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Z.'JU ".V. & Trj-oa street. Tele . Las, liens cti'ice. Moll f eo. tor's oitice, Hell s e...ior's oicc Bell lates are turnlsCeJ on uveruseis may ieel suis , tlio columns 01 this iy reaco all Charlotte of th best people In J upper Souta Carolina, givea correspondents- as f as it thinks public policy it is in na case respou- r views. It is much at correspondents sign to their articles, espe ms whera they attack i sUtutfons, though this jed. The editor reserves j give the names cJ-cor.-v hen they are demand- ' j r pose of personal satis- receive consideration a m must be accompanied name of the correspond- AY, MAY 81, 7907. DOT ON RAILROAD .LGtHLATlOX. cat's Memorial Day speech aslon of the unveiling of I to General Law ton at yesterday is bound " to i echoes all over the- coun usual expedient of. point- generation's heirship to speaker quickly ; passed ar days to the present and ose principles of corpor 1 with which his name has irs been Inseparably asso ' principles enunciated at yesterday have long sines amillar to the public; they i application of the square our great Industrial prob- rong Interest which this sses is because the Presl tratlng himself upon the railroad regulation, tells .e thinks should be done r and takes a slightly more ind than before. He will lead . this movement and re before the outcry which road Interests have raised, retracted; little is added. y friends," said the Pres nearing his close, "is sub hat I have said over and ' He is hot MrrBryan that :r some new and wild Soe ver he makes an important fads are of the harmless ighout, he takes pains to 'crstood that he .Is speak iervatlve man w,ho wishes certain .evils before their angers the' whole existing it, the President's position y himself yesterday is that iould bear much the same the general government as nk$ now do. This mode of i the newest and most Im pure of the entire address. rity granted by the Hep- the Inter-State commerce will require all railroads ts jurisdiction to standard ccountlng methods and is !ng a bureau of special ex lih this machinery avatl- oosevelt expects to secure hlch will enable small ln exerclse Intelligent Judg entrusting their money to f great railway enterprises, r as complete publicity In of railroads as now ob rczard to national banks, be no fear on the part of ays the President, "that -it for national supervision over railroads will be fbt rrA. No State, of !o for the railways what 1 government has already ? banks, and that govern I do something analogous ys. National bank stocks nd sold largely on the cer character which the gov a result of Its examinations ion, gives to them. op!e the same guaranties 1 securities which we no w s to national bank shares, !4 presently see them In 'Iroads, and thus opening r from which to draw . 50 much needed for ' 1 betterment of the j Observer is especially j line of argument, for r such mention Is per t about two months ago over the : same v ground, ; tame analogy between ks and railroads and advls ? to geek government su "he national-bank sort in--ing any supervision at hows a spirit of fair i toward the rall iat census reports alue of the rall together with Or-State com- ' 'o -;how tbnt i-f.,.;t t :. . :; r.r.r.r. .i-.-rs who 1 1 i::,rc:.l irr'-Ttics with iriJc-ttcInc-.-s, to the great injury of stockholders as well 33 the public, and pocket the proceeds in whole or in part, escape criminal punishment under present laws. His tendency to excessive nation alism Is seen in a contention that the mere fact of transporting mails "prob ably" subjects even railroads not inter-State to Federal control. The Observer frankly confesses it self unable to understand why any honestly managed railroad should ob ject to such regulation as President Roosevelt proposes. " AGAIN, THE RITE LAW AND THE ROADS. The Observer is in receipt of the following communication: ; To the Editor of Tha Observer: In The Observer of yesterday you right ly commend the course of the Seaboard and the Atlantic Coast Line in their de cision to let tn-s law pertaining to pas senger rates and freight rates go Into ef fect. However, the action of the South ern Railway in enjoying the North Car olina corporation commission irom pud ilnhing freight rates under the new law practically defers the operation or mat law till the decision of the courts is ren dered, as that law applies only to freight