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PAGE FOUR lilt AUGUSTA HERALD Published Every AfK-rnoon Durlr.* th* Week and on Sunday Slornln* by THE HERALD PUBLISHING CO. Entered at the Aus.eta Vostofftoc a» Mall Matter of the Second CUae * SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Dally and Sunday. 1 year HOO Dally arid Sunday. C months I-00 Dally and Sunday, 3 montha .. .. 1M Dally and Sunday, 1 month 50 Dally and Sunday, I week .13 Sunday Herald, 1 year 100 Weekly Herald. 1 year <0 Busirw Office, Telephone *»I City Editor Society Editor •• -j_*“ FOREIGN RSI i IVES rba Benjamin A Kantnor Co. 326 Fifth Are.. New York City lluS Boyce Bulldln*. Chicago. Addrrsi all hnalneea comrnanlontlone to THE AUGUSTA HERALD 711 llroad Street. Au»u«ta Oa. "IK TOU WANT THE NEWS YOU NEED THE HERALD.' <En^|*£E> Auguata. Oa., Saturday, April 17, 1908 No communication will -e pabllahad In Ttie Herald unleae the name of the trrtler in alfrned to the article. __ Thi"Herald la Hto official advertlainf medium of the City of Auguata and of the County of Richmond for all legal notloM And adtwtlilni Tbeira la no batter way to reach the horoea of the proaperoue people of th • city end eeotlon than through the col umns of The Herald. Dally and Sunday. ""Telephone the Circulation Department. Phone 337. when leaving Auguata, and srrange to have The Herald sent to you by mall each day __________ , Th* Auguata Herald haa a laeg-r olty l clroulattoa then any other paper, and u lar*«r total circulation than any otn* r AMftigtfl paper This haA )>««n pfovon by the Audit Ce., of Ns* York. ADVERTISE OR QUIT. Millennium of Antl-publlclty Merchsnt Near at Hand, Saya Ad Man. A. B. Hutchins of Kari Hits City, a former president of the Southwestern Ad Clubs of America, who was hilled to apeak before the meeting of the Topeka Ad club recently, did not nr rlv# Id time. But It so happened that r. 1., Blanchard, representative of the Btlkkh-YounKShoiu! company adver Using agency of New York, wna In tCwn, and consequently he war se cured to fill th* vseanoy. Mr Blanch ard aald In part. The avorsgu small advertiser think* that he knows all there Is a built advertising to he known when he starts to advertise, and falls lo appreciate the value, of an analytic, critical specialist, who has spent years In acquiring his peculiar line of knowledge. The next ten or fifteen years will see remarkable developments In ad vcrtlslng, and It Is only a question of n few years when firms will lie er|/ palled in exploit the advantages of their goods or retire from business. \V<- all know that at Ihe present lime It In the "dead ones" who do not ad vertlso the ones whose shelves are laden with IlySpeoked and shelf worn gt ods. The live wires of every com munity are the men who keep their ware* and their names constantly be fore the public. "From pillar to post" would seem lo fit Castro’s case, If steamboat wharves on one side nf the Atlantic had pillars, and on ihti other side posts. The name of the Servian crown prince has been changed from AleY sndor to George The chances are the next time II Is changed It will be "Mud." Rome Tribune Herald. Aunt Hstty Green ha* gone to live with har aon-ln law. Ami the old ; ladr bna »o much money that ho can't •von afford to anub her, much less to j Invite her to return to her own flat. It la suggested that the quaatton: i "What ta whiskey?" will never be Bettled ao lona as samples are sup j piled the Investigators. Yet without samples It will be Impossible to de (ermine, and there you are. It la now denied that the suit case stolen trout the Edgefield man on the train contained 18,000. Tlut a denial In this ease vain't necessary every body knew that Edgefield men don't carry 18,000 around In suit eases An Indiana man was sentenced to ten months In Jail for stealing four bottles of whiskey. Even In Indiana the value of whiskey Is being appre ciated. To steal a bottle of the stuff will probably Ire made a capital crime after awhile It Is asserted that the beat of the Georgia peaches weigh front 100 to IK*O pounds each and that they are of the cling variety. Hut wouldn't one of those JOQ clings clinging to yo\t on a warm summer day he a melting proposition ? The Jacksonville Ttmea-l’nion de clares that "All the ladles who wear stockings are kicking at the proposed tariff tag.'