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mitt vol:iii MORAVIAN FALLS, N. C, SEPT, 1897. NO. 4 THE YELLOW-JACKET, PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 15 CENTS PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. B. .DON LAWS, EDITOR. ENTERED AT MORAVIAN" FALLS, X. C. AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER. When your imper is cross marked it means your sub scription is out, and, that you will receive no more pa pers, unless you renew. The man who has horse sense al ways knows when to say neigh. Silver spoons may get cheaper than tin, if the price of silver con tinues to go down. The remonetization of wheat will be known by the Popocrats as the "crime of '97." England would own the world if she were allowed to make its maps. Some one has suggested that the best way to stop the sale of liquor is to give it away. If some people were to lose their reputation they would be lucky. The only way for the country to have good times is to follow good le'aders. American exports for August were the largest in the history of the country. Fevers ordinarily follow chills, but the gpld fever strikes its vic tims first; the chill will meet them in Clondike. The man who expectorates where ladies have to walk, may not expect-to-rate as a gentleman in the eyes of his lady friends. The Democratic party cannot boast of a cardinal principal other than opposition, to whatever the Republicans advocate. Nothing so delights a pop-gun Democratic orator as to make a statement that can neither be proved nor disproved and then talk himself hoarse over it. When the people of this great Republic get a chance, they will go through the civil service hum bug like the Grace of (rod through a camp meeting. There never was one principle of Americanism in the whole civil service theory. It was a child conceived in iniquity and brought forth in sin. There are some people who can't recognize prosperity when they see it, and the suspicion is growing that many of them are engaged in editing Democratic papers. The frantic efforts of the Dem ocrats to show a good thing theT ever did reminds one of a dog try ing to catch his tail there is plen ty of motion but no progress. A man who sits eight hours a day in a loafers' saloon, looking at the sand and cigar butts on the floor, can't see much evidence of the prosperity that business men say has come to the country. Crop reports are rather encour aging from every section of the country. But what is still better, crops find a ready market at prices with a steady upward tendency, and this is the real meat of the nut. No great ship leaves a European port without a large consignment of gold for the United States. It is flowing to us from every port in Europe. It is far more acceptable than the shoddy goods shipped over under the Wilson Free-Trade law. That little piece of Democratic logic that "the price of an ounce of silver regulates the price of a bushel of wheat," in the light of e present, is just about as reas onable as to say that the price of bushel of onions regulates the )rice of a gallon of kerosene. Foreigners protest against the Dingley bill because, as they say, it will throw thousands of foreign workmen out of employment. But suppose it results in giving em ployment to thousands of Ameri can workmen who are now idle, and better wages to thousands of others. Our side is the American side. An Ohio editor says hay fever is caused by kissing grass widows. A Missouri editor says it is caused by a grass widow kissing a fellow by moonlight. An Iowa editor says it is caused by a fellow kiss ing the hired girl while feeding hav to the cow. An eastern ex change is of the opinion that it is caused by missing the girl and kissing the cow. Exchange. When Senator Pritchard voted for a tariff on cotton ties, he was bitterly denounced by all the Free-Trade advocates for voting, as they claimed, to build up and fos ter trusts at the expense of the cotton planters of the south. But with .a Protective Tariff on cotton ties what do we see to-dav? We have American companies offering to furnish the regular that cotton tie at 70 cents per bundle at wholesale in carload lots, or at 75 cents at retail. Last year the price was $1.35 at wholesale. Then the Wilson-Gormon law was in force and cotton ties were on the free list. This year we have a Protec tive Tariff on cotton ties and they are offered at 70 cents a bundle at wholesale. These facts do not seem to work in with the Demo- cratic cry that "the Tariff is a tax." These facts, too, are of themselves a sufficient refutation of the other Free-Trade falsehood that a Protective Tariff fosters trusts. Last year, under Free Trade, there was a cotton tie trust ; this year, under a Protective Tar iff, the trust is broken.
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