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MORAVIAN FALLS, N. C, THURSDAY, NOV. 1, 1900.
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THE YELLOW-JA
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WEEKLY & MONTHLY.
B. DON LAWS,
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Mr. Brvan has beeh face to face With I HTflrinti "Riiflr Tit-are t"h TVvncrif XTorfh I onf rrnhe "hats fWt-riTsfirl '"tliemoheV to
the North Carolina question a number Carolina to hold their nose and vote for discharge old -mortgages and build new
of times recently, but somehow he al- Bryan and Stevenson, but we believe homes; labor finds employment $ in our
ways shifts off to Porto Rico or the Phil- that every pop -who has any respect for State, and the laborer fixes the wages.
the I his olfactory nerves will take the I Whv should vou desirea change unless
more sensible view and vote for McKin- it be for the better? And; that .better
ley and Roosevelt. Butler evidently state you cannot hope to find in the bal-
It is somewhat singular that this na-1 has some of Bryan's gall and is expect-1 loon of the idealist Bryan."r Edward S
tion has achieved a good manv wonder- in? a whole lot of his trie if he should I Bragg, soldier, statesman and life long
ful tnincrs in tne past Dy ignoring tne I uappen xo De elected, sucn a signt - as
advice of Carl Schurz and is likely to I Butler proposes is a spectacle to make
achieve a good many more in the future I the gods go into convulsions.
ippine islands each time and leaves
question unanswered.
democrat.
by means of the same simple device.
Entered at Moravian Falls,
second class matter.
N. C. as
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Always write your own name and ad
dress plainly, and direct all your letters to
The Yellow-Jackict, .
Moravian Falls, N. C.
I want to make this statement . here.
It is something of a question whether I once and for afl, in reply to all . these
some democrats are ,trvmer. bv velliner rfmrws a-nA incinnationc fenitn..
What about that club you were going fraud, to prevent thefr Votes from be- to my aspect toward labor: if any man
ro get up iorthe Yellow Jacket? ing bought or are trying to sell them. in the United States of America
"Methmks the lady ? doth protest
much."
16 howls about 'imperialism to ;one
for free silver, is the way democracy is
running this year. , y
The greaatst imperialist in America' is
William Jennings Bryan : j . . r
too
How can you afford to vote to encour
age armed rebellion?
can
bring into my presence a man who has
ever worked for me and truthfully state
and substantiate that I have refused to
meet at any time and anywhere any
In one breath a democrat will
nounce "bossism' then in the next
that Croker will carry New York.
de-say
are better still,
on Wilkesboro.
a Money
The democrats are basing their ri-
The democratic party is making war diculous hopes of carrying New York man in my employ, that r have ever in
upon sound democratic principles. on the ground that there are more j tentionally done any man a harm, that I
voters in the slums than in the higher I have ever insisted on lowering wages to
Asruinaldo wants vou to vnt fnr n. ranks of city life. They forget, how-1 any man who works for me, or who can
an. vvnat are vou croino- tr An a h,, a? ever, to taice account oi tne iarmers, I trutniuuy say tnat I nave done evil to
not
There doesn't seem to be much apathy
about the registration lists, does there?
who are really the backbone of Ameri
can life.
him, ! will resign from
States Senate tomorrow. -
na.
the United
-M. A. Han-
If W. J. Bryan wants a cheap dollar
so bad, when our people don't, let him
go to Mexico and get it.lt is worth 47cts.
there and circulates for that amt. altho
it is as large as an American dollar and
contains more pure silver.
Figures don't lie. Perhaps, the cam
paign prophets find them awfully handy
to lie with.
ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY.
Thursday, Nov, l,i 1J900.
If a horse ever laughs it must be when
he hears a democrat advocating honest
elections.
Possibly the republicans have got an
enormous campaign fund, .but it certain
ly doesn't lie in the mouths of democrats
to object to this. The only reason the
latter haven't got a big fund is because
they can't get one. There isn't any
question of superior virtue about it.
The chief occupation of democracy is
hatching out bugaboos and trying to
keep alive dead issues.
GIT A HUMP ON!
Look Here,, Brother : If prou are
not already a subscriber to the
x eilow J acxet, consiaer tnis
Mr. Bryan recently denounced a Con
necticut manufacturer who said that he
would have to close down if the demo
crats won, accusing him of trying to
intimidate his men. Can't Mr. Brvan
see that the manufacturer spoke asrca
"This way, gentlemen, step right on regretful prophet and not as a partisan,
to the republican platform and thereby seeing nothing but ruin ahead if the de-
climb into the nmsneritv wncrrm tn mocrats should Win.
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lively now.'
an invitation to become
copy
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 ZUU aegrees in it was a pretty Pettigrewsome job Kv v a j t,
. -1- -- mu: ;U .iJo-TT.-LA., 3 publicans are imperialists dyed in the
tne snaue. ni paper eacii ween cuawf nauua uau to aiscnarge up wool.
No one has proposed W. J. Bryan for
the Hall of Fame. But then, Bryan
will not have been dead ten years until
November 6, 1910.
