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A Home Newspaper Published in the Interest of the Peopie and for Honesty in Governmental Affairs. Vol. VI. No. 25. Salisbury, N. O., Wednesday, June 8th, 1910. Wm. h. Stewart. Editor. HIDING AFFAIRS OF THE GOVERNMENT. Feiring that Their Wrong Doings Will Hart 6. 0. Pr Censurship Is Established. t Washington, June 6. Special" Government by stealth, a fitting expression to describe the gagrule methods inaug urated under Mr. Taft. Wot merely the average employee o the government, but the highest omciais, are afraid to give newspaper men information as to what is go ing on. Employees are being made to feel that they owe no fidelity to the public, but that they are mere personal servants of the coterie of men now in charge of the govern ment. As a result of the discharge of Pinchot, Glavis, Kerby and other interior departs ment employees, the average government worker to-day ' feels that it is worth his posi tion to discuss even matters ot public record with a news paper man. The following official order signed by George Otis Smith, director of the Uuited States Geological survey, -gives an idea of the Russian-like censorship that has been es tablished over government information: "Rule 2. That no inter view shall be granted with out securing from the person soliciting the same a promise that he will, before submit ting the material to his pub lication office, present a copy of his manuscript to the dis rector (George Otis Smith) for approval." So far as is known among newspaper men in Washing ton, nothing so drastic as this in the way of press cen sorship has ever been aK tempted before in America Iu 1890, under Cleveland, the total annual appropri ation for the expenses of the national government . was $340,000,000, or S6 for. every man, woman and child. In 1900 our expenses- had in creased to $600,000,000, or $8 for every man, woman and child. The last Congress ap propriated the ' colossal sum of $1,044,401,857, or nearly $12 for every man, woman and child. This Congress threatens to spend $17,000, 000 in exceps of last years ap propriation. Republicans appear reluct ant to concern themselves much about government ex penditures in relation to the cost of li vi ng . But one thing is certain. Government does not pick up these hundreds of millions of dollars in the street. This money comes out of somebody's pocket. Unlike city and state govern ments, the national govern ment has but one way ot rais ing revenue to meet expenses, and that is by taxing things eaten, worn or used by the people. Hence it is that in- creased cost ot living is marching hand -in-hand with increased Republican ex travagance. "I am sorry," said Senator Bristow Of Kansas, while dis cussing the railroad bill, "that the senator from West Virginia (Elkins) has desert , ed the chamber, and I am soiry the senator from unoae isiana (Aiaricn) is not here, and that the Sena- or from Massachusetts, (Lodge) has also disappeared. A survey of the senate showed that the railroad senators, after havincr out lined the kind of legislation they had decided should be enacted, had fled from the chamber without waiting to hear those who disagreed from the railroad viewpoint. ii tiio xaiuuau vicwyuiut, Those of us who are here might possibly be instructed" suggested a Democratic sena tor. Upon noting Bristow's chargin, "but if the senator from Kansas imagines that anything he can say will in fluence those senators he is wasting his time and breath." ,4I am afraid the senator is right," answered Bristow. Then he went on addressing the democrats and the empty Depositors of Defunct High Point Bank in Full. We make it a point to call attention to the following special to the Charlatte Ob server. It is an authentic case of depositors ot a de funct bank receiving the amount of their depositors in full and clearly shows to the fellows who refuse to use the banks the folly of their course. High Point, June 4. The First National bank of High Point, which went into liqui dation January 1, 1908, has paid off all depositors in full and also paid a 90 per cent divided on on the capital stock to the shareholders. The bank still has on hand a large amount of valuable as sets which will be collected in due course and from the cash payments can be subsequent ly put to the shareholders. W. J. Armfield, the former president, is the liquidating agent and he has made a splendid showing considering the stringency of the money market during a part of the time when he had to make the collections. seats of the standpatters. Lest we forget, only nine of the 218 Republicans of the national House of Represent atives are in a position to stand before their constitu ents and report that they vot ed to unseat Cannon as speaker. Page 3490 of the Congressional Record' shows that on March 19 all but nine Republicans voted against the Burleson resolution which would have unseated Speaker Cannon and made it possible