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I S SU ED B I - W EEK IY. Ak4 5 b c e Kits a y ea r . VOL. VII. MORAVIAN FALLS , N. C.,; THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1 901: NO. 11. - 1 .. i'r-:m -:;: vJ- . -;: ' ' ... ' : " ' ' : THE YELLOW-JACKET. PUBLISHED BI-WEEKLY. E. BON LAWS, Editor & Proprietor. ONE YEAR: : ..... . ... X . .1 50 SIX MONTHS. .. .. : . . .... 25 CASH ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. NOTICE THIS: ; ; Postage Stamps are not wanted on subscriptions. ' Make remittances by draft, check, Express Order, registered letter or Money Order, drawn on Moravian Falls, N. C. : . -rr- . . - ; -' j ; 7; When "". writing, to have your paper changed you must give your former as well as your new address. .-" ; s Always write your own name and' ad dress plainly, and direct all your letters to The Yellow-Jacket, ; Moravian Faus, N.C Entered at Moravian Falls, N. C, as Second Class Mail Matter, j TO OUR READERS Well, boys, young and old, one and all, we want-to ask you to read ! over! this number of the Yellow. Jacket,- from a toizard, and then ask yourselves if you don't think such a! paper, 'every two weeks, is worth 50 cents a year to every republican from Maine to Mexico: who loves the teachings of Lincoln, Grant Garfield and McKinley and who believes in Calling a spade a spade at all times If you think it is worth the price asked then we would be very grateful to yot if you will take this paper with yot when you go to the store, shop, or mil and show it to all your republican friends who do not take it. If you are a republican of the true faith we ,knov you can't object to doing this much ir the interest of a paper that has beet faithfully battling for your rights; fron. the time it was founded in those, dark: days of poverty, rags and free soup in 1895. You can do more for republican ism and the interest of the Yellow Jacket by showing the paper to all your friends than vsre can do by sending out a million sample copies promiscuously It sometimes happens that you will -find men professing to be - republicans who take, r nothing but democratic papers. Sucbmeri are on the j broad road to political ruin. Don't let them go this way if you can help it. Put the Y. J. in their hands. It will help them to see things as they are. You j kno v the average democrat would see; t.s almost at the . devil before he jwouljd take our papers to the exclusion of dem ocratic sheets. ;! 1 The fact that the election is over at d .... j . 1 that the- republican party has j won a signal victory over democracy is no reason why you should not want to he p encourage the. circulation of the Yellow Jacket. We will want to win.agaii, and the best time to prepare for jwa"r is in time of peace. Of course the , demo crats are about dead for the present but they havn't found it out yet, so tney will continue to kickup a great deal sand during the next four j yeafs. Especially will the mud guns of the democratic press be very aggressive their efforts to malign the policies our President. Already they are work. The Y. J. will pay its respect in of at to these and all other fakes, frauds and. humbugs in its own peculiar style. j We have adopted this bi-weekly f o mi of the Y. J. in order to give us time in which to thoroughly prepare each article for print and with a view of making fliic v.;-ri,.ir ti .idpal of rerjublican papers in the Southland. J reader! of this article may feel interest enough in Jthe cause of republicanism to comply with the above suggestion by; devoting a few spare moments in introducing the yJ J. frietidsj, who never saw the paper, r Let us not neglect, party papers now that a great vie has been won. Truly and indeed 5fmc m Jar .hut remember tour ;bry iall :we 1 licrVits a-buming, and look ahead for the political dangers that lurk in forgetiulness ami - wc "Will I JCl U3 UUH v.- " - stant. It is not enough to be awake; we wnr. Tfs.i not' enousrh to look ahead; we must go ahead and feeep ahead. r?y-,i-i:1 . , T. t? a,.tti.iiA'V1lnw Tacket is not a local nflftpr nor the orcran of. any district or section, but circulates in every ooun- try wnere the stars ana stnpc is always republican and always Amen- COMMENTS. I Now, will Wall Street be good, for awhile? - ' , : ; 1 i: : - The Beaumont gusher seems to be oil right. : , I- : I , If Missouri, tod, succeeds in I striking oil it will be oil right. I Some "White mens1 burden" wouldn't be so heavy if it were not"in liquid form. Because a man is a lion in society, he should not possess beastly manners. There is still some opposition to