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WEEKLY EDITION.
VOL. V
MORAVIAN , FALLS, N, Ci, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1900.
NO. 41
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
The democratrc part - con -
"jtinues to act as the tin ;pan
attachment for the tail of
fhe Nebraska populist dog.
Some of the yellow space
writers have been getting
their dates mixed arid ' send
ing in April fool matter."
Clubs to the Y. J. are roll
j ing in at a lively rate but wi
sl have rOQlll OH OUr books
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lUi muusu.ina2 vja uauica jcl.
, The democratic candidates
for the Senate, in Tennessee,
are afraid to allow expansion
to be discussed in their cam-
paign
j Everv time Bryan makes
a speech he reduces the ' per
nM, l.
capita of money in circula-
tion to the tune of about 250
dollars a speech .
If the democratic legisla
ture of Ky. try to steal the
governorship for Goebel, the
U. S. Courts may be asked
to take a hand in. the game
Inasmuch as he . always
pulls the other fellow's leg,
Boss Croker w-ill not be verv
much inconvenienced by hav
ing his own leg broke.
we naven t neara any
democrat hurrahing over the
report that Gov. Pingree in
tends joinging the democrat
ic party..
"Joe' '. Blackburn is doubt
less glad to know that he
will be provided with money
for irrigating and other pur
poses. for nearly six years to
come.
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How hard up some demo
crats are for something to
advocate is shown by their
efforts to make politics out
of public sentiment towards
the South African war.
Senator Hoar means well,
but he has got himself all
tangled up on the Philippine
question and seems utterly
unable to see facts as they
are.
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Both Billy BryanWd;' the
people are better off b' reas
on of his recent panther hunt
down in Texas. IT nnrl
they needed a few days rest
from calamitv talk:
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If things had turned out
as terrible by reason of Mc
Kinley's election as the dem
ocrats predicted in ,'96 it
wouldn't be necessary for
Bryan to make a single speech
to get elected this year.
If there isn't a 1 hair-pulling
matlii when Brigham
jRoberfe goes back to his
threej wives, they must have
very fb reiving dispositions.
The democrats might save
time and worry by endorsing
the good work of the nation
al administration and mak
ing President McKinley's
re-election unanimous.
t d
If A
arm tin 7
doesn't do
something soon he will find
t , ?
the affections of the un-A-
.
mericati anti s transferred to
lug oorb,.waH ui least Know
how to Stand up and fight:
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If the twentiet h century
begins1 on the first day of the
last 3'etr of the hineteentli
century, on the same theory
next century will be the
twentv-first instead of the
J twentieth;
It might be well for some
tellow to start a tund to
look into Jefferson's tomb to
learri if the great democrat
has not; been made to turn
over itt'his casket by recent
teachings of democratic prin
ciples.
The editors who are wear
ing out pencils by the dozen
trying t6 convince their read
ers that we are living in the
20th century evidently mus
all be democrats a-nd can't
find anything, better to talk
about. . ,'
Under the gold standard
of value, the money in the
U. S. has increased five hun
dred million dollars since
1896; 1 Does Bryan or any
bodv else believe that democ
racy could have accomplished
such results '
Roberts will get 'his val
entine about Jan. 15. It will
show a winter landscape
.with the capital in the back
ground and the Mormon
statesman footing it toward
h is home in . Utah . He de
serves nothing better. '
Mr. Brvan '.s only, reason
for calling the republican Fi
nancial bill bad is that it is a
republican measure; at least,
we infer as much by his-hav?
insr called the bill bad with
out giving any reason for its
badness.
? Wei feel kindly toward a
number of our democratic
neighbors for their subscrip
tions to the Y. J. In oitr im
mediate vicinity- more demo
crats than republicans read
the paper. It's a fact, and
the "rads' ought to be a-
shamed of it.
, Senator , Pettigrew says ( on the same platform with
that the yellow journals Dan Jones of Arkansas,
can't spring sensations, any Slowly but surety the demo
faster than he can prepare crats are getting into the
resolutions about them. expansion wagon.
The Cubans seem to have
turned over a new leaf since
Gen. Leonard Wood became
military governor of the is-
land; they, have quit sulking
and are helping to restore
prosperity on the island.
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I Aren t those who credit
at -d ,
1 Mr. .Bryan with opening- his
! ' 41 -d V
m Omaha, on Jackson Day,
mistaken? We had been un
der the impression that his
campaign had been open for
about three years.
Mr . Bryan is credited with
a desire to substitute an osr
trich for the donkey which
has long been the emblem of
the democratic party. The
ostrich is said to have a
stomach that will digest an--thing.
What's the matter with
the Anties? Have they
quit? Atkinson isn?t saying
a word , Bryan has been re&t,
ing a spell, Aguinaido is in
hiding, Billy Mason didn't
resign his seat in the1 senate
after all, and the Dewey
critics have become dumb.
Poor old anties.
Brvan has the democratic
party by the tail, and a down
hill pull, but a mighty strug
gle is beginning to ensue in
which it begins to look like
Billy might get the tail and
maybe a hind quarter, but
a big portion of the partly
including the back bone and
brains is going to tear loose
and walk back home.
The Legislature has j en-
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acted and the Governor of
Virginia has approved a bill
levying -a tax of 15 cents on
every ton of fertilize sold in
jthe State and creating a num
ber of new offices and of
course the farmers will pay
the tax and support the office
holders. Such is democracy.
Say Mr. democrat why don't
you smile?
James K. Jones, chairman
of the democratic National
Committee two weeks ago
said that it was the first du
ty of the U. S. to restore
order in the Philippines and
then let the natives govern
themselves. That's a con
siderable' climb5 down for
Jones. Six months ago he
wouldn't have admitted that
much. Next thing he'll be
When Mr. Bryan says
that the war is criminal ag
gression, the Filipino sharp
shooters load their guns.
once1 more.
i A million new cotton spiii
dles will start work in South
Carolina alone this year. As
a: tariff argument this goes
ahead of any amount of talk.
The yellow journals hound
ed Mr. Alger until he re
signed. Now they would
like to repeat the process
with Mr. Gage. But Gage
is another kind of a man
President McKinley would
probably be snubbed both by
British and Boers if he were
to attempt to mediate be
tween them. The United
States is nobody's catspaw. '
Thirty odd years ago it
was argued that the .Con
federates if beaten, . would
ha.ve to be held, as subject
vassals. Well, they were
beaten, but they are not held
as vassals. So it will be
with the : Filipinos.
The trusts must go. A
call has been made for a
4tNational Anti-Trust Con
ference" at Chicago in Feb
ruarv. Among the signers
of the "Call" "are Senator
Pettigrew. James B. Weav
er' Billy Mason," Ignatius
Donnelly, Sockless Jerry
Simpson and Judge Tarvin,
of Kentucky. It's a fact
that no document was ever
signed by such a galaxy of
cranks. If such a gang can't
jar the life out of any trust
nothing else will. .
Whenever a democrat in.
North Carolina takes a stand
against the amendment the
Simmons gang proceeds at
once to read him ot of the
party and class him with the
jrepublicans and negroes.
Now what is it going to do?
The Nev Orleans Times-
Democrat, the leading demo
cratic paper in Louisiana,
has spoken, and says that
the "Grandfather" clause -disfranchising
scheme is un
constitutional and contains
elements of great danger
Louisiana is the only state
that has tried this scheme
and its leading democratic
organ has no words of praise
to offer for the "Grandfather
clause." North Carolina
democrats, what are you go-
Insr to do about it?
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