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MORAVIAN FALLS, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE) 13, 1901.
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COMMENTS.
rJl miItt tii - v j
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is to declare, the Supreme Court uncon
stitutional, v -
The courts have valued
a man's leg
at $10,000. It
wasn't "Andrew Carne-
gie's, either.
"661V xo xcaxxjr turning f to VlSlt US.
T!ncf nrJII 1 -1 .
A nrma 4c an11 ? ' '. i .
vtuu wxij. xi uw mase reaay to receive
nun. - .
xms time it wasn't Tillman's pitch-
iorjc, Dut nis tongue, that got him into
hot water and out of the Senate
.Botn miman and Mclyaunn claim to
be democrats, which raises the Question.
wnai is a aemocrat, nohow? :
1- .l t " . - a - - -
11 Pennsylvania really wants to ret
ria 01 tramps it mignt try the Kansas
I f r m - ... r , . . o--
iT r rr .
pian 01 oireriug tnem work.
o print; came to an ena 1 orriciallv on
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j tine 1. we oner a prize to any person
TTT V
wno can guess when it began.
as an agitator csenator lvicivaunn is a
success, and agitation is likely to open
tne eyes ot many southern voters.
The U. Sr Supreme Court is always
narsniy criticizea wnen it maices an im
portant decision, but that does not affect
the legality of the decision.
Senator Tillman is disposed to regard
Gov. McSweeney's advice as an at
tempt to put rubber balls on the points
ot nis pitchfork:.
in tne ten years enaing witn 1900 our
V a m 1 '
trade with Denmark, Sweden and Nor
way gf ew from $9,000,000 a year to $29,
000,00.
lne nrst nope tor iicJUaurins success
has just dawned. Mr. Bryan is going
to start to South Carolina to make
speeches for Tillman.
Everybody is down on the octopus
these days. vven .bunston and his
men dined off him while after Aguinal-
do.
The New York reformers , can go on
Ior a xittie longer, anu men mr. jroxer
1 1 rrr-if Tiftmi anrl 4 4 1-1 n rpfnrm ' ' li o
will come
city.
...
ything
Don't bother about Cuba, ever
will come nerhtin time. Iet the crowd
down there talk itself out, just as our
politicians do. .
The average man lives seven years
longer than he use to do this in spite of.
Christian Science and-
the increase of
doctors.
According to a recent story, .the moon
is filled with huge caverns populated by
glorified ant-like beings. The idea is at
least novel.
Ohio democrats
will probably find
health will be all
that Gov. Nash's
right before the work of
torial campaign begins.
the i guberna-
An investigation would probably show
at there is an alarming increase in
that
insanity among the readers of the yel-
low journals 01 tnis country,
It is suspected that Billy Bryan per
suaded J. Ham. Iewis to boom Dave
Hill for the democratic Presidential
nomination.
It may be after all that Chas.
Towne
nasnoiquHpuuu..ujr 5v,x6 .u y
oil speculation, but is mere
tor next campaign
Thirteen soldiers have deserted from
the Chioago army post and sold their
uniforms for liquor. Another score to
be charged up to the anti-canteen law.
Col. Bryan has had a relapse and his
"itntierialistic" fever is worse than ever.
Poor fellow! His suffering is acate, but
Dr. Time
right.
will bring him around all
Chairman Hopkins, of the Illinois
democratic state central committee,
savs "silver is deader than a smelt."
We thought it smelt dead, and now
have a right to believe it.
we
Pn1 Watfprsnn ii frtrpsts a new leader
and a new platform for the democratic
party, and he might have added: a new
nartv to ero witn me tuatiorm : auu . mc
leader. , '
The democratic wraneles in Viririnia
ki; nA iT-
WUUiu give iuC iuuu agwu .uTUk:
election law that was even passably
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' 'n.. i..'wmi u
v. rer.recet.ts the man while Mc-
Laurin represents the dollar. Wrong
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again Col. The pitchfork politician re
No man in that.
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Joe Baily says the decision of the - Su-
preme Court will bea source of "endless
mischief and confusion." ; His assertion
might be correct if he had added "to the
democratic party.".
