T --WW WEEKLY EDITION- n VOL. VI. MORAVIAN FALLS, N. C, THURSDAY, OCT. 18, 3900. NO. 28. THE YELLOW-JACKET. WEEKLY & MONTHLY. E. DON LAWS, EDITOB. WEEKLY, ONE YE AIR, 50 SIX MONTHS, 30 MONTHLY, ONE YEAR, 20 CASH ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. Kntered at Moravian second class matter. Fal s, N. C, as INSTRUCTIONS. 8 Silver preferred to Postage Stamps on suDscriptions. -. Remittances of silver of small sums may be made with comparative safet in ordinary letters, using good envelopes. Amounts above mty cents it would be wen to sena Dy .Kegisterea letter. P. O. Money Orders are ut they must be drawn on better still, Wilkesboro, N.C. as Moravian Falls is Order office. not a Money When writing to have our pape r changed you must give your former as well as your new address. Always write your own name and ad- Tnu Ybuow- 'acket, Moravian I alls, N. C. ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY. Thursday, Oct. 18, 1900. GIT A HUMP ON! Look Here, Brother : If you are not already a subscribed to the Yellow Jacket, consider this copy an invitation to Become one. Read this paper over and if you like it, send us 50 cents for a years subscription. You will find the Y. J. a warm article. Its bUS- iness end registers 200 degrees in il 1 3 mi " I i 1 Lilt? HI1MUU. L Ills Uaum bUUU WfcJfcJJi.1 . . 7 J j j win contain eometniug gyuu aiiu eacn succeeuing issue will gut uet- i j: iit i. vi ter if it can be made so. Being a firm believer in the principles of the great party of LincolA, Gra nt, vxu j. iiu. unix xu.uxvixy , . v w xxx always oe iouna contenaing ior fair play, and for the rights and liberties of the people, and wag- insr an unrelentint? battle aerainst , ii 1 tx tne aevii ana tne so-caiieo. iemo- r cratic party. We don't oily want you to become a suDscrioer, out we also should be pleased to have you do a little missionary work a- mong your . Republican friends. You can . reach those cannot. Take a Y. J. wnom we wnen you go out from home, and tackle ev- ery Republican you meet him to subscribe. In this will not only be doing us and get way you a great favor, but you will also be aiding us in reaching the people, v and helping to present the facts of Re publicanism, which only peed to be understood in order to ake the Republican party so numeri cally strong, so harmonious and invulnerable that the t ribes of Bryan, the world, the flesh and the devil can't overthrow it at the polls next November. See all your neighbors a: id make up a club of 5 or 10. If ycu can't get the club now,' send alo: lg your own sub. and try the club later. The Yellow Jacket is x ot local, but .circulates all over America and goes to foreign lands, andall tho firno nrflflfihfifl nothing but Re- publican gospel &na commuu sense, iieiore senaing read instructions at top of sr j 9 this col- he case. umn. wow, orotner, tao You send along the subs and help d n f h o n. rnn 1 n.tin and W6 will do OTJR TICKET. Give that soup house party a black eye. A vote for McKinley is a business, Betsy and the brats. The whole country is the country" to Bryan this year. vote for 'enemy's There is something dreadfully wrong anv party that wants to saddle a partizan election law on any state Many democrats read the Yellow Jack et just to keep track of the rascality of their own party. The Boy Orator is talking as much as he did in '96 but the hum . of industry drowns his voice considerably. Just tell Mr. Bryan that you prefer irosperity to free silver and full dinne pails to free soup houses. Keep in mind who was in power when we had Coxey armies, financial panic, soup houses, sheriff sales, riot, rot, rags and wretchedness. The democrats should certainly feel contented in tnis campaifim. lor tney are against everything that the American I people want. The democrats blame the republicans with everything bad that happens, and for everything good give something else the credit. Did you ever notice it? What I denounce is a Protective Tar- it 1S flse economy and the most i viLiuua uuiiLXt-u, uituiki lxxo. . uoa - cursed this country. wm.J. Bryan. within the past two weeks we have I added over three thousand new sub- scriptions to the Yellow jacket. Pension! Well,, we should smile. Democracy out of poWer is always bet ter democracy in power. Let's keep it