s . - ISSUED BlrWEEKLY. 30CE N A YEAR. voi. yiii. MORAVIAN PALLS, N. C, THURSDAY, AtTG. 7..3902 . - NO. 16. r THE YELLOW-JACKET. PUBLISHED BI-WEEKLY. E. DON LAWS, Editor & Proprietor. ONE YEAR 80 20 BIX MONTHS... ...... 1.V CASH ALWAYS IK ADVANCE. NOTICE THIS: Postage Statnijs are not i wanted on subscriptions. , Make remittances by' draft, theck, Express . i Jraer, registered letter - or Money Order drawn on Moravian Falls, vvnen writing to nave ' your i paper changed you must give your former as well as your new address. " j , ' ' Always write your own name rind ad dress plainly , and direct all your letters to MORAVIANFAlili, N. C. Entered at Moravian Falls, N. Second Class Maii Matter. C., as A PERSONAL CHAT. See here, Brother Republican let ns talk to yon a little. We ! first Want to ask you to scan this copy of the rVellow Jacket over carefully and if yon hink it is a gooa wing, tnen couidnt ypu nelp push it along by dropping o cts ZL - 1 1 J . - 1 j in me blot and let us send the paper to you ev- ery two weeks for a whole yearij Send us the 30 cts. and we will endeav r to ao the rest. . We have been begging you all along to stay with the Yellow Jacket for the sake of the love you bore McKinley, our iaiien jeaaer, wnose teacmrjgs we have" been trying to follow. We also want you on our list because ypu-hate anarchy, unfair election laws Bryanism, GoebeJism, and all the rest of the yisnis and unfair policies that the democrats glory in endorsing. The Yellow Jacket has long ago left the cradle of its infan cy, and now. if you will listen, it desires to talk to you with the wisdom of years If you don't want to subscribe for the paper show the sample copy we are send ing you to your neighbor who does. If you are a republican of the true faith we know you can't object to doing this much for a paper that has been t attling for your rights from the 1 time it was founded in those dark days -of Free-Trade and free soup in i8g5-'Q7. I We insist on every republican sucking to his party papers. It sometimes hap pens that you find, men professing to be republicans who take nothing butdemo cratic papers. Such men are on the broad highway to political ruin. t Don't let them go that way. Put the Yellow Jack et in their hands. It will1 help them to see things as they are: You kt ow the average democrat would see us at .the devil almost before hewould su bscribe for a republican paper to the exclusion of democratic sheets - It is alwfys the truth" that stings and the Yellow Jacket lets its chips fall where they wl 1 it is no respector of persons. If you are such a republican 'as we want you to be, you can't keep the paper to yourself when it falls into your hands. You'll rant to go straightway and tell the goc d news to others. - I - We want to make the Yellow Jacket the "warmest baby" that ever happened, and we desireto begin nowi Tx e Y. J. is one of our most cherished drea n chil dren and'we couldnt discard her if we would. We nursed her when for weeks the only signs of life about her w ere the few whisperings that came to us (That paper will soon peter,' and many other like words of encouragement from out loving neighbors. But now, a fewj things have changed. We number our subscri bers by the thousands to-day. . Tpe Yel low Jacket leads all papers m North Car olina in circulation and all republican papers in the entire South. In Lhe be ginning we carried every blessed copy we printed to the postoffice in our coat pockets. Once .we kept soul and body together on the strength of our piisfor tunes. Now we trot our new. baby . on our knee with no thought of the duEs that may come pouring into ' us tomor row.. When one of our subscribers pro nounces us too tough and sends our lit tle sheet back ornamented with 'refus ed" marked on the outside cover, we simply say "you go to" and the tlibught of his going doesn't disturb us for weeks as it used to did. ' - I , Now in conclusion of this chat let us urge all our friends to help us gst this thing in the handsof all the republicans that we can. Let all who have' feasted with the republicans and starved with the democrats get a regular oct on and let's push this taperi: - nump 1 We propose to olf er the Yellow 'Jacket at 25cts-ayear in club! of lour. ; as many of your neighbors to go So get I n with you as possible atid pet the paper at 25cts. We make this offer ; indefinitely; It is our desire to place the price Jof the paper so low that all may be 'enabled to take it, but we must have as -miich x as ?5cts out of each t 2-month' subrdription in order to get a living out of thtf paper. Remember the" Yello w Jacket is pot a local paper nor the organ of-any klistrict or section but circulates in every country wuere tne always re i t stars and stripes, float ana is , w l' , t-i li was passed around uncermonious-1 w w MVS v j f s s -1 puDiicaxi ana always American. r-C' -r n r-: A- - tr :r:;r..--: vvr:., .;- .-r.'.' " - EDITORIAL COMMENTS. ' ' - ' " " " The democrjits continue to put in a good deal of their time "viewing with alarm." .