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ELI'S, IifeTTER. Huckleterry .Kriob'N. C., c ; ; : V..;: : . Jahiary 19, 1907. (Editor Y ellow 3 acKei : v 1 ,: ; .; j .. " - V , Dear Sir: Did you -ever tHinkabout what .would become of. the politicians if they, had nothing to: .howli about ?i When I say politi cians, I don't refer to that class of men who spend much time in deep - thinking and wise planning for their country's ;w ilfare:, but rather to those blustering, : r.ahtankeijbus fellows - like XBen Tillman, who are everlastingly rearing up on their hind feet and , brayiitg: like "jackasses, because something has been done that wasn't Qaid off by: their .little pocket rules. - There "doesn't a blessedweek pasSxto of Congress that s6m .uncork h inis elf.ahd sp i 11 his bile on a long s u f - f r-in.r 'ww,-m-1.-'"s. A n'rt iirtioiF K Kf HnHf .il0'jt it? - You cari'tkeep these fello vs from howling any more than you can break ; .'dog from bark ing at. the moon. - They will howl just as loud and long without an excuse as they will if they had one. ; Just look back over the last- eleven years-and think bout -it. There . lias been enough "physical energy-and lu ig gas expended Iduring that period Tailing oijit at imaginary political dangers arid over false issues 6 -cut rthe Ismain canal from! Colon, to Panama, fevery little cross roads in the entire country has ibeen afflicted Iwithliejiowle'rv-e'beeii up early and late "viewing- v ith ' alat;rri"J and shedding his crocodile tears.V r .-; " ', - When William Jennings I ryan made his "cross of gold and crown of thorns" speech at .Chicagb eleven years ago he ,: urnished a key note or a' howling receipt for iseveral million "patriots," and they seized it w th all the eager ness that a hungry dog i.woul 1 a link of sau sage. And they, used it to beat the band.- It ,was ' the v thing they long hiad sought and mourrfed because they; found itjTnot. And after all the howling and covartirig and ranting from one end' of the country to the other, what good .did- it do? Where is the maru Aip today and point out a sing 1 who can stand e benefit to the that the Demo ! That is a rnis- e way they are pfet the Demo- over it. .They pi gold'' slogan The devil: only ructive ideaf.zih peop!e tlrat grew out of all that ranting? Ah, he's not to be found. But the Howlers had to Jiowl. x You have often heard it said cratic party made" no progress, talced They are progressing oj better hnwlers everv vear. There" was a time when they had some issues and didn't have to howl, but a they ears "have gone by one by one of their issues has passed! 'awav and now they are reduced to the extremity' of howling to keep up appearances. ! Take the past nfonth in Congress. What Democrat has . stood up and, leld out to the people a'single Democratic pri iciple that con tained any perceptible merit? j Several have spoken, but their speeches were ; howling affairs from snout to tail. They start out. by refer ring briefly to the virtues of their own party, ana menowiing spirit gets the better ot their judgment and away they go, howling' at the fariffhowling at the President jhowling at the Philippine pblicy, howling at the trusts and howling at everything and everybody from the Chief Executive down tola He ttentot digging in the ditch at Panama. . And r ot a remedy do they propose. ! ! i have just read the speech of Congressman neppara, or lexas, and it ranks well as a masterpiece of the howlers crats are about to go into fits think it one of the finest things since'the crown of thorns and the cross was promulgated. And why?, knows. There is not a cons the whole blast. It is one continuous epigram oj- "damn the Republicans" " J Listen to his bowlings. He ; says,; "Stand pa is! another ex pression for, dry rot." - Ye, god;, think of that. Think of , the ; unparalleled che ek and gall it must take to induce a man to stand up in the Halls of Congress and say that the Republi can policy 'synonymous with dry rot. If this sort of times is dry rot what in the name of all the gods at once would he call, the sort of times we had twelve years ago? "Stand pat," he says,- "altho the", enormous tariff rates incite the antagonism of the world and imperils our foreign t'n de.' Another, empty howl. Why didn't he. c uote some