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! IcarlSnlcriSs-li I fl T . J f$ fftlWt flU ff I SUED BI-WEEKLY. . J Clabs of Fire, 75 centeJ WH. ' TO aMEJL KS? J TTTTTTTTTTTtTTTTTVTTVTTTT V - J r . ' li iniimnHtmmM VOL. XV. MORAVIAN FALLS, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 2, 1909 NO. 18. - i i THOSE WHO "CUSS" TJS. II You might as well try to . shoot o I the horns of the moon with a pop gun as to make a newspaper thj.t would escape the fierce criticism of certain people. No sooner had tl: e first issue of The Yellow Jacket mac e its appearance in public, 'way bac k in 1895, when the Democrats had th s country by the caudal appendage aid were rushing it headlong towards the Devil by the "tariff reform" route, than we began to receive tidings )f what Mr. So and So had to say abo it us in the way of criticism, j Some made fun of us because of our sm 11 size. Democrats would laugh abo it "Don Laws' little radical thuni 3 paper." Others of the ulta-pio is came near having a fit because we insisted in plain speech insisted on calling a spade a spade, instead bf "an implement of husbandry with elongated protuberances design 3d primarily to assemble loose part icles," and then some of those w 10 had been white-washed in college derided our audacity for daring to start a newspaper with no literary training save one year and a half in school and not a dollar or capital in the world, cussed us. You bet your life tney And the faster we grfew smnft - vim the more they cussed. I I moved by envy at our success. Sojne by political hatred. Some by reason of personal narrowness and many by nothing but pure, unadulterated cuss- , m ., i c eaness. iubj ti we wcic u uu consequence, but we moved right along. Some tried to injure us saying that we were running by Democratic paper in another, part the country, and that didn't check us a particle. Others declared mat I no effect but to make the paper grow faster as people knew that was a political lie. And still others sought to aamage ine leuow jacm uj 1 i . . r .11 TT 1 I 1 I fabricating, the statement that we were so low down and depraved! at I I home that no white man would aSso- ciate with us, and while every ' I I mother's son of these maligners knew they were lying like h 1, they hated us with such a keen, bitter, snake-hearted hate that they didn't hesitate to stoop to cowardly, dirty methods to fight The Yellow Jacket, and that 'didn't retard our match. 1 Because we employed language in fighting erring Democrats as vigor- nn !i Sam .Trvn handed from -the pulpit in trying to reclaim dirty sin- I , L . ners, some of the so-called pious nnoo ooTTr fif e r? or1 o ra that' wf WPTO TT AX V fcW UUVAMA W r wtw too vulgar to be allowed to pass the mails. They declared that U , frhrri The Yellow Jacket ought to be suppressed., I One case we have in mind where a so-called minister of wnst r gospel admonished his hearers rom the pulpit not to take The Yellow Jackftt. bftcaiiae. said he. "its editor is beastly I ignorant and his; langliage is perfectly shocking to the taste of good society." He declared before God he wouldn't be caught res .ding such a paper and assured his henrers that he deliberately slipped 4very copy of the paper that was sent nim into into the stove and burned it ashes. That looked like a scorcher for The Yellow Jacket, didn' it? That looked like we would have to crawl into a hole and pull the hole m after us, sure. But permit tis to pull back the curtain for a nicf PeDt and let vou have a elimps9 of the inner life of this "preacher" didn't like the way wef "cut the tard." The next information w wjjo inus- had from this caustic critic was th it he had kissed his wife and babies good bye and galavanted over into a 1 ad- joining states to conduct j a revival meeting, and while the revival was on, while he was engaged; in acmon- ishing men to repent of theii j sins and flee from the wrath to come, ho incidently forgot. The Yellow Jpcket, he forgot his wife and babies back at home, forgot the solemn vows lie had made to God at. the marriage altar and we now behold the f raud j -who burnt The Yellow Jacket, makins love to another woman and laying plans as fast as possible to lead a second victim to the marriage altar to be betrayed But just at this junc- ture a traveler from