to elect a new Speaker. Every democrat voted to un seat "Uncle Joe." A brief definition of "Can- nonism nas been asKea tor Cannon ism means that vrhen fhe interests of the common people and the interests of the steel trust, the sugar trust, the lumber trust, the Jiai vester trust and the com bination of New England cotton manufacturers come into conflict, the latter get the legislation they want and the people are forced to take that which they do not want. The Payne-Aldrich law is a good illustration. The peo ple said: "We want down ward revision of the tariff in order that the cost of living may be lessened." The cor porate interests said: "We want upward revision in or der that our profits may in crease." The people were disappointed, and the cam paign contributing tariff trusts were obeyed. That is Cannonism. Senator Robert M. LaFol lette of Wisconsin sometimes thinks of the most unheard of things. For instance, in the Senate the other day in discussing President Taft's railroad bill, he said: "There is not one line in the statute to give to the people reason able railroad rates. All that has been accomplished is to afford a means of giving equal rates to the shippers!" New who except LaFollette or some other Democrat would think of that? Direct charges that the MorganNGuggenheim syndi cate caused the appointment of the federal judge, the prosecuting attorney and the United States marshal who will fenresent the crovorn- ment in suits over the Cun ningham coal land claims, 1 1 TT IU twnicn iaiiinger was so friendly to) have been made before the Senate committee on judicial y. A responsible party, Judge James Wicker sham, delegate to Congress from Alaska. made the j i m charge. -Tavenner. Kept the King at Home. "For the past year we have kept the King of all laxatives Dr. XT' "XT -w m ' rungs jNew ijite -rills in our home and they proved a blessing to all our family." writes Paul Mathulka, of Buffalo, N. Y Easy, but sure remedy for al Stomach,. Liver and Kidney tr on Dies. Unly 525c at All Drug gists. WATCHMAN AND RECORD HONOR ROLL. Another Batch of Good Ci'lzens Who Hare Made Payment on Subscription. We take pleasure iu publishing the following list of good people who have paid actual cash on their subscription to The Watch man, Record, or both, since our last report : J A Bame, TJ3 Webb, Miss Belle Cowan, MrsTs W Daniel, S W Daniel, Henry A Bostian, Sr. H E Hodge, A H Caldwell," Rev. Shuford Peeler, Rev. D E Brown, Lee Phillips, George Wear, Den nis Rabb, Luther Peeler, Mrs, Geo. H. Potts, Rev. Wm Lam. beth, H W Rusher, C A Peeler, James H Ramsay, H N Woodson, O O Woodson, J Frank McCub- "bins, Capt. W C Coughenour, Capt. Geo. H Shaver, Hon. John S Henderson, Dr. R L Ramsay, P N Peacock James H McKenzie, E H Miller, W W Miller, J R Nich- olas, G A Koontz, G L Walker, W R Felker, HAM Bai ringer, C A Miller, G A Barringer, A D Thomas, Mrs, Sarah M Miller, John L Bogle, J A Yost, J A Gas- tor, H G Cranford, P M Phillips, Solomon Morgan, A J Mahaley, Dr. M C Poole, Alfred Goodman. C M Lyerly, A J Rary, J W Felk er. Davidson Raises Her Endowment. For the past year agents of Da vidson College have been making strenuous efforts to raise 1225,000 for the endowment fund of that college. On condition that this amount was raised by June 1st, the General Educational Board. or some concern with a similar high-sounding name, alias John D. Rockefeller, agreed to give the college $75,000. They didn't complete the work of rais ing the amount until Wednesday commencement day when the ; last few thousands were made up by lifting a collection in the au dience. There was great joy and thanksgiving when the subscript tion was completed. The corres pondent of the Charlotte Obser ver jays "the audience bunt forth with the doxology in praise no thanksgiving that the goal had been achieved." We trust they gave due meed of praise to Mr. Rockefeller. In fact they could have appropriately sung, Praise Jonn from whom oil blessings flow." The massesfrom "'whom John extracted by force the money with which to buy sentiment and praise, need not be considered, it is the gentlemen like John who can practice the arts of highway men and at the same time escape the law who should be placed on pedestal, Statesville Land mark. Senator Lorimer Kay be Asked to Resign. United States Senator Wil liam Lorimer, of Illinois, who has just attracted renowed attention to the charges that he was elected through brU bery, by an absolute denial of all such statements. At thfi samft time Senator Lnri mer's position has been made more unenviable by the in dictment of State Senator Broderick, who is charged with having paid $2,500 for a vote for Lorimer. It is stat A A t t t ea mat a committee ot one Congressman will be sent to the Senator and will ask him to resign. The republicans are in full control of the na- tional government and it seems to us that there has never been so much rotten ness to report before. A Woman's