The Republican Journal Belfast, Thursi|ay, November 24,1921

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QUOTATION

■“The innet side of every cloud Is bright aqd shining,

I therefore turn my clouds about And always wtartbem inside out

To show the lining.”

OUR FOREIGN LOANS.

Our national debt is about $24,000,000,- 000. Nearly forty per cent of this debt ■was incurred to enable Us to loan our allieB $9,466,283,171, in cash. There are

comparatively few people who are in- formed concerning the present status of j these loans, or what security, if any, we ! have for their payment.

These loans are evidenced in the Treas- ury by certificates cif indebtedness all payable on demand, ijear interest at the rate ot five percent anji are in the follow- ng form: “The Government ---; -for value received, promises to1 pay to the United Sta tes of America, or j assigns, the sum of-on de- rnand, with interest from date thereof at •he rate of five per cent per annum. Such principal sum andjthe interest there- on will be paid in gold *oin of the United .States of America of the present stand- ard of weight and firmness, at the Sub- 1

treasury of the United States in New York or at the Treasury of the United States ic Washington.” To the above is ridded this statement: “This certificate will be converted by the Government of ---, if requested by the Secre- tary of the Treasury of the United States •if America, at par, with an adjustment •of interest, into an equal par amount of ■onvertibie gold bonds of the Govern- ment of-. Stipulated rates of interest to be paid on these bonds are

also specified. Each certificate is signed oy somebody whose name is followed •with these words “For the Government -■” There is nothing to

show that the signer had any legal au-

thority to thus bind his country to pay or

refund any of these certificates. it will be noticed that acceptance of

che refunding clause in these certificates of indebtedness by our government was, :n effect if not in fact, a tacit agree- ment that the payment of the interest accrued should be deferred until the debt should be refunded. Our Secretary of the Treasury began negotiations for re

funding in 1919 and continued them in £920 and now about four years have elapsed since these certificates were ac-

cepted by us. The vast sums of money loaned was put into the United States Treasury by the people. We had succes-

sive patriotic drives and thousands of men and women borrowed money to loan to ‘.he government and before it had time to hit the bottom of tiie treasury vaults it was loaned to the allies whose immed- iate financial needs were imperative. American valor and American money- saved Belgium, France, Italy and Eng- land from German dominion and extor-

tion. Owing to the pressure of war

necessity these loans were made in a

manner at variance from the normal and usual requirements of business. Never- theless, these loans which we made hastily, informally and lavishly, are debts of honor and should now be refunded into

bonds duly and legally authorized by the law making bodies of each debtor nation. No one of them can be expected to pay its total indebtedness to us for many years.

They can, however, do as they agreed and give us bonds instead of script and ve believe they can pay the interest on

the bonds as it falls due. These bonds would be areal asset to the United States, and should of course be long time bonds carrying a rate of interest not exceeding Sve per cent.

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■c apitalists "have invested millions of dol- lars in the bonds of these governments which are most heavily indebted to the Government of the United States. King- dom of Italy bonds, due in 1923 are quot- ed in our stock market report at 91, bonds of the French Republic due in 1945, at

par, Belgium bonds due in 1945 at about

3ar and bonds of the United Kingdom due in 1929 at 95. There is no hint of in-

solvency in these quotations. On the

contrary they show that the credit of the above nations is nearly on a par with our

own. Not one of these has ever repu- diated its financial obligations. We do

not believe any one of them intends to

sacrifice its national honor now. A bill :s now before Congress t.o authorize the

Secretary of the Treasury to negotiate for the refunding of these foreign debts

into bonds. Action on this bill has been

deferred, pending the outcome of the

armament conference. There has been

suggestions that all war loans should be

cancelled, but these suggestions, almost

if not quite all of them, have been the

propaganda of foreign boards of trade, American importers and by American

private owners of foreign obligations which are said to amount to four billion

dollars. The persistent propaganda of

these interests has encouraged the allies

to hope that cancellation of their war

debts to the United States may become

an acknowledged fact.

Two men held up and robbed a mes-

senger who was on his way to a bank

with $1,600. Later in the day one of the

men was captured and within 48 hours of the robbery he had been tried, convicted .and was on his way to prison. This hap- pened in New Jersey ard that State has set (a commendable example which should S»e followed'everywhere.

EVERYTHING SEEMED WRONG

Until “Fruit-a-tives” Made Everything Bight

Moumows, Vermont.

"For years, I suffered with Kidney and Liver Complaint; my back ached; my liver was sluggish; and my whole

system ’seemed out of order.

“Fruit-a-tives” was the only re-

medy to help me. They strengthened the Kidneys, made my bowels move

regularly and freed me of all the

distress”. MOSES MURPHY.

These "Fruit Laxo Tablets” will always cure such troubles”.