* Hy that token there mint he quite a number of female Jerry Simpsons, since many ladles seem to be very little concerned about it. It did aeem a bit theatrical when Roosevelt attired himself In hit Rough Rider toga to be Introduced to the king of Italy, But perhaps ha thought the natives of Africa wouldn't appre elate them, and ha had taken them along to wear sometimes According to some authorities the poems of Poe were written when the author wra* drunk Still It will not be advisable for any preseul day poet to try that aame source of lnspira tlon. for the particular brand of whis key Poe drank hat all boon exhausted With such a great blackberry crop a> there Is In prospect now. It is a win nnd a shame to haw a law for bidding the making iff blackberry wine and this part of our atate pro hibition law will probably be Indi vidually repealed In many cases COFFEE ON THE TARIFF FREE LIST. “Jokers” have been pointed out that were snugly hiden In various sections of the Payne tariff bill. The biggest joker of all has been found In the section relating to coffee. It was shown up by Congressman Hardwick In his speech in the house on the tariff bill on March 27. Under the present (Dlngley) tariff law coffee is on the free list. It Is imported Into the country without the payment of any duty. With a great parade over this fact It has been presented that the Payne tariff bill proposes to leave coffee on the free list. But to this exemption was added this proviso: "Provided, That If any country, dependency, or colony shall Im pose an export duty or other export charge of any kind whatsoever, directly or Indirectly, upon coffee exported into the United States, a duty equal to export duty, tax, or charge shall be levied, col lected, and paid thereon.” What would he the effect of such a law? Of the $67,682,901 worth of coffeo Imported last year $48,317,377 worth, or 72 per cent of the total amount, came from Brazil. Nearly all the common grades of coffee, used by the poorer and middle claas people, come from Brazil That country levies an export tax of 2 cents per pound on coffee. This tax Brazil cannot remove. Last year the Brazilian government wont Into the coffee holding business. The Brazilian coffee growers were much In the game fix as our cotton, growers. They were com pelled to market their crops at once, causing a lowering of the price during the selling season and a loss of millions to the coffee growers. To prevent this the government warehoused the crop, to sell It. as the market demands should warrant. Just as has long been proposed should he done with cotton. To carry out this warehousing plan the govern ment. of Brazil borrowed nearly $100,000,009 from foreign money lenders, who agreed to finance the coffee warehousing plan upon the govern ment’s pledge to levy an export tax on coffee of not less than 5 franks per bag Bo Brazil, from which more than two-thirds of our coffee Is and must continue to be Imported, cannot, take off the export tax. It Is bound by Its agreement with the money lenders, and If due regard for her own national faith did not prevent her breaking this pledge, the English, French and Herman governments have a way of protecting their subjects by forcing other countries to keep faith with them. So It Is certain that Brazil will r.ol rescind her export tax on coffee. Thus, under the provisions of the Payne bill, our government wouid impose a duty of 2 cents on coffee Imported from Brazil, It would be added lo the price charged the consumer. This would also fix the mar ket. price of coffee, and the Importers would pocket an extra 2 cents a pound profit on all coffee imported from other countries than Brazil. Nor Is this all. The Brazilian coffee warehouses are now filled with coffee, which Is being held under the coffee warehousing plan. This cof fee may he bought by American importers, and Imported before the countervailing duly proposed by the Payne bill Is put into effect, allow ing the Importers to charge the 2 cents per pound additional to the con sumers, which would not go to the government but into the pockets of the exploiters. Ho here is the Joker in the coffee schedule of the Payne bill. While pretending to leave coffee on the free list as It Is now, It would place a duty of 2 cents a pound on all the common grades, allowing only the finer grades to come In free of duty, and incidentally allow the few men who control the coffee importing business to rob the people of sev ers! million dollars a yesr. GROWING GOVERNMENTAL EXTRAVAGANCE "Another Deficit Is In Sight," walls the Birmingham Age-Herald, dis missing the Aldrich tariff bill in Us Insufficiency without an income tax addition to raise sufficient revenue for the government. This 1h need less worry. Our statesmen In congress, sorry lot as In part they may be, are sufficiently up to their business to get the ta"iff bill In such shape before Its final