Great Idea is how to make herself attractive. But, without health, it is hard for her to be lovely in face, form or temper. A weak, sickly woman will be nervous and irrit able. Constipation and Kidney poisons show in pimples, blotches, skin eruptions and a wretched complexion. But Electric Bitters always prove a godsend to women who want health, beauty aud friends. They regulate Stomach, Liver and Kidneya, purify the blood ; give strong nerves, bright eyes, pure breath, smooth, velvety BKin, loveiy complexion, goon health. Try them. 50c. at Al DruggietB. Ten Tilings to do Tils Month. (1) Keep the cultivators going Level, Bhallow, frequent-cultiva tion is what the crop? need at this season. Don't cut the corn and cotton roots by deep plowing. (2) Plant cowpeas, soy beans, velvet beans, peanuts som leg ume that will work twenty-four hours a day for you fathering ni trogen, making money and building-up the land . Put in all stub ble lands not othervise employed as soon as the oat or wheat crop is taken off. (3) Save all the crimson clov er seed possible. If no clover hnller is available, the seed can be beaten out by hand and sown in the chaff. ' (4) Get the mower in -good running order . See that all bolts are tight, -thekuives sharp, the guards on straight, and the bear- ings well oiled. A mower is a splendid weed killer as well as a necessity in the hay field. (5) Plant late corn and pota toes. Keep up a succession of garden crops ; beans, tomatoes, sweet corn and other vegetables should be planted this month. Fresh vegetables are oheaper and better than meat or store-bought foods. (6) Spray the apple trees again with Bordeaux and Paris green, and the late, peaches with lime-sulphur. Plow out the first year strawberry beds and plow up the old oneB. (7) Look after the work stock. Cut out some of the corn these hot days and substitute cotton seed meal, oats or peavine hay. ee that there is enough shade and water as well as grass in your pas ture. (8) Fix up a bathroom of some sort, so that you can free yourself from dust and prespiration at the close of the day. It will prove nvigrrafciu(r, ..$$V?.-yar 5298 cf dignity and enable you to do bet- (jBKeep' up the warfare against .flies end mosquitoes and so help ward eff typhoid fever and malaria.,. Screen the doors and windows, drain the stagnant pools, and look after the breeding places of the flies. (10 Prepare for the Farmers' Institutes in your section, and if here are no Women's Institutes in your State, keep after your of ficials until they are started. Raleigh, N. C, Progressive Far mer and Qi zette. The Farm Womtn's Noble Work. W here the farm woman's work is lightened by labor-saving con veniences and where she is study- ing her work and is trying to learn about fo.-ds and fqod values, sanitation, and also about how to make the most splendid examples of physical aud moial manhood and womanhood cut of her chil- drea well, ehe has a chance to find teuHmea as much joy and sweetness in lift as the wealthy society woman in town who frit ters her (rime away on matters of no more importance than how to play bridge or hovto deok her body a little differently to-day from what she did yesterday. It seems to iue that I should as liel not live at all as to reproach my Creator with a life wasted in such aimlessness. Clarence Poe, fn Raleign (N. O) Progressive Farmer and Gazette; Beware of Ointments for Catarrh 1 hat Con tain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smt ajd completely de range the whole system when en tering it through the mucous sur faces. Such artioles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable pjbysicians, as the damage they willdois ten fold to the good you ess possibly derive from them. Hairs Catarrh Cure. manufactured byF. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, O.f ; contains no mer cury, and is taken internally, aot ing directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, fii buvintr Hall I Catarrh Cure be sure y .u get thf genuine. It is taken internally and made in To ledo, Ohio, byJ J. Cheuey & Co, Testimonials fne. Sold by Druggists. J Price 75c. ner bottle. . Take Hail's Family Pills for constipation. 1 - I THE DICK MILITARY BILL. A Few Pelots Well Taken, and Glren to our Readers for Their Consideration. If you are between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, and able bodied, you are now a militiaman and can be called out by the pres- f ident of this nation to fight your own father or brother at any time. Did you know this? Or were you asleep, while your so called representatives, were rob bing you of your liberties? Failing to go when ordered, you can be court martialed and shot like a dog. Such a thing cannot be done in eithor England, Germ any, France or any other so-called civilized country. We hare a wonderful set of re presentatives in Congress ; haven't we? The first time the Dick Mili tary bill is inforced, it will awak en this nation 