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\ ' . .. XX1J!> UtL iTi. NBwo DJBOfclwri't.n »«#»• TF5TV7 ^:T 'V, 0 The Charlotte News PubllahAd D&liT •»* Sunday te| THC Pt*»LI»llIWQ CO. . V, C. D*w4. ■»« ®**« *••■ Cltr B41t«r JIJ Hualr.AM Offlo# *»• Job omet ***” J. C PATTON J5!!***' MUa. J. I*. CAI.DNVKLL. .City EdUor. A. W. BIJKCH AJy. Mgr. nwBPcnimoit itATiM fli« 6h»rl«tM W«wa* DalUr funtfay. i)n« TMI I* ®* Lina y««i ..•.•..•■••••*•••••••• »^«n* «1* DIOfttiM * f'rn Tbr#« montfc* ,...•••••••••••••• *gg On# montk Oa» **«k tHAiia/ Ooly 0*m •?*a® 81* mnatia TArM BSOAtlUl jfa—. p* w«mi-W*#»ly. J. ffm9 y««i^ * §0 fife mratte «| Thr«« monilHl AasMa*** rfc« *tt««tl«0 of th* In*. •im'tfullr »nvii»d to tho In fuctira. Obltuarv Notlcj*. In comraunicatlop* *iPOu»lr.«r of ft Lrt»ati» •ntrtrpriM nt a pontlcai can(IAt« aad llkr raattar. eharcM tor at a^ rata of nva cant* a Itl* wlU h* 30 davlatlon from tbl« SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 191 i. THE M'NAMARAS GUILTY. The fact that the McNamaras are ^iilltr of the frillies charued against thatn, will perhaps not surprise many, but the confession of their guilt has undoubtedly caused general surprise. It in well that the case ends as It doe*. Because of the iKjwerrul inllu- •nces playinK the irial has di’KKRed along until it be«an to look as ir Justice would have a poor show. Two months had gone l>y and still a Jury had not been chosen. Costs so far had amounted to |200,iX)U an« It Ip e^tlmateu that hy reason of the sudden lerminallon of the ea.-^e the state has saved one million dol lars. Naturally many reasons are beuiR •J>rou»ht forth today to explain the confession made hy the two McNa mara brothers that' they dynamited the l.os Angeles Times i)alldinK, and the plant ot «n iron workins on- rern. Some declare the eonlession was caused by iiitluence exerted by "prominent bxisiness men" of l-os Angeles. Othere thinn It was because the defendants and their counsel saw the handwritinK on the wall. So thoroughly had the state worked up the case that no loop holes were left And in case the charge of brlt>- ary against a detective was sustained the lot of the McNamaras would hare been even worse. I’erhapa the proae- euting attorney hit the rlnlit reason when he said these meu confessert brause they were guilty. The point which no doyJ>t causes fjeneral regret today Is the decision of counsel for the state to a:ik mere ly for jail sentences. Twenty-one lives were sacrificed because of the crime of McNamara^ The blood of the twen ty-one Innocent victims cries aloud for justice. Will full justlow bt done? Will Judge Burdwell have the cour age to treat the case of this savage, this conscienceless murderer as he would a poor negro guilty of a sim ilar offense? The negro or the poor while man would be strung higher that Hayman. Why should the man who confesses a crime so llandish as that staged In I>os Angeles, be al lowed to get oft with a few years in Jail, and chances of mustering in fluence enough to secure a pardon? This spirit of anarchy must be nipped in the bud. An incident such a« that occurring in Ix>8 Anceles is far more dangerous In its Influence than the lynching of a negro by an ungry mob. The mob niaKes little er* fort to conceal its acts. Usually those acts are based upon indignation at some assault upon women. A crima such as the blowing up of tha lx)s Angeles Times building wai the sttidled work of the trained cut throftt, the anarchist, devoid of all sense of care for the injury inflicted to the Innocent. If justice geta a fair show McNamara will pay for his crime as an obscure criminal would do. Organized labor has been critltised, and many have thoughtlessly held la bor responsible for this crime. Where labor made a mistake was in hyster ically rushing to the side of men charged with a heiaous crime, rather than rushing to the side of Justice and demanding a fair trial. The cause of labor would have fared bet ter had Us leaders in tha outset de^ manded that the law taka its course; had Its leaders insisted that these charges ba probed to tha bottom, rather than that a taint of crime he connected with,the name of their cause. Instead, such