out then for the good of both democracy and the people. The "had a chance" fellows will not . I cre anniViPT while the Deonle SO distinct ly remember what they did with the chance they had At the rjrooer time the flaer will be hauled down in China and perhaps in X A. - the Philippines, but it will be at the be hest of reason instead of anarchy. - a. The people can't be blamed for being so slow to accept democratic theories; every one that has ever been tried prov ed to be either a total failure or far in ferior to republican policies. A man who can't see that republicanism beats democracy all out of sight in run ning the government successfully, hasn't got sense enough to pound sand in a rat hole. If things had turned out as terrible by reason ot JVlcJinieys election as me democrats predicted in 1896, it wouldn't be necessary for Bryan to make a' single speech to get elected this year, c The most pitiable sight that meets the gaze of the observer of events to-day is that of the democratic party hanging on to the shirt tails of progress and yell ing, woa! Foresight is always better than "hind sight" and next election day will be the time for the exercise of a little of the foresight which a majority of 'the people di(jnt use in 1892. Democratic Ex-Congressman Page, of Rhode Island, comes out strongly for McKinley. Let the glorious work con- tinue. rainousiuuvuis , Does not spell any thing, but what started out to say was this: - Do not send postage stamps on subscriptions to the Y. T.: and when vou send Monev OtAm - have them drawn on4 Wilkesboro, N. C. Moravian Falls is not a M. O. office. The democrats avow that they be lieve in standing up 7 and telling the truth. All right, oys. Now, suppose j -11 xi ' i. ii. i r ' , you ten iae peopie tnat nve years ago this country was in the midst of one of the worst smashups ever known and that a democratic administration brought it about. Will you? You just can't tell what this old dem ocratic party is up:to ho way. In North Carolina it passes laws to disfranchise negroes and has red shirts to run them away from the polls, then when a ne gro comes over to the democratic party Bryan rises up with smiles a foot thick on his face and pats him on the back saying: "l am proud to welcome you to the democratic party!" An exchange says; "If a boy wants to be spider legged anI' weak kneed; if he wants to be shof t winded and sunk-H en chested; if he wants to be thin jaw ed and dead on his feet; if he wants to grow into a scrub that no business man wants to employ, let him be a cigarette fiend or pull away at a pipe or cigar. Otherwise let him keep the nicotine out of his windpipe.? A Tennessee editor asks the indul gence of readers for any shortcomings observed in his- weekly paper on the ground that within a short time his lo cal writer has been elected justice of the peace and his old bachelor foreman married, while he himself, after ten years of wedded life, has been present ed with his first-born, "a boy with . hair and eyes like his pa and a voice that may be heard all .over the house" conclusion he remarks that if any In sub him scriber wants to kick "just let kick." We hear of democrats finding fault with the Yellow Jacket because it has so much to say anent the Right Honor able Colonel William Jennings Bryan. How in the mischief could we condemn democracy and do otherwise? Don't everybody with the intuition of an oys ter or the instinctive cognition 01 a lost calf know that Mr. Bryan is as com: olete master of the democratic party as a dog is of his own tail? Being the whnle thin or and more besides we couldn't hardly hit Miss Democracy without shooting at Mr. Bryan. He carries the old lady in his vest pocket. When a democrat comes around you with the saliva of Bryanism fairly roping from his mouth imploring you to help save the country by voting for the great prophet and oracle of Nebraska, turn the hose on the young rooster in this fash ion: Bryan's position on the Philippine re bellion is treasonable. Democracy is hypocritical in talking a- bout "consent of the governed" in ,the Jrnuippines alter tajung me uuiuac xi in the South. Four years have shown that the repub- licans were right on the money question, Th nntiTnarision arorument is thinner than split wind. That Tom Jefferson was a