.Democrat
VOL 2
liOOXE, WATAUGA COUXTY. N. O, THUHSDAW MAY. 8, 1800.
NO. 4&
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Tt ttr Efttlu Corrtfptnda&L
For the Democtat:
The injustieennd absurdity
of the McKinley tariff bill ex
cited such general dissatisfac
tion that the republicans are
obliged to abandon it. It in
conceded that the bill can
never become a law, but the
republican majority in the
House has so thoroughly
committed itself that the bill
is expected U pais the House
by a strict party vote. In the
meantime the republicans of
the Senate finance commit
tee are at work on another
bill as a substitute for the
McKinley bill. They expect
to report it to the Senate
vey soon after the McKinley
bill passes the House.
This shows the importance
of Mr. McKinley's specious
oratory, that captivates a
careless crowd, to convince
the business interests of the
country of the propriety of a
single idea he entertains on
the subject of the tariff.
The republican joint cau
cus committee of the House
and Senate have agreed up
on the basis for the prepara-
tion of a silver bill. It directs
the Secretary of the Treasu
ry to purchase 4,500,000
ounces of free silver per
month at the market price,
not to exceed $1 for 371,25
giains of pure silver, and is
sue treasury notes in pay
meat of the bullion. These
notes shall be payable on de
mand in lawful money of the
United Slates, and are re
ceivable for all public dues
No greater or less amount
of such notes shall be out
standing at any time than
the cost of the silver bullion
then held in the Treasury,
purchased by such notes.
Upon demand of the holder
of any such Treasury notes,
the Secretary of the Treasu
ry may, at his discretion, pay
off such notes with silver
bullion at its market price.
The Secretary is also permit
ted to coin this bullion,
should it be necessary, for
the redemption of these pro
posed Treasury notes. $78,
000.000 held to redeem the
circulation of banks will be
restored to general circula
tion. The investigating commit
tee on inter-state com mere
charged with inquiry into the
relations of rail-roads of the
United States and Canada,
has concluded its labors.
Chairman Cullom has com
pleted a report which, with
sundry remedial recommend
ations, awaits the approval
of the committee. The report
states the good effects of the
inter-state commerce law are
partially nullified by the com
petition of the Canada
lines. Unjust discrimination
is made by Canada against
U. S. vessls in Welland canal
tolls, in violation of the trea
ty of Washington. The Ca
nadian railroads control
lines operating over a large
part of New England and
Northern States. Conada
owns a svstem of canals that
cost 154,000,000. The inter-colonial
railway has cost
147,000.000. To the Cana
dian Pacifiic railroad, which
wan begun as a government
line. Canada ha f 215,000,
000, but the road cost only
$167,000,000. The report
states that it has been the in
concealed purpose of the Ca
nadian governmentto secure
a railroad across th conti
nent of commnndiog influ
ence which, in connection
with subsidized steamer lines,
would be able to dominate
the .trans-continental comj
metre of the United States
- - deflt Irom -American.
railroads. vessels and sea
ports a large share of our
commerce with counties in
Aia, Australia and New Zea
land. In this endeavor it has
met with marked success and
is progressing. Canada subsi
dized two lines of steamers
from Vancouver, the western
terminus of the Canadian R.
11., with 1425,000; and one
line from St. John, N. B., its
eastern terminus, receives a
a sibsidy of $800,000.
The report refers to a confer
ence of the commercial and in
dustrial bodies of the Pacific
const, held at San Francisco,
July 1890. The report of the
conference declares that with
such special advantages the
Caaadian Pacific could afford
to quote rates that must
drive the American steamer
lines out of the China trade,
to the almost irreparable in
jury of San Francisco, and
predicts .general destruction
for the larger part of the A-
merican steamer trafic on
the Pacific ocean, unless
some vigorous measures be
adopted by the U. S. govern
ment. A bill to make a territory
of Oklahoma has passed the
Senate; 50 yeas 5' nays.
Whenever the Indian inter
est in surrounding territory
shall be extinguished it will
be annexed to Oklahoma.
The laws of Nebraska are ex
tended over the new territo
ry. Washington, Apr. 28.
Don't expect an advertise
ment to bear fruit in one
night. You can't eat enough
in a week to last you a year,
and the Building Advocate
doesn't believe you can ad
vertise on that plan either.
People who advertise only
once in three months forget
that most folks can not re
member anything longer
than about seven days. If
you can arouse curiosity by
an advertisement it is a great
point gained. The fair sex
don't hold nil the curiosity
in the world. Quitting ad
vertising in dull times is like
tearing out a dam because
the water is low. Building
Advocate.
President Harrison has
turned out40,000 democrats
since he got into office, and
put out about 160,000 re
publicans who didn't get the
office they expected. Wil
mington Star.
The Lee Statue Arrived.
New York, April 20.-The
Wilson Line steamer Othello,
from Londou a.id Havre,
which arrived here to-day,
brings the equestrian statue
of General Robert L. Lee,
which is to beset at Rich
mond. Va. It is consigned
to til Governor of Virginia.
fen 4 Drt Ue, if Itll 014.