men as Gk>mp* ere pawed the earth, as Is their wont, reTiled the deteotivea who worked up the case, endeavored to raise funds to defend the defendants and In other wa>'s did all in their power to have men charged with murder and arson liberated. The great rank and file of men who belong to labor unions are hon est men. They believe in law and order. They take no stock in star chamber conipiracies, nor do they sanction anarchy as a means of in Jurlng their enemies. And the rai^k and flle of honest members of unions should insist in this case that the fullest puBiihment provided by law \ie meted out to men who have brought their organizations into re- proaoh, who have stained their re- oordti with crimes unspeakable in Ihclr awful Hignlflcance. Wtli Justice triumph Indhe West or wUl a compromise be made with an archy? WRIT! TO SANTA CLAUS. Each year The News has found a great deal of pleasure in acting as a sort of medium between Banta Claus and the little folks. For a l^g time we have printed the let ters of tne children to Santa. Many older people have read them and .^en carried back In fancy to the happy day^ of childhood. This year we extend the same in vitation to the children, to write their wp.nts to Santa. We will guarantee that each letter is transferred to the venerable old gent without delay, and from Inside information, we are assured that there are ample toys this year to go around. Make your letter as brief as pos sible, and sign your name and street address cleany. Address Santa Claus Editor, The News. This department is for the chil dren, and the children alone. Here tofore a few smart alecks have at- tejuptcd to intrude themselves into the circle by w'ritlng redlculous let ters which they thought were funny. AH such forms of humor are whol ly undesirable and unwelcome. Write to Santa, Children. / 80 per cent., whlla the average amount of winter sunshine In the Metropolis has Incraased by 50 per cent. He believes that if the general public can be Induced tp take the matter seriously, the London pea-eoup fog can be abolished. The dangers and annoyances of East .'iv#‘niie crossing are to be elim- inuted, or at least it now appears in this light. After carefully going over tiie matter the committee m charge has recommended a subway. This is not the only dangerous cross ing In the city. Incidentally it may be remarked that the confession of the McNamaras proves that Detective Burns was on the right trail. This case adds an other big triumph to his record. FROM OTHER SANCTUMS Players. By Associated Press. London, Dec. 2.—“Democracy is per haps the slllleBt of aU fetishes seri ously worshipped among its.” This utterance of Dr. Inge, Dean of St. Paul’s, before an audience of wo men at Sion College, has started a wide-spread cci>troversy in the pulpit and press of England. The statement was made during the first of a series of lectures on ‘The Co-operation of the Church With the Si>irit of the Dr. Inge, after referring to the great achievements of the nineteenth cen tury, said that the great epoch was now over and civilization was sitting pensively in the midst of her accumu lations like the figure of Melancholia. The speaker declared that the era of scientific discoveries w^as happily not closed, but In all other fields signs of exhaustion were very apparent. “For the man In the street,” said the speaker, “the tottering of the great industrial fabric of the nineteenth century dominated all «)ther issues. A population of forty-eight millions had been massed on two small islands, while Englishmen were making Eng land the workshop of the world.” He then explained that the natural advan tages which had made Great Britain master of the' commercial world had either passed or were passing and that America had now' become the nat ural center of commerce. “In this country,” he continued, “the twentieth century i3 the spendthrift heir of the nineteenth. The working man seems to have resolved to make himself comfortable by taxing capital, —in plain terms, by looting the accu mulations of Queen Victoria’s reign and living on the rates and taxes. He Would have a short life and a merry one. An even worse fate will