Newspapers / The Yellow-Jacket (Moravian Falls, … / Sept. 16, 1909, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Yellow-Jacket (Moravian Falls, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
- - " 1 i ' - . . ! ' 3 - ' " x, .-.: .,-.- f ! - '' i ,' ; .. - $ CLUB RATES. Yearly Subseriutloiis Tn $ ISSUED B I.Y7CEKX.Y, 1 SINGLE SUBSCRIPTIONS, J 30 CENTS A YEAS. J 4 t 1 1 1 ; I 1 1 i i 1 1 t 1 111 8 l M u I 4: JOT Clubs of lire, 75 cents. ! a - , . - .! 4 VOL. XV. MORAVIAN FALLS, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 16, 1909 NO. 19. - - ' - .1' ' . , : : 1 , ; - Eli Tucker's LettS 1 Huckleberry Knob, N. C.! Sept. 10, 1909. Editor Yellow Jacket, ! My Dear sir: 1 was glad you servf ed notice on the readers of The Yelf- low Jacket tnat my tanning dutie 'were such that it was impossible t prepare a letter for last issue. Every up-to-date farmer knows wliat it means to iuah.e nay wmie iue sun shines. I was busy. I worked liar 1 and I now enjoy the satisfaction of having my barn full of bright fodder, and this morning finds me ready t3 report the Huckleberry Knob debate if the thing hadn't slipped its trolly pole. But there was a slight hitc 1 in the proceedings with the j resu t that that debate is like the history of snakes in old Ireland. It is one of the things that isn't, and if Stee Poker can have his way it won't bp. Ever since the - announcement went out that there was going to be a do bate on Socialism, excitement ran high. Several of the neighbors de clared that it was the beginning of a bad state of' affairs - around the Knob. It was claimed that Socialism was to the present state of socie y what Mormonism was to the Chris tian church and Trom that ! things heated to a boiling point and from boiling to a sizzle and from a sizzle to an explosion on last Tuesday night. But no definite steps were taken to prevent the meeting and a larje crowd turned out at the school house. Men who had not been to a pub ic gathering in two years were there before sundown. The house was lit erally packed. An organization was perfected by electing Jack Thunder berry president and Oliver Crabtree secretary. The chair announced the purpose of the meeting, saying thati it had been agreed between certain of the neighbors that they would hold a discussion on Socialism at that tine and as it was a new question and one that was not very well understood by many people in that community he hoped that the crowd would prese -ve good order and try to learn soifae- thing from the arguments ! of the sneakers on the subiect. He asked the secretary to confer with Ue speakers and arrange the manned i of i the speeches and get ready ! to bien tu i f me a15uuiCuu s Just at this juncture Steve Poker, une ui tne trustees oi tne sciiuoi property, arose and said: 'Mr. Chair- man, and gentlemen of the Huckle- SaDhath day as possible, and that the Every Populist should take it be berry Knob Debating Society, I nave debate be held in the lower end of cause it points out the only way to oeen Hearing it. noised around, ior past two weeks that Skidmore B r kenship was going, to present tne the to! glories or socialism at tnis place to - night. I have been thinking a iooi deal about this matter and about l j.is j i x 1 ii the best way and manner in which to meet T.nis niiftsnnti as a r.inzen ana as - "J- - one of the trustees of this schopl. We have here a house built by , . good people of this community iui yuuuc sciiooi purposes, u uas Hceu used as a place' to teach our Bear i i tx i -i boys and girls those priceless lesfeons of learning that make them brighter and better. It has been used each morning m which to reaa a lesson from the great Book of Books adihon- ishing our little ones to godliness and virtue. Now, I consider it i. re- flection on the integrity of those who built this house as well, as those who now have control" of it to convert it into a place to have a defence made of as rotten and poisonous a doctrine ns Snrialism. T rnnsider it! an act of disrAsnPft to the srnod men and two- men who have taueht our i boys j and doc.trinp as Socialism to be nroclaim- ed within these old walls. Gentle- men, I 'have taken the trouble to make some investigation of this rot- ten ism. I have among the dooks in my library a dozen or more worKs written by the founders of Socialism and -1 pronounce them aoouq tne .vilpst things T have ever reai have hfira with me to-night dl few tissshp-p from thp.Rfl books that I wish to read -to show you that wle