'into a state of . re volt, it has never known before. It will be the alarm bell that will call a hundred million people to sense of their danger from a mili tary despotism, and there will be something doing. Then the petty gains by fraudulent fortune and bribed franchises, will not be worth the paper on which they are written. All thie, the close stud ent sees, but the ereat mass re main ignorant of and are sleeping as it were over a barning volcano. When, oh wheD, will our peo ple wake up sufficient to Bee that the masses of the people Jhave no representatives at our seat of gov ernment. Legislation, is for a se lect few, and not for the masses . Geo. E. Hunt in Lexington Leader. The Deadly Fly. . ! A number of counts of disease germs upon a large number ot flies examined, showed a range from 560 to 6,600,000 germs, np- resenting typhoid, consumption, dysentery, not to speak of the pieces rof filth uponltheir bodies, collected from their visits to, every sort of haunt. Not only do flies transmit disease through their capacity ito- carry disease germs upon their feet, wings and bodies, but often in feeding they take germs into their bodies, many of which, in passing through the digestive tract, not only remain alive, but increase in numbers so that fly "specks" have been found to contain a large number of disease-producing germB. It is disgusting to read about these things, is it not? But it is not more disgusting than to see these same flies after repast of filth, drown in the milk pitchers drop their specks on a frosted cjpke, or clean their feet on the bread. Is it pleasant to see flies that may have been feasting on the sputum from a consumptive or upon the waste from a typhoid patient crawl over the lips or sleeping baby or gather on tb v nipple of its nursing bottle? These are daily occurrences in homes unprotected from their visits. Mrs. F. L. Stevens, in Starksville (Miss.) Progressive Farmer and Gazette. No Danger By taking Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey for coughs and colds. It contains no habit producing drugs Look for the Bell on the Bottle. Use More Stock, if Possible, - If you have intelligence enough to manage two horses profitably, then you tie up half your power, you throw away half your intel ligence, you kill half your profits, when yon use only one horse. When you can use two hands profitably, what would you think of tying one hand to your side and using only one? And yet, the economic effect is almost the same, if you can use two horses profitably and are content to use only one. Raleigh (N. C.) Pro gressive Farmer and Gazette. We Don't Hare to Tell you what it's for, it's name tells. Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey is the best cough medicine and se veral million people already know it . Look for the Bell on the Bottle. To Laf the Ghost Forever. The State Historical Commis sion is preparing a volume for ap pearauce in the early fall, which recent events have shown to be very much needed, and which will be in the nature of a complete an swer ta the calumnies lately utter ed Ugainst North Carolina by J. G. Carlisle and others. Under the, supervision of an able editor, it will oontain every bit of docu mentary evidence bearing upon the issue of bonds by the State of North Carolina, including acts of Assembly, Ibills offered, reports of committees, messages of Govern ors, and similar papers. It is the intention of the commission to place a copy of this work upon the desk of every Governor of a State in the Union, and on the shelves of every State library as well as of every large public lib rary, in order that those interest ed iu the subject may readily re fer to the facts covering the case. There is a question as to how much influence upon the status of the present bond issue was exer cised by the pronunciamento sent out by Mr. Carlisle's committee. In the opinion of The High Point Enterprise, the calumny had some effect. The Enterprise says: "These old bonds have had some thing to do with this case, and the chances are that they will have much to do with the future credit of the State. With a great ma jority of the people of the State, this old bond question was settled with the repudiation, but like Banquo'i ghost it will not down. If it ever comes up again, there should be a thorough, unbaised. non-political discussion of it by the press." x or sucn a discussion the very best possible basis would be the work proposed by the Historical Commission; as ht will- prassnt accurately all the historical sour ces in existence as to the matter, It is easily conceivable, however, that, with the wide dissemination of such an answer to misrepresent ation, this particular ghost will be laid finally and forever. Char lotte Observer. Granulated Eye Lids Can be cured without 'cauterizing or scarifying by the use of Suther land's Eagle Eye Salve. We guar antee it to cure, 25c everywhere. Six Things to do For The Baby. 1 Remember that a mother must be trained to know, not to guess. 