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f 1 s 1 '' 1 . 1 ! yoIi ii FOURTH SERIES IV ' : y: : ; F ; 1 S ' " sausbury, N. Ci thorscai; Jnwi9;i89i. . ; ! F' i' : : , J ' Casvria is if r samuei j.-itcner- and Children. 1 It contains neither Opium, Morpoine nor other Narcotip substance. It is a harmless snbstitate for Paregoric, fIrops, Soothing: Synips, and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. 'its guarantee is thirty years' se by HiUions of 3Iothers. Castoria is the Children's Panacea the Mother's Friend. f 1 4 Castoria. i ' i 'Ctorlalso well adapted tochfldreiTthat I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me." H. A. Arckb, M. D 111 So. Oxford St.,! rooklyii, N. Y. ' i "The use of 'Owtoria'i Is so unfrersal and "its incrits so well known thai iBeems a work of supererogation to endorset. Few are -the ,'nt'Ui(?ei)t families who do nt keep Castoria fAthla easy reach." j ; ; . ', . Carlos JLuittm, IX D., ' '. ''""' Kew York Oty. Thjc Ckntadr Cow Washington Lettch ' - i i i f Oorrespondence of the Watchman. Washington, D. C.j July 17 1894. - ipresident,CIeveland4nl his cabinet dre almost swamped v,tn telegrams from every section 0$ the couTitr3' .congratulating them (pi the courage flod promptness -with which .they have' brought order ottof chaos and prevented what at on time looked 'ike it might: be a revolution, and volunteering aid to- aiy imaginable extent, in both mettad money. The President, and his advisers believe tha worst is, over, tjut they none the ess Ur proud of he confidence :repc sed in them by rCongress and the people and will j pntinue their efforts to deserve thatc6nfcdence. ' ' It ii Speaker Richardson, now, if you ;please. Representative , Richard son of Tenn., having been elected Speaker pro. tern, of tba House dur the absence of - Speaker Crisp, who has been called to Georgia by the erlous ijlness bf his brjother. I . Theldemocrats pf th tariflconferr eiice committee have heW daily meet- 1 ingstfiis week, and the air is lull of rumors each contradictory of the otlier as to what thfy haye done. These rumors are .nothing more than guesses a members of the con- leriJCC wll; havb Jidthing to say riatil fbey report! to their respective V Houses, f-". .. !' Ilqd the situation nt been entirely too grave, and ; impprtant to be laughed at the silly talk of Messrs Hayes, McGuire iond, jPrencht mem bers of the Executive! committee of the rCniffhte ol Laborf whoare in Washington this; weeR, about begin : liing ' impeachnjent proceedings against. Attorney General Olney ber ; cause of the arrest 'hi Debsy would " havjj been Regarded asfa good joke. : t is it merely jgavetbe intelligent pU:ean opportpnityjto gauge the caliber o'e roe whocontrola oce . . 4 jjni)uential organiza powerful an. " 1 , . ' . . N HSQ they are mak ,: tion can stand. tuL J in6fit. j ' j. ; ; : ' ' , Senator Daniel,1 of ViVgiia' in ad diticn to being a statefs righiL"' dem-j-qerat of the staurichcsCsort is knovvn 5, among lawyers as an authority up on Constitutional law His resolu- tion (offered as a substitute to the , semi -anarchist resolution offered : by Senator Peffer, of Kans., and ', supported by the" populist Senator in c ne of the I most dutrageous speeches5 ever made in' the Senate in : whi :h the abolition of Congress and the transfer of authority to a coni , mit ;et composed f one member from " eaqh tate was advocated), endors . ing President Clevelaiid and his ad- ImiriisUation for the! prompt and Rigorous measures -taken ; to rc- i pulse and repress by! fmUitary . force the interference of lawless men with the due process of the jaws of the U. S.'knd with commerce among the States" and declaring, that 4,the ac tion of- the President; and his ad ministration has the.; :jfull sympathy aq support of thei law abiding masses of the people 'df the U. S,, and wil be supported ,by all departments of ihe gouernmentjind by the pow and resources of Ihe entire na- ?liojn' would have ben immediately prescription xor xnrants , I Castoria. Castoria cures Colic, Constipation, Soar Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eraciation, Kills Worms, cives sleep, and promotes di ' gestton,' Without in jurious medication. "For several years I hare recommended your ' Castoria,' and shall always .continue U do so as it has invariably produced beneflcia resulta." I - " i Ed win F. Pardee, JL Jk, 125th Street and 7th Av' Kew York City ' ast, 77 Mumat Sntrrr, New York City adopted by a nearly unanimous vote of the Senate as it was the next day only Peffer voting against ft had noMSenator Galljnger, of N. H., for some unexplained reason caused it to go over a day under the rules by objecting