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Ferris, of Joliet. 111., chairman of the Populist national committee. Ferris, an editor, lias devoted considerable space in bis newspaper recently to commending ihc 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 bos.sism are likely to be charged, it is a-scried. For. some of the Westerners pic. 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 be questioned. One Man Party, Says LaFoilette MADISON. WIS. Aug. 10.—Senator i.ai'ollette. in LaFollette's Magazine, today opens his tight on the Progres sive party and Theodore Roosevelt. He ■ c lan s the Progressive party is a one man pact' I he editorial says: "Tile last thing to be tolerated of a new political pat ty, 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 tlie big stick, should promise to come out for the Roosevelt patty, the) 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 tile Roosevelt party, are to be pun ished by having Roosevelt tickets put up against them in their states. 'How do you stand on me.” is Roosevelt's sole test of qualification for a Progressive." A 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 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. RESTRICTIONS 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. L.OL’IS. Aug. 10.—On testimony that his 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 cojirt. 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. JACKSOX. GA., Aug. 10. The stock holders of tile 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. I). Brownlee. S. .1. Smith was re-elect ed president,- F. L Walthall secretary and J. M. Gaston general manager. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10. 1912. Sarah Cobh Orme. 9 years old, and Cornelia Jackson Orme, • 16 months, of 915 Peachtree. MBIES RGBBEO Os ITS TERRORS Free Treatment by State's Ex perts Reduces Hydrophobia Deaths to Minimum. Deaths from hydrophobia in Georgia have been reduced to 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 1,500 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 tiny animal which had bitten ♦ human and suspected of madness. Examination has shown 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 be 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. I 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 progre.-s. 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 b< completed late this year, owing to the illness and subsequent death of tin father of Tax Receiver Norton. BREAKS HIS LEG TO KEEP OUT OF COURT; JUDGE FINES HIM $lO ST. LOUIS, Aug. 10.—When John Moran was called for trial on a peace disturbance charge in Justice Lamb's court at University City IPwas 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 heftlth. “Did you break your leg?" asked Walsh. . "I did," replied Moran. "How?" "With a hammer. 1 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 piqce 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 PHAN't'ISI'O. Aug. 10. -Friends of Lloyd Osbourne, author, and stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson, learned to day that he was expected to live but a fkw days and that, in anticipation of the end, nis :wo 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 I.ouis Stevenson in writing "Tite Wrong Box." "The ’Wrecker" and “The Ebb Tide.” FIRST DISTRICT'S DOCTORS MEET IN SAVANNAH MONDAY SAVANNAH. GA.. Aug 1". Mem bers of the First District Medical sq i-iety will assemble in Savannah Mon day for their mid-summer meeting. The session will be held at the DeSoto hotel. A dinnet will bo 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 Ulla Porrost, of Boston, demonstrator for the Girls’ Canning «lubs of Thomas and Grady counties, has been giving practical demonstrations of the work in the various districts of these coun ties There are girls in the Thomas county club. The merchants here offer to take everything they < an get canned l»y the girl; and pay the best market pikes. I ' Evalene 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 why 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 the tariff board because it made provision for qt 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 were, 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, what change should be made. Men who 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 the rates to the needs of the industries it was sought to protect. Senators and repre. sentafives of long experience would de. ciare that a given rate was far too low'. Others, with equally long expe rience and equal r< putatlon as experts, would assert it was far too high. When asked to produce proof, each faction could only quote tile 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, »- 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 which made provision fora tariff board 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 veto the Payne tariff bill. From his standpoint there was no reason whatever to veto it. 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 hardly expect better until he had the information on which to base his arguments for still lower rates. To have vetoed the Payne bill would certainly have im periled the business of the country. It would greatly have prolonged the tar iff session. And there was no certain ty that a new bill would have contained as much that was good and as little that was had is did Ihe Payne bill To secure provision lor a tunil board had required a prolonged fight. The second time that fight might not be won. And as I have said, that pro vision alone was, in the estimation of tile 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 wjilch the tariff board has made 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 con sequence in either party has cared to assail. The of rhe roadi'-tr: and; minimum tariff provision of the Payne tariff bill has been all but lost sight ■ of. Under its provisions the president, was enabled, through the department, of state, to compel the removal of nu- 1 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 In 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 Ite 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 lie would have won the approbation of the American 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 lie acted w isely from the standpoint, of the nation's welfare, even if not from liis own. IT TOOK 44 HOURS TO CATCH 65-FOOT WHALE TACOMA, WASH, Aug. 10.—It re quired a wha lng boat at Westport 44 hours to conquer a 65-foot humpback whale, according to Immigration In spt- tor Keagys, just returned. The av erage whale is killed in two or three hours, and old whalers said the enor mous creature of the sea put up a ter rific figl.it. 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. 3