- . Bryan ha9 been up in ihe "enemy's country." making republican Go it,. Billy. ; ; votes. Cleveland and Bryan I are both wreckers. Cleveland wrecked his jpar ty and Bryan wrecked ihe wreck; Another "paramount issue for de mocracyWhiskey has advanced . one cent on the gallon. Arise,Pemocrats. To arms. To arms. Some of the dems are xne surplus, out iney never gave body a chance to do anything that when they were in power. any like The worst trust tbat ever existed was the trust that the people put in the democratic party, but thanks be to Grover, he busted that. If Bryan is a populist as the Hill- lies ciaim anu 111 and Cleveland are republicans as the Bryanites assert, then yhere in the deuce, does the dein ocratic party come in? Five years of Dingley Tariff and the earth continues to revolve on its axle tree; business booms; and the free soup wagon remains quietly housed in the democratic lumber house. May she stay there. - ; The democratic party made William J. Bryan and now Mr. Bryan contin ues to un-make the democratic "party. His influence in the ranks of the party is recognized by the . more sagacious leaders as a certain cause of defeat. - ' Republicanism haa punched so many holes in the Kansas City and Chi cago platforms that the dems don't want to claim them. Their course in many of their, state "platforms indicate a desire no uooge or straddle. Senator Foraker said recently that the spirit of "true Americanism" which Theodore Roosevelt "breathed in with the air of the western prairies" doubtless accounted for ) his wide spread popularity with the American people. - : '. The Rolla, Mo. Sharpshooter de clares that "A Cleveland democrat is a very good Roosevelt republican. " These wild-eyed, free-silver-or-bust Bryanites have repeated this sort of a lie so long and so .often that we verily believe that they - think it is the truth. Under the provisions of the McKin ley bill and of the Dingley bill the industries of the United States have reached a point where, instead of com paring them with those of some other nation, we , naturally s compare them with those of all the rest of the world. The ' Yellow Jacket would rather trust a man who wears pants witn patches on the knees as big as " your hand than a dude who shines out in line clothes, parts his hair in the mid dle and wears a collar so high that he has to gefon a stump to spit. Except in those places iwhere more or less fighting-, is going on t daily, the Philippine islands are said to be corn- pletely pacified. Milwaukee News, Yes, and except in those places - where the democratic party is too dead to raise a racket, it is helping - the "Fills to carry on this Philippine ." warfare. ' ? In instituting acomparison between itself and the Hon. William Jennings Bryan, .formerly, a recognized demo cratic leader, the Indianapolis ' Senti nel says:: "The ; Sentinel has always beenv a bimetallist, but never a r fool." This is probably what Senator Bailey, of Texas would consider an insult. : ' ,u - - The ''Memphis, Term:,. News says it is anxtoua to Know wno is to oe tne TntnrA keener of " the'elephaht. .He'll future Keeper . or,. u yeyuauu. aemoniuux rwguo , .r -1, j.fi,i . " I bl e yourself . about that, Mr. News , and the' chances- are that when.he gets done slamming, you around next No vember you won't know the difference between the keeper and a box of axle grease. . , ' v ClubxRates. The regular'price of the Yellow Jacket is -uj cents- a year. - But in clubs of 4. or more we will send the paper at 2- cents- a year. - - - . Now we earnestly ask every one of bur subscribers to do the Yellow Jacket a favor by getting up a club of four or more at this special offer. . It wont take you but a few hours to get up such a club. -Can't you afford to devote a few hours to the cause we all love and for which the Yellow Jacket has been bat- denouncinsrlT . nn iv.0.. c " TlVfc UWUA V VAiV-A VJCIJ y W W are going to iook for a ciud from you. . Senator J. C.- Blackburn of Ken tucky is out in a statement in 4 which he declares thathejiopes "to livelong enough to ee United ,States Senators elected by direct vote of the people." As an experimental step in this di rection, Senator Blackburn might in duce himself and iis associates in Kentucky democratic leadership to permit the election of governors in his state by the same mpthod. The Salisbury S.un says Senator Simmons' speech atthe democratic state convention wiU;. make a capital campaign document, as it "bristles with facts and figures, that laro bound to interest voters." Well, we should snigger. The admission that the state democratic administration has bor rowed $200,000 to replenish a depleted treasury is one "fact ' that will "in terest voters. Mr. Voter, how does such "facts" set on'y our stomach? The thinnest argument that the dem ocrats put up is that.their party-is the only party that "proposes to curb t le trusts. Every man who knows any thing about matters knows that all the efforts that have been put forth in a practical way to curb the oppressive combination of capital have been the result of republican legislation. The democratic party never was known to sit down hard enoucrh on a trust to have smashed it had it tbeen a soft boiled egg. Ah, dear oldfriehd; here again on your annual visit: "The horrible news comes from Kansas that a boy climbed a cornstalk to see how the corn was getting along, and now the stalk is growing up faster than the boy can climb down. The boy is plum out of sight. Three men have undertaken to cut down. the stalk with axes and save