to a' vote "thereon and re fusing to with draw the objection although he was begged to do so by his republican colleagues. Speaking of the situation. Senator Daniel said: "I am alstates rights democrat, and would be the lastjman to stand idly by and sec the authority of the state encroached upon, but I fail to see anything here that encroaches upon the authority of the State of Illinois in anjr way. The President is act ing entirely within the lines of jthe constitution, and his actipn is to be commended by all Jaw abiding citi zens, regardless of their political prediction or partisan feeling. This is the way the situation looks to Senator Davis, of' Minn., the Re publican whp.se raking, down of Peffer will not soon fee forgotten: "I have looked into this, matter as a lawyevand my judgment is that the President has gone about this busi neSs as a lawyer. He has Consider ed his ground, become acquinted wih his authority and then gone in to exercise them fn a rigbtepus cause and for! the good of the general public. He has not- exceeded his au thority one whit; on the contrary, he has not as yet exhausted it. If the federal troops are not sufficient for this emergency the state militia is at bis command Tf?? President can swear the militia of the various states into the service of the United States,. and then send them to Chicago or'any other point where their mobilization 1 may . become necessary. The constitution is broad enough in this case, and the Presi dent is intrenched upon it." Two 8ides to the Strike. - Jt ought to be written upon the door of every American home 1. That every man shall have the fight" to work when it pleases him to do so. " 2. That every man shall have the right to quit work when he so elects to do. The State Governments should give speedy protection to these two classes when their rights are in vaded. More than twenty years ago we saw on Fayetteville street, Raleigh, a gang of negro masons who had quit work had struck intimidate and forcibly prevent another set of negro masons from taking the ya cated places. This was a great out rage, and every fellow ought to have been severely punished tor tnis high-handed act if the laws of the State are for such crimes against hu rightsand liberty. tWe never heard that the black bulUdoers were ever punished, i, . Intimidating, threatening, mainv ing, killing workingmen for working must be stopped in this, land of the free and of equal laws, at least in theory. Gen. Gordon, of Georgia, who is Comraanderrin-chief of the ponfeder- ate Veterans J in 4 recent intetview, gave this sound opinion, j k ; ,.'My sympathyf is land al wa; rs has been strongly enlisted for the abor ing classes. jTher iave j as rnuch right to" orgjani?! for their protec tion and impi-ovefnentas capital has for its proteptiori and interest, but moh lawi! mbb' jrnle; and mo vio lence cannot! be i tolerated in this country, lit 3mu?t be put dovn at any cost or the Government cannot last." ;fj VU y I ',. There the distinction is drawn well and soundly.f Lef all trades organ ize for it is! theiri right to dpi this: but let them never- organize fair out rage, for oppression, for turbulence, for anarchy, j There is a wide deep gulf between hesel i i I in Suppose the picture is reversed. Let the cither side be represented. Suppose all the l rich men in the North - should combine to i force laborers to ' work j fori them at their own prices; r Suppose them to hire mercenary soldiery to back tnem with ball; and bayonet to cpmpell the toilers Id sere them inf their various mills and manufactories. Would not every man see at once the enormity of such an offence the oppression land wrong of such a demonstration of "money the out rage upon humanity and the very name of citizenship and a free? coun try ? Would -not tjiejStates aft take a hand in I such 'deviltry and put down an attempt at tyranny such an fnfraction of Jaw ? Of course they would, and the men oi sense and character everywhere jcvould unite in j condemnation of the iniquity.: j j' ; , j If labor! cojnbines by boycott or any other liaiproper process to com pel capi tal to em pipy ; them alt their own terms tsjit; right? Has capital no rights jipifour Country ? s not sauce for; the: goose also sauce for the gander? Can l it be any I more right, any more just, any more more legal, any more humane and consid erate for labor to combine to oppress and ruin labor ? Tfjjpok at it, fellow countrymen, and see whither we are tending. fie just and fear God. The Workingrae's I Political Club of Jacksonville telegraph Dictator Debs, whp lpst his head his senses n the turmoil that'they sympathize with him in trying: to better the con dition