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WOMEN DEMANDING
VOTES FOR WOMEN
SUFFRAGETTES BEGIN FIGHT BE¬
FORE THE NEW YORK
LEGISLATURE.
EXTENSIVE ADVERTISING
Women of New York Conducting a
Strenuous Campaign for Equal
Suffrage.
Albany, N. Y.—Albany and vicinity
fairly bristle with “votes for women”
signs, for the campaign of the suffra¬
gists in favor of the woman suffrage
hills Is on In earnest. The most ex¬
tensive advertising plan ever brought
out in this section has been put in
operation, and signs have been erect¬
ed on all the roads In this vicinity
from Hudson, 27 miles south, to Sche¬
nectady, 17 miles west, Waterford and
Troy on the north and several miles
east, by the strenuous women bound
on making “suffrage week” a success.
A monster electric sign on State
street, which leads to the capitol, was
illuminated, and its wording will be
changed each evening. Cartoons and
advertising cards bearing on the sub¬
ject are to be seen ■ in all the street
cars, and half page announcements
for the "cause” are running in all
the papers.
The ranks of the suffragists were
strengthened by the arrival of Mrs.
James Lees Laidlow of New York,
who is to lecture for the rest of the
Week at the moving picture theater,
w here films depictlnbg scenes of cam¬
paigns in England and the United
States will be shown.
There was a reception at the Ten
•Eycke hotel, at which Miss Irma La-
Kollette, daughter of United States
Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin gave
her famous talk on “How the Vote
Was Won.”
The reception was under the aus¬
pices of the Equal Franchise Society,
and was attended by many legislators
and their wives.
FAVORS FORTIFYING CANAL.
German Military Critic Points Out
Reasons for Fortifications.
Berlin, Germany.—Colonel Gaedke,
a well-known military critic, discuss¬
ed in the Tageblatt from a military
point of view the fortification of the
Panama canal. He declares that the
United States military position in the
Pacific is very unsatisfactory, owing
to lack of warships; which are prac¬
tically concentrated on the Atlantic.
Jn the event of war with Japan, the
[Philippines would fall prey in a few
■weeks, he says, and that Pearl har¬
bor, in Hawaii, could also easily be
captured. Everything depends for the
United States, adds the critic, on the
early appearance in the Pacific of the
powerful Atlantic fleet.
Colonel Gaedke concludes with the
assertion that it is to the most press¬
ing interests of the United States to
fortify the canal at both ends, above
all, the Pacific outlet, and that the
works also must be defeasible against
land attack.
Hobson Predicts War.
Washington.—Representative Hob¬
son of Alabama, inferentially referring
to Japan, declared in the house that
the United States might be involved
In war within ten months. Mr. Hob¬
son declared; “You can count on the
fingers of ycur two hands the num¬
ber of months beforo the United States
would have a war on its hands. This
nation is not going to prepare, and
the day is coming when it will be
struck by a nation that is prepared.”
Omnibus Claims Bill Passed.
Washington.—Filibustering in the
lower branch of congress during this
session became -,a thing of the past
when the house voted for a rule which
when invoked by a two-thirds vote
as to any pending measure forthwith
reduces the time of debate to forty
minutes and cuts off all amendments.
The rule was invoked against the fili¬
buster on the omnibus war claims bill
and that measure was passed, The
house bill cuts out all of the French
spoliation and the navy yard overtime
claims.
Bloody Work by Haitien Troops.
Cape Ilaitien, Haiti.—Government
troops, after recapturing Ouanaminth
■from the rebels, got out of the con¬
trol of their officers, pillaged the town
and massacred inhabitants who were
unable to escape. The arrondisse-
ments of Cape Trou and Ouanaminth
have been declared in a state of siege.
There appears to be fferious trouble
at Port-au-Prince. The army is now
here, hut will proceed to that point.
The killing of a Frenchman by the
poldlsrs may result ip complications
with France.
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RACIAL PREJUDICE IN NORTH
Senator Claims That Northern People
Deal Less Leniently With Negro
Than Southerners.
Washington.—Senator Bcftah, in a
speech urging the adoption of his
resolution looking to popular election
of senators, indulged in some amaz¬
ingly frank and vigorous comment
apropose of the hypocritical attitude
of some people in the North and the
Republican party toward the negro.
That prejudice against the negro is
just as intense in the North as in the
South, and that the North plays the
hypocrite in its contentions to the
contrary, was boldly asserted by Sen¬
ator Borah.
“We ought to cease this surfeiting
the negro upon the soporific applica¬
tions of rhetoric,” he said.