fig ures to prove this statement? Why didn't he take the figures of , our foreign j trade under a Democratic tariff and, also under this "dry rot" tariff vhich he is howling about and prove his assertion. He simply could l't do in That is why. He doesn't dare to try it. It is, cheaper to howl. With the Democrats it goes further and costs less. Listei. at him once more, "'Stand pat.' although patriotic Repub licans all over the country un te in the gen eral prayer for a lower tariff." Why don't he furnish just a few names, as samples? Let him show a bakers- dozen of j "patriotic Republi cans who are praying for lo ver tariff that are not tied to the coat-tails oi some Demo crat if he wants to cut any ice. i You will also notice whenever a Republican g oes back upon the principles 'of his own party and begins to side with the Democrats that He instantly be comes an "honest Republican." or a "patriotic Republican,' or something of t rat sort in the' eyes of the Democrats. " You see they don't accredit a Republican with - arty honesty or patriotism unless, he begins to wabble on the spindle of his party and see th ngs thru their sole-leather spectacles. v I In this age of grafters 'and shirks and cheap politicians, people like to be shown the proof of a thing. When a Democrat stands up and cusses out the Republican ipart as a. party of ot arv . rot and ruination in ? general it is up to him to prepare a rernecy; ' to suggest something iivthe place of this "dry rot" and ?nSc iT' Bl;t hc hasn't- St the remedy in his saddle pockets, and he knows it.- What he wants is to-get the Republican K party con fused and discredited. Then as a consequence he expects his party to step in ; and take the cl m np ii;1 Jh? .way the D e nocratic party campaigns. That is the way .they came Into power once-Tand; they aM; stifl drunk with the recollection -of that vintorvl ; . - v , - . . fut 1 JTave' no; use f orhe lowling" poli-' tieian. ... ; His noise don'rTappe; 1 to I trial nffK, some tacts -i intrc duced at ' the deSL of v Wo ?reat Parties. , , It's the evi dence of livrng witnesses l and not the howl- mSsaV trl of the J lawyers L Sjur7 foundation!! for -;;He verdict of i WOlllfln't: 'eot ...'J. ' '. , '' . m " :V... dBlUB ine entrust the work to theskillful of our own party. Even it ere better; safer- and. .wiser "Bear the Ills we 'already have - ' - Than flv to those -we know not' of;" -v KLil .TUCKER.;: I , BUYINCL UP NEGROES. ; When you hear 'k? Democrat J blustering around about his party being a "white; man's "party" we want" you to ask him ta explain the action of the -Democracy of .Kentucky about Lexington. .If he hasn't heard of the disgraceful: affair then read him the follpwing which is" taken : frOm the. Lexington Leader: "One. of ! th 'most amazing -spectacles in even such 'a . politically rotten', bailiwick : as Lexington is the open and matter-of-Jacf. Mis cussion in vthe public ' pr.ess and; in private conversatioh of the use - to be made; jn jthe. coming Democratic primary' of 1,200 to 1,500 purchased :regristration certificates of negro floaters; registered . as - Democrats. .. " . . "It is practically 'admitted, on all sides that these fraudulent voters ;: were : registered , under the. .auspices of -.the Democratic; Tmachine ; that registration certificates vvere'.r Drazerily rjfir chased . by .whofesale by policemen; ' firemen and other organization agents;' and that these certificates are- in" the . actual possession of some of the boldest performers ever known to Lexington politics. When illegal registration, colonization "of repeaters, ballotTbOx -stuffing, impersonation,; of yp'utable .negroes Jty . float ers, and other crimes against the suffrage have been made by the Leader, they have -been be littled and, ignored, but now it. is acknowledged and discussed as an indisputable, fact that the registration last October . was- shamefully de bauched in the interests, of 'machine candid ates. y When Senator ,McCreary was advised of the . extent of -this fraudulent registration and came : to -Lexington to "consult . with his friends, he was assured that the! fraudulent certificates were not to be used against him in-the Senatorial 'race, but it is said that "this pledge was violated. . "The existence, of these "registration