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VCL..7 NO. 37- DURHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1896. ESTABLISHED 1820 HKAD THIS CAKKFl'LW. , The London Financial News in its"issu of April 30, 1894. contained following article on the mot i. ary question in this country and it should be studied carefully by every American citizen be'ore casting his ballot for McKinley and goldbugism. The articlo Is as follows: "There is a plain moral in the remark that if the United States would venture to cut herself adrift from Europe and take outright to silver she would have America and Asia at her back, and would command the markets of both continents. The barrier of gold would be more fatal than ay barrier of a cus tom house. 1 he bond of silver tvould be stronger than any bond of free trade. "There can be no doubt about it that if the United States were to adoi silver basis tomorr w. British trade would be ruined before the year was out. Evry American industry would bo protected, not only at home, but at every other market. Of course the States would suffer to a certain exteU through having 10 pay their obligations abroad in gild; but the loss 'on exchange undrr this head wou be a mere drop in the bucket compared with the profits to be reaped fror.1 , the markets of South America and Asia, to say nothing of Europe. The marvel is that the Unit ed States has not long ago seized the opportunity, and but for the belief , that the way of England is necessarily the. way to commercial success and pros perity, undoubtedly it would have been done long ago. Now, Americans are awakening to the factiwi'"o long a" tL.;, nar row iut-ir mbition to becoming a larger England.' they c-nnot beat us. It has been a piece of luck thfi w has never occurred to the Americans to scoop us out flbeworl." markets by go Jog on a k.Ner basis, and It might serve us right if, irritated by the contemptuous apathy of our government to tlie gravity of the 6iler problem, the Amer icans retaliate by freezing out gold. It could easily be done." DlHHOXOIt AM IHMiltACK." In last Thursday's Washing ton Post J. Sterling Morton, secretary of agriculture, used the following language that i an insult to every, true South erner: "The finance which they teach is entirely Confederate Cat. In the Southern Confed eracy the same leaders who now are in command of the picket guards, for free silver at U to 1, were leading financiers. And Harris. Pugb, Morgan, and 'Se other Confederate Generals now in command cf the Bryan cam paign seem to desire to accom plish, by false finance, that which they failed to bring about by arms nation dishoaor and disgrace." There is not a more loyal sec thin the Southern States and when Mr. Morton says or in n mates, with all due rcsp to the high office he hold", that the Houth is trying to bring about ''national dishonor and dt ciace" he simp'y lies. Every breath he breathes ii foul and in his blackened heart thero it "anarchy" of the deepest dye It is .jiow thirty -one year since the touthorncri laid down their aims and began again U support the government. Dur intr that time nearly one-third of a century the nation ha not find a more faithful laugh tr ;! -u r fair sunny south land, and now, at this late day Sterling Morton, whose bead i white with the frosts of many winters, is waving the "bloody hirt" for campaign purposes ' He thinks ' V ibis contemptibl sloop to win votes for the gold t atandard but he is mistaken There is not a true man. lot him reside in the east, west, norn or south who will not be disgusted at Secretary Morton's language., ' It is an insult to every true American. SAKCAMM'M 8CKN1C fJANCTl'M. See tbe actualities of pleeful teritioil ! Life's Mixasm take a changeable hue; Whatever be your status plebtan or , royal, -Future existence is dark for you If to goli'.buxiKtu you dare to stoop, Free silver souses you in the soup ! Xentphon, the pupil, friend and historian of Socrates, relates that when that r old philosopher was nearing the end of his eminently ideal life, and when just in the act of stepping into Charon's boat which, as he supposed, would ferry his soul across the river Acheron to Hades beyond, indulged in this pathetic .eflectioa: "I am old, an nothing remains for toe but to decoy in faculties and genius. This is the proper ruoi. jnt to die? "It will be renumbered that the era of Socratt t dates back 23 centuries B. C. 470 years just that many centuries re moved from tbe political aud other influences ff today; and in view of this fact we cannot but admire the old martjr's honesty in acknowledging that ho had lived out his days of use