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REAL CAUSE OF THE EUROPEAN WAR (From The St. Louis Repudlic.) We in America are far enough from a birdseye view of causes. Among the theater of war in Europe to take them we find the most wonderfully situated city in all the world, a race of nomad warriors from the Altai Mountains in Central Asia, a streak of sea water between yellow sand and the banks, anil the ingrained tenden cy of Occidental Nations to lie to each oilier. We begin with the city Constan tinop'e ikt a map of the Mediterra nean countries and look'at is situation. There, between the island-studded Ae gean and the Mack Sea, lies a little sea, Marmora. It has two gateways each a long and narrow strait. At this sea's northeastern end, close by the gate through which pours the over flow of the Black Sea, there is a long anil narrow arm of deep water, the famous Golden Horn, large enough to hold the ships of all the world. Across from the mouth of this bay is Asia. Behind of it rise rocky hills, easily ca pable of strong defense. This is the site of Constantinople. The power that holds it commands at once the Black Sea, the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean. A fleet in the Sea of Marmora, with Dardan elles and Bosphorus closed, is secure, not only from attack, but from obser vation. When it makes ready to strike it may chose between southern Rus t:;a, Black Sea coasts of the Balkan States, the northern shores of fertile Asia Minor, Greece, the Smyrna coast, and the African lands of the eastern Mediterranean. It is in the very na ture of things that the power con trolling it should dominate all the trade routes between Orient and Occi dent. This is the splendid prize which the settlement of the eastern question must award. It is now held by the Turks, Central Asian nomads with an Arabian creed, whose strength conquered Constanti nople in 145.', and whose weakness has held it for more than 100 years more effectually than their strength could ever have done. When England acquired India, the freedom of the sea routes to that rich and populous country became a vital necessity to her. The digging of the Suez canal made free passage through the Mediterranean only less important to England than the freedom of the English Channel itself. Constantinople being by nature the strongest naval base in the world, England has felt an intense interest in keeping it out of the hands of a strong power. The natural, civilized solution of the question of Constantinople would have been to neutralize the port and throw the narrow straits where Europe and Asin almost touch open to the com merct of all the world. Here our mor el factor emerges. No one m.y read the history of the eastern question Tithe ut having the fact borne upon him that in European diplomacy there lias been no truth and no honor. The commissioning of permanent diplo mats began with Louis XI of France. He sent resident representatives to the Dukes of Brittany and Guionne, and instructed them: "If they lie to joy, lie you the more to them." The profession of diplomacy since that day has lived up to the spirit of its founder. The hitherland of Constantinople is a wild and mountainous region where meet Slavs, Turks, Greeks and other races, like the Albanians and Rouman ians of whose origin no exact account may be given. The narrow valleys and upland slopes have been for centuries the scene of arson, robbery, pillage, outrage and murder. In this region have met the power of the Turk, the power of the Russian, and the power of Austria. Neither Austria nor Rus sia has been permitted to pacify the Balkans or to possess them because this task would carry with it the con trol of the splendid prize to the south east. Here has operated the great moral factor referred to. None of the great powers has trusted any other. Anyone siting down and looking dispassionate ly over the treaty of Eerlin, which "settled" the relations of the .Balkan States, and then glancing at the his tory written 6ince that time will see that all the powers that signed it have Ignored it when it suited their pleas ure", and that their dealing with the Turk, so far as his obligations under it are concerned, show the moral cow ardice of those who, defaulters on their own pledges, have not dared to insist that others fulfill theirs. The reason why the Balkans have remained the great open sore of Eu rope is not that there were Slavs on one side, Teutons on another and Turks on a third. There has been too much facile explaining of trouble there in terms of "irrespressible rac ial antagonism." The main trouble has been lack of plain good faith with each other on the part of nations, and this has been as marked between the Teutonic people as it has between Teuton and Slav. If England, Russia, France, Austria and Germany had been able to trust each other's coven anted promise and to believe each other's professions the eastern ques tion would have long ago