North Carolina Newspapers

Carolina Watchman. THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1890. The Bed Light. WHEN FROPEKTY 18 CRIME. Wearily stripping the p ow gears back from the withers of his mort gaged mule, drearily dropping upon a rude old chair of hi mortgaged house- make the wrong a possibility, or both. A republican government protected his fnrn:ms arid his mills aeaint honest xim petition, and he promptly levied the tax. Government said if he chose to sell above an honed; profit he should not be interfered uith, and he took advantage of the license given. There is, however, this dissimilarity between the agencies of the wrong: Andrew Carnegie, representing himself alone, worked for Andrew Carnegie, while a no u anu KiLCiiru mini nc, ii.p.iv?.j . ,mm . . . xi ilr it i ' - tua republican Congress, pledged and sworn ! .,. U fwi hyht fade over the r . T . ? .. , fl IIWItlllQ -w-w Q mortgaged landscape, the farmer thinks. To-day he re als of the " Iron Ki tigs'" protection dinner, of which a reporter the people faith and has written as follows : All that moncv could provide aud imtc Mwf.t t combine beauty of sur- - r,nnflin-r with the ciuovment of an epi cure.au repast had been brought into re utiu t.. ... ,..int. th 1 ,;i rl end. and the result was a success far beyond that that he could buy a dinner at anticipated, but none the lew gratifying. Undoubtedly it was tho most iont nH'.nr fur I'ivcn in this citv. if ' . . .rll ilic room re millions to a constituency which is of the nation, has broken coimived at a robbery. Thus it is that there are who have not been able to " gain, by m L a l , 1 J - commerce irom tne laoora main, a inst nronortion of refulgent brass," who J I 1 o are like the tramp, who, when told a mere nominal cost, replied hat he hadn't 1 the mere nominal to meet the cost. twit in the United States. -aembb-d a conservatory supplied with Tlant und blossoms. The side halls were aimn.t rnmMlftelv hid from view by nlamies of'intlmetto leaves, intertwined with ennthorn Ktnilar. decn erecn and trlnssv. and which crows wild in the Car olina's. from whence this had been brouirht. The north hall, back of where President Harrison and Mr. Carnegie sat, was a cem from the florist's hand Then, after a vast deal moro of the same sort about "maiden-hair ferns," " nalms 16 feet hieh," " mammoth four- Ififtf clover." "mounds of Ulrich Bruner, fUhrielle Luzeti. and Magna Charta roses." the reporter told a gaping world what the modern Lucullus, sired by a pro- teptlvfi tariff, trave his euests to eat. Amoncr other things, the farmers and wage-workers of the country were inform ed 0at the fish, being a "soie, was se cured from England, the mutton from ftenttand and. the snring chickens from Louisiana. The celery, olives and. an hnvien verf ser vnd in the finest cut class, and the salted almonds and rad- ihs in dishes of solid silver. The forks and table ware used throughout the din ner were also of solid silver, while the plates and services comprised Haviland china, with the exception of the fish Why! IS IIE A SIXNER ABOVE ALL TIIOSE WHO has DWELL IN JERUSALEM t It "seems that Collector Eaves been-iainy convicceu oi an inuauiMuic fraud by the Senatorial Gomnnttee. Therefore he is not to be confirmed. Rather he is, possibly, to be indicted in the federal courts. That he committed the act to us seems natural, in fact quite the usual order of events, but that he should be set upon by "Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart," in such an iintiJy way, appeal's cannibalistic. Of course he committed it was going to commit it from the beginning; and everyone knew it, for their world wags that way. Those people turn to it as the sparks fly upward, and whenever they are in we are always on the Eave of a Motley disclosure; vide the matter is A Loss to Southern Journalism. The oldest paper in North Carolina the Carolina Watchman, and John Joseph Bruner, its late proprietor and chief, the oldest editor in thebtate, he having for more than half a cei turv followed that calling. Th Watchman is and always has been published in S ilisbury. Before the war its circulation covered all the Western and Piedmont counties, and was widely distributed in those further to the east. No other North Carolina journalist of earlier days had the prescience to see and the ability to set forth what the f utnre of that State might be made because of its immense and varied nat ural resources. Living in the center of a natural district surrounded by vast forests and by fertile lands, Mr. Bruner saw that the State had within itself every needed natural material for the creation and continuance of diversified