the boy fromTstarvation, but it grows so fast that they can't hack twice at the same place. The boy is living on nothing but raw corn and has, already thrown down over four bushels of cobs." The Nashville; Tenn. News says on ly one republican was converted m the debate on the Philippine bill. Small wonder at that. How in the name of common sense do you expect republi cans to be converted by democratic de bating when it was conducted on' such a low down plain of abuse that demo crats-themselves wouldn't sit and lis ten to it as was the case when Ben Tillman spoke on the Philippine ques tion? Republicans may ;De converted to nobler things than they now repre sent, but they are not tne son 01 lei- lows to become, converts to- backslid ing and skeed addling. . Put that in your pipe and smoke it. ' y . - Edward Atkinson, addressing an s1.11riip.nra on anti-imperiaiism, con I i cluded from the vociferous applause with which he was received' that there was no expansionists among his hear ers.' So he said boasting!y:f : "If there isan expansionist here, should like to asK , him his name, where he lives, and how he feels now! " Thereupon one man arose and ans wered: "I am an expansionist. - my nanifiia Robert Field. I liver' in ' Ha verhill; and I feeLlike a thoroughbred horse among a lot of jacKasses Walter J Ballard. , r J The funniest thing about the North Carolina democratic state -convention is that the Bryanite editors speak of it as a harmonious and orderly affair, fiwht- in the face ol the fact that - when Cleveland was denounced as an. arch raitnr that hell brokef loose and pan- flrned and that the "dam ly . The only way we can interpret the meaning" of , these Bryanites is -that they, don't consider a thing harmoni ous' ' arid orderly 'f and "democratic" unless it is- embellished wifhTprofanity and dominated by rowdyism. r : 1 - " . . " . - . . . , v '. -i The latest mare's nest discovered by the wiggle-tails is a scheme, they, say, th at Mark Hanna has inaugurated to establish weekly republican newspa pers thruout tile South' in the interest of his candidacy fOr the .presidency. The idea of Mark Hanna having nq more sense than to try to .v capture the South with a few local" papers. 1 The democrat who -l. 'discovered" j that scheme hasn't got sense enough to pound sand in a rat hole. -It will soon be so, however, that a republi can can't come out in a" new.' pair of pants but that some smart .'alec of a democrat will be ready to swear that Mark has been scattering' campaign boodle. Wire nails; axle grease and alarm clocks are three things , which the d em ocrats say they have discovered that are sold m European markets w by American . manuiacturers at prices lower than the manufacturers will sell them in this country. Here, then; are three reasons that democrats, have; put up why their party should be restored to power, that they may repeal the tariff. But then, let's see. Here are three reasons why we. don't want the dems to try it. 'They are the Goxey army, the idle factories, and the free soup houses. Mi Democrat, you may preier to live on cneap . axle grease and free soup, but we donH need the combination in -our business. . It would make one dizzy to contem plate the possibilities "of the Yellow Jacket if all our subscribers were to get a.mpve on like Dr.-Jas. Faith of Palmyra, Illinois .. l?oc got vOut ; a-- mong the boys the other day and hus tled up a club of fifty six' subs in a- bout five hours. He was working, he says, for the benefit of the "Good bid Republican Party. " Speaking of how long he has been " laboring in' the cause, he Says, "I voted for Abe Lin coln in 1860 and right down the line ever since. " A good record.. By the way, if a few hundred of. Our J-"Abe Lincoln'' republicans will get such a hump on as this-we will soon- see our way clear-to enlarge and improve the Yellow Jacket. . x . Bryan has been riding around up north making, speeches with 1 Senator Carmack of Tennessee, the' old snide whose , slanderous attack upon , our soldier boys brought down such a storm of hisses from the galleries of the U. S. Senate that he had to sit down and. quit his speech. "Every one to his own notion," but for our part we shouli prefer to . campaign with a billy go at rather than' with i a man whose hatred for our army is so. strong that decent folks won't sit still and listen to the explosions of his. gall bag. We don't blame the Cleyeland- ites forv wanting to reorganize, the party. It needs to be deodorized and fumigated with tar and brimstone to make it palatable. - .; "Tlie democrats are" so 7 afraid that Mark Hanna will be the candidate m 1904 that they cant keep from lettijag their fears creep put ever, and aripn. Never IIlindi,, boys, there are other men than Mark Hanna in the 'republican party whd are able "to "make mince meat out of the democratic qonKey. And, againi if you fellows dot! want to see Mark llannamade president, you'd better quit traipsing' about tell- 12- lies on vhim. - x ou aoused . and slandered McKinley for his. thrill bill until ypu ran mm into, Liie -; wiiite House, and if .ybu don't be careful you'll land Hanna in the riresident'X chair by the same -method.v "rhe peo ple love to honor the man you choose to slander,- and they'll do it if it rips open the democratic party from snout to tail. --1 - 1.