been settled. Thousands of innocent men and wo men have been murdered in a single year and the Unspeakable Turk has been retained long years in Europe, not because one nation was Teuton and another Slav, but simply because all were false in faith and word. Each has commented on and emphasized the shortcoming of the others, so that each has felt justified in its own sins, and its own suspicions. This "racial" talk is much overdone! Russia, we are told, is helping Servia because of "Pan-Slavic enthusiasm," and Austria is fighting Servia because of Teutonic jealousy of Slavs. Non sense! If Russia is so strongly pro Slav, why was she one of the wolves that tore the bleeding body of Slavic Poland in three, and why have the un happy Poles felt so strongly the weight of her hand ? Brigandage and outrage have been stopped in many other quarters of the world by the hand of civilization curbing barbar ism. In the Balkans alone they have gne on unchecked because of Earo- CONGRESSMAN C'LINE CORNERS REPUBLICANS The House of Representatives con sists of 200 Democrats and 127 Re publilans. What support did these im portant (the tariff, currency, trust and other administration) measures receive from the Republican party? It must be admitted that these meas ures are partly platform measures; if if they did not have real merit, they would have been opposed by the unit ed opposition. What is the record? Seven Republicans (and Progress ives) voted for the Underwood tariff Kill Thirty-eight Republicans voted for Forty-seven Republicans voted for the anti-trust (Liayton) qui. Onlv 12 Republicans voted again C,;.L- nr.,1 hnn.l hill. No Republicans voted against the trade commission bill. REPUBLICANS OUGHT TO STOP CRITICISING THE. DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION OR STOP VOT lVfi FOR ITS MEASURES. There c.-,r,io Ronnhlirnns who nrofess believe that there is a chance to re turn to power in the November eiec tion. I want to submit a few inter rogatories to that class of Republi cans who place the welfare of thi mnntrv ulinvfi nartv. Do you want to return the Repub lican party to power and reinstate Cannonism. You know that will hap pen if the Republicans elect the next House. Do vou want to repeal the Under wood 'tariff bill and substitute the Favne-Aldrich law? Do you va,,i to repeal the new cur nnv'cvctm .mil turn vour fiscal af fairs" back to Wall street to manage for you again : . Do you think the ar.ti-trust legisla tion ought to be repealed and the Morgan-Rockefeller combination once more given a free hand? Are you satisfied with the income tax law" that saves you a hundred mil lions a vear in taxes. Do vou not believe that the United States" Senators ought to be elected by the people? Are you anxious to repeal the par cel post law and go back to the ex press companies that robbed you for years with excessive charges Is the old soldier satisfied with the Sherwood pension law? Does he want to trust the Republi can party to legislate for him that dis appointed him for fourteen years? Does the Spanish-American soldier have any complaint of a Democratic Congress that provided a pension for his wife and minor children if he should be taken from his family? Is union labor wiling to repudiate the party that protected it with legis lation and return to power that party that turned a deaf ear to its appeal ? If you are satisfied with this progress ive' legislation, why should you take the chance of a change? From a speech by Congressman Cyrus Cline, of Indiana, in the House of Repres entatives. STOP THAT FIRST FALL COUGH Check your fall cough or cold at once don't wait it may lead to se rious lung trouble, weaken your vital ity and develope a chronic lung ail ment. Get a bottle of Dr. Bell's Pine Tar Honoy today.it is pure and harm less use it freely for that fall coukh or cold. If Baby" or Children are sick give it to them, it will relieve quickly and permanently. It soothes the irri tated throat, lungs and air pnssages. Losens phlegm, is anti-septic and for tifies the system against colds. It surely prevents cold germs from get ting a hold. Guaranteed. Only 25c. at your druggist. pean greed of the great jewel, Con stantinople. The Turk, weak and wicked, has suited the second purpose of each one of the great powers, the first being to control Constantinople, the second to keep all the others from controlling it. Russia, more than a half-century ago, began the policy of festering the spirit of nationality among the south ern Slavs. Not that she wanted free dom for them; she really wanted to oppress them. But that was impossi ble, and it was better to have Con stantinople fall into the hands of men under obligation to Russia than to have it taken over by another great power. How little the Slavic factor ran'..'