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MORAVIAN FALLS, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1902.
NO. 15
THE YELLOW-JACKE1T.
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EDITORIAL COMMENTS.
It seems about time that the demo
cratic party was assuming control of
its own affairs.
The democratic party can continue
to be called a 16 to 1 party so longas
it tells 10 lies to 1 truth.;
Put democracy in a pipe and smoke
it and you can see the picture of a
soup house in every puff.
We will have to teach the demo
crats again that they can't make some
thing out of nothing.
"Work wields the weapons of power,
wins the laurels of success and wears
the palm of victory.' '
If you want to make a democrat
rise up on his hind feet and spit .fire
just insist that the money "question is
the paramount issue.
What strange things do come to
oass The President's name was
cheered at the Missouri state demo
cratic convention.
Unswerving loyalty to the republi
can principle of a Protective Tariff is
the thing to keep the democrats hang
ing on the nail of "has beens."
Democracy will always find it an
up-hill business trying to capture a
live country with dead issues. The
people are not buzzards, yet.
The man who finds comfort in be
longing to the so-called democratic
party could dine on a basket; of dry
thistles and swear they tasted good.
One difference between Bryanism
and Clevclandism is that the people
dropped one before they tried it and
tried the other before they dropped it.
The democrats of North Carolina,
in state convention, bid Billy Bryan
and his Chicago and Kansas, City
platforms good by. Bryanism seems
to be growing like a cow's tail.
The democratic remedy for monopo
lies would be to make the country so
poor that there would bo nothing to
monopolize. Mr. Voter, do you want
to try that experiment again?,
The wisdom and statesmanship of
the republican party keep knocking
democratic paramount' ' issues to the
rear faster than Billy Goat Bryan can
butt them to the .front;
The Franklin, Tenn., News says that
to desert the Kansas City platform
would be a confession of weakness and
dishonor. Well, it looks like there is
lots of "weakness and dishonor" bob
bing up in your party, Mr. News.
Democratic voter: If I follow Bryan
I'm doomed to become a long-haired,
wild-eyed populist. If I follow Cleve
land I'm called a traitor. If 1 loiiow
Hill I'll have a h 1 of a time know
ing where I am at. Oh, for little
more light and less noise, j -
Democratic Farmer: "I'd just like
to know where the prosperity you re-
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publicans talk about comes in; oi
vpars arro I could get all the help I
wanted for 25 cents a day, and now I
can't get hands for a dollar and
board. You've got this country into
a devil of a fix."
A number of congressmen have been
visiting Alabama recently to study the
conditions of the negro. They visited
Tuskegee, and thero was wisdom as
well as wit in Booker Washington's
remark to them that the students of
Tuskegee were learning industry and
thrift, and that none of them had yet
broken into jail or congress.
The democrats tell us we are at the
"tender mercies of the trusts." But
how do these "tender! mercies" com
pare with the "tender mercies" of that
infernal soup house shebang we were
under a few years ago?' Cough her up
Mr. Democrat, you know which side of
your bread is buttered, if it does
make you have an ugly face..
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tling unceasingly for the last seven years
Let' us hear from you, brother.. Say, we
are going to look for a club from you.
We are behind fith this issue of the
Y. J. Couldn't bjelp it. Just as we
began running the sheets through the
press for the insidf of this number, our
en gine broke dowr. Here we were. No
power in reach and the manufacturers
of our motor in New York. We hired
three men and put them to turning the
press, but the. wo rkprogressed so slow
ly that we fell behind three days.
The republican-p'opulistic adminis
tration went out of power in North
Carolina with $100,000 in the treasury.
Two years of democratic rule has cre
ated a deficit to the tune of $200,000
and the end is not yet. It seems as
impossible for the democrats to run a
government without1 plunging it in
debt as it would be for a pig to dig
goobers without getting his nose dirty.
The North Carolina state democrat
ic convention was a regular harmony
producer. For instance, when one
democrat in discussing the minority
report on the proposed platform, de
nounced Cleveland as "an arch traitor
to democracy" another democrat rose
up on his hind feet and called the
speaker a d d liar. Then an im
mense cry rose up from the ascem
blage till the speaker was no longer
heard. Hurrah for , more democratic
harmony. .
Stillwater, Okla., has a curiosity.