“We ought no longer to put into
the Congressional Record and embalm
their tender protestation given from
year to year and from campaign to
campaign.”
Mr. Borah holds that a man gets
his right of suffrage from his state,
and that the resolution he has offered
will not interfere with this situation.
Of course, the Sutherland amendment,
w r hlch he opposes, seeks to change
this and extend the power of congress
over state elections for United States
senators.
The Idaho senator’s pronouncement
on the race question was made in re¬
sponse to the recent .assertion of Sen¬
ator Root that without the Sutherland
provision the resolution would deprive
the Southern negroes of Federal pro¬
tection in the exercise of the fran¬
chise. Mr. Borah dissented from the
New York senator’s view, and, in do¬
ing so, used language which elicited
congratulations from many senators.
The Idaho senator expressed deep
regret that the race question Had
been brought into the controversy,
and asserted that its introduction was
intended only to imperil the resolu¬
tion.
“I wonder how long the North is
going to play the hypocrite and the
moral coward on this question,” said
Mr. Borah, and added that that sec¬
tion always had assumed more wis¬
dom and more tolerance in dealing
with this problem than had been dis¬
played elsewhere. He insisted that a
call of the roll of the Northern states
in which there is an appreciable num¬
ber of Negroes would demonstrate
that the North had not dealt more
leniently with the Negro than had
other sections.
“The Northern states have exhibit¬
ed the same race prejudice that has
been shown elsewhere,” he asserted
“Jn the North we burn the nqgro at
the stake, and there, as in other sec¬
tions, we have our race wars. We
push our negroes to the outer edge
of industrial world. We exhibit the
same prejudices, the same weakness¬
es, the same intolerance, that Is ap¬
parent in the Southland.”
Alabama Senate for Local Option.
Montgomery, Ala.—By a vote of 21
to 12. the Alabama senate passed the
Parks local option bill Just as It came
from the house. Governor O’Neal
signed the bill, and it is now a law.
Maine to Decide on Prohibition.
Augusta, Maine.—Whether the pro¬
hibition of manufacture and sale of
intoxicating liquor shall continue un¬
der the constitution of the state of
Maine, is to slate be determined by the
voters of the at a special elec¬
tion next September. The house ot
representatives passed the senate res¬
olution resubmitting to popular vote
the constitutional prohibitory amend¬
ment. All that remains is the signa¬
ture of Governor Plaisted, who was
elected on a platform pledging resub¬
mission.
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CLINCH COUNTY.
SOUTHERN TRAIN HELD UP
FIVE MEN LOOT EXPRESS CAR ON
SOUTHERN TRAIN NEAR
GAINESVILLE, GA.
Safe Was Cracked and $700 Taken,
the Robbers Missing $50,000 in
Another 8afe.
Atlanta.—Five masked highwaymen
held up and robbed the Southern rail
way’s fast mail train at White Sul-
pur Springs, six miles north of Gaines¬
ville, Ga.
Police headquarters in Atlanta was
immediately reached over long dis¬
tance telephone and lnfortned of the
robbery. To Capt. J. C. Joiner it was
reported that the five men boarded
the train and, at the point of pistols,
commanded the engineer to hold the
train. While he was held, others of
the gang boarded the express car and
cracked the safe, getting seven hun¬
dred dollars in cash.
In the express car were two safes,
one containing $50,000 and the other
only $700. Explosives were placed in
both, but the fuse of the smaller went
off quicker and knocked the fuse out
of the larger, and, in their haste, the
robbers made a get-away
The train was flagged with a red
lantern and as soon as it came to a
stop, two of the masked bandits
boarded the cabin and ordered En¬
gineer Fant to throw up his hands.
He complied and before a gun could
be leved at the negro fireman he had
leaped from his seat and has not yet
been heard from.
14,618,761 CATHOLICS IN U.S
23,000,000 Catholics in This Country
and Its Possessions.
Milwaukee.—There are 14,618,761
Roman Catholics in the United States,
according to thp 1911 of an official
Catholic directoiV now in press. The
figures given do not include the Cath¬
olics in the Philippines, Porto Rico
or Hawaiian islands, for if these were
added the number of Roman Catho¬
lics under the stars and stripes would
he nearly 23,000,000.
According to the directory there
are in the United States 17,084 Cath¬
olic priests and 13,461 churches. Of
this number 9,017 have resident pas¬
tors. Catholics also control 4,972 par¬
ish schools with an attendance of 1
270,131. In addition to these there
are 22 colleges for boys and 696 acad¬
emies for girls and 82 ecclesiastical
seminaries.
