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1 VOL. XXV isoone, watauua county, Thursday, may 21 1911. NO. 13. FREE CAKAL TOLLS. The Clayton-Ihihver tivat.v was made at the solicitation of tin; Cnited States at a time w h e n ' England owned Canada, British Columbia, part of Alaska, 1W iuuda, British Guinea and what is known as the Musquito Coast, though having only a protector ate over the latter. According to that treaty there was to be n o discrimination shown by either party to any vessels that might pass through any canal that might be dug on the isthmus of Panama- The only available route was then supposed to be by way of the Nicaragua lake, which was in foreign territory; but so, also, was tlie route between Pan ama and Colon. When that treaty was superceded by the Hay Pauncefote treaty, it was still supposed that the canal would be through lake Nicaragua. It, too, contained a provision that all ships should be allowed to go through on equal terms. After that treaty had been rati fied by both countries, the United States, by treaty and purchase, secured absolute title to a strip of country ten miles broad fro in Colon to Panama This strip be came then a part of the United States. It is no longer part of a foreign country. A canal has been. built across it with the mon ey of the United States, and en tirely without the aid or co-operation, financial or otherwise, of any other country on institution. We own the laud and the canal outright. This is conceded by Great Britian. Thus the condi tion of affairs existing when the Hay-Pauncefote treaty was rati fied has leen radically changed. Therefore, the entire Jtreaty, re-, lating as it does to the construc tion of a canal through foreign territory, may be abrogated en tirely. The Congress of the United States, with these facts before i, passed an act exempting the do mestic and coastwise vessels of ' 'the United States from all tolls for passing through the canal. England now claims that this is a violation of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. If the canal had been built on foreign territory with the financial co-operation of other countries o r corporations, i t might have been in violation of that treaty. But, either all the terms of that treaty are obliga tory upon both parties now, or none of them are, so far as a ca nal built on tour own territory and exclusively by our own mon ey is concerned. For it is true in international as well as in do mestic law, that no one party to . any contract can dictate to the other which conditions snail re main binding and which shall not so remain. Therefore, unless the United States elects to abide by the Hay-Pauncefote treaty con cerning the equality of all vessels passing through the canal, it can not be made to abrogate the law exempting our coastwise and do mestic vessels from canal tolls. William Jennings Bryan, there fore, was right when he declared that in repealing the tolls act we would not be giving up our right to pass our shipping through the canal free, but would be merely asserting the fact t hat we did not choose to assert that right at this time and in this way. Senator Simmons is also right in having the repealing act so amended as to declare in unmistakable terms that we do not by this repealing act abandon our right to regu late and operate the canal in our own way. The contention that Great Britain has neutralized the Suez canal is untenable, as that na tion has never acknowledged or recognized the principal of neu trality of the Suez canal as bind by buying up a -oiitroling inter est, in Urn capital stock, Great Britian Nenired the management of that wuterway. It hudulrvady obtained Malta, Cyprus and Gibraltar in the Mediterranean; but after getting control of the canal, she also secured Perim, an island at the Bed Sea entrance, and took possession of Egypt. Thus England secured the econ omical ami political control of the Suez Canal, her main pur pose having been to usethecanal for the passage of her warships incase of war, while excluding those of her enemies. It is only nominally neutral, as Germany, Russia, France, Italy and Aus tria will discover should the oc casion arise for the assertion of the fact that it is neutral to the extent of restraining England's foes and all other nations, while leaving her free to do as she pleases with it and thern. When, therefore, the democrat ic and progressives parties, in their platforms of 1912, declared for free tolls for the vessels of our domestic and coastwise trade, and when the American people cast 14,720,037 votes for the candi dates for those two parties, we were