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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT S SPEECH AT RALEIGH. 1 aw glal here at the capital of Noitb Carolina to have a chat! v to greet so uiany of the aon-: and iiu nghteisof 3 our gr> at feiate. .North Carolina's part in our history has at er been high aud noble. It was in North Caroliuu that the Mecklenburg JiecJarution of Indepeudence fore sua lowed the course taken iu a few short months by the repre-i eeutativee of the Thirteen Colo-1 niee assembled in Philadelphia. .North Carolina can rightfully* hitv that she pointed us the way which led to the formation of the new nation. In the Revolu tion she did many memorable deed*; and the battle at King'ft Mountain marked the turning point of the Revolutionary war in the South Rut I congratu late you not only upon your pant, but upon your present. 1 congratulate you upon the great industrial activity shown in your <x>mmonweaith, an industrial activity which, to mention but one th ng, bus placed this State second only to one other in the number of its textile factories. You are showing in practical fashion your realization of the truth tuat there must be a foundation of material well-being in order that any community may make real and rapid pro green. And I am happ.y to say that you are in addition show mg in practical fashion your understanding of tbegreat truth that thin material well-being, though necessary ub a fouuda tion, can only he the foundation, and that upon it must be raited the superstructure of a higher life, if the Commonwealth is to stand as it should stand. More and more you are giving ct.re and attention to education; and education means the promotion not only of industry, but of that good citizenship which rests upon individual rights and upon the recognition by each indi vidual that he has duties as well as rights?in other words, of that good cilizmship which rests upon moral integrity and intellectual freedom. The man must be decent in uis home life, his private life, of course; out this is uot by itself enough. The man who fails to be honest and brave both in his political fran chise and in his private business contributes to political uud social anarchy. Self-govern ment is not an easy thing. Only those communities are ht for it in which the avei >gc individual practices the virtue of self-com mand, of self-restraint, of wise disinterestedness combined with wise sell interest; where the in ch viuuul possesses common sense, honesty and courage. And now 1 want to my a word to you on a special subject in whu h ali the couutry is con cerned, but in which North Caro lina has a special concern. The preservation of the forests is vita! to the welfare of every country. China and tiie Mediter ranean countries offer examples of the terrible effect of deforest,a tion upon trie pnysicnl geogra phy, and, therefore, ultimately upon the national well-being, of the nation*. One of the most obvious duties which our gener ation owes to the generations that are to come alter us is to preserve the existing forests. The prime difference between civilized and uncivilized peoples is that in civilized peoples each generation works not only for its own well-being, but for the ?well-being of the generations yet unborn, and if we permit the uatural resources of this laud to be destroyed so that we baud over to our children a heritage diminished in vulue we thereby prove our uuhtness to stand iu the forefront of civilized peoples. Due of the greatest of these heri tages is our forest wealth. It is the upper altitudes of the forest ed mountains that are most valuable to the nation as a whole, especially because of their effects upon tne vater supply. Neither State nor nation can af ford to turn these mountains over to the unrestrained greed of those who would exploit them at the expense of the future. We cuni-f on! to wait longer be for* assuming control, in the in terest of the public, of these for ests, for if we do waif, the vested interests of private parties in them may become so strongly intrenched that it may be a ' rious as well as a mo ex pen ' lr to oust them the Kastei u States are wise, then from the Hay of Fundy to the gulf we will see, within the next few years, 11 policy set on foot Humilar to that so fortunately curried out in ' ' 5-igh Sierras of the West by tbenatiuual j,ovuu uiriit All the higher Appala c.1 aus should k n? rvtui, either by tbe States or by t be nation 1 uiuib prefer that tbey should l>t put uaotr national control, but it in a mere truism to nay that tbty will not be reserved either by fbt Stat-h or by the nation unlet* \ou (**nple of the south show a strong interest therein. Such reserves would t>e a pay ing in vestment, not only in pro tection to many interests, but in dollars aud cents to the govern ment. The importance to the .Southern |>eople of protecting the Southern mountain forests is obvious. Tnese forests