certifi cates.' is accepted as a necessary incident of Lexington politics, and there is 110 pretense of punishing those who perpetrated thismon untental political crime. Announcements of candidatesVin the - Democratic, primary: have been "delayed for days and weeks pending the discussion among distinguished party, leaders of . the use to be made 'of the fraudulent, certi ficates in the various contests. It -is recog nized that the machine can make or unmake any candidate 'with this; solid mass of 1,200 or 1,500 'phony'; voters, and there; is little use ,of. announcing one's cfndidacy until assured how this voting battalion stands. "In some of the faraway cities where poli tics is corrupt grand juries are sometimes aroused to heroic action against those who de bauch the ballot; but in Lexington and Fay ette county the fraudulent registration of 1,500 negro; Democrats and the purchase of their certificates at $2 each are treated as legiti mate business transactions .and made the.sub ject of conferences as formal and dignified as meetings of tbank directors' to pass upon a big loan or deefare a semi-annual dividend." of a a niErh full Trpneiiwr " 11. T- ?viaence scale of ' ' -.Pioyed pteople, stic a . - i-uai, com 111: wages, a floiirishine rtnmT. foreign commerce fofall tU W 1 all t.hf rQw I- a11 tn9 howliner 1 ! coom,c SyStem that neeTlttenUon let' AX IXDUSTRIAIi CRISIS: WHEN? In f ihel current discussion as to the out IpokTifo"r;co prosperity varying opin ions. lare. expressed by flnancers, railroad men, manufacturers and college .presidents. The weigfar ijt iudgitfeht seems to. be on the side of continued; prosperity-r This, view is sus tained by -the fact of a power to. consume equaling the! power to produce. The power. to consume rests shiefly upon wages earned and paid. Employment and wages are at high water mark. Never before In the his tory of the country have similar conditions prevailed in respect of the ability bf every individual to find work, at good pay. .Will these conditions continue? That would seem to be the main question. Intimately, related' to that question is the question whether and when wages : and industrial production are to beunsettled by Tariff reduction and reciprocity- arrangements, designed to increase foreign competition with American labor and industry. Given the date when Tariff revis ion downward and reciprocity in competing products shall have been definitely deter mined ' upon,' t and it. will be much easier to guess at the jlate .when the present . pros perity .will be followed by an industrial and commercial crisis. . TWO BOOKS IN ONE. "The Red Light" and "Hot Stuph" Combined. ' We are preparing the - plates and getting ready, as fast as possible, to issue the "Red Light" in a' new edition, and combined with it, under the same covers, .we will include "Hot Stuph' which is to consist 6f- the hot test and best paragraphs and articles that have- ever aryneared-- in- the Yellow . Jnrtrot The Red: Light needs : no introduction to thousands 01 our readers. ra 'not stupn" will reach back .for. a period of ten years: and. bring together hundreds of - rich and racy articles that you" have, doubtless: long since fnrsrotten.A With this book' you firet -the hoot that's going. . You can start a political camp- meeting un buui i iiutivic.- a, yyj.11. create more fnn than a bushel of mohkeys' and evervhnriv will atnn 'to listen. Everv reader nfthoVa- 1 x a & w xr w a v kx low Jacket wilf want a' copy and all the book will cost you .win ue 10 gee us a ;iud oL six subscribers at 25 cents each, and the hnnlr will be mailed to you free, soon as complet ed. The regular' selling price - of this book will be one dollar, post pajd. Hurry up with your club and let 11s send you this compound Democratic skinning machine. -: . " .,-V-- -J-:, ' . . A number of .years ago,, when the. preseht sppnnfl assistant sprrptarv nf: stnfp ' Alvou A - -state department"" was called to ' the "phone. ; :.. vy in .you Kindly give me tne name-of the third ', assistant secretary of state?" asked the voice atthe. other end of the wire.. C : ; " .Adee." ? ; u :'-- " '"A: D.: what?" . " "A., A: Adee." j P : V "Spell it: please." y -."Yes.",.- t-;:y::U--::' :t-rr-y': . . ' "A." -; ..." -. .. ' "Yes." - - ; :v: ,,-v'..