industries, and while a young editor be began to study these intelligently, and to give such publicity to them as h is circulation permitted. Scrupulously honest, he never permitted any state manfc to be made that he did not be- ieve to be true, and so, in the course of years, the Carolina Watchman came to.be widely recognized as a safe and accurate authority on all such sub jects. The writer hrst met Mr. oruner in 1881 at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition, which the latter visited with many members of the North Carolina Press Association. During the two days they were to gether he became much impressed with the broad views, the genial spirit, the quick perceptions and the physical ac- auaintance. and when they parted it exception OI Hie ""J I C nommiiirn fund !UCAinifn(. Slint'ft. Avhlr.h were served on plates of Vi 1 o". - ---r course. roval Worcester." It is also stated the silver on the table cost $3,000." It was of this he was thinking how In hts younger days he had known h had to say to the Governor of S French and followed through Proud hon's paper, Properly is Crime," (La Propriete" cett h Vol), and had disap proved of it as a ruinous enormity. Then he was younger and his father had not left him a farm and a mort gage; now he wonders if, after all, pro perty, infinitely exaggerated, may not be a crime. Boundless wealthr Hunt , a t i -n r rt The story is as follows: Mr. rear- son, a deputy collector, suddenly re membered what the Governor of N. C. C. H iving performed the mental act, he was not at the trouble of recalling any thing else for the space of three lawful weeks. In the meantime Mr. Eaves sent him his P. P. C. and a discharge underThe untit-for-duty class. At the end of three weeks Pearson reported for duty upon a reinstatement from the Collector. Later Mr. Eaves less poverty, the two are antipodal and approved and put his signature to a yet corrolaries; the one following the other as certainly as darkness follows iight. -k If Carnegie and his sort take nil." he reasons, " then none is left for me. Is not this a Around him sit his children, grow ing up helplessly and hopelessly, born to take up the burden where he leaves off, with the difference that, if the ratio of increase is sustained, then the load will be heavier, for them than for him. They will be the veriest slaves of a slow and ceaseless struggle for bare subsistence; He remembers that a lioness made to whelp in a state of captivity, -will throttle her young rather than have them brought up to the restraints of a carre; and is horrified at the thought in the connection. Do you blame Him now if he thinks that property is crime, such pro perty is crime" ? Then follows the danger of it. Sen ator Vojrhees, quotings writer, said; WheVd (tgkness settled over Egypt and she lost her place anions the great na t ions of the earth, three per cent, of her population owned 97 per cent, of her wealth. When Babylon went down, 2 per cent, of her population owned all the wealth. When Persia bowed -her head, 1 per cent, of her population owned all the land. When the sun of Rome set in black despair, 1,800 men owned and con trolled all the then known world. For the past 30 years more particularly since thecioseot the civil war the united States has moved rapidly along the path traversed by these old nations. In 1850 our capitalists owned 37J per cent, of the nation's wealth. In 1870, only 20 years later, they owned 63 per cent., having al most doubled their accumulations. They s have more than kept up this.' ratio since 1870, and probably now hold fully 80 per cent, of the total wealth of the country. What proportion of the population hold this large per cent, it is not easy to de termine, but it does not probably exceed 10 per cent, of the 60,000.000 who inhabit this country, and this per cent., so small in numbers, but so omnipotent in ivealtii, js using its immense power in every de partment of business and of government in the "development and prosecution of schemes for making tho rich richer and the poor poorer Thus it appears that, heretofore, - something ratribntive has followed the undue amassment of wealth? by the few and the empoverishineiit of the many, nor is this pessimistic cant, but a sim ple realization which is hardly original, j A spring depressed to-its limit will either, break cfr rebound and a balance must be maintained every where. Love of country is strong, but will it survive the test of many such Barnicide feasts as Mr. Carnegie has. spread for the ini pecunious millions? Did he not col lect his millions by selling his iron for millions more than it is worth? And the question naturally follows, if a man is