? -'s proved by Russia's use "f Koumania, which is not Slavic at all. Now just as Austria, Russia and England have each coveted Constan tinople for decades, and France and Germany have been intent to prevent its falling into the hands o any of them, three of the little Balkan States have each its dream of empire. There are the Greater Greece, the Greater Servia and the Greater Bulgaria ideas, each contemplating an empire renewing the glories of the past, real and legendary, and each idea possible of realization only on condition of the conquest of adjacent districts and the subjugation of neighboring peoples with different plans for their own fu ture. When Austria reached out her hand to crush Servia, all the weight of the Austrian ambition for the conquest of the Balkan peninsula and its capital was behind the move. Russia inter vened because, with Austria on the Aegean and ultimately in Constantino ple, Russia's access to the Mediterra nean would be cut off. There the ex ceptional situation of the city played its part again. England was at once intensely interested, not alone be cause of the possibility of German vi olation of Belgian neutrality, but be cause Austrian control of the Aegean would mean command of the short sea route to India through the Suez canal. And when the nations, after abortive attempts to negotiate, fell on each other's flanks, there operated the moral factor: there the utter lack of good faith, in view of a half-centu ry of lies and misrepresentations and intrigues, stepped in to keep any na tion from believing in the promises of of the other, and so to make media tion impossible. Then Germany vio lated the neutrality of Luxemburg and Belgium, and Europe was in names, NEW CHILD LABOR BILL PASSES GEORGIA HOUSE The Georgia House passed a new child labor bill July 24 by an over whelming vote of !; to 44. This is a distinct victory for the National Child Labor Committee, and the various or ganizations in Georgia which have been fighting hard for the bill. Other child labor bills have passed the Geor gia House in previous years, but the National Child Labor Committee con siders this the best bill yet passed, and feels confident that public opinion is strong enough now to force it through the Senate. The mill owners fought the bill to the end in the House, but were unable to prevent its passage. They were not even able to weakoii it with amendments, although they offered many of them. The new law provides a 14-year limit for mills, factories, laundries, manufacturing establishments and places of amusement. At present, Georgia has a 12-year limit, except for children of dependent parents, for whom the age limit is 10 years. A 16-year age limit for night work is also provided by the new bill, in stead of the existing 14-year limit, and it requires children under ltf to secure employment certificates or work permits before they may be em ployd. Such permits are not issued unless evidence is produced that the child is of the required age, and un less the child can read and write. "The last provision," said Mr. Hers chel H. Jones of the National Child Labor Committee, who has been di recting the campaign in Georgia, "means that if the bill becomes a law, Georgia's large per cent, of illiteracy will begin to decrease. A high per cent, of illiteracy is always found where poor child labor laws exist. It is true in Alabama, the Carolines and Louisiana as well as Georgia. The most effective way to begin to raise the standard of literacy is to require the children to have at least the rudi ments of an education before they are allowed to go to work. A most unusual feature of this cam paign was the support which it re ceived from organized labor. In pre vious years, mill operatives have not been organized, and hence have not dared to oppose the mill owners on the question of child labor. This year MiO operatives in the i-uiton Bag and Cotton mills went out on strike just before the child labor campaign began and among their demands was the elimination of children under 14 from the mills. Three hundred of these op eratives appeared at the hearing on the new bill to show that they were in svmnathy with its provisions. Before this the only operatives who have ever appeared at a hearing have been brought there by mill owners to tes tify that thev did not want a better child labor law. "When the operatives were well enough organized to stand up for what they really want," said Mr. Jones, "we very soon discovered that thev did not want to have their children working in the mills." If the Senate passes this bill it will be imposible for advocates of child la bor reform to class Georgia any long er with Alabama, the Carolinas and Louisiana as the states which have the most inadequate child labor laws in the United States, continued .Mr. Jones. "If Georgia can overcome the enormous opposition which has al- wavs existed there and succeed in raising the standard for the protec tion of her children, the other South ern states can afford to follow her ex ample." CHAMBERLAIN'S COLIC, CHOL- ERA AND DIARRHOEA REMEDY I advised the 'boys' when they en listed for the Spanish war