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EDITORIAL
The people of New York have Croker-
lsm by the tail and a down-hill pull. -
Democratic tariffs never did support
tne government.
Sy the way, isn't the; new woman
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gemng oiu enougn to voxer ,
Progress is progressing nicely, thank
you! Telegraph communication with
the Klondike has been opened up.
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Alter all. isn't anti-expansion a
a. w a.
pretty good name for a movement that
is contracting so rapidly? i
Mexico will label her new navy "Built
in the U. S. Come again, Mexico, No
trouble at all to show goods.
ueware 01 tarm tinkers. vvnen a
country is prosperous it is well enough
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to let well enough alone.
Whenever it shall become necessary
to revise the Dingley law, the revision
should be made by Protectionists.
Bryanism, in Nebraska, since the
election, looks like iocts worth of
second-hand chewing gum.
55rti1tv. ("Metre I and. Wntrersnn tJiis i
the available Democratic presidential
timber. Isn't it a beautiful triumvirate?
Of course the Constitution follows the
flag but that don't mean that it gets in
iront 01 tne nag ana trips it up.
Tammany is a big thing, but then the
voter is a big thing when he gets after
an animal with his little vote.
Possibly kissing does spread disease;
but then, all the girls have probably
been vaccinated.
The best statesmanship that anv
country ever saw is the kind that gives
work for the worker and bread to the
eater.
President Roosevelt's habit of "talk
ing out in meeting" is very trying to
the man who would do a little backbit
ing "on the dead quiet."
' If it is anv consolation to Mr j
Bryan,
he may assure himself : that henceforth
he can travel without paying extra bag-
rrami nn Tit a -irc4 rl entinl hnnm.
We flsk evervone who purchases a
copy of The Life of McKinley of us to
show the book to your neighbors and
tell them where thev can get the book
for one dollar. ! ' ; v
A furiously funny feature of demo
cratic argument is that since silver has
been "demonetized" no more is being
rnired. Look ut) ! the figures in this
issue.
The fellow whom you can hear always
kicking because times are hard and say
ing he can receive no work, is the
fellow, generally, who, when you want
help, is .always busy whittling goods
boxes.
When a democrat makes up his mind
to have fits or night mares you
might just as well stand aside and let
l-i 1 m Yia-Vf them till he cets done. A
notable example is the Broadax, of St.
Paul, Minnesota, which has had free
silver spasms till its entire system is out
of order and now it predicts that in less
than ten years gold will be turned down
as a money standard and that the bank
note will be pushed in. v' Bro. Graves., go
home and take a pill.
FALLS, N. C, THURSDAY, NOV. 14, 1901.
The first duty of every man as an in
dividual is to provide for his own living
including therein that of his family if
he has one. A right step in this direc
tion is made by alligning himself with
a party that seeks to place him on a
highet plain of usefulness to himself
and his country. - ' j
The post office deficit was only four
millions last year. Next year, if Con
gress does not reverse the act of the
Department in barring various classes of
matter from the second class rates, the
chances are that, for; the first time in
our history, the postoffice will be self
supporting. I
Somebody is responsible for the con
tamination of the anti-toxin serum
which has caused the deaths of eleven
children in St. louis and is imperiling
nobody knows how many more. The
somebody ought to be hunted down and
sent to jail for the balance of his life.
Such carelessness is nothing less than
criminal.
Come to think of it, why shouldn't
the people who suffer by a reciprocity
treaty object to its 1 ratification? . Why
should anyone sacrifice his own business
in order to boom another man's?
Whether the treaties really imperil any
one's interest are matters of infinite
detail,with which only experts are fitted
to deal. The Republican party will so
deal with them this winter, when there
is plenty of time for their consideration;
it could not. last winter, when there
was no time at all.
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The revelations of the Schley trial in
regard to the battle of Santiago are
"amazing. Heretofore, all accounts of it
were written by those who were not
there; now, for the first time, we have
the stories of Schley, Cook and Clark,
who were there. And what a flood of
light it throws on the battle! Clearly,
the Spanish were not whipped by the
American fleet under Sampson's plan,
but the Brooklyn and the Oregon, by
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grace 01 tne lormer s mucn aiscusseu
loop.
Democratic methods of government
have been given a fair and expensive
trail. They have proven chimerical and
disastrous. Their theories were imprac
tical and their efforts at reform . were
hampered by the dishonesty of their
leaders on the one hand and their inex
perience and incompetence on the other.
Their administration resulted in indus
trial depression? and commercial dis
trust. N Gratifying Republican majori
ties at the polls' have testified louder
than words where lies the confidence of
the American voter.
The Moulton, Iowa, Sun must have
a spite at itself and is trying to get even
by telling tales that knocks out the un
derpinning of its veracity. In a late is
sue it makes the astounding statement
tha "the republicans are rapidly climb-
ing Onto tne ucmwrauu piaiAuxixi.
Don't the election in its own state last
week look like the republicans were
climbing onto the democratic platform?
If the republicans will keep on "climb
ing onto the democratic platform" in
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tViift wav a lew limes mere wont uc
enough of the old thing left for baby
billy goat to stand on.
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The Iron ton, Missouri Register says
the people of Missouri do not want any
man who does not stand squarely on the I
Kansas City platform to represent them
in the United States senate. Small
wonder at that. A people who can
swallow a Nesbit election law without
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gagging wouldn't be expected to flicker
on the Kansas City platform.