According to the publication, the
states of the Union having the larg¬
est number of Catholics are:
New York 2,758,171, Pennsylvania
1,527,239, Illinois 1,446,400, Massachu¬
setts 1,380,921, Ohio 694,271, Louisiana
557,431, Wisconsin 540,956, Michigan
536.107, New Jersey 495,000, Missouri
452,703, Minnesota 441,081, California
491,500, Connecticut 378,854, Texas
295,917, Maryland 260,000, Kentucky
147,607, Indiana 223,978, Rhode Island
251,000, Iowa 242,109, New Mexico
187,000, New Hampshire 126,034, Ne¬
braska 122,510, Main 123,547, Kansas
110.108, Colorado 99,485.
Balance of Trade.
Washington.—A balance of trade of
over $363,000,000 in favor of the Unit¬
ed States against its foreign credit¬
ors, an increase of over $174,500,000
on the foreign tradg of the country
and the establishment of a new high
mark for exports. Is the record of the
United States trade with foreign na¬
tions for the first seven months of
the fiscal year, as shown by a state¬
ment Issued by the department of
commerce and labor. This showing is
considered to be due to the higher
price of cotton.
HOW CANADIAN RECIPROCITY AFFECTS GEORGIA
AGREEMENT WILL
BE OF GREAT VALUE TO THE
GEORGIA PLANTERS.
WILL ENTER FREE
Duty on Fruits Removed by Canada.
Duty on Cotton Products
Reduced.
—Atlanta.
The benefits accruing to Georgia
from the Canadian reciprocity agree¬
ment are many. Georgia fruits will
enter Canada free of duty under the
reciprocal agreement, and the duty
on cotton products has been materi¬
ally reduced.
Following are the provisions of the
pact which directly interest Geor¬
gians;
Georgia’s famous fruit products—
peaches, melons, apples and grapes—
will enter Canada free of duty under
the reciprocal agreement. Since her
fruits each year arrive at the mar¬
ketable stage many weeks before the
Canadian fruits commence to mature,
Georgia will find the new arrangelient
a highly profitable one. Peaches are
at present taxed $1 per 100 pounds
by Canada, and this duty, added to
the cost of transportation, has de-
creas the Canadian demand for Geor¬
gia peaches. The Dominion at pres¬
ent imposes a duty of 3 cents each
upon melons, thus hampering the cre¬
ation of a Canadian market for our
celebrated Southern watermelons. The
Canadian duty on grapes, as well as
on strawberries and other berries, is
2 cents per pound. Apples are taxed
by Canada at 40 cents per barrel,
pears at 50 cents per 100 pounds and
plums at 30 cents per bushel, The
well-known high quality of Georgia’s
peaches, grapes and melons will tend
to gain for these products an imme¬
diate sale in Canada so soon as the
tariff barriers shall be removed. Kven
under the present tariff status the
■ United. States sold fresh fruits to
ada to a value of $1,271,000
Canada’s last fiscal year, paying
port duties to the sum of $261,000.
Fresh Vegetables.—Fresh
bles will be exempted from all duties
according to the proposed reciprocity
plan. This will give Georgia a
er range of markets for her early
potatoes and garden
tomatoes, sweet potatoes or yams, etc.
These will find a ready sale in
Dominion before the late-ripening
adian crops are gathered. Canada has
hitherto taxed potatoes 20 cents
bushel, sweet potatoes 10 cents per
bushel and other vegetables 30 cents
ad valorem. The entire abolition
these duties will undoubtedly stimu¬
late American exports to Canada of
all kinds of fresh vegetables, and no
state is better located to derive ad¬
vantage from such an extension of
our trade than is Georgia. Already
the United States sells beyond bei
northern border $865,500 worth annu¬
ally of vegetables in their natural
state, although the taxes collected up¬
on these sales by Cnaada amount to
$242,000.
Dried or Canned Fruits or Vegeta¬
bles.—Dried fruits are made mutually
free by the agreement. On canned
fruits Canada lowers her duty by one-
ninth, or from 2 1-4 to 2 cents per
pound; on canned vegetables the rate
is one-sixth, or from 1 1-2 to 1 1-4
cents per pound.
Hogs and Hog Products.—Georgia’s
prominence as a swine-producing state
is traditional. Her liogs exceed in
total farm value those of any Eastern
or Southern state excepting Texas,
their worth being estimated on Jan¬
uary 1, 1910, at over eleven and a
half million dollars: Under the pro¬
posed reciprocity Canada will reduce
her duty on bacon, hams, salt pork
and lard by three-eighth, or from 2
to 1 1-4 cents per pound. In spite
of the present Canadian duties the
United States exported to Canada $3,-
094,000 worth of these products dur¬
ing the year ended March 31, 1910.