- -...v "A"' f: "v-; ,'7 ".";''' .'.-;C'.i' 'i - "YoU go' to heUr; andhe receiver was in dignantly Jiung . up.- Indianapolis : Republican. -'tl--vwr?-:'V ''iyy- '' 1 'v'.r.vi'v' y V.:': -".V ; : THE YEIiliOW JACKET." . .Us' boys-hp here in'Ibway f - U B'ettr huntin'v f er a paper ine oest or an upon tne eartn, . : Ay! e'en a bold' "sky scraper.' j We got the -sample copies sent,. We've-' heard .their gentle racket,' I So' here's , a "club whichdoesn't snub : :,Your dear old Yellow; Jacket. C" ; . , We rhaynot know a thing or two,. " Nor good "ones, when, we see 'em, ; ' And yeCit kinder looks to: us ' ;r As though -you folks might be 'em,' - You seem to have material,';r..'v:'V'; : And.brams enough to" back-it With hot ."stuff, hot aerial,' V ; - To fill your Xellow Jacket. r.'V-'-. ;- . - - . - -' - --r They's lotso' things' a : goin' on ; J ", In Democratic quarters,; ;i Which seem to tell us "good-bye Joh -N And which-in fact, are snorters;y Jist nail 'em'Ctvery time you kin; ' , Lay on the whip or crack it " J '' That's' -what'll 'fetch subscriptions in ' -; Unto the Yellow Jacket'.; "'" ' . ' ' ' .. '- ' ''"' But'now it's time to say farewell, ' ; ' We hope it aint forever; r . i But wie must let you rest a spell 1 ; A th0ught,perhaps, quite clever. Don't let the good things . get-away, And when you see one, sack it,' Then we will 'rVid it-when we .may, ' Where? In the Yellow Jacket. ; JOHN L. AINSWORTH. Denison, 16 wa, December 1, 1906. - A CENTURY OF BLOOD. n Anglo-Saxon is not going 10 onus 1 jgle; it. is going to De iorccu un nw. it rnmps. he will be reauy ior u. xiv The Anglo-Saxon must ' either -Encircle .the World with the Sword or Recede from tlie - Position He now Occupies. The war-god hath not ascended to high Olympus to never return he's now polishing his guns and drilling his artillery for a great world battle.- "Peace, peace,!" may be thecryi but war is 'inevitable -so '-long;-as the;.nati6nspf the earth . persist - in insulting the English speaking world without provocation. There must come a world-wide war to test the strength of the Anglo-Saxon. - For the last century the English - tongue has belted the globe and .conquered the world's trading marts." The Latin, the Tartar, and the Mon gol have looked on with a jealous eye. -.The American, and the Englishman are. considered presumptuous anddomineering in their world policy. European nations have ever hated England, and Uncle Sam's friends abroad are few and far between. There's Russia, Ger many, France, , Austria, Italy, Turkey, Spain; and a job-lot of other petty powerjs thrown in as worthless military lagrjiappe, who would delight , to see the bluffing Westerners; driyen en masse off this little planet. China and Japan the blooming yellow . peril promulga tors would, no doubt, like to see the blue 'eyed Saxon a' thousand miles in hades with his hamstrings clipped and; his fighting prow ess somewhat the worse because of wear and tear. It's got to come that terrible carnage of blood froin which the spirit of the Saxon and the Celt will rise triumphant. Hague con ferences and international treaties can not stay the world's Juggernaut of death. The adept seaman may steer his craft out of the path of a mad hurricane, and a man with ordi nary sense avoid a collision with an. infuriate bull, but young America and old England can not escape the wrath that this century will bring upon them. It seems but recklessness for Columbia and John Bull to face the world in battle array, but they'll have to do it befoie babes now nursing wear whiskers.; It seemed utter folly for a ragged shirt-tail "brigade of Continentals in the American Revolution to stand before England's embattled hosts to be shot to pieces, but they did it with some credit to themselves and 4nuch discredit to the Brit ish soldiery. A very few fighting under - free dom's rag can defy , the very gods and gain victories which appear- but the -vain imagin ings of the heroic age; . The battle is not al ways to thevstrong, but generally with him who trusts to the winged bullet fresh from" his unerring fowling-piece. It's good marksman ship rather than the god of battles that wins figlTts. One small pebble from the sling of the strippling David stretched Goliath on the grass. Sampson did wonderful execution with an