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WEEKLY ED
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VOL. V.
MORAVIAN FALLS, N. C.,; THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1900,
NO, 46
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STINGS,
The democratic party is
i a. t i J i 'a
sun navinff irouDie wiin its
tail.
Politics, and not law
and
evidence, apper to
control
decisions of the
courts.
Kentucky
Will somebody
name a
single trust that the
cratic party ever
Now don't break your
trying, to answer.
demo-
tilled.
neck
Yes, Billy Bryan iJ
still
sticking to his 16 to 1
policy
that is 16 words of sympa
thy for Aguinaldo to due for
the United States.
We hope our subsc
Will fotrc .4-- -I
ribers
w.c ijuute ana no
t send
ption.
We
e can
us stamps on subscr
for a while at least
nave more now than vl
use.
Je
rry Simpson sats he
would rather be U. Sj
Sen-
ator than Go
vernOr of
Kansas, but as there is little
probability of his beinV eith-
er his preference is nAt
lm-
portant.
Arthur Sewall, the sound
money, Protectionist demo
crat who fan on the tail end
ot the Bryan ticket in '96
don't see much ahead for the
16 to oners this year.
says McKinley will be re
nominated and reelected
Gov. Johnston, Ala., may
not get to the Senate, but he
is giving Senator Morgan a
warm run for his money. .
London, Kentucky is a dry
town. No wonder the dem
ocratic members of the Ken
tucky legislature object to
meeting there.
There are a good many
reasons whv the democrats
cannot win this year, but the
main reason is that they
haven't got enough votes.
The Queen of Holland has
had some trouble in securing
a cut of herself handsome
enough to go on the coins of
her realm. She needn't wor
ry. Any coin looks hand
some to the man who has it.
The man who can readthe
.North Carolina Simmons E
lection law and then proceed
to declare that it is an honest
law and fair to all parties
could eat a pole cat for break
fast and never make a crook
ed face.
How far -some 'Mississippi
democrats are behind .the
political procession may be
judged by the news that
they are booming Dave Hill
as a candidate for the Presi
dential nomination.
Forty thousand Mormons
are about to move from Utah
to Wyoming in search of
"religious liberty." They
will find that Wyoming is no
more free handed with such
religions liberty as they ask
than Utah is.
Call such utterances what
you may, but 44 Corporal' '
Tanner made a bull's eye lit
when he said that "General
Law ton's dead hand points
an accusing finger at those
persons calling themselves
anti-imperialists."
This is a two billion dol
lar country. The value of
the foreign commerce last
year exceeded two billion
dollars and now it is announ
ced officially that the money
in circulation in the country
exceeds two billions.
Those democrats, includ
ing Mr. Bryan, who are
making a specialty -of black
guarding the newspapers ap
pear toforget that newspa
pers exhist solely by the fa
vor of their readers; conse
quently that their views are
in the main about the same
as those of their readers.
The HbitCpl. Wm. J.
Bryan has added ; the Boer
cause to his free lecture rep-
repertoire.
The Hon. Sam Jones who
failed to carry Ohio for him
self last fall is now talking
of carrying, it hat state for
firyan this year. v Scat!
Senator Pettigrew should
now denounce the adminis
tration for its tyranny in
preventing Agjhaldo from
casting his vpte for Bryan.
With a strong navy and
fortifications at Porto Rico
and the Qaapagos islands,
the United. States must dom
inate the cuial, no matter
under what terms it is builtV
"Gold and Glory " has
been suggested by Chauncy
Depew as the campaign mot
to for 1900. This glittering
alliteration will doubtless ap
peal to th? church-going
people. "
The Canadian government
now propose? to exclude A
mericans and other Uitland
ers from the gold mines at
Atlin, B. 6. iyefeGanada- is
sending soldiers to aid the
British in preventing simple
taxation of the Uitlanders in
the Transvaal.
Col. Watterson, who is a
master hand at political jug
glings, is now -engaged in
trying to put the blame for
all of Kentucky's troubles
on a railroad-. The law-abiding
people of the State have
long ago placed the balme
where it belongs on the
democratic bosses.
