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V ftt& YELLOW JACKET. - I i- PTTBLISHBD BI-WKEKI.Tr ft. POM LAWS. Editor & proprietor. ONE YEAR, - - i - - 30 cts. SIX MONTHS, - J - ;- 20 cts. Gash Always In fldVance. NOTICE Tflite : Postage Stamps are not panted on subscrip tions. ' 1 :-. ' Make remittance by dratt. check, express! order, registered letter or mbne r order drawn on Moravian Falls. N. C, When writing to have your raper changed yon must give yonr former as well as your new address. t AWava -write yonr own name and address plainly and direct all letters to THE YELLOW JACKET. Moravian Falls, N C Entered at the Postoffice at Moravian Falls, N. C, as Second Class Mai Matter. ft PERSONAL CHAT. Soe here, Brother Republicans, let little chat. In the first place wr want to ask vou to scan over thi copy of the Yellow Jacket! and if you think it is a good thing, then help us pusn it along. We want every re publican and about half of the demo crats to read our doctrine which is the genuine, unadulterated article with all the flounces and frills knock ed off. We know we canj make lots of democrats feel so ashained of their devilment that they can't l,ook an hon est sheep in the face and we believe we can strengthen your republicanism by ri-weekly talks with you. At any l ates, we want you I on our list be cause you love the things jwe love and hate the things we hate, know you are tired of he Because we ring "wolf, wolf" when there is no wolf; tired of ballot box trickery, unfair election laws, Tillmanism, Nesbitism, Goebel ism, Bryanism, and nearly every other old "ism" that the j democracy usually stands, for. 1 The Yellow Jacket ha s long ago left the cradle of its infancy, 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, then show it to your neighbor who verv likelv will. If vou are a repub- I XI A. JL Imnm wrrttA iican ox me true gru we xluumy jHf j will not object to doing this much fof j a paper mat nas Deen patmng iur in those dark days oi tree; soup wnen the democrats had Uncle Sam by the tail trvinsr to null him down to the devil. I We insist on every republican atickiner to his party papers, first. It sometimes happens that ybu find men professing to be republicans who take nothing but democratic papers. Such men are on the broad highway to political ruin. They are as ignorant of the true conditions of political affairs as a one-eyed Mexican dog is of the glories of the New Jerusalem. Don't let your republican j friends be noo-dooed in such a way. Put the Yellow Jacket or "something just as good" in their hands. It will help them to see things as they !are. You know the average democrat would see you at the devil, almost! before he would subscribe for a rep lblican pa per to the exclusion of democratic sheets. If you are the rer ublican. we want you to be, you can t keep the Yellow Jacket to yourself hen it falls into vour hands. You will want to ro straightway and tell the news to others. II tnere is a republican friend in your locality who shows signs of weakness in the knees and is disposed to wander off after strange gods, get after him with Jacket I the Yellow The Yellow Jacket is pne oi our most cherished dream children, and -we couldn't discard her if we would, and we wouldn't if we could. We once nursed her for months when the only signs of life were the.whisperings that came to our ears such as "that paper will soon peter" and "the Yel low Jacket will hunt its hole at the first white frost. " To-day we number our subscribers by the tens of thou sands and they are in every section of this broad land.- We lead all -North Carolina papers in j circulation and all republican papers in the en tire South. In the beginning we car ried every blessed copy w printed to '4he post office in our coat jpockets. From now on we want to make the Yellow Jacket a better paber than ev er before. The low price Fat which we offer the paper puts it within the reach of every republican wno wants a paper. So let all who have i feasted with the republicans and starved with the democrats get one solid! unanimous hump on and push the circulation till we can talk to every voter in the land. From now until the close paign of 1904 we intend dems sing "Hail Columb er miss a note. The fact that an elec oi the cam to make the a" and nev- i ion is just passed and that the republican party won a signal victory over democracy Is no reason why we should not be "up and doing." We will want to win 'again, and the best time to prepare for war is in time of peace. Let us stand by our party papers. Truly and indeed all seems well to-day, but remember we must keep! our signal lights a-burning, and look ahead for the political dangers that lurk in f or getfulness and carelessness. Let us not turn back for an instant. It is not en mgh to be awake: we must keep awake It is not eno igh to look ahead; we must go ahead and keep aueaa. 