2 foecure a reliable book upon the care and feeding of infants and begin to study the fiist pnn ciples of intelligent baby culture. o Kemember that every year incalculable damage is done to the eyes of babies where mothers aye not thought to protect them Xrom the glare of the sun. t ijev tne oauy nave a Deo. to A T A A. 1 1 1 1 . 1 A himself, if it be only a olothes basket, or a clean, dry wash tub, or dry goods box. Haye the mat tress nrm and son f,i tne cover waxm but light. 5 Avoid soothing syrups and soothing "teas." Keep in mind that so-called soothing syrups ad vertised as harmless all contain morphine, opium, cocaine, or oth er harmful drugs in dangerous quantities. o Kemember mat tne baby is the most important thing in your life and don t neglect him in any way for anything else. Mrs. F. L, Stevens, in Raleigh, N. C, Progressive Farmer and Gazette Marvelous Discoveries the ag3. Air flh. haB.JKivenine game attractions as machines, telegrams without wires, terrible war inventions to kill men, and that wonder of wonders Dr. King's . New Discovery to save life when threatened by coughs, colds, lagrippe, asthma, croup, bronchitis, hemorrhages, hay fever and whooping cough or lung tiouble. For all bronchial affections it has no equal. It relieves instantly. Its the surest cure. James M. Black of Ashe ville, N. C, R. R. No. 4, writes it cured him of an obstinate cough after all other remedies failed . 50c. and $100. A trial bottle free. Guaranteed by All Druggists. THE MAYORS ADJOURN. Commission Form of eoiernment Is Endor sed gj Contention at Winston-Sal em. Winston-Salem, June 8. The secondannual convention of the Carolina Municipal Association, came to a close shortly after noon to-day after a most profitable ses sion in wnicb many movements were started that are destined to bring about changes that will re vert ultimately to the advance ment of practically every town of any size in the State, Probably the most desidedly progressive matter adopted at the convention was the following res olution offered by Walter Olark, Jr., city attorney of Raleigh. The resolution was unanimously adop ted and is as follows : "The North Carolina Municipal Association resolves; "First, That it heartily en dorses the commission form of city government. "Second, That the North Car olina General Assembly which oonyenes in Raleigh in January 1911 be petitioned to enact a gen eral law allowing all cities by popular vote to adopt the com mission form of oity government. "Third, That a special com mittee of fivo with Mayor F. N. Tate of High Point as chairman, be appointed to draft a suitable bill to be submitted to the Gener al Assembly." Charlotte Obser ver. State's Bond Offer. Birmingham recently sold $400,- 000 in five per cent bonds at a ittle better than 108, or on a basis of 4 4-5, Atlanta sold $625,- 000 in 4 1-2 per cent at 101.41, or 4 2-5. Considering that Phiadel phia, Baltimore and Milwaukee rcntly ;mada futile offorts ; to place four per cents, while Omaha could not place 4 1-2 per cents, these cities believe that they far ed very well. There can be no doubt that the bond market is in a state of world wide depression at present, but this is a depres sion which will almost certainly experience more or less relief before long. Meanwhile the State of North Carolina, deservedly standing higher in credit than any of the cities mentioned, is offer ing bonds at four per cent, but under suoh conditions as to make them not even attractive at the present moment, They are non taxable to home banks in the from of surplus, and old.four.per cents maturing July 1 next will be ac cepted from bidders as cash . If each holder of the old bonds shonld bid, the $2,211,000.remain- ing unsold would be heavily over subscribed. Treasurer Lacy will open bids again on June 10, and we hope that all reasonable anti cipations will meet with fulfil ment. Charlotte Observ3r. Do You Get The Best If you have a cough, cold, asth ma, croup or any throat or bron chial trouble and use Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey, you do. Look for the Bell on the Bottle. Fail Grounds Leased. arland Daniels, secretary Of he Greensboro fair asso ciation, on Friday closed a deal with the owners of the Rowan County Fair Associ ation whereby he becomes the lessee of the fair grounds of the latter association. Mr. Daniels announces that the Rowan county fair will be put in. the Virginia-Carolina Georgia circuit and will be , i,j i. T .1,1 Roanoke, Winston, Greens boro, Charlotte, Columbia, and other cities. The dates of the fair this year will be October 18, 19, 20, and 21st. Mrs. Henry Schwenk writes: "I had eczema on my faoe for over four years . We tried abont a half dozen doctors, but never found any cure. It have, been, taking Hollieter's Rocky Mountain Tea for about three months and it has done me more good than all the doctors' medicine." Cornelison dcCook.