ever two roaas ana the injunction n w the Southern render the law inopera tive, if Judge Prttchard should decide against the SUte, for nlneteen-twentieths or intra-state business is aneciea oy iiw law. However, I started out to ask an ex planation of the following sentence: 'It should be obvious that where constitu tional guarantees are Involved no State can stand between its corporations or other citizens and resort to those courts which are the constitution's Ruardlans. In what way are the Federal District and Circuit Courts the guardians of the con stitution rather than State courts? Are not the Judges of each and all sworn to support the constitution of the Lmted States? The Selma case went to State courts first. Why not this case now in auestion? The State does not seek, as I understand, to bar any individual from his rijrhts under the constitution. I can not quite understand The Observer a posi tion. Certainly, the members of our State Supreme Court are as ftble men as Judge Prltchard. No one will deny this. Yet when large corporations habitually ignore our Stat courts and rush into the el eral courts they indicate eitner that they fear the fairness and integrity of State courts or that they have no confidence In their ability. ' A Oak Ridge, May 27. This touches a matter of much legi timate public interest and we are glad of a taking to task which Implies a request for a fuller exposition of what we believe to be the facts. Fi-rnt of all, it is to be said that the constitu tion of the United States entrusts it self to the Supreme Court of the Unit ed States and such courts inferior thereto as Congress may create. Any decision by State Courts upon what is so entirely a "Federal question" as the Southern's contention would be merely academic; if the railroad com pany was to seek relief at all it acted quite correctly In applying at once to those courts with whom the real.nd-. judication of the. matter must rest unless, of course, it cowered "before prejudice against the Unite! States courts. As to the Southern' wisdom, in putting up any sort of right 'what ever, that is another matter and one upon which The Observer, in the editorial to which our correspondent refers, expressed views entirely in agreement with his own. One more matter: If the Seaboard voluntarily lets the law go into effect, as it has said it will, the fact of an injunction against the corporation commission's power of enforcement could maks no difference so far as tnls roa.l Is con cerned. The only manner of binding injunction would be one granted at the instance pf Seaboard stockhold ers and addressed to the Seaboard Air Line Railway Cjmpary itscif such an Injunction as1 Atlantic Coast Line stockholders have recently ap plied for. These are the facts of Ih? situation as we leo them ' Avnih hlty. I t slr.c? the civil war jrarlifs have r.s a rule chosen their can jdljates for both TresiJent and Vice Tresident with a view to locality. As for the Democratic party, it nominated Seymour in 1868 because he was from New York; in 1876, Tllden, because he was from New York: in 1884, 1888 and 1892, Cleveland, for the same reason and for his popularity; in 1904, Park er, because he is a New Yorker. We pass over 1872, when Greeley was the nominee. That was for the reason that the Democratic cause was then hopeless and Greeley was the candidate of the Liberal Republicans who had split from the regulars; but he, too, was from New York, Its candidate in 1880 General Hancock, was nominated because he was from New Jersey, a doubtfully Democratic State, and largely on account of his military rec ord. In 1896 the convention was swept off its feet by Bryan's crown-of- thorns-and-cross-of-gold and In 1900 It was still in a state of hysteria. It will not do for the Democratic party to say in the face of the record that it cannot nominate a souinern man for reasons of section' while for forty years it has nominated its can didates, with rare exceptions, with ref erence to nothing else. We hold ttiat the nomination of a Southerner next year would be advisable on the very ground that he is a Southerner and thus aloof from the factional strifes of the East and West, and it is clear that senator Daniel would not exclude the South from the competition" be cause while, in the party's Interest, we would regard section, he, for the same reason, would disregard it The time for the sectional argument