can not afford to lower our morais oy . -. , -PP Z XT J- V A nfes-n rl irt thlC Duueimg mem tu uc uC10uugu house. Here is a paragraph froti the works of Graiit AMen. I will read it. (He reads the following) : ilized "No man inrtpp.d. is' truly ci till he can say in all sincerity to every woman of all. the (women he loves, to every woman of all the women who loved him; Give me ; what you can of your love and yourself; birt nnr CTrivA for mv Rake tc uieny any love, to strangle any impulse that pants for breat within you. Give me 5?hat you can, while you can, without grudging, but the moment yoii feel da in- inftM"A vnin. own nrosiieictive ;it , Ai-ncr o Ifohpr 5vhom you no longer respect, br ad- VilllUI CLL U T , RlflUh bxxwu. - mire, or yearn for When men ana tors oi iae cruwums ui .uv- ;women can bbth alike say ths, the inism the last lesson to be left upon srorld will be civilized. I Until they the rAind of the reader is the unsta fcan say it truly, the world wilf be. as bllity of feminine ; affection. The mow o am-nr va fi o-fipiH of mhnono- marriage vows are discounted. Love list 'instincts." - k ij , VThis from Karl Pearson: ' r"In a socialistic form of ment the sex relation would ry ac cording, to the feelings - and Of individuals." wants "T.lw a-m TITtlltaTn "Krr'Tla ! 'Marriage under existing conditons is absurd. The family, about which so much twaddle is talked, is hateful. A new development of the family will take placets the basis not of a pre determined lifelong business arrange ment to be form'ally held to irres pective of conditions, but on mutual inclination and affection, an associa tion terminable at the will of either party." I This from Robert Owen: I 'In the new Moral World the ir rational names of husband, wife, par ent and child will be heard no more. Children will undoubtedly be the property of the whole community.' Is there a man in this house who will attempt to defend that sort of doctrine? Will skidmore Blanken ship do it? Will anybody dare do it? answer, they will not while I've enough strength in my right arm to wield this water elm club which I brought along to use if necessity de manded. We can't afford to debase our standard of morals to such a lev er as that. We might as well say to our wives and daughters thats. the marriage vow was a farce and -that it was foolishness to tie up for life, but that we could all have as many women and men as the case may be as we coul manage. Of course I don't apprehend that any socialistic speaker would advocate such doct rines as this, but that is the pattern that Socialism is cut by and that Is just as certain to be the ultimate result of the doctrine as anything could be. I regard a genuine full fledged Socialist as about the biggest fool that I ever ran across. He is so carried away with the glories that he thinks he sees in his dreamy delusions that lie forgets to investi gate the dire consequences that his policies will entail on the country. inow to oe periectiy plain ana posi- tive about the matter I here and now reiuse 10 give my consent 10 naving an argument on socialism carnea on in this house. To convert that rostrum to a platform for the defence of Socialism ould be just like one of our own daughters getting upon a ..t.i. P"" ff v . . . , . . Jow notnmg eise out an argu- ment on Socialism will satisfy Skid nnrl hp. wnntn tr rtprpnd its naSscies tnen t SUggest that we adjourn this toeeting till next Wednesday night, lotQ i,,at far nwnv fmm the Skid's jack pasture, just as far from anyj,dy'8 h?use1?s Pssibf an,?fi no odl tnT1 ty,p ffr0und I further sucsest that ? ! fL of taSS IS H 1 : : . - . . w flHH hnniH n,,f him in th dark- I" Tnd strongest stable while the j: t I UlBCUbSIUU IB bul"b W". Mr THitnr at thft conclusion OI I Steve's remarks tne cnairman asiieu i jf r, T-i TjhrHv aloo hari a wrri tr RflV. I " " . when Skidmore Blankenship arose and said tnat fre was perfectly willing to postpone the debate and that he wouid as soon debate Socialism in thfi horse pasture as anywhere. He declared that the Socialist were being WOrA TiP.rKARut.ed than the Mormons anyhow and that somebody would have to answer for the injustice that waa beimr heaDed upon his party. He declared that he had never read Very many books on Socialism but he was sure that he had as much respect for his wife and the marriage vow nnirVniir "Knf Va ho wise williner L oi o,, nnoctia a thnt to Uho ir,io of tbp riifferpnt leaders om.m dno di whirh on W ing seconded, carried without a