passage, that it will bring in sufficient revenue for the needs of the government at the present time. Then It will go on as before, until In a few years the growing extravagance shall again tiring on a deficit, and further tu Iff revision or other tax legislation will he needed to bring In more revenue. So It has been ever since the time of Andrew Jackson, and especial ly Blnco the advent of the republican party. Not that the republican party Is entlrelyy responsible for this stale of affairs. The foundation for Uilh governmental extravagance was laid when Andrew Jackson announced the principle that "To the Victors belong the spoils." This has been adopted by all political parties, and ns the result we find spollamen in office, and the people burdened with ever growing taxes duo to governmental extravagance Not only does this apply to the national government, but to state and municipal governments as well. Not only does It apply to govern ments controlled by republicans, hut equally to governments controlled by democrats. Our alate government has been democratic since 1870 We have had only democratic governors, state officials and almost solid ly democratic legislatures. Yet our state government Is In exactly the Bame boat ait Hint In which the republican national government finds Itself- facing a dcfiolt, aud under the necesalty of laying additional taxes. / Just so our city government, v hlch has been non-partisan. Its ex penses have Inoi eased from year tc year. Every admin Ist ration her created uew offices, Increased th" salaries of old offices and started now) spigots to tap the municipal treasury. Where all this is to enc the Lord only knows. Our oountiy Is a wonderfully rich country, but the limit of taxation must surely be reached soma time, with this con stent Increase. It Is high time to call a hall to this extravagancce, but one might as well slug ptu tins *u u dead horse as to preach retrenchment in gov ernmental expenditures, for all the effect It will have. After all, ihe government only reflects the character of the people, aud are we not, as a people, the most Improvident ly extravagant people In the world ? Bo these recurring deficits In our governments should be view f with philosophic equanimity; and as the additional taxes are imposed the raise them we should direct our efforts to preventing the discrim ination In the distribution of these burdens, which really works greater harm than the aggregate burden Itself. WHAT IS WHISKEY? It seems strange that just now, while u prohibition wave Is sweep. Ing over the country, and county after county and state after state Is trying to suppress the sale of liquor, the question “What Is whiskey?” should b<d> up ns an unsettled question that drmnnded settlement by tha highest authorities. Yet such Is the case. The question has been put up to President Taft by a strong array of lawyers. Among them were Joseph 11. Choate, former ambassador to Great Britain, and John G. Carlisle, former secretary of the treas ury. In addition, there were present the representatives of practically nil the big distilleries of this country. Mr. Choate appeared for tha Canadian Interests. Mr Carlisle represented the distillers of his native slate, Kentucky, Attorney General Wickereham, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, and Dr. Harvey W W’lloy, the pure food expert, were lunong the government representattves. For more than two hours they piled tha president with varied Information on the subject, anil the result was that Mr. Taft was compelled to side-step. That Is always the case. Ixn anyone ask President Taft what is whiskey, and he will be able off-hand to give complete information and Indicate all the good points and the best brands. Hut after a bunch of lawyers have explained, the clearest thing Is a muddle and nobody feels certain of anything. But how does It happen that now, when it seems that nobody should care what whlakey Is because over half of the country is dry and the dry area ts constantly spreading. It should require the highest authori tative definition of what It la? Under a ruling of former Attorney General Bonaparte, In consonance with an opinion by Dr. Wtley, all whiskey not aged and freed from fu sel oil by several years of storage In white onk barrels, which have been charred on the tnstde, has been made subject to labelling under the head of 'imitation" or "compound'' whiskey The distillers who purify tholr product by higher forms of mechanical rectification and redistillation are anxious to have this ruling reversed declaring they are suffering dam age from the system