against the South has either passed or will never pass. Note the Republican record: Grant was nominated in 1868 ana ia on 'his war record; nayes,- in 1876, because he was an Ohio man and to beat Grant for a third term; Garfield, an Ohio man, In 1880; Blaine, In 1884, because he was the party's idol; Harrison, in 1888 and 1892, be cause he was an Indiana man; McKli ley, an Ohio man, in 1895 and .1900; Roosevelt, a New Yorker and because he was in, in 1904; and it looks as If that party will drift back to Ohio next yar. The preponderance of Ohio and Indiana since Grant has been because they were influential and doubtful States, unhappily, doubtful ho longer. Availability is the element of suc cess in candidates and that generally depends upon section. Whether one or the other, 'or the two together be considered by the Democratic party next year, wisdom suggests to it that it look to the South for its nominee. 1. Since the above.was written the Mor ton Trust Company, of New York, has brought suit to test the validity of the law, making the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company, as well as the cor poration commission, a defendant, Thus, we take it, does the Seaboard become guilty of the same hypocrisy as the Atlantic Coast Line. All the big railroads of this section being now vir tually in a trust, It Is not remarkable that they should take similar action, differentiated Just enough to maintain the appearance of individuality; but of the three the Southern's course alone U open and honest. Resenting as The Observer has al ready donev The New York Evening Post talk about "the disgraceful fish wife bickerings going on between The Charlotte Observer and The Norfolk Landmark over the pre-eminence of their poets," and commenting' upon "The Love of Midnight' as thrown In to the arena by The Evening Post, The Landmark nevertheless admiringly at tributes the authorship; of "Midnight" to The Evening post itself. As our con temporary doubtless knows now, this beautiful poem, worthy of Miss Peter son, was written by Editor Walker Kennedy, of The Memphis Commer cial Appeal. The Landmark will have to find some other means of returning The Evening Post good for evil. The Norfolk Landmark has u letter from Col Win. Lamb, the heroic de fender of Fort Fisher, who tells it that in 1855 he heard Mr. Peter P.Mayo say that Mr, HodlJah Meade told him that General Andrew Jackson once told 1 i that l.e JaxiMm)"v. 1 torn "in A WORK "WHICH WILL MAKE AN IMPRESSION. Mr. Jerome Dowd, of this city, has concluded an agreement with the Mac Millan Company for the publication 'Of his first volume of a series of books In the nature of a sociological study of mankind from the standpoint of race. The series of boolts are to in clude three volumes or the negro races and other volumes dealing with .the Mongolian, Indians, Semites and Ary ans. The first volume treats of the Pygmies of the forest regions of Afri ca, the Bushmen of the Kalahara Des ert, the Hottentots of Cape Colony and the Nigrltlans of the Sudan. The Nl grlatlans include the types of negroes that were brought to America and Mr. Dowd's aim has been to explain the Influences of climate, pace mixture, etc., upon the economic, familial, poll- tlcal, aesthetic, religious and psycho logical life of the negroes In their na tive surroundings." A, study of this kind, is intended to, bring out general principles which can be applied to the solution of many practioal modern problems relating to industrial, politi cal and family life and to art, religion, education and moral and intellectual culture. Incidentally the study is de signed to furnish help to statesmen in formulating wise, legislation wherever the negro and the white man live to gether under the same government. Mr. Dowd 'has been engaged upon this work several years and the few persons who have examined parts of the manuscript know that ha has pro duced something not only novel but of Interest and value. He is an able man, a most painstaking student, with a special faculty for research, and writer f an attractive style. Those who know anything of the elaborate work which he has undertaken which ar.l f h-r I r.iade old. It so harrci:3 thit the hoxn.