J. O. FOY, Editor and Owner
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Thursday, February 2 1911
SOMETHING WORTH CON
SIDERING.
We may need a state building
very much, in fact surficient to
warrent our General Assembly
to expend one million dollars for
it It may be necessary to in
crease the Governors salary to
six thousand dollars per year, in
order to enable him to live in
that style and manner befitting
our chief execctive. In order
to pay our Judges adequate sal
aries it may be necessary to in
crease their pay to two thou
sand, and five hundred dollars
per year. That the feelings
of the Southestern tariff Asso
ciation may not be wounded. It
might be well to abandon an in
surance investigation. That the
Standard Oil Company may be
permited to enjoy without moles
tation, or hinderence the mono
poly of the illuminating oil busi
ness in this state, we might
permit Judge Stronach court of
Raleigh a tribunal of last resort.
That railrords might be permit
ed to earn surficient money to
pay dividends on watered stock
it might be the proper thing to
permit them to continue exces
sive freight rates to the injury
of local business. That the
Southern Express Company may
enjoy its annual dividends of 30
per cent upon largely watered
stock they might be allowed to
go on with their robber rates.
In order to maintain educational
facilites for our higher institu
tions of learning for the benefit
of five thousand young men and
women, it may be right to ex
pend three quarters of a million
of dollars, and then in order to
give a half million of the chil
dren of the rural distric^:s of
the state a moderate education
al showing we may expend two
million.
All of these things may
be permited with, a frown,
or a smile, but when a state
through its Legislative body per
mits every, Tom, Dick, and
Harry, who perchance may be a
princepal of some public school
to select and adopt any class of
school text book, suited to their
capricious whims, selecting at
fair, or unfair prices to be paid
for by the parents of poor chil
dren, then there is a fearfull
wrong inflicted. First these
books are sold at extortionate
prices, second the great var
iety of them made posible for the
reasons stated operates as an in
tolerable burden upon a class of
people who by no means are able
to bear it. But it is the price
of what little education the state
gives tx) this class which goes as
an exacting extortion to the
book trust. Many of these peo-
le are too poor to afford comfor
table clothes for their children
to wear to school. Will
the great state of North Caro
lina continue to be a party to
this great wrong, or will it rem
edy it? The people pause for a
reply.
Superintendant of Public instru
ction makes the following re-
comendation in his bienial report
to the Govenor. We quote briefly
from this report, but some con
ception of the injustice and im
practical operation of our public
school law may be gleaned even
from this.
sort. The Text-book Commission, com
posed of the State officers constitutinar
the'state Board of Education, only
one of whom is a professional tea;^er,
is directed to consider the price, then
the expense of changes and other prac
tical considerations, and are in no sense
bound by the report of the aubcommis-
sion, except by the general direction
that they shall give due consideration
to’.that report. The difference in view
point of these two separate boards-one
an exclusively professional board, in
structed to consider and report on the
professional merit of the books only,
without any voice in the final adoption,
and the other a nonprofessional board,
upon which is specifically imposed the
duty of considering also the price, the
expenseof changes in books, and other
such practical considerations—has nec
essarily produced variations between
' the recommendations of one board and
the adoptions of the other that have
given opportunity formisurderstandings
and criticisms that, in my opinion, can
be avoided by the consolidation of the
two boards, so that each may better
understand the viewpoint of the other
and in the final adoption may wisely
view the matier from both viewpoints. ”
Why not have one set of text
books for the entire state. It
would be the most practical so
lution, and then buy them as
cheap as they could be bought.
There are somethings so small,
and so contemptabl 2 that we dis
like to dignify by taking notice
of them, and perhaps it were
better to let this pass withlike
treatment, but we so much hate
an untruth that the temptation is
too great for silence. We regard
an insinuating misrepresentation
equivolent to an asserted false
hood. Under the heading “An
other endorsment” the Burling
ton Dispatch publishes a com
munication signed “Voterwho
favors putting the county of
ficers upon a salary basis, which
of course ‘‘Voter” has a perfect
right to do, but my paper has
done nothing to justify the re
ference made to it in the follow
ing paragraph.
“Is it true that the News, Gleaner
and Leader are opposed to this bill?
If so, on what grounds do they op
pose it. Please let us know. ”
We do not know the position
of the News, or Gleaner upon
this question. They may have
committed themselves, but we
do not remember to have noticed
it, but we do know that the
Leader has never stated its pos
ition pro, or con upon this matter,
nor does the Editor of the Dis
patch have to become “a mind
reader” to know this, and know
it as an unquestioned fact.
So any assumption of our posi
tion is gratuous
We are not required by any
known newspaper ethics,or legal
dispensation, to commit ourselves
upon every proposition, or theorem
the Dispatch might advance,and
why could not the Dispatch man
have been fair enough to have
credited us with this much.
based upon information furnish-
by Mr. Wood himself, said:
In regard to the relation between die
protective tariff and the business of the
American Woolen Cnmpany, it may be
said that the Washington Mills, which
is the most important concern operated
by the JAmerican Woolen Company,
was started under the first administra
tion of President Clevelaiul, anddesfrite
the vagaries of the tariff for the next
twelve years, it prospered and succeeded
in an unparalleled degree. The fact is
that with the progress that has been
made in woolen machinery and the
increased skill of our American oper
atives the woolen business of America
is rapidly reaching a position where
even a return to the conditions similar
to those existing under the Wilson bill
would not seriously impair its profi
tableness.
