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|g frees m\b Carolinian, CriGANIZstD. PbOPLE s akty of AMER ICA. • • m it -Resolutions Ad- A t ] a 1 id Enthusiasm. ? • (), May 21st, 1891. p :... •*, • aivention here adjourn -3 of the Third Party 1 !;;f- dav, gave it a name '.a!. '• n i i \ c following resolutions. 81. ■ .\ii.ler, of California, . r»f contention by off :. -uiution : - • - 1 i That we favor the 11 t tli* liquor traffic, i. 1 (■ ,? i,» caine worse confound . ■ ttors were clamoring ■ ... but the first to sue ■hsi'mg. of Wisconsin. I the discussion. Mr. v • / !' u 4 * I that the resolu I ,ft!.♦ question of prohibition at t; , t. proposed by Mr. Miller, l v \ .■ . !uiiy considered and voted ], a:. 1 v the c ommittee on platform. X ■ ..ow was plainly throw ing 1 brMiKi into the convention, a:. ;. ■ [-ininn it was a deliberate att'; tt - cause a split in the party. A:: .' r 'i'ch t confusion the resolu ti u. k Jted down. . Tanbeueck, of Illinois, was t 1 ( i. tirman of the National Ex ec-Jt «■ (''inmittee. >l. i-olk's letter. 4 A fttei was read from Col. L. L. 1 . I'll sidf-nt ot the Alliauce, V v:- „ i- iinst action on a third par l s '.»-, but it did not deter tu :.! --rs from issuing the call. ! I'LATFOKM ADOPTED. lowing, presented by the mttce on Resolutions, was ad cpte i amid ;reat enthusiasm : 1. In view of the great social, in -1 -t •.; . and economical resolution LOW luwning on the civilized world ar. 1 the new and living issues con *r ntiLg the American people, we be iievp that the time has arrived for a wystahz'itiou of the political reform forces of our country and the forma tion of what should be known as the people's party of the United States 0? America. - heartily endorse the 1> of the platforms adopted a: Louis, Mo., in 1889, at Ocala, J a . in lS'.io, and at Omaha, Neb., in iSl l 1 > the industrial organizations iej.resented and summarized ! ,x» ws : '■ 1 " right to make and issue - ji sovereign power, to be 1 'd by the people for the •«1 i• 111, hence we demand ! of national banks as -ue, and -is a substitute ' i l ank notes we demand ler treasury notes be volume to trans sitiess of the country on a without damage or espe ' to any class or call tes to be a legal tender t of all debts, pubbc and •nd such notes when de >' the people shall be loaned ' i: sot more than 2 per cent. '} .m non perishable pro ndicated in the sub-treas -1 and aiso upon real estate, * ■ : «■! limitation upon quantity • 1 '■ amount of monev. ' 1 \ ■ i i*-maud the free and un • H^ r e of silver. Umand the passage of \\ «. ■ t> • ing aueu ownership of • u.at C ongress take prompt • ev;>e some plan to obtain owned by alien ami .41 d that all land . - •'.I 'uds and other corpora : such as is actually • deeded by them be re * lue and held * ! , l ' only. ' L " iL o l he doctrine of equal HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1891. i rights to ail and special privileges to none we demand that I tional, State' or municipal—shall not j be used to build up one interest or class at the expense of another. (E; We demand that all revenues national, State, or count}' —shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government, economically and honestly administered. (F) We demand a just and equitable system of graduated tax on incomes. (G) We demand a most rigid, honest and just national control and supervision of the means of public communication and tianspor tation, and if this supervision does not remove the abuses now existin« r , we demand the Government owner ship of such means of communication and transporation. (H) We demand the election of President. Vice-President, and Uui ted States Senators by a direct vote of the people. 3. We urge the united action of all progressive organizations in atten ding conference called for "February 22, 1892, by six of the leading reform organizations, ■4. A national committee shall be appointed by this conference to be composed of a chairman, to be selec ted by this body, and of three mem bers from each State represented, to be named by each State delega tion. 5. This Central Committee shall represent this body, attend the National Conference on February 22, 1892, and if possible unite with that and all other reform organizations there assembled. If no satisfactory arrangement can be effected this committee shall call a national con vention not later than June 1, 1892, for the purpose of nominating candi dates for President aud Vice Presi dent. 6. The members of the Central Committee for each State where there is no independent political organization shall conduct an active system of political agitation in their respective States. IT WAS NOT A JOB. Mrs. Hunt Replies to Suggestions of Jobbery, HaMjrh Chronicle. When the criticism was made on Mrs. Hunt, the Chronicle stated that while we believed in the purity of her motives, circum stances required that she should make a statement. This she has done, and it is full and showed j that her motives were pure. She , writes: Battle Crf.ek. May IS.