physician.
Twenty-one injections of hydropho
bia virus administered daily is the full
treatment and a cure is considered
practically certain.
HOLINESS CAMP MEETING
OPENS AT INDIAN SPRINGS
JACKSON GA., Aug. 10.—With a
large crowd present, the annual ten
days’ meeting of the Indian Springs
Holiness camp meeting is in progress.
The preaching is by Rev. C. W. Ruth,
of Indianapolis, and Rev. C. H. Bab
cock, of Portsmouth, Va. All the cot
tages are well filled and every train is
bringing in more people, while from
miles around people are coming by all
kinds of conveyances to attend this big
meeting. It will last through Au
gust 18.
THOMAS TAX RETURNS LATE.
THOMASVILLE, GA.. Aug. 10.—The
tax returns of Thomas county will be
completed late this year, owing to th<
illness and subsequent death of the
father of Tax Receiver Norton.
BREAKS HIS LEG TO
KEEP OUT OF COURT;
JUDGE FINES HIM $lO
ST. LOVIS, Aug. 10. — When John
Moran was called for trial on a peace
disturbance charge in Justice Lamb’s
court at University City it was reported
by a messenger that he could not ap
pear, as he had broken his leg.
The sympathetic judge sent Police
man Walsh to Moran’s home to inquire
as to his condition. He found Moran
seated at the window, apparently in
good health. •
“Did you break your leg?” asked
Walsh.
! "I did.” replied Moran.
’’How?’’
“With a hammer. I didn't want to
go to court.”
"Let’s see your leg.”
“It’s out in the woodshed. Go and
look at it,” said Moran.
Walsh found the wooden leg in the
woodshed. He mended it with a piece
I of scantling taken from Moran’s fence
and forced Moran to put it on and ac
! company him to court, where Judge
Lamb fined him $lO.
LLOYD OSBOURNE. AUTHOR,
NOW DYING IN CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 10. —Friends
of Lloyd Osbourne, author, and stepson
of Robert Louis Stevenson, learned to
i day that he was expected to liv« but a
' few days and that, in anticipation of
the end. nis two sons, who have been
living with their mother since her sep
aration from her husband in 1909, had
been called to his bedside. Osbourne is
44 years old. He collaborated with
Robert Louis Stevenson in writing
"The Wrong Box," "The Wrecker" and
"The Ebb Tide.”
FIRST DISTRICT'S DOCTORS
MEET IN SAVANNAH MONDAY
SAVANNAH. GA, Aug. 10.—Mem
bers of the First District Medical so
ciety will assemble in Savannah Mon
day for their mid-summer meeting.
The session will be held at the DeSoto
hotel. A dinner will be tendered the
members of the society at Tybee. Dr.
E. T. Coleman, of Graymont, president
of the society, will deliver the response
to the address of welcome.
TEACHING GIRLS TO CAN.
THOMASVILLE, GA„ Aug. 10.—Miss
Lilia Forrest, of Boston, demonstrator
for the Girls’ Canning clubs of Thomas
and Grady counties, has been giving
practical demonstrations of the work
in the various districts of these coun
ties. There are 86 girls in the Thomas
county club. The merchants here offer
to take everything they can get canned
by the girls and pay the best market
prices.
Evalone Parsons Jackson. 854 Peachtree.
’ HILLES EXPLAINS WHY
TAFT FAILED TO VETO
PAYNE TARIFF BILL
By CHARLES D. HILLES.
Chairman of the Republican National
Committee.
NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—I have been
asked the president did not veto
the Payne tariff bill.
President Taft signed the Payne tar
iff bill because he believed that it would
lower tariff tolls, because he believed
that with the antiquated system of
framing tariff bills, with no informa
tion other than that ex-parte testi
mony which Is presented to the tariff
committees of congress, he could ob
tain no better measure from congress,
and because the Payne tariff bill made
provision for machinery which would
insure adequate information on which
to base all subsequent revisions. Con
gress had been trying to do its work
without the proper tools. The Payne
bill provided the tools.
Mr. Taft pronounced it "the best tar
iff bill the party had ever passed.” be
cause it contained provision for the cre
ation of tile tariff board, because it
made provision for a maximum and
minimum tariff which would enable him
to compel foreign nations to grant fair
treatment to American goods; because
it imposed a tax on corporations which
would yield a net revenue of $25,000,000
annually and subject their affairs to
more thorough Federal scrutiny than
had ever been possible before: because,
although some of the duties imposed
w ere, in his judgment, far too high, in a
far greater number of instances mate
rial reductions of the duties were em
bodied in its provisions, and because
his veto of the measure would have left
the Dingley law in full force.
Tariff “Experts" Questioned.
Throughout the special session which
President Taft called to revise the tar
iff he sought definite information re
garding the various industries affected.
He wished to know whether existing
duties were too high, or too low, and,
if either, w hat change should be made.
