The Danbury Reporter
N.E. & E.' P. PEPPER, Publishers.
TEKMS TO ANY ADDRESS :
One year, sl, 0 mo. 50c., 3 mo. 25c
SEPTEMBER 1, 1904
WHERE IS OUR REMEDY?
The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company last Friday shipped
from its Winston factory 800,000
pounds of plug tobacco in one lot.
A solid train of 29 cars were re
quired to carry this immense
amount of tobacco, it being the
largest quantity ever shipped at
one time.
When we reflect upon the ex
tremely low prices paid the farm
er for the leaf, and the extremely
high figures at which the manu
factured article sells, we feel quite
safe in the conclusion that the
Trust is a hard master.
It has been said by good
authority that the Trust's profit
on each pound of its tobacco sold
equals or exceeds the price the
farmer receives for each pound he
sells. In other words, the Trust's
profit is 100 per cent.
The plan of those who are
esteemed leaders of the farmers in
North Carolina, to obtain redress
for their grievances, is remedial
laws which shall act in restraint
of a monopoly of trade or manu
facturing, and which shall say to
the monopolist "You shall not be
come richer than thus and so; or
you shall not, by carefully laid
schemes, obtain control of the
markets and pay us such low
prices for our products."
While there is a principle of
the common law that is against
and while there arc
v&mbrv laws which purport to
(i shackle 011 great combina
tions of capitol, and to muzzle the
Trust, we have looked in vain for
their practical application. It has
never been clear to us how we
shall help ourselves—just where
we shall strike the foe. It ia wrong,
we all admit, for the Reynolds
Company to force competition
from the markets, but isn't it right
for you and I to buy out our com
petitors and obtain legitimate ad
vantage thereby? Or is it wrong
for several of us to put our dollars
together, consolidate and incorpo
rate our business, and by concen
trating our powers, reap the re
sults of our shrewdness. Perhaps
you say it is morally wrong, but law
and morals are sometimes wide
apart.
It is just here that we are. We
recognize the insidious, the dan
gerous encroachments upon indi
vidual privileges by combined cap
ital, but the peculiar condition of
our country, our laws and our free
institutions,—have heretofore
kept in the back ground any
statesman who hns formulated a
logical plan by which we shall
find relief.
Last fall, when the Trust first
began to come out with the cloven
foot, some suffering fellow in the
east wrote that there was oidy one
way to fight the Trust. Let the
farmers organize thoroughly into
National, State, county and town
ship unite —make every man take
a sacred oath to cut his crop half
less than the previous year—and
thus enforce a short crop. This
desperate scheme was dictated by
something like despair, and yet
there is more common sense! in it
than we have seen yet.
Whate'er betide, a short crop
will bring high prices.
THE SEASON OF THE HARVEST
MOON.
The most attractive season of
the year is about here now—the
few clays that come before the
frost, when the' rains have stop
ped and the air is clear, sweet and
pure, when the tobacco iB ripening
on the ground, and the chinquapin
burr is opening; when the fresh
woods invite our company to
nooks and glens where soft breezes
play and the wild muscadine
hangs in purple clusters. And at
night the harvest moon rolls in
gorgeous splendor through the
heavens. This is the season when
one feels it good to be living.
And what a contrast it presents
with that season a few days later
when the sad leaves are falling—
and on the dreamy landscape un
der the autumn sun sleeps that
"nameless pathos" in the air—that
indescribably bittar sensation that
made Tennyson write :
Tears, idle tears, 1 know not wliat they
mean,
Tear* from the depth of some divine despair,
Kise in the heart, and gather to the eyes
In looking oil the happy Autumn fields,
Aud thinking of the days that are no more.
J
A well informed gentleman said
this week that 'twere a pity every
farmer in Stokes county could
not visit the farms of Messrs. I. Or.
Ross and W. A. Petree, to see what
the love and study of scientific
farming could do on comparatively
poor lands. The REPORTER feels
sure that every one who wants to
adopt improved methods, and to
get on a higher plane of farming,
would be shown around with un
alloyed delight by the masters of
Locust Hill aud Glen \iew farms.
J What Bothered Wallace.
Wallace Dalton, of Winston, is
visiting relatives in Danbury, with
his father and mother. Wallace
is an exceedingly bright little tot
for his tender years, and indeed
has the faculty of propounding
stunning questions sometimes to
grown folks. One day last week
Wallace's papa was preparing to
return to Winston, and gavo Wal
lace his choice between accom
panying him and remaining with
his mamma, who fras not yet to
return. Wallace was delighted
with the honor of discretion,
and after carefully weighing the
relative importance of each course
in his mind, was about to decide
in favor of the trip, when sudden
ly his face became clouded with
doubt, and climbing upon his
father's knee, he whispered:
"Papa, if Igo with you, who
will say my prayers?"
