Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 242, 9 July 1911 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, JULY 9, 1911.

TARIFF USUI PARAMOUNT ISSUE OF THE CAMPAIGN

On This Question, and That One Alone, So It Appears Now, the 1912 Contest Is to Be Fought Out.

(Continued from Page One.) will be little left upon which to base a campaign argument. The House committee on ways and means Is at work on a revision of the cotton schedule. This is to be another campaign bill. It will hardly pass the Senate, but If it falls, by reason of Republican opposition, it will make better campaign material than If It went through. A Basis For Issues. This is the basis for the big campaign Issues next year. These bills will furnish the Democrats with the material with which they may appeal to the voters for their suffrage. Next to the tariff, administrative and legislative economy will be an issue of Importance. The various committee Investigations now in progress are designed primarily to make camiPalgn matter. Every one of tho executive departments is on the grill. Committees are probing deep Into the records of expenditures, and are repairling reports which will show that bullion dollar congresses are simply the result of Republican extravagance. The Republicans will meet these two Issues with strong argument. They will show that it was their president who inaugurated reciprocity, and their President who demands the reVision of Schedule K. As for other questions of tariff revision, they will fall back upon the argument that the Tariff Roard should report on them before they are put through a revision process. On the economy Issue, they will rely Economy and Efficiency Commission to support their good intentions with regard to cutting down expenditures. These facts show that both sides have some strong talking points, and indicate even now that next year's campaign books will not be altogether stupid reading for the thoughtful voter.

MILLIONAIRE GATES REPORTED VERY ILL

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CHANGE III POLICY OF WAR DEPARTMENT Army Administration Proposes to Abandon Half of Existing Posts-

MAJ. GEN. WOOD SAYS

Concentration to Be Watchword in Both Naval and Military Departments.

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BANKING IN ENGLAND.' Started by London Goldsmiths In the 8vntonth Century. The business of banking was not Introduced Into England until the seventeenth century, when It begun to bo undertaken by goldsmiths In London, veto appear to have burrowed It from Holland. It was attacked, as innovations commonly ore. Mr. Gilbert in Ills 'History and Principles of Banking" quotes from a pamphlet published In 1U70, entitled "The Mystery of the New Fashioned Goldsmiths or Bankers Discovered." a passage that may be reproduced: "Much about the same time the time of the civil commotion the goldsmiths (or new fashioned bankers) began to receive the rents of gentlemen's estate remitted to tovrn and to allow them and others who put cash Into their bands some Interest for It If it remained but a single month In their bands or even a lessor time. There was a great allurement to put money Into their hands, which would bear Interest till the day they wanted it. and they could also draw It out by 100 or 30. etc.. at a time ns they ; wanted It with Infinitely less trouble than If they had lent it out on either real or personal security. The consequence was that It quickly brought a great quantity of cash Into their bnnds, so that the chief or greatest of them was now enabled to supply Cromwell with money In advance on the revenues aa his occasion required upon great advantages to themselves."

WONDERFUL FLIGHT MADE BY MORRISON (National News Association) Dover, Eng., July 8. Aviator Morrison, w ho started in the recent circuit of Europe race, but dropped out because or accidents, today made a remarkable aeroplane flight from Paris to England. Leaving the French capital In a bi-plane, Morrison journeyed to Calais without a single stop. Replenishing his fuel there he swung out over the English channel and, after a perfect flight, alighted at Eastbourne for more fuel. By that time the air man had completed about 175 miles, but he continued on his way, heading for Brighton. Morrison landed at Brighton at 4:40 p. m., just 12 hours to the minute from the time he started at Paris.

A Cub. Infant lions and bears are now generally spoUen of as "cubs." but in former times the word "whelps" would have been used. Every edition of the English lUble from Wycliffe'a time to 1611 gives "whelp" for the youne of the Hon or bear. A "cub" meant originally In English only a young fox. But by Shakespeare's time it was possible to talk of the "young suckling cubs" of a she bear, and Waller even applied "cub" to a young whale, now known as a "calf." Tbe origin of "cub" Is not really known, though tbe conjecture connecting It with the old Irish "cub." a dog. would make it akin to the Latin "cants" and English "hound." Exchange.

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(National News Association) Washington, July 8. A sweeping change in the administration of the army, embracing the abandonment of practically one-half of the 160 army posts now in use, is proposed by the War Department, according to the recent admission of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, chief of staff, before the House committee on expenditures in the War Department. The announcement by General Wood closely follows that of Secretary Meyer, of the Navy, who told the House committee on expenditures in the Navy Department that he contemplated abandoning all but three naval stations on the coasts of the United States. Concentration is to be the watchword In both the naval and military establishments. The danger attending a possible foreign invasion has prompted the Navy Department to consider the concentration of the naval strength. The mobilization on the Mexican frontier, or rather the difficulty in bringing about an effective mobilization, is behind the conviction of the experts of the War Department that a number of the smaller posts

should be abandoned.