probably overtake Australia, a nearly empty continent within easy reach of the in dustrially far more efficient Yellow^ ra ces, guarded gratis by the British Fleet for a mere handful of inhabitants. For these reasons I cannot join in the chorus of lay and clerical advocates, who, when they tell us to co-operate with the spirit of the age, really mean that \ve should co-operate with the la bor movement and the spirit of Social ism. Socialism or almost any other oxperiment might answer in New Zea land till the British Fleet ceased to l)atrol the ving-fence, after which the I Yellow' Man w’ould make short w’^ork but in British shipowners are preparing quietly, but on a large scale, to parti cipate In the development of trade that Is expected to follow the open ing of the Panama Canal. A combina tion of some of the larger and smaller companies has recently been effected which, it is believed, will give the Bri tish conipanles a commanding position In the competition for the trade which will use the canal. The new concern will be controlled by Lamport & Holt, a Liverpool ship ping firm. According to official fig ures, the combination controls steam ers aggregating^ 957,127 tons. » Cold Weather ■IN— Clothing Department A number of men employed on the Atlantic and other liners, which make Liverpool their home port, have or ganized a union which has for its object the prevention of strikes. The union hopes to avoid strikes by the formation of conciliation boards in every district, for the organizers be lieve that the Idea will be taken up in every port. They .Always Have a Snnile. When the gentleman at the desk had attended to the cases of various ap plicants he turned to a pleasant-faced, w^ell dressed nmn w'ho was patiently awaiting his at^ntion. “W'ell,” he said with a smile,' “what can I do for you today?” “Nothing,” was the quiet response. “Ah, that’s pleasant; everybody seems to w3nt some sort of a favor: Come in and sit down; you are a re lief. ^ The pleasant-faced man bowed and accepted the invitation. “On, the other hand,” he said, when he was comfortably settled, “I want to give you something.” “That’s nicer than ever,” smiled the host. “I’ve heard that it was bet ter to give than to receive; but I’ve never had much chance to try both.” The visitor took a book out of his pocket. “I want to give you,” he said, ‘5J)ow- ing again, “an opportunity to put your name down for the finest work ever sent out by a publishing house in— But he never finished the sentence. Forest and Macready In 1849 has a company of visiting actors been sub jected to such an attack as was made on the Irish Players In New York Monday night.-The tumult in 184'J that culminated in the Astor Place riot was the result of their admirers taking up a personal quarrel between the two famous actors. The riot In the Maxine Elliott Theatre was a protest against a drama. “The Play boy of the Western World”, wiiich Irlsh-Amerloans resented as a libel upon their own people. The Irish Players, according to their patroness, I.,ady Gregory, are working to create a national drama in Ireland to depict the life and she has enlisted the brilliant poet she has enlisted the brlliant poet, W. B. Yeats, and has given a hearing to several native playwrights, in cluding J. m; Synge, whose Playboy has aroused such resentment. In Bos ton the troupe was well received by theatregoers generally, but not by their fellow-Irishmen. In Washing ton they were scored in letters to the newspapers and were almost boy cotted. But when they went to New York they persisted in presenting this play, which is offensive to most of their own countrymen. They show ed the wrong spirit in defying sen timent and not only alienating but en raging the very people from whom they must expect to derive support. If they ever hope to develop a na tional^ theatre. But the attack on them Monday night was discreditable to those wiio joined in it. The audience was drench ed with asafetlda and choked with red peper; there was “a rain of potatoes, carrots and eggs on the Stage;” the police arrested ten dis turbers and ejected forty-two men and five women, according'•to the account in the World. Such attacks never fall to react against the riot ers and only to advertise the play and goad the actors to give it when ever they have the opportunity. There were rlota against it in both Dublin and London when it was presented in those cities, and the players must have known they were flying in the face of Irishmen when they decided to give it in New York. But that does not exc^ise the. rloter.s. Protests through the newspapers and the pulpit are more dignified and at the same time more effective.