--stead where she lives Is almost immediately upoa tha favorite tlu.T of the river so that if you wished to rsach that bluff you had either to make an In convenient detour r brave it through the backyard and run the risk of being bitten by The Black Fice. He was the thorn beneath the rose. He nev er trusted himself more than ten steps, nay ten feet from his mistress, and her very kindness to all comers, impelling her to halt them for a little pleasant gossip, gave the Fice his opportunity, you might not see him, for he kept hid under hejT skirts; but he was always there. He could guage his distance to a T. When his mistress had convoyed him within range of the calf of your leg, quick as a flash he sprang from cover, socked his teeth into you, and was back in his place again. He never gave warning. His mistress, knowing that he had never bitten and biliev!'- that he would never bite her, could not be convinced that he had ever bitten or would bite anybody. "Don't come any closer, , please ma'm," was a familiar request In that back yard. "Why, what's the matter?" "The Black Flee. He will nail me before I can kick at him." "Oh, pshaw! He won't bite!" So she would come forward smiling so kindly that man or child felt fool ish to run from her, but zip! and the horrid work was done. "Now you can see whether he will bite or not," said a boy one day, ex hibiting his heel, whence the blood was coming. ' "You snagged that some how, was the reply, "The Black Flee didn't do that. He won't bite. But wait and let me cet some salve for your heel." When she came back with the salve, you may wager there was nobody in sight.-. ;: Now, it was the ambition of youth and age to kill that pesky scoundrel. He wai most nearly correspondent In modern times to the ancient dragons that stood at fords and wells, where people had to come. But to kill him it was necessary to separate him from his mistress; no one had the heart to break his head in her presence; and to separate them was beyond all local cunning. When her shadow deserted her, he did not; he was with her by . daylight and by dark. Her nephew, I n'Virt IfiraA nillfc Vai and t.arnif Ta ' Black Flee as dearly as anybody, could find no means to lure him out of her sight "Where are you going, Dan?" asked a neighbor, pf a man with a gun on his shoulder and a murderous look on his face. ' ; 7-; -A "To kill The Black Fice," said Dan. "No dog that chews up my Chilian can keep on living. My chillun have got a right to fish and swim In -that river, and I don't intend that any measly; : mangy, no count, runty cur shall keep them away." The neighbor listened for the report of a gun, which never reached him. Presently he saw Dan coming ; back, but he turned off through the pine thicket, sheepishly; for of course he had not killed the dog. That was many years ago. i vc.r 1 '"' - t it ' r hot U Le tcarr'd. f- fild A; 5 r ted: , i t.e v, Mi-ij i gay i-ecmse you're dead; And 'twill be sray For n age and a day. , u hen your mean carcass Has turned to clay! Such la to be the eulogy of a long life. "He lived for a purpose," mused a moralist, this morning; "all he want ed was a bone, and somebody's bone at that." J. c. M. STATE ORGANIZER OPTIMISTIC. All this preliminary is Intended to give a sensational setting to the news: The Black Fice Is to-day in his little grave, The glad fact Is the talk of the countryside. He had lived so long that superstition had begun to grow about him as thick as the gray hair on his face. Negroes and joung whites had suspicion, that he was immortal and that the Old Boy was In him. But yesterday the nephew aforesaid was amazed to got a t direct request f.om the mistress of trie Flee that he get his gun and shoot the Fice. He was afraid that she would change her mind before he could get back. : She didn't however, she was sure of her self. She had been standing near a fence,' where a drift of leaves made a warm bed in the eun, and, when the Flee had fallen asleep on the leaves, she had stolen a few feet to one side without having waked him. She made a elgn to her nephew to shoot. "Blame it all, I was trembling all over!" said the nephew, relating the episode at the store this morning. "I felt as if I was about to take a crack at the Old Boy. I couldn't get aim. The load from the first barrel came a great deal nearer killing my aunt than the Fice. That made me ashamed of myself and sort of steadied me. I drew a fine bead on him with the sec ond barrel, Just behind his fore leg, and I let her drive." Afterwards I found I had shot his heart clean out It was driven between two rails be hind him. In spite of that, when