of 'the strikers, but censured the burning, etc ffThey, however, exonerated Debs abd his aiders and abettors from all ; responsibility in the burning. J Would all this jracket and wild destruction of property and immense ; loss to ihe country by stopping i jthel channels of business have occurred if this Dictator had not undertaken a greater jolji than he could Hcompletel?il His methods . ; . i r -sis i i were unsound and he failed. This country is a fJOyernmentlstrict ly of law. When; the laws are violated j they mjijst be enforced against all offenders. It is not 'commendable, perhaps, in the Pullman company to refuse all measures of peace proposed because they see the United; States Govern ment enforcing law with armed sol diery. A more generous spirit Would no doubt Contribute to healing the wounds, restoring; confidence and securing for them triibreof the respect and sympathy of thp country. f Debs playing fthe part of Sovereign came very near precipitating k very bloody conflict, hen he talked glibly of a revolution he showed his incapacity foil; the place he holds and brought himself within the pur view of law as a dangerous enemy and stirrer nb of strife. After the noise and turbulence iave quieted down you will see a movement probably to make a radical change in the requirements of American citi zenship. Bvery! native born Ameri can has tci live her for twenty-one years before he is Adeemed qualified to exercises safely the right of elective franchise. Can a Turk or Italian or Hungarian drpole land here, coming directly from a land of bayonefs and in a few , months spH learn the great principles bf a free government, and be so enlightened jis to understand the vast responsibilities of self-gov ernment as to be qualified tp help make laws for the natives, who had to go to school for twenty-one! years before being I invented with? such responsibility X and i power? j There will be also, ehanges, we doubt not, as to who may cPine from foreign ! lands. Probably jno one will be allowed to come who does no come properly accredited cither, irom his own government r the American Ambassador in that country Wil mington Messenger X Fresldent Act Vmier Law, So far as' we know ex-President Harrison is correct in sayuig that never before in the history of our country has the President order ed Federal troops into a State with out request of the Governor of such State and over his protest. It is to be hoped that this will never occur again. It all comes from the grave mistake1 made by the framers the Constitution in giving the carrying of the private correspondence of a free people to the Federal govern ment. There will be great danger found right there whenever the man on horseback comes riding iiTthe middle of the road, as he will come, we do not doubt soon or late. This Republic is but little lQOTy ears old and we see what has been done. When the government was invested with the power over the mails it carried with it power to enable it to make good its undertaking. Mr. Harrison does not question the President's right to do as he has done. He could not so question. In 1871, a Republican Congress exacted a law that invested the President with power to dp as he has done. It was enacted J20th of April, 1871, (see section 5,297.) On 29th of July, 1891, another section, (5,298) was passed, Democrats helping to do it, clothing the President with the amplest power. The former section provides that "whenever, by reason of unlawful obstructions, combina tions, Or assemblages of persons, or rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States, it shall become impracticable, in the judgment of the President, to enforce, by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, the laws of the United States within any State or Terri tory, it shall be lawful for the Presi dent to call forth the militia of any or all the States, and to employ such parts of the land and naval forces of the United States as he may deem necessary to enforce the faithful exe cution of the laws of the United States, or to suppress such rebellion, in whatever State or Territory there of the laws of United States may be forcibly opposed, or the execution thereof forcibly obstructed." The section of 1891 provided that that "whenever insurrection, domes tic violence, unlawful combinations, or conspiracies in any State so ob structs or hinders the execution of the laws thereof, and of the United States, as to deprive any portion or class of the people of such State of any of the rights, privileges, or im munities, or protection, named in the C onstitution and secured by the laws for the protection of such rights, privileges or immunities, and