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o til V CTft WHO apu ash JOHN D. BARRIER and SON, Editors and Proprietors. t;1JE STANDARD is published every ay ( S iPadqj excepted ) and delivered by r; a. llatea of Subecnpti n : - One year. ! ,.f4.00 Pi.f?aciitnS 2.00 TLrfia'mantha 1.00 . Ou aionUi. ...... .V .. . 35 Singl.cDy. . 05 TlTS-i WEEKLY STANDAED ia ,ar-rae, oiglit-colurun paper. It has. lar, r circulation, is Cabarrus than any other paper. Price $1.00 per annum in advance. Advertising Rates : Terms for regular advertisement? rande known on application. Addjbs all communications to THE (STANDARD, . Concord, N. O. TELEPHONE NO. 71. ' NATIONAL. TICKET. . , For President William Jennings Bryan. , For Vice-President, ; Adlai E. Stevenson. I For Electors-at-Large, Lee S. Overman, of Rowan; D. H. McLean, of Harnett. For Congress from 7th District, Hon. Theo. F. Kluttz, j of Rowan. For Elector, J. R. Blair, of Montgomery. Ooncord, N." C, Sept. 1 1900i THE DURHAM STRIKE ASD STRIK ERS. We have refrained from much reference to the work of organ izers amongst our cotton mill op eratives, fearing that there was a danger in it, for the usual good feelings and harmonious rela lions between employer and em ployees and knowing full well that in delicate matters it is bet ' er that a thing be unsaid than '.Hot'' well said. We find in the Raleigh Morning Post an edi torial that treat the Durham situation in a way to inform and benefit those who Will read it, and. wo trust will pour oil on the waters already troubled and will tend.Lo keep placid those not yet stirred. We therefore gladly yield our editorial space today to iho Post's able treatment of this all-important topic in its issue of .the 31st: "A few days ago the Post cor respondent at Durham gave 'an .appeal' from parties in West Durham, the Scene of the so called strike, announcing desti tution among some who were among the strikers, and their in--ability to get work elsewhere. Yesterday's Durham Herald con tained the following in its local column "Mr. WA Erwin, of the West Durham cotton mill, .will not al low any suffering among the people of West Durham that is he will not allow any tme to want for thp necessities of life. o An 1 ' 4-V 4 -1 was published in the Herald yes- terday morning axjtl if v&s stated there would be "suffering among those out of employment in a tpw days unless the people of p Durham gave them assistance'. This appeal was read by Mr. Erwin and it was the first that he knew about the matter. He went to his office and at once be . gan to investigate as to who the needy ones were, and before night he had given assistance to several. "He sent a message out among the people yesterday and stated that he would help any one ned ing help, iiethw that perton was a member of the unign or not,'or whether or not he o she had evgr wjorked m the pill. That did not make am' differ ence. .He clid not. intend that any person in West Durham should suffer for the necessities of iife and so informed the peo, pie of that village. "Mr. Erwin .has no feeding against his fdrmer operatives on account of the recent strike, and this is shown "by the stand he has taken in making the offer to give from his p&cket help to 'keep the wolf from the d6or of any who may be in destitute cir cumstancesVeven if this destitu tion was brought about by the labor organization question, which caused the trouble iri the mill. . "The rippeal for bread and medicine was over and above the strike question . and Mr. Erwin has shown that he is above the sordid ' things of this life; when the' warning of suffer ing is sounded. "He is not only willing to help, but he has asked that all who need help let him know at once and he will see that it is forthcoming without delay. "'His action in this matter is that of a true philanthropist." And the Herald adds this ed itorial comment: . "An announcement of the con dition of the families of some of the West Durham strikers ap peared in these columns yester daymorning, and upon learning of the fact Mr. Erwin, the man ager of the mill, hunted up the families and rendered such as sistance as was necessary, and gave notice to all that all suffer ing would -be relieved by him, whether those in distress were strikers or operatives in the mill, as long as they remained in West Durham. We do not bo lieve there is an employer in the State who has the welfare of his employes niore at heart than (Mr. Erwin, and this incident proves it. He did not want to employ union labor, but he kept his contract with the operatives to the letter, and after they had broken it, he comes to their re lief now that they are in distress. If this is not acting white, then the word has no meaning." Nothing more deserving could have been said. "Aud what a picture the 'agi tators,' called 'Organizers' have to look upon as a result of their meddling. There was no trouble between employer or employee at the West Durham mills, nor have we heard of anv whatever in this .State save as resulting from the' intefference and sin ister influence of outsiders Vwho are paid to create disturbance! The mill owners and employers in this State enjoy a reputation for kindness toward, and kindly relations with their employees. "All things worked smoothly untifwithin the past year. Ifcr several years of hard times and depression, the mill owners were put to their closest notch to keep their works going and the operatives employed, so the latter should not suffer, in some instances, as we have been told, at actual loss to the stockhold ers. The last two years have enabled the mills to do better, but still, not in all instances, to strike a balance of profit when including the years fiff stagnation. bTh& employoes cJfgreciated all tffese things and as we say, were getting on most fSnicably with their ejuplotyers, untU.the New Bnerland mill men 'discoved that they could possible