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and Carolinian. THE TRESS AND CAROLINIAN ! J.-saediMrerj Thursday by The Hickory Print teg CoMip;ny. Entered at th Post Oflce In Hickory. Nnrth Carolina, us itecond das matter. 1. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: CAM U ADTAXCK. One Year Six Months . Three Months $1 00 GO 35 THE TIIIKD PARTY. It seems but lit and meet that Hon. Thomas E. Watson of the 11th Georgia Congressional Dis trict, should return to the Demo cratic party. As will be observed from a telegram published in an other column, this he has done, as well also as Hon. Thos. E. Winn of the Oth Georgia Con gressional District. These gentleman had a brief and stormy political career, es pecially, Mr. Watson. He will be better remembered in his history in connection with the inquiry; "Mr. Speaker! Where was I at?" He has nationalized a southern provincialism. But Mr. Watson, and others, thought they would do good for the great body of laboring and farming people, who on account of the results of the civil war and subsequent Reconstruction were suffering from great strain of financial depression. The Southern States had been loaded with Reconstruction debts, right on top of a total insolvency on account of the war. The South had been solid ly Democratic for a few years, but without being in the majority in the Nation. The farmers had begun to think that their ser vants, the office-holders, were in competent or derelict of duty, and naturally began to look for redress of their oppression. The day dawned in 1884. But a cloud came over the bright sun in 1888. Still tli6 great mass of people of this great country hoped. There was much grumbling and mur muring, especially throughout the South and portions of the great Wesk "But, by strong and persistent persuading, enough of. the good people of the country were held together, so that in 1S92, the sun came out brighter than ever and destined from all appearances and indications to shine with undimmed lustre for many years to come If the Democratic party now in power fulfills its promises during the present Administration the goofl honest, loyal, goqd-gov-ernment-loving people of the South and of the West will not falter or flicker in their adhesion to Democratic principles and to the Democratic party. Allthatthe people of the South, those of the Third party or the Populists, or Alliances, want is good honest men and good honest govern ment squarely and fairly admin istered for all the people, and a good currency with sufficient volume to enabla them to trans act their business affairs with out oppression. BOYCOTT OT A SUCCrSS. Article 1. Section 8, of the Con stitution of the United States gives Congress "power to regu late commerce among the several States." In puisuance of this grant an Interstate Commerce law has been p&ssed", whereby certain ob ligations are imposed upon rail roads running in more than one State. ' Some members of an organiza tion of railway employees, some days ago, became dissatisfied at the way another railroad than the one they worked on had treat ed its men, ancLproceeded, at the command of a 4grand supreme" somebody or other, to refuse to handle any freight forwarded FBESS over the offending road. This freight was to be hauled from one State to another, and both the roads ran in more than one State. The affair came before a Fed eral Judge, Ricks, holding court in Toledo, Ohio. Ho takes the following view of it. A railroad chartered by a State and enjoying corporate rights and privileges therefrom, owes in return, certain duties to the public from which it derives its being and powers. Among such duties is that of safely and quick ly hauling goods and passen gers from place to place. Its employees know that their em ployer, owes this duty, and en gage to work with that knowl edge, thry shall not, therefore, be allowed, because of sdme real or fancied grievance of a few em ployees of another road, to quit work, and thus prevent their own road from carrying out its duty to the public, at least during the time for which they have hired themselves to labor. So the Judge has enjoined the "grand supreme," whatever he is, from calling the members of his society off. This seems very good common sense, and it is a wender that so simple a way of crushing these foolish boycotts has not been hit upon before. The decision may have another cutting edge, however, and if the United States courts can control theiremployees, they can also con trol the railroads, and thus take complete control of all relations between capital and labor; our government will be a "paternal one" indeed, if such is to be the event of this law suit. SPAKE THE TREES. As the editor said, replying to a contributor who wrote him about the "wethur," we have lately had about the worst "spell of weather" we ever saw. Fifty years ago the cold came on