1 11 we send the Yellow Jacket at 25 cents a year ia clubs of f bur or more. This is the very lowest rate we can make ta anyone. Now have as many of your neighbors go in Iwith you as possible and eret the nanar at 25 Remember the Yellow Jacket is not j f x- ? papxiL uui uae urgan oi any distriet or section, I but toirculates ii ejery country where tiie , stars aad stripes float and is j always republican uu ibtwurys American TIMELY TOPICS.. Baking powder has been "raising Cain" in Missouri. ' The girl who has a kitchen diploma doesn't have to hunt for a job. The democratic remedy should always be well shaken before taken. It is proper to say "brethren," but not "sistren" for a cistern is liable to dry up once in a while. A good name is better than great riches. Most anybody would rather be poor than to be called Czolgosz. Democrats of the ring rule variety are afraid of honest election laws every where and at all times. Job never had any experience run ning a gasoline engine, otherwise his reputation wouldn't be quite as good. Senator Hannah says that Grover Clevaland would make the strongest candidate the democrats could name. The Omaha saloons will not reopen until the strike is called off. If any thing will expedite a settlement this will. The offer by an Eastern capitalist of $1,000,000 for a good servant girl was a safe proposition. She can not be found. - . I With the presidential campaign a year off, it really looks as if President Roosevelt kissed those babies in dead earnest. It was Senator Stone who used the baking powder, but it is the indigna tion of the people of Missouri that has "riz." s true there were cot quite so many trusts when the democrats were in pow er, but soup houses were not to hunt for. It is almost as difficult to quit the stage for ever as it is to quit the news paper business permanently. Both have a "glamour which ever lures." Some people can't take a joke; a New York woman read the President's lecture on race suicide and then gave birth to triplet?, j M There can be no question paramount to a free and fair ballot for the citizen s of the United States, but the democrat ic party is the enemy to such ballot. There are just two sides to the Philippine qnestion the American side and the Philipine side. Brother. do you know where you are "at." Has anybody heard of the directors and managers of the Baking Powder Trust being indicted for their part in the Missouri legislature bribery cases? Democratic editors who have labored so earnestly to prove the existence of a conflict cf interests between Senator Hanna and the President will have to guess again.' Ex-Senator Jones of Arkansas is not satisfied with any of the Democrat ic presidential candidates. Guess he will have to be contended with anoth er Republican. Before the democratic party can make any progress it will have to run back wards until it gets on the T. Jefferson main line. The trouble seems to be that the old trai n has a Bryan engine tugging forward at the hind end, a Cleve land engine tugging backward at the fore end, the crew divided, and the pas sengers confused. It's a genuine case of "Pull Dick,pull Devil." Something's got to bust before any progress is made. See that your ticket reads "Republican ism," and you are safe, brother, even tho the train flies the track and the en gines go to Jerico. What Is a Democrat. "A democrat is one who has the im pudence to assert, but lacks the facts and the courage to maintain. "One who ignores an interrogation point, for the reason that that sign in punctuation does not always imply a negative avernment. "One who is constantly seeking for a point of negation, and lies about it when found. "One who mistakes the platudinous mouthings of William Jennings Bry an for the statesmanship of Thomas Jefferson. "One who stands upon a political platform containing ! only two words, Time honored.' and 'Fernenst.' "One who endeavors to make the other fellow believe that the magie words, 'Be it enacted' makes 42 to 1, no more on less, than 16 to 1 in all commercial transactions. "Oae who puts a candidate in the field and then indorses him, 'Without resource on me. ' "One who mistakes his own vindic tive manevolence for public virtue. U- " r - .3 V & 31- A " mm an 21 'iVl l--JfJ R LCNLATVS. The above half-tone cut suggests a faint idea of what the editor of the Yellow Jacker looks like. We were born in Wilkes county, North Carolina, in 1808, lived on a poor farm, ate corn bread and fat meat and plowed a steer until we were 21 years old. : We happened to the good luck of g-etting- to attend school IS months, all told. At the age of thirteen we made the first printing- press we ever saw. With a wooden press and type carved from bits of maple and ivy, ink made from the roots of white walnut, we took the first impiession we ever saw made with type on paper. This rude outfit only stim ulated our ambition for the acquirement of bet ter facilities for printings Along- about this time we g-ot the idea iuto our "nog-grin" that some time we wanted to be a "one-hoss" editor, so in June, 1895 we managed to eet np a little old press and some type, all worth about 325, and we "founded" the Yellow Jacket begi lining- it as a three column, four paged monthly sheet and made up somewhat on the style of its matter today. For a long- time it looked as if the g-ame would not be worth the candle, but we worked the harder, hopingr that a brighter day would come by and by. After