VOL. XXII.
WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1892.
NO. 47
THE ALLIANCE IN DANCER
ON ACCOUNT OF THE THIRD PARTY AND
NOT THE DEMOCRACY, 8AY8 A PROM
INENT ALLIANCEMAN.
DocOLAS, Rockingham county, N. C,
Feb. 15. A great deal is being said
about tho dangers the Democratic party
of our State is about to coufront in what
is termed the Third party. This u a
wrong conception it is not danger to
the Democratic party but to the Alliance
cause. The Alliance in this State is
composed principally of Democrats. Their
division means ltepulioan ascendency
not only in the State but the nation
also. Alliancemen ask yourselves these
questions: What political party made
the Alliance a necessity What party
demonetized silver, created national banks
robbed the farmers of over half of their
proportionate part of the wealth of the
country and increased their taxes four
fold? Heaped on the people a robber
tariff that impoverishes tho people and
makes tuillious of manufactures and
tramps of honest working people? That
gave millions of acres of the fertile public
domain to railroad corporations besides
loaning them United States bonds with
which to construct the roads, on which
we pay the railroad magnates interest in
gold? The party that has brought on
you every grievance of which you com
plain or bear is the Republican party, and
if you hope tg succeed in obtaining your
demands you must persistently fight that
party which is your enemy and not fight
your friends. Who advises for a Third
party? Only those who see that their
political day is over because of good rea
sons, or those who wish to ride into pow
er while the popalace is aroused as they
can never hope to succeed after the peo
ple have taken a calm second thought of
Republicans. They are babbling brooks
though consider themselves mighty riv
ers. If the Republicans succeed we are
further from obtaining our demands than
wt are now. It is the Alliance not De
mocracy that is in danger. The coming
campaign will give it the worst shaking
up any secret organization ever had .
Stand by your principles but co op
erate with your friends against a common
enemy and remember that men of con
viction are very slow to change their pol
itics or religion.
Robt. P. Henry.
AMERICAN RAILROADS.
TBI SCIENCE OF TRANSPORTATION TO
BE OUR CONTRIBUTION TO POLITICAL
ECONOMY.
London Financial Times.
The science of transportation is coins
I to be the special contribution of the
I American people to political economy.
I "lithe most intenstiiir feature in their
Monomio system, and the achievements
which they have accomplished through
4
" will in future ages read almost like
fables. It has been a magician's wand
calling towns into existence on the deso
late prairie, raising towns into cilics and
t'Hes into world famous hives of wealth
nd industry. It has conjured up fortunes
outof nothing and multiplied values ten
twenty, aye, often a hundred fold.
Millions of well-paid, well fed laborers
"Jy lis blessings without ever thinking
w "hat they owe them. For every cup.
""list, evory largo manufacturer, every
prosperouH merchant there could have
en without it, there ure now thousands.
teeming factories of New England
'18 the tiiaiuiQoiith Warehouses of Cliii a-
tfj,We sprung fioui it as directly as the
"'"wruineot Colorado or Nebraska,
"lie wealth creating power of North
fcwwicH is to a very large extent the
FOduct tit its wealth dimibuiing fntili-
out for the capacity of the nil
wjs to carry wheat from the Missouri
nv to the Atlantic coast for a few cents
v Dushel there would have been no
"neat farm. np rn, ;,. ,
n . .. v . j v ui vt'lnu, null tuaujr
1 tn riohest agricultural States In the
77D night still have been in potsesMoii
01 'he bufMo and the red Indian.
1 . I U.. .L .
.,A (?raj heard on a man under 50 makes
.-wKoiuer timn he is. The best
o color brown or black is Buckin
"" Dye for the whiskers.
THE ENGINE DRIVEN.
AT EVERY STATION THE ENGINEER
KNELT DOWN AND ASKED THE MAS
TER TO HELP HIM RUN THE TRAIN
SAFELY.
On the evening of the Sabbath when
he joined the church, Allie was sitting
in the twilight with his mother, and
presently she said to him :
"Allie, what led you to want to bo a
Christian ? Was it your homo teachings,
your lessons in Sabbath school, or, the
regular preaching of the pastor, or .has it
come through the influence of the re
vival meetings?" '
Looking up into his mother's face, he
replied :
"Mamma, you remember when we
were coming from St. Albans to live here
that I wanted to go on the engine and
ride with the driver ? You were afraid
to let me, till the guard, whom you knew
well, told you that the driver was a re
markablc man, and that 1 was just as
safe with him as in the car with you."
