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Order office.
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dress plainly, and direct all youi letters to
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ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY.
Thursday, Mar. 22, 1900.
HEUU) TUER11!
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are not already a subscriber to
the Yellow Jacket, consider
this copy an invitation to be
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mail us 50 cts. for a year's eulv
scription. The Y. J. each week
will contain something good,
and each succeeding issue will
get better if it can be'miide so.
Being a firm believer in the
principles of Lincoln, Grant,
Oarfield and McKinley, the Y.
J. will ever be found contending
for the rights and liberties
of the people. We would not
only like to have 3rou become a
subscriber, but we would also be
glad to have you do a lit le mis
sionary work for us among your
Republican friends and neigh
bors. You can reach those that
we can't. Take this copM when
you go out from home ai
le every Republican yoi
and don't let up on him
d ta'ck'l
meet
ill vou
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By so doing you will not only
be doing us a great favor, but
you will also be aiding us in
reaching the people, and. help
ing to present the facts of Re
publicanism, which only nfeed
to be known by the people to
make the Republican pSrty so
harmonious and invulnerable
that the tribes of Brya i, the
world, the flesh and the devil
can't overthrow it at tin polls
next November.
You will experience no diffi
culty in finding several of your
neighbors who will takeihe pa
per, so try to make us up a club
of 5 or 10. If you can't get up
a club, then send along your
own subscription and tjy the
club later. The Y. J. is Jnot t lo
cal, but circulates over all the
states and preaches the repub
lican gospel in the inteijest of
common sense and as seep from
the laboring man's standpoint.
Now this is abefut alb You send
along the subscriptioue aiid help
do tne circuiati"
rln the nrea;hin'. Read ihstruc-
tions at top of this columb; be
fore remitting. .
STINGS.
Here's yoiir Topeka Cap
ital. All about prohibition
being good and war wicked.'
Democratic statesmanship
to-day is a species of 18th
century skunk cabbage, run
up to seed.
Jeff Davis is a democratic
candidate for Governor of
Arkansas. The name sounds
familiar.
Bryan like most democrat
ic orators is afflicted with
a diarrhoea of words and a
constipation of ideas.
Rev. Sheldon has succeed
ed in every detail but one of
his experiment. He hasn't
made a "news" paper.
Senator Hoar is hard at
work defending Aguinaldo.
Why doesn't he take a day
off and defend Hoar?
The silent eloquence of
the gold standard bill will
outweigh a good deal of noi
sy talk thi& fall.
The democrats may con
gratulate themselves on the
fact that Japan settled the
gold question two years be
fore the United States did.
There is more honesty in
the wag of a 'possom dog's
tail than there is in all those
long-winded wails about
imperialism."
If Republicanism is demor
alizing as some democratic
organs assert, we say then
let us have more and more
demoralization. It's good for
our systems.
The surest and best way
to prevent .the democrats
from afflicting the country
with bad legislation is defeat
all their candidates at the
ballot box.
Mr. Croker is doubtless
troubled a good deal with
his broken leg, but we haz
zard the guess tha t there are
other things causing him
more concern just now.
It is to be hoped that the
Rev. Mr. Sheldon does not
make his sermons as dull as
he made the Topeka Capital
during the week that he
published that paper.
Having become recently
possessedof both a valet
and an automobile, the Hon.
Joe Sibley found the Dem
ocratic party just a little be
bind the .times and got out !
The Bryanites seem to be
afraid that the gold demo
crats vill control the Kansas
City convention. There is
no such good fortune as that
ahead of the democ ratic par-
ty-
"Does not spell any
thing, but what we
started out to say as this: Do not send
postage staf on subscriptions to the
Y. J.; and if-n ycu send Money Orders,
have fhem drawn on Wilkesboro, N. C.
Moravian Palls is not a M. O. office.
The republican and demo
cratic parties are both level
ers, bufthey don't work a
like. Republican policies
level business up, and de
mocracy levels business
down.'
As a,itirty of jumpers and
straddles the dems can't be
beat, here is not a ques
tion of ajiy importance they
have not been on both sides
of and straddled in the last
10 years.
The distressing intelli
gence has been con ve3ed to
us that the passage of a
Porto Rican tariff bill wTill
give an Extension to the offi
cial life of the Hon. Richard
Rev. Mr. Sheldon will
take the lecture platform, in
order to. try to realize on his
biir free advertising. We
trst he will not say that he
is
doincr as Christ would
have done.
You might as well try to
fatten a fan mill by running
oats thru it as to please the
democratic leaders. A set
of men who can't agree upon
anything they do themselves
needn't be expected to agee
with the doings of other men
or parties.
