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I 3f ie Irilfw mkcmL VOL. XV. J IP MORAVIAN, FALLS," NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUG; 19, 1809. NO; 17. f Special TWENTY CENTS A YEAR IX As per our announcement CLUBS we have had to do it to make both ends meet. . We couldn't dress our babies on calico thru the summer on sudh rates to say nothing about saving up something for winter use. However we have been figuring some more and we are willing to make a rate of TWENTY CENTS per subscription when sent in clubs of five or more at a time. So that will be the hot weather rate. Five subs for me year for one little old dollar. Cash with order and satisfaction guaranteed. Now we hope each and every subscriber of the paper will s iow his appreciation of our efforts in battling for Republicanism ai d fair play by skirmishing round and roll ing up a club of five of more and firing them to us at once. Thousands of subs are expiring every , iss le, so let them run Jong without light. Remit by registered letter or Dostoffice money order. Don't send stamps. The Yellow Jacket, Moravian 'Falls, K. C. SOT DEAD, BUT IT STINK TH. I Even since William McKinl 3y and the Republican joarty knocked aut the Democrats in 1896 and the Cleveland administration was dumped into" the grave of its own digging it h: been customary among newspapers and in dividuals to refer to the Democratic party as being DEAD. j Anc . altho Bryan managed to put considerable activity in the donkey in 19,00 and Parker in 1904 and Bryan again last year, still a great many kept insisting that the donkey was a defunct insti tution and that nothing short j of the trump of Old Man Gabriel would raise it from its tomb j of cblivion. But The Yellow Jacket desires to cor go on rect this idea. We want td record as saying that the De ocratic party is not dead, bat it stinkech. We have always felt it our solemn duty to help keep history i traight. We have always stood ready t: aid in any cause that would redound to the betterment of mankind in general and the people of our dear old Sc uthland in particular. Our deepest sympathy and profoundest interest go j out to the millions who have to to 1 for a living; who, like ourselves, look not to some office for a livelihood, but have to work six days in the week and wear plain clothes and subsist on plain food. That's our crowd. We ,feel at home when among such peo ple, and in fact we would not ex change this class for any otier sort of folks. And that, beloved, isthe reason why we are a Republican. Not that the Republican party is com posed entirely of the working ciass, for it represents all sorts and classes, but because it represents policies that have redounded more tc the in terest of the working I classes than any other party. It - represe its poli cies that have enabled) the vorking man to become as great j as a king. It represents policies that em ible the humblest citizen to rise from the very ashes of poverty and obscuri ;y to the highest positions of truest and honor in the government. We don't endorse all the Republican, party does. We don't believe all the wisdor l of the ages is stored ; up under tha hat of the G. O. P. But we do insist that mankind has got to institute a better party than the Republican party be fore we let up on our i service in its cause. We stood off as it were., a long time before we j espoused the cause of any party. We stuc led their methods. We examined theii j records. We analyzed their platforms. We put each one in a kettle of coran on sense and boiled it down and examined the gravy. There wasn't enough of the Populist gravy to offer not rishment to a growing country. Ir j fact it nearly all evaporated bef or i we got it boiled down. There) was plenty o? the Democratic sop, such as it was, but it stunk so bad we cou d hardly make an examination of its qualities. However, we managed, to detect the stench of. secession, jbesid.es there were streaks of blood in the unsavory mixture and we could per seiYo tlie deadly residue of free labor, j Bc3.Mc3 these very objectionable qualities we discovered a considerable quantity or arrogance, hypocrisy and in rniitrde. That was enough. We next tested the Republican-records- Ad wc pro ceeded to boil the thing dorm the c. sweet savor of human rights end ier- sonal liberty filled the; air all r.l out us and if there were any foul cSors they were so insignificant that tTrey "Were entirelylost in the zLrotaon of Ai. .