the constituted authorities of such State are unable to protect, or, from any cause, fail in or refuse protection of the people in such rights, such facts shall be deemed a denial by such State of the equal protection of the laws to which they are entitled the Constitution of the United States," then the President may lawfully intervene, "and it shall be his duty, to take such measures by the employment of the militia or the employment of the land and naval forces of the Uuited States, or of either, or by other means, as he may deem necessary, for the suppression of such insurrection, domestic vio lence or combinations." So the Congress has given all pow er to the President to go into the States with the army and in the face of State protest and act as above indicated. President Cleveland act ed under the law, and deserves just that much of praise and no more than attaches to an official when he discharges his "duty," for the law above makes it Vhisduty" to use the army, if the occasion demands. This is certainly a striking exemplifica tion of the steady trend in the legis lation of our country towards cen tralized power, The President has both power and obligation to do as he has done. No one can censure him for doing his duty. If the laws are bad and dangerous and savor of a strong government, and are inimical to States sovereign ty, they ought to be wiped out when the country and men see things in the white light of truth and safety. That our readers may see how these laws are regarded as a triumph of the Strong Government idea we quote from a leading New York pa-, per, the Reader. It says: "It is the largest and broadest as sertion of the supremacy of the federal government and laws over every inch of territory in the United States, regardless of State lines. that has been made since the war. "It is right, because it puts ;the au thpritative foot of a great 'precedent firmly down in anew field of labor ! controversy and contention, and de clares once more) the glorious bid doctrine of Lincoln and Grant and the Republican party 'This is a na tion.' . ' ; j "And that is why it is all the bet ter that it is done by a Democratic administration.' I : ! How any sane, sensible, informed American can favor the diminution pf State power and the increase of Federal power is beyond; us. We hold and believe that the perpetuity of free institutions, the cbnservation of personal liberty depend upon the unyiciaing maintenance of State Sovereignty. While Ireland is fight ing bravely for locjal self-government the States of the American Union are surrendering that fundamental prin ciple and chief safe-guard to the all grasping power of the Federal Crea ture, set up and formed and made a power by themselves. Beware of the trend to Neutralization. Wil mlngton Messenger. The Righteous Tax. It is class legislation to make every body with an income of $4,000 pay on it? If so, them New York, North Carolina and other States are guilt ty of class legislation for they levy a tax on incomes, and North Carolina upon incomes above $1,000. As to its being inquisitorial, it is not more so than all other taxes. The truth is men opposing with such bald ar guments are hard up. We notice people in New York are writing about the infamous dodges perpe trated in that State by the rich who pay scarcely upon one-fourth they have. The income tax is just, righteous, fair and necessary. The country needs every dollar of it, and no man will pay upon what he has not got. Mark that, s A New York man writes to the World: "It it were left to me to decide on an income tax I would make jt as follows: On incomes from $5,000 to $10t000, 1 per cent.; $10,000 to $20,000, 2 per cent.; $20,000 to $30,000, 3 per cent.; $30,000 to $4,000, 4 per cent.; $40,000 to $50, 000, 5 per cent.; $50,000 to $100, 000, 10 per cent.; 100,000 to $200, 000, 20 per cent.; on all over $200, 000,25 percent."! Why begin at $5,000? Senator Vest proposes to begin at $3,000. That is certainly not too low. A poor man must pay upon his little home with $300. Why shall not a man pay on $3,000 of money receiv ed upon investments? The World stands bravely by an income tax, but unwisely insists upon starting with $5,000. ' ! Another New Yorker says in the World, oyer his own signature; "If the Lexow committee will in vastigate the assessments of bur trusts and corporations it Jwill dis cover the source of the corruption of funds used by Tammany in its elec tion campaigns. Assessing the rich at a low valuation and the poor jor middle class at a high valuation has more to do with making the rich richer and the poorer than any other single cause." Unequal taxation is unjust taxa