A table .prepared by the director of
the mint shows that during the last
calender year the coinage of gold was
$99,272,943; silver, $36,345, 621. When
you hear a fellow throwing off on the re
publican administration in the sense
that it is not increasing our money
volume, let these figures down on the
young rooster and see his feathers fall.
Reciprocity? Certainly, we . will have,
reciprocity whenever the conditions are
ripe for it, whenever foreign nations
conclude to come to our terms. The
party that has built up American indus
tries to their present prosperous condi
tion mav be relied upon to neglect no
policy that will inure to the national
benefit.
President Roosevelt is
surrounded by
an official family of short names. In
the Cabinet we have Root, Hay, Smith,
Long, Gage, 'Knox all names of one
syllable, which is most unusual. The
President's most intimate friend is
wood, rne man ne is most iond 01 in-
New York is Riis. His most intimate
litical advisor and for vears his snonsor.
is Lodge. His private secretary is Loeb.
His secretary while
Governor of New
York was Youngs,
syllable.
All names - 01 one
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. King Edward has decided against the
day of national humiliation and fasting
rrotosed in Great Britain on account
of .the Boer war. Doubtless he thinks
that there is enough humiliation- in the
situation as it is.
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It seems useless to assure the country
that a huge balance of trade in our fa
vor is not an unmixed good. 11 it con
tinues, we shall soon hold all the money
in the world, to the impoverishment of
the rest of the nations thus rendering
them unable to buy Irom us. A lair
give and take arrangement is better for
all hands.
riia VinWiMii r tnlVina- stron eriv
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of tinkering with the tariff, says the
Pekin, Illinois, Times. Just a's we ex
pected, the Times has mistook the
echoing of its own braying , for republi
can argument. The only republicans
that are talking of tariff tinkering are
democrats in diseruise. and they are not
fooling anybody but some of their own
crowd.
T.oti. itnr nre "sirh f nv
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democratic ranks is for every member of
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the party who finds himself uncomfort
able on the Kansas City platform to
leave; it and go where he is better suited,
yet they kick nice a lexas steer every
time a democrat utters one word of por-
test against the Kansas City doctrine.
Invite a man to stay out of your house
if he don't like your ways and then
cuss mm xor not oeiieving in your
ways. .
NO. 23
Without taking sides on the canteen
question, we can't help wondering
whether General Miles would think as
he does, if General Corbin thought diff-
erentlv.
The Iowa democrats put free silver in
their platform and the republican gain
in that state is the largest ever given in
a gubernatorial election, lvir. jsryan,
put that in your free silver pipe and
smoke it. v
During the last fiscal year $36,000,000
of silver coin was added to the currency
of the country. Perhaps this - may be
me lace to the man who is sitting up
of nights worring over the "crime of
'73
According to the Post Office authori- '
ties, rural free delivery will reach prac
tically every farm in the United States
within five years, and at the same time
will be so managed that it will reduce
instead of increase the annual deficit in
the postal branch of the Government.
Some would be facetious, but anony-
mous fcjoutnerner nas sent jrresiaent
Roosevelt an opossum. The President
was not at all annoyed, but, with his
characteristic good sense, ordered that
it be fattened and served on the White
House table with the Thanksgiving
turkey.
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we offered a copy of the Life of McKm
ley tree to tne one sending
free to the one sending us the
largest club of subscribers by the 4th
day of November. The book goes to
Mr. A. K. Agard, of Pleasantville, Iowa,
who sends us a club of thirty-four
annual subs.
Those measures which identify the
interests of republicans are just as bene
ficial to democrats, but the average
democrat would howl at anything how
ever good unless he was in office and the
good deed proceeded from his side of
the house. They are built that way and
can't help it.
No, my dear gosling, don't think for
a moment that there is something in the
democratic "issues" just because of the
noise they are making. Their idea is
that if they hollow loud aud long
enough they can make the public think
there is something to hollow for. That's
all there is in it.
A number of democratic editors are
trying to extract consolation out of the
result of the elections last week, but it
is making them sweat like blazes and
we notice that they can't get much con
solation to manifest itself. Boys, you
know you can't get blood out of a
turnip.
The overflowing Treasury, factories
running overtime, farmers receiving un
precedented prices for their crops, bank
er reporting decreases in mortgages, ex
ports breakiug all previous records,
abundant employment, good wages, full
dinner-pails in a word, universal pros
perity and everybody happy. These are
the conditions after six years of Repub
lican administration. Is it surprising
that an intelligent people desire no
cnange?
Manufacturing industries which not on-
j suppiy the home demand, but a .large
nronortion of the world's reauirenlents
have resulted from the Republican doc- '
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trine of protection. This is the stern
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fact which gives to the Democratic iree
trade doctrine that wan, pale look.
The most rapid industrial develop
ment that the world has ever known has
resulted in great combinations ol pro
ducers, along similar lines, whose ob-
J ject in combining their forces has been
the greater availability of the most im
proved methods of production and dis-
J tribution, all that is implied by cheaper
-nrodnotinri These "trusts." as thev are
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called, have attained wonderful results
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instances the cost to the consumer. In
sonie instances they have not resulted
in benefit to the consumer. They re
quire legislative control. The party
whose judicious administration has re
sulted in this vast industrial develop
ment is perfectly capable of exercising
this'control and the American people
are content to entrust the Republican
party with the task. ,
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