the government, in the Philippines and Missouri. , ''' Tjhe Standard Oil octopus should a dopt far its motto, "Oils Well that Ends Well." Clothes do not make the man, but they have a great deal to do with the making of a woman. Wonder if Admiral DeweyC, did hot take that mortgage on the Omaha bakery just to give to his wife? The "bulls" are tossing everything sky high now, but the "bears" will have their inning later on. The biggest thing in the firsf decade of the twentieth century - will., be the World's Fair, at St. Louis, in 1903. Dr. Funston's prescription ; seems to have had a more beneficial effect on Aguinaldo than that of Dr. Bryan. That wild scene of commercial, canni balism in Wall Street had i no effect whatever on our potato patch. The President is gamine' notoriety bv demonstrating . his ability to make a short speech fit a long occasion. There is no record of Agninaldo ex pressing a desire for "Dr. Bryan" to continue his prescriptions. ? ' Perhaps the reason a cat is said to have nine lives is because 1 most cats live nine times as long as they ought to. Mr. Bryan manages to keep one foot on the Kansas City platform, .although he other seems to f be m his political grave. . 4 Usually when Wall Street goes crazy the country has to foot the bills, but this time the fellows that danced have to pay the fiddler. If Trans-continental railroad ; stock gets too frisky it ought to be belted over the head with the Nicaur agua Canal. ' . - . ' "" . It is reported that - Dakota has had a "rain of hlack ink." Can it be -possible that Pettigrew's gall has V exploded? God forbid. ' r ! I If J. Pierrepont Morgan' wants to move "Great Britian over here to bemused as a sort of a summer garden we have no objectionr " -; ' . . i , y - . ' Mr. Phillips should be warned by the , . . -1 11 j experience 01 Joe JUeiter, ana gamer his corn crop before it reacnes tne roasting ear stage. ; '.. r ' "The Powers" of this "old world of are in debt to the extent of thirty ours billion dollars, and it looks like, tney wnt China to pay the most of it. , William Jawsmith Bryan might learn a lesson from the fact that t President McKinley never found any ; "enemy s country" on his s6uthern tour,; ' Quite a number of distinguished Dem ocratic leaders seem to think that the st wav to down the octopus is to go into partnership with it. r ; . Uncle Russell gave Wall Street some cor advice but it wouldn't heed it, .so your Uncle1 Russell proceeded to , scoop Canada announces that'.: one-third of her area is still unexplored and un known. Can it be possible that this is a bid for bank cashiers to emigrate there? Rhode Island has. discovered a gold mine within her borders and . the next thing in order is for her peopled to move out of the state to make room for the dump pile. some curious cranK nas rearea up on ' 1 - V his hind feet and asked, "What does the Democratic party stand for?" We sup pose because it is tired of running fo nothing. - r " ' A democratic paper says Bryan has a gain declined the Presidency. We Would simply like to know when Mr. Bryan ever got a chance to decline . the Presidency? Senator Vest, of Missouri, . says his choice for President in 1904 is Gorman, of Maryland Missouri had better pull down her Vest before any more such fool talk as this is indulged in. The Commoner claims not to be worried by the crowds that have wel comed the President. "Why," thinks the peerless, "even larger crowds wel corned me. And see the result." A French journalist says he will die with his pen in his hand. Probably he is right. You can bet your bottom dol lar that he will not die with a duelling sword in his hand. . If Mr. Bryan succeeds in lassoing "Teddy" Roosevelt, he would better look well to his saddle, for the political force of the "Rough Rider" is equal to the empact of a dozen Texas steers. The democratic party with Bryanism eliminated would very much resemble a rattle snake with its rattles pulled off, itiwould still be able to inflict a danger ous wound but- couldn't make A much fuss about it. Bryan says the sunny south is show ing strong inclinations to break away from democracy and expresses the 'be lief that it will result disastrously. In deed it will for Bryanism. That is what it was intended to do. , What the democratic party is realiy suffering with is a form of appendi citis. It may be fatal to excise the ver-miform appendix of Bryanism, but it will also be fatal not . to do it. So there yon are. An exchange asks : What's the mat ter with the strawberries? Well, sir, we will just be razzeled if we know, but the opinion of some