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Mebane Leader
J. O. FOf, Editor and Owner
Entered as second class matter Feb
ruary 8, 1909, at the Post Office at
Mebane, N. C., under the act of March
1897.
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ITiuraday, January 261911
UFE FOR A LIFE.
Why do men kill each other,
is the heading to very practical
editorial in the Nashville Tot-
nessean. It says there was 8^5
homecides in this country in 1910
against 8000 in 1909. Only one
murderer out of 86 was executed
in 1910 and one out of 84 1909.
In no other country in the world
do murderers escape so easily as
in the United States.
England nemonstrated the su
periority of its handling of mur
der trials in the Dr. Crippencase.
No sickly sentimentality hin
dered justice.
It was immediate, and the
United States watched the En
glish court with amazement and
be. It was a fundamental idea of our
a icestoM in founding this republic that
it never should be. The geographical
conditions of the country appear to de
ny the need of it. If France had re
mained seated in Louisiana and had de
veloped there «n empire comparable
with our own country in size, popula-
lation and trength, seperated from us
only by the Mississippi River, there
might have been need of guarding that
frontier as the Germans guard the
Rhine. But with the consummation of
the Louisiana purpose Hamilton’s
scheme of our domination of the con
tinent was so fully realized as to as-
siu-e us thereafter perpetual exemption
from the perils of a formidable neigh
bor. Prom that time forward it was
reasonable to hope that America would
not have to make and keep herself
an armep camp, Nor do we yet see any
, convincing evidence that the hope was
vain.
If our government is embar
rassed over inadequate defenses,
and there is dread of an invasion
we must have more ships and
more soldiers and expend more
millions, i^. is all due to the
blunder this country made when
it acquired the Phillippine poss
essions, a bone of contention
which, by virtue of its geogra
phical position, must necessarily
be involved in every dispute
which may arise in the Far East.
As long as the monroe doctrine
was preserved as a sacred herit
age of free America and we re
fused to become embroiled with
other countries by engaging in
wars of conquest there was no
fear of invasion: there was no
dread because of our weak de
fenses, for we enjoyed the gra
tification that every American
citizen is a soldier, ready to de
fend his country and his home,
but now the alarm is raised be
cause we do not live wholy at
The State University es not •
seem to be wanting much, just
a little sum of a little c ver a
half million dollars. It m y need
more dormitories, dining halls,
reservoires, repairs, enlargement;
and a general strengthning of j
its several departments, but is
the state able to pay this enor
mous sum? We opine not. The
tax payer ought to have a little
consideration.
admiration.
What is wrong in the United i home, but because we have pos-
States?
The trouble, America is a na
tion money mad, and the cash
pays any thing from immunity
from punishment up to sending
the wrong man to penitentiary.
Human life is one of the very
cheapest things, especialy so
when put in the scales against
gold. It is foolish to
mawkish public sentiment that
may be opposed to punishing
criminals, The people want to
see the right thing don if it
cracks the vertebra back of the
necks, or sends a deadly thrill
of electricety from the base of
the brain to the achilles nerve.
Don't blame the people, as a rule
they want to see justice done. Its
your servile courts in the hands
of shrewd scheming well paid
council who find ways and
means to create loop holes
through which rich clients that
are murderers may escape.
There is no one else to blame,
unless it be an obsolete law hand
ed down from the dark age for
the selection of juries, when the
m en illirate, and densely ignor
ant may be selected and de
pended upon to liberate criminals
When did you ever hear of a
rich man being hung in the
south? never. Lawyers have
been execrated and cursed for
releasing criminals, but we have
reached the conclusion that the
judge is not quite as innocent as
he looks to be. He is presumed
to understand the law, and yet
he permits councel to tamper with
justice, It is within the Judges
power to give any man charged
with murder and proven guilty
a race to the death chair for his
money. But it is brother so,
and so, council for the defense,
until brother so and so has
played the devil with our crim
inal law and turned loose a re-
gementof gloved handed mur
derers in this state.
The way to stop murder
is to execute those guilty of mur
der. Give any and all of them
the same quick trial, conviction
and sentence, that was given
that beast, Nathan Montague at
Oxford last week. When the
courts and lawyers are forced to
the conclusion that there is no
such thing as respectable mur
derers, and that the taking of
human life means an electrocu
tion, there will be an abatement
of murderer, not until then.
sessions in the Far East to de
fend.