Of the $505,00 of duties collected by
Canada on the above consignments,
Rho would have remitted $190,000 it
the proposed reciprocity rates had
been in force. From this showing, it
is evident at a glance that tlie Do¬
minion's demand for American hog
products is already broad and deci¬
sive, and that the proposed radical
cut in her tariff rate will give our
citizens a large advantage in a mar¬
ket of demonstrated value. Canada
bought bacon and hams from the Uni¬
ted States during the period Indicated
above to a value of $816,000, pork
barreled in brine to a value of $930,-
000 and lard to a value of $1,348,000.
In accordance with the pending legis¬
lation Canada will also allow live
swine free entry, whereas they are
at present dutiable at 1 1-2 cents per
pound.
Nursery Stock.—Canada has agreed
to concede her intermediate rates up¬
VOL. NY. NO.
nursery and horticultural stock,
peach trees and other fruit
2 1-2 cents each in place of
3 cents each, and vines and berry
bushes 17 1-2 per cent, instead of 20
per cent. These concessions will be
of value to Georgia nurserymen and
growers of peach tree or vineyard
stocks.
Kish, Fresh or Preserved.—Undei
the proposed arrangement fish of any
kind, fresh, salted or preserved in any
manner, are to be mutually free ol
duty. Georgia’s interest in procuring
a cheap and abundant supply* of this
food staple may be predicted from the
well-known suitability of fish for ali¬
mentary use in warm climates. The
United Sttaes, as a whole, imports
nearly five million dollars’ worth of
fish from Canada, this amounting con¬
stituting one-tenth of our total con¬
sumption. Our present duties are 3-4
cents, or 1 cent per pound, on the
principal varieties imported from the
Dominion, including dried and smoked
fish, The sum collected under these
rate's amounts to nearly one-half mil¬
lion dollars annually on Canadian fish.
The removal of these impositions will
tend to render fish less expensive
throughout the entire country.
Wheat and Grains.—Georgia's pro¬
duction of wheat in 1909 was valued
at $3,550,000, while the grain used by
her Hour mills as loug ago as 1904
was worth nearly double that amount.
It is thus evident that she is interest¬
ed in obtaining wheat and other
grains of all kinds are rendered mu¬
tually duty-free. This will eventually
tend to keep down the price of wheat
in the United States, and will great¬
ly broaden the sources of supply foi
American millers.
Cotton Seed Oil.—Cotton seed oil
will be admitted into Canada from the
United States free of duty under the
pending- reciprocity legislation in
place of being taxed at 17 1-2 per
cent, ad valorem as at present. The
significance of Canada's concession ol
free cotton seed oil to the American
producer may he measured by the fact
that even in the face of the present
duty this country sold $1,111,400 -worth
of cotton seed oil in the Dominion in
calendar 1910, paying approximately
$200,000 in duty thereon.
Prohibition Law Constitutional.
Sustaining the constitutionality of
the law prohibiting ttie manufacture
of alcohol in the state of Georgia,
tlie supreme court of appeals in the
case of George W. Cureton of Dade
county, who was tried before Judge
Kite on the charge of violating the
prohibition law by the manufacture of
alcohol. Following Cureton’s convic¬
tion in the lower court he appealed
to the court of appeals, and since sev¬
eral constitutional points were raised
the appellate court cited the case to
tlie supreme court for the purpose oi
having those questions passed upon.
Cureton contended that he had the
right to manufacture alcohol so long
as it was not sold as a beverage; that
the state prohibition law violates the
constitution because it prohibits the
manufacture of alcohol for any pur¬
pose, either medicinal or otherwise ;
and, further, that it violates the four¬
teenth amendment, which provides
that no state shall make or enforce
any law which abridges the privileges
or Immunities of citizens of the Unit¬
ed States, nor shall any state deprive
any person of life, liberty or property
without due process of law, nor deny
to any person within its jurisdiction
the equal protection of law.
Boil Weevil Plot.
E. Lee Worsham, state entomolo¬
gist, is considerably worried over the
report that unknown parties have
planned to distribute thq boll vveevil
over Georgia and the Carolinas. "Of
course I know nothing of the report
except that contained in the state¬
ment issued by Governor-Elect Hoke
Smith and in which he stated infor¬
mation has come to him that unknown
parties have planned to introduce the
boll weevil into this sttae surrepti¬
tiously,” said Mr. Worsham. "It is
possible that such a thing is con¬
templated by persons who desire to
reduce the supply of cotton and thus
run up the price, arid it could be
done very easily with disastrous re¬
sults. A few handfuls of weevils
dropped from a train would soon over¬
run the state with the pest. Under
ordinary conditions the boll weevil is
not due to reach Georgia until proba¬
bly the latter part of next year, but
should it reach Georgia before that
time and when we are not prepared
to fight it successfully, the damage
would be incalculable.” Mr. Wor¬
sham recalled the fact that about six
years ago the boll weevil suddenly ap¬
peared upon the farm at the Missis¬
sippi experiment station and that gov¬
ernment expefts reached the conclus¬
ion that the pest had been introduc¬
ed there by some person or persons
desiring to damage the cotton crop.