(Continued oh page 2 c 5.) Glub Rates: OF FIVE OR MORE AT A TIME. withdrawn our 15 cent rate. We THE GREAT CURE-ALL. The Socialist papers as a set of quacks have got the Democrats and the patent medicine fellows skinned so far that we don't hear much from either like we once did. Time was when anything in the affairs of the government went wrong that some Democratic quill driver was rearing up on his hind feet and declaring that under Democratic management no such thing would? have happened. Or if a fellow got sick he was told that it was because he didn't keep a bottle of Dr. Hankum Spankum's Compound Bellywash !on the shelf handy. But the supreme impudence and farfetched gall of the Socialist editor has compelled the medicine man and the Democratic orator to go "way back and sit down." A new and glorious and universal remedy has been found. It cures everything from plutocratic plundering to stink ing feet. It straightens out the crooked and lifts up the downtrod den. It makes the rich poor and the poor well-to-do. It emancipates - the slave, disarms the master, takes the ambition out of the tyrant and nerves the timid to meet any and every foe. It throttles corruption, lionizes the weak and compells the devil to take to tall timber. And that's not a be ginning. If John Smith runs away with Bill Johnson's wife, Socialism is proposed as the remedy. If some fool like Harry Thaw shoots a White or a Brown or a Green, Socialism is the remedy. -ff the daughter of a McCormick goes crazy studying about religion, Socialism is the remedy. If the president . .of a bank turns rascal and slides out with the funds leaving the creditors in a hole, So cialism is the remedy. If the son of a Vanderbilt commits suicide thru fear of poverty, Social ism is the remedy, j If Olea Rotski carries his wife into a room, locks the door and shoots her brains out thru jealousy, Social ism is the remedy. If a woman sells her 'soul, Social ism is the remedy, j If the wife of some man up among the four hundred thinks more of a poodle dog than she does of her hus band. Socialism is the remedy. If God Almighty created one man with intellectual power and ambition and genius to achieve great things and made another who is content to be a mudsiller and makes no Effort to get up the ladder or achieve dis tinction, Socialism is the remedy; it would yoke up the genius and the fool and make 'em equal. If men take their families and .move to the factories and leave their farms to grow up because they can have more time to loaf round while their wives and children work in the factories and as a result the factory is overrun and the farms are neglect ed to the extent that grave troubles arise. Socialism is the remedy. And we could go on and on narrat ing what ' a great cure-all Socialism proposes to be. It simply surpasses belief to think that intelligent people who have had opportunity to study the principles of government will be led off into such a gang of dreamers as compose the "thinking" part of the Socialist party. Dr. Osier passed his sixtieth mile post, the other day . and not a smell of chloroform has been detected about hi3 clothes yet. ere Otfr ereetf fi TuckeTS Letter We will speak out; we will be heard, Though all earth's systems crack; We will not bate a single word Nor take a letter back. "We speak the truth knd what care we For hissing and for scorn, While some faint gleanings we can see Of freedom's coming morn? "Let liars fear, let cowards shrink, Let traitors turn away; Whatever we have dared to think That dared we also, say." This is The Yellow) Jacket, the only thing of its kind published on earth. Its temperature is 200 in the shade. It preaches Republican gospel so straight that every issue brings many old moss-back Democrats to the mourner's bench in a trot. It "gits 'em goin' and comin'." It retails to Democrats, Republi cans and Socialists at 30 cents a year and circulates over all the United States. I If you don't like it you don't have to take it. If you do like it you are hereby invited to subscribe to-day. The Yellow, Jacket has passed the teeth-cutting stage. It is now over 13 years old and getting older every two weeks. There are no life-insurance feat ures connected with it. You merely pay your 30 cents and take it whether you like it or not. Then you will take it again. You always get what you pay for; then the paper stops. We treat all our subscribers this way, even the President of the Unitfed States. V The Yellow Jacket don't crawl be hind a tree to talk. It don't bust its crupper holding back to first see what somebody else is going to say. It has no "ax" to grind. Everybody in the United States ought to take The Yellow -Jacket. All Republicans ought to take it be cause it is helping to fight their po litical battles. Every Democrat should take it to keep track of the rascality and devil ment of his party. Every Populist should take it be cause it points out the only way to his political salvation. Every howling Socialist should take it because it will point out to him the absurdity of his wild-eyed, wind broken, womper-jawed, stringy-tailed, seed-ticky, diabolical dreamy delu sions. And everybody