cripple and fetard Southern competition by .sending. afita tors' among the operators, 'organize' them and put them und'ef the control and direction, of the organization in the North which could give orders regardless of the interests or inclinations of our Southero employees. It was openlyslated at a meeting of New England mill men a year, of more ago, met to discuss"the business.situ- ation and the growth of South era competition in particular, that the 'best, money' those mill men could spend would be for 'agitation' the employment of 'agitators' to work among the eperators in the Southern mills. The 'agitators' have appeared in the South, and gotten in they: wont, with nothing but bad re sults so far. to our Southern op- eratiyes. So far as the operatives in our mills organizing for their pleas ure and benefit no one can rea sonably object to it; but it is putting themselves, as an organ ization under the control of foreigners whose only interest in them, as avowed, is to use them to prevent the successful competition of their employers with the Northern mills, which employ or control the "agitators" or the organizers or the officers of the national organization The secretary of the National Organization of Railway Tele graphers has recently issued a scathing, and we have no doubt just denunciation, of the fellow PowToll, of St." Louis, who as ' 'President" went about stirring up. strife among the telegraph operators of (different railroa'ds, against the protests of a darge majority of the operatives them selves and greatly to the injury of those who followed his advice and instructions. . . Mr. Erwin's conduct toward his needy ex-employees is not only characteristic of himself, but of the mill owners and man agers 'generally of the mills in our State. If outside meddlers, agitators and organizers, paid by some body not friendly to the success of our mills or the con tentment of the employees there in, will just let our people alone, they will take care of them selves, as they have intelligence enough to deal with their own employers .without outside help. , Wp trust all these people who have been deceived into alienat ing themselves from, those who, after all, are tneir besi friends, will return to their employment; and that all the operatives will keep these paid representatives of Northern competitors at ' a distance. Our mills are just get ting upon their feet, and the operatives are' just as much in terested in helping them and standing by the North ern mills which, employ . them ami whtch fear the contin ued growth of Southern compe tion. Monday is labor day. Salis bury will celejbrate in connection with hanging Will Edwards. That Throbbing Headache Would quickly leave you if you used Dr. King's New Life Pills. Thousands of sufferers baye proved their matchleBS merit for sick and nervous headaches. They make pure blood and build up your health. Only 25c. Money back if not cured. Sold at Fetzer's drug store. The Racket Special Offeingof. '. ,607 - $00 Boxes 'Paper and . and 100 Dozen: Toliet 10c Boxes of Pafer.and Envelops for 5c pe? box. IZq " '' for 10c u 20 and 25c " " for 15c 35-and 50c " " " for 25c . 5c Ink Tablets for 3c each. 10c " " foroc " 15 to 25c " " for 10c " SOAPS': FELS & Co's. Small Hotel at lc, worth 2c. Sweef Flowers, Vanity Fair, Alconica Glycerine and Water Crest, put up 3 cakes in a box, our price 15c per box. Clover Pink, Honey, Castile and Glycerine, Luray, . Laural, Blossom and Halifax brands at 35c per box of 1 dozen or 3 cakes for 10c. Also Almond Cream and Mt. Olive Castile at same price. FRENCH SOAPS. ' Dulaurier's Violet de Mentone 3 cakes in box at 15c per box. Runeau Ex.cie Violet Blanche 3 cakes'in box' at 15c per box. Henri Rocheau Iris Blanche 3 cakes in. box at 15c per box. Well-known American Soaps put up 3 cakes to the box: David S. Brown & Co's. Daffodil at 15cc per box; Apple Blossom 15c per box. Andrews Soap Co's.' No. C30 Transparent Glycerine 15 box. Acma Soap Co's. Butter Milk and Anise and Milk Weed Soap 10c per box of 3 cakes. Cocoa Castele at lc per cake worth 2c. 10 kinds of Highly Perfumed Soaps at 8c. Very respectfully, mxssmmmmm ORflPHOPHuKES Reduced Railroad Hates. Sixth Annual Holiness con vention, Raleigh, Sept. 9-lb. Round trip $6.70. Tickets on sale Sept. 7-10; final limit Sept. 18th. . Annual convention of National Baptist Association (colored), Richmond, Va., Sept.- 12-00. Tickets on sale Sept. 10, 11 and 12; final limit Sept. 22. Round trip $8.00. Annual Session , Sovereign Grand Lodge I. O O. F., Rich mond, Va., Sept. 17-22. Tickets on sale Sept. 15, 16 and 17; final limir. Sept. 25. Round trip $8.00. Meeting Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of N. C.f High Point, Sept. 4, Round trip $3. Tickets on sale Sept. 1-4; final limit Sept. 12. North Carolina Baptist Sunday scho6l convention, colored, Ral eigh, Sept. 18-23. Sale tickets Sept. 17 and 18, final limit Sept. 25th. Round trip $6.70. For Sale-. . My property on East Depot street. Good ve-room house and good barn, well of water, garden, etc. For terms apply to me at Salisbury, N. C.;, ' F. V. Barrier. 's Tablets, S AM SUPPLIES From $3 up. j. ran. AGENT AT CONCORD STEAM LAUNDRY. JUST I EVEN OF ESPECIALLY STYLES AT CHOSEN or sack suits tailored to your Drderand measure Serges for ammer at $15.00. Elegantly Tailored These are hints of the many good values in newest suitings and trousering offered by J acob feed's Son s) of Philadelphia for spring and summer of 1900. Fit and satisfaction guaranteed. Samples shown by G W. Patterson, . Jtcreaits r j -f Tv ' 9 Sossaaian . . . 'Springs. Store Envelops, Soaps. To those desiring the benefit of Mineral Water during this hot weather, I will say 'that I have three houses, near the above springs which can be1 rented at very reasonable rates. . ; John C. Sossarnan.
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