— I have ' been for the last three weeks j traveling in one of our YN esteiu states, changing locality n arly every dav, and thnvt >re receiving my mail spasmodically, t ert nn clippings from N'»rth Carolina papers with personal allusions, which should have reached me several days ago, now come to hand somewhat belated. In re ply to these T would sa\ that the statement concerning the North Carolina Temperance Education Law being "a piece of jobbery enienating ironi the American Book Company, is not true. The | author of this assertion is misin formed as to the facts and wrong as to conclusions. The American Book Company had nothing j whatever to do with my elloits for that legislation, and, as far a -1 know, they had no intimation*; that the iaw wa> pi.oo* until after it w as enacted. I am not an agent of the Amer ican Book Company, nor in any sense or in any way in their em ploy, 11 or of any otf.-r pul 'ishin i hou.se, iior of niiy one or of any thing, in this matter save my own convictions, and my desire to save m\ country fiont the horrors of intemperance, through teaching its future citizens in the plastic period of childhood in the schools to abhor strong drink. I have no personal financial interest in books on this topic j issued by the American Book company nor by any other pub -1 lishing house. A great national aud international society of representative Christian I women called the Women's Christian Tempeiauce Union share my ccuivic tion on the subject. As the result of our united efforts, laws requiring l.the study of Scientific or Physiolog , ical Temperance have been enacted in thirty-five States, including North Carolina, and by the national Con gress for all the Territories, the Dis trict of Columbia, and other schools I under national control. There is not a feature of the North Carolina law that cannot be found in similar statutes enacted by the national Congress or by other States. There j fore, if the North Caroliua law is a ''piece of jobbery" then all these other laws are also, for they were secured b) the same instrumentality and for the same purpose. The idea that the Woman's Chris tian Temperance Union or I, their representative in their educational work, have been able to inveigle the national Congress aud all these Leg islatures into enacting laws that they, the W. C. T. U., or I might thereby make money on the sale of books, is preposterous. As well claim that the religious journal, the minister, missionary or Sunday school teacher who urges the study of the Bible, is actuated to make mouey of the sale of Bibles. The W T oman's Christian Temper ance Union of North Carolina lastyear decided to petition their Legislature in session last winter, for this Tem perance Educatiou law. They circu lated throughout the State petitions for the same, which petitions they presented to the Legislature, bear ing the signatures of thousands of North Carolina citizens, asking for the law. They invited me, their national representative, to come to Raleigh and in their behalf present the argument for the law to the ! committee on education. At much personal inconvenience I went, just as I have gone to other States before for a like purpose. The facts concerning the nature ' of alchoholic drinks md narcotics | and their effects on the human sys tem cannot be stated in iess than one-fourth the space given to the re lative physiology anil hygiene that i suitable to be t night in primary oi intermediate grades or in less than i twenty pages iu the school book. Therefore, that amount of : temperance matter is specified in the laws on this topic of many states, including North Caroliua. The fact that books of various grades com \ piying with thi" specification are published by four different houses, not including tLe American BOOK Company, or Dulaney Jc Co, is pos itive proof that there is in this clause : no evidence of legislation in the ID terests of one set of books or of one publishing house. The editor of the Biblical Recorder quotes from a preface m the Union Series of Temperance Ph) siologws 1 the statement that "these txx>ks have bet-en mere or less prepared and whoi ly supervised by Mrs. H. H ii.t. audMrcu. tba:. pmps to the mi taken conclusion that I am therefore la the pay of ihi publishers of the /ame. Tue facts m the case about the books on this topic are a- follow- The Science of Temperance was a new branch and, its sclu oi literature unprepared when the tir-t laws re quiring it> study were enacted eight and one-half years ago. If the study was to be pursued, well graded text books were as neces sary as spelling books or readers. A vast amount of work and money had to be expended by somebody ill order to secure a litera ture that is reliable. I make no / apology for having expended my time, money and labor to that end. It would have been perfectly right for me to have kept copyrights or other form of remuneration on books thus prepared, but I did not, because I felt called to work for this education for the child hood of this and other land-j; and that there might be no possible ground for charges that my labors emanated from interested motives and my work hindered thereby, I declined to take the personal re compense for my literary labors in this direction that was justly iny due. My name can be found in the preface of books on this topic pub lished by other houses than the American Book Co. freely granted because such books contain the truths we desired taught and the publishers wish them to be sustained by