The democratic party isn't divided on
anything but the money question, the
expansion question and the tariff ques
tion. ' The party is solid on the opinion
tnat puoiic omce is a private snap.
Ohio democrats promise that
their
platform this year will contain
only
"old-fashioned principles," but
that
will not save thent from . getting
the
same old-fashioned Ohio whipping.
uncie cam may nna it a losing game
to ship school-ma'ams to the Philip
pines. Two-tnirds or tnem are sure to
get married and resign within the year
ivianua la an i;veiess vaen so iar as
white women are concerned nowadays.
What has Gen. Joe Wheeler done to
the Alabama Constitution convention,
that it should deny him the privilege of
the floor? We presuthe ' Gen. Joe will
be allowed to sit in the gallery and see
the monkey-business, if he wishes to.
According to Mr. William
Russell,
a wealtliy $ngxisnman now
in this
country, the English are quite as much
republicans as we are, but navinsr in
herited royalty, and being a conservat
ive people, are content to let well
enough alone.
A Wilkes county democratic
orsran
calls Tillman a tyrant and, Bryan calls
MeT.anrin a nlntorrnt. "Plutocrats"
McLaurin a plutocrot. "Plutocrats'
and "Tyrants." Aint the democratic
party a honey? These men represent
the two leading democratic elements.
nfnrcp "her ill W wars in the
future. but it is a consolation to know
that the strength of the U. b.. both in
material resources and fighting men,
make it a liation that no other will will
ingly attack.
There is a difference. When Gen.
Chaffee left Pekin, a petition signed by
prominent Chinese asking mm to re-
main was presented, to mm; wnen
Count Waldersee leit. everybody was
glad to see him go.
Between Bryan and Gorman the chan-
ces seem about equally divided for the
nomination for the Presidency in 1904.
onouia eitncr uuc ui lixcsc iixcu uc txxc
nominee the republicans will still have a
right to think that Providence is on our
side.
A Paris newspaper wnicn nas sent a
man to girdle the globe has printed a
horrifvmer forecast ot tne dangers tnat
be will undergo from Indians while
-, oo , - thP Pnnn.
crossing tne unneu. ouitcs. axic paLycx
lists are the most dangerous creatures at
large there.
Chicago is finding great difficulty in
Tmnihinpr a man who let his wile and
child die in childbirth while he
praved
and refused to allow her to receive any
help, medical or otherwise. If the law
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won't reacn mm, wny not give mux
necktie party: According to his own
belief, it wouldn't hurt.
r'Li. o,c, SA, 1Q en(1w
xxiyp xx o j V r :r i.-l
wabbiine- on tne spinaie n xic lxixxiis.
NT., Vnt- Tiemera-rTi n fair SaTtlTlle Of
new j-vx. " u.. x .
mnct nvrmb1iriP--headed editor in the na
tion knows that New York news always
Viae tn he e-jrnurp-ated before it is trans
mitted or -rmblished elsewhere. Better
hayejyour thinker halt-soiea, oia man.
Tf anv of vour democratic neighbors
becin to show signs of weakness in the
1 vuppq and romoiain 01 a uau io&lc xxx
Itrieir mniiths. don't hesitate to offer
tiiem a remedv. Remind them that
the republican latcnsinug axwjra vt
nnrl thai penitents are always welconioe.
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The; dettc par y y
reort-sents the Brvanites or Mtsorgan
i-f-t.T,ri nther the Clevelandites
or reorjranizers. Don t malie any
diff-
irh head srets you, you are
V. J A-
At - 1 tt1 l ('nrolcr
vuw .
basket."
nnnB 1 urn Tne 'sanie -ucvu o ...
The Yellow Jacket asks a little, favor
of every one of its present subscribers.'