LAUREL HILL
Laural Hill, Aug. 29.
Tobacco crops in this section
are looking fine.
Mr. Henry Adkins is right sick
with the fever.
Mrs. J. D. Smith's father and
mother paid her a very short visit
last week.
Mr. Robert and Andrew Smith
attended preaching at Tuttle's
third Sunday.
Miss Jessie and Nannie Fulton,
who have been visiting their cous
in, Miss Nannie Pitzer, returned
home last Sunday and were accom
panied to the, depot by Master
Charlie Pitzer.
L. K. Pitzer is> vtsiting his
parents this week.
Quite a number of people from
this section attended the conven
tion. at Danbury last Saturday
and they reported a nice time.
Miss Nannie Pitzer paid Miss
Lizzie Smith a pleasant visit last
Sunday. 1
For fear of the waste basket I
will close.
BASHFUL KATE.
When troubled with constipa
tion try Chamberlain's Stomach
and Liver Tablets. They are easy
to take and produce 110 griping or
other unpleasant effect. For sale
by all Druggists and Denlers.
Russia's System Great Curse.
The curses of the empire of the
Czar are her rotten financial sys
tem, the blind surrender of all the
atFairs of the nation to a system
of centralization which cripples
all local and individual effort and
the enormous power of a bloated
bureaucracy. No one realizes this
better than the present Czar, n
man of high moral ideas and con
siderable more will power than
he is generally credited with.
Only those in the narrowest
circle surrounding him know the
almost superhuman effort which
this man, who is anything but a
physical giant, has made to ini
,prove the conditions of the coun
try, whose autocratic ruler he is
in name only. But lie has only
himself and his heroic wife and
noble mother to rely upon; he does
not possess a single adviser whom
he dares trust, not one friend who
does not seek personal advantage,
and he is surrounded by persons
who by long training and experi
ence know how to keep him in
ignorance of everything which
they do not desire him to know.
It was the oligarchy, that fears
the day when Czar Nicholas shall
carry out his plan of sharing the
responsibility of government with
his people, that, kept him in igno
rance of the miserable condition
of the Bussian army; that dis
guised from him the true situation
in the far East; that prevented
him from making a friendly ar
rangement with the ambassador of
Japan, and who precipitated th«
war which Ims already cost Russia
so dearly.
The reports that the Czar cried
when he was informed that war
had actually broken out are
cruelly Untrue and not believed
by any one who knows his strong,
manly personality; but, having al
ways abhorred war, the very
thought of the useless sacrifice
of thousands of young men, he
would have conceded to every
reasonable demand of the Japan
ese government sooner than have
allowed a crisis to happen.
As matters stand, Russia is im
peratively driven to find an econo
mic base in tlie far East. Chinese
industry, Mongolian and Mancliu
rian gold are to provide the sin
ews of war. The only alternative
to the realization of this dream
is ruin.
Even without taking into con
sideration the present costly war
the strength of the nation is con
tinually being sapped", dishonesty
in the administration is on the in
crease and in spite of railways and
telegraphs the government is less
able to keep its army of officials in
order. The exaggerated system
of bureaucracy naturally leads to a
condition of anarchy which is to
"day felt everywhere above and be
low. Independent activity and
national independence are lining
ground to powder.
I shall give here only one ex
ample of the paper administra
tion of this gigantic empire.
Somebody has caculated that if
one of the ministers were to set
out on a journey abroad and ac
complish it all the otficets in the
empire would be informed of this
event by official notices to
the number of seventeen thous
and.
But perhaps the most serious
danger for the future of Russia is
the complete lack of a powerful
middle class who knows what it
wants and means to get it. )ne
of the most conservative and easily
the most truthful of pa
pers, theNovoe Vreinya, in a-recent
editorial says:
"It is a fnot that at the present
moment not only our villages, hut
even our district towns are falling
into decay. In the first place thi%
number of their inhabitants lias
remained stationary in m >st of
them for decades past. So ancient
a town as Uglitsch has, even like
many others, declined in popula
tion, its former figure of KUXX)
inhabitants being now only
9,000.
"Postal communication has not
progressed beyond the early stages.
Two or three times a week the post
comes and nobody thinks of mak
ing a change in this state of
tilings, although the organization
of a daily service would entail
only a very moderate additional
expenditure. •
''No libraries, no reading rooms,
no theater. Social life does not
exist. In a number of towns there
are not even clubs, and where they
exist they are used by the local
intelligence, which frequently con
sists entirely of drunkards, as a
sort of public house. Decay evi
dent everywhere, the streets are
overgrown with grass, the fences
crooked, the little houses of the
humbler inhabitants are half in
ruins, everywhere you see unused
building lots. Trade and the reve
nue of the towns are decreasing
hopelessly."