The following is the opin
ion of a successful farmer If
we would be prosperous, con
tended and happy we must
raise our own supplies.
There are scores upon scores
of farmers who scarcely have
a home-made article about
them, and right here I would
include all classes to a cer
tain extent. Visit their
homes and we would find
thej musthaveyankeechairs
yankee bed-steads, yankee
shovel and tongs and yankee
centre-table piled up with
stacks of agricultural journ
als published in Louisville
Ky. or Springfield 0. Go to
the kitchen and you will find
a yankee stove, bucket, dip
per, towel, soap and a great
many other articles. You
scarcely see a home-made ar
ticles unless a few sweet po
tatoes. Go to the smoke
house brother farmers, and
find a piece ot white Chicago
meat, a piece of a barrel of
Minnesota flour, a small
quantity of Irish potatoes
from Maine, a can of Chicago
lard, a keg of so-called Cuba
molassos, and a jug of vine
gar from New Jersey. Go to
the barn and there you will
find his Kentucky mule or
mules, fed on ship-stuffs from
Baltimore, mixed with hiy
from Illinois, cut with a
knife from New York, his
wagon is from Michigan, his
harnefes from Massachusetts
his plow is from Michigan,
his buggy from Ohio, and
even his old guano sacks a-
bout have on them Rhode Is
land
I have not named an article
but could be raised in N. C
It will pay no farmer to raise
eotton and buy his supplies.
For the sake of coming gen
erations and the love vvecher
ish for our comon country,
let us encourage home indus
try and try to plaster our
State over with spare-ribs,
bask bones, and sausages, in
stead of mortgages.
It has not been long since
a mercantile gentleman
told me that some farmers,
so-called, would come to the
town and give mortgages to
the amount of forty or fifty
dollars and trade out every
cent of it before they left
town. Let us practice econ
omy and stop this universal
and inexcusable waste.
The more you have to buy
the more chances you give
the high war tariff and the
heartless speculator to rob
you. Until thes incubuses
can be struck from our body
politic (and may God grant
that the day is near at hand)
is it wisdom for us to live like
the oyster, in his shell, and
"unto himseif alone." In
short, we can Loycott them
by raising our home sup
plies. Clintou Caucasian.
Imperfect digestion and assim
ilation produce disordered condi
tions 'ol the system which grow
mid flivpnnflrniwibv netrlect. Dr.
J. II. McLean's Strengthening
Cordial and Blood Purifier, by
its tonic properties, cures mdtges
tion and gives li me to tho stom
ache. f 1 per bottle.
The State Treasurer's re
port shows that North Caro
lina received last year $4,
119,84 fron marriage licens.
The Federal elction bill, in
troduced iu the Senate by Mr.
Hoar, is by all odds the most
extraordinary measure of the
sort yet produced. It propo
ses, in brief, to put the con
trol of congressional elec
tionsntirely into the hands
of canvassing boards and su
pervUors appointed by Fed
eral judges, the State being
wholly ignored. These judg
es are nearly all republicans
They ore to appoint election
officers,' 5h6 are to prepare
the lists of voters, supervise
the elections, with dictatori
al powers, count the ballots
and certify the result. Their
certificates are to be the on
ly credentials of members of
Congress. Neither the Gov
ernor of a State nor the Leg
islature is to have any part
or lot in the holding of con
gressional elections or certi
fying results. It is to be a
Federal affair, under control
of underlings pledged to ad
vance the interests of a par
ticular party. The Federal
Legislature is to be the crea
ture of appointees of parti
san judges, who are the ap
pointees of a partisan Presi
dent. A more revolutionary
and offensive bill has not
been presented at Washing
ton since the reconstruction
era, of odious memory. It is
uot relieved by a pretense of
instituting better methods of
voting. The Australian bal
lot is not prescribed. It is
simply a device to enable un
scrupulous Federal judges in
the South to send republican
Representatives to Congress
instead of democrats. News
and Observer
DOWN ON DUDES.
Mr. Jones said someyoung
men in Durham got mad
with him and said they were
going to whip him. "I just
said come ahead. I'll spit on
you, and drownyou." When
ever you spit on one of these
little ball-room bucks, if he
cant swim he dont stand
much chance. I'ts no harm to
kill a dude. Murder is the
unlawful killing of a human
being.
Little ball-room dude,
walking around with a pis
tol in his hip pocket. I'ts a
wonder the thing dont go off
and blow his brainlets out.
The Phiadelphia Times
wisely and earnesty opposes
the Radical Force bill. It sees
in It only revolutionary elec
tion methods. It says :
"Not a single Southern
State would be won by such
methods, and four-fifths of
the Northern States would re
volt and end the history of
the"bffending party in infa
my. President Grant once
said that the best way to
cure the evils of a bad law
was to enforce it, and the
bese way to cure the evils of
the force-bill elections would
be to have a trial of such a
law and enforce it in every
section of the country."
The trouble is. that it will
only be tried n the South.
The North will have none of
it. The wicked framers only
design it for "Southern con
sumption." -Aessenger.
lulamt ta CfTrm.