else ought to take it Fun, Sarcasm and Logical Reasoning. When you read this copy pass it along to your neighbor, if you love one another; and if you don't make a bulff anyway, and try it. The politics of The Yellow Jacket in the future, as in the past, will bo Republican. However, we belong to no man and shall reserve the right to be" as independent as a hog on ice on all matters that come up for public consideration. The editor may not be icr-kir.g The Yellow Jacket quite "rip-snorting" enough to please you owing to our having so much other work on hand, but, beloved, bear with us till corn is cribbed xtnd we'll then try to warm up to our subject and give you some of the pure stuph--stuph with the stinger in it. Tell all your neighbors about us and get 'em in line for the tun- Eli Tucker will continue to be a correspondent. Some of his letters will be worth the price of the paper for a year. a , n , And you can't afford to miss those "Letters from the Devil" and "Demo cratic prayers" which will bo a spe cial feature of The Yellow Jacket. It takes great strings of words and some money to run The Yellow Jack et. You help scare up the "chink" and we will endeavor to furnish the "chat." If you receive a copy of The Yellow Jacket it is an invitation to subscribe. You will get more fun and derive more information for 30 cent3 than in any other way you could spend it. q 1 ' r If you can use a few sample copies drop us a card. ' The more Y. Js yon circulate the more votes you make for the G. O. P. a i p Now, we want to ask-you to send us a 30-cent subscription to this pa per. Send us a club, if you can. We want to also ask , you to send along a list of your neighbors whom you think might subscribe. This is asking a good deal of jou, Isn't it? Well, ask. something of us. j Huckleberry Knob, N. C, August 11, 1909. Editor Yellow Jacket, . My Dear Sir: The editor of The Snagtown Chronicle in an article in this week's issue makes the remark able statement that "since the Re publicans have made such a miser able botch and failure of the new tariff law that a bigger part of the Republican party will deliberately walk out next year and vote for the party that stands for low tariff and economy." Now, such a statement as that is what I call a whopper. It is a state ment which seems to have nothing but hot air and Democratic froth to rest upon. In the first place where do we get the information that the tariff law is a "botch and a failure?" Who is testifying in this case, any how? Who is heralding to the world that the Republicans have fixed up a tariff law to skin the American con sumer worse than ever? Nobody but the wise, truthful, patriotic, tried and busted old Democratic party. The party that has a record as varied as the colors of the rainbow. The party that told you if you didn't vote for free silver you were an enemy to every interest of the working man and then in eigferesturned round and voted itself for a gold standard man for President. Thelparty that told you if you pSfcJ"toogvelt in the big arm-,chair that he would plunge this country into a bloody war. The party that was so strongly in favor of tariff reform that it gave the peo ple a tariff law that blasted industry like a plague, shut down factories and busted the U. S. Treasury at both ends, besides compelled the president to sell two hundred and sixty million dollars' worth of bonds to meet the current expenses of the government. Now isn't such a source of informa tion a dandy? Wouldn't it be better to wait and see how the thing works before pronouncing the law a failure. One thing you can mark down as a fixed certainty. That is whenj you catch the Democratic press o the land suddenly -jumping up and ve hemently favoring or opposing a cer tain action, you can safely take the other end of the subject as the sounder side, for I'll be dad-gummed if I haven't watched their capers til' t Tmrvw thnt this: stntpmPTif ia t "'u:?"Xlt the Democratic party was ever ngnt, it got wrong Deiore tne war and has never been right since. It was wrong in opposing the Union. It was wrong iu favoring Free Trade. It wvs wrong in opposing expansion. It was wrong in denouncing McKin ley as an "emperor." It was wrong when it worked the country. into a frenzy of excitement over free silver. It was wrong when it tried to unload its own mistakes and shortcomings upon the back of Grover Cleveland. It was wrong last year when it at tempted to fool the labor vote into the belief that Democracy was a greater friend to the laboring class than the Republican party. It has been wrong on tariff, on finance, on everything; so when you hear a Democrat "harping" about Republi can shortcomings jnat remember that ho is looking with his telescope little end foremost. He sev things in the opposite, just like ho did when he waa tearing