The democrats refer to the republicans
as imperialists. All right. If conduct
ing a successful war against Spain, free
ing and providing for the education of
the Cubans, supporting the honor of our
flag and protecting our citizens wherev-
er located, is imperialism, tnen tne re
in South Dakota but he
shrinking too much.
did it without
will contain something goo I and
each succeeding issue will gst bet
ter if it can be made so. I eing a
firm believer in the principles of
the great party of Lincoln, Grant,
Garfield and McKinley, w) will
always be found contending for
fair play, and for the rights and
liberties of the people, and wag
ing an unrelenting battle against than free silver.
the devil and the so-called Demo-
cratic party. We don t only want Bryan is far more dangerous than the
you to become a subscriber, but platform he is on, and both are unsafe
we also should be pleased tof have things for this government to meddle
you ao a nttie missionary worK a-
w- 1 -1 1
who have been conspicuous in the polit
ical history of the Gulf States. I can
not subscribe to the teachings of Mr,
Bryan. Believing them to be dangerous
and especially detrimental to the inter
ests of the South, I shall cast my vote
for the first time in the history of a mem
ber of my family, for the Republican
National ticket. It seems to me to be
the very acme of insincerity for a South
ern democrat to preach about individu
al liberty, the right of the governed to
be consulted about matters of state is
sues. A Southerner by birth; in poli
tics a democrat; an American by the
grace of God, I shall, in the absence of a
democratic nominee, vote for William
McKinley because he is something more
than a man after an office.! James S.
Evans, Chicago, 111.
Illinois is a doubtful state that is, it
is doubtful if McKinley's majority will
be less than 150,000.
The republican party is the only party
that fully knows how to conduct the af
fairs of this country for its real prosperity.
It isn't free silver that is so objection
able in Bryan. It is Bryanism, pure and
simple, and that means a good deal more
It is inconceivable how sane voters,
who believe in the gold standard, can
support a man who deliberately de
clares that standard shall not be main
tained any longer than he can get rid of
it. Surely it is midsummer madness to
choose such a man and then rely on
one's ability to prevent his doing what
he declares it will be his first object to
do.
Coxey is not marching on to Washi
ton this year with an army of free lunch
and soup house boarders, and the reason
is both he and his "army of unemploy
ed" are busy at work for 100-cent dol
lars.
The democratic way of meeting - re
publican argument when it gets close to
their mangy hides is to throw rocks and
mong your Republican friends.
You carr reach those whom we
cannot. Take a Y. J. wheA you
go out from home.' and tackle ev- rotten eggs at the speakers.
ery Republican you meet and get
him to subscribe. In this way you
will not only be doing us a great the people believe that whichrttiey don't
favor, but you will also be aiding believe themselves
us in reaching the neonle, and
V A. JL.
We want agents everywhere to take
subscriptions for the Yellow Jacket.
There's money in it for you boys. We
propose to make the Y. J. a thing hard
to beat. The political questions are by
no means dead. During the next year
we propose to make the Y. J. cover the
entire field and several acres of the o-
cean. -If you want to help in the
apply for terms and agent's outfit.
Bryanic papers complain because the
religious journals of the north all favor
the reelection of McKinley. With the
religious 'and business elements com
bined against Bryan he must ; look to
the devil and the other fellows for sup
port, and them only.
helping to present the facts of Re
publicanism, which only need to
be understood in order to make
the Republican party so
In howling about imperialism $e 4em-
ocratic politicians are trying tdvjniake
numeri-
Bryan is insincere. No candidate can
take nominations from three parties
without intending to fool some one in
case of his election.
As Prof, Elliott says the actual actions
of Bryan and McKinley in regard to the
Philippines must necessarily be much
alike, with the advantage of honesty in
favor of the President, who declares
outright that we will keep the islands.
Bryan, on the other hand, wishes to
extend to them the promise made to
Cuba and then to indefinitely postpone
carrying it out.
Aguialdo has no more use for . the
stable form of government which Bry
an promises to set up in the Philippines
than for the form of government offered
job j by the late congress. What he wants is
an unrestricted opportunity to ' plunder
his countrymen after the Spanish plan.
State Republican, little Rock, Ark. j
'He who knows Mr. Bryan knows
that he has never abandoned i6v to 1.
The carrying into effect of his financial
theories is the great purpose of his life;
He is honest, if not practical, . and he
has never said, and he never will say, he
has abandoned it. He would not aband
on it at Kansas City. ,
cally strong, so harmonious
and I The prospects for political freedom in
invulnerable that the tribes of Kerituckyartf sdmewhrft dark; It mat
Rtmto 4-1, 1,3 4.-U fl-u 4-un ters not how the people may vote so
devil can't overthrow, it at
polls next November. t
long as the Goebelites do the counting.
If vou believe that times have lm-
See all your neighbors and pake proved under President McKinley.'s ad-
ban t ministration, then you should vote for a j
I have said Mr. Bryan is an honest, if
dear to our hearts is the old yel- I not a practical man. What he says he
low pumpkin, when orchards are bar- I believes he can do, and will never falter
n of stuffing for pies, when peaches I in his attempt to do it.
d apples have both been a failure, j He is a dreamy idealist. He talks and
d berries of no kind have greeted the I acts and believes, if he were President,
es. now iondly we turn to tne iruit 1 Dy a wave 01 ms magic wana, as 'twere, 1 during all
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up a club of 5 or 10. If you
get the club now send along
own sub. and trv the club later.