tion. Under the McKmley law low grade goods are taxed very; much higher than fine goods. That puts the heavy tax on the laboring class and the light tax on the rich. Above we see this vile rule obtains in the New York State taxes. It is wrong, it is iniquitous.1 The rich should willingly pay upon their riches. The nnnr are forced to oav upon their r a. poverty. The poor will gladly pay a big tax on the wealth if it is hand ed over to them. I The World Jis ex actly right in saying this: , "The hardship is in not having an income large enough to tax not in paying a trifle Upon super-abund ance. 1 The real victims of class legisla tion ever since the close of the war have been the great mass otj poor people, who are taxed in tneir pover ty upon their necessaries. nnrincr the war there was created Ma j, a vast and intricate system of taxa tion which of necessity took tribute from everybody. When the war ended one after an other of the taxs on wealth and 1Turv were repealed. ; t The revenue duties on ! tea and coffee were removed, but beyond this no 00 oivon to the poor. Indeed the tariff taxes were raised repeated lyand steadily until the McKinley Highest of all in Leavening PowerLatest U. S. Gov't Report ' I biU exceeded thc average of the high- est war tariff. The whole burden of national tax ation rests upon consumption. And as the amount of necessaries requir ed to sustain existence is nearly the same for poor and rich, the result is a great inequality of taxation. Men pay not according to their ability to pay, or to the benefits which they receive from; the Government, but by an arbitrary process that oppresses the many for the advantage of ,the few." We believe every syllable of that statement to be true. In 1870. the able Seator Sherman was strong for an income itax, as we have many times shown from his speech, he holding it was the one, safe way of "equalizing the burdens between the rich and the poor." What was true in 1870 is surely true in 189i, for the burdens are farjnbre unequal now than theyjwefe then. Sherman said on the 22d of June 1870: "Here we have in New. York Mr. Astor with ; an income of millions derived from real estate, accumulat ed year after year by the mere family pride of accumulation, and we have alongside of him a poor man receiv ing $1,000 a year. What is the dis crimination Of the law in that case? altogether against the poor man. w v isyerything that he consumes we tax, and yet we are afraid to touch the income of Mr. Astor. Is there anv iustice in it?" Under the sun there is no tax as just, sensible and righteous as an in come tax.Messeuger. Marriage in the United States. " In the current number of The Forum Mr. Carroll D. Wright, Sup erintendent of the Census, gives a re view of the statistics of marriage in the United States. To "the Record" the facts which Mr. Wright presents concerning the excess of men (mar ried and single) over women in Pen nsylvania and in other parts of the country are not surprising. It ap pears from these statistics that there are 377.000 more married men than married women in the United States. Mr. Wright explains this phenomen on by saying that many of the mar ried immigrants send afterward for their wives. This is true to a certain extent; but very many of the immi grants in Western Pennsylvania who have come from Southeastern Europe have no intention of sending for, the'r wives and families; their inten tion is to return themselves, after having saved a few hundred dollars. These men are succeeded by feesh re lays of married immigrants, whose wivs; would be an incumbrance and an expense, m tne social economy of these people one woman'can cook, wash and keep house for a number of them; and this saves them the ex pense of maintaining separate fami lies during their stay of a few years at the miaes and iron mills. Out of this arises a condition of polyandry. Tnese statistics also show that in the United States there are almost three times as many widows as roiHnwers. Prom this it i3 evident that the fears of the maidens con cerning the successful competition of widows in the matrimonial market have no foundation in social iacts. It is seen that the widowers marry more frequently than the widows. The same ratio holds in regard to divorced omen and men who have not resumed the married relation amounting respectively to 72,000 and 49,000. Divorced men appear less disposed than women to profit by their untoward marital experi ence. Th.ro ;c 0 lnrffer percentage of married persons in the United States than in any other land, although there are, or were in 1890, a million and a half more males than females in the country. In all the countries of Europe the