His mother assured him that she re
membered the circumstances very well.
"Then," continued Allie, "you allowed
mo to ride on the engine, where I was to
stay until you or the guard came after
me. When about ready to start from
the station where I first got on the engine,
the driver knelt down for just a little bit,
and then got up and started his locomo
tive. I asked him many questions about
its different parts, and about the places
and things which we passed by, and he
was very patieut in answering. Soon we
stopped at auother station, and he knelt
down again just a moment before we
started. As he did this often, I tried to
see what he was doing; and, finally, after
we had passed a good many stations, I
made up' my mind to ask him. He
ooked up at me earnestly and said :
"My little lad, do you pray ?"
"I replied, 'Oh, yes I 1 pray every
morning and every evening.'"
"Well, my dear boy,' said he, 'God
nas allowed me to hold a very responsible
position here. There are, perhaps, two
hundred lives now on this train entrusted
to my care; a little mistake on my part
a little inattention to signals, might send
all or many of these souls into eternity,
So, at every station I kneel and ask the
Master to help me, and to keep from
all barm, until I reach the next station
the many lives he has put into my hands,
All tho. years I have been on this engine
He has helped me, aud not a single hu
man being of the thousands that have
ridden on my train has been harmed.
have never had an accident.
"I have never mentioned what lie
said before: but almost daily I have
thought about him, and resolved that
would be a Christian, too." Ex.
THE TREK OF THE VIRGIN.
Tradition represents Matarieh, Egypt
as having been the place of residence of
Christ and his mother duriug their exil
in the land of Pharaoh, and a tree near
that place is still poiuted out as being th
one which sheltered the Messiah and
Mary. A recent traveller has the follow
iog to say about this famous sycamore:
"Not fir from Mary's Fountain, which is
in sight of the city of Matarieh, Egypt,
was led by the Mosleo guide to the foot
of au ancient sycarui.rj, which he iuforin
cd ma was t'e 'iree of Jesm and - Mary
But it was not the oiigiual tree, as I af
terward lcarnod from Vansieb, Cure of
Fountniuebeau, who says that the ancient
tree fell of old age in the year 1053, au
that the present tree shot up from th
old stump, fragments of the original be
ing treasured by the Franciscans at Cairo
Lady. Herbert, in her recent work, "Cra
dip Lands," say: ''We wore shown
garden, in the centre of which was a syo
aumre tree, curefully guarded, under
which the Ulnued Virgin and St. Josph
are said to have rested with the iut'aut
Saviour on their flight to Egypt. It is
close to a well of pure water, in sight of
an obelisk of imposiug size, and surround
ed by a garden of roses and Egyptian
jasmiue."'
11 .1 '-.!.- .11 .-'
"Who said Hood's Sarsaparilla?''
Thousands of people, who know it to be
the best blood purifier and tonic medicine.
HE WENT BELOW.
major mckinley's interview with
ST. PETER AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
Tender the supervision of St. Peter
PO'ue scores of cherubs were oiling the
rusty locks of heaven's gates. There had
not been many visitors of late, and tho
old doorkeeper had almost thrown his
arm outof place the last time he unlock
ed the portals. On this side the pates
the streets wore worn into deep ruts from
constant travel, but on the other side the
grass grew up between the joints in tho
golden bricks. Another host of cherubs
were burnishing tho jewels and gold form
ing the portals of the inner gates. Old
St. Peter sat dozing in his huge arm
chair, when ho was suddenly aroused by
a knocking at the door.
Who's there? he demanded.
Major McKinley, of Ohio.
Are you the Governor of that State?
Yes, sir.
You are the author of the McKinley
bill, too, I suppose?
I confess that I am, sir.
What was your object Major, in mak.
ing that bill ?
Protection? I don't understand you
sir. riease explain yourseli.
Its object and scope was to protect the
American manufacturer from foreign
cheap labor.
How did you prevent this ?
By putting heavy duties on the foreign
product.
Did this make the manufacturer seil
his ware3 cheaper?
I don't believe.it did.