are the best defeuce against the floods which, in the recent pust, have, during a siugle twelvemonth, destroyed property officially valued at nearly twice what it would cost to buy the Southern Appalachian reserve. The main tenance of your Southern water powers is not less important than the prevention of floods, because if they are injured your manufacturing interests will suffer with them. The perpetua tion of your forests, which have done so much for the South should be one of the first objects of your public men. The two! Senators from North Carolina have taken an honorable part in this movement. Hut 1 do not i think that the people of North Carolina, or of any other South ern State, have quite grasped the importance of this movement j to the commercial development and prosperity of the South. i he position of honor in your parade to day is held by the Confederate veterans. They by their deeds reflect credit upon their descendants and upon all Americans, both because they did their duty in war and because they did their duty in peace. Now, if the young men, their sons, will not only prove that they possess the same power of fealty to an ideal, but will also show the efficiency in the ranks I of industrial life that their fath ers, the Confederate veterans, showed that they possessed in the ranks ol war, the industrial future of this great and typically American Commonwealth is as sur d The extraordinary develop meat of industrialism during the last half century has been due to several causes, but above ull to the revolution in the methods of transportation and commuuica tiou? that is, to steam and to electricity, to the railroad and the telegraph. VV heu this government was founded commerce was carried on by essentially the same instru ments that had been in use not , only among civilized, but among j barbarian, notions ever since his i rorv dawned?ifiat is, by wheeled ' ? ' ? ? - - - * ? - I . 1 | venicies urawu uy aumiai", uy pact trains. and by Builing ships and rowb,.ats On land this means that cunnuerce went 111 slow, cumberous and expensive fashion over highways open to all. Normally these highways could not compete with water transportation, it such was i teasible between the connecting I points. All tnis tins Deeu cuangeu uy the development of the railroads. Save on the ocean or on lakes so large as to be practically iulaud seas, transport by water has wholly lost its old position of superiority over transport b.v laud, while iustead of the old highways open to every one on the same terms, but of a very limited usefulness, we have uew highways?railroads?which are owne l bv private corporations, and waicn are practically un limited, in-lead of limited, use fuluers. Tee old laws and old customs which were adequate and proper to meet the old con ditious need radical readjust ment in order to meet these new conditions. Thecardinal features in these changed conditions are, first, the fact that the new high way, the railway, is, from the commercial standpoint, of infi nitely greater importance iu our industrial life than was the old highway, the wagon road; and, second, that this new highway, the railway, is in the hands of private owners, whereas the old highway, the wagou road, was j in the hands of the Htate. Th?| rnaniigin^ut of the new highway . t ie railroad, or rather of the in- j tricate web of railroad lines which cover the country,isatusk i infinitely more difficult, more I delicate arid more important f Man the primitivelv easy task <f acquiring or keeping in order he ohi highway; so them is proi>erly no a-^alopy whatever between the two car s. I do notj believe in government ownership of anything which can with pro priety be left in private hands, and in particular 1 should most uuousiy object to govern uieut owuership of railroaus. But 1 believe with equal firmness that it it* out of the question for the government not to exer cise a superv s;rv an 1 regulatory right over the railroad-; for it in vital to the well-being 01 the pub lic that they should be managed iti a spirit of fairness and justice toward al1 the public. Actual experience has shown tha'it is uot possible to leave the rail roads uncontrolled Such a eye tern, or rather sucU alack of sys tem, is fertile in abuses of every kind, and pule a premium upon unscrupulous and ruthless cun ning in railroad management: for there are some big shippers aud some railroad managers who are always willing to take unfair advantage of their weaker com petitors, aud they thereby force other big shippers aud big rail road men who would like to do decently into similar acts of wrong and injustice, under penal ty of being left behind in the race for success. Government super vision is needed quite as much in the interest of the big shipper and of the railroad man who want to do right as in the inter est of the small shipper and the consumer. Experience has shown that the present laws are defective