gradually, we knew that it threatened us, and had time to prepare for or escape it, the cold waves of this era were unknown. Great storms then, as now, formed on the frozen plains of the North, and set forth on their journey to the Southern sea, but they reached our coasts stripped of most of their terrors. The Creator bad drawn from ocean to ocean, between the 45th and 50th parallels, a cordon of forests which gave to the Continent be low the British line the protec tion it needed from desolating winds of the Arctic slope. No matter how fierce or frost laden tbey werej these winds of. the North, every pine leaf in that wooded belt of three hundred miles width, drew something of their chill, each swaying tree top checked the speed of their ad vance. Thus the cold waves which vex us, sowing seeds of consump tion, grip or pneumonia, could not j reach the States now so plagued by them. But the lum berman cared nothing for these things, no statesman foresaw, or foreseeing dared to warn us of, the havoc which the axe and sawmill were to play with our natural barrier against disease. The forests are almost gone, and in a few years there will be noth ing to shield us from the full force of destructive invasion out of the vast laboratory of storm in British America. Minnesota has sawed up thirty nine billion feet of pine lumber, it can supply twelve billions more and then the State will be all naked to the winds, the woods that sheltered it, and protected us, will have floated down the Mis sissippi in rafts. So with other States eastward to Maine, the path across them is open, and a dozen generationf. can hardly replace, by caiefrl AND Ofi itOLINIANV MARCH 30, 1893 tree planting, the barrier we have carelessly destroyed. We quarantine our sea ports against infection from Europe and Asia, while we leave our en tire Northern boundary exposed to the inroad of the most danger ous and fatal class of diseases known I o science. HOW CAN THE! BE PUNISHED? Judge Garrison, of the New Jersey Supreme Court, in deliver ing a recent opinion spoke of the increasing number of mur ders committed by negroes in his State. He said the negroes fear nothing from having their free dom abridged and must be held in check by the absolute certain ty of punishment. He said the race is becoming every day more and more vindictive in their hatreds, and that ordinary pun ishment has no terrors for them. Imprisonment is lost upon them. So the jurists of the North have just found out something about our ''brother in black." We knew it all the time down here, and acted accordingly, but Reconstruction cut down the whipping post, in deference to what then seemed an overstrain ed, and now is shown to have been a foolish, sentiment. The negro welcomes imprison ment in most cases, he is not even deterred from crime by fear of death. Deep down in his heart, underlying the thin de posits of civilization and freedom is his ancestral heathenism; re move the restraints of white com panionship and his worship will relapse into Yoodouism. So far as the laws are con cerned, he dreads only such punishments as inflict bodily pain that can be felt and hurts for a long time. Rapes on white women increase among negroes steadily, despite hangings by the courts and burnings by the mobs. The Legislatures therefore must prescribe for them a system of penalties srch as public opinion will not suffer imposed upon the whites, or they must go practi cally unpunished. , But the latter course leads to Lynch law, while the former is a virtual abandonment of the vital principle of the Republican par ty, its bloody shirt standby by adopting the very policy of corp oral punishment for a class, which they so unsparingly con demned during the first century of the Nation's life. Is it one of Time's-mysterious revenges, this late discovery that blacks cannot be governed like whites, and that the much abused "slave code" showed an insight into the character of the African which has iust been vouchsafed to the raformers of the North? HEAD TO NORTH, FEET TO SOUTH. They were seated on the bal cony at the Hickory Inn: Mr. de Salol smiled, spat across the banisters, wiped his chin and said: "I had lot o' fun down 'n Charlotte the other day." "How was that?" quietly asked Mrs. de Salol. - ."Well, you see; I asked old man Eccles for a room with a bed with the head towards the North and the foot to the South." What was that for?" 4Why, my gracious! Don't you know that you can sleep better that way? It allows the electrici ty to have a fair play to shoot directly through your body in a natural way." "Nonsense!'' , "That's what he said, I did'nt know you would both think alike. Well, you give 'e m to me that way every time. He said for me not to tell it to the public, for every man would want a room with a bed that way, and he did'nt have enough to go round." "Where is the funny part? "Ugh! Done forgot it.' Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report TRANSFER OF MATTER. To what extent afi "imprim atur" has need for a "petition" we are not fully assured, but our worst enemy, the printer, seems to think, accidentally, that under the Constitution such is th case. We were not prepared to depart from the Legislature's (North Carolina's) prerogative in the premises. If our kind readers will please look at an editorial on pare 2, lower part of second column in this'issue they will find that por tion of it which refers to "peti tions" belongs to the first article to the left in firt column headed, "Voting for Postmasters." Ah, Sonnie! V Did'st thou yet never note How striving devils will bestir themselves, That thou should'st do a need ful thing, When for no cry will incom mode themselves? Mr, de Salol. We were just writing a word of praise for th. Shelby Review, when we opened the last issue and saw tha following, which does our heart good. Thanks for. the arppreciative notice, which we prize as coming from so sensible and wide awake an exchange as the Review. The Hickory Press and Caro linian besides donning a pretty dress of new type, has been greatly improved and enlivened by Col. M. E. Thornton, its' new publisher. TO DELINQUENT TAXPAYERS. In accordance with Sec. 57, Chap. 218 of the Code of N. C, and Sec. 32 of the -Charter of the City of Hickory, I will sell, on the 23rd day of April, 1893, at 2 p. in., in front of the Mayor's office, the Real property of the following named delinquent City taxpayers for the year 1892, unless the same be paid before the said date, with cost of this notice: Burtless fc "Whiting 1 Lot $17 57 35 1 23 1 30 Barger, Marion Blackburn, Martha (col) Bost,xVF (col) Bowman, N (col) Colter, James Campbell, Mrs. Jane Chery, Rufus (col) Cornwell, AW Crow, Mary (col) Codv, C R Carrol, W Crowell, Champ (col) Dailey, Martha Dailey, George Dennv, Letie (col) DealIt E Dennv, II C (col) Fisher, E C Fisher, T. A. Forriev, Win (col) Gradv, J D Hefner, H S Holler, Mrs. M C Huffman, I) C Huggins, L. II Holleman, C S Hawn, C L Hexon, E Hinkle, C II Killian. A A Kerr, W J Killian. Pinknev (col) Little, Peter Marsliall, A W Miller, G A Peterson, R Patterson, J L (col) Patterson. Larkin (eol) Patterson, Toney (col) Ramsour, Alex (col) Robinson, J W (col) Reinhardt, P E Reid. Eli J Reinhardt, "W P Shuford, Clara (col) Setzer, A F Sigmon. A P Setzer. T I White, G W White. RL o ou. 05 79 05 35 53 O o o o 33 50 43 53 ' 7 it 1 o 85 28 70 100 1 75 15 07 53 2 C5 O r": 0 ) 1 40 7 50 1 58 1 93 95 153 1"40 27 4 34 1 73 1 77 10 1 32 1 73 10 1 15 1 10 55 7 65 10 2 20 43 a a it ii ii a ii ii 44 ..- - 2 15 2 03 44 H.-W. JONES City Tax Collector. Wotioo. The Annual Election ior Major and three A Wurmen for the Cttj of Hickory will be h eld ol tioa book will be open at the MavorV nAZL thirty day. next preying the tecond Satur! day befor the day of Electl an Tit Aprtl aSd at n oclockm.la accordance wkh the state lL, J. H. Bxrcs, City Clerk. J. D. Elliott, Mayor. O 1U n A Word With You! IS YOUR P0CKETB00K CONGESTED? WE HAVE A REMEDY It Is said that "Goods well bought are half sold." Thla accounts for our leadership In Dry Goods & Groceries! "We study the demands of this market, and knowing how to buy is our forte is why we are able to meet competition with gloves off. WE KEEP EVERYTHING Except Tombstones and Whisky. We do not claim to hare better goods than our neighbors, but we do claim that we have bought them right, and we offer to sell them that way. Bring us your Country DProdLuoo J "We can handle it if any one can and you will get the top ol the market for it. GOT ANY SHINGLES? We'll bny them, too 1 Bring us your produce and don't make any purchases until you see us. It will pay you. ALLEN & BOWLES. 8:3m READY-MADE CLOTHING AND HATS AT Everything in these departments to go a cost- no reserve whatever. Terms of sale Instant Cash. When goods are offered at cost it is cus tomary to give reasons. My growing wholesale business demands my attention. I need the capital and room now given to Hats and -Clothing, and have -determined to close them out for good, and instead of gradually running them down, the laws of the One Price Cash Store demand that they go out in a whoop. The line' of Clothing is the largest I ever carried. It was well bought nd selected most of it just received from the factories It is all yours at cost. - Come and make this sale a ?rand success, as you have al ways done in every "special" I have of ered you. I am grateful to a public which has nev er let the "One Price" know anything but hard work and good times. E. L SHUFORD, Fresh Garden Seed OF STANDARD GROWTH at : Ivask nitlft Brcg Store, ' NEWTON. N. C. A full line of pure fresh Drugs, Paints, Oils, Station ery, etc., at lowest market r prices. 12-it &lyp
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