Mr. Preacher's old home happened along and passed the night in the home where Iweet- heart No. Two resided t and that- : I I I a 1 what played havoc with the court ship. The traveler learned that the evangelist was preaching right along and courting to beat the band, and he did not hesitate to tell all. News soon hurried back to the preacher's home church and a church trial was next in order. And so the fellow who burned The Yellow Jacket without reading it had his- license revoked ,and he was branded as a would-be bigamist, and we suppose he is still denouncing this paper as dangerous and is' perhaps burning every, copy that comes his way. I No wonder this ."preacher" didh t like The Yellow Jacket. Probably at the very time he declared that we were dangerous to "society", the very magots of immorality and unfaith- fulness were gnawing at his heart, No doubt we were hurting his brand or society, ana ne sauealed. It was his dirty conscience flinching under the anticipated application of the probe we apply to such carbuncles of society as thi3 "preacher" or the sort of people who tolerate his dirty doings. Trumble hit the nail square on the head when he assured us that "No man ever felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law." Whenever you hear some fellow going around declaring that The Yel- in .TnMrot , Tir-ffni n,nraia I I of the country, just scratch that chap and you will find a grand rascal, Ask a decent Democrat what he thinks about The Yellow Jacket and ,, . , . ue win ientyuu m uuce mai it is a I strong partisan paper, a hard fighter, but that it never strikes below the a belt. Ask the pious-looking, sanctl of monious hypocrffe, who would have two wives at a time if he could have his way, what he thinks about The Yellow Jacket, and, rolling his eyes back in their sockets like a dying calf, he will solemnly inform you be- tween gutteral groans, "that it ought X T J o,ue suiipresseu. : Honest Republicans, honest Demo- nroto nr tinnost nronphpra of thft PfW- pel are not galavanting around over . the country denouncing , me xenow Tlrof aa an on pm v in RfiPltV. hft- I vu.uwi - -w cause all know that It is not. Under- stand we have no word of censure for honest criticism for the man who sees things different to us, who takes the other end or tne string ana puns his way. No editor on this old earth could please everybody if he tried, If the Lord of Hosts were to go into the newsnaner business and drop a daily at every man's door each morn- . fni Anrnn wit,' Jow.nf Tjpa. ing still damp with the dew-of Hea- I Vftn thfirft S.T& & lOt OI DlKOteQ UD I . atort. on oif.mnrMt fools who I startR would poke the Heavenly Herald in I 'T"-'"1 1 J I . . . . . 1 tne stove ana Durn n into asu or tramnift it uDon tne erouna ana spit if oo thov naf unnn th fapft of I x " - ., ". .. . v tne saviour wnea uo iuw hands of the cut-throats of Pontlas Pilate. BETTER LOOK OUT. .Chicago and New York had better j00k out. it seems that ex-Governor BoD Glenn of North Carolina, lhas been snifiing and prying about these towns and he's discovered something iust awfully awful. He declares that Sodom and Gomorrah which were destroyed by fire direct from Heaven on account of their wickedness, were places of sweetness and light com- pared to these cities, and that if they do not amend their ways they would merit - destruction. He says these great cities are snapping their finger hn tho far a of the Almlehtv. that New I vorir i a hlot iinon the face of the map. Notoriety, that's what Glenn wants. A regular wet and dry pow- er sensationalist. Less than a year ago e was quoted in all the papers as saying that between Baltimore an(j Birmingham there were five mil- ijoi1 people almost in heathenism tnat many of the preachers and teachers of this section were as ig- norant as children, and hundreds of the other people never , heard of. a oa if the country don't know there I js a od and the cities are snapping their finsrers in God's face isn't it about time for God to' translate Bob Glenn and set fire to the whole I breaking mass? How times do change! Governor Johnson spoke an hour at Seattle a few days ago and didn't say a blesssd word about free silver, . t Here's Our Greed "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 and 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 