It wants each subscriber to secure one
new subscription each within the next
two weeks. We helipve nearl-v euprv
one can do this much, and we fcindlv
ask you to try it. Get them in for the
next issue, which will be a 'scorcher"
if the court knows herself and we think
she do. '
A great falling off is noted in the Brit-ish!tin-plate
trade. At the end of March
293 mills were running, as against 418
a year ago and the number of workman
was 44,600 instead of 21,000 in March,
1900. "American tin-plate mills are all
right, but it is those British mills that
would be in the "swim" if the democrat-
piaCe of our present Protective sys-
tern
Rr'er "Rtvati's Tiolrl on fhe r?etnr!oratir
rartv rets weaker everv dav. Proof of
this may be in the steadily increasing
number of more or less prominent men
who are publicly declaring against Bry
anism. Hnn. P. T. O'Karrall. eT-OxOv-
ernor and ex-Congressman, of Virginia,
is among the latest. May the
good
work so on till there is nothing left of
Bryanistn but a pair of broken suspend
ers and a wart.
One day Billy Bryan goes into a
conniption fit troubling over the vast
enllallcement of corporation stocks as
an evidence 01 monopolistic tenaencies
and the influence of trusts. The next
day he points at the shrinkage of these
stocks to the snm of about seven hun
ed million dollars as an evidence of the
disastrous effect of speculation on "the
people." Billy should collect himself
up a little.
One of the significant signs of the
times is the presence in this country of
many European manufacturing experts,
who are here to study our methods,
with a view to making improvements in
their own, in order to better meet our
trade rivalry. They will doubtless
J carry back valuable pointers, but
they'
cannot carry back the greatest
single
factor in the success of American
manufactures the intelligent Ameri
can workman, who knows how to use
his brain as well as his hands.
President McKinley said at- the
launching of the Battleship Ohio at San
Francisco: "I have a great deal of pride
in the name, but proud as I am of my
native state, I am a thousand times
more proud of the nation that is over
all the states, supreme and sovereign
and glorious in its mission of good will
and liberty to all mankind." This sent
ence will live in history when the niost
prominent paragraph of Bryan's edito
rial growlings will be everlastingly forr
gotten.
There is more or less silly talk on the
.tariff question now being presented. To
take for granted because President Mc-
A , , . a ,. .
eigntradeby reciprocity treaties where-
ever possible, that he is any
yever jn a protective tariff tl
less a be -
than he e ver
was is to ignore facts. Reciprocity is
the child of protection. It is ' because
we have a protective tariff that we ; have
something to offer nations for commer
cial reciprocity.
Circumstances alter cases. Well, we
should snir:er. - Only a few months
Lrc nvTwrn stnnd uninthe United
States Senate and ""delivered his
great
"anti-imperialist" speech to the delecta
tion of the Philipino followers in Amer-
o-n A tVi-l-itte-r rlivsomst nf all Ameri-
la auu - --"-'r- " ,
can patriots. No sooner was the mon-
ster delivered than Bryan caught it lfi
nis eixitunai axxxxa auu. vc.jr 1.0.. j .u-
ured his slobber tank eulogizing .that
ont, -R,-.f fr, worm tnrnerl - TftwtlP
left off buildng "anti-imperialism" air
castles and went to Texas and began
planning, combining and scheming to
getrich and help develop a great
maus-
trv and what is the Commoner now say
. - , . . fr ouKt,a
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I w clnhhor
Astonishing as the figures of heights
and circumferences of the big trees of
California may seem, one is still more.
surprised at the age of some of the trees,
which can not be less tnan 2,50010
-1,000 years old, says an English maga
zine. Think of it! When Saul was
i anomteu. 11111 xaiaci - uicoc vuk
columns began to bTeak their way
through the soil. Yet they have en-
uureu wmic x9ii iwi uUiC xxuyiyxi.
Babylon before
Alo;ot,.r iliP r,rpnf firPPPP
Rome
rose and fell and the building up of I
Britain's empire, century by century. It
would seem that the California redwood I
trees are also imperishable except I
through the ax of the woodman, and we
think Congress should take ' steps to I
prevent these giant monarchs from
talling victims to the woodman's ax.
