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ooeoonieMiiiiMMeiiiiiim( One Dollar and I Fiftytents the Year. Advertising Rates On Application. J ESTABLISHED 17C Country, God and Truth. S1NQT COPIES O CENTS VOL. XXXIX, NO. 16 LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 16. 19(8 WidOLJ? NC . Vi347 ROBESON AN Spring Jewelry 2 Have You a Nice Piece of Jewelry lo Wear With That. Easter Hat? Our Line of Spring Jewelry is Ilea ly for Your Inspection. For Ladies : Bracelets, Harette. Lockets, Veil Pius, Chains, Waist I'inj. Fos. Cuff Pins, : Brooches, Heauty Pins, Necklaces, lint Pins, Rings, Belt Buckles Watt-lit s. Silver Hand Bags. For Gents : Watches, IVv.iutain Pens, Chains, KV'cy Pipes, Fol-s, Shirt Studs, Charms, Co'lar Buttons, Emblem Kings, Signet Rings, Kuililt-ni Pins Watch Owes, Cuff Bmtons, Leather Fobs, Scarf Pin-, Em Scarf Puis Boylin's Jewelry Store, The K. P. Guano Distributor Tf Scatters the Guano and Covers it. No waste around stumps and ends. No cots and chains to clog and break. Nothing about it to break or get out of fix. Large hopper, balanced load, light run niim. Sows any quantity Siui pie, si rone, dnrable. Awarded diplomas by North and South Carolina Fairs 1004. Unques tiouably the only Entirely Sat isfactory Distributorj'before the people. For Sale by Leading IValers in Robeson and Adjoining Counties. N. JACOBI HARDWARE COMPANY Wilmington, N C. Why Pull A Long Face ? swi&y mil 1 -i-.-. . i 82 year w Because you need some new Furniture? Surely it isn't the expense that bothers as you would know if vou visited this store. This is the time of always make Special Prices On Furniture ! Which rceans that you can supply your needs with High-Class Merchandise a tven greater saving than our always Low Prices ordinarily affotd. Pay us a visit and we'll change your face into a smiling one with our under- pricing. Eagle Furniture and Carpet Go THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. Statement of tlie Condition of The Bank of Lumbertori, At the Close of Dullness, Fr day, December 13th, 1907. RESOURCES : Loans and Discounts, $132,769.05 Furniture and Fixtures, 3,383.27 Real Estate, 510.00 Expense, 164.08 CASH AND DUE FROM BANKS, 109,147.56 LIABILITIES: Capital Stock, Undivided Profits, Re-Discounts, jf, Accrued Interest due Depositors, DEPOSITS, $245,973.96 $50,000.00 8,918.30 8,000.00 220.74s 178,934.83j $245,973.96! COMPARATIVE STATEMENT: December 13th, 1904, Deposits, $108,126.94; December 13th, 1905, " 143,958.99 December 13th, 1907, " 178,934.83 Cash id all Amounts called for has been Furnished to our De positors at ALL TIttES. THE BANK OF LUMBERTON, The Oldest and Largest Bank in Robeson County.) OFFICERS! A. W. MeLEAN, President, R. D. CALDWELL, Vice-Pres. A. E. WHITE, Vice-Pres. C. B. TOWNSEND, Cashier, TIIOS. J. MOORE, Ass't Cashier. ave voiir By Depositii Robeson County Loan and Trust Co. We will pay you Interest, Compounded every three months, and this will cause your Depos- -it to Continually Grow. : : : A large number of Satisfied Customers is our Strongest Endorsement. : : : : : Open an Account with us, Either Large or Small, and Begin the Saving Habit To-day. Robeson- County Loan and Trust Company,- A. W. McLean, Prenident. Stephen Mclntyre, Vice-President. C. II. Morrow, Cashier. Congressman Webb, In a Speech In the House of Representatives, Advocates the Regulation of Inter-State Traffic In Liquor -Progress of Prohibition Review ed and Supreme Court's Views are Quoted, as Well as Other Eminent Authorities. Wdhihingtou Coiresp jodeure. luth, t harlot f Observer. , Representative Webb, of North Carolina, made a speech on the liquor traffic in the House to-day. Ha was thorough, con servative and concise. A num ber of people complimented him on the way in which he acquitted himself. In "beginning his remarks Mr. Webb quoted Robert G- Inger- soll's famous paragraph on the curse of whiskey. Continuing he said : The problem of the regulation of the whiskey traffic and its ab solute prohibition has agitated the minds of the people of the United States for the last fifteen years more than any other one question- No careful observer of the times will deny that pub lic