of the democrats is that strawberries and negroes have been ruined by cultivation. It is said that Bryan wants to be gov ernor and then senator from Nebraska, but having wanted greater things and missed them, it is not likely that the inclinations will cause him any serious trouble even if he fails to realize them. Uo in Buffalo, near the Pan-American Exposition grounds, they have a hotel that has nine acres of floor space, witn a dining room that will seat 5000 persons. Last week they . had one guest and at last accounts were looking for. another Senators Harris, of Kansas, calls Dave Trill and other Eastern advisers of the democratic party international mischief makers. Poor old democratic; party. What a disorganized and demoralized lump Of discumf uddled nonenity it is. Such is life. Selah. In England the government owns the telegraph '; lines, and its losses since assuming that ownership amount . to $55,000,000; the present annual loss be ing $3,000,000. This fact is not expect ed to warm the cockles of Bryan's heart. v- v ' : : " The republican party has always ' be 1: a Ja cfin lwlieves that the first JL1CVCU w . '4. i duty of "a government is to protect its J r. riom onmDetltlon. own ciuzens nuiu r- , . The Cubans, in asking tp share in the benefits-of that protection, forget that they are not citizens of Uncle Sam. it the Cubans desire a good thing, .they should make haste , to get their heads under Uncle Sam's wing. : . ; f . We hope him success in., the under taking, but Senator Mellaril in is going to raise merry hades in attempting to revolutionize the -polities' of the south. The southern democrat is usually all bourbon, doubled and twisted, tied and turned, tangled and tacked. v The center of this country's population has' been definitely "-fixed to be some where near Columbus,' Indiana, but the governor of Kentucky is evidently try ing to change it, by issuing requisitions for some of the . erstwhile extinguished citizens of the Blue Grass State. . The concurrent opinion among many leading, democrats is, that the Kansas City platform of last .year is too frazzled at the edges to be of much use in the future. The hope is "expressed, . how ever, that, enough planks can be got together; to ' serve as a k "laying out board" for Mr. Bryan. ; The capture of Aguinaldo having thrown him out of a job; Edward Atkin son has shifted his mighty intellect from Aggie to the taiiff and of course is making almost as ridiculous blunders with the . latter as he did with the former. The trouble With Atkinson is that he does not know what " he wants and he will never get it. .We notice there is a complaint in the lumber regions of a -shortage of laboring men and the farmers, too, are complain ing of a. scarcity of hands. It is strictly in order for some free silver democrat to explain what ' has become of that great army of unemployed. Cough 'er up, boys, and don't make such blamed ugly faces about it. Out of one tree, over in Tennessee, a man got four cords of firewood, three gallons of honey and five raccoons. That's all right about . the honey and raccoons, but a man must be crazy to cut a tree that bears such fruit as 1 that, and work it up in firewood. A ten acre grove of such trees would " be a small fortune.' Some man claims to .have discovered the fact that all the coffee consumed in the United States can be produced in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the .Philippines. With Illinois to produce corn, Kentucky whiskey, and Kansas hell, we seem to be well established on a solid founda tion for future prosperity unless we miss Carrie.. Give the democrats an inch of advan tage and they will take a mile. In Missouri they have 51 per cent. of the votes, but they have so arranged the Congressional apportionment that they get 94 per -cent. -oi the State's Congress-; ional representation. Verily, democracy means government of a ring, by a ring, for a ring. What are you doing to help break the ring? . And now conies Kansas with an in junction against Colorado v for stealing the water from the Arkansas river. Since the Carrie Nation crusade set in Kansas is evidently becoming thirsty. The next thing we may expect to hear is Missouri sueing Kansas for damage done by the cyclones she sends over there. Ever "bleeding Kansas." She has a liard time but she gets there just the same The democratic editor is a nimble ani mal. He formerly told us that "if you have a Protective Tariffi you, could not sell to foreign countries. ' ? , He now comes whining around. and says: "The fact that we are selling so many manu-. factured