entitled to one hundred millions more than hjs just proportion, why is he not entftled to it all? But where is the blame to rest, with the man who realizes upon his oppor tunities or with the institutions which paper which Pearson had made out and to which his signature and oath were athxeu, the paper purporting to be a true statement of the number of days during the month in which he had been at his post. Really he proved for the entire month, the three weeks M off " and alb If this were all Mr. Eaves' approval of it might be considered an oversight or an act of generosity, With the Govern rnent's money, by the way. However, it unfortunately was not all. It seems that Eaves had become surety for $100 at a Charlotte bank and had taken lien on Pearson's salary for the month in question, to secure him against loss Therefore, it is said, Eaves approved the account had Pearson endorse the disbursing clerk's check to Ifim, col lected the mouey himself, went down to Charlotte and took up Pearson's note in proper person and thus" made the Government pay his bad account with an insolvent debtor. Thus runs the story gotten from very creditable authority. Of course it is but a wretched record of a miser able fraud and there is little about it to startle any one. It " has been before and again will be." was only after a promise to renew the acquaintance at Salisbury. There we i have met at intervals ever since, the last time during the past summer, and on each later occasion the impressions first made have been deepened Among all the southern newspaper men whose acquaintance it has been 1 I I- V 1 11 mv etoou rortnne to maue aunnjj tne nast ten years: none has seemed to me so near perfection in all that consti tntes a true journalist and a true man as John Joseph Bruner, who died on Sun'lav morning, March 23, at the ad vanced age of seventy-three. Manu facturers' Record North Carolina in Mexico. juasc weeK air. dames nail, repre senting the Knitting Mills at Greens boro; started on a tour through Texas and Mexico. His mills work on undei wear entirely. Out there he will meet and uudersell New England competi tors, just as day by day the South is doing it elsewhere aud in other lines. Ihere is a singular fitness about all this. Ouce we followed her lead and went into the slave business. Finding that the negro did not take kindly to object lessons in glaciation, she induc ed us to pay for her slaves, wearing in the meanwhile, the demeanor of a man who sells a moon eyed horse aud keeps that little astronomical fact locked in his silent, sinful bosom. Then, find ing that we were getting on with them, she Interfered. Now we propose to shut up many of most of her mill?, just as the west has desolated her farms. Already her shoe manufactures, re publicans though they are, are memor ializing Congress for free leather and her wool mill owners, ask for free raw material; both giving as a reason that they cannot compete with, the West and Southwest. Iron, steel, cotton, wool, leather, to bacco, these in their order, are the great industries of the nation and there are uow geographically ours, as later on they will be in fact. Her wooden nutmegs, rum and codfish balls she may have, also most of her cultchaw and all of her Anglomania. The Iron Future of the South. Three decades ago we said, and be lieved, "Cotton is Kinc" The readv reply was, uIron is King;" for a local furnace means local rolling mills, bol works, nail works, wire and horse shoe industries, together with dozens o other enterprises relating to the manu facture of iron, and which each employ their companies of men, in addition il I'll 0 ! to tne Duiicuns up or sucn rortunes as Carnegie's. But it is now no longer o vital importance to us where the scep tre lies, since we intend to have them both. Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama have passed beyond the experimental stage and are amply able to take care of themselves in the iron world. The Old Dominion is lighting her furnace fires month by month, and the time is not for distant at which the whole valley of the James wil 1 1 1 i I 1 n i giow ana gioom witn tne name and l i r i i- ii smotce or or them. Ana now comes North Carolina with her ores that wil make Bessimer steel. Hitherto the ores of the South, because of the al most universal presence of a consider able precentage of phosphorous limestone regions, have been unfit for furnace steel. In our state, however. the limestone and the phosphorous dis appear together. At Greensboro, we will shortly have our first steel works, but not our last, since the mountain system of our western counties is seamed with the same class of high grade ores. As