50c a bo<x, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25c.

At dealers or from FRUIT-A-TIVES Limited, OGDEMSBL'RG, N.Y.

THE BRITISH TARIFF LAWS

There is a widespread belief that Great Britain is and alwayB has been a free-

trade nation. This is a mistake. For

nearly 500 years prior to 1846 Great Britain had tariff laws protecting her in-

terests and her trade. For a few years

after that date she flirted with free trade and after the flirtation had been carried on for several years she espoused it. She has now divorced free trade and has

“Safeguarding Industries” as a house-

keeper. She found that Japan, Germa-

ny. Austria, and several other countries, under their conditions of labor and living were not only sweeping British competi- tion out of the markets of the world but

were doing an extensive business in Eng- land right under the nose of the British Lion. She promptly put a protective tariff on foreign manufactures which

competed with her own and said she was

“safeguarding her industries,” which was a plain statement of fact. The pas-

sage of the Safeguarding of Industries

Act a few weeks ago marked Britain’s return to the protective policy and placed a tariff duty of “one-third the value of

the goods” on more than 6,000 articles of

British manufacture. The valuation

duty is higher than any ever placed on

similar articles of the United States.

The British act went even further than

that and established a commission which was given unlimited power to safeguard industries, not mentioned in the Act, by placing them on the dutiable list. The /YCL luiiuci piuviucs luai. uu uuiy oiidu

be charged on goods which are shown to

the satisfaction of the commissioners to have been consigned from and grown, produced or manufactured in the British

Empiie.” In other words, Canada, Aus-

alia, the Union of Soui-h Africa and other members of the Empire are to have free trade with England. In return for this concession the above members of the United Kingdom are to have what are

known as “preferential tariff laws” which admit products of the British Em- pire at a rate far below that collected from other nations of the earth. Great Britain has thus "safeguarded her indus- tries by the erectic n of a solid protective tariff wall stronger and higher than the world has ever seen before and has em-

powered a commission to strengthen and build it higher.

Increases in tariff duties have recently been made in many other foreign coun-

tries and some of these duties are so

high as to be prohibitive. The United States can have no reasonable objections to this policy on the part of any nation.

But what are we going to do for our-

selves? A tariff bill has been before Confess for seme time and a few hard- boiled free traders have been obstructing its passage by every means in their pow- er. Their vision is fixed on the next presidential campaign. We have a tariff commission which has been as useless as

a dream ever since it was created. This is not a time when our young men

should see visions and our old men dream dreams. There was a period during the war and immediately after when a pro- tective tariff was not imperatively need- ed. here or anywhere else. That period uaa gunc tuiu maiuij. vv c die uviug iu

the present and should act for the future. The welfare of American business and of American workmen is in jeopardy, Poli- tics should give way to patriotism and members of Congress should unite in an

endeavor to enact a protective tariff law which will not allow this country to be- come the dumping ground of the rest or

the world.

The clerical force in the War Depart- ment in Washington has been reduced 28 per cent since the war closed. Other

departments there have also made great reduction in the number of employes. On the day when the armistice was sign- ed there were 917,000 people employed under civil service rules by the national government in the United States. On the first day of last August the number had been reduced to 597,000, a decrease

of 320,000 and a resultant saving of about four hundred million dollars a year. Those who are employed under civil ser-

v ice ruleB are but a fraction of those who are on the government pay roll which three years ago carried a list of 7,500,000 names. Today the list contains 3,000,- 000 names, and of course includes the

army, the navy, pensioners, postmasters, clerks in post offices, letter carriers, and free delivery men, railway mail clerkB, revenue officers and other folks whom we

need not mention.

The International Paper Co. asked foi an injunction against certain men whe had, as the company alleged, interfere! with the free access of employes to itt mills by intimidation or otherwise. Jus. tice Morrill, of the Supreme Court, afte: a hearing of the case granted the injunc tion and said:

‘It is clear that the conditions create* by the former employea of the plaintii and their sympathizers warrant and re

juire the action of thia court, and the issuance of the extraordinary writ of in- junction. The plaintiff ia entitled to pro- tection against unlawful conspiracy and violence in its efforts to conduct ita law- ful business, and its employees are en- titled to like protection in the exercise of their lawful calling. Conducting them- lelves in a peaceable manner, they should be free to go about the streets of these communities without molestation or fear of violence.”

The first County Agent was appointed in 1911. Two years later about one hun- dred agents were at work in widely sepa- rated localities. In most instances the work of the pioneer county agents was

not endorsed with the slightest enthusi- asm, and often it was ridiculed. There are now about 1200 of these agents at work in the agricultural counties of the Northern and Western States, and their work, especially during the last two or

three years, has been helpful and practi- cal. We are glad to state that the Waldo County Agent, Mr. N. S. Donahue, has demonstrated that he is a very useful official.