to take Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Di arrhoea Remedy with them, and have received many thanks for the advice given," writes J. H. Houghland, El- don, Iowa. "No person whether trav eling or at home should be without this great remedy." For sale by all dealers. AN EASY WAY TO CLEAN SILVER If you want to clean your silver in the easiest nossible way, try this plan: Get a piece of aluminum you can bu;1 it rt any shop where metals are sold lr a few scraps of aluminum from a repairing motor garage will do. Put a piece of aluminum into an en amel bowl or saucepan (don't take an iron one on any account-, arid two qts. of boiling water, and two heaped ta- blespconfuls of washing soda. Put the silver in, being careiui tnai some of it touches the aluminum, and let it stay from three to five minutes, or, if you can manage it, boil it in the water for a minute or two. Rinse in warm water, and dry with a clean cloth, and your silver will look like new. The piece of aluminum should be taken out of the water, dried and sav ed for use again, till it gradually wears away. It is quite the easiest plan of clean ing silver or plate that I have ever tried. RHEUMATISM PAINS STOPPED Tli first nnlirntinn of Sloan's Lin- impnt rnes riirht to the nainful Dart it penetrates without rubbing it stops tne Kneumatic rami arouna me joints and gives reiier and comrorc. rinnt iffr! C.ct a bottle todav! It is a family medicine for all pains, hurts, bruises, cuts sore throat, neuragia and chest pains. Prevents infection. Mr. Diss. H. Wentworth. California. writes: "It did wonders for my Rheumatism, pain is gone as soon as T anlv it T ri-nmminH it tn all mv friends as the best Liniment I ever used." Guaranteed. 25c. at your Druggist. ALL WITH MR. WILSON In his public life, belonging to the American people, the attitude and ac tion of President Wilson toward the warring powers of Europe have the grateful approval and strong support of the ration. New York Press. ASI1EBORO FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Street Parade 10:30 A. M. I mm NOTICE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Notice is hereby given that appli cation will be made to the Commis sioners for Randolph county at their regular meeting on the first Monday in September next, to-wit: September 7, 1914, to alter the boundaries of Asheborp, Randleman and Back Creek Townships and the territories embraced within the said several townships as follows: take from Back Creek all that part or same sit uated between the center of the rail road track of the High Point, Ran dleman, Asheboro and Southern Rail way Company and the dividing line between Back Creek and Franklins- ville townships as it now exists and add the same to Randleman and Ashe boro townships in the following man ner, that is to say: all said territory taken or to be taken from Back Creek Township as above to be di vided by a line running east and west through the center of the bridge across Hasket Creek on the public road now in general use between the towns of Asheboro andRandleman and add all that part of the territory ly ing north of said line to Randleman township and all that part lying south of said line to Asheboro town ship; and that the boundaries of the aforesaid townships be each and all al tered so as to correspond with tbe sub traction and addition of the territory as hereinbefore specified. This notice is given as required by statute, and all persons are required to take notice hereof and govern themselves accordingly. This the 31st day of July, 1914. N. N. NEWLIN, D. B. McCRARY, W. R. POOL. NOTICE Having qualified as administrator on the estate of A. G. Jennings, de ceased, before W. C. Hamond, Clerk of the Superior Court of Randolph county, I shall sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, on the premises, on the 22nd day of August, iai4, a lot ol household and kitchen furniture, farming tools, etc., and other articles too tedious to mntion. All persons having claims aeainst said estate are notified to present them to the undersigned, duly verified on or before the 15th day of August, 1915, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery; and all persons owing said estate will come forward and make immediate settlement. Thjs 1st day of August, 1914. MRS. S. H. FERREE, Admrx. A. G. Jennings, deceased. 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Mgr. Wilmington, We have on hand a lot of one-horse Chattanooga Plows, which we offer at $4.00 each, so long as they last. ,Also plenty of Oliver one and two-horse plows on hand. COME TO SEE US McCrary-Reddirig Hardware Co. Asheboro, N. Carolina But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him. I John iii, 17. T. C. While, Gen. Piss. Agtit, N. C. It is estimated that there are ap proximately 1000,000 automobiles in use in this country, and that they con sume $100,000,000 worth of gasoline in a year.
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