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4 Don't Vote Yourself and Your Children Info Hopeless Bondage (Continued from Page One.) eight or ten million dollars out of that prepos¬ terous issue of seventy-five million dollars. Vote it down 1 Use your mother wit, and defeat the de¬ signs of those who are trying to push you into the bottomles pit of debt. No matter how plausibly they talk, no matter how sweetly they write, your own in¬ telligence should ho your guide, and you should know, and doubtless you do know, that you cannot increase the expenses of your State Government, already too great, without increasing your taxes. The amount allotted to you on the good roads bill, for which I worked so hard in the Committee room, week after week last year, and whose battles for State control as against the proposed Federal control I made on the floor of the Senate, successfully, is considera¬ bly less than three rnilion dollars. You are asked to raise, in some manner, an amount equal to this. The Senatorial Committee on Post Offices and Post Hoads thought that twice two million, seven hundred thousand dollars was amply sufficient to make and maintain your good roads and your safe bridges. . All that you have 1o do is to raise your half; anUno one has the slightest reason for demanding of you a larger amount than is fir¬ The Evolution of The United States Tariff System. (Continued from I‘ago 1) This claim is more specious than true. Money is worth to the laborer wlmt it will buy for him, and if he has to take his higher wage and pay a higher price than the foreign¬ er pays to support the lives of himself and his family, then the advantage, apparently with him, is really against him. If the pretence that the tariff is levied for the laborer were true, then the amount of protection on American goods should not ex¬ ceed the difference in the cost of production here and abroad. The tariff is not levied upon that plan at all: it is levied to give the American manufac¬ turer a complete monopoly of the American market. in China, you can buy American cotton cloth cheaper than you can buy it in Boston, or in Augusta. In South America you can buy all sorts of farm machinery cheaper than you can buy them in Illinois or Pennsylvania. Thus the farmer of Central or South America, growing grain in competition with the wheat growers of our Western States, can grow it much more cheaply than the farmer of the West. In South America, the Harvester Trust and the Steel Trust have to meet the competi¬ tion of England: in this country they do not. Thus a very great hardship is worked up on the American farmer, to the benefit of the farmers of Central and South America. Under our high tariff system, the Ameri¬ can Merchant Marine lias been swept off the seven seas. . Ally ? Because the American citizen is compelled to build his vessel out of highly protected ma¬ terials and with expensive American labor, else he cannot have the protection of the American flag. In no other country on earth does it cost sq much to build a ship. Before the era, of our absurd navigation Laws, and our prohibitive tariffs, the Ameri¬ can merchant marine was prosperous. Prior to the Civil War, three-fourths of our imports and exports were carried in American bottoms; but, so deadly has been the effect of our high tariffs that wc are how asked to spend $50,000,000. a year in subsidizing American ships. Therefore, we first taxed our merchant ma¬ rine out of existence, and then tax the people to float it again. All that is necessary to recreate an Amer¬ ican merchant marine is a simple statute, giv¬ ing the protection of our flag to every Ameri¬ can-owned vessel, no matter where it was built. Let the American buy bis ship where lie can buy it cheapest:, and, having bought, it, lot him have the protection of our flag. This is simple, practical, and lias proved that it could succeeed. No other country on earth pays a ship subsidy to the ordinary vessels of tho mer chant marine. * Croat Britain pays subsidies to certain’ fast steamers which carry her mails to her far distant possessions, and to this country, hut the ordinary British ship, engaged in com riierce, gets no subsidy. Tn the middle of the last century, Eng¬ land protected her landlords by a high tariff on wheat and other foodstuffs. . , , , THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, THOMSON. GEORGIA. ed by the Congress of the United States. Let that be yottr, standard of measure. Stop where Congress stops. Don’t let tourists and automobile manu¬ facturers push you further than they were able to push both Houses of Congress. The whole subject