Tn many districts where the
population is declining at an
alarming rate the cause' is to be
found in the loosening of the
ties between parents and chil
dren.
The new-born baby is generally
from the first day not treated with
loye. but as a burden, It lies in a
box suspended by a hook and is
rocked there by the foot of the
knitting mother until it falls
asleep or is put to sleep by the
every ready poppy juice.
It, is brought up in a pestilen
tial atmosphere upon the most in
ferior kind of food. It has no
strength and easily pines away if
nature lias not endowed it with an
iron constitution. For this reason
one-half or more of the children
die at an early age.
When one contrasts this fatal
policy of drift with the methods
obtaining in Japan where every
thing is run on the most up-to
date and scientific principles, it is
easy to see wherein lies the' weak
ness of this colossal empire.
Attorney N. O. Petree visited
Capella Monday.
Mr. Darian S. Watkins, of Camp
bell, was is town Tuesday.
Who Is Your Candidate
ROOSEVELT
OR
PARKEII? .
The coming campaign promises
to be close. Neither candidate is
certain of success. Events may
happen which will change the
whole aspect of the political situa
tion. No newspaper is better
equipped to handle the news than
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without fear or i'avor of either
party. The Post is thoroughly
independent, and each day will
give the true situation, uneolored
by partisan zeal. No paper is
more widely quoted. At great
cost it obtains cable dispatches
from London Times, giving the
news of the Russian-Japanese war.
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TH E WASHIX(iT )N l>( )ST CO.,
Washington, IXC.
MOTIVE.
Having duly iptalified as executor of tin*
last, will ami testament of .Mm Gnmi,
dee'd, notice is hereby given to all persons
holding claims against the estate of the
said John tiauu, dee'd, to present litem to
iih- duly authenticated, for piyment, on or
I clou- the 20|h day of August, 1005, or
this notice will he pleaded in bar of their
recovery. And all persons indebted to
said estate are i.otilicd to make immediate
payment and settlement.
This the 11 day of Aug. 1004.
ANDKKW J. OAN'N,
Kxecntor of John (iattti, dee'd.
(iann's I'. ()., X. C.
X. >. I'etiee. Atty. for executor.
TAILOR - MADE
Garments.
F. 11. WOLLSCIILAGKK,
Winston, N. C.
Latest Styles. Per
feet Fit Guaranteed.
I am on
ert v '
IMPORT A
TO STOKES COONTY FARMEP
Why will you go ail the until to Winston. and other ton
to bay you r goods wh en f am offering them just
eheuji right here in your own county town?)
keep every thing you need.
Drv Goods, Notions, Groceries, Shoe
and Hats and Everything the farmer st *
mm A, BURTON,
Walnut Cove, N. C
A Good Resolut ion
FOR 1904, ,
Resolve to sell jour To
bacco with the Gorrcll boys
at the FARMERS' Ware
house, Winston, N. C.
11E A DQUARTEIIS Foil BIG PttICES.
FOR JANUARY, first sales Mondays, Wednesday a
and Fridays. FOR FFBRUARY, first sales Tuesday y '-
Thursdays and Saturdays. FOR, MARCH. first sales
Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays.
YOUR FRIEJVDS,
A. li. GORRELL & SON.
O'HANLON'S
SW'
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WINSTON SALEpI, N - . (\
Stokes people will not. tiuil a lietter or tnorrt ""■'*§? '•}'
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reliable place to purchase the.i - D/iUGS than ).
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at this reliable house,
_.\l.K KIN/)S OF
TOILET ARTICLES
KEPT AT ALL TIMES.
I also keep the largest ami finest line of Trusses in
the State inl guarantee satisfaction in Ixith quality atr'
pi ice.
COME AND EXAMINE MY STOCK
E. W. O'HANLON.
BROWNS
WAREHOUSE.
Has the best arranged and best lighted
sales floor in Winston.
IS most centrally locateil away from ear line, in this the leading tobacco
city of the Sout.li. Last year the manufactured tobacco shipped from line
was 28,000,000 pounds, ami to m ike ibis output alt enormous quantity of
leaf was required. Does not this justify us in promising ys>u (letter prices
lliau you can obtain elsewhere:' Ami with an unbroke i record of man v years
for high prices we cordially invite you to Hring Tour Tobacco To l's. "
Brown's IM Heailquarteri
For Hijfli Prices.
Schedule Of First Sales.
,JAN —Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays.
FEB —Mondays, Wednesdays. Friffays.
MCH. —Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays.
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