It's a newspaper called the Advance,
and it is so destitute of common ob
servation that it says it is hard to
distinguish the Cleveland brand of
democracy from republicanism, pure
and simple. Somebody ought to bore
the Advance for the simples. The
idea of a fellow being so whee-whawed
in his vision and so rattled in his
brain that these piping good times
look like the soup house times seven
years ago. If the Lord would grow
that fellow a tail he'd -put first class
monkeys at a discount.
We kindly invite every reader of
the Yellow Jacket to make a little ef
fort to push up the subscription list of
this paper during the next few weeks.
We are arranging to give you a bet
ter paper than ever, but the cost of
the machinery to make the improve
ment will be upwards of three thou
sand dollars, so if you want to see the
thing hump get up' clubs and push them
in. It will be an easy matter to raise
this three thousand dollars if every
subscriber will make just a little ef
fort. Come, boys, now all together!
Everybody!
Look here boys, we are fairly bust
ing our hame strings trying to raise
cash enough to purchase a perfecting
press that we may' enlarge the Yellow
Jacket and print it oftener. It will
take some three or four thousand
dollars. We haven't got the money.
We are not going to borrow it, and
we don't propose to beg. Here is our
plan: Let every one of our subscribers
cet out and hustle us up a club and
Jthe job is done that quick. Now if
you wish to see the Yellow J acket the
biggest and best paper in the land,
let in and help us by getting up that
club. Will you do it?
The free trade newspapers have had
so much to say about the growth of
"anti-protection sentiment" in the
middle West, that the tariff plank in
the Indiana republican platform i3 a
disagreeable surprise to them. It
reads as follows: "We adhere to the
policy of protection and favor the
extension of our markets through
carefully guarded reciprocity arrange
ments with other countries wherever
it can be done without 'interrupting
our home production.' While we
favor such modifications of tariff
schedules a from time to time, are re
quired iby changing conditions, we
insist that such changes . sh all be
made in line with the fundamental
principle of protection. "
AMMUNITION FOR VOTERS
Editor Yellow Jacket:
When voters are brought 1 face to
face with democratic vote seekers, let
them say with Macbeth:
"Henceforth be juggling fiends no
more believed
Who palter with us in a double sense,
Holding the word of promise to our
ear,
To break it to our hope."
Remember 1893-1897 and note the
contrast. The. following railroads,
those sure barometers of the value of
trade policies, are ahead of last year's
increased earnings by the amounts
named:
Northern Pacific". . . ..$7,000,000
Great Northern 5,000,000
St. Paul ...........2,500,000
Northwestern 3,250,000
Well may we say to our Free Trade
democratic opponents, as did the Ir
ishman when he led off with the ace
of trumps: "Have ye anything to
bate that?"
"By building our own ships we keep
our shipbuilding plants going, em
ploy hundreds of thousands of wage
earners directly and indirectly, and
help to bring greater prosperity to
business men and bread winners. '
American Economist.
During one month France built 50,
000 tons in ocean steamships. Eng
land built 1,360,000 tons and Germany
144,000 tons. In the whole year we
only built 246,000 tons. Why?
Last year our sales. to Canada were
$110,000,000, while those of Great Brit
ain, notwithstanding the 33 1-3 per
cent, differential tariff in her favor,
were only $43,000,000. Mexico increas
ed her purchases of us last year by
$4,000,000 or 11.8 per cent., while the
German increase was only $411,000, or
5. 8 per cent.
Our expansion is not in territory
alone,. For the first eight months of
1894 (democratic) fiscal year our ex
ports of manufactured goods amount
ed to $123,000,000, but for the same
period of 1901 fiscal year the figures
were $357,000,000, nearly three times as
much. Five years of republican poli
cies worked this miracle.
Cuba, redeemed and freed, Porto
Rico well started on the road to pros
perity, the Philippines put in order,
as a forerunner "of greater things, Ha
waii taken care of, idle factories open
ed, new factories started, work for all
who want to work, is part of what five
years of republican rule has accom
plished., Of the world's thirty-seven steam
ship lines that possess over 100,000
tons each only two are American. The
cheaply manned, cheaply built, heavi
ly subsidized foreign . steamers have
driven American ships from the for
eign carrying trade.
"If we start our lines of ships, if we
girdle the West Indies, South Ameri
ca and the Pacific with our telegraph
lines and our ships, we shall revolu
tionize the trade of those countries,
furnish outlets for our manufactures
and hold for many years the prosperity
of to-day." M. E. Ingalls.