fulness, and was no longer needed as a factor on the scene of action a , scene behind whc: , curtains life's drama was then and there to rlese forever, leaving lii.n in the embrtce of etc-rnity and in the presence of the Olympian gods! Now, if such a fruitian be a possibility four monoinetallistic cranks, who are chmoring ,r r the gold standard, what a joyous occas ion it would be to the laboring asses of the world if those worse thau fanatics were to pack up their earthly assets gold standard included and precipitately hie themselves sway to their deutic bowers, wherever they may be iu the realm of chaos or discord! That much abused 53 cent sil ver dollar, which we hear so much talk about now-a-days, buys just the same quantity of he groceries cf life as does the ighly-lauded gold dollar of those mono-carping idiots of WaU Street; and yet those saie fakirs call it a dishonest dollar, nd are bending all their em v- . .a a t. ifies in tne endeavor to mane tbe slaves of toil believe thai the silver is cheating them out f their labor logic wholly with tut reason or application in practice. Theoretically, this loctrine might, possibly, coin. ide with the reasoning capabil ities of a maniac chimpanzee; but when brought, in contact with the average Anglo Saxon intelligence, the sophitary of the argument is too thin to catch a smile of contempt from an honest corpse For prudent al reasoas mind you. we are not superstitious we would prefer to find a last resting place on the bi tt'jtn of be vasty dep. rather than in 1 neighborhood of gold, stand ard advocates one of our teeth s gold plugued, and that un fortunate molar might be the nnocent cause of a premature roaurrection on our part were we Ui posited in their vicinity Bryan contemptuously styieo tbe "Boy orator of tbe Piatt" s deserving of success; not only an account of that vast stream of silver eloquence wh'ch he ha turned loose on the unbelieving natives, tilt also for the prin oiplo involved, which claims ,hat tin United states are VIIH MW arable, and must govern them I jVves whether thd rest of the orld are willing to 11 or no. vjm r.laim that if our country takes the initiative in the silver question, all other nations win fnum anii In short order. Amor ica is not begging for foreign -id thouffh the quasi-govern- nent at Washington seems to . - -. . 1. la Ik. mi a al ' lean wa wj, ,h and not the peop' that " caI1 ing for extraneous neip. FALSEHOOD EXPOSED. Tbe hirelings of the money power the agents of human op pression, whether in the press or on the hustings, whose gu'lty con sciences makes them such cowards neither dares face a fair discus sion, should be exposed. And especially should all self respect ing people steer clear of those double laced McKinley adjuncts who are now posing as grim hu morist by claim that they are "for sound money and for , principle'' My God J Who ever heard before of a silver dollar's being "un sound," or "principle" iu a "machine" politician? Both prop ositions are so preposterious they can only be regarded as huge jokes and but for the fact that the masses may be deceived by them, are unworthy of serious thought. When they tell you that a sil ver dollar with the governments stauip on it as such, is worth only fifty-three cents, they are either idiots jr wilful dissemiuators of a falsehood. When they tell you the free coinage of silver would make he laine owner rich to the detri ment of the country, mark it false I.O'kI number two. When they say that a high tariff protects the masses of this country, well it is mistake third. Now, as to first proposition; the government buys its bullion ut the market price of the world, and the miner is paid for it in silver cer tificate?, redeemable only in s.l er; therefore, if the govermeut can get it for 53 cents, and by put- lii. its stamp upon it, make a dollar, the government makes tbe 47 cents, aud not the mineowuer. wayfaring man though a fool' can see that'is logically the case. gu..t, though villified, scorned, ridiculed and legislated against, iu fact remains that the govern ment pays its employees in those same dollars, that it receives them b"ck fvr face value, that it is orth its face value in an;' com modity, not only all over these United States, but in Europe as ill. As to the charge that it ould cheajten labor, it is only uecessary to say that if this were so, 'the omployejs of labor would be the first to advocate it, and it is a pitiable dupe who would be 40 credulous as to believe other wise. Mr. Palmer and Mr. Buckner, the republican adjunct Wall Street McKiuleyites, so ably (?) represented iu North Carolina by Do La