and need amendment. The effort to prohibit all restraint of competi tion, whether reasonable or un reasonable is unwise What we need in to have someadministra tive body with ample power to forbid combiuatiou that is hurt ful to the public, and to prevent favoritism to one individual at the expense of another. In other words, we want an administra tive body with the power to secure fair and just treatment as among all shippers who use tne railroads?and all shippers have a right to use them. We must not leave the enforcement of such a law merely to the Department of Justice; it is out of the ques tion for the law department of the Government to do what should be purely administrative work. The Department of Jus tice is to stand behind and co operate with the administrative body, but the administrative body itself must be given the power to do the work and then deld to a strict accountability for the exercise of that power The delays of the law areprover bial, and what we need in this matter is reasonable quickness of action. The abuses of which we have a genuine right to complain taue many shapes. Rebates are not now often given openly. Hut they can be given just as effec tively iu covert form; and pri J vate cars, terminal tracks auu the like must be brought under the control of the commission or administrative body, which is tu exercise supervision uy eut Government. Hut iu my judg ment the most important tniug to do is to give to this admiuis trative body power to make its findings effective, and this can be none oniy ay giving it power, when complaint, is made of u given rate as being unjust or un reasonable, if it linds the com plaint. proper, then itself to fix a maximum rate which it regards as just aud reasonable, this rate to go into effect practically at once, that is within a reasonable time, and to stay in effect, un less reversed by the courts I earnestly hope that by law pow er will be conferred upou repre sentatives of the Government capable of preforming the duty of public accountants carefully to examine into the books of railroads, when so ordered by the Interstate Commerce Com mission, which should itself have power to prescribe what books, and what books only, should be kept by railroads If there is in the miuds of theCommission an\ suspicion that a certain rail road is in any shape or way giv ing rebates or behaving improp erly, I wish the ''<)iniiii?hii>n to have power as a u ?ti -i of right, not as a mailer <d favor, to make a full aud ex uistiveiuves tigation of the receipts and ex penditures of the railroad, so that any violation or evasion of the law may be detected. This is not a revolutionary pro posal on my part, for 1 only wish the same power given in ref ference to railroads that is now exercised as a mutter of course by the national bank examiners as regards national banks. My object in giving these additional powers to the administrative body representing the Govern ment?the Interstate Commerce Commission, or whatever it may be?is primarily to secure a real and not a sham control to the Government representatives. The American people abhor a sham, and with this abborence I : cordially sympathize. Nothing i is more injnriou ; f. iui ? very standpoint than a law which is merely sound and iury. merely pretense, aud not capable of1 working out tangible results. 1 hope to see all the power that I think it ought to have granted to the Government; out 1 would far rather see only some of it granted, but really granted, than see a pretense of granting all, in some shape that really amounts to nothing. It must be understood, as a matter of course, that if this power is granted it is to be exer cieed with wisdom and caution and self-restraint. The Inter state Commerce Commission or other Government official who! failed to protect a railroad that' was in tne right against any clamor, no matter how violent, ou the part of the public, would be guilty of as gross a wrong as if he corruptly rendered an itn J proper service to the railroad at the expense of the public. When I say a square deal I mean a square deal; exactly as much a square deal for the rich man as | for the poor man; but no more. Let eacn stand on his merits, re- j ct-ive what is due him, and be ' judged according to his deserts. ! To more he is not entitled, and ' less he shall not have. a A3 STOOD THE TEST 2E YEARS. l"he old, original GROVE'S Tasteless Chill Tonic. You know what you are ' taking. It Is Iron and quinine In a tameless form. No cure, no pay. 50c. Mr. Asheley Home Mr. Ashley Horue retires from I the presidency of the state fair with a list of honors of which he i may well be proud. For two years the fortunes of the state's j annual event have been under his direction, and in the long list of his distinguished predecessors , no man has achieved a more sig- j nal success. He has planned wisely and had his plans execut ed. The people have responded to his call, full