awhile thing's beg-an to come our way, but tbey seemed very slow. Yet we knew that Republi canism was rig-ht and we firmly believed that even our roug-h way of promulgating- its poli cies would bring- success in the end. As to the wisdom of these conclusions we will let the growth of the paper speak, by saj-ins ihat it has reached the largest circulation of any pa per in North Carolina and the largest of any republican paper in the entire south and that the little old rickety-racket y outfit has been suc ceeded by an up-to-date plant and that it is paid for. But the growth of the paper is so enor mous that we are compelled to soon put in larg er and more rapid presses than ever. We lay no claim to liters ry culture nor jonr nalistic genius. We did not model the Yellow Jacket after anything in the newspaper world. We never consulted any living soul about what to say on any subject. We have never, recieved a dollar in "boodle" from any source. There are not men enough this side of hepsi dam to stampede us from our position on politi cal questions. If we believe a thing is right we propose to say so and stick to it if the whole world calls us a liar. That's the way we were built and Ave cant help it and we don't want to. What we say is from the standpoint of a fellow who has had to grapple with the "corncobs of reality" from childhood. We hope everv republican who reads this hand feels interested in the work the Yellow Jacket is engagedin will do the cause aud the paper the kindness to take this copy and go out in the hedges and highways and make up a club to the tune 'of about one dozen. That's all we have to say in this respect. THE YELUOW JAGKET MAN. BY JAMES PARKIN PEARSON. It is doubtful if there has ever been a more remarkable instance of success in journalism than that" of R. Jon Taws and his "Yellow Jacket." To attempt a history of this re markable achievement wonld mean to trans gress the appropriate limits of this article. I shall only undertake to give a few important facts concerning the man,' his everyday life and his method of work, which cannot fail to be of great interest to his many thousands of eager readers. R. Don Laws is only 34 years of age, but into his 34 years he has crowded more work than the average man puts iuto a long lifetime. In his early years, before he entered the news" paper profession, he was employed as a farm er, house carpenter and school teacher. He also sold books and worked on the railroad. He filled all these positions ably and honorably, but it was not until he started the Yellow Jack et in 1895 that he stepped into his particular "forte." Trom the first issue, the Yellow Jack et was a "great hit." It was designed to make republicans laugh and democrats howl, and it did its work so well that it began to grow fa mous at once. Frern the little three column sheet with only a small local circulation it has steadily grown both in size and circulation un til itis read and laughed over in every nook and corner of this great nation. Since 1895 Mr. Laws has made politics : his main study. He has watched the politicians as the hawk watches the chicken, and the fellow he don't know some thing about has not figured very prominently in politics. He does not try to conceal the fact that he is a republican, as any reader of the Yellow Jacket can testify. The weapons with which he fights the democrats are wit, sar casm, and ridicule, backed up by an underlay ing of reason, and woe unto the democrats who happen to be the target when he shoots. In his office or in his home Mr. Laws is the same jolly good fellow he was before Dame Fortune smiled so benignly upon him. He is the possessor of a broad and magnanimous na ture and even those who hate the Yellow Jack et cannot help admiring its editor for his straightforward, George Washington way of I " .- - V 1 A .4 doing things. He has the happy faculty of picking up knowledge even' where and of turn ing it to good account. He is a tireless worker a a 1 1 a T . frc" it II Li a grca.1 XlilllU. lt ULJOCLG iuc a.xt.i- luiuc,. that sometimes mean so much. His remarka ble success has been due in large measure to his capacity for hard work, coupled with his miire than ordinary- skill in determining at a glance the relative value of men and measures. EDITORIAL GHATS. Within tne v'usi; six months there nave been ine rpoiaud in the United States 120 c. n pai-ies with an aggre gate i-apitai st. ok of $1,200,000,000. Democratic tdito.s are hard put these days in finding evidences of dis sension in the republican ranks. Their own raiiks, shows there is a little evidence of harmony as ever. We make a great to-do when a Chi nese barbarian fc ills a missionary in China. But what; have we to say when a mob of cowboys in Western Texas murders a bible agent because he wears a silk hat? The futility of all attempts to defeat President Roosevelt's nomination and election is emphasized by the report from Nebraska that, should Grover Cleveland or any other "reorganiza tion democrat" be nominated, the Bryanites will support Mr. Roosevelt. United Consuls report that an excel lent quality of wheat can be purchas ed in Manchuria at 3q cents per bush