Croix, Patterson & Co., say they know they are in a lioicless minory, hut tlicy are "acting upon riuciple." In the name of God what sort of principle individual financial principle? Surely auy of "principles" could have found men in North Carolina to represent tho who would not scud out circulars bearing the names of gentlemen who never signed hem men who when they made viiiw appointment to meet uu vpponent would have th man ood to stand up and lalk what- ver they might have brought on themselves. Now if these gentlemen have such a Holy honor of making the silver miner rich, who now has fair compe tition in the gold miner, how is it that their judgment or conscience permits them to take away irom gold all competition and make its owner twice as rich Is it right to shut dpwn the silver mines because the miner wil make a little money while the covcrnmcnt is getting nearly La'.. his product . simply for stamrting it, in order that the cold miuer, Wall Street and European Shylocks may farther gloat over the misery of this peo ple? Antwcr if you can, But misrepresentation plops not hero. They tell you there is enough in the country to do t business. Let's go to 'the facts: In July of this year,. each of the 92 banks iu North Carolina, un der a statute requiring them to do so, reported the amonnt and kinds of currency they had, un der octh, and theogreguteamouui of gold given in by all the hanks in the. state, was less thau 1,000, not enough to run Duke's factory siugle day. Tell the fact gen tlemen or quit. . : Aud lnw about a protective tariff, who does it protect? Tbe answer is the manufacturer and monopolist at the excuse of both the,government and the laboring masses. As evidence of this it is an indisputable fact that the pro- let of American manufactures are sold at retail in European markets at less than our mer- chants cau buy them, from the manufacturer by the car load and for sjiot cash, so that ,this "pro tection" is simply a license to ex tort upon home people while sell ing to foreigners at a legitimate profit. If the goverumeut made any increased revenue by it, there might be some apology for the injustice, but it does not the cus tom duties aggregating more on low than high turili', and the balauce of trade in our favor b-jing e.rger under the Wilsou than under the McKiuley bill. Cogi tate on these things before you take another step to hasten your terpetual bondage. ItCTLEU OX T11K S1TCATIOX. Senator Butler issatisfieJ with le general outlook 0! the politi cal situation and thinks Bryan will be elected without d wbt. .V special from Washington, D. C, which was published iu the papers yesterday morning says iat Mr. Butler said he was satis fied with the result of the meeting of the populis executive commit tee at Chicago. II3 then said that "there are iMilv four tt ites in which fusion as net been arranged Georgia, Florida, North Caroliua and Teu- a ! . ! 1 nessee. an cuiusuncui win oe reached in Florida and Tennessee ithout doubt. So far as Georgia concerned the State will go ither for Bryan and Vat.m or ryan and St wall. An adjust ment in North Carolina is difii- ult because the Democrats re jected several very fair propositions which we made. Regarding the Middle Western States, Ohio can be classed as dou' tful; Indiana with fusion arranged is safe for Iryan; Illinois, Michigan, Min- lesota and lowajire in the same balance. I regard it safe to nsJ ume that the chances are even in those States; that "is, that two if the four will go for Bryan and ilver. Kentucky is safe; West Vircinia and Man-land are loubtful, with the chances, I think, strongly in favor of Bryan n the former. In Maryland the result will depend ujon the Re- rtun hear farmers, it there is 1 euougli di-affoction nmobg them to offset the gold Democratic de- lection in Baltimore, Bryan will arry the State. For the popu latioii, thero is a greater Demo' cratic defection in Baltimore, I hink, than in any city west ol New York." Thk government owes $100, 183,000,(100, safs the Raleigh N'ews and Observer. As the republicans and Clivelen democrats say this must be paid in o-ntil- linw arflthd nrmIA pvpr to nav It? Wc have onlv about $140,000,000 in gold or about . - eleven cents on the dollar. In order to get gold to pay the in terost, whea. and cotton must be sold at a ruinously low price. Tho farmers and laborerers bear the burden. Tftoy may vote to continue present and add greater burdens to their basks, but we do not believe it. VOTE POK K1TCHIX. Recently INiaj, W. A. Guthrie of this city, said: "Let us elect Bryan. Let us send .0 'congress from fifth dis tr." t W. W. Kitchin; and let us say to