There is a strong determina
tion on the part of the House
committee on rules, which is
the steering committee of the
House, to harry through on
ly such measures as are es
sential at this time and po
liticnl measures, and to se
cure an adjournment as soon
as possible.
Both parties are preparing
for the campaign this fall,
which will determine the com
plexion of the next House,
art (frit is not the purpose of
the republicans to be handi
capped by along session drag
ging through the summer
months, with the attending
responsibility for a great
mass of legislation.
A resolution has been drawn
np at. the suggestion of Mr.
Reed to bj offered in 1 he re
publican caucus to-night, pro
viding that the tariff bill, the
silver bill, the Morrill limited
service pension bill and the
federal election scheme shall
be disposed of during the ses
sion. It is expected that there
will be a strong opposition
to the Lodge election bill,
and possibly to any other
that may be presented.
Washington Star.
HOME FOLKS.
Senator Ransom introduc
ed a petition in the United
States Senate from citizens
ot this town asking for the
passage of a law stopping
mails, trains, etc., on Sun
day. We understand that all
mails and trains in England
are suspended from Saturday
night to Monday morning,
and that the interests of the
people do not suffer from this
arrangement. But ore the
running of trains any worse
than riding about in buggies
and other vehicles on the
Lord's day? If we are not
mistaken a great many chuch
people go on pleasure rides
on that day. Messenger.
Tnat man of God, the Rev
erend Sam P. Jones, is in
Charlotte at this time, just
ifying the ways of God to
men. Up tolast evening he had
called the people of thatdevo
ted city hounds, lousy calves,
dirty dogs, fools and con
temptible puppies, and had
said of the best people of the
city (who are as good people
as dwell on earth) that they
would not be allowed to
sweep out the kitchens of the
bon-ton of Baltimore If he
talked that way on the street
instead of in a "tabernacle"
he would get both eyes black
ed and then be sent to the
rock-pile. La ndnmrk.
Another Northern mill has
shut down. It is one of the
argestin Ohio the Tifnin
woolen Mills. Superinten
dent Waugh says that the
sole cause is the tariff. He
says:
'I have been a life long Re
publican, but I tell you thou
sands 0 woolen mill opera
tives in Ibis country, myself a
mong the number, are hav
ing their eyes opened on this
tariff question"
Let the funeral proceed
Messenger.
President Davis's mansion
in Richmond, Va. is, to be con
verted into a Confederate
Museum.
Wlimr Xor TriU.
A gentleman who is proml
nnt in the Y. M. C. A. learn
ed not long ago that a warm
fritnd of his early davs was
nearing the curbstone
through strongdrink. and he
was told that the poor fel
low's only rescue was through
u confinement in the Wash
ingtonlan Home. The phi
lanthropist resolved to res
cue him at first sight, and he
met him down town one Sat
urday afternoon. Takinghim
into his buggy be talked
pleasantly with him android
lie would give him a ride.
They stopped at the Wash
ingtonian Home and the pht
lanthropist asked his unfor
tunate friend to accompany
him up stairs to call on an
old chum. He went. The two
were ushered into a parlor.
The superintendent entered.
Up jumped the unfortunate,
whispered a few hurried words
in his ear, and started to
leave. His kind friend start
ed after him. "Oh no," said
the superintendent, "you will
stay with us." The philan
thropist was dumbfounded.
In vain did he protest that
he was the wrong man. He
was removed to a room
and dosed on beef tea
and bromide. They kept
him until Monday before they
allowed him to send a note
to his family. He was rescued
at once. The "poor unfortu
nate" had sold his horse and
buggy and left for parts un
known. Now theY. M. C. A
man does not go around sa
ving fallen friends. Chicago
Herald. '
Citorp suffocation, nieht cousrhs
and all the common affections oi
the throat and lanes quickly re
lieved by Dr. J. IL McLean's Tar
wine lung bal in.
Senator Quay i.j represent
ed as being in a sad plight.
The developments made by
papers that have pried into
his past life have disarrang
ed hissocial attitude to the
other Senators who are not
so cordial toward him as for
merly ; and it is stated that
President Harrison has even
asked him to resign the posi
tion of chairman of the re
publican committee. Under
all these circumstances he re
mains quiet, and bears the
slings of fortune with a meek
ness and humility that would
bespeak Christian fortitude
in a matter of another char
acter. Observer.
the hmiHphnld which cause burns
cuts, sprains and bruises ,for use
in such cases Dr. J. II. Mcian a
Volcanic Oil Liniment has for ma
n v years been the constant favor
ite family remedy
A voung preacher pi ketl
up Bishop Pierce's hat and
put it on his own head, and
it was exactly a fit. "Why,
Bishop," said he, "yourhead
and mine are exactly the
same size." "Yes," replied
the Bishop, "on the outside.'
If vmir kidnevs are inactive.
you will feel and look wretched,
even in the most cheerful society,
meloncholy on the jolliest occa
sions Dr.'j. HeLean's Liver and
Kidney Balm will set you right
again. 1.00 per bottle.
The difference between a
shrewd, successful politician
and a diligent, unconditional
Tiar is frequently hard to detect.-Oil
City Blizzard.