he saw that for the, first time ever my aunt was not going to protect him he made a rush for me and would have bitten me if I had not broken his head with the butt of the gtin.' But gentle men. The Black Fice Is In the col, col' This death will srve to put several other dogs out of commission. The only way to fight fire (In the woods, at least) Js with fire. The way to fight a sorry, vicious dog is with another sor ry dog. , There were not a few families who fed a sniveling cur, no good for the ordinary functions of his kind, just to go as a plain clothes of ficer with their children. These curs knew their Jobs. When they came to the backyard In question, they were always at attention, standing between their wards and tha mistress of The is upon wnolly original lines will. Black Flee. The latter, like some ma walt Impatiently for the complete vol.1 llclo mei wa no part of a foot A few umes and will be surprised If they do not meet a prompt and cordial recep The Richmond Journal, commenting upon an extract from Governor Glenn's recent address to the students of JL.lv Ingxtone College, Salisbury, remarks that "these words are 'apples of gold in pitchers of sliver. " From which It 1m perceived that there are other lino type machines than ours which have notions of, their own. Proverbs 25:11. Clawi JliMtory Straightened Out To tlis Editor of .The .Observer: In the retort nf th fmduntlng exfr- Of t!i S'!. :l!.v,l (,))..;. in V' drubbings put him on to the game, and when he sniffed another dog In the party he kept to his fortress. These curs now may be turned out to run rabbits and hunt persimmons for a living; they are of no more use henceforth than a soldier will be after Andrew Carnegie has proclaimed peace , Nobody knows what disaffected his mistress from The Black Flee, Per haps in his pettishpresumptuous old ago he bit her and revealed to her his true character. Since It has been too cold for a real May Day, the children are thinking of substituting a rout, celebrating the ... i . Cill t er for, - fl, for a fr r-mpl Of Or. fchoon "JiPU;i Cci!en." 'f rt"l con i" .! ' ' your r-.n-----..- Rev. R. L. Davis, of the Anti-Saloon League, Sees State Prohibition Ahead of TJs Digresso From a Re port of Ills Work to Take a Fall Out of Mr. Bailey. To the Editor of The Observer. Allow me space in your paper to re port my work for the past forty-eight days to the Anti-Saloon League forces of the State. r v .- . As lecturer and organizer I have vlsitea nine counties, Moore, Wilkes, Surry, Yadkin, Stokes, Rockingham. Martin, Greens and Northampton. Lec tured 1 5 times In 1 9 towns and vil lages. Organized 11 leagues, one or. more In each county. " The success I have met with: is far beyond my expectation and is due not so much to my ability, as to the fact that our platform to-day is Scriptur al. Many laymen andv preachers stand with tis to-day who have stood aleot heretofore, because they could accept no compromise measure. I verily be lieve that the anti-saloon league added 25 per cent to its strength when It clas sified the dispensary with the other sa loons and another 25 per cent, when it pledged itself to State prohibition. In my travels X have approached at least a hundred citizens In these nine counties on this subject and each one said he favored it and thought it would carry in his county. In Wil liamston It was freely predicted that Martin would go for State prohibition, I find many who oppose local option in favor of State prohibition, and all local optionlsts J. W. Bailey excepted -advocate it Therefore I conclude that State prohibition is much strong er than local option, and it's coming mark my prediction within five years we will stand side by side with Maine. We must climb to get there. My friend Bailey Is deluded and de ceived as to the operation of constitu tional prohibition in Maine as he was on the dispensary - evil. Temperance folks, who live there and Governor Glenn and others who vlslfyhere see it as it la and become enthusiastic for It. But Brother Bailey tells me the Lord has opened his eyes to see the dispensary evil I wish he would use. the papers to open the eyes of the public as to where he stands on it now and I believe before long the Lord will open his eyes again this time to see the great advantages' of constitutional prohibition. , As wise men change their minds, I confidently expect to sOe him vote along with the great church