- We have lower interest and 1 higher wages; morejnoney anu lewer mort gages, than whenr d9m0cracy . w4s iri thb"saddlelV9'yOU'arit to eethis state of affairs .reversed.- Then getx)ut Two True and Accurate Pictures. We can get' a. very clear idea to what the Dingley Tariff law has be stowed upon the masses by giving two true and actual pictures. In tho spring of 1836 James Russell found he could no longer get employment any where. For a long while he had been working only a part of the time at -reduced wages and now bis shop had closed for an indefinite period. He was already behind in his rent and there were bills at the butcher a and grocer's. :Jimmie and Willie had both been taken out of school and earned a little now and then, but botlr together could gather but a dollar a week. Lizzie, too, ' had to stay at home to help about the housework, for Mrs. JRussell worked night and, day at sewing to get the three or "four dollars that, must be had as long as such work was obtainable. The life insurance had already lapsed, and any day the landlord might dispossess them. 'Finally the little sum in the savings bank was withdrawn, but that, too, soon melted away and there was nothing left to do but visit the pawn broker. The summer came and - the children went without shoes and al most without clothes. There was lit tle to eat, only the cheapest of- meat and bread. No sugar, no cream, no milk, no eggs, no vegetables, no fruit. Oh, the weary days and sleepless nights of those fond parents, who, willing to make any sacrifice them selves, could not bear to see their children deprived of the very neces saries of life. Little Lizzie fell ill and the doctor said she must have rest and nourishment. And so there " came the first taste- of charity - and parting. The church people found her a temporary home in the country, and so her life was saved. .Hut . matters got worse and worse at home. -The long indulgent landlord finally insist ed, and James Russell and his wife and boys wenLlo two small rooms. Day after day the father, weary of limb and sore of heart, looked for; work, eagerly taking any -job that" might offer. Sometimes they all earn ed as much as five dollars a week, sometimes only one or two. So the summer dragged along and fall came, . but there could be no thought of school nor of church and Sunday school. Lizzie was better and came "hpme,' but the homejof James IRussell was a sad one indeed and yet there were : hundreds and "thousands of others even worse off in those Free-Trad times of 1895 and 1896. But November came and the vote of James Russell counted for as much as the vote: of the President of the United States. ' 1 Early in December his old employer- sent word that they would start up for three days in the week. Oh what joy ful news! Despair gave pi ace to hope. They got through the winter fairly well, and in the spring it was known that a new Tariff law would early be enacted, and the cheap foreign made goods would be kept out, and James Russell would have steady work. Now let us look into his home five years later. . r - It is a pretty little house ' of seven rooms, and there is no-' rent to pay,; for James Russell is his own landlord. -He has for three years becngettiDg $20 per week, and has been enabled to pay $200 down on his home and is reduc ing his mortgage every, quarter. The rooms are prettily furnished and there . is always a plenty of good'substantial food on the table. The life insurance policy is now in force again, and the children all go to school., No need for Mrs. Russell to care for anything ex cept her household duties and her children. She is a prudent housewife,' and so there is always a surplus: Lizzie is going to have a piano and take music lessons, and Jimmie is going- to college in a couple of years. Perhaps Willie, too, will go, though he wants to learn a trade. There are- little outings now and the boys have plenty of books and balls and bats. Saturdays the father comes home with some luxury, a pound of candy, or some dainty for Mamma and Lizzie. The boys each have 50 cents a week for spending money, and, oh! it is sUch a happy group. ' That is what the Dingley law did for James Russell and his dear ones. That ; is" what the Dingley law did for a mil lion of James Russells, and that is the greatest and grandest blessing Protec tion can bestow. The pictures are not overdrawn, they-are not extreme in stances. Many were worse off than James Russell in 1896; many are even better off than James Russell in 1902. The average of human happiness, in the United States has gone irom a low point in i5Wio tne nignest muex ng ure ever known. The most sanguine optimist would not have dared to pre dict such a result five years ago to day. . " . And vet there are those wno would reverse conditions and plunge us a gain into Free-Trade and misery. It will be decided at the polls this fall and in 1904. But we do not believe the . American workingman, the American farmer or the American citizen in gent eral will vote against prosperity. :A meriean Economist. - . s ' The only difference between a horse . tn ief and a ballot thief is. that the f or-y mer is. a; high , toned gentleman com- -pared with the latter. . . i X

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