—Baltimore Sun. CASTOR IA For In&nts and Children. Tm Kind You Han Always Boaght Bears the Signature of Buy serviceable articles for Christ mas Presents. We are showing special values in Gloves, Hosiery, Handker chiefs, Hats, Umbrellas, Overcoats, Men’s and Boys’ Suits, etc. MEN’S OVERCOATS, $9.75. Sete our line, 53-inch Black, Gray and - Brown, Overcoats, re^l $12.50 values. Special .. r. $9.75 Men’s Black 52-lnch Overcoats, $12.50, $13.50, $15.00 and up. Boys’ Overcoats and Reefers, $2.48, $3.00 and up. MEN'S SUITS, $104)0, $12.50 and $15.00. We are showing special values In Men’s Suits, made In the latest styles, all sizes in Regulars, Stouts and Longs. Blue Serges, Black and Fancy Wors ted, and Brown Cashmeres at $10.00, $12.50 and $15.00. Schloss Hand Tailored Suits.. $15.00 to $30.00. WTWT^yWTW TW TW’‘YWTWTWTWTWTW are ideally unfavorable for those who hope to see a dense population with high wages and short hours. Our soil will not supi)ort them. When we cease to outwork and undersell other nations the working classes must emigrate or starve.” Dr. Inge said that the belief that the ballot box decided questions wisely, was only the old sui>erstition of the divine right of kings standing on its head. He also decried what he declar ed to be the soft and flabby side of modern humanitarianlsm. 'The pres ent horror of taking life, he said, seem ed unnatural and was probably only temjiorary. The state of the future, he believed, would kill more merci fully, but more freely. Dr. Inge deprecates the storm which a lecture delivered before a modest organization of women has aroused, but he is standing by his guns, al though fellow churchmen have de nounced his statements regarding de mocracy in unmeasured terms. , ‘ That the work of smoke abatement and fog prevention Is well beyond the experimental stage, Is'one of the things which sanitary engineers will attempt to prove at the International Smolie Abatement Exhibition which will be held In London next March. Politicians and medical men, as well as engineers, have interested them selves In the exhibition and are ac tively at work on the various commit tees. The demonstrations will show how smoke is formed and the loss it entails on the householder in wasted fuel and the need for constant renova tion. FIreless cookery will be a fea ture of the demonstrations, and the promoters promise to explode the theory that steel cannot be manufac tured without smoke. That the movement for smoke and fog abatement has not been without effect Is shown by the statement of a London expert" that since the move ment began the average number of rense fogs here has decreased by over To Test Boll Weml Law By Associated Press. Meridian, Miss., Dec. 2.—'rhe va lldlty of the South Carolina law which prohibits the importation of cotton from “boll weevil states” will be tested under the Interstate com' merce act In a suit by a Meridian firm filed in chancery herey esterda}^. The suit Is a sequel to the return ot 104 bales of a consignment pf 40U to Carolina firm, the railroads claim ing inability to deliver because of th« Car9lina laws. About |S,000 is Involv ed. A BURQLAR^S AWFUL DEED may not paralyse a home so completely as a motbar’ft longe Illness. But Dr. King’s New Life Pilla are a splendid remedy for women.” They gare m4 wonderful benefit In consUpaion and female trouble,’* wrote Mn. H. C. Dun lap, of LaadU, Tenn. if ailing, try them, tfic at W. L. Hand ft Co.s. WANTED—Salesman to handle line of fruit ciders In small country towns as side line; 25 per cent commis sion. Settlements weekly. Manager, No. 206 S. mrst St., St Ix>uis, Mo 15-4t-sun POR SALE—Two w'Ork horses, cash or credit, cheap. Phona 1481. 