Settle, 'you ftay at home.' If I believed Dalby could be elected, I would give him my vote. As n vote for him means a vote for settle, I advise all mv friends to vote for Kitchin. Dou't stultify yourselves by voting for a free silver president, and thin tie, his hands by voting for a gold bug congressman," The News aud Observer yesterday said that "the news is that the advice of Maj. Guthrie will be taken and that tho populisms will vote for Kitchin, and not for Dalby who is running in the iuterest of the qold candidate. In six out of the nine counties, tho popu list- voters in their county conventions re solved to support Kitchin, nud iu the other three it Is known that mo.ct of them will support him. In so doing they are taking the adviceof their candidate for gov ernor and for congress in the fourth district.'' Knticed from II, rX. C. Home. The Norfolk Ledger says: "Ililah Hubbard, the proprietress of No. 81 Church street, and Dora Pecbk'3, one of the inmates of that house, were arrested yester day morning upon the change of slicing a li-year old girl from her home iu North Carolina to this city for immoral jwrposos Hie girl arrived in Portsmouth jver the Seaboard Air Line from ber home in Surry county, N. C, nd crossing tho ffT.. v-ked a x)lice officer, to ji'.je her to the ibove place. Upon questioning he child, the ollice' discovered hut she did not know the char- tcter of the house or of the people for whom she was looking. He hereupon turned her over to :hief of police Doruin. Justice rom'.in has continued' tho cases of the Hubbard and Peebles wo- neu till letters, which the latter wrote to the girl in North Caroli- 9 9 ft ua, cau oe securea. lie reiuseu them bail and they were re- nan vd to jail. The girl will be kept iu Norfolk till the eases are tried. The jenalty for the offence which the prisoners are charged is from three to ten years iu the lenitentiary." KHOWIXU HKIt HAND. The conservative element of the frrs silver Bryan forces, while perfectly satisfied that nsubsidised and utintimidated the American people would !ect Bryan president by the largest majority ever received by any man in this country, have yet been afraid that the great employers of labor would tacitly, let it become understood among their dependent em ptoyees that if they dared assert their right and their manhood by voting in accord with their iuterest end their conscience for Bryan, that their places would be filled with other men, and they turned out with their wives and children to starve. It was cot supposed however that any of these w ould be mas ters over their own race woul fo ear'y in the game bo bo!d i-nough to give away the plan of his ilk in to brazen a viola t ion of law at this stage of the game as Mr. Crawford has done Lihleti St. Lolls, Oct. 14. At coon today, on lh i .t -.ion of Attorney Mocu , tn behalf o I the state dei..octatic committee I - , warrant was w-juea lor me arrest oil' u. vrawioru, on a charge of violating the electing law, Mr Crawford is proprietor of a largo department store on Broadway, and last Saturday discharged twelve of bit clctk because they declare-i they would vote for Bryan. What Mr. Crawford has done Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report h wi v is if m jt 11 rm MtiOSMTEBX PURE openly many others are doing in a mere covert way. They simply intimate that if Bryan is elected they will have to re duce their force, and the poor devil whose weekly wages barely suffices to keep his wife and children fed and clothed knows what this means. He wants to be a free man, but when he thinks what his dis charge would mean to him auo his, he is not, aud votes as Lis boss dictates. Who can blame him? Men who had rather die than submit to such loss of manhood if they were to be the only sufferers, like lambs driven to Ihe slaugh ter house, go to the pol's w;... countenances depicting the powerful shame they feel, and vote as they are told. They have no alternative. It is a sacrifice their wives and chil dren demand and they make it Let 110 one cast a slur upon such a man. Give your pity and a helping hand, but may God have mercy upon those who have driven him to it. .CHl'ltCH AM 8TATK. We desire to call the atten tion of the public generally and particularly to tho Episcopal people ol Nortb Carolina to the following telegram, which ap peared iu the New York World of th 14th: Marocette, Mich , Oct. 13 Bishop C. Mott Williams, of the Protestant Episcopal diocese o Marquette, said today: "Tho Episcopal church wa largely represented among tb signatures of the Declaration e Independence and the framers of the Constitution of tbe United States. "She