sentiment against the whiskey traffic is growing stronger and stronger every day. Will any member sitting before me deny this? Has not this mighty senti ment against the traffic and sa loon reached this capital city and this legislative hall ?. Oalyafew years ago bar rooms were maintained ia this Capitol Build ing. Now not a drop of whis key is allowed to be sold anj -where within its mighty confines. The Congress took this siep against the traffic. A few yeais ago the army canteen flourished among our soldier boys, but not so now. The Congress has for bidden it. In 1906 Congress passed a law requiring the collectors of inter nal revenue to plaee conspicuous ly in their office for public in spection a list of all persons who have paid a special license tax iu his district, and they shall fur nish a copy of such list of per sons to any prosecuting officer of any State, county or munici pality upon demand by such officer- The Hepburn-Dolliver bill passed this House by almost a unanimous vote on January 27th, 1903, and died in the Senate. 1 verily believe, sir, that if a vote can be secured on that measure by the present membership of this House, it will pass again by a practically unanimous vote; and if it does so pass, it will not die so easily at the other end of the Capitol. SALOON HAS NO DEFENDERS The minister of God thunders against the traffic because it de stroys morality and blights hu man souls; business men oppose it because it retards prosperity and undermines business ability; the economist condemns it be cause it destroys two billion dol lars'' annually and gives nothing in return therefor. Even the owners of saloons demand sober men for bartenders, threat la bor organizations are against the traffic because it brings poverty to so many of their members and unhappiness to so many homes. In fact there is scarcely a class of men that will now defend the open saloon. Those individuals who de end the saloon do so largely on the ground that it is the only way to control the traffic; not that the saloon is a good thing, but that it is the best solution of this vex- i in g question. I have no fault to find with the man who honest! v i and sincerely believes this, but I do think that his judgment is faulty. The courts of the United States, almost universally, have condemned the whiskey trafh -. only time to quote from judicial tribunal, and that is Money ! T-l TS li. : t "u a ry jjepoBibiug ii wii.ii Let Ds Do Your Job Printing ! -nat- WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF s Commercial Work. SEND JUS YOUR ORDERS. Freeman Printino 60.. Lumberton N C. READ ROBESOHIAN BUSINESS BUILDERS. the Supreme Court of the United States, the greatest law body on earth: SUPREME COURT S VIEW. IttTT ... we cannot snut out or view the fact, within the knowledge of all, that tae pubnc health, the public morals and the public S te of Omo, City of Toledo I Lrejis Covntt. 1 F'nl. .1 Ohrnev niak'fi i-ath I hut he Is ien- cr partner of thf 8rm of F. J Olicney A Co., dolug Ins nrrs in Hi Cl'y of T 1 do County aii'l r e a form id and thnt a1d film will pay the turn flOSK HUNDRED DOLLARS for efih and ef ry cane of Ga'Jirtb thAt cannot be cured by the u of Hill' Catarrh Cure. FR NK J. CHESFY. Sworn to brf re " and tubHcribed n nT lrfii'.lli,(llh dij ol Iiet-Hml'fi A . D 8tB (Seal A. W fti.EA-ON NoTiKT Public. Hall's catarrh Cuie la taken internally, anl acta dlreeJy on the blood nd mucous surfaces of the system. Srnd for eFmo-'lal free. F J . CHENEY A CO. , Todo, O. r.Mb all DruaulBts 76c. Ta"tU'i Faitfiy Pills for Constipation. safaty is endangered by the gen eral use of intoxicating liquors; nor the fact established by sta tistics accessible to everyone, that the idleness, disorder, pan perism and crime existing in the country are largely traceable to this t vil." Lt it bs understood that no man has the inherent or natural right to sell whiskey. Ihe right to sell it depends upon the will of the people, for the case of Crowley vs. Christensen, 137 U. S. 8B, has declared: "There is no inherent right in a citizen to thus sell intoxicating liquors by retail; it is not a privi lege of a citizen of a State or of the United