asserting our clear right to manage a canal built by our own money and on our own soil in our own war. As against tnese affirmative votes, only 4,309, b90 were cast for all other par ties having antagonistic orsilent planks in their platforms on this subject. But, as the democratic platform contained also a plank declaring against subsidies to ships, and as free tolls would be such a subsidy, the repeal of the free tolls act would not be any denial of our right to pass and enforce Wlch act, but onlytftrf. assertion tha t for our own reason we do not wish to put it into ef fect at this time. This would be equivalent to construing the free tolls plank into an assertion of our right to pass such an act whenever we so desire while at the same time insisting on the princi- j pie that we oppose subsidies t o shipping of any kind. England still owns all the land in North America she owned when the Clayton-Buhvar treaty was atified, and while our title to the anal strip may be questioned by Colu mbia, the countryf rom which Panama seceded, we have pos session, we have paid the price a- greed on, and have bought from France all the rights and proper ty it ever held in that enterprise. England can not dispute our ti tle to the land,and indeed, she does not, for she at least has no possible claim to it or any part thereof. Our treaty negotiations with Columbia, looking to the payment of 15,000. and express ing regrets for what has happen ed, will never be ratified by tne Senate of the United States. We shall stand by our purchase and treaty with Panama, which coun t ry we have recognized, and which has been recognized as a sover eign uation by all the powers of the civilized world. Our title, therefore, is complete. As our President, however, placed his request for the repeal of the free tolls act squarely upon the fact that it is regarded by all nations as a violation of the Hay Pauncefote treaty, we may be stopped from re-enacting it here after if the repealing act as it passed the House is not so a mended bv the Senate as to show- that we thereby surrender none of our claims to manage and control our own exclusive prop erty. Hence, the wisdom of the Simmons amendment, which is understood to have the npprov al of the President himself Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C ASTO R 1 A STATE m GENERAL NEWS. Senator Simmons ha a ruse of j e measles. Huerta has ordered the release of Consul Silliman under arrest at Saltillo. Biirves Holes of tCinr Stokes c- ' u-.o.i,.f f.iili,.., ' it. Win. Smith, of Clemmous. near Winston-Sulem. was jailed on the 13, for the murder of Joe Tise at a blacksmith shop. Congress "aint savin' a word"; but it is appropriating all the money the Mexican situation seems to demand. John Skelton Williams, comp troller of the currency, addressed the North Carolina Bankers asso ciation at Raleigh on the 13th. The Southern Baptists met last week in Memphis, where they elect ed .Lansing Burrows of Americus Ga., president of the convention and all other regular officers. Harlem Wilson of Newport, Tenn., was killed in a fight with fellow lumbermen in a camp in Transylvania county on the 12th. Fred Brotherton was killed by having a saw in the B. A. Trout man saw mill, six miles west of of Mooresville on the 13th. The saw ripped his skull open while he was removing sawdust. It looks as though no vote will be reached on the repeal of the tolls measure for two weeks. But when avote is reached it will be in favor of the repeal by at least twenty majority. Tampico, the port where our gajlpra xvoxa arroatod, has boon a- by tne Federals (Huer tiwtns 1 after desperate attacks by the Constitutionalists (Villa's men.) Mount Airy has begun paving two miles of her streets. Just wait till Boone begins to pave two miles of hers, and you will probably be dead and forgotten too. The congressional convention of the 10th district will meet in Waynesville May 27th, when a chairman to succeed Owen Gud ger, will be selected?)' the success- ul candidate. Three negro men supposed to be "hold up" men, were arrested in Winston-Salem on the 13th. fhey are supposed to be the1. men who robbed Capt. W. W. Dugan, trainmaster of the Southern, in the center of the city recently. Samuel Gompers, Frank Mor- , t i. mi 1....... nson ana tionn kiucubh, uiht abor leaders, were released from the punishment inflicted upon them for contempt of Court by the Supreme court of the District of Columbia in the Banbury Hat ters case. rhe General Convention of the Methodist Episcopal ( hurch, South, is still in session at Okla homa City, where many grave questions are being considered, among