female sex predomi- ofc in numbers. The excess-of UCfcV.h?a -- females in some sections of Southern Europe extent the excess of males in the mining and iron manufacturing regions of this country Superintendent Wright obsenes that since the: census ol 1880 thft number of men who have not enter ed the married relation is consider- ably less than the number of eligible maidens. He finds that modern in dustrial development has exercised an influence in diminishing the num ber of marriages. In proof of this he points to the fact that the per centage of unmarried persons -is much greater in the East and in the large cities than in the rural districts. In the farming regions marriages are most frequent where the Ger-? mans and Scandinavians have set tied in large numbers. The divorces are not nearly so numerous as has been generally imaginedThe num- ber of divorcedpersons does not amountj;o-more than one-fifth of one. per cent, of the whole population of theUnited States, or to not more thad a half of one per cent, of the married inhabitants. In the West divorces are most frequent; and they are least frequent in the South. Philadelphia Record. The Government at Washingloa, The government at Washington lives, and the people of the United States are behind it, sixty odd mil lions of them. Anarchists and fools not reckoned. The representative and executive of the nation's author ity, majesty and power is President Cleveland. He stands at this mo ment for all that loyal Americans live for, hope for, are. That he stands firm to his obvious duty no man can now doubt. The administration is doing its duty with respect to the people, and the people must do thei duty with respect to the administra-f tion. The color of a citizen's politi cal opinions is of no more consequ ence at such a time than the color of his eyes or hair. As a citizen, as an American, he owes first of all his unqualified, unquestioning, unlimit ed support to the chosen man who took into his hands on March 4th, 1893, the responsibility for the administration of the nation's laws, and swore then to turn the Govern ment over to his successor as he found it. . Whatever may be the immediate turn of events, President Cleveland and his Cabinet advisers confront a crisis in the nation's history. R . or why that crisis has arisen is not the question. How it shall be metis the matter that concerns the sixty odd millions behind the President and the Government at Washington. In half a dozen States of the Union to-day men occupy the Governor's chair who are no more fit to be there than Debs or Johann Most. The United States Constitution guaran tees to the citizens of every State the priyileges and immunities of citizens in the Several States. It guarantees to every State a republican- form of government. One of the privileges of American citizenship, is to live under law, not Anarchy. One of the immunities of American citizenship is immunity from lawless violence. A " republican form of government in . any State is not government admin w istered by a coward, an Anarchist, or a Governor in sympathy with Anarchy and its opjects. Questions of jurisdiction and verbal conflicts of Federal with State authority are bound to arise in any great public emergency involving the exercise of both Federal and State authority. They are technically interesting, as they were in the early months of 1861. There is ample power in the Gov ernment at Washington, under the Constitution and laws of the United States, to preserve the institutions of this country against mob, insur rection or rebellion. The power is not that Pi any one man, or of any small council of men: it is the might of a great and indestructable nation. We believe that it will be exercised, as it should be exercised, to any extent that may become necessary, with humane prunence and modera tion as far as possible, but in any case with unyielding firmness and unremitting vigor. The President's proclamation is a draft at bight upon tha loyaltv and patriotic sup port of every loyal and patriotic American. In continuing to perform the perfectly plain duty now thrust upon him as the nation's Chief Mag istrate, President Cleveland should have something more than the half acquicssent, half critical countenance which approves the main purpose but watches sharp for minor breaks and mistakes. He should have just that sort of support which we all owe to the flag when it is held upas a signal for Americans to rally to it.j New York Syn. The Watchman Job Office turns out first class work does i h r s - 1 n Ml - ' a 1 -1 : 1 1 id l 14 i ; if 1 1 is .14 r II H 1 ii 1 -S3 , lit -I si 1 ir 1 - i-f,-i. I '- 4 - .. - ' - . t : .'-J . JIT