rank expan sionist. ! General Lawton said: "If I am shot by a Filipino bullet, it might as well come from one of mv own men. because I know from observation confirmed by captured ... i! r t, I prisoners, tnat tne conunuancc uic i fighting is chiefly due to reports to reports that 1 are sent out xi Aiucuva. . . A A. A iah An " . Sugar-coating tl make it palatable. Sugar-coating the Bryan pill does noH All loyal Americans', will vote to hold every inch of ground acquired by war. Bryan represents too many political parties, all of whicn are lousy witn anti patriotic utterances. Republicanism is the ism which has developed this country. The Republican party has principles and stays by them. - ' The gold standard has had the oppo site effect from what Bryatrpredicted. America does not need ak cent dollars, Goebel election laws nor Southern bal lot trust defenders to run; this i govern ment. Bryan's election will briner ' another QZZJX I Referring to the full dinner-pail argu- wement Bryan says: "The Bible tells that tiiere was once a man named Esau who sold birth-right,f or afnU dinner-pail, m I and he has been held in derision ever since." Tnars true, Billy, but Esau wasn't half so big a fool -as the man who will sell his full dinner-pail. for a bag of wind and the privilege to wear ragsv and. drink free soup for the next four years. If the average man had r-been born without a stomach and nature had in tended him to go naked, he would doubtless be fully justified in voting for the party whose administration will go down in history to the end of time as one that produced more poverty, idleness, distress, hunger, rags and wretchedness, than was ever before produced in 4 years since Lucifer was kicked out of heaven. A few more days and the people are going to re-elect McKinley as President of the United States. Politics , to some extent will then cool down a little, but the carping critics will continue to heap abuse and pour out ridicule on the president just as they have been doing. Now if you would enjoy seeing the Yellow Jacket go for those who are try ing to embarrass the administration just keep your eye on its business end. Get a club of all your neighbors and let them all hear what we hare to say. Begin your club to-day. John Petrified Alteeld says that there is no trust nor syndicate that can con- I "" William J. Bryan Well, .now let's see. Un several occasions uiuy nas oeen asked to define his position on the shot gun, ballot box stuffing syndicate of the southern states andthe .old rooster in variably begins to crow about something else or remains as dumb as an oyster; Billy is either pandering to this politi cal trust for its 171 electoral votes or he is so allfired ignorant that he don't know it exists. . And it came to pass in the days of Cleveland that the 6oo-million Silver- Mine Trust contributed toward the Bryanite campaign two to four millions, saying, give us ample evidence that there is hope of thy probable election and eighteen millions shall be forthcoming for thee' and thy fellows. Then Bryan opened his mouth and said unto the public; "If there is any one who believes that fhe Gold Standard is a Brood tmnsr. or tnat it must be main- j tamed, I warn him not to cast his vote Kor me.' 1 Pm5se - U not be maintained in this country any longer than I am able to get rid of it. 7 Lo, this was an emphatic part of Bryan's speech in Knoxville at the Silver Trust's mandate. Journal, Central Falls, R. I. Billy Bryan is a lulu every way take him. It's enough to make you the horses laugh to watch his maneuver ings. McKinley Prosperity is making it so hot for the young rooster that he don't more than' get to crowing right freely on one assertion until he' has to grab up his political play; wagons and run lu save muisci. ju iuyu uc uyi.vxj asserted that it was absolutely impossi- ble for this country to enjoy any pros- perity without the free coinage of sil- ver. A maioritv of the people refused to believe this assertion and voted for McKinley and to their delight a general revival of business set in. Billy refused to see this until everybody else had seen and felt it, and now he admits tljatl have a little prosperity but says I it is only temporary and is attributable . aj. . f .li.MAA TTa lava all I io maucrs ui tuauv.c. a- -j w . 