of labeling now In vogue, whereas their whiskey is as pure and free from deleterious Ingredients as the whiskey rectified in the old fashioned w ay, and now regarded as the only ' straight" whiskey on the market Most Scotch whiskies and some higher grades of rye and sour mash In use in this country are classed as "Imitation" at pres ent, President Taft has referred the matter to other officii Is for fur ther Investigation. Meanwhile those who have the passive!d and the slnsoleons to get It will have to take what Is labeled whtskev and be satisfied therewith. THE AUGUSTA HERALD THE PRICE OF COTTON Only Sur« Way to Raise it is by Growing Smaller Crops—Erazil’s Experiment With Coffee Warehousing Recalled Dan Sully is not a populist politi cian and is doubtless not imbued with the / same zeal in behalf of the dear people that once Inspired “Cyclone ’ Davis, “Sockless" Simpson and some other politicians of the latter eighties and early nineties to demand the es tablishment of government ware houses for farm products, in ordei that the prices of the same might be fixed at a profitable figure. Dan Is no politician at a! and has not heretofore ranked as a philanthropist. He is not on record as having given much thought to the good of the pub lie, but he was at one time a daring plunger who came very nearly ‘doing a groat thing for himself in the way of a corner on cotton. Nevertheless Dan’s later motives appear to be en tirely pro bono publico, and he has a scheme very nearly akin to that of the former populist statesmen. The price of cotton is at times temporarily aliected by speculation or other causes, but in the main it depends, as does the price of nearh all other commodities, on the basis of supply and demand, and that is a law Mr. Stilly has no'power to con trol. The experience of Brazil in th? attempted "valorization" of the Sao Paulo coffee crops was an apt illus .tration of such folly. That embodied The Chumps of Shakespeare (By Wex Jones) I do not care a hang for art, but like to see a show Where all the characters are folks just like tne ones we know; That wear the niftiest things in clothes and sport the latest hats, And look like people in the streets and live In Harlem flats, And never say "Fair Maid’’ or "Zounds!” or "Prithee” and such stuff, But spiel like you and me dc, and can that musty guff. This Hamlet Shakespeare wrote about wore tights and talked erratic, Enough to show an alienist he had mouses In his attic. Why, if you talk to ghosts today the cops will quickly shelve you In the panoramic, alcoholic, nutty ward at Bellevue— That's why 1 say that "Hamlet’s” rot, the play is all a bunk, And not a patch on modem shows, like all that ancient junk. Tia same with al! his oilier shows—l laughed myself to death Watching the tragedy he wrote about that boob Macbeth. Instead of dodging quickly out before the row got hot, The looney of the murdered stood talking to a spot! They make me tired, these Shakespeare plays; It’s maybe that I’m dense, But give me .something up to date where the people’s got some sense. SULLY’S SCHEME Daniel J. Sully, the erstwhile great cotton king, who once put more money In the Southern farmer’s pock et than any one man living, and got treated like a dog for it when he went broke on account of it, this same Daniel Is now out with a great scheme to help his unappreciative Southern farmer so-called cronies, by establishing a chain of warehouses all over the South, so one-third of the cotton crop can be held, which will force tho price of the staple ’way up. It is a good scheme, a grand scheme, and if carried out success fully would bring great piles of cash to the South. But—our Daniel —whom the South once failed to deliver out of the lion's den —-doesn’t seem yet to understand the Southern farmer right good, and we are afraid his great scheme will fall—though wt trust and hope it will not. The Southern farmer, as a whole ought to be the richest farmer on any of the satellites of the solar system. Hut he is not. He Is Just the re verse. IP- is the poorest. He Is also one of the strangest compounds of humanity in existence. We have actually known him to abuse certain things that were doing him the great est good. We think Mr. Bully's plan will fall, though we hope it will not. There is but one solution for the prosperity "t>f the South, and that is more hog and hominy and less cotton. When the farmers learn not to depend on the West for their meat houses an.t coni cribs, then and not till then will the problem of the South be solved and she will he prosperous.—Madison Advertiser. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ POINT AND COUNTERPOINT ♦ ♦ ♦ Cut Off Their Heads. Of course the propensity to steal may be cured hy surgery, as a scientist claims. All that is re quired is a simple amputation of the patient’s bauds.—Augusta Herald. He might learn to steal with his feet. The amputation of the head is the only sure way that surgery offers for curing a thief of the stealing habit. —Jacksonville Tlmes-Unlon. Cut ’Em Out. I>r. Wiley declares that many of the so called soft drinks contain a deadly poison. Cut ’em out, and make \he dope fiends drink water, like the rest of us have to do. —Augusta Herald. That’s right. No use making fish of one and fowl of another. —Dalton Cltiten. In Other Words, Hot Air. Rome must have been visited by a terrible storm. The Tribune- Herald «a\> that "Rome real es tate is up in the air." —Augusta Herald. It Is not real estate, hut the price that Is up In the air.— Rome Tribune- Herald. Who is Responsible. "The hair of Atlanta men must be growing more bushy. lue bar bers have found It necessary to raise the price of a haircut to 35 cents." Augusta Herald. The football player s tried this thing and ho Armenian preachers and Syrian missionaries have brought it to a head. —Gainesville Herald. an Idea similar to that which Mr. Sully has in mind. The state gov ernment of Sao Paulo first purchased the coffee at a liberal price and stored the surplus in warehouses waiting for the rise in price in the foreign mar ket and expecting small crops in the years to come, but the price in the foreign market never rose and the production in the succeeding yearn under the stimulant of this generous aid was greater than ever. The re sult was that the state was bank rupt and the national government of Brazil had to assume the debt and take over the coffee, both of which it still has. The only way to insure a con tlnued high price for cotton is to grow less of it. During the Civil war when little cotton was produced the price of the staple reached a dol lar a pound. It may be impractical to secure that concentrated effort on the part of planters that will reduce the production, but If over the south generally less land were devoted to cotton and more to other crops there is no doubt that southern agriculture would be more profitable. This sound doctrine has been preached for many years without visible effect, but it is more to be trusted that any scheme Dan Sully may advance.—Nashville Banner. THE OFFENSES OF 1809 If Draco and Solon, the old-time law makers, should revisit the earth, a tour of investigation In these United States would make it speedily clear to them that we as moderns, as \»ell as the ancients, busy ourselves pretty much all the time with the framing of new laws. "I am fined for failure to provide good drinking water on passenger trains,” a Rhode Islander might say, to which a fellow railroader in South Carolina would add: “In this state a jail sentence follows a neglect to pro vide spittoons for every two seats in our ears.” A man in Virginia says: “I killed a partridge on February 2, for which I must serve time in jail.” In Tennessee a man must pay a fine or serve three years' imprisonment for killing fish with dynamite. In Wisconsin a baker must serve three weeks In jail for sleeping in his ba kery. In California nurses are pun ished by fine or imprisonment should they fail, in the proper instance, to notify the physician of certain phases of illness in their patients. To wa ter a bicycle path in the state of Ohio is an offense punishable by heavy fine and sometimes imprisonment. In most of the states it is a penal offense to tap a telegraph wire or to sell kerosene that Is not up to the fire test. If the old lawgivers were to extend their tour of Investigation they might learn of men fined or impris oned for dropping advertising matter In letter chutes; for gambling bv means of slot machines, and for count less other offenses, the very means for committing which were unknown 100 years ago.—New York Financial Review. * men in the public eye ♦ ♦ ♦ HON. THOS. E, WATSON. "Half the time Tom Watson doesn't know what he ts writing,” says the Johnstown Democrat But you cannot make people who have wrestled with the ants-Tom end of an argument be lieve It!—Washington Herald. HON. CHARLEY EDWARDS. \\ e would not think of discourag ing Congressman Edwards In his ef forts at well doing, but such evi dences of disinterested patriotism in these times of graft may be misun derstood.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun. ATTORNEY GENERAL HART. Attorney General Hart is an un usual man. He publicly disclaims all credit from a successful suit Is due him alone, and shares the praise with his colleagues. The average man wants to hog the praise and divide the blame.