“[t is not a fact that these military
men know neither Japan nor any other
Pacific power would dreom of invad
ing the United S cates “ ask the Co
lumbia (S. C.) State, “but that if any
thing could induce Japan to war with
us it is the tempting Philippine Islands
easily within her grasp, and far away
■ I, - from effective protection, and that
01 i army on the Pacific coast
wanted to make Japan more wary?’
IS
A SMOOTH ARTICLE.
GET BEHIND ME SATAN.
“Get behind me Satan" is an off
quoted remark attributed to Christ,
The remark was mado in answer to
Satans effort to tempt him from the
paths of right No being before or
since the time of Christ has been re
garded so honest, so trustworthy so
fair, so faithfull to high missions, so
conscientious, and yet this same Christ
fearing that he might fall says get be
hind me Satan. Although the son of
God, he was human. Was there dan
ger? He did not care to take the
hazzard, but the Legislature of North
Carolina is willing to dare the devil
to tempt it. Wootens- anti Lobby law ^
would not do. Daughton of Aleghany ^
thought it a reflection upon the mem-;
ber of the General Aserably, and it ^
should not be passed. He was immune ,
from the wiles of the lobbyest. So j
there are members of the General As- |
sembly who would hivite temptation. I
Let the devil come, in any form it
pleases him to come in, they do not i
fear him. No indeed not, there are j
member,, of our National Congress ^
that do not fear him either, they have |
J
hobnobed with him, dined with him
wined with him and permitted him to
button hole them, and get what he
wanted as far as it was in their power i
to give, and then when they returned ^
home, when the session was ended it,
was with a great deal more money to '
their credit ih the banks than their
salaries amounted too, after paying
for a high life in the g:iy capital. j
It is not creditable to the members;
I
of the General Assembly of North
Carolina, to wish to subject its Silf i
j to these gutn shoe’d, oily tongue,
j gentry that are there in the pay
■ and imp!oym3iit of c > pjrate interest,
I who secures the cooperation of niernbeis
to howl down any measure th:it would
! effect, the interest they represent,
}
j Wootens lobby bill should have pas-
i sed, drastic, or not dras*^ic. You might
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Greensboro, N. G.
223 South Elm St.
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NEW SPRING GOODS NOW ARRIVING DAILY.
SCHIFFMAN BROS.
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Greensboro, N. C.
ing the streets of Ruieigh an noon day,
as to e.xpect to detect these men in
their nefarious practices. The cloven
foot is covered with p ;tept leather,
and the horns are hid beneath a silk
en tile, and with suave smile that
would win its way to the heart of the
most mercenary they go about seek
ing whoever they may win the influen
ce of.
It is said the insurance com
panics are kicking like bay steers expect to see pestilence staik-
against the appointment of a
Legislative investigation com
mittee. The better reason for
one, and the state owes it to the
people to show the ‘’thing” up,
One colonel, or Brigadier Gen
eral Walker of Wilmington says
there is no necessity for this com
mittee, that everything is alright,
that North Carolina has the low
est average only $12,00. The
Standard Oil Company will claim
the same for oil in Raleigh, but
how about rates elsewhere? Meb
ane pays from four to six per
cent insurance. One firm here
carrying a policy of four per
cent on ten thousand dollars in
surance. Mr. Brigadier Walker
of Wilmington can talk well, but
h« is like the gentleman from
Rhode Island Mr. Aldrich he is
talking for a trust and he should
be made to shut up.
IF YOU HAVE A JEWEL
of a wife provide a proper setting for
her by starting a bank account for
her in a good, reliable bank like Com
mercial and Farmers Bank. It takes
a load from her mind when she has
something to fall back on in casp; of
need. The man and woman that spend
as they go will surely come to sorrow
It is surprising how a small account
will grow between interest and thrift
when you have once started it.
Mebane, N. C.
A little bill of ninety three
million dollars was passed by
congress a few days ago for army
appropriation. The modern ex
pensive toy of an aeroplane came
) in for one hundred and twenty-
five thousand dollars.