bid jawbone. The massive armaments of Europe and the crazy daring of the -.Mongol are not worrying the Anglo-Saxon a little bit. A nation's strength lies not in steel mon sters and drilled" soldiers, but in its throbbing hearts of .oak; not. hi its vast armies,' but in its flaming patriotism. The Latins will hang together like so many thugs in a loot game, and the. Japs and the Celestials will swarm like bees to get at the hated Occidentals. Continental Europe "and the Orientals will fight together well enough, but how about Uncle Samuel and-John Bull? Can the American forget old George III? Can the Britain let slip from his memory Yorktown and New Orleans? Will "America and England clasp hands over; a century of hate, bury the "past and enter common cause for the future? They will have to. Colum bia's, braves .and England's . cuirassiers "will have' to stand shoulder to shoulder on the firing-line and deal death to the enemy. . America and England will not have to fight their battles alone, and they well know it. Liberty lovers from the; four corners .of the edrth will come trooping into theirv ranks. VA the Roman legions ' overran" the; world, and' trampled their enemies under their feet like' fliessp" will Freedom's, banner triumph. "As the: intrepid Caesar made all Europe tremble at the tread of his-matchless. soldiery so will sonie leader rise to lead the determined' host of free government to final victory. Th em- blem of hated monarchies wiU be buried r in bloody pits and Freedom's -flag will be hoisted upon every mbuhtain-top.v The. sword's, blaz ing vengeance will cut low the ; huhdredheaded monster -rpf a . thousand years of -'oppression. The bullet's mad hiss" will settle -forever -and a day-the future of 4his 'little earth! . Butuch a world-butchery, is looked forward to by. some as the world's , final catastrophe; by others as the beginning. of.the blessed mil lennium. For sure great war have ever been followed by- greats eras of prosperity ' -and peace: Israel's warTkihgs paved the way for Solomon's reign of glory. The Grecian iMara thtn,belted the Hellenic isles with hero wor shipers.; Waterloo fixed England's sfar in the zenith of heaven's: blue concave. - Saratoga studded our empyrean with sovereign com4 monwealths. : Gett vsh fo5evrtn5 s?uls ofthe Puritan , and Jthe Cav-1 ford (Arizona) . Guardian i alier. Santiago gave' the Western . Titians opportunity to show forth the flower of their lineage. . Human history, is redolent with 11 ! oenencent truits. of bloody carnage Wnr -the broom that sweeps decayed nations an?? worthless -peoples, into the worlds rubbi'u heap; No .people ever- wrote history san songs, .drew- pictures, or sculptored marblo until after.they had passed through th -furnace; of a great national conflict. A nation iqusi nave a minion dead heroes sleepinrr fore its living can snatch fire, Promethn hke? .'from Jfcven chariots. "When a per-' " become; great in war; they become great 'i' commerce, in romance, in poetry, in art - i music. -A sick nightingale can not make v tiering.' loyers sigh for the.Elysian fiehk p. xcan a" puny nation attract whit-winged , "-.1 to. its aesoiate sngres. the eagle is the v -blem of waf-scarell; peoples. Poets and pa 1 ersy must have stored brains before they can sing and paint. Achilles was not such a he".'! until h'q. stoocLlvictor over the, fallen Ike -Hercules-had performecL his twelve labors iHI fore all Greece rose to" crown him with - -laurel. -; CV' ' Not a few" rose-goggled optimists co:u,-fi that this'predict;edCworld-wide war is a pro duct .of a diseased imagination; assure us i;at the nations .of. the earth have entered nn,,,, era of peace that -will not" be broken 5,;i I Gabriel sounds his gbng for time to be "n, more. 1 he student ot ' history sees it differ ently, however. " Babylon's -hanging gardens and Ninevaii's- gold-paved streets; Memnon's singing-, tower and Babel's crumbled dust; Cheops' mammoth pile arid Ilium's blazing glory--air..tell us of what others before us thought and dreamed. History but repeats itself.. Nations rise and fall; kings mount thrones and die; warriors go forth to conquest and their names are inscribed on triumphal arches; world-geniuses grow old and hand their, scrolls to others; gods worshiped jester day are