has never encouraged her clergy to be personal parti suns, yet I would be a dumb uardiao of my people should I lositate to say that any ir mLer the Episcopal church who upports the Chicago platform will do so in the tetth of tbe moral teaching of his church." From Henry the eighth to George the third the Episcopal huch dominated the politics of England. It consisted only with Kings and Nobles and was their upport, drawing its revenue by 1 specific tax without success fal objection tell Oliver Crom well and his Covenanters' put f- etnporary scotch upon tU: wheels of both church and tat j Wen'l know that this church lasevcr been the church of the aristocracy, but since America gained her independence from Ireat Britian more than 100 ears ago, partlj though Pai ick Henry's resentment of neroachments of the Clergy hiirch and state have been eperate in this country and he Episcopal church more than iny other, has declined to soil ts clerical gown in the mud of political cess tools. Christ drove tec money changers from the Temple, ami now those who claim to be His vice gtre-nts on earth nre the aiders and abetors of those hylocks for the oppression e . the poor and unfortunate whose welfare Chriot spent his life, And cave it up on the cross. Bihop Williams hs as much right under our law to hart aa opinion ar.d express, it as any rtthr man All we ebject to is that be should claim Apostoli succession from Christ claim to be His representative, at 1 then oppose the teachings of I ' Lord atd master. The Incon sistency is too monstrous to pass unnoticed. North Carolina Episcopal ions will doubtless bo surprised and mortified, but the Bishop's court attempt to force votes for a gold bug will fall still born at their feet, The Ktliicn of netting. Betting sustains the same re lation to steaHng as1 dueling does to murder, and from a moral standpoint the one who takes a winning in a bet is lit tle, if any better than one who takes the same amount of money without the knowledge or con sent of the owner. Except as a gift, no one has the right to take the property of another without rendering an equiva lent therefor, even with the consent of its owner, any more than ho has the right to take his life, with his consent. But there are some forms of election betting that are worse than others. The man who ''backs hia opinion" with the wager of a few dollars 's the personifica tion of morality as compared with the man v. ho, with the in tent to deceive voters, rushes into print with the proposal to wager hundreds of thousands of collars ou his favorite candi date. Chicago News, Postage Stamp toj Millions. Claud M. Johnson, director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in his annual report, shows the production of securi ties in sheets during the year to have been as follows: United -States notes, bonds, and certi ficates, 14.130.819; national cur rency, 2,053,3t6; internal reve aue tamps, 30,044,732; customs stamps, 214,000; postage stamps, 30,f.47,771; checks. &c, 1,959, 77, making a total of 85,050, 595. at a cost of 51,409,350, or ?17.27 per thousand sheets, as -ompared, with 20.30 for the ear 1895; $23.73 for the yea 1894, and $25.35 for the year 1893. The average amount of vork done by each employe is diown to have largely increased during he same time, the total tmouut being over 30,000,000 sheets in excess of 1893. Du::i the year postage stamps were delivered to post nasters in Lie following tn-iunts: Ordinary stamps, 3,025,481,407: special delivery,' 4,460,250; postage due stamps, I9,34h,7i4; newspaper, &c, 5, 505,072; total number, 3,054,802, 123. A savin for the year 189G ;s shown of postage stamps. On th subject of the new issue of Miver ceriincaies, tne airetv or says they have met with universal commendation by the public. These notes, he fays, have demonstrated the possibility of fine art being uti'-'zed to advantage in the duction of bank notes, and will result in the most perfect recurity against counterfeiting. father unci M,n Funnit Dead. Astvvep. N. Y., Oct. 28 A double tragedy was enacted at Somerville, St. Lawrence Coun ty, r.lwut 0 o'cloc!: this morn ag, when Orrin Ktnnie, a well- known farmer of that place, was fou:;J by his wife, banging in a barn over the dead body of his fatht-r, Daniel Kinnie, whom he rd tilled with an axe. U is thought that he first attempted to take his own life by cutting his throat, and that his father interfered to prevent. Kinnie had manifested symptomsof in sanity. He was forty-five years old and his father seventy -one. Both were repecteJ citizens. iii.mhI i i.irr. 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