Did he pay his laborers higher wages?
No, sir, but he did uut lower them.
Isn't it a feet, Major, that the manu
facturer raised the price of his goods un
der your bill? t
It may be so.
Do you not know it to bo so?
Ye.3. But I wa3 but a weak mortal
and the manuf icturing people are very
rich and powerful. I could not resist tho
temptation to labor for their money,
May I come in"
Wait a moment, Major. You did not
lend your talents, then, to benefit the
poor?
I am sorry t j state I believe not.
And your la bors as a statesman have
been for the luxuries of the few by the
oppression of t ie many ?
That's what President Cleveland, Rog
er Q. Mills, Colonel Jones and Colonel
Watterson have said.
That won't do, Major; answer my
questioa. Vd you or did you not:
I'm sorry to say I believe I did.
Major, do you remember Dives ?
' I think I have read of him som
where.
He made his home with the rio.h?
Yes, sir.
Dressed in purple and fine linen ?
Yes, sir.
And, fared sumptuously every day. Do
you know where he is now ?
I have heard that he was in hell.
That's where he is now. You sought
the friendship of the rich, did you not?
Iam afrai I that I did. ,
You franiid laws to enable them to
pile up monstrous fortunes ?
That is what 1 have been accused
of.
Is it true or not?
I am afraid it is. Put I hw rnpentHi
on my way here.
Never uiiiid about that just now.
These laws you framed did they clothe
the nv.ked, iced the huugry or heal the
sick?
I believe not. , ;
Did they not deprive the naked poor
of comfortable uMhing ?
It is very likely.
Did not your bill make every 40 cents
wurth of woolen goods cost the poor inun
a dollar?
Yes, sir.
And the GO cents went into the pocket
of the iiuh manufacturer?
I suppose so.
Major, I can't let you in. '
This is exceedingly painful intelligence.
May I be permitted to inquire why not?
Certainly. We have protection here.
We protect the unprotected from their
oppressors.
1 Then I mnv pr? .
Yes, below. Gabriel will conduct y
to the apartmentts of Dives,
HILL AND CRAY.
IS TnE TICKET PREDICTED BY SENATOR
PUCUI, OP ALABAMA.
Senator Pugh has written n letter to a
David B. Hill club in Alabama on the
Presidential situation with especial refer
ance to the factional fight in New York
in the course of which ho says:
What real merit is in the demand that
Hill shall not bo nominated? Is there
any well founded charge that ho u not
a Democrat? That he has not been
faithful to Democratic principles and Dem
ocratic organization and a hard worker
for their success? But it is charged that
he is a "trickster," and that his political
methods and practices are unclean and
disreputable. Who are the authors of
these, and what acts are cited as proof
to sustain them? The charges come from
Republican and Mugwump sources, and
the acts of Hill cited to prove them are
acts done in the interest of his party that
resulted in the defeat of the Republican
party and its Mugwump allies, and se
cured Democratic success?
No man has been more bitterly assai!-
cd and characterized by more felonious ep
ithets than David B. Hill, solely on ac
count of his masterly achievement in se
curing to the Democratic party the legis-
latuieof New York. And one of the
most powerful enemies of Mr. Hill, aud
one of the most powerful supporters of
Mr. Cleveland, the New York Times,
abounds in editorials of bitter condemna
tion of Hill's work, for which he deserves
the praise and gratitude of every true
Democrat in the land. We hear the cry
for "tariff reform" and honest gold and
no more silver.
How much interest has Wall street.
and its money kings in tariff reform ex
cept to increase importations and the
dividends from steamship lines in which
they are part owners? Their loan asso'
ciations, with millions of idle money, and
individual money lenders to be found in
New York and Boston inviting loans and
aids to investment in the West and South
all threaten to subject every con'
tractor with them for loans or for invest
ment with a stipulation in the loan con
tract and mortgage that the debt shall be
paid in gold, and they ignorantly defy
tho declared public policy of the United
States in favor of bimetallism and main
taiuing equality between gold and' lilver.
They are ignorant of the power ot Con
gress, tested in the United States
Supreme Court, to compel them to
receive silver as well as gold notwithstaod'
ing their gold contracts. They and their
associates arc interested to the extent of
millions against the free coinage of silver
Their incomj in interest and from the
purchasing power of gold in tho absence
of free coin.tge cannot be estimated. The
really paramount issue with them is the
defeat of tiie free coinage of silver. The
silver issue, they say, must be side track
ed and forever eliminated as a Democratic
measure, and they have enlisted a few
life long supporters of free cjiuage iu the
cry.