dis- sentine vote nd that is the way j the question rests to-day. I don't know what steps will be taken, but. as Steve Is a Democrat who usually carries his noint t rather think there will be.no T ri't mntP ppp with Steve's Lio0 T-Ao-nr! 0 tho rTpTvntP for t Lad prepared a line of argument that j thought would put the Socialists in I . - . m 11.. i.nirinrr mis pari ot tuts uuuiinjr iu namb the blue Staggers, and finally cure some of their jaundiced symptoms, turpentine. I will, however, submit some of my line of argument to tne Yellow Jacket at anoiner ume anu give it to tne worm. 1 wanieu w Joe Mea .reaterscn a nine ainnb m the debate. I have just read his "Little Brother of the Rich' and I pronounce It about the worst tiling I ever read. It deals in a species of Socialist morals that are in line with Jrant Allen. It so completely evades morality and duty that you see nothing but the unbridled passions of a Pennine Socialist. And instead or retribution overtaking the perpetra- 1 o . . . is cheapened and graded. Virtue I is trailed m tne oust anu xieiusuuess in general is made so common as to - be regarded as a matte oi course. But I see I'm getting too iengxnyr so I'll dose till next issue. -v ELI TUCKER, Here's Our Greeds "We will speak out; we will be heard. Though all earth's systems crack; We will not bate a singleword 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 isThe Yellow Jacket, the only thing of its kind published on earth. i t 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 'era goin and comin'." It retails to Democrats, Republi cans and Socialists at SO cents a year and circulates over all the United States. : 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 yeare 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 United States The Yellow Jacket don't crawl hind a tree to talk. Tt don't bust its cruDDer h Dack to first sce wiiat somebody else 3 gQing iQ 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- nitical battles. Everv Democrat should take it to keep track of the rascality and devil- ment of his party, his political salvation. Every howling Socialist should take it because it will point out to him the c "'-'-"" absurdity ot his wild-eyed, wind- nrnifpn wnmnpr.iawpn. srnnirv-tniiea. hroKen, womper-jawca. stnngy-taiiea. seed-tlcky. diabolical dreamy delu- i siuuo. I A n A oirortrKrtlif alaa nrrVif f nVft If I AUU ClU J UVJU V.JCV. VUt)Ut because each issue will be chuck full anu Biosaing over wjui v-rjgioaiii.jr. I a . r m. i it. Fun Sarcasm and Logical Reasoning 1 un barca8m anaogic-u ueasomng WTien 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. 1 The politics of The Yellow Jacket in the future, as in the past, will be 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 I The editor may not be making The bellow 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 and well 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 fun. Ell Tucker will continue to be a correspondent. Some of his letters wllTbe worth the price of the paper ior a year, I rtr't nfford to mte? thrf AJid Jf! cial feature ot TheYejlow, Jacket. l It tai;es great strings of words and some money to run The Yellow Jack- et. You help scare up the "chink" and we win 9 endeavor to furnish the 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 cents than in any other way you could spend it. If you can use a few sample copies drop us a card. The;ihore T. Js you circulate the more votes you make for the G. O. P. Now. we want to ask you TNsend us -a SO-cent subscription to this per. Sena us acmo ii 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 yod, Isa't It? Well, ask something of -us. 1 olding iiis Republicans, Democrats, So cialists, White Men, Black Men and Indians-- IListieini!- The Club Price of Trie Yellow Jack et is Now Reduced to 1 5 Cents a Year in Clubs of Five or More. Rene rials ret-clred the same as w Subscriber. stamps taVcn. O 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 t 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 73 cents for a club of 5. So let 'cm roll. Altogether for a Million. ANOTHER HOT BOX. Whenever a copy of The Yellow Jacket happens to fall into the hands of "some oblong and oblique ass aud runs across something In its col- m ht Mt Mm eTo ih he umrie f-Vtot htta film ennnro nn (ha snout it naturally "brtnS a howl, aa cuss the. editor Instead of tnlng to r,.ia ,a k a eve Th ufet t -hit do- howl" is rthe editor WntronP? OklnhS-nn DMlr A.agoncr. Oklahoma, Dally