When this latter statement
was issifed the object was to
market the stock, of the Woolen
Combine and so the public was
correctly told that the industry
was quite independent of tariff
protection. Now the purpose is
to retain in the tariff law the
schedule which even President
Taft has declared to be “utterly
indefensible,** and so the conten
tion is insisted upon that with
drawal or even lessening of the
duties would send the woolen
manufacturing business in the
United States straight to t^ de-
mnition bow-wows. This is the
utterance accommodated to the
end had in view.—Va Pilot.
put a high premium upon the
destruction of our forest, when
the job has been completed,
then the bars will be let down,
and we will settle the bill by
paying high prices for Canadian
lumber.
A GOOD BILL.
The bill before the Legislature,
requiring that our superior
courts shall be opened on Tues
day of the week, instead of Mon
day as hereto is an excellent
one, and it is a wonder that this
matter has never been looked in
to before. To have farmers
to leave their business early
Monday morning and ride ten
and fifteen miles to reach court
and then after getting there find
that the session would not be
opened before the afternoon, or
the next day, was a hardship
that these people should not have
been subjected, especially so
where perhaps the laziness^ or
indifference of a Judge was re-
sponsable for it. There was rare
instances when a Judge fined
himself for his tardiness, but it
has been by no means rare when
they fined poor formers who
perhaps for good reasons was
unable to answer to the call of
the court crier promptly on time.
Two or three hundred men
awa> from pressing farm duties
standing around a Court House
all day Monday, waiting for a
tardy Judge to open court has
not been an unusual thing.
Mark Hanna was the father
of the shipsubsidy scheme, and
it is a bad one at best. So many
of Marks evils have been able to
live after him.
The voice of the people may some
times be the voice of God, but it
seems that it is money which has been
doing the talking it this Country for
the past ten years.
“Under the present text-book law,
the subcommission, composed of profes
sional teachers, is directed to consider
only the merits of the books and to
report their ratings accoading to merit,
and are forbidden to consider price,
the expense of changes to tl*e taxpayers
and the patrons of the schools, and
other practical considerations of -that
WOOLEN TRUST VS. WOOL
EN TRUST.
,,The head of the Woolen Trust,
chief and practically sole benefi
ciary of Schedule K of the Payne
Aldrich Bill of Abominations,
which schedule even President
Taft himself has declared to be
"‘utterly indefensible,” is one
William M. Wood was the prin
cipal speaker before the Algon
quin Club, of Boston, the other
night, and during the course of
his address he gave voice to cer
tain remarks, between which and
certain utterances made by him
to the Ways and Means Commi-
tee several years ago and cer
tain finarkcial statements issued
under his authority the Philadel
phia Record makes a comparison
which is both interesting and in
structive.
To the Algonquin Club Mr.
Wood said:
Not one new important woolen mill
had been built in Massachusetts for a
period of over forty years until the
McKinley law was introduced. Under
that law the industry got upon its feet
only to be struck down again by the
ill-starred Gorman-Wilson tariff.
Ten years ago, in 1900, Mr.
Wood was treasurer of the Trust
of which he is now president.
At that time there was published
by the Industrials Information
Company a report on the Ameri
can Woolen Company, designed
to open and stimulate a market
for its shares. Prior to the or
ganization of the Am^fican
Woolen Company Mr. Wood has
been the head of the Washing
ton mills, which employed as
many hands as any other four
mills among the twenty-six that
were combined into the Trust.
The report of the Industrials In
formation Company, pr^uniably
IT WILL NOT STAY SETTLED
You must settle a thing right,
or it will not remain settled. It
does not matter about the rea
son, but the fact is that justice
Stronach of Kaleigh signally fail
ed to settle the matter relating
to the Standard Oil monopoly in
that city right. Perhaps he
settled it as he saw it by the
dim light of a sputtering lantern
wh»e wick was fed by the “un
refined.”
Without attempting to go into
details, about this matter we are
wondering why other towns are
submitting to tlie same imposi
tion that Raleigh has without
an effort to correct the trouble?
Was Justice Stronachs court the
last one of resort? and is the fact
that he heard the matter, to be
used to estop further proceedings 7
If there is no law in North Car.
olina to prevent the Standard
Oil Company from crushing out
competition, from monopolising
the oil business of this State,
then there should be one made.
Is their methods of agrandis-
ment to be tolerated to the pre-
dudice of a gr^t state? Is ic
because the Standard oil com
pany can afford to pay for ex
clusive priveleges tJiat it enjoys
so much in North Carolina? Our
leading politician may shout,
“down with the trust” but when
the trust comes up with its bags
of gold, they the self assumed
guardians of the people’s rights,
stand by and see new fetters
riveted upon the toilers limbs.
The Legislature of North Car
olina is in session, and if we
have no law to prevent mono
poly, such as the Standard Oil
Company would create, then it
is full time they were getting
busy and make one.
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GRAVE SITUATION.
The Durham Herald of last
Friday said that the small-pox
situation in that city was more
grave than ever- It appears to
us that the small-pox situation
in Durham has been handled by
men in no sense equal to the oc
casion, and now there is grave
possibilities of an epedemic. The
city officials have been too weak,
they have permited a lot of ig
noramuses to prevent an active
are energetic campaign of vaci-
nation, the only effective means
for stamping out small-pox.
The small-pox situation has
been handled badly, much to the
regret and injury of the good
people of Durham.
RUINING OUR FOREST.
The tariff on lumber it seems
to us has been p very michieve-
ous thing. Of course our landown
ers have got something more for
lumber on account of it, but the
pnncepal benficiary of the law
was the mill man, who came to
our state to make fortunes by
denuding our forest The
tariff on lumber has been a very
unwise thing, it has tended to
encourage the cutting out and
completely destroying our fmest
forest. Lumber is growing
scarcer, «nd scarcer in the south
all the time. The government has
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It is surprising how a small account
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when you have once started it.
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