of confidence and enthusiasm. The transportation companies had great faith in his j judgment, and iu granting his j requests made unparalleled ar- J rangements for bringing the peo | pie to the fair. With what wis-1 dom these things havebeen done [ the results fully demonstrate, j Mr. Home declined a re election. [ and retires with the unstinted plaudits of the people of the j state. Like the unselfish, patri- j otic man that he is, he will be j | ready at all times to aid his sue-j cessors in carrying forward tbej fortunes of the fair, and all other I public enterprises of bis beloved ; i state ?Raleigh Host, 21st. . j Indigestion, constipation, dys^ j , j pepsia, kidney and liver disor-1 , I ders, and all stomach troubles1 , | positively cured by using Hollis 1 ter's Rocky Mountain Tea. 3f> cents, Tea or tablets. Seltna Drug Co. and A. H. Boyett Druggist. Ia LondoD in 1003 there werel 24 murders and every murderer [ was executed save two who com I mitted suidcide. In Chicago,! with one-third the population of London, there were 128 murders and one mau was executed. That is a pointer on the question whether or not justice is not also mercy ?Presbyterian Standard. A : ew idea in a Cough Syrup is ad vanced in Kenneay'e Laxative Honey and Tar. besides containing Pine Tar Honey and other valuable remedies, it is rendered Laxative, so that its use in sur s a prompt and efficient evacuation of the bowels. It relaxes the nervous system, and cures all coughs, colds, croup, etc. V red clover blossom and the honey bee is on every bottle of the Original Laxative Cough Syrup?Ken nedy's Lsxatlve Honey and Tar Sold by Hoo.l bros.. benson Drug Co. and J. R. Ledbetter. FARMS FOR RENT. I have some three or four farms to reut, one and two horse crops. Parties desiring to rent, must have their own stock, and fann ing utensils. None wanted ex cept good, peaceable citizens. Land in first class condition and parties renting will be required to manure well. Will lease for three years to good people. For any information, write R. L. RAY, Selnia, N, C. NEED A ROOF? I have located in Smithtield and am prepared to do your tin rooting. All orders left with the Cotter-Stevens Co. will be given prompt attention. J. H. Brady. ? ? ? B CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS ? Li Best Couch Syrup. Tastes Good. & M Use In time. Sold by druggists. ^ ??i i i i i THE GLOBE i V A V * ! doming nouse i | * i Selma, North Carolina. I I Has just received a Car Load of Clothing for '? their Fall and Winter trade. We can show v more goods and better goods at lower prices than any other clothing house in the county. Give us one trial, bring your friends and be convinced. T A T A r * The Globe Clothing House, f NOTICE! pa? Taxes. ? I will attend at the following times and places to col lect the County, State, School and special taxes for the year 1905. The Privilege Tax on Lawyers, Doctors and Dentists is due and must be paid by November 1st, 1905. Beulah. Monday, Oct- 30 Oneals. (at Hare's Store) Tuesday,Oct. 31 Wilders, Wednesday, Nov. 1 Wilson's Mills, Thursday, Nov- 2 Selma. Friday, Nov. 3 Smithfield, Saturday. Nov. 4 The books will be kept open at Smithfield all the time, and taxes for any township can be paid there. J. T. ELLINGTON, Sheriff Johnston Co Insurance! Insurance!! Real Estate! Real Estate!! I represent a number of the stro 'gent Fire Insurance Com panies in America, anil can protect vour property from lo s by Fire at a small cost. Ginneries and Farm property a specialty, lteal Estate, both Farm and Town Property bought ami sold. If you waLt to sell or buy a home in Johnston Co., I can hnndle your Itenl Estate to an advantage. I | S. T. J Ehsscsirzas; arrr-.vrf :z:v?as<szv.V3Etz .rr We Make j a leader of THE SHERWIN- | WILLIAMS FAINTS because 1 they represent the best 5 paint value on the market. ^ For durability, spread- ^ in<* capacity, beauty, easy b working qualities, and I economy no better paints 1 can be made. > They come in but one U quality?the best. They are economical, always. Ask for color cards. SOLD BY ??? ml am mi J. E. PAGE= General Wood and Blacksmith Shops and Planing .Hills. Dealer in Wagon and Carriage Material, Builders' Material, Mill Supplies, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Etc. Undertaking a Specialty. Clayton, N. C. Fall Trade We have for the Fall Trade Cooking and Heating Stoves and Majestic Ranges. These Ranges are superb in their equipment. Guns, Loaded Shells and ammunition. Devoe's and Kurfee's Paints. Lead. Oil and Varnishes. Carpenter's Tools and Farm Implements. Sash. Doors and other ^build ing material. Rubber, Leather and Canvass belt ing. and other Mill Supplies. Royal Washing Ma chines. Boys Wagons and Velocipedes. Johnston harvesting Machinery, which is as good as the ;-?l aiiu vucupL.'. Call to see us. CLAYTON HARDWARE COMPANY C. W. CARTER, Proprietor. 1
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