considered myths today. The Egyp tian kneeling to. Osiris beside Nilus' sacred waters; the Hindoo whispering to Siddanha beneath the" Bodhi tree; the Phonoecian pour ing out hissoul to Baal; the Greek lis at. the mouth of the Delphic cave; the Roman worshipping his. own unconquerable prowess on the Seven Hills; the -Catholic trudging to ward the sacred city to wrest it from the in fidel each loathed his predecessor because of his idolatry. The world . can not stand long as it is, notwithstanding the cackle of the op timistic geese. A prolonged p eace hath" ever meant : decay. Judah's Holy Temple shown brightest when her -warriors were absent light ing in the name-of Israel's God; Grecian glory was most transplendent when her great gen erals were at Salamis disputing the passage of -the Persian -hordes; Rome was mistress of -the world when her imperial legions dared the alien tp 'set foot .on Roman soil; France was master, of .Europe so long as the Old Guard could shout victory in "the ears of Napoleon. Every nation and people that have ever rose were greatest when their swprds wre keenest. But sooner or later the mightiest monarch must go down to his tomb; the greatest king lay down his -sceptre; the most invincible army surrender. Egypt must feel the heel of the conqueror; Babylon be overrun by the mighty " Cyrus, and. his kingdom, in turn, he swallowed up in the world empire of Alex ander. Greece : must hand " over the laurel branch to the Roman, and Rome, in turn, give it into the hands' of the greedy barbarian. The millions of the earth are dead tired of monarchies, and kingdoms, and principalities. The world-clamor is for liberty. Nihilism m Russia and bomb-throwing throughout the world are only the feeble efforts of serfdom to throw oft" the yoke of cruel oppression. When "the- fires of Anglo-Saxon wrath are once kindled against the enemies of Freedom, the discontented millions will flock to its ban ner, and the great world battle will be tougut once and "forever. The Anglo-Saxon is hated because he holds out to humanity the hope ot an untrammelcd existence. European rulers and Oriental despots can -see the handwriting TIipv are not eoing to give up LtHe royaP purple without a struggle, and that struggle is the impending world-wide war. Th struj xrli n " how grinding his sword and whetting his mar tial spirit. The.American and the Briton y.1,1 u: rn the sacrificial altar for the oppressed of every name and tongue and -will say- to kings and sceptred monarch, as they sail in: -"To the fire-ey'd maid of smoky, war. All hot and bleeding, will" we offer them: The mailed Mars shall on his altar su, Up to his. ears fn blood GEO. D. BE AS ON. ed AS REPORTED IN ARIZONA. President Roosevelfsnama Trip by Conn- "Teddy" Roosevelt upon his arrival bo?r1 1 u -nA "nd across in.- smus (as now. speld), and waded out miles; into the facinc oceau, Y.ri, knee-deep, just to show the man-eating and numerous gupchucks that he was -On turning round to foot it back to ,rc'1 discovered a school of whales in his pa i ' squared himself for a real good kick n.to gang, but was 'only partially successful. a RbUgh-Ridetspurf which he happeiied at 11 time to have on; taught in a three-acre lni . ; of seaweed and his effort -landed only e-x full-grown- whales ashore, including tin bull of the 'flocks ' " . ;,1tTined oft On. his xvay back on the train hllPrcnu.n near the Culebra cut, r. grabbed 11,000 orkim a by nhe hand in exactly three-quarter minute schedule' time, with the exprc "D-el-ig-h-t-fe-d X: for each man. The n, . j ing" one of the five-ton steam shoeU he , qn his hands and began to d-'VJvel ntic ocean, ne piuiigcu.tMaw Knnn evert feet into tne oosom u at publ the tites canal . Wl from his-first motion, and the Pa"-"16"?3"-!-! Mies took.it for, another .earthquak v vibrations were ieic. Vi r "Tm"5 and 17 seconds be naa aug M 1 MMf AfC nai: ' one mile anQ.mrec-quiii. . ;t While awaiting for - his tram to conJ n the cut he held-a ievccv " n .... t. 1 mothinc o er men, E 9, n 000 n, wmcn nuniDercu . or glish-speaking persons and something matea v.iunese . viyw3, YV uim be v greeting him with "Hoopa, Teddy, him n good Melicanman."- Dunng ta'bnrf nte .nr! Jn exact v 41 seconds, 1 eda . SIX'
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