of our State for State prohibition within five years. When I visit the dispensary town or. the one Just freed from It I find the judgment of t local temperance men is that jt is a delusion, a snare, and a farce, as far as being a stepping stone to' prohibition. I have heard some of our best men. lay and clerical, say after experience If compelled to choose they would vote for the sa loon. As to regulation Its there, but Its the, dispensary regulating your town government. J heard one of Jackson's best men say he believed where the saloon debauched one young man, the dispensary debauched five. And they tried it ten years. : If another's ex perience is worth" anything let the dispensary alotj. No; j; 'Christian can support it without receiving the con demnation of God's word. If you are thinking about supporting it, take the Bible and try to Justify your position. If the fight between saloons and dis pensary comes In spite of youskeep away from the polls. Don't vote for any agency of the devil; My opinion Is that the dispensary is dead in the State. Where Is the man that will make a public speech for it to-day? The temperance work In our State Is making good progress. ; Lack of funds is crippling us a little. But I trust this will not be so , long. If yov are with us In heajrt and prayer Join us with pocket hook by sending a contribution to Rev. R. L. Davis, War ren Plains, to help on the State work. R. L. DAVIS, Warren Plains, May 28, 1907. Two Articles of Diet Nominated by a Seceder. To the Editor of The Observer. . i hav been reading with much In terest the articles appearing in your naner concerning the 10 best things to eat As nominations are atill In or der I wish to enter two articles or met which are in great favor with us Se-ceders. wimn well nrecared there is notn- ing better than, 1, mush, jdth stewed chicken gravy made fVom a fat hen. 2. Salt rising light ureaa nice your mother used to make. I am aura Elder" Hemphill and the Seceders to a man will vote for these two entries, both of which have been standard articles of diet at the dinner ahi for a lone-er period than Rouses version of David's Psalms have been In use. a. Gastonia, May 28,1907. A Big Mill for FayettcviHe. Special to The Observer. Fayetteville, May 20. The McNeill Manufacturing Company has been organized here, W. D. McNeill, presi dent; J.JE. McGougan, Vice president and C. 1m Penderton, secretary and treasurer, to erect a .$10,000 spindle weaver mill at a cost of 1200,000 on Little river, ten miles west of the city. The company has a water power of 700 horse, 300 of which will be used at the start. Vromlnent Rallmed Man Dead. Atlanta. Ga., 'lay 30. A dispatch fvnm VA rv:r, Tpx.. to-dnv announced t " " ' " ' .T ' ' 'v- of m0 fl n 0 J Is t i jl : I c , Not a Furnishing department in the city has a line 1 surpasses ours for the right thing at the right p: The latest fads can be found here in Men's Furri ings and in the best and most popular mafic Hosiery, Underwear, Suspenders, Neckwear, CoU Straw and Fur Hats, Negligee Shirts, Leather I ters, Knee Drawers, Athletic Shirts, etcall tl ew garments that are in vogue. "Dilworth" Straw Hats, $1.50 to $3.00. A Hat made of a finer braid than the usual straw these prices. Agents for Hawes' $3.00 soft and a hats. Also Stetson's. Outing Suits, $10.00 to $17.50 The popular Two-piece Summer Suit, made from bq tiful quality of Cravanette with silk lustre, in 1 checks or plaids and solid silver gray mohair V .. .. .. $10.00 and $iJ A beautiful double-breasted Gray Plaid Twp-jJ Worsted Suit; coat half lined, pant belt straps, . . .. r. 1. .. .. . $11 These Suits fit and one bought here saves you mon( The Newest Fancy Vests If you get it here "It's Right" ancTthe price is rig .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. $1.50 to ($ Knee Pants Not a stock of Knee Pants in Charlotte, will com with ours in quality and variety. Wash Pants, Wool Pants in Kerseys, Worsteds and Blue Sci 50c. to $1.50,' Knickerbocker Pants, $1.00 to. ( . All up to 17 years. A Man's bxford Cool and comfortable. This is so in our $3.50 and specials, but the best Shoe or Oxford is our $5.0C Women's Tenderfoot Shoe . The Grover, the best of them all; high or low cut . .. : $1.75 to perior i the city. "Artistic" $3.00 Shoes and Ox have all the snap and comfort to be found where, and everybody likes them.
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