States." Therrefore, no barkeeper caa cry that he is deprived of any in herent or natural right when the people, by their vote, tell him that he must not and shall not sell whiskey within" the borders of a county or State. I believe that the number of cotton mill owners who favor the liquor traffic in the great State from which I come and it has more cotton mills than any other State in the Union can be counted on the lingers of one hand. I am equally sincere in the belief that less than five per cent, of the honest, industrious, home-building cotton mill opera tives in North Carolina are in favor of the liquor traffie- It is the oae great curse among them and the? ar using their best efforts to stamp it out of exist ence.l JcHN BURNS" OPPOSITION. The famous labor leader in England, John Burns, member of Parliament, recently declared to a great audience of working men in London, in discussing the liquor question: "I deem it my duty to say that but for drink andits concomitant evils our problem would be smaller and our remedies more effective. " No one knows better than the laboring man the blighting, des olating effects of whiskey or to what depths of misery aivd shame it will drag him. The merchant opposes the whiskey traffic not only on mor al grounds, but because he has learned that the saloon is an in veterate foe to thrift and indus try and lessons the capacity of his debtor to meet his obliga tions. The farmer is opposed to the liquor traffic. He takes the high moral ground that he has no right to license a system whose chief business it is to destroy character, increase crime, enlarge the pauper class and drunken homes. He opposes it on another ground out in the rural dis tricts," far from the protecting hand of policemen and sheriff, he knows the danger of his wife and daughter from the drunken ne gro whese blood is heated and whose brain is unballaneed by the use of bad liquor. The negro seems to hare inherited an ap petite for intoxicants, and like the tiger when he tastes blood, the negro likewise when he be comes intoxicated, becomes en paged. Let the farmers consult their wives and daughters as to wheth er or not the open saloon shall exist in any country district ol our fair State. For that matter, if you will leave the vote lo the women of ou r State as to wheth er or not the saloon shall exist in town or country, I guarantee the whiskey traffic" wouhl not have one ballot in its favor. Prohibition Territory. More than on. half of this great republic of eighty millions of people has already adoptt-d prohibition laws. The following Commonwealths, aggregating a population of more - than nine million people, have adopted ab solute State prohibition.'to wit: Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Maine, North Dakota, and Okla homa. The people of the United States are waking np to the fact that the whiskey traffic is the most ruthless and wreckless destroyer of property, character and life that exists in our midst. Hon. Caroll D. Wright, while United States Commissioner oi Labor, said: "I have looked into a thousand homes of the working people of Eu rope ; I do not know how many j in this country, i have tried to tiud the best and the worst, and w hile, as I say, the worst exists, and as bad as under any system, or as b id as in any age, I have never had to look beyond the in mates to tied the cause; and in every case, so far as my observa tion goes, drunkenness was at the bottom of the misery, and nt tha inJustrial system or the industrial conditions surround ing the men and their fam&lies. " Intoxicating liquors each year cost the people of the United States more than the price of their annual product of wheat, cotton, gold, silver, lead and precious stones. The tariff taxes collected by the United States government for a whole year would scarcely pay the liquor bills of our people fwr six ty days. The speaker gave figurers to shew how much is spent by thf people of the country for liquor. A Source Of Crime. The whiskey traffic, he said, is a fruitful source of crime. In nearly eighty cases out of every one hundred crime has been committed where the defeudant was under the influence of intox icants. Someone