Teacher* Get Money.
The treasury department mailed out
checks amounting to $110,222.91 as
part of the fund due to the teachers
of the state for the year 1910. '
WEEVIL SCHEME
ENTIRELY REASONABLE
GOVERNMENT EXPERTS TELL
THE PLOT TO DESTROY
SOUTH’S COTTON.
IS A PENITENTIARY OFFENSE
Entomologists Surprised That No One
Ha* Ever Before Attempted to
Uee Boll Weevil.
WaWshlngton,—The alleged bol#
weevil conspiracy recently reported
to Governor-Elect Smith is entirely
reasonable, and the surprising thing
Is that it has not been attempted be¬
fore this, according to statements
made by Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of
the bureau of entomology, and Dr. W.
D. Hunter, in charge of Southern field
crop investigations of the department
of agriculture, in an interview with
State Entomologist 10. Lee Worsham
of Georgia.
"It would go hard With any per¬
son who should attempt such a plot,
for there are both national and state
laws on the subject,” said Mr. Wor¬
sham. “It is a penitentiary offense
to bring live boll weevils within a
state not infested, or to take them
from infested territory into uninfest¬
ed territory.”
ANIMALS FOR THE SOUTH.
African Animals May Be Placed in
Southern Swamps,
Washington.—To investigate the
conditions under which certain South
African animals might be imported
itno this country to inhabit the
swamps of Louisiana and other South¬
ern states, Maj. F. O. Burnham, South
African explorer and mining engineer,
will leave here immediately for South
It is proposed to use these animals,
for domestic and other purposes. I
Major Burnham and John Hayes
Hammond have been conferring with:
Representative Broussard of Louisia-.
na, relative to the hill introduced byj
Mr. Broussard at the last session of
Congress, authorizing the secretary of;
agriculture to import animals calcu¬
lated to thrive among the swamps or*
Southern states.
“1 am confident that if certain Afri¬
can animals are imported," Major,
Burnham said, “they will not only*
Africa.
thrive in the swamps of the South,
but that in a few years they willC
gradually become an important factor!
in the meat market.”
On his return from South Africa,
he said the bill will be taken up and
pushed through if possible at the next
session of congress.
AIRMEN ARRESTED AT TAMPA
Ministers Wage War on Sunday Ex-i
Tampa, hibitions Fla —At in Florida the completion City. o )
the aviation exhibition here J. A. D.
McCurdy and Clem Beachy, aviators
and Col. T. J. L. Brown, chairman
of the census celebration committee;
Gen. j. U. Strode of the West Tampa-
race track and Phil Collins, treasurer
for the racing association, were ar¬
rested on a charge of violating the
state laws relative to the giving of
exhibitions on Sunday to which an
admission is charged. Bonds were,
immediately furnished.
The arrest of the aviators and offi¬
cials of the race track was the re¬
sult of a concerted effort on the part
of the ministers of the city. Sermons
were preached denouncing the giving;
of such an exhibition on Sunday, and
the consequent running of excursions
into the city. No move was made
by the officials until the entire pro¬
gram had been completed.
Both McCurdy and Beachy used ma-
chinse which had their first tr^-out.
They are of the tiolmont type. Both
machines behaved perfectly, and the
flights were witnessed by the largest
crowd that was ever assembled in
Tampa on any occasion.
Seven Die in Fire.
Sutton, W. Va.—Seven persons lost
their lives in a fire which destroyed
the home of J. D. Hardin. Only Mr.
Hardin escaped, the six remaining
members of his family and a little girl
who made her home with the Hardins
perishing in the flames. The fire was
caused by a natural gas grate.
No Right to Fortify Canal.
Boston, Mass.—Former Secretary
of State Richard Olney amplifies opin¬
ions previously expressed by him in
opposition to the fortification of the
Panama canal. Mr. ■
Olney cites the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty in which Great
Britain and the United States agreed
that neither would ever erect nor
maintain fortifications commanding
the canal and the stipulation In the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty which also pro¬
vided against fortification, but permit¬
ted the United States to maintain
military police along the canal. *