29*tt MAIL CARKtEK’S LOAD Seems heavier when he has a weak back and kidney trouble. Fred Dueh ren. Mail Carrier at Atchison. Kas. says: “I havje been bothered with kidney and bladder trouble and had a severe pain across my back. When ever I carried a heavy load of mail my kidney trouble increased. Some time ago, I started taking Foley kid ney Pills and since taking them I have gotten entirely rid of all my kidney trouble and am as sound now as ever.” Foley Kidney Pills are tonic in action and quick In results. Try them. Bow en Drug Store on North Square. Charlotte Minister Pleased With Thies’ Salve Dear Sir: Just to say that I have used Thles Salve and find it excellent for all sores and Inflammation. It is good for sores dM and new, as well as cuts and bruises. I would not like to be without it In my home. I find It especially good for bolls. REV. THOMAS S. CARTLBDGE, ^ Villa Heights 25 Cents ALL DRUG •TORES There are some people who want the best of everything. These are the people who buy the Artistic Stieff Our special sale on Player Pianos is attracting mu^h atten tion as well ^s our grand Pianos. The prices made on these in struments will only hold good bn the present stock. r .. You had better take advantage of these bargains before the stock is exhausted. Chas. M. Stieff Manufacturers of tha Artistic stieff, Shaw, and Stieff Self-Playar Pianos. I SOUTHERN WAREROOM 5 West Trade Street, CHARLOTTE • • N. C. C. H. WILMOTH. Manager. (Mention this paper.) Clothes ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦ BOYS' SUITS $2.48 TO Boys’ Suits, all sizes and stvies *^2.48 10^ Remember a cap free vith suit. SPECIAL $1.48. 1 lot Boys’ D. B. Suits, T\’orth % $2.50 one one counter. Sale price , UNDERWEAR DEPARTMENT Men’s heavy Fleece Shirts and ers Men’s Pine Ribbed Shirts and ers BraJ 37 J DnJ Men’s Wright’s wool fleece and Snrt Needle Ribbed Shirts and DrQ at.... .... .... .... Boys’ Fleece Shirts and Dra^^ersi Boys’ Regular 50c Union Suits 371 Boys’ Fleece and Ribbed Union Sul at Men’s and Boys’ Gloves ..25cto$U Baltimore and New Yo«fi BELK BRO crnn $1.10 Foir 60 Cents Purchase 6 cakes of Palm Olive Soap for 60c and get a 50c Jar Palm Olive Cream free. We furnish coupons free. Tryon Drug Company 11 N. Tryon, Phones 21 and 1043 End Corns IN TWO DAYS. STOP the PAIN INSTANTLY. You Can Do It With I WoodaU & Sheppard’^ Corn Remedy Price 15c Delivered to Any Part of the City. Phone 69 and 166 BLAKE’S DRUG SHOP on the Square, prescriptions Filled Day and Night. There’s A Reason Onr Candy trade Is growing. Dolly Madison Home*made Washington Candy at 50c a ^ound and Whlttman’s Pussy Package at $1.00 IS THE REASON John S. Blake Drug Co. > ■ A 'Phones 41 and 300. ^ I Raglstered Nurses’ Directory. N.& W. Railway ailMtela im ifiSeat Juam xi. laii. 10.|« am Lv. Caarlotte so. tty. 5.60 om. i.c( am jlt. Winston m&vv KS; «.«t Lv. Mart’Vill* NdkW Ar, ii.40 aS K«.as pm. AT. Koanok« N&W Ltr. s.ig am! Winsiojwsa. lem 2 a. m. ■aiik. CoMeow M jRoaaok* tor the Bast and Weat. Pullmaa aleapcra. Dtnintf cara. It ]Toa ara oona)derin; takins a trip to California •9' tb* Coast, set our rartablc Fare. Tha in formation i«*youra tor th« aaklnff. wttb foldora. W. B. 0I8VILW IL F. BBA.GK}. TmV. Pass. ’a»\. ■oka. Vm, Bam of tiM sane dissatet with’ allHnMHMU NEW STORE, NEW GOODS, FRESH DRUGS. Corner 4th and Tryon Sts. Reese & Alexander « DRUGGISTS Phone 392 or 393 Ourwagon will call for and deliver your bundle promptly. Our service is clean, sanitary and satisfactory throughout. TRY IT! sanitary steam laundry -PHONES- >800 BUYING GIFTS CHRISTMAS FOR MEN AND BOYS Is always a pleasant task at Mellons. Every thing in this great store is for men or boys so you see there is not much chance to go wrong in choosing. From Thanksgiving unti Chris|mas our store will be crowded w^t things any boy or man would appreciate as a gift—hundreds of things you would never thin^ of if you did not see them here, and the range of prices is all the way frpm a dime to a hun dred dollars. Buy your gifts for men at a man’s store Early buying insures a happy selection. ED MELLON CO. “You Can Always Get It at Mellon’s II Gcod Tht /$ffer« 19yren.i f Valu€ at ju| f