el. This is raised entirely by hand. What will be the result when modern machinery is introduced into that sec tion? Oh nothing much, the bulk of the celestials will continue to plant wheat and rice, a stalk at a time, as we plant cabbage, because their an cestors did so and because their labor is cheap. The f armers of Iowa do not eat steel rails for breakf ast nor feed pig iron to their hogs. They get rich feed ing the people of this country, who are just now able to buy enormously, since they have big wages or incomes from oMe source or another. It is regretable that Mr. Cummins should insist on a campaign which can be of no service to the party; can only give aid and comfort to the democracy. We wonder if Mr. Cummins remembers the situation in Iowa froml893 to 1897? Does he want to live those weary years over again t Of course not. He sets aside experience for the al-'urements of sentimental philosophy. Philadel phia Inquirer. Certain New York newspaper have lately been printing the personal views of business 4 'Napoleons Vwith a view of teaching the young American idea how to shoot a million One 'success ful' magnate, who had acquired for tune that takes seven figures to indi cate, says he turned the trick by de voting himself wholly to business nothing but business. I dropped all my old friends' and made no new ones, ' he says. "I cut out all social func tions and never entertained myself. I didn't have time." This successful young man he is only 30 then goes on to tell in detail how, step by step, he dried up all the founts of human kindness in his heart and at each arid crater plamted a new foundation stone for his great fortune. Pittsburg Dis patch. MAN. Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of microbes. Sorrow and headache follow him all the days of his life. He hoppeth from v4c morning and his foot is pierced I tack of disappointment. JUle He sitteth himself down to re,t noonday, and is lacerated in his er anatomy by the pin of disaster He walketh throu the strap. J city in the pride and hood, and slinneth on tD v,o -hi. of misfortune P6( He is stuno w vq jwiutom uis e "J -ls j-uuaqmQg 8 fii annoyance oy day and his frame 55 gnawed by the bed bugs of at night. What is man but the blind worm fate? seeing that his days are bered by circles of plain and his yet by seasons of mourning. In his infanrw Via rnnnov, uuviu uver U" worms ana colic, and in his old he groaneth with rheumati sm growing toe pails. 4 He marryeth a cross-eyed womfc because her father had a bank accpJ and findeth she is ridden withhyste and believeth in witches. He exalteth himself among e people and swelleth with pride" when the votes are counted he n(je.v that he was not in it u He trusteth in a man who claimthto be filled with righteousness and stand eth high in the synagogue, and gets done up. For behold his pious friend is fuliof guile and runneth over with deception From the cradle to the grave giveth his alms to him that smitefh him. His seed multiplied around him ati crieth for bread, and if his sons come to honor he knoweth it not. What is man but a painful wart on the heel of time. Selected. Gut This Out. Don't inquire into a hungry man's history. Give him something to eat. Use the top of your head more aad your tongue less. Try to-day to live a simple, sincere, serene life, and to-morrow"" will have more sunshine in it. Keep the fire of your tongue from tie gunpowder of your Hps. Ask yourself to-night if you are ashaa of anything you did to-day. Cultivate self-control and habit e! silence. Be at peace with yourseif and everybody else. The Creator gave you two ears and only one tongue, so that you could Lear twice as much as you talk. A man can store an awful tempest within himself, but it won't break loose if he ties his tongue down. Don't overdo things. Keep some of the pleasures for tomorrow and the next day. For goodness sake don't worry. Do the best you can and be content. CORN MILLS. The finest table corn meal is made on the Meadows White Flint Granite Mills. RunsTiti less power and does more and better work thai any other m ill on the market. Write to-day for catalog and prices. We will surprise you as to prices and quality of work. Samples of meal free. Agents wanted. W, C, Meadows and Son, Poors Knob, N. C. The Southern Railway. ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OE THE WINTER TOURIST SEASON AND THE PLACING ON SAI,E OP EXCURSION TICKETS TO AIX PROMINENT POINTS IN THE South, Southwest, West Indies Mexico una California, INCLUDING St. Augustine, Palm Beach, Miami, J" sonville, Tampa, Port Tampa, Be wick, Thomasville, Charleston Aiken, Augusta, Pinehurst, Asne ville, Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis and THE lyAND OF THE SKY. PERFECT DINING AND SIvEBPl'11 SERVICE ON AI,I, TRAINS. 8EE THAT YOUR TICKET RBAP3 VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Ask any Ticket Agent for full mation, or address tt-dV. R. I,. VERNON. Traveling Pass. Agent. Charlotte. N. C. District Pass. AP Richmond' v. O XT TTATJTJWICK. General Passenger Agent, x Traffic Manasrer. Asst. Pass. Trafiic Washington. ! c -T
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