will say "lam opposed to prohibition because it does not prohibit." Such a person might as well say that he is opposed to the law against homicides and theft, because these laws do not prohibit these offences. Furthermore, the argument that prohibition does not prolr bit is sot a sound one, as is shown by those States that have adopted prohibition. Mr. Webb backed this state ment with statistics and quoted noted authorities. From high testimonials, be coatinoed, we can easily gather that prohibition is a blessing and a benefit morally and industrial ly to those States that have adopted it. Then why should not the voters and citizens who love peace, revere the law. hate erime and weep over sorrow, unite in one grand phalanx and on May 26th drive the saloon for ever from the borders of our be loved and fair Carolina. In concluding Mr. Webb quot ed Henry W. Grady on the li quor traffic. NOW GO FORWARD. WILL HOLD COITON. Southera Cotton Association and Farmers' Union Complete Ar rangements For Holding Rem nant el 1907 Crop Bankers Will Finance Every Bale in Ware bouses. Allan!, Ga , DUpatoh. 12;h. President Harvie Jordan, of the Southern Cotton Associa tion, in a statement made pub lic to-day, says that his asso eiation in connection with the Farmers' Union has completed arrangements to hold the rem nant ot the 1VU cotton crop The Farmers Union cotton companies, the statement says, in Tennessee, Arkansas, Miss issippi and Alabama have al ready perfected arrangements with bankers in those .Slates to finance every bale now held in Farmers' Union warehouse!". Similar results, continues the statement, are being secured for cotton held by members of the Southern Cotton Associa tion by the central headquar ters and State divisions, ami at the larger centralized points. President Jordan concludes his statement as follows: "I cannot too freely empha size again the imperative im portance of cutting down the cotton acreage and preventing a serious crisis next winter." Tht executive committee of tke Cotton Manufacturer's As sociation of North Carolina has recommended that the mem bers of the association in this Stale close down their mill for a period of 00 days in order that the present deplorable con dition of he industry may be bettered. Suspend the Work of Dolng-Somt- thing to Something and Try lo do Something for Something!" Charlotte Observer. The Concord Tribune hopes! "to see the legislative nominees! stand for political rest and com-! mercuil advancement, together withran open and pronounced opposition to the spirit of re forming everything and every body everywhere and all the time." Unless ve mistake pub lic sentiment this expresses a very general wish. The raii- roads have been rt formed and under the shot-gun agreement arrived at with them last win ter are entitled to be let alone for a. v hile we don't quite so much mean that they are entitled to be let alone as that the peo ple are entitled to rest from the warfare upon them which has hurt them quite as much as it has the roads. Next month prohibition will be voted upon the State, and thus moral re form, in so far as liquor is l i i . concerneu, win nave been ac complished. The railroads and John Barleycorn being thus effectively dealt with, andthie being no other offenders con spicuously in sight, it would be well to suspend the work of doingr-something to something and address ourselves for awhile to trying to doing some thing for something for in stance, for North Carolina. Let us, therefore, have nomi nated for the Legislature this year, men who are for things in preference to men who are against things. There is a re port that the State Treasury will have a deficit this year of ?4t'o,u'Ju to sdu.muu. mere is nothing alarming about this. It is the glory of the last Legis lature that it was liberal in ar propriatious, and itdi dnot ap propriate a dollar to an unwor thy object. It only proves that the demands upon tie Treasury, as upon that oj every State that is growing anr increasing in enlightenment :, are growing in geometric ratio, and that therefore we need to get in more property for taxa tion, induce the investment oi more capital in North Carolina, instead