the Manufacturers' Record has continually aud for years said the iron future of the South is indeed bright. in School Funds. Some of the newspaper brethren in the State seem engaged in a crocodile tear business over the failure of the Blair bill to become a law. The Watchman has consistently opposed the measure, and is gratified at the re sult, not because it is opposed to edu cation, but because it thought the measure fraught with evil conse quences. When Congress cares to re turn to the States, pro ratio, any sums of money collected from the people for he legitimate expenses of government, and not needed for such purposes, we would be gratified to see our Legisla ture recieve such sums and appropriate hem to our common school fund. On such terms of tender and accept ance there could be no question of "States' rights," and such a measure would recieve the unanimous support of the South. But it is not likely that any such thing will be done, as the republican party of the North will not consent to a distribution of " patron age" without humiliating terms of ac-ceptance. The E. &. Commission. It has become a matter of general understanding that the Farmers' Al liance lias resolved to pledge, if possi- .i i i f i ble, the candidates tor election to our next Legislature to a Railroad Com mission bill. This seemed feasible un til the Supreme Court of the United States rendered the pledge a fruitless one. in a late case, up ironi Minneso ta, the court holds that a state cannot 1.1 A . i exceed the requirement or a reason- able freight and passenger charge, and then leaves the matter of reasona bleness to a jury as a question of fact. The full text of the decision has not come down, but i the p irtial report is correct, then a State or a State's com mission cannot fix a rate. This, of course will necessitate the abandonment of the plan for a Railroad Coin mission in North Carolina. Farmers' Want to Abolish the Supreme Court. "The Farmers' Alliance of Minnesota met and adopted a net of extraordinary resolutions relating to the reeent decis ion of the United States Supreme Court in the so-called granger cases. The res olutions are in part 'as follows: "Resolved, That we appeal from this second Dred Scott decision to the people of the nation, and we ask them to con sider whether any race should submit to have their liberties thus wheedled away from them on technicalities by a sqad of awyers sitting as a supreme authority high above Congress, the President and the people. We call attention to the eilizens of England, from whom we. have largely derived our form of government, would they permit for one instant a bench of judges to nullify an act of Parliament. There the people are properly -Omnipo tent. .No civilised government on earth has ever conferred such powers upon any court as are by our constitution granted to the United States Supreme Court. In our anxiety to protect the rights of property we have created a ma chinery that threatens to destroy the rights of man. Kesolved. that copies of these reso lutions be sent to the allianccsof the sev eral States of the Union, with the re quest that they unite with us in an effort to amend the constitution of the united States so as to abolish the new slavery of Mates and nation, established by and for the benefit of corporate wealth, and to make it so plain that the the people are masters in this event that no court, however shallow or corrupt, shall ever again attempt to subiect the dom ination of the artiticial personages they have themselves created. "Resolved, That we reccommend the holding of a convention by the alliances of the United States at an early date to consider the very Brave and monstrous questions arising out of this extraordi nary decision." j flii action is extraordinary indeed and rather im practicable. But if the life t'. nureof tiie Federal Justices were restricted by law to ten years, or some other specified term of service, good might result. Life tepure and a re publican form of government, from a democratic standpoint,. do not go well together. There are many reasons why men should not hold office for life, aside from the restrictions which uow hedge 'he tenure. At all events, as We see it now, we would hardly in terpose objection were opportunity oE ered to change life serrice for a spec ific term. DRY GOODS I : y Draw it Mild. Senator Hoar has been deputed bv the republican side of the benate s Committee on Privileges and elections to draw a "mud, experimental election bill." In other words those disregard ful people propose to potter with the A 1 ft sacred institutions of our fathers and to "damn the Constitution," if it gets in the way. Of course the qualifica tions "mud and "experimental are thrown as a sop to Cerberus. Thev ask us to ex.oect the to tl or an ass A 1 while thev breed the whelp of the hv- ena. There is no such possibility as mildness in over riding the rights of a sovereign people. "Cave Canem." My spring stock is now in and I have an elegant assortment of SecftucU Ln, Dress Goods, Plushes, V hite Goods, &c. Have the 532? - " 1 n - . 