whatever reputation for scientific accuracy on this topic my name rep resents. W'hen the North Carolina Legisla tive Committee on Education, at Major Finger's suggestion, asked me questions about books, publishers and prices, that committee will re member that I told them I knew lit tle or nothing about the business side of these text books that are on our lists as endorsed by us. I did uot know then that the Dulaney books could not be sold in North Carolina, and only know it now from Major Finger's published statement in the North Carolina papers. As I am not the business ageut of these houses, it was perfectly legitimate that I t-bould not have known that fact. A book on our li»ts simply implies that for doctrine and educa tional merit we commend it. It is a little surprising that in the interview reported with Maj Finger that no mention is made of other books that comply with the law published by other houses besides Dulaney V Co.,.and the American Book Company as though these last are all. The Biblical Recordet is right as to my interest in the enforce ment of this law. With the same earnestness that I pleaded for its enactment, and from the same motives, namely, that the children of North Carolina may be intelli gently warned and saved from thraldom of strong drink. I now hope that no misrepresentation or misconception will mislead the parties entrusted with the enforce ment of this law from th»* real question at issue—the duty of se lecting the book> that contain the topics the law requires taught. Educational statistics pr«>ve that ftO per cent of the childreu in the public schools never go beyond the primaries and ie*»» than 5 per cent, ever reach th* high school. Therefore, the gteit majority of the **poor people of North CaraiiDi wiii Lave to buy but one. or at most two books on this topic, and tho»e inexpensive pn tnarv one* If those books are wisely »elH?t~d that they warn the chi -1 King th»-m atrain-t alcohol, it . Im. tie ii vestment any paieni caii , in the ettd both icocev and the child. Mabi H. HOT y* u r-A*l tli«* DIRECTIONS l* U »ruu:.a A K IXJA fED V EA=s JT ? 21 H STATE NEWS. CUPPEO. CULiro **lo CONDENSED PROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Evangelist Fife will begin a meet ing in Charlotte June :2nd. i . Henry Brabham, the murderer of the Italian m Charlotte, is to bang July '2nd. Greensboro, N. C., May 23 —The o Steel ami Iron Company broke ground today for a furnace. The executive committee of the North Carolina Horticultural Society met in Raleigh last week and decided to hold the fruit fair this \ear in Greensboro. Miss Katie Venters, of Gnalow county, a healthy and handsome young lady, 17 years of age, attended church in good health on the 10th inst. aud died on Tuesday the I2th. Dr. Phillip Koonce died at hia home in Carteret county, on the 15th " inst.. aged 74 years. He was for i merly a citizen of Gnslow county j anil was highly respected by all who | knew him. WINSTON, N. C, May 25—A se vere electrical hail and rain storm passed over the city this evening be tween 3 and 4 o'clock. The rain fell 1 in torrents, together witb hail as large as acorns Two of Hdeigh's most popular young ladies, while driving in a . pouy cart, were, by the fall of the i pony, precipitated headlong over the dashboard, and fell on the stone I pavement breaking both of their— i parasols. Nothing else. A dispatch from Washington says the Ligbt House Board is preparing to begin work at once on the light house to be erected on Diamond Shoals, oft Cape Hatteras, N. C. When completed it will cost $500,- 000, aud will be tne largest in the world. The opinion is beginning to pre vail amojg Durham people that the deal which has been rumored for several days to the effect that the Blackwell Bull Plant would t* ab sorbed by the American Tobacco Company is al>out to be consumma- . ted.—[ News and Gbserver. Auother lively snake story comes in, this time from Gaston county. Pink Allen killed one with four head-*. We take it for granted Pink is a prohibitionist. An anti would have paid a great price for that snake, I and gone to raising them." They would make whisky a necessity. It is said the Aaheville Furniture Factory wan moved to Lenoirs, Ten's , i because of a failure to get just an I equitable fr«- ;^ r ht rute*. That is thu pay North Carolina is getting for j giving the W.N. C railroad to !ie*t and his successors. Can t the raiJ ; road commission "regniate this j matter' . Babie? ar- in demand in Raleigh. One was found in a basket near the depot, and when the mother could not be ascertained there were sixteen applicants, (whether charitable or childless is not stated), who were willing and anxious to adopt it It was thought to be the illegitimate ! offspring of one Lota Ed wards, who was arrested, but afterwards dis charged. The Asheville Citizen %ays one E. T. Moore, claiming to be from Cald well county, and for a while in the e*nplo> of tie French Broad Lum ber Co.. rv-ed tw ''h* k an 1 traded them off in thai city foi clothing and monev ard then skipped. A telegram was sent to th*. sheriff of Caldwell to arrest Moore, but he es caped. Moore i« 23 or 24 rears old, : is six feet high, and weighs 156 lb«». NUMBER 21.
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