There are about fifteen
States which have no demo
cratic representation in the
present House; and if the
democratic party does not
speedily change its tactics,
the number of states that
will send solid republican
delegations- to- the next
House will be increased.
The republicans of the
Ways and Means Committee
have the courage of their con
victions. They have taken
the wind entirely out of the
democratic sails by ... boldlv
announcing that Porto Rico
is on the same basis with
Oklahoma, for instance, and
then by stating that in their
opinion neither Oklahoma
nor Porto Rico is entitled to
any privileges except by force
of the treaty by which they
were acquired or by- the free
grace of Congress. There
: about this position.
Will you please send us a
list of your neighbors whom
you think might subscribe to
this paper. We want them
at once The campaign is
warming up and we want to
reach all the boys we can.
Col. Willie Jenkins Bryan
needen't depend on the peo
ple turning down prosperity
and excepting democratic
promises this year just be
cause they did in 1892. The
fact that a man has acted
the fool one time is no-reason
he should xlo so again.
The road of democratic
success is a very distinct
trail. There is no chance of
mistaking it for any other
road unless it be the road to
perdition. It is filled with
.tramps, ragtags and Coxey
armies, and lined on one
side with soup houses and
idle mills and the other with
business paralysis and treas
ury deficits.
Circumstances alter cases.
"Law by Injunction," al
though so severely denounc
ed by the democratic .nation
al platform, seems good e
nough for the Kentucky dem
ocrats. This somersault is
easily explained. The Ken
tucky courts are part of the
democratic machine.
It does not speak well for
the Christianity and civiliza
tion of the Boers that they
should have publicly execut
ed a young Scotchman, in
the citv of Harrismith, Or
ange Free State, for no oth
er reason than that be re
fused to take up arms to
fight against his own "coun
try. No better argument -can be
made for the continuance of
the republican party in pow
er than the official figures
showing the value of Ameri
can manufactures sold to
foreign countries in the
month of December, for the
last three years-in 1897,523,
000,000, in 1898, $23,000,000
and in 1899, $26,000,000,
The canal question is sim
ply whether the United
States is big enough and
brave enough to trust its
own ability to meet any iin
ergency that may arise in
the future," or whether it
prefers to refuse to play un
less it is allowed to line the
canal with fortresses and
look askance at all the na
tions of the world. c
A New York yellow jour
nal has announced that Ohio
will go for Bryan next fall.
Possibly, if "go for be in
terpreted in its slangy sense.
It is now said that the
people of Arkansas are claim
ing that it was Coin Harvey
who discovered the circula
tion of the blood.
Owing to press of busi
ness this week we are com
pelled to supply our monthly
readers with the Yellow
Jacket printed from forms
of the weekly edition.
It is claimed that Col. Bil
ly Bryan is still gunning for
an issue which will stick in
the coming campaign. The
coon which once remarked to
David Crocket, 4 4 Don't
shoot; I'll comedown," has
not yet put inan appearance.
Governor Taylor does well
to hold to his post until he
has some real assurance that
the Goebel election law will
be repealed. It is a serious
quest ionwhether . the legisla
ture will agreeto uphold the
terms made for it by the un
official peace conference at
Louisville. -
The brave action of rep
resentative Sibley of Penn-
sylvania, in leaving his life
long allies who elected him
to office and coming over to
the republicans is significant
of the change in party issues.
All else is rapidly sinking
into insignificance compared
with the mighty question
involved in expansion and the
extent to which the JConsti-'
tution applies to the new ter
ritory. The . preliminary
skirmish, on thfe question is
to be fought in Congress
during the coming week.
The license tax which th
North Carolina democratic
legislature saddled on every
man in the state who deals
in lumber is $10 a year in
stead of .S5 as we stated last
week. It is reported that
about a thousand bills of in
dictment have been drawn
against as many men in
Wilkes county for failure to
pay this tax, and hundreds
of these fellows are among
our poorest men and work
in the lumber during the
winter to try to get money
to pay their regular taxes
and buy the necessaries Ihey
are bound to have. Oh isn't
democratic legislation a glo
rious thing. Say Mr. Dem
ocrat, wtfy don't you smile?
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