was thrashed out here in*tho comittee rooms, of both Houses. The facts were all laid before us, and the argument was exhaustive. We thought that the great Federal Gov¬ ernment, wit£ all of its power and resources, could not afford more than two million, seven hundred thousand dollars, for you, for next year, but what unit be done in the following years, nobody can predict. We must wait and cross that bridge when we get to it. As a matter of sound common sense, j am urging you not to rush ahead, into chang¬ ing your constitution, at the dictation of the automobile manufacturers of Detroit, and the Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta and th? other big cities. If you got to changing your constitution at the instance of these organized combina¬ tions of profiteering capital, your organic law will soon be like your statute book—even the lawyers will not be able to keep up with the kaleidoscope alterations. There came a sudden potato rot in Ire¬ land, and, within a few days, her teeming pop¬ ulation was deprived of her staple article of food. A sudden blight destroyed the Irish pota¬ to throughout the island. It is said that two million people perished of starvation. The situation became so dreadful that Sir Hubert Peel had the courage to repeal what were called the Corn Laws, which pro¬ tected British, wheat from foreign competi¬ tion. The beneficial effect was immediate: cheap food poured into England and Ireland, and the famine passed away. England adopted free trade, and her ex¬ ports more than doubled themselves within a f *w Since that time she lias drawn most of her income at the custom houses from-a few articles of luxury, such as foreign wines, fruits, silks, tobacco, and sugar. There is an effort being made now to drive her back to the old system of tariff legislation, but she is being driven to this by such mon¬ strous tariffs as our own. The bill now pending before the Senate will, no doubt, become a law, and when it does so our people will feel its shadow falling upon every borne in the Union. Our farmers are being misled by propa¬ ganda in favor of protective duties on such' things as beet sugar, cane sugar, rice, peanuts, and hides. As Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, well said, these American protectionists are selling their birthright for a mess of potage. FOIl SALE Genuine Forto HSstin Potato Plants, inspected and chemically treated. True to name, tree of disease. 1,000, $1.25. Lots of 10,000 , $1.10 per M. 30 H. D. SALTER, Pitts,. Ga. 27p WE JU ST SELL 50 million Porto Rica Nancy Hall potato plants at $1.00 per thousand, mail or express. 34 VICTOR PLAINT FARMS, Tifton, Ga. A. P. Sexton, Pres. Valdosta, Ga. FOR SALE:—Porto Rico, Nancy Hall and Early Triumph potato plants, $1.00 per 1,000. Globe, Stone and Greater Baltimore tomato plants, $1.00 per 1,000. Prompt shipment. 30 DORRIS PLANT CO.,Valdosta, Ga. PURE PORTO RICA POTATO PLANTS. Potatoes Inspected ancl treated. $1.10 per 1,000. Late May and June, $1.00 per 1,000. 31 .1. B. POPE, Rt, 3, Fitzgerald, Ga. PORTO RICO POTATO PLANTS No. 1, selected and treated before planting, 1,000 to 1,000, $1.50 per thousand: over 5,000, $1.25, f.o.b. Ilahlra, Ga. 30 E. J. SMITH, Haliira, fja. PORTO RICO POTATO PLANTS, State inspected, prompt delis cry, $1.50 per 1.000 postpaid; $1.25 per 1,00 0 express. Ca ibage plants, leading varieties, 50■> :tr 75c; 1,000, $1.25 postpaid; 85c per 1.000 express. Special prices for large orders 29pd MAJOR CROW, Flonery Branch, Ga. TORTO RICO POTATO PLANTS, State Inspected, true to name, prompt delivery, $1.50 per 1,000 post¬ paid, $1.25 per thousand express collect. Cabbage and Tomato plants, leading varieties, 600 for 75c, 1,000 for $1.26 postpaid, $1.00 peV thousand express collect. Special prices on large orders. 3 p MAJOR CROW, Flowery Branch, Ga, > Is China To Become An Ally Of Russia And Germany? In one of the addresses which I made against the Four Power Pact, you will notice that I predicted a union of Germany and Rus¬ sia, as logical consequence of thd treaties be¬ tween England, France, Japan and the United States. I went further, and predicted that China would, necessarily, become alparty to the dual alliance between Rusia and Germany. In recent newspapers, I notice that the Governor of Manchuria, General Chang-Tsao Lin, has declared that, because of wflat pened at the Washington Conference, it is necessary that he antagonize the Government of Pekin,"which is notoriously in the pay of Japan. * It is quite extratfdinary that my predic¬ tions should have, so soon, been verified by the events following. ■ If trustworthy reports are to be credited, the Governor of Manchuria is the strongest man in China. lie is the man who called the bankers of his province before him, and threatened to cut their heads off, if they contracted the currency, as they had said they would do. These Manchurian bankers bad, no doubt, received their orders from Washington, Lon¬ don, Paris and Tokio, and they were following in line with the general contraction policy, whose purpose is to put the entire world on the gold basis, and .thus, make the unprivileged millions the foot-stool of the few privileged international bankers. You will have noticed that General Cliang Tsao-Lin has already placed one hundred thou¬ sand troops north of the great Wall. If he defeats General Wu, his victory will mean the independence of China, and a tripph alliance, composed of that country, and of Germany and Russia. It seems to me one of the most mysterious things that ^ver happened, that such men as Senators Underwood and Lodge should ever have believed that they were mentally the matches of the trained diplomats of Europe and Asia. The Oriental mind is altogether more sub¬ tle than the best mind of the Occident. Mi-. Hughes, Mr. Underwood, Mr. Lodge and Mr. Harding were diplomatic babies in the hands of those master craftsmen of Lon¬ don and Tokio. SHALL WE DOUBLE THE SIZE OF THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL? When our mailing list will reach 50,000 subscribers we can make it an 8 page weekly. This will mean: More editorials from the Chief. • More details from the galleries of Congress. More letters from the people. HOW MANY SUBSCRIPTIONS WILL YOU SEND IN ? Clubs of five, $1.50 each. LET US HEAR FROM VOU. THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, THOMSON, GEORGIA. PURE IMPROVED PORTO RICAN POTATO PLANTS for April, May Rnd June delivery, $1.50 per thou¬ sand, express collect. Government inspected. 28p FLANDERS & DENT PLANT CO., Ocilla, Ga. PORTO RICA POTATO PLANTS FOR SALE. April, May, June delivery, $1.65 per thousand. Five or more thousand, $1.50 per Thousand. Check with order. All plants Inspected by the State ancl treated. 29 T. J. HOLLAND, Wray, Ga., R. F. D. 1. 1 ou will see, in one of the speeches that I made against the Four Power Alliance, that I called attention to the fact that Japan had not got out of Shantung, nor out of Korea, nor out of the Russian half of the Island of Sakaliu, nor out of Siberia, and I said that Japan had no idea of geting out. Events have justified this statement. Ja pan is now demanding of China the impossible sum of one hundred million clollars for tho Shantung Railway, and which did not cost the Germans five millions, because she built it with cheap Chinese labor. Japan is still in Shantung, and intends to remain there. She will never evacuate Korea, until China makes her do it. She is re-enforcing her troops in Siberia, and strengthening her hold upon the vast Is¬ land of Sakalhv In China, General Wu is Jier instrument for the subjugation of those four hundred mil¬ lion people. The destinies of ‘ the Eastern world will turn upon the great battle, which probably will soon take place ^between General Wu, and Cbang-Tsao-Lin. It will at once suggest itself to the com¬ mon sense of every individual person, that President Harding, Secretary Hughes, and Senators Underwood and Lodge might have recessed their conference for thirty days, and required Japan to actually do what she was promising to do in the future, before they put their signatures to this fatal Four Power Treaty. President Harding told the Senate, on the day he laid the treaties before us, that the Four Power Pact was no treaty, no alliance, no compact, no contract; and yet, he and tho Secretary of War are now demanding that Congress maintain an army of one hundred and fifty thousand men, in a time of profound peace, because of our obligations growing out of the Four Power Pact. In other words, President Harding says, in effect, that our agreement with England, France, and Japan binds us, for at least eleven years, to maintain an enomous, expensive ar¬ my of one hunderd and fifty thousand men. If this is so, then we have entered an en¬ tangling alliance, which means the use of force whenever occasion shall arise. PORTO RICO POTATO PLANTS FOR SALE. Now ready for shipment. Government inspected. 1,000 to 3,500 $1.10; 5,000 and up $1.00 per thousand. Cash with order. F. O. B. Guyton, Ga. 32 SI. M. Yarbrough, Guyton, Ga. ft' FOR SALE. c > , Sweet Potato Plants, prepaid, 1,000, $1.60. Over 5,000, $1.40 per thousand. We ship in 24 hours after order is received. 33pd TURNER COUNTY PLANT CO., Ashburn, Ga, -M ■