which is the vanaerDiit college control matter. Senator Overman has secured a report from the Senate com mittee on Appropriations recom mending the granting of 175, 000. for trade extention in for eign countries. Ten years ago he started the ball with only 10, 000., now so greatly increased. The Interstate Commerce Com mission will examine diaries S. Mellin, former president and sev 1 directors of the New Haven ..t- ....iww,tiu lv. lv., wuieu luey w recwm '""'"j He is understood to be willing to Rmieni on his assistants. ' Of course, William Itockefellow and G. M. Miller, two of the directors, now claim to be too "sick to tes tify.' DISCOVERED AT LAST. The natural rsoiinv and ad- vantages of Alleghany, Ashe and Wataugn nullities, the finest see- in of the North Carolina morni- tains, are iing .liscoere.l at l.it, in spile of till we could do to renin iti hidden from the rest of the i i We n iv litem Ik b e I 11 g raujiiu in iiiemi, I. 1 as it wen. joi nuviiig more aim oeuei jH.v(han ,mvwheiv else in the world, though w.e have done our very liest to hide our light under a bushel ever since Daniel Boone passed through O'.i his way to Kentucky. What K all that rigamarole a bout? This: Messrs. A. J. Reed of Raleigh, and C. Fj Doane of Washington, D. C, tjo very handsome and prepossessing looking young men of good moral character, appar- ently, und both apparently mar ried hard and fast, thank good ness, arrived at the Blair hotel. Boone, last Thursday nigh t. Thev are making a tour of the three obscure and hidden counties named above for the purpose of investigating tneir adaptability for cheese making. After even a mostcuiiory examination they are convinced and they know all about the subject that this sec tion can produce cheese of as fine quality as the finest produced in the states of New York. Wiscon sin or Ohio. How theyeverfound it out, is as much of a mystery as how Mrs. Wood row Wilson last summerdiscoveivd that Mrs. Finley Mast of Valle Crucis can make the very finest sort of jean, coverlids, rugs and carpets on an old-fashioned hand loom that has been in he? family over onehun- dredflii0' ButeLo did find itruifc, and Mrs. Mast made for Mrs. President Wilson last September a beautiful rug, 14 by 18 ft, so thick that the heaviest footfall cannot be heard thereon. It is of a beautiful shade of green, and already adorns one of the rooms of the nation's White House. Mrs. Mast also makes towels for dress ers, tidies for chairs, curtains for for windows, ptirtiers etc. from the same loom, and in her pos session is a swallow-tailed suit of blue linen, with large silver but tons, flase pocket flaps etc., which was worn by her great grand father at many a country dance in the days "When life was new and nil was bright as morning dew.'' And mark this prediction: "One of these days, believer, one of these days," some wjde a wake hotel man, with a pocket full of scads is coming along here and is going to discover that the Almightv Architect planned and adapted this section for the play ground of Dixie's land; there are no foirs in l!oone, and that here is the spot favored of the gods for a hotel that will surpass tlie glo- i.;,u (f th Ponce de 1'on or the Poncia'na of Florida; that Cook ga p, on the crest of the Blue Ridge, is more favored than Rome, that "sat on her seven hills and from hoi. throne of beauty ruled the iv w V world." or words to that effect; that Valle Crucis, the romatic Val- lev of the Cross, in which the sou racket! Ives dreamed of founding an abbey or monastery, and whose still "tintres the sober Oil, 11 ' J - r. twilisrht of the present with color of ronance," is as lovely as the Eden from which the snow-limbed Eve was driven in the day-dawn of the world; that Jefferson, Spar ra Preston. Banner blk, Aita- mont, I'inola, Beaver Creek, Sol itude, Sugar Grove and a score ,f i.tli..r nliiees will afford rest .J V V v - i and im tu..uv., , .A , u,.n, ,vila11 white people oi the South w hen I thev finally decide to move up to I Go(p8 country and surrender the !nmarial sections to the African - 1 an(j tjie 0Uigator. Ye8, us some ofus will have admit with great reluctant', we are being discovered at last in spite of the fact that the Edward Bitiiromlie chapter of the Daugh ters of the American Revolution, have refusal to put the pictureof the Daniel Boone cabin monu inent. which adorns this town, into a historv of this sect ion, one of the objects of writing which was to take the lid off and reveal our glories to the world. But. then the Edward IhmcomiK.' chap ter might have been exjteeted to look out for Buncombe! CoimiKD Fon Three Years. "I am a lover