The Yellow Jacket is I not local,
but circulates all over America
your continuance of his policies.
Mr.,-Croker goes farther than Mr.-Bry-
an in his love for the young men oif the
and goes to foreign lands, and all not only be protected against the trusts
the cornfield: the fruit that our chil- I he can make a desert blossom; that he
are taught to despise the old yel- j can do away with want and misery, and
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low pvmpjcin, , tne muu-tovercu pump- i moKc au m& buujcuis pxcnpcruus and
kin, the iKg-bellied pumpJcin tnat mates 1 nappy, ptner woras, mat ne is pos-
Mr. Bryanite, suppose you drop out pf
the band wagon long enough to take "a
good look at yourself and think over a
few things. This country is not going
to stand still; we are going to leap for
ward or slide backwards. How can you
afford to sieze hold of the shirt tail of
progress and bust your gall bag yelling
woa just for the sake of giving Bryan
and his crowd a pull at the public crib?
Don't you know Bryan is an avowed
Free Trader? . Don't you know that
Free Trade in this country means ruin
to tne American laborerf Just let your
thinker run back to the time when we
had a tariff law modeled after" Bryan's
idea. Under that law. . we all felt the
sting of hard times, besides the income
of the government was not sufficient to
pay current expenses. It was called, by
the democrats -a. tariff .for! revenue only,
but it didn't produce the revenue. Two
hundred and sixty two million dollars of
bonds were sold in time of peace- to - pay
the daily obligations of the democratic
administration. From being a debt
paying nation we became atlebt-creatirig
nation. But that wasn't half the trouble
this law brought upon the country. , In
ustries languished. Mills shut down."
ilding almost ceased.' The : army "of
e unemployed increased. Panic came.
nks failed. Fortunes crumbled. Ia-
or begged in vain for .work. : Thatf
gloomy substitute for the full dinner
pail, known as the soup house, sprang
up to succor the, starving. Everybody;
remembers those days as the gloomiest
and darkest financial and industrial pe
riod of his whole, life. -
But Just as soon as the people could'
express their verdict at the , polls
this calamity breeding . tariff and the
party who made it were repudiated and
a change was demanded. '
With ( the election .of. : a republicans
President and. a republican Congress, aj
Protective tariff measure" was 'enactfed, ,
The Dihgley bill become - a law. Now
just think what havet been i the result!..
To-day the National treasury overflows.
The nation has been engaged in war
much; of the last 3 years; yet has beerio
paying debt at the same time.. , ,,,( t
Bond issues have given place to bond
redemption and refunding the 'outstand
ing obligations of the nation at a lower
rate of interest than was 1 1 ever r before
secured by any nation in: history. 1 New :
mills have been built all. oyer ,the country .
and all the old ones .started up.. Wages
have been increased. I,abor has been . k
profitably employed. The exports,
during the four years of the Dingley
Tariff have exceeded the' combined a
mount of all the exports of the ' nation
the previous 'years of -the
nation from the begining of 1 Washing
ton's first administration to the i close of
Cleveland's last administration: . ?
such good pu
the time preaches nothing but Re
publican gospel and ; common
sense. Before sending j mo; ley,
read instructions at top of this col"
umn . Npw, brother, take the sase .
You send: along the subs, land help
but should each have a valet .and a
pup.
.bull
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A British lion, seeing an American
sheep feeding on a high precipice where
he could not reach it, I besought the
iheeo to come down lower for fear it
sessed of the mysterious power that can
mate tne wona an Utopia, 11 you give
him a chance.
Such a man is a delightful companion
an estimable-member of society, but a
wild bull m a chjna shop would' not be I
Sir, there is the , record. None I deny I
it. The books have been
audited and
Now what
There are many reasons why , Bryai
should be defeated, but a leading one is
that he seems to have niore love forjtbat
rould lose its footing at that dizzy more dangerous to the safety of the tinuation of the Dingley
eight: "and moreover," said the lion, crockery than such would be to the safe- times, iext Tuesday is
the prass is far, sweeter and more a- ty Qi tne tate, 11 intrusted' with the I
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bundant here below." But the sheep management 01 anairs.
the balance is known to all.
dp you want? " A return to the demo
cratic tariff and panic times, " or a con-
bill
the
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-lio yircuiuwiig ana. wo wiix uu artf aHUiv16UiUiUUU "a uieuis-1 replied: "Excuse me; it is not for my 1 wuuuy is prosperous money is
the prea ching. Let the band fclayl franchised and red shirt ridden citizens 1" that you invite me, but for plenty and good; ; interest 2has dropped
puDnoani8m. : ; 1 01 his own native lana. - .
which this ques
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Think over thes
d
your own.
to 5 per cent; the market of our abund-1
shirt on and.
sense dictates
tipn
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and good"
day upon
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things with . your .
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