Renublican eosnel so straight that every issue brings many old moss-back Democrats to the mourner's bench in a trot It "gits Tf rotniio r -nomrtor-ota normi,u. cans and Socialists at 30 cents a year w .. & . v lp i r . . . . m a, . and circulates States. over all the United 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 Tin v vrn f V.n ronta onrt HVa It whot nr you jje it or not Then you will take it again. You always get what you pay for; then the paper stops. We treat a.11 our subscribers this way. even the President of the United States The Yellow Jacket don't crawl be hind a tree to talk. Tf rlrtn'f V111 a f 1 1 a rrnnnp VinlHInfl 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- If fa hplnfnt- m flht thptr no. iicai battles ' . . I I Kvprv npmnrrnt Rhnntn tnkp it to k t k f th rflscalitv devil- I - ment Gf his Darty. I I T- 11.1 1 1 t vry x-opuust saouia ir.o it ub cause It points out the only way to his political salvation. Tr'xrrt t-t Vi rTrr1 1 t-i or Crifilnltef aVinnlrl o r rt u because lt will out to hlm absurdity of his wild-eyed wlnd- broken, womper-jawecL, stringy-tailed. seed-ticky. diabolical dreamy delu - i sions. And everybody else ought to take It because each issue will be chuck full and sloshing over with Originality, Rnrna9nnA wirM nMsnnine. I l I When you read this copy pass lt al0fle to your ne gnoor u you love nno nnnthcr' nnd If von non't mnV'fl n I w w . , - bulff anywa7t ad try It 1 1 m ml rrl T .11 T 1- AUB pouuts ui iub iciiuw juc&ei Jin the future, as in the past, will be -..M,nT1 TinWfiVPr w hMnntr to lno iail 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 making The Yellow Jacket quite "rip-snort Ing" enough to please you owing to our having so much other work on hand, but, beloved, bear with us till corn is cribbed and well then . n n,lVUnt . 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 fun. EH Tucker wlll"contlnue to be a correspondent. Some of his letters win uc uiiu w. vw for a year. And you can't afford to miss those "Letters from the Devil" and "Demo- crauc pj ""'V . V" v,f cial feature of The Yellow Jacket. It takes great strings of words and some money to run . The JeJw Jack- et. XOU neip Bdio uy iuw auu we will endeavor to furnish the "chat." If you receive a copy of TheYellow Jacket It is an invitation to subscribe. You will get more fun and derive more information for 30 cents than in any., other way youcouldspend it It you can use a few sample copies drop, us a card. r The more Y. Js you circulate the more votes you make for the G. O. P. Now, we want to ask you to send us a 30-cent subscription to this jpa- fper. sena us a uu u;uu We want to also ask you to send along a list of your neighbors whom you think might subscribe. isaTi . IMS Republicans, Democrats-, So cialists, White Men, Black Men and Indians- The Club Price of The Yellow Jack et is Now Reduced to 1 5 Cents a Y Clubs ear in Itenewals recclTed the same as Nerr Sub.crllxTS. o stamp Ulcru This offer stands till Christmas. Improved machinery, and the advan tages of a growing subscription list enable us to make this low price Now we want to see, not some, but every blessed subscriber to this paper, waltz up a club of five anyway and do It now. We want a million on our list and we want 'em bad. You know It will be no trouble to ret up five subs for 75 cents. Try It. Begin to-day. Clean up your neigh borhood. Go Into the highways and hedges, and don't forget those deluded Democrats. Round 'em up. Remember the rates 75 cents for a club of 5. So let 'em roll. Altogether for a Million. A REBEL FOR FAIR, About ever so often, as The Yellow Jacket Proceeds to rip off a slice oft Donkey hide and expose a dark . - " . r V. ouluc Blant-eved. Rlnnr.RllnHni rn-r f-n- un hops un on his hind pedals and we nre - Sotlfh hntrr md .ltiirht . m waving the bloody shirt and all SUCh IX) L . But as W6 have Said be - I r . . . .. I ' irui I rhn lha f nit H la nt-1 nnH v when the truth Is wanted, and we don't give one continental red cent who likes It or who dislikes It- But our readers all know how we stand on matters pertaining to secession. Now and then we raise the curtain of the bloody and dreadful past and hold up to public view the horrors lof the Southern prison hells; we tell about the hot heJs' that brought on - we always