raise the of the Sayings, and mighty blamed poor say- ir,a ot tr, Ma itniiA r.it inkespaiieTed cse i wZX ri?L ?IJ he recently puked a half column of putridity at us because we have been pealing the pelt off the Donkey in Oklahoma. lie calls us all sorts or things, and so far Is he from the truth that he tells on an average two lies for every word he wrote He de- c?ares That Zl belong that class who live in the mountain fastnesses ?L0rU,vw0l'in!Pehiiwlr stealing, cutting throats and voUng the Republican ticket. Thats his idea of a section of country that Is as far ahead of the Democratic govern- , , 4tZr t n. cd, blind tiger corrupted carpet-bag- ger bossed Haskelllied Oklahoma ad- ministration as the smile of a pretty i . V j . w y . . . m-i n . n. . suppose we stole a water mill once a week and hauled the dam in on Sun - WAnca mIavh nVifr Aloif I An f vao. .a .-. .,a t?aI nTln f .vot !nVr T,r nnrtr LuUf" iit ko pa w-uv. a tntth n uab uao uiav tov v . mvm . Right Is right and truth Is truth. It whether In the s 111 house In the ln DoIUc- the Kadir.g cur of all th f5 ! 1Ja haw dogs took the stand and. amid great sanctuary. ATiy didn't the Wagoner . . , n . . ,iaiii-k said that made him so-devilish hot . . mii wk. jun'f ,a aa under thecouari Why didn t he act m. .i a.i .ka ,iAAAt . , Aa..ca . a ia An rtvin fight? Simply because he is an Okia- u i-A i t. nf in ,ir, homa Democrat and It Is not In him. He has lived on filth and upheld filth and defended filth till he Is as rotteu as the administration of the Demo cratic nrohibitlon laws of Oklahoma and that smells to heaven. We'd like to draw you Into an argument con- snipe take up a statement or The , , t, -i, r ... Yellow Jacket and apply the cudgel "'"l..0,10, -"d X e ol m n of arcument to It? Why didn't he tell "e,.Jc" ?.3 ""1 ,ra cerning the affairs of your own state, covery of the North Pole a certain Let us know what you think of the professor makes this observation school land steal of Oklahoma. Give The only use to which the s us a tin on your estimate of the de- covery could fee put wculd be o! a fendant of the Muskogee town lot scientinc nature, n u e exaci loca frauds. Quit making faces at us Ions Uon of the , role hrs been found I enough to convince your readers that ?0ti1! JK"3! fJ four-cyllndereil fool.hdentlsts there and by erecting a Tell us about your notorious Haskell uuiuUB . UiU4V .T " who was elected as an independent ment and later remov ng the cnui to the constitutional convention by pendulum to the equator for sai-Js .t. .a.a- Af Md.n,na hen ,1a. measurement there, the exact weight WU Aa.V I1WV A serted5 his nigger f riend7 "jined:; the great unwashed 11, Mlom n T,ttnt- nn thu or we shall serve notice on your little tbby determined. ... -subsidized, flea-bitten, moth-chewed. w- s.n 1 .i J?IrC8t?'n?P "C ' Democratic daily that we really can't J" don 1 somebody Jer? . t ,a think we may calculate the weight ot u . oetAAiii- tv-a ch-.ii th orr-islnnallv we shall to liunce urn your neck and i few stingere i you? backK ItK& mA have land you get to wiggling too allured much K1G OF DOGS AND DEMO; CRATS, Bj Joseph C. Mannlni Speaking of dogs and Democrat vhii( the doe ircauentiy lies down: eats All .the Democratic orator always lies idlng up. The common old raw dos Is pen- f1?1 nTer.? Hh fleas which ird- iM; 7th11 ld D? crat is mostly covered with coliar- "bcd promUwhleh ulcerate. XJlnl ,ah L faithful do?, trottlnjr at the heels of its mnslcr- hs xhQ "bm hm Dem crat "0 Oil behind the le-d of . ;;X,h,nMrT1,H i does get a bone, but the poor deluded. ' V4VV The dog follows his master, makes ? ?!eh! Tnr fh4 b' becnLS0 he Pot 8lartCxl out thlt Ifff. The poordo don know any !"eI -Ut . "a Me poor "dlmmycrar Is bom a 'dVa- rajcrau The dog wags his tall whenever ha IT , . "44i , JV4 . has a tale of woe that Is too long to w whenever the head of the natio-- . v l3 . huncrr tnoiii al .X ? S l i- t c r" , In the meat box ot Uncle Sains smoke I nous e. " liJlll f 1 .lJSilarlly 2 8 DOt brokcn a And some fire eating red 6hlrt and lfisue Democrats, like some do-s are at coon huntlng-oa some occa- I sions. At a recent mass meeting of docs applause, said: "I am proud tht I 4 M M die dogs and some of us are spottea . dogs, yet we are all dogs. ( ocl'cr- nni-ici Mv- f riuAtu nr w ous appiausei. gr.amiaiaer a dog. my I atiier was a uog ana I ex 1 - . .. 4rM- v,i peet to die a dog. (Great cheerinfO. That dog had plagiarised a political - WKKailXC THE WORLD. In discussing the value of the d!