1 111 A 1 y-m IS 1 t ll A S. I 1 All line of Seersuckers, in Solids, Stripes anu colors. .. 1 i.. U.IMn St oi ecrsucKers, m be found everything good to eat: Hams, Breakfast Strips, Beef Tongttegi gll r, Chickens, Butter, Eggs, Pickles, etc., etc. can Beef XT' UTTTTS I FKUITS I t r t mr.no Annlps. and Cocoanuts. 1 buv .mrl coil ir. . jxtnauiiH, - ' Kespectfullv. u FRANK YOUXG MCCUBBINS COKNER. ' ANNOUNCEMENT OF W. H. RE SNER BRO, LEADING JEWELERS. We arc receiving new goods daily, aud: now have for your inspection the finest line d Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Rings and Novelties ever on this market. We have every.; thing complete Our work department is the best equipped in the State, and are now prepar- . 1 J 1 A ' 1 1 eu to turn out worK at snori nonce, anu m workmanlike manner. Appreciating past favors shown the old firm,; we respectfully ask a continuance odyour patron age to the new firm. We are, trulv yuis, Through the Union. Mos r t --it i ! . es r raicv. ot .Louisville, navinir gotten his corner on May Wheal, pro poses to show the farmers how to raise prices. Jim Corbet fc, the California heavy weight fistiei.ui is stunipping John L. for a row. It fie jets it, let us hope that it will be a Kilkenny cat affair. The Mnjrpies" of Nevada are learn- the devilish ways ot the Austral- lUnr More Eeeuisni. Idaho is the last rotten borough State we are expected to welcome into the sisterhood, and she, being of republican promise, we suppose nothing else is to be done in the matter. Another pale star irradiating its shattery rays from the folds of our flag. At least, the republican partizan from Maine aud the lot of puppets of the left hand who constitute the present Congress have said it. The Senate will concur and the President sign, and so the lit tle starry tvvinklers come to twiuk. Exactly where is Idaho, any how ? Closing the Gatea. It seems that another k,City of Ref uge" has closed her gates against the flying defaulter. By the terns f our treaty with England, the fugitive cash iers and frauds of the future may be unearthed in Canada and brought back to the United States to answer for their crimes. ian Paroquets. The formei are ing out the eves oF the cattle whi tear e the to work on the the kuney fat is n latter have learned back of a sheep unti exposed. as tried in k'Cold be only woman's gave a majority white woman cau- Woman's suffrage Kansas, hunijlia for a seems to negr ovei a THE SOUTHERN REAL ESTATE ABENCY. didate; and in some ways the event is befitting. God preserve our fair land from the woman in politics. Gallant, stricken Louisville, in the brave way of Galveston, asking help from none, has announced her suflic ieney for all intramural exegencies. Hosts of workmen aud laborora are al ready at work in the track of the dis asterous storm. The dead have been Said to rest and soon all wild work of the wind i-dind. C. traces of the will have van- York state the members of the Congressional Districts. -Uuder Sec. -i of Art. 1 of the Con stitution of the United States it seems that the is an express grant of power to Congress to make any regulations relating to congressional districts that seems pleasing. In New runners' Alliance have drmmed the name but not the ohjuets of their organi zation, aud united with the Farmers' League. Toronto, April 5. A lare yacht was sighted yesterday heading tor this port under full sail. An hour later she scemod to be in distress, but before a boat sent out irom the fort could reach her she capsized. No person was found upon her, 1 hough all the circumstances indi cated that she had recently been manned. All ou board were lost. ( SALISBURY, N. OfFickb at GLASGOW, Va. ( BUCHANAN, VA. Real Estate Ms aid Insurance. Special attention given to sale of North Carolina mineral and timber lands, also town lots, villa sites, etc., in the new towns of Glasgow, Buena Vista, and Buchanan, Va. Correspondence Sol lei ted. References : Davis & Wiley Bank, Salisbury, N. C; First National Bank, Salisbury, IS. C: Col. M. M. Martin. Manager Rock Bridge Co., Glasgow, Va. "What Next? Ohio has a democratic legislature, so constituted by the Tote of a sovereign State. Formerly it was republican, and as such the State was gerryman dered into shotgun, shoe-string and zigzag districts, having impossible boundary lines, in order to defraud the democrats of their just proportion of congressmen. 