—Rome Tribune-Herald. HON. R. P. HOBSON. There is no longer wonder why Hobson has not been yelling about the "yellow peril" and why the Chau taqua circuits have been knowing; him not of late. He has two chaps! after his seat In congress.—Wilming ton Dispatch. MARK TWAIN. Mark Twain had him a house built recently among the Connecticut hills, without seeing it until It was finished. One of his s'ipulatlons was that it should cost a certain sum. "Did it?" ! asked a friend of his recently. “Well, j half of it did." replied the humorist, sadly.—Atlanta Georgian. Yen Never Saw a Finer line of SHIRTS Than we are showing now. It’s a regular Shirt Ex position here these days. All the best shirt-makers have contributed, and ev ery manufacture! knows that when we offer liis products, it is an added endorsement of their worth. That’s why we have first choice of the productions of Savoy, Manhattan, Majestic—all the best because they are Dorr’s. $1 to $4 Tailoring, Furnishings Broadway, Augusta Wan! to Contract —FOR— -1,000 tons of Tomatoes SB.OO Per Ton 100 tons Sweet Potatoes $9.00 Per Ton 100 tons of Beans 100 tons of Peaches Price not fixed on Beans and Peaches yet Augusta Canning Co. FRANK ROUSE Pres, and Ireas. PHONE 477. 12 LOTS Near Gwiwnett Street and Railroad Avenue. Will sell separately or as a whole, at a bargain for cash. For sale by Clarence L Clark 812 Broad. 20-H. P. Model T-4 Cyli nder 5 Pass, Ford built of Vanadium steel. No car at any price has better steel. The best touring car built for SBSO. Roadster $825. Bet us show you how quiet, easy and smooth it runs, also all kinds of auto supplies and repairs. Lombard Iron Works and Supply Co. Lombard Iron Works and Supply Co. Cattle Feeds Ground Alfalfa, mixed with ground grains, “Otto Weiss" for Horses. Ground Alfalfa and grains for Cows. Choice Green Alfalfa Hay. Very choice Timothy Hay, good stock. Johnson Grass, good roughage. N. L, Willst Seed Gc. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA HARGRAVE 112 We3t 72D Street, New York City "NEW YORK'S MOST ACCESSIBLE HOTEL.” Six lines of transit, including ELE VATED and SUBWAY EXPRESS STATIONS, on block. Ideated be tween Central Park and Riverside Drive An absolutely fireproof, mod ern, high-class family and transient hotel. Appointments, service and cuisine unexcelled. All rooms with private bath. European plan. $2 Per Pay and Upward Send for booklet and map. Also Grand View Hotel, ADI RONDACKS. Lake Placid, N. Y. THOMAS PARKES. aaiUfUJAT, APRIL 17. Results are What Count!! You always get the results your doctor expects when you have your prescriptions filled at Alexander's} Our prescription department is equipped with the purest In gredients; and three careful men to handle the business. REASONABLE PRICES TO ALL. Alexander Drug Company 708 BROAD ST. PHONE 44 Dalmation Insect Powder Good powder will be very scarce and high for the next 12 months. There are all grades now on the market, and when you are offered any at less than 60 cents per pound you are getting a second grade of powder. I made a contract Bix months ago for four kegs. My usual high grade powder. Every grain will tell. It means death to files and roaches. The price is 60 cents per pound, and same in 5 lb. lots. L. A Gardelle Druggist. 620 Broad Street. Awnings Wall Paper Mattings LG. BAILIE & GO. S Base Ball Goods OF ALL KINDS. WHOLESALE AND RE TAIL. TENNIS GOODS. Richards Stationery Co. Baths Turkish SI.OO Russian 75c Shampoo 50c TURKISH BATH HOTEL, HARISON BUILDING. Scholarships We believe in High-grade Work; Thorough Instruction; Efficient Bookkeepers and Ste nographers. In our Commercial Depart ment, we teach Practical Book keeping from start to finish. Our Penmanship is not sur passed in Georgia. We teach the famous Chartier System of Shorthand. A Sys tem so simple that a child can learn it, can write It, and, best of all, can read it. It can be written faster and read better than any other system in the world. The very fact that it can he learned with so much less study than Is required for other sys tems, gives our students twice the time for Typewriting, Let ter-Writing, Spelling, and all those subjects that are absolu tely necessary for a practical business suecess. Business men of Augusta are beginning to appreciate this and are sending to the Moss Busi ness College for their office help. g Day and night sessions. Call, write or 'phone for information. 'Phone 1090. The ’ Augusta Business College A. C. MOSB, Principal