When the National House
of representatives the other
day threw overboard Wil-f
Ham A. Young, Democrat,
of the 2nd Virginia district,
and seated Richard A. Wise,
Republican, it decided that
it was better to be Wise than
Young.
Senator Hoar's generous
proposition to give ex-Queen
Liliuokalani a pension of
$10,000 a year has been very
properly sat upon. Just
what distinguished service
this interesting woman has
done to entitle her to a place
on the national pension roll
is something that Mr. Hoar
entirely fails to explain.
The Yellow Jacket every
week for 1 2 months only
50 cts. Subscribe to-iay.
QZZJX
The $2,000,000 appropria
tion passed by the republi
cans over democratic opposi
tion will go far to alleviate
the situation in Porto Rico
and to show that the repub
licans are striving to find
some means of helping the
island without injuring the
United States.
In 1892 the people were, so
engrossed in their prosperi
ty that they forgot themsel
ves and voted for Gleveland
ism, and so they got Cleve
landism straight from the
shoulder. They should re
member these things when
election day rolls around this
year and vote for the party
"from whence cometh our
help."
If Bryan is really going in
for an anti-expansion plat
form he ought to secure Ag
uinaldo as one of the special
attractions at the Kansas
city convention July 4. With
the "George Washington of
the Philippines" to listen to
the reading oft the Declara
tion of Independence, the
show ought to be a howling
success.
Advices fro hT South Da
kota indicate that the peo
ple out there are prepareing
to give the ridiculous Petti
grew an indefinite term in
the deep cool shades of pri
vate life. This arrangement
will command the cordial
approval of pretty much ev
ery citizen of the United
States, except Pettigrew
hrimself .
It nearly always makes us
smile when we open a letter
from T. W. Henritze, of
Lebanon, Va. We have over
a dozen agents in Russell
County, Va., but I Mr. Hen
ritze excells any of them in
the number of subs, he sends
us Mr. Henritze is a hust
ling subscription agent and
is stuifing his section full of
Yellow Jackets.
President McKinley has
succeeded in pulling this
country entirely out of the
mire into which Grover
Cleveland pitched it and it
is the paramount duty of
every republican to help
keep it out by keeping Bill
Bryan out of the President's
chair and all his hot-headed
heelers and.finatical follow
ers out of Congress.
Republican Senators from
the middle west have assert
ed positively that Indiana,
Illinois, Minnesota, Michi
gan and Wisconsin will all
be doubtful next fall if: Con
gress i mposes a duty on Por-
to Rico. Senator Platt'of
Conn . , asserts that his state
will be doubtful if Congress
doesn 't impose one. Which
does the republican party
prefer to lose?
If it be fair to judge by I
the little scrape at Lincoln ,
right under Mr. Bryan's .v.
nose, so io speaic, xnmui
dle-of-the-road populists of
Nebraska are going to make : ;
tro uble for the dem-pop com
bine this year. -
The Republicans in the
Ho u se have gone to the root
of the matter by proposing
an amendment to the Consti
tution, giving Congress the
power to deal with trusts
Even Col . Bryan admitted
the need of such an amend
men t recently, though it is
probable that he will now
denounce the Republicans"
for advocating it.
Some of our subscribers
complain that recently they
don't receive the Y. J, until
several days after its usual
date of arrival, and ask us
to explain the cause. The
reason for this delay is that
Y. J. has outgrown the pres
ent facilities for carrying the
mail from Moravian Falls
to the R. R. mail . Last
weeks issue of the Y. J..
could not be moved from
Moravian Falls, until Mon
day following the day of its
publication which is on
Thursday. We hope to soon
see better arrangements
made for carrying out our
mail to the R. R. If this is
not done we shall move our
whole shebang to the R. R.
Cplorado republicans who
have supported Mr. Bryan
on the free silver issue are
gradually returning to the
party fold, the most recent
to do so being Mr. Isaac N.
Stevens, who served as vice
chairman of the National
Silver Committee in 1896.
Mr. Stevens is done with the
free coinageSionsense: it is
time, he says, for republi
cans to. stop fighting one an
other, and consequently he
follows the example of Sena
tor Wolcott by cpming back
to the old party to stay. The
argument-of prosperity has
played havoc with the cause
of Bryariism in" Colorado k
The enormously increased
gold production of the State
has taken all the force out
of the free silver dogmatism
andif it cimtinues to grow,
as seems morally certain , it
will surprise nobody to see
Colorado again lined up in
the republican columu next
fall. ; .
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