round and fiounting everybody who wouldn't subscribe to his free silver foolishness. I would like to inform the editor of Th Snagtown ChroMcls that if ho thinks that tha people sirs going , to make any conceited uotcmeul as a result of advice r-r information gath ered from the Democratic press of the country, that he will hafo anoth er think coming. The American peo ple have long &ince learned that it doesn't pay to run wild over new isms, nor drop a good thing just be cause some other fellow wants to pick it up. Republicans have been called "nig gers" and "robbers" and "ignoramus scs" by the- Democrats , too many times to soon forget it, and one thing is mighty certain they are not going to walk over into th.3 ranks of such a party and cast their votes for any "reform" that it has in store. Of course wo don't expect the new tarut iau to "pleaiw the Democrats.' They couldn't make one themselves that would satisfy their notion of tariff. They have simply reached that stage in their career that no thing under the blue dome of Heaven is going to satisfy them. They are like the man under conviction at a campmeeting who has been a terrible sinner. Their past life is bearing on their mind. Their dark and dastard ly crimes loom up before them like a ghost and no wonder they're agitated. But the country hasn't time to stop and argue about tariff now. We pre fer to test out the law. Next year the Republicans are going to return ar majority to Congress and their busi ness will. be to stand as sentinels over the Payne law and see that the Democrats don't meddle with it. AH indications point to a perfod of several years' prosperity. Two years from next summer President Taft will be renominated for the Presi dency and of course will be over whelmingly elected over Wm. J. Bry an or whoever Bryan runs. That, I think, will be the last race Democra 'cy will ever make. Thereafter it will unite with some new element of disorder, and try a few times for su premacy and then pass out to be re membered only as a dream of a thing that was. By that time the editor of the Snag town Chronicle 'will be perched up on the top of the Socialist band wag on howling for that new delusion to beat "the Jews. And his subscrib ers, who don't come over to us, will be clamoring as wildly for Socialism as the most of them are doing to-day for Democracy. You can't keep a fanatic down. He's simply got to be showing his heels or his teeth one or the other all the time. It is my opinion that if Wm. J. Bryan was to come out with some sort of a Socialistic whang to his voice that he would get most of the Democrats that are of the Bryan persuasion to set up a worse howl for Socialism under the Bryan ban ner than they did ' for free silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Mr. Editor, the Huckleberry Knob Debating Society was organized last week and it proposes to give three or four entertainments this fall for the benefit of the public. With your per mission I will furnish the readers of The Yellow Jacket with a report of. each meeting. There will be thre subjects that promise to be interest ing. The first one will bo discussed next. week. It is, Resolved, That the Democratic party is more capable cf running the Government than the Republican. Pete Whetstone and your humble correspondent will lead off on this subject. The next subject is to be handled between myself and the Honorable Skidmore Blankea ship. It is Resolved, That Socialism is the only hope of the poor man, tho common man and the laborer. I will oppose the Hon. Skidmore en this question. The other question is Re solved that Prohibition is a drawback to the Temperance Cause. I have not yet decided which side I will take on this .Question, but any way there is going to be soma startling propositions made on this subject. Look out for ewers of Democratic pelt and Republican campaign but tons, Socialistic tracks, hair and hide. Well, the weather is so hot that I will have to close and get out for a little frrsh air. Yours for prosperity and political purity, EL.I TUCKER. Iters aie of course many states men and politicians who question tho loyalty of t.e President to the pro tective policy, bnt we vesture to be- . lieve that such nsc are short sighted. Those who are committed to the poli cy of protection have a dual respon sibility. Tliey mast provide suHicIent duly to protect American industries and to maintain the present high wage scale of the American working man. But cn the ether hand, they must accomplish this .without ren dering tbo protectee policy obnox ious. If they do the latter they will precipitate a change cf heart in the people and thes jeopardize the gntira system. Diplomacy is as incumbent on the advocates of . protection. m is the maintenance ol th tartC
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