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wmm The Charlotte News Published Daily *nd Sunday by THE NEWS PUBLIIHIBTO CO. XV. C. Dowd, PrMldent and Gem. Mvr. Telephone* I City Editor 277 lluilnoss Office Job Office J. C. PATTON Editor. A. W. CALDWELL City Editor. A. W. BURCH Advertisinff Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Cbarlotte Newa. Dtaily and Sunday. Oil* yenr 18.00 Fix month.s 3.00 Three months I-®® One month One week Sunday Only. One year If®® 81* month* 1-®®. Three months Tlmee'Democrat. Semi-Weekly. One year H-®® gix monthe Thr«e month* •*» AnnouneemeBt. The attenxion of the public le re- epectfully Invited to the followin*: In future. Obituary Notices, In eM- raorlam Sketches. Cards of Thanks, ccmmunicationii espousing the cause ol a private enterprise of a political candidate and like matter, will be charged tor at the rate of nve cents a line. Ther* will be no deviation from this rule. I ■■ - ’ ■ ; !if J-i!lL!lL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1911. MURDER UNAVENGED. On yesterday In an extra The News gave the city Its first news of tho complete failure of the coroner's Investigation to effect any results In the work of avenging the murder of Mrytle Hawkins. It is with great reluctance that we ever pen a word of criticism of the acts of officers charged W'lth the ex ecution of the law, but in this In stance it seems impossible to avoid the conclusion that the state has so far fallen down miserably. We do not doubt for the moment the sincerity of the coroner’* jury, but In failing to bring any indlct- SQents, after being confronted with voluminous evidence, we believe they have erred grievously. It must be remembered that In or der to cause arrests a coroner’s Jury Is not required to be In possession of evidence sufficient to convict. It is merely its duty to hold any suspect to bring indictments on “probablfe cause.’’ It then remains for the courts to prove whether or not those held for the crime are guilty or innocent. If we may judge by the evidence of fered, the coroner’s jury would have been justified In holding several par ties, and in doing so at the very outset, before those suspected could get to gether and “talk the matter over.” Take the Beattie caie; ^ on the strength of mere suspicion Paul and Henry Beattie and Beulah Bln- ford were immediately locked up •hortly following the commission of the crime. That was how a crime was handled In Virginia. Contrast this re cord made in the Old Dominion with the pitiful fiasco enacted at Hender sonville. The Lexington Dispatch, as many others. Is disappointed at the failure of the coroner’s jury to take any steps whatsoever, and comments as follows: "When the body of the unfortunate flrl was found Sunday, September 10th, floating In Lake Osceola, it was announced that it was a case of sui cide. The coroner’s jury later an nounced that the girl was murdered by unknown parties and It was an nounced that the officers were hot on the trail of the suspected par ties. Development followed develop ment. The coroner decided to re-open the case and the inquest developed that the girl died as the result of a criminal operation. Still no arrests. Plenty of folks were Euspected, but the authorities took no action what ever, promising sensational arrests later. Up to yesterday, not a single arrest had been made and on tomor row it will have been two weeks since the unfortunate girl disappear ed from home. “In the Beattie case, the suspects were given no time to get together and formulate plans for outwitting tho officers. Before Paul Beattie, Beu- Ifh Blnford and Henry Beattie were fairly awake to the fact that they were suspected, an officer had nabbed them and was on the way to jail with them. In Hendersonville, every per son that could have been connect ed with the case, with the exception of one, has been known almost from the beginning. Yet, they have been allowed to go at will and have at no time been restrained. They have caucused together, mapped out their defense, and it looks now like they have but little to fear. The waters have been so muddied that conviction will be almost impossible. “What is the matter? We confess that we do not see how the ofl^cera of Henderson county will be able to explain their strange Inaction. Never have we seen a case bunged so bad ly In all our experience. Solicitor Johnson, lately arrived on the scene, has been doing some ef fective work, but there Is little that be can do. In North Carolina we do not provide funds for running down the perpetrators of crime and If the solicitor takes It upon himself to ferret them out, he bears the expense himself. Scores