of your godsend to humanity and science. Your medicine. Dr. King's New Discov ery, cured my cough of three yr. standing." says Jennie Flemming of New Dover Ohio. Have you an annoving cough? Is it stub born and won't yield to treat ment? Get a 50c bottle of Dr. k'inrr'a 'iv lliapnverv todftV. What it did for Jennie Flemming it will do for you, no matter how stubborn or chronic acoutrh may be. It stops a cough and stops throat and luna- trouble. Relief or monev back. 50c and 1.00 at vour drua-ffist ftucklen's Arnica Salve for pirn pies. What a pity it is that the most historic spot west of the Blue Ridge the site of the Daniel Boone cabin in front of the Boy's Dormitory is not deemed worthy of a place in the forthcoming his tory of Western North Carolina, merely because the picture of it which has been paid for, happened to have had a likeness of its main builder, Col. W. L. Bryan, stand ing to one side of it. In fact, there is to be no picture of any person place or thing in that history out side of Buncombe and Haywood counties, although their insertion would cost the Bdwaru mva-wiirtj hapter of the D. A. R. not one red cent, and in spite of all that Mr. John P. Arthur has done to lave all of Western North Cam illa treated impartially in the il- ustrations as well as in the text itself. What a pity! hat a itv! What a pity. veep Bowel Movement Regu lar. Dr. Kings New Life Pills keep stomache, liver and kidneys m lealthv condition. Kuttlie oouv of poisons and waste. Improve our complexion oy nusmug uir iverand kidneys. "I got more re ief from one box of Dr. King's New Life Pills than any medicine ever tried," savs C. h. Itattwld, f Chicago, 111. 2v., at your Drug gist. Child Citoss? Feverish? Sick? cross, peevish, listless child. with coated tongue, pale, doesn't sleep; eats sometimes very little, thou again ravenously; sioiuacne sour; breath fetid; pains instom jiche. with diarrhea; grinds teeth while asleep, and starts up wren terror all suggest a Worm Kil- ,irsomething that expels worms and almost every child lias them. Kk knpoo Worm Killer is needed. (iet a box to-day. Start at once. You won't have to coax, as Kick- it . i - :ii A .i.ti apoo VMiriU lVlliei isiioinuj vvii- fwtion. Exnels the worms, the cause of your child's trouble. 25c at your druggist. JOBINTING TRIAL ORDERS SOLICITED. SATISFACTION GUARAN TEED. PRICES RIliHT. ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILL ED. WAGNER A. RKESK BOONE, - - - " w Silas M. Greene, JEWET-ER Mapkl, N. C. All kinds of repair work done under a positive guar antee. When in need of any thinirinmy line give me a call and get honest work at honest prices. to J Watch Kicking A Smcui.TYE PR OFESSIONAL. J .:. Fletcher Jol.u H. Biughatu Fletcher & Bingham. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BOONE, NORTH CARO. Will practice Id tb court of W Uuga aud adjoining count!. Car fnl and prompt attention given to all matter utrutd ton, It SO. 18. Dr. G. M. Peavler, Treat Disease ot the Eye, Ear Nose and Throat BRISTOL. TENN., 1 15 14 ly, T. E. Bingham, Lawyer BOONE, N.C "Prompt attention .given to all marters of a legal nature Collections a specialty. Office with Solicitor F. A. Lin ney 1-29 ly. pd. T. A. Lovk, i James C.Clisk LOVE & CLINE, Attorney a-at-Law NEWLAND, - - N.C. Will practice regularly in the coun t leg of A very aud.allJadJoinlDg coun tie. The.'collectlonof claims a ipeclalty. 8-27-'13 1 jr. VETERINARY SURGERY. I have been putting much ntudy on this subject; have receiyed my diploma, and am now well equipped (or the practice oi Veterinary Sur gery in all Its branches, and am the only one in the county, all on or nw. no . V'lo N R J? II I O. H. HAYE8, Veterinary Surgeon. s-n-'ii. E, S. COFFEY. -ATI OR El Al LAW,-' BOONE, N. C. Prompt attention given to ill matters of a legal nature. tST Abstracting titles and ouection ot claims a special v. Dr. Nat. T. Dulaney SPECIALIST IK, ear; nosk, throat and chebt BTKS EXAMINED FOI GLASSES FOURTH STREET Bristol. Tenn.-Va. EDMUND JONES LAW YEH LENOIlt, N. 0,- W'ill Practice Regularly in the Courts of Watauga, 6-1 'ii. L,D. LOWE, ATTORN EYAT LAW. Banner Elk, N. C. Practice in the courts of Avery and surrounding counties. Care ful attention given to all matters of a legal nature. 7-6-12 F. A. LINNEY, ATTORNEy AT LAW, BOONE, n. c. Will practice in the courts of the 13th Judicial District in all matters of a civil nature. 6-11-1911. E. F. Lovill. W. R. Lovill Lovill 8c Lovill -Attorneys At Law -B00NE, N. C. Special attention given to all business entrusted to .heir care. ing upon her. France dug it, but !
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