1 blame for everything tnat goes wrong to the republicans and all the good that J happens to chance. Did you ever hear J of a more demagogical way oi aogging the truth? But this isn't all the wables in this presidential candidate. He was in for the war, red-eyed and bQw-legged j now he is against its results; he loves the volunteers, but is against their a- chievements; he wanted peace, but xe- pudiates the treaty, of - peace; hej pre- tends to love tfie flag, but wants' tov see it pulled down; he respects the govern- ment but don't want to see.it : maintain' its kuthority against rebels. He seems tolovthe fathers, but detest! ! their policy, of annexation. tent man you say? from here. . , .. - n . t i Bryan a consis- Scat. : 1 Git ; awav A dialogue. Aguinaldo, chief of rebels ' ' 1 In the islands of the Bast, Bow'd him down and spake as follows i Tothe rebels' Great High Priest: Billy, if tHou be the prophet V " I have heard the people say, - Tell me by what freak of warfare I can drive the Yanks away. r, , ;r: : t ; u . -. ' - For they fain would take possession " . Of this heathen land of mine, And upon my blinded peoples the light of Freedom shine. , ; In the hour that I surrender : To those wicked men in blue . .. I must cease to be a leader, And become their subject too. . ' --"' Billy, oh, my worthy Prophet, y Thou whose wildest words are true, Tell me quickly all my duty; What "thou sayest, I will do. .' .,' . . - , Then, with holy hands uplifted, ; Spake the Prophet of the ; Platte i I am with you, brother, Aggie, You can bet your boots on that. ,' ; . Four long yeap, 'mid wildest jeering, " I have run for President, Till my fund of talk is waning And. my lungs are nearly spent. But I know that I'm a winner From the cabin in the lane, And I mean to keep a-mnning While my duty is so plain. Bill McKinley is a traitor And a murderer to boot Going clear across the ocean Hunting Tagalogs to shoot But when I get to the White House (And you won't have long to wait) 1 ' I'll withdraw the Yankee armies, And set all these matter's straight ; I'll extend the Monroe Doctrine . To the islands of the sea; I wiU guard you and protect you, And your people shall be free . I don't know how 111 protect you With no armies 'over there, But I've sworn that I will do it And I'll stand up to my swear. ' My advice is, brother Aggie, ' Keep the old rebellion hot, . For these Yanks are too aggressive", ' And I wish they, all were shot . Once I tried the soldier business When we went to larrup Spain, But found it didn't suit me, And I'll never try again My ambition is, at present, For the White House rocking-chaif, And I'll use my office for you '. When I'm safely seated there Then the chief of all the rebels , Gave a halelujah cry, .. , j And his heathen subjects echoed, ' "We no give up till we die!" MAC PUN. S ays William J. Bryan, , The poof men will furnish sons for the army." Exactly so! And then you and others will encourage a few Tagals and brigands to ; kill them off, as though common people had no right to life, liberty or the- pur suits of happiness. - Put . that Lin your corn cob pipe and smoke it. Mr. .Voter, you may; be sorry you voted for Bryan after, it is too late.: Remem-, ber the story which is told of the small hoy and the calf. 5 It is told that a boy was driving home a cow and a calf and as thev WCtlt ftloTltr o etr attanVitA him- - v r o t cxx tu vac cavaicaae. wnen tney came to the cross-roads, the cow with cow- like intelligence, took . , the right hand wau lowaras nome. xne steer tooic tne left hand into the woods; and after him trotted the silly calf. The boy tried with all his might to head off the cif and get it to go home,'but all iii vain. At last he, gave it lip, but as he turned away, he cried out, Go it, you blamed little fool, Ypu'll be sorry when supper time comes, If the voters of the U. S. act like the calf and run off after the Bryan steer.' of free trade, free 1 silver and free, 'spup ; the calf, will be sorry whexi ,: snpper time come Boys, remember th nine you iouoweu uic wcvciauu ccr oE intoMeswamps in Sr82. ' iWiliybi reikt that f ollv bv sroin? off , after Vthe I r : . the preaching. Let the bahd play time and don't you forget it. era of hard times anti steer? : , ,, 7, Republicanism. : i v 1 4 ,