1 he present legislature proposes to wipe out the crazy-quilt patterns and re-establish the old dis trict lines. To prevent this the re publican majority of the House Com mittee on Elections report favorably a measure providing that the members of the Fifty-second Congress should be elected from exactly the same districts as those of the Fifty-first. l To what base uses we may return, Horatio ? " That among even so called statesmen a proposition as boldly iniquitous and crudely ignorant in character shonld find a supporter is to be deplored. Caesar fell at the foot of The Total receipts of the Federal Government from all sources, it is said, will reach the enormous figures of 385,000,000 this year. In the name of depressed agriculture, we beg to cry halt. Speak of contraction of the currency, class legislation and other theories, as you will, but it is the monster tariff thut is eating the finan cial life and of the people. Turn your guns on the tariff. There is where the fight should be thickest. The above sum represents about one-third of what protected American manufacturers' gather annually from our people. The Wyoming "constitution" is said to be a "daisy." This is because it contains a "'woman suffrage" clause. Women and daisies are very compan ionable, but when is added polities, there is a" conglomeration of sweetness, blossoms,, and bitterness, that will not only make ones hair stand on end. but is likely to have the same removed without thejud of a barber. Wyom ing, beautiful, poetic and musical name, she is worthy in resource and in gran- duer aud munificonce of natures gifts to be numbered among the states and have a bright star to burn in the azure field of our national bunting, but thou knowest not what thou d )st. Thou art sowing the wind; take heed, est thou reap the whirlwind. 000,000,000 of pensions ! Whither, 0 whither ! Unless the masses of our people are utterly corrupt, there is a revelation in store for the republican campaign committe, called a Congress, at Washington. MARRIED. In Congress, one day last week, on motion of Mr. Henderson, from this district, a bill was passed which de prives U. S. Judges of the authority to Pompey's marble for less than this. S,Te an op1"10" on a question of fact. In Cabarrus county, N. C, March 30 1890, at the residence of the bride's par ents, by ltev. Sam'l Rothrock, D. D., Mr Robert J. Coleman and Miss Laura C daughter of Mr. George Troutman. LOST OR MISLAin. One pair of saddle pockets. Parties find ing will please leave them at Watchman Otlice. One dollar reward. April 5th, 1800. S. D. MORRISON. N. B. The change of the firm name lieccs-' sitfites the closing of the old books, and I would respectfully ask all who arc indebted to mc to 1 i - j call and settle the same. Very truly, W. H. REISNER. WM. SMITIIDEAL, v. Tt AnrcxnFi i. Z. SCHULTZ, Managers. CHRISTMAS - Is past, andrive hare COME DOWN TO P. H. THOMPSON & CO., MAX U F ACTC REKS, Sash, Doors, Blinds, work Scroll 'Sawing, Wood Turning, AND CASTINCS OF ALL KINDS -DEALERS IN- Steam Engines and Boilers, Steam and Water Pipe, Steam Fitting-, Shafting, Pulley Han&er. ALSO Machinery of all kinds repaired on SHORT NOTICE. Mar. 15,88. ly MANSION HOUSE MODEL LAtTNDKY, GREENVILLE, S. 0. or. Ax JSYEKY MONDAY, DELIVERED SAT URDAY A. M. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO LAMES WORK. OFFICE at MORGAN'S STUDIO. EXECUTORS' NOTICE. Having qualified as Executors of the estate of J.J. Bruner, we hereby giye notice to all persons having claims against the decedent to exhibit the same to us on or before the 4th day of April, 1891. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to settle without further notice. Dated April 3d, 1890. L T. K. BRUNER, I 24:6t. C. G. VIELE, Executors of J. J. Bruner. Wc intend to selfgootls cli er from the 1st day of January to the 1st dav of March, 189U, tha n thov h :i ve over 1 recri sold if alisbury," in -order "to mate room lor our opring oukk. A good brogan shoe for $8.00 Suit for 16.00 u Bovs' suits from $1.50 to If vou have the hard cashed " - . -J want anything in our line dont fail to call on us, as we willg you more for your money-tnau you ever have gotten before. Respectfully, D. R. JULIAN & Co. ml 5D0 4J? WANTED I Tho n.imn of evorv man Western North Carolina has timber land, fmproveWf lots and properties for sale. must have bottom prices, m full. .clear and correct descri Persons wishing to buy, or rent properties will find ft their interest to write to call on McttalNS & REISrt SEAL ESTATE AGENTS, SALISBURY-, ST. C. ,