The Gavelyte, March 1909

1:-: Tirn G VELYTE, Atlantic to the Pacific. But tJ.1is is how Taft hopes to break up the solid South. The next step is to pacify the West, whose natural affiliations are with the South. This will btl done by revising the tariff, for which purpose Congress assPmbles on March 15th. The revisionists have been storming at the gates for several years, and have at length become so numerous that some attention muQt be paid to them. The leader is Senator Cuwmins, of Iowa, the successor of the late Senator Allison. That duties will be much reduced there is no doubt, thus still further diminishing the revenues, which are now not equal to the expenditures. Twenty years ago the Republican party was defeated because its Con– grt-'i;:s spent a billion dollars in two year~. The late Congress spent a billion in one year. The deficit this year .viii he over one hundred million dollars. Hereafter, expenses will have to be cut down considerably to meet th r2e conditions, not theoriE>s; the present deficit, the lc,wer t~ritf nilcei pts, and the OPcrease in internal revenue receipts. With State aftl"r State go– ing dry, ic will not be long till whiskey will have to be taxed ten dollars a gallon to keep the treasury full. Even Indiana, which elected the Democrats last fall on a µlatform pledged to repeal the existing county local option law, has 'thought better of it, and several liberal members of the legislature have been driven into the dry camp by the news of so many counties going dry. European. affairs have been ratlwr quiet for the past month. A peace– ful settlement of the ffulgarian troubles is looked for, while the coming legislature in Turkey promises more tolerable conditions for the oppressed subject of that coun.try. Germany is troublt 1 d about her finances, while England is scared fur fear some one \.,ill invade the tight little island. ATHLETICS . Basket Ball. J have been ours. We defeattd our Onr ~)oys are stiH.winning at hor:1e ·1 ancient and natural riva.1, Antioch and losrng away. Tne hopdoo pers1s- Colle.ge, on our own 1 flpor, before a tently follows u~ in our out of t?wn 1 1 . large aud_ience, to tpe tun.e of 35- 19. irames; we haven t won one yet. Smee The Ant10ch mef] pl:::,yed clean and our last issue some notable victories I fast and showed remarkable pass