goods abroad proves that . we do not need a Protective Tariff." We don't see why some circus don't get hold of these contortionists and exhibit them for their wonderful feats. A Missouri paper tells a good one a bout two married ladies who were com paxibg the smart tricks of their offsprings the other day; One said her little girl talked when she was a year old; another said her little boy could say "Papa and mamma" when-; he was only three months old.' ' An old bachelor who was in the next room trying to read, then "chirped in" and said that rwasn't any thing wonderful.; He read in the Bible that " Job cursed the . day he was born. That settled it, and the ladies adjourned. Mr. Bryan is finding his right to boss the whole democratic, shooting match questioned from every direction. Everybody condemns the wild scram ble for money and everybody scrambles for all the money ' he can get. That's human nature, as it was, as it is, and as it ever will be. . " ' ' ' - President McKinley is doubtless per fectly willing to accept Mrs. McKinley 's recovery as a "miracle in answer to prayer," but he will not fail to give due credit to the physicians. There is no law against Arthur Poke Gorman trying to get back into the U nited States Senate as well as trying to get the democratic Presidential nomi nation, but there is a formidable obstac le ahead of him the will of the voters of Maryland. We don't believe Bryan will ask for much in the next democratic conven tiononly ask to name the candidate and write the: platform. We hope he will be able to make good these demands, for neither Bryan v nor a Bryan-named candidate can by any possibility ever carry this country. Now is the time for the Virginia re publicans to buckle on their armor and begin their 'gubernatorial campaign with a determination to win. With a full vote and a fair count there is a good chance to make Virginia a republican state, but neither can be had without fighting for them. 'Having had eight years trial and made . two failures, it would seem to be up to Grover Cleveland to stop trying to tell how the country ought to be run. In his last attempt he found it necessary to issue 262 million dollars in bonds to keep the machinery going." The people are not caring to have any of Grover's ideas on government; they prefer pres ent methods, under which bonds are redeemed and the public debt reduced, . and a surplus kept in the Treasury. The shirt waist man and. the net waist- girl go hand in hand to-day, and the people year after "year keep on throwing their clothes away. The coat and vest we laid to rest and where is the" fleecy shawl? And clothes get thinner and fewer what will be the end of it all? Oh, what will the shirt waist man take next from things he has to wear? And what will the net waist girl throw off the shoulders now so bare? The shirt waist man and the net , waist girl go rolicking down the way. Have we started a tread that is going to end in the old fig leaf some day? Ex. , What is needed in this country is backbone. For papers to have the back bone to tell the truth and publish the . news as it is. For the officers to have the backbone to enforce the laws. For young ladies to have the backbone to cut the acquaintance of those free and easy fellows who are not worth killing if some one were to furnish the club. For the preachers to have the backbone to preach the Gospel without the fear of treading on some rich contributor's toes. For the churches to have the backbone'to open the doors of the church for some people to get out when. they are taking others in, so as to avoid dry rot. For every man and woman to have backbone to be just what thev pre tend to be. -For people to be honest and have the backbone to stay-honest. A writer comparing the local news- paper with the city papers, ; defending them against tne lll-naturea attacks of the latter, says: "Well! you'may poke iun at tne country weetiy as you will, . but I fail to see why the fact that a resident of Pumpkihville has bought the - ..." - ". ville and intends to move into it, may not be xls well worth chronicling in the local-paper of Pumpkinviile as the fact that the dog of a famous actress died on . v . . - . ' the steamer is worth a two column picture and, a half column description in the city , dailies. Blamed if I can sec much "difference between a poodle dc j editorial in a city paper and one about sl big cabbage just laid on the desk of ye editor of a country weekly." jn amUnoriprrwwex ""vTy," can, :,... f . "-'t.w . w ,-"1 . ' - V a, f; ; x
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