Men w ho had long posed as tariff ex
perts were called to the white house
and questioned regarding this industry
and that, this rate and that, only to
reveal that they were not thoroughly
informed about the relation of th’e rates
to the needs of the industries it was
sought to protect. Senators and repre.
sentatives of long experience would de
clare that a given rate was far 1 too
low. Others, with equally long expe
rience and equal reputation as experts,
would assert it was far too high. When
asked to produce proof, each faction
.could only quote the testimony of some
ex-parte witnesses. As a result, Mr.
Taft was forced to the conclusion that
there existed no method of determin
ing beyond peradventure the actual re
quirements of the various industries.
No sooner had President Taft reached
this conclusion that he became con
vinced that the first essential was not
change in rates, but the instruments by
which the wisdom and Justness of pro
posed changes could be determined. He
would not proceed with a revision of
grades until he had a survey. A judge
of long experience, he saw that the
committees of congress were obliged
to base their conclusions on testimony
which was not evidence, to fix rates
by a’series of compromises between the
extreme claims of opposing witnesses,
and to do so far from free from politi
cal influences which were powerful. If
not compelling. Nor could he prove
either to his own satisfaction. There
was no starting point from which to
reason, no conclusive or even gener
ally accepted basis. He believed in. and
the national platform declared for, a
tariff which should equal the differ
ence between the cost of production
here and abroad It was, then, for a ;
logical mind a natural‘’conclusion that
the first essential to an adequate and
satisfactory revision of the tariff was
a method which would establish be
yond question the cost of production
here and abroad. Such machinery pro
vided and its results In the hands of
congress and of the president, the rest
would be plain sailing. To that end he
bent his energies, and when he had se
cured a bill w hich made provision for a
tariff hoard to investigate and scien
tifically to determine these costs he
felt, and not without reason, that such
a bill was the best that had or could
be passed.
No Reason to Veto It.
It has been asked why President
Taft did not vetb the Payne tariff 1
bill. From his standpoint there was
no reason whatever to veto jt. As
I have said, it gave him three all
important provisions, and a fourth
—some reduction of the existing
rates—which was not. only good, but
than which he could hardjy expect
better until he had the information
on which to base his arguments for
still lower rates. To have vetoed the 1
Payne bill would certainly have im
periled the business of the country. It
would greatly have prolonged the tar- i
iff session. And there was no certain- I
ty'that a new bill would have contained 1
as much that was good and as little 1
that was had as did the Payne bill.
To secure provision for a tariff board <
had required a prolonged fight. TJie
second time that fight might not be
won. And as I have said, that pro
vision alone was, in the estimation, of
tlie president, the great merit of< the
Payne bill.
The wisdom of the president’s.' view
—from an economic, if not from a po
litical standpoint—is shown by the
thorough, accurate and convincing re
ports which the tariff board has maide
on every Industry it has had time to
investigate. That the Democrats in
their folly have failed to avail them
selves of the authoritative information
secured by the tariff board Is merely a
reflection on the intelligence of the
Democrats. It is in no sense an im
peachment of the information gained,
the accuracy of which no man of oon
sequence in either party has caret! to
assail.
The success of the maxtrmrm and
minimum tariff provision of the Payne
tariff bill has been al! but lost sight
of. Under Its provisions the president
was enabled, through the department
of state, to compel the removal of nu
merous restrictions against American
products, both of the factory and of the
farm, with the result that American
exports promptly jumped from sixteen
hundred millions tn 1909 to two thou
sand millions in 1911. an Increase of
$400,000,000. Other nations had long
appreciated the benefits to be derived
from a dual tariff system. Some Amer
ican statesmen had advocated such a
system, but none had had the oppor
tunity, or the force, to secure its adop
tion. This was a starting point from
which to argue the advantages of the
policy, and to the logical and convinc
ing arguments of Mr. Taft was due its
adoption.
It has often been said that had Pres
ident Taft vetoed the Payne tariff bill
he would have won the approbation of
the American people and have Insured
his own re-election. Possibly it would.
Certain it is that view was urged upon
him. But he dismissed it as unworthy
of consideration. He was not adminis
tering the duties of his high office with
a view of augmenting his personal pop
ularity or of promoting his political
welfare. He was doing his duty as he
saw it, and those who take the trouble
to study the effects of his approval of
the Payne bill must be convinced that
he acted wisely from the standpoint of
the nation’s welfare, even if not from
ills own.
IT TOOK 44 HOURS TO
CATCH 65-FOOT WHALE
TACOMA, WASH., Aug. 10.—It re
quired -a whaling boat at Westport 44
hours to conquer a 65-foot humpback
whale, according to Immigration In
spector Keagys. just returned. The av
erage whale is killed in two or three
hours, and old whalers said tlie enor
mous creature of the se£ put up a ter
rific tight From the moment a har
poon was hot into the beast until a flag
was hoisted over its body, it was an
elemental and primitive contest.
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