of crippling or driving out what we already have an; which is cc ntributing its shart of revenue to the State Trea ury to be expended for the pub lie benefit. Property is not, a? some of the newspapers an public speakers would have ur believe, an unmixed evil. vV need taxes for many pnrpests and they cannot be had except from property, real, personal and mixed. This tax money aisoursea witn an even nam and the poorest man in th State, the man who does not contribute a dollar to the pub lic revenues, gets a part of the benefit of it. It folio vs. that the more property the more taxes and hence the greater pub lie benefit, and the argument that for the general welfare property rights should be con served and property interests enlarged does not need to I e elaborated. An appeal for upbuilding vs. destruction is an appeal to seli interest. It is time that the people of North Carolina should have done with obstructionists and turn to those policies that mak progress; that they seek out for legislative and other offices men who "stand for po litical rest and commercial," industrial, agricultural and all other "advancement. i The PROFESSIONAL Um Stephen Mclntyre, .antes D, election Of a Piano i very much like the choice of friends. The more care ex raised in the nelectioii, the more cer tain we are of lusting friend ship ; and the greater one's refinement and education, the more judgment is displnyed in the choice of friends. The selection awl xolu3ive use of STIEFP PIANOS in many of the greatest educa tional institutions in the U:i ted States is a source of gratification to us, and we feel justly proud of the fact that in about two hundred colleges we have mor than one thousand Stietf Piaiioa. There mu-t b ia reason. INVESTIGATE ! Chas.ML.Stieff Manufacturers of The Artistic Stieff, Shaw, anl Stieff Self-Player Pi; n s. Southern Warero im, 5 West Trade St., CHARLOTTE, N. C. C. H. WILMOm, Mgr. k. C. Lawrence Proctor Mclntyre, Lawrence & Proctor Attorneys and Counselors at Law. LUMBERTON, : : : N. C Practice in State an-1 Federal Courts. Promp- attention given to all business LEON T. COuK, Attorney at Law, LUMBERTON, N. C. Office in Fir t National Bank Building T A. McNkill. T. A. Mo.Nhill. i. McNEILL & McNEILL, Attorneys at Law, LUMBERTON, N. C. Will practice in all the Courts. Busi ness attended to promptly. WADE WISH ART, Attorney at Law, LUMBERTON, N. C. Prompt attention given to all business. Office over Bank of Lumberton. 8-i D. P. SHAW, Attorney at Law, LUMBERTON, ... n. C All business entrusted to him promptl J attended to. Office in Shaw Building. Send "her for Easter ! After all, " sweets to the sweet " is best. Fancy gee-gaws and pretty baubles take a bck teat when a box of puts in its appearance. Then, too, these dainty confections convey a sentiment that's utterly lacking in whatever else you may send or give her. Put up in 1, 8, 3 and 5-poiind boxes the most attractive packages imaginable. Give us your orders to-day NOW I HUYLER'S always fresh. If you're out of the city we'll express it to you. iHcLBAN -ROZIBR CO. Waverly Hotel Building. A. McLean. A.W. HoLmp Mclean & Mclean ATTOKNEYS AT LAW, LUMBERTON. . N C 3ffioes on 2nd floor of Bank of Lum berton Building, Rooms 1, i, I, A I Prompt attention given to all btulas CHAS. B. SKIPPEK, i i Attorney at Law, LUMBERTON, - - - N. C. All business entrusted to him will re ceive prompt and careful attention. Office in First National Bank Hoildint ver Post Office ROUND TERMS Means Square Dealing. What vou paj for your Groceries is a family affair, but family affairs require attention usua ly. For the sake of every family in Lum berton and vicinitv there's much in our itock of GROCERIES that requires at tention. No better lot of Ihinas for th lining room, the kitchen and the 1-uni 1rv has ever been gathered together, am' Ol7R PRICKS ARE RIGHT. These things insure the best living at low st cost. J. H. Wishart E. M. BRITT, Attorney at Law, Lumberton, N. C. Office npsto'rs ia Argna Building. All business promptly transacted. E. J. BRITT, Attorney at Law, Lumbertcrj, N. C Office over Pope's Drug Store. STOCK REMEDIES. 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