' 'The passage of the ship subsidy bill
would have but one effect so far as the
new enterprise is concerned. It would
enable us to sail ships now building
and hereafter built under the Ameri
can flag on an equal footing with the
ships of other countries. The publish
ed statements that the ship subsidy
bill would enable us to sail our for
eign vessels under the Stars and
Stripes are incorrect, as the bill speci
fically states that only American-built
ships can benefit by its provisions,
and, furthermore, sueh a course, if
possible, is contrary to the whole
scheme. ' ' C. H. Griscom of the steam
ship combine.
.. .
Vote and work for the party of
"Protection, Progress and Prosper
ity," '
Walter J, Ballard.
Building a Platform.
Democracy "Say, Builder, I want
to hire you to do a piece of work for
me. I've got my head sot to make
another run for the political pie
counter this fall, and I want you to
build me a good strong platform to
run on. I've been trying to draw up
the plans and specifications for the
work, but the more I straighten it out
the worse I get it tangled. So I
thought it best to call on you for ad
vice." Builder "All right, Democracy, if
I can be any help to you I am at
your service. Let me see what sort
of drawings you've got fixed up."
Democracy "Oh, the dickens! I
tore 'em into jiblets. I'd be ashamed
to let anybody see what a mess I did
make. I ain't got the least idea what
sort of a platform I want, but I do
know that it must render good ser
vice; it mustn't break down before
the race is half over likeall my other
platforms have been doing;"
Builder "Well, we first want to
decide on what to make the frame Out
of. Now would that Imperialism
scantling do?"
Democracy "I did think of using
that, but now the republicans have
cut the Cuban end of it off, it's too
short, and besides that they have got
some big notches sawed in it over to
ward the Philippine end. I donf t
think it would be safe to risk that. "
Builder "Then what do you say to
making the frame out of the tariff and
cross-bracing it with trusts? Seems to
me that's abont the soundest piece of
timber you've got, and just between
you and me I'll admit thatit's awfully
worm-eaten and rotten."
Democracy "Yes, that's so. You
see that piece of timber has been soak
ing in the waters of Salt River ever
since 1896, and no doubt it will be
rather nasty to handle, but, as you
say; it's probably the best we can do
and so we'll count that settled. Now
concerning tne planks to put on top of .
it. I don't know what in the thunder
we're going to do about that. Of
course we all agree that it won't do to
put in that old free silver slab. In
1896 and again in 1900 I tried .to dance
to the tintinabulation of Billy's under
jaw on that old slick slab, and both
times the earth flew up and struck me
in the face, and it took me a long
time to rub the Seven Stars and other
big planets out of my eyes."
Builder "How do you think the
nigger domination plank would do?"
Democracy "Not at all! ' No sir!
You see my own crowd used that all
up for kindling wood in trying to
start up a little hell down South. Now
the negro, in all the states where he
amounts to anything, is disfranchised
and so it wouldn't be good politics to
straddle that hobby any more."
Builder "Yes, and I just happened
to think. That trust scantling we used
for braces is mighty weak stuff. Don't
you remember how Roosevelt yanked
it all out of shape when he got the
beef trust by the tail? We ought by
all means to brace with something
stronger than that. "
Democracy "I know that's a fact,
but it's the best we can 'do, and I've
been told that angels - can't do any
more. Let's see what else we can do
about the planks. There was the
Porto Rico tariff plank I wanted to
use, but -the rads have taken it away
from me. And the bloody Boers have
gone and surrendered, thus depriving
me of the Boers sympathy plank. I
could have raised a most thundering
jacket about the government's pledges
to Cuba only now I can't, you see.
If the everlasting republicans hadn't
gone and kept every promise they
made to the people, I'd have given
them fits on that score, but now there
is not a peg on which to hang my
claims of unfulfilled republican prom
ises. Just think about it! One issue
after another has gone a-glimmering
until I'll just be hanged if I believe I
can build any platform at all. Guess
I'll just have to climb a tree and
straddle a limb3 and sneeze and fall off
and be gathered unto my fathers."
Builder "Well, I?d like to do your
work, but if . you're out of building
material it's no trade. Good bye. ;
Moravian Falls Patriot.
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