The future in commerce or in politics
belongs to the man who thinks with
his head and to the party that refuses to
let moss grow on its back. The demo-
cratic party to-day is playing buzzard-
living on dead things. It takes the
name of Jefferson in vain and calls itself
the Jackson party, when j in truth, -it
bears about as much resemblance to
Jackson principles as a cross-eyed
kitten does to a statue of Jupiter. It
boasts of its devotion to the South, and
yet it is the greatest obstacle to-day to
southern progress No better proof of
this assertion is needed than the abuse,
ridicule and slander that is being heap
ed upon Senator Mclvaurih by the dem-
ocratic press of the South.
Many incidents touching upon the de
votion of dogs to their masters have
come before our notice, but the case of
the Philadelphia lady (God save the
mark) exceeds anything we have noticed
relating to the devotion of the master to
the dog. . It is stated that one Mrs.
Birdsall has stolen $15,000 to keep her
18 pet dogs in luxury. Talk about de
votion! Ye gods, did you ever! This
dogblessed woman allowed these canin
es to sit up at the table and eat with her,
feeding them on squalls that cost $1.25
apiece. She provided each dog with a
rain coat and rubber boots, also a minia
ture bedstead each, with fine pillows and
satin quilts. We are told that each day
every one of the 18 ; pets was adorned
with a new bow of pink satin ribbon.
When a dog died he was wrapped in
costly shrouds and buried in a ' fine sil
ver casket. Any woman who would tie
a pink satin ribbon around the neck of a
bow-legged, cross-eyed, hang-lipped
bulldog, let alone stealing $15,000 to
foot such bills, ought to be in -well we'll
not go any further. :
Who'd a thought it? Tail-ender Towne
turned topsy-turvy and now a pouncing
1 plutocrat. The Commoner should invert
its column rules and pnt black crape on
the office door. In the light of Bryan's
dish-water doctrine, any one who associ
ates himself with monopoly, at once be
comes a plutocrat. So it is not the Hon.
Charles Ahnetta Town, of Minnesota,
Populist hero, Sioux Falls philosopher,
uncompromising enemy of trusts and
unselfishness and magnanimous advo
cate of social reconstruction with a
view to the more equal distribution of
goods among the sons of Adam. It's
Town the greasy plutocrat, oil-gusher
gobbler, trust speculator and such other
opprobrious epithets as the Bryanite
partv usually applies to those who take
advantage of the gifts that heaven gave
them for all self-advancement and the
advancement of civilization. Pettigrew
gone into the railroad monopoly, and
Towne speculating in oil. it need not
surprise us to learn of the
slipping a cog and going
"Peerless"
off down to
a Gusher.
Texas and Gobbling up
j Should such happen, it would no doubt
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I onrl H i orn tn rl r 1 fH dpm nc ratio Tiartv.
We notice that some smart scientist
has made the very important discovery
of snow on the moon. It certainly is a
source of immeasurable , satisfaction to
us to know that the inhabitants of our
satellite can enjoy the opportunity of a
4th of July snowball game, isn't it? We
observe a disposition on the part of our
scientific men of too everlasting much
prowling around among the stars for
the amount of attention they are giving
"this old world of ours." We wouldn't
I - . - ...
exenange a convenient potato bug ex-
j terminator for all the information on the
moon tnat every scientist this side or
. A ta r
xxcoxxxx ouuuw. xxiauccxu. ui ixjr-
ihg to figure out where some "runaway
comet is liable to turn up next, or
whether the soil of the moon is adapted
to the cultivation of devil-shewstring or
millet, whether the minerals of the plan
ets are similar to ours or not, let these
men turn their searching eyes on this
globe; let them show the people how
two bushels of corn may be grown
where but one now, grows, find a pre
ventative for potato rot, wheat rust, ap
pie blith, hollow horn in cattle, gapes in
chickens, and' a thousand other things
that need attention. Scientific research
as well as charity should begin at home.
We feel sure that the moon will continue
Lu wax auu waucj ioxc -
tention or supervision of the scientific
investigator, but if there isn't something
more done to counteract the ravages of
disease' and blith in both the animal and
vegetable kingdom and to protect our
soil from floods and our forests from de-
struction, the jig is going to be up one
of these old days. . wnat are you go-
mg to do about ur
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