of crimes In recent years have demonstr«ted the need of a fund of this kind which could be placed at the Instnt disposal of the prosecuting officer, but experience seems to teach us nothing. In Vir ginia the comm9nwealth’s attorney has at his command Just as much money as he needs to bring criminals large and small to justice. Such a fund would have enabled the solicitor to take charge of the search for the eriminal or eriminale who brought Myrtle Hawkins to her death and to have saved the State tho disgraceful record of the past week. \ SULENDID RECORP. A negro brute assaulted a white woman 'near Warrenton this week and in two days he had been caught, tried and convicted and sentenced to die in the electric chair. In less than one month after the commission of his crime he will have paid ita price with his life. To the fasting credit of the good negro cltisens of that section it may be noted that they joined with the officers In tho search for the guilty party. In addition, several negro preachers denounced the crime from their pulpits. Far betted this than violence at the hands of an Infuriated mob. Let those papers which have rev eled in picturing the mad rampage of unbridled mob rule in the South copy this splendid achievement of the justice. Forty minutes before any other paper was out. News extra on the Hawkins verdict was selling all over the city. Not bad, w’e think. REPLIES Til LEE STHTEMENT Editor of The News: I notice in yesterday’s paper, under the head of The Paving Tug-of-War, that Mr. Lee, of tho Southern Power Company, Is reported as saying: “I am satisfied that the compromise reached is that to which no man can lodge an objection.” He Is further re ported as saying: “In order to remove all differences and to settle the mat ter for all time in a fair and equable manner. It was then suggested that the special license taxes, which are admittedly heavy and burdensome, and which were imposed on the form er company as a penalty in large meas ure for its refusal to supply gas at Elizabeth and Piedmont, be reduced to $1,000 annually for a period of ten years. It was understood and so sta ted before the board prior to the vote that the reduction of special license taxes would not be legally binding af ter the present administration. This the street car company also knew.” I have refrained from replying to any of the many articles that have ap peared in the press recently advocat ing the cause of the Southern Power Company and insinuating things against those who opposed the surren dering of the city to the Southern Power Company, but since in this ar ticle ^Ir. Lee so far reflects on the character and integrity of the last board of aldermen in declaring that the board had heaped the penalty in the way of license taxes on Mr. Latta, that I can no longer allow such char ges to go undenied. To say that the last board of aldermen would levy un just taxes on the street car company as a penalty, at the same time know ing that the tax was unjust, Is such a reflection on the last board, that when Mr. Lee reflects upon it, we will cer* talnly withdraw. Does he mean to say that men whom people have elected on the board of aldermen, honorable men, always re garded as such, would so far forget themselves that in legislating for the good of the city, they would be gov erned by spite? Does he mean to sa^ that they would put a license tax any one, knowing that the license tax was unjust and wrong, for the pur pose of punishment? If the board did do such a thing, then it ought to be indicted for corruption in office. I cannot conceive of representatives of the people, elected by the people to this trusted position, so debasing themselves as to be guilty of the charge made by Mr. Lee. I, for one, can Inform Mr. Lee that I was a member of that board, and I vo ted to make the license tax of the street car company $2,500, honestly be lieving that It was not too much; and the question of gas at Elizabeth had nothing to do w ith my vote w'hatever; In fact that question was hardly be ing agitated at that time; and I feel sure that every member of that board, who so voted, voted honestly and intel ligently. I can further tell Mr. Lee that we made a very careful and thor ough investigation of the matter at the time and were convinced that the tax was neither heavy nor burdensome I can further state that after my in vestigation and comparison with many other cities, I am satisfied that $5,000 would be a very reasonable license tax for the company to pay this year; and I think it ought to be increased from year to year after this. If they will pay two or three per cent on their gross receipts, we will