Mr. Tawney, of Minnesota,
chairman of the appropriations
committe vigorously attacked so-
called military critics, and de
clared that the amount of money
the government has expended in
ten years in preparation for war
that was not threatened and
would not come, would more than
built five Ponama canals.
Mr. Tawney declared this gov
ernment h‘dd expended during
the past ten years an aggregate
of $2,191,036,580 in preparation
for war. What for? to please a
lot of gold laced ja-hawkers who.
had never earned one dollar. It
is the people w^ho have it to pay.
My Mary
The daisy loves the hilly mead.
The lark loves well to nest' by it;
The fawn by mountain streams to feel.
And crop the sweet flowers springing
by it!
All living things ai'e fond of '.change;
All tastes, and all affections, vary —
Save mine-but mine—I never change!
For I love nothing but my Mary!
The primrose loves the hawthorn hedge
The hawthorn loves to bend above it;
The lily, ’midst the river’s edge,
Makes every eye that sees it love it.
The linnet loves the peep of morn,
And sings his song in circles airy;
But I, since first my love was born.
Have loved but une, and .that wrs
Mary!
Her cheek is like a snowy cloud.
Witn rosy light just peeping through
it!
Her lips—shy lips—’tis bliss to woo;
Her teeth were presents from some
fairy;
But, hush!—perchance you’ll love her,
too.
And none but me must love my
Marj'^!
—Charles Swain, in New York Weekly
NOTICE
Any one who wants to plant a
garden, pasture their cows, cut
wood, or desposit trash or filth on
the lands of
Mebane Land and Improvement Co.
will please get permision before
doing so from
W. E. White,
um
NEW HOUSE
FOR NEW YEAR
may yet be yours if you act promptly.
You can get the richest panels and
mouldings, the most artistic gridle
work from us all ready to be put in,
in hardly no time. With the aid of our
mill work you can turn an ordinary
house into a beautiful home in a sur
prisingly short time and at surprising
ly l.ttle expense.
NELSON-COOPED LUMBER COMPANY,
Mebane, N. C.
GYPSY GASES GONCLUDED.
THE RECRNT WAR SCARE.
The New York Daily Tribune,
like others of the leading papers,
is not frightened over the “war
scare,as it is pleased to term
the report of the Secretary, and
with complacency it says:
It is the tritesi of truisms that
America is not a military nation in any
such sense as is Germany or France or
the other armed powers of Euro{>e. It
never has been. We trust ft never will
The Navy has been
in a vivid i^ustration
getting
of somei
Came to Abrupt End Sat-
urda3' With Victory For
Joan Tribe—Mitchelles
Plead Guilty and Pay
Fine of $2c»0 Compro=
mise Effected by Judge
Allen.
The gypsy cases came to an abrupt
A SOUVENIR FOR YOU
To any one writing for our new catalogue at the same
time stating that they are now, or will be, during the
year in the market for a monument or head-stone, will
receive a beautiful souvenior FREE.
T. 0. SHARP, MARBLE & GRANITE CO.
Durham, N. C.
more of its work of in sufficiencv, ^ Saturday morning at Wadesboro,
and incompetency The lives of
eight sailors is the simple sacra-
fice. The battleship Deleware
has a boiler exploison and now
there will be an investigation,
but the Federal treasury contin
ues to pour its torrent of hard
earned dollars for this military
debauchery.
with a complete victory for t'le Step
hen Joan tribe, an«l they immediately
celebrated with an automobile ride
over the town, waving large American
flags. The verdict was the result of a
compromise effected through the ef
forts of the presiding judge, Oliver H.
Allen The Mitchelles, 12 of them,
pleaded guilty to the charge of assault
and were fined $250.
HOUSEKEEPERS
AND BAKERIS
usinK the “SWEET SAMPSON” flour
speak of it in a ringing chorus of praise
The bread consequences that follow its
use are fine enough to please the most
fastidious. We cannot permit our re
putation to suffer by putting anythin^:
below our unbeatable standard on the
market. What the “Sweet Sampson"
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THE PIEDMONT WARE
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The farmers in the tobacco belt
North-East and West of Mebane
can not do better than by bring
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Mebane, N. C.
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