Our national Department of Commerce reports that the big Krupp works of Ger- many are now employing 18,000 more

laborers than in pre-war times and are

turning out an immense quantity of vari- ious products. Especial mention is made of the daily output of one locomotive and a train of eight freight cars. The list of other things made by the company shows that the work of the company is

exclusively the turning out of machinery and appliances which are necessary for the rehabilitation of German industries and transportation.

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An anti-lynching hill has been intro- duced into Congress which gives juris- diction in all such cases to the Unittd States Court. This bill provides that participants in lynchings shall be sent to prison for from five years to life accord- ing to the degree of guilt. It also pro- vides that the county in which the crime occurs must pay $10,000 to the family of the victim. The enactment of this bill will not only put an end to frequent lynchings but will put the Ku Klux Klan out of business.

The United States owns a great many

pieces of real estate for which it has no

further use. Among these holdings are

the now useless oldfashioned forts. There are also target ranges, wharves, batteries and reservations which we do not need.

All such pieces of property are to be sold

except those forts and other sites which are of historic interest. In the list of fort sites in Maine which are to be sold we notice Forts Knox, Popham, Gorges, Machias, Edgecombe, Baldwin, Madison and McClary.

Maine has this year produced more ap- ples and more potatoes than have been grown in ail the rest of New England.

DID PAIN DISTURB YOUR SLEEP?

THE pain and torture of rheu- matism can be quickly relieved by an application of Sloan’s

Liniment. It brings warmth, ease and comfort and lets you sleep soundly.

Always have a bottle handy and apply when you feel the first twinge.

It penetrates without rubbing. It's splendid to take the pain out of

tired, aching muscles, sprains and strains, stiff joints, and lame backs.

For forty years pain’s enemy. Ask your neighbor.

At all druggists—35c, 70c, $1.40.

SloarfS Liniment fep BETTER DEAD

Life is a burden when the body is racked with pain. Everything worries and the victim becomes despondent and downhearted. To bring back the sunshine take

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The national remedy of Holland for over 200 years; it is an enemy of all pains re-

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end accept no imitation

We Are Good Buyers GIVE US A CHANCE

to bid on your furniture or anything you have to sell. Drop postal or call.

J. AUSTIN MCKEEN, tf 17 Belfast, Maine.

WANTED Plain Sewing and Mend-

ing at

24 Union Street.

SINCE 1882 At 72 Main Street, Belfast.

Charles R. Coombs Undertaker

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“I don’t see why he didn't write!" said Mrs. Halden pettishly. "Of course I’m glad he's coming home for Thanksgiving, and all that, but lie might have given me longer notice. But that’s just like Bob—always drop- ping in like a tornado, with no more than a telegram the day before lie

j comes—and how I’m to get his room

ready, I simply don’t see 1 1 have the dinner to attend to, and goodness knows it’s hard to get things these days without making preparations for an-

other guest. If he’d only written 1 All he had to do was to sit down a

week ago and write—’’ “Now, mother, don’t get all wor-

ried," pretty Barbara Halden slipped an arm around her mother’s ample waist. “I know you’ve a thousand things to do, and Boll's coming mal es

it harder—but you just go ahead ’and manage the dinner. I’ll fix his room and everything.”

Bless your heart, uear, run along and get It ready. I’m always gald to see Bob—” Her speech was cut short by the abrupt exit of her daughter, who danced off up the stairs, followed by her mother’s call. “Be sure and put out the smoking table! You know how Bob likes his pipe!”

“All right, mother dear—I will!” And Barbara sped to the little room

under the eaves that bad been sacred to Bob Holliday since the time, two

years ago, when he had first come to their town to practice law and had taken up his residence under Mrs. Halden’s hospitable roof, which he. declared almost offered comforts enough to make him forget thnt he ever had had any other home.

Since that summer, when he had saved Mrs. Halden’s little savings and her home from the clutches of a grasp- ing syndicate of real estate sharks, he had been like a son to the good woman. She had let him do very | much as he pleased around the house, ; and had even hinted at ids paying no

board, but Bob had insisted on giving her what he termed a ridiculously in- adequate sum each month.

When success brought him fame and fortune he hud refused to take up oth- er lodgings, claiming that he enjoyed the home cooking and the home asso-

ciations of the little brown house near >

the edge of the town more than he j could ever like the garish splendors !

of a hotel or the loneliness of bach- j elor apartments.

For the past two months he had been traveling in the West on a big railroad case. His sudden wire, re- ceived the day before Thanksgiving,, had been the first apprisal of his re- turn that Mrs. Halden had had.