The fiieuds of free coinage fully under
stand the purpose of the dowuud that
tariff reform su ill bo made the nolo issue
iu the Demo rtic platform. It is a far
reacluiig seliemo ot tho enemies ot Mlver
to m ike turilf reform a cuvcr, a blind to
move under c iiet a the Democratic par
ty, and uapiuro it aud turn it over to the
ruoucy power tuutowus all the gold, and
rulaioe oarreuey supply and mark
prices, and is organized to gnveru this
country with mouuy iu their iuterest.
The Democratic party i the only o-wct 1
and silver is the only Uuu iu iko uu.u. ot
this uudcrsuo ling.
The struggle between gold and silver
now engaging puWio attention all over
thitouuuiry is ot'the most trauscendent
importance, as it is an element in the
s;rug,!e ti-r supremacy of accumulated
aud associated wealth. The old ri-lu:iie
in tiio lJ.siuKir.ttic party demand tmiif
rot'onu and currency lvt'orm. They de
mand li;ss taxation aud moremouey, aud
a more equal distribution of it, and the
pe -pie, mm determined to have both, and
they know that free cuiuage is an indis
pcnsible basis of currency supply. When
Democrats tell us to let silver alone they
will be let alone. What are such Demo
crats worth to the cause of free coinage?
My opinion is not worth much, but I
have the right to express it, and time will
decide who is right, and I do not believe
that any Democrat cau be nominated or
elected President whose record justifies
the belief that he would veto a free coin-
ge bill. Silver is like Hill it has nev
er lost a battle.
I have no doubt that Mr. Cleveland
would use all his power, as lie has done in
the past, and exercise, it uec snary, the
veto to defeat such a bill, although passed
by 90 per cent, of the representative men
of the party that elected him President,
and those who support him are necessari
y allies ot gold monopoly, l nave no
II (11 T
doubt that Hill, or Gorman, or Flower
would approve a free coinage bill. Keep
a sharp watch on the delegates to th
State and national Democratic conven
tions.
Senator Pugh closes by making tho
prediction that David 15. II 111 will bo
cirried to the national Deuioenitio con
vention by delegates for his nomination
from New York, New Jersey, Connecti
cut and Indiana, and with this support
he will be nominated, with Gi y, of . In
diana, for Vice-President. This ticket
will be invincible.
A BUSHEL OF PETITIONS.
A LITTLE BLUNDER THAT MADE TROU
BLE FOR THE 8ATI-EYKD EIUTOR.
Detroit Free Press.
The editor could see that the man was
trying to still a tempest in his bosom
when he came in, but he never let on.
"Good morning," he said with affluent
politeness.
"I believe," replied the visitor, stifling
his emotion, "that I sent you a commu
nication yesterday beginning with these
words (reading from a slip): "Colone'
Brown received a bushel of petitions
from churches and temperance societies
asking that the saloons be closed," etc.
"Yes, sir, you did," assented the editor
"and 1 was glad to print it in "
"But you didn't print it sir," interrup
ted the irate visitor.
"I beg your pardon, Colonel," dissent
ed the editor, "you will find it, I think
on the first page. . I have not read it,
but I saw the heading of the article."
" Well, sir, read it now," aud the Colo'
nel fiercely thrust a copy of the paper at
hfin. "Read, sir, read," he went on
wildly quoting: "'Colouel Brownreceived
a bushel of potatoes from churches and
temperancee societies.' Think of that
sir.' A bushel af potatoes! What iu the
name of justice, truih and equity, has
bushel of potatoes g it to do wiMi it?'
And as tho Colonel raved and rauted th-
editor looked at the cold, cruel type
standing out in horrd relief and was ut
trly speechless.
Anwser tnUQucsiion.
Why do so many people we see around
us seem to prefer to suffer and be made
miserable by ludigesiion, Cousupatiou
Dizziness, Li of Appeti.e. Coming up
ot the food, lellow skin, when tor ,e
we will sell themShiloh's Vitalize, guar
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i i t
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