Wood Evaded Question. "I trust that this committee will not

press me to name the army posts that are to be abandoned," said General Wood. "If we were to announce this

list in advance it would mean that the Department would be flooded with protests. That has been the trouble heretofore in recommending the abandonment of any post.

"Local interests are naturally

alarmed when it is proposed to abandon any of these posts," said the chief of staff. "They begin to offer objections, and, in many instances, they offer good ones.

"Yet, the good of the service de

mands that a number of the smaller posts be consolidated. If I have my way, we will abandon perhaps one-

half of the posts.

"I may say frankly that we now

have a board at work on this problem.

The board is composed of experts from the Army War College and War

Department itself, and as soon as the board is able to make its report, I shall ask the consent of Congress to a plan to concentrate our strength at

central points."

Mobilization Not Successful. General Wood admitted that the re

cent mobilization of troops on the

Mexican frontier bad not been an entire success. Viewed from the standpoint of a skeleton division, the mobilization, said the chief of staff, had been a success. If one considers the mustering of the war-strength of a division, as frankly admitted by General Wood, the mobilization had been a failure. After two months, acknowledged Gen. Wood, no regiment had been brought to its full war strength, and those that approached it had been supplemented with recruits. "We were not equipped with a reserve supply of artillery, ammunition or other necessaries," added General Wood, in explaining why the mobilization had been only a partial success. "We were not equipped with a reserve supply of artillery, ammunition or other necessaries," added General Wood, in explaining why the mobilization had been only a partial success. "Scattered garrisons," said General Wood, "have made the instructions of officers in command of large bodies of troops practically impossible." Commercial, Not Political. General Wood predicted that there will be considerable objection to the abandonment of any post that may be selected by the army board. "What kind of influence is brought to prevent the abandonment of these posts?" inquired Chairman Helm of the committee. "Is it political?" General Wood replied that it was not necessarily political, but that the merchants, citizens and officials of any city naturally would fight a plan to take soldiers away from their particular locality. Although General Wood did not furnish the House committee with the names of the posts that are to be abandoned by the army, he indicated that the garrisons in the far west would be hardest hit. Many of these smaller posts, observed the general, were established at a time when Indian outbreaks were a serious menace to the communities where they occurred. Of late years, it was pointed out, the Indians have become more peaceful, and it is not now necessary to maintain such a strict watch over them. "In some Western states, continued

the General, "there are perhaps a half

dozen small garrisons which might well be combined into one." He suggested to the committee that it would be better to concentrate these soldiers at one point, rather than maintain separate establishments at places that are more or less inaccessible. General Wood admitted that the government has spent many thousands of dollars in recent years in equipping some of these army posts. And yet, he urged, it. will be better to abandon these posts and sell the buildings to the highest bidder than to maintain them at a pecuniary loss and great inconvenience to the United States government. "Heretofore we have rather hesitated to come before Congress and urge the abolition of, posts upon which so much money has been spent," he explained," and it may be for this reason that the war department has bo long neglected to recommend the needed changes. I have no criticism to make of former administrations, nor of the appropriations they have received from Congress for the upkeep of these garrisons, but we are planning to do

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away with the old regime, and to concentrate our strength. Small Posts Detrimental. "There is bound to be objection to our plan from those who are interested in keeping the posts in the respective localities, but I can promise the committee that the next estimates sent to Congress will contain recommendations for the abandonment of the smaller posts which we consider as detrimental to the service because of their inaccessibility, and the fact that th garrisons are too widely scattered." General Wood explained that by a "small post" he meant posts that quartered less than one regiment, and he added that the greater portion o fthe army is scattered over the country in this manner. The plans of the navy Department and the War Department are destined to bring about a light in the House and the Senate, as the delegations in Congress from the various states effected by the proposed "concentration" will be urged by their constituencies to prevent any action that will remove the sailors and soldiers and their spending money from the navy yards and army garrisons. General Wood told the committee that he expected this, and the committee in turn assured the chief of staff that, when the time comes to

retrench, tbe head of the army will receive the support at least of the members of the committee now engag

ed in an investigation of the expendi

tures of the War Department.

Thackeray's Kindness of Hrt. Thackeray was the gentlest satirist that ever lived. As editor of the Cornhill he could hardly brins himself to reject a cmnnscript fer fear of hurting his would be contributors. Tbe story of his actually paying for contributions that he never printed In order to conceal the fact that he had rejected them may be true or false. We do not remember exactly how the evidence points. But even if it be a story, such stories are not told of men made of the stern stuff of the Thackeray commonly misknown. London Snturdav Review.

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