get a great ‘deal more revenue from the street car co pany in the way of taxes, than we ar now getting, ai^d nobody can say that that is a unjust oriunreasonable charge for the use of the streets. The license tax paid by the South ern Power Company for doing busi ness in this city is extremely smtvll in comparison with license taxes paid by our merchants and other business men notwithstanding the merchants and other business men, has to pay rent for his store and lot, while the street car company gets its ground, namely the streets, free of charge. When the Southern Power Company was wanting to get into Charlotte, it did not raise the question about taxes. It cried for competition. We permit ted It to enter into competition with A Great Advantage to Working Men. J. A. Maple. 125 S. 7th St., Steuben ville, O., says: “For years I suffered from weak kidneys and a severe blad der trouble, I learned of Foley Kidney Pills and their wonderful cures so I began taking them and sure enough I had as good results as any I heard about. My backache left me and to one of my business, expressman, that alone is a great advantage. My kidneys acted free and normal and that saved me a lot of misery. It Is now a pleas ure to work where it used to be mis ery. Foley Kidnay Pills hava cured me me and have my highest praise.” me and have my highest praise.” 2i dii HAROLD MACGRATHS LATEST AND GREATEST NOVEL THE CARPET FROIVi BAGDAD V A splendid romance. The scene opens in Cairo, continues in the desert, and ends in' New York. The plot, starting with the theft of a rare and holy rug by an American adventurer from its Moslem owner and sold to an American collector^ is MacGrath*s most notable stroke of originality. All is told in the author’s mo«t captivating manner—that sparkling rapid-fire style which has made him the pre-eminently popular romancer. Illustrated in Color by Andre Castaigne. net !JLw v^^-mBOBBS-MERRlLL(pMPANY. the old Electric Light Compfthy, and then each of the two competing com panies paid the same license tax; but now, since competition la gondi al though paying the same tax as it did when there was competition, the Southern Power Company is complain ing that it is being taxed unjustly. Ifi other words, when there was competi tion, the tax was fair and equable, but when there is monopoly, the tax is unjust and burdensome. The board of aldermen in fixing this license tax acted upon the report of the revenue committee, which was composed of Mr. P. C. Whitlock and others. The finance committee was composed of W. A. Watson, P. C. Whit lock, J. A. Fore, A. M. Gillett and L. E. Anderson. I notice also that there is an intl‘ matlon In the article in the press that everybody thought the compromise suggested by the Southern Power Co. to be fair and equable. I must pro test, and say that out of a number of people, with whom I have talked, bu* einess men as well as working men and professional men, every one ex cept those who are directly interested in the Southern Power Company or some of its subsidiary organizations, has been free to express himself that it was a very unjust contract. Many suggested that It would be a calamity to the city should the mayor ever sign it. I have never heard a mayor in a city complimented more highly by tne great masses of the people for a stand, than the compliments I have heard paid Mayor Bland in this inatter. It Is true that some few people are Criti cising, some few who honestly believe that he ought to sign the contract, an# others who are honestly in i^mpathy with the Southern Power Company because either by trade relationahlp or interested in the conrfpany. While this is the case, the great mass of peo ple who are not interested eithar di rectly or indirectly in the Southern Power Company, are standing by and commending the mayor tor saving the city and protecting the rights ot the peole. . > . PLUMMER STEWART. This Sept. 21st, 1911. TAFT AS A TRAVELER His Record In Miles Every Year Since 1900. The presldent’a Itlneary aervea to call attention anew to the fact th^t he has been a great traveler, ever since March 1900, when he resigned his Federal judgeship in Ohio to accept appoint ment by President McKinley as a member of the^ Philippine Commission and first governor-general of the then new posession. In fact. If Mr. Taft Is not the greatest American traveler of the present day, who i^? No other man in public life can show such a score. The statisticians at Washing ton have figured out the Taft mileake since he first went to the Far East and find it to be as follows: Miles. 24,750 23,145 8,000 1900-1901.. .. V.- -.. 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