Now as she busily arranged her kitchen in preparation for the manu-;

facturlng of a dinner that should sur-

pass all her former efforts In that line, she blessed the chance that brought “her boy,” as she called Bob, home at the holiday season, while she outwardly feigned great Irritation at his unceremonious announcement of his return.

Meanwhile, up in Bob’s room, Bar- bara was busily putting things straight, spreading clean linen on the bed, arranging the cover on the dress- er, seeing that the smoking table was

supplied with matches and trays for Bob’s ever-present pipe, and generally making things fresh and sweet for the reception of her hero. For Barbara, Bob was a good deal-of a hero, though she would hardly have confessed It, even to herself.

She attacked the dresser last of all, Intending to take out of the drawers any odds and ends that, might he in them and leave space for shirts, col- lars and other articles of masculine apparel.

The big lower drawers were empty, and Wyond a quick glance in search of truant dust she did nothing to

them; but one of the small top draw-

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ers stuck obstinately In the manner of some drawers. She gave a hard tug; the wood remained obdurate; she set her teeth and pulled violently.

The next moment she was sitting on

the floor with the recalcitrant drawer upside down in her lap and a lot of odd-looking papers scattered about.

With a little laugh and a shrug at her awkwardness she rose and stooped to gather up the papers. As she picked up one scrap, larger than the others, she happened to glance at it, and something that was written on the top gripped her attention. With the blood dyeing her cheeks, she read:

“To Barbara.” Below were some lines of poetry.

She read them through. They were not so good, us poems go; in fact, there were spots where the meter halt- ed and staggered, and the rhymes were not above criticism; but to the heart of the girl who read them, they were more beautiful than any words of the greatest singers of all time. For there in written words was ex-

pressed rhe love of a man for a maid— the love of Bob, her hero, for her— for herself, Barbara Halden!

She read the verses through. Then, with the blood dyeing her cheeks, she hastily thrust the paper into the bosom of her dress. Bob—Bob loved her! He hud never spoken, but the verses

spoke for him. And site—she knew it now—she had loved him ever since lie had come to the house. Her heart sang a paean of thanksgiving that at last she knew. And he was coming in on the evening train!

The 7:25 bore to the town a hand- some young man who hastened from the station to Mrs. Halden’s house in the nearest taxi. He was greeted with

The Next Moment She Was Sitting on the Floor.

effusion mingled with reproach by the good woman and by a girl who had formerly rushed to greet him with a

glad cry and outstretched hand, but who now shyly stood bnck and blushed at his hearty clasp. And Bob, looking keenly at her with his eyes trained to

read human faces and learn the thoughts beneath the masks, realized that she knew—and grew red and em-

barrassed beneath her glance. It was not till after the late sup-

per that they had a chance to talk. And the first words that Bob said as

he sat alone with Barbara in Mrs. Halden’s tiny living room were:

“How did you know?”

"I—I—oh, Bob, forgive me I” Bar- bara was almost In tears.

His arm around her shoulders as-

sured her of his forgiveness. And then, with averted eyes, Bar-

bara repeated a few lines of tha verses she read. A few only, for

: Bob’s lips on hers stopped her before she had gotten farther than the first “I love you.”

“I knew I’d left those foolish verses

behind,” said Bob after a time. “But I never dreamed you’d find them.”

“It was an accident,” replied Bar- bara, happily. “But oh, Bob dear, I’m so glad It happened!”

And Mrs. Halden, coming In to wish them good-night and a happy Thanks- giving, said, when she had recovered from her surprise, that she was glad, too.

Christmas Suggests DECORATIVE LAMPS

i A rich, attractively beautiful and practical table or floor lamp makes a most acceptable Christmas gift for any home.

For early Christmas shoppers I our displays are replete with lamps ~

oi unusual originality and beauty of design. From a host of colorful patterns, unique shapes j:

and) tasteful designs you should be able to obtain j a table or floor lamp that will harmonize perfectly with the decorative scheme of any home.

Why not make your selection, now, for Christ- 1

mas delivery?

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it saves at least 20 per cent in cost. !

In most cases the person you want will answer; if not, usually 1

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Let us tell you about it if you are not acquainted with its ad- vantages.

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E. R. Spear, Manager.

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Apples Our specialty Prompt and efficient service. Stencils furnished on application. References.

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Dr. Hester Brown OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN 30 High Street. lei. 320

WANTED POSITION BY PRACTICAL NURSE to

care for an invalid. Address MRS. F. S. WIGHT,

23 Tilson, Avenue, 3w46* Rockland, Maine.

One Glenwood Parlor Heater, largest lize.

One Kitchen Range, with shelf ;<

Lank. Both stoves largest size; good as new

ess than one half cost price. See 46tf GEO. M. GRAY. Colonial House, High St, Belfast, Me.

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