drop a tear for the old soldier, the one who fought for his country, regardless of ., . always maisi uiai naa n not oeea lor tne not- r . t -headed blathersKites in tne I UI LI South there would never have been any rebellion. Wo shall always re- I t 1 C rci iu Ji,iu ouuu juvu I declminated as It was: that hundreds . . . i or tnousana oi tne uower ana youtn of thIs ereat republic were sacrificed to the passions of a few ambitious demagogues In the South. But some- bo wiU W hy don't you cesse to reier to tne past ana iet uirae wjiu.s rest In the tomb of forgetfulness! Forgetfulness. the devil! How arts f t ,hen mcn de. , . -...!. lignt to stana up. to-uajr uuu iusuh , the flag under which they live? Now can we forget the past when the same rebellious spirit Is just as rampant tn rrin mtm in the South now as it was when the Stars and Stripes were fired upon as they waved over fort ssumpter. 10 snow you iaai I e0P...tnn nnr rpllllnn nr not clfd. that hatred for the Government and flag !s rife in 61, allow us to reproduce here the sort of rebel . te, . out nf Southern city. The paper is 8ent QUt from Menphl8 a3 the "Na- tt T1Hn(n Vn T7n,ir" I u"" mtuUlJlu -v..v.. . It starts out under tms . very -patri- otic" heading and reads in part, as follows: "WAKE UP, SOUTHERN PEOPLE, WAKE UP." "Forty-four long years have passed Rinrft the American liberties were overthrown by Abe Lincoln and his imperial army of 3,3000,000 In whose elna run the blood of more than 50 nationalities. 2.041,000 Yankees, 500.- 000 foreigners, 200.000 negroes. 559.- i 000 of our own southern men, wnoiYeuow jacket without ruu cast their lot and joined the imperial army of Abe Lincoln to help invade overtrgw the liberties of the father. Vwho had sac eats All ! of Five or More. rlficed their all for us. It was th King against the President, and Im perialism against the Republic, Tho King prevailed and the President went down. Imperialism was set up and the soverelctr of th im I - - - , -went down. Before all this aO.Cv) of the most patriotic men that perhaps wlU cver ,lvo mtt a mingled host of the world In 2il tmues an told days; ,a0.OM of I that imnerisl hat Of thi rnrlil m It were bit the dust for the crime of inraslon and putting under bondage the freest, most humane, learned, and most generous, the most hir-h-mised. honest, and honorable, and lastly but not least, the bravest people that the world will ever know. "Analyze this history, you Southern people, and learn of us that It Is use less for you to live In bonds: of th Almighty hs raised up sons of the old Confederata veterans to the number of 5.CC3.O0. What it you were united like your fathers were In 61-63? The very latest mode of warfare Is now under stood throughout the South. T. combined world could cot down you. What say you? You must stand ready to offer your lives In battle either for liberty or bondage. If you were to speak as one man to the Im perial Government at Washington to take the yoke of bondage and place themselves subservient to the will of the people like that great democracy of fifty years ago, why. It would be done and done at once, otherwise you must still give all the profits of jnur labor to the Yankee, more than a billion of dollars every year. If you should be prest to act of course you must enter, or would have to meet only as a guerrilla por; no mercy or prisoner would be taken, this nicdo .,.. Now, what have you pot to say about somebody rubbing it In? What are you cussing The Yellow Jacket about? Don't Justice and honor and fairness demand that somebody give such donkeys as bray like the above, a punch In the short ribs? Any way we propose -to punch 'cm just the same and If you or any other one. gentle reader, don't like It don't mon key with the business end of The Yellow Jacket. Remember we give away absolutely I free one copy of "Hct Stuph" by mil post paid for a club of ten subs to The Yellow Jacket at thirty cents per sub. This offer places the hottest and richest lot of reading matter that ever came down the rlke rif;ht withia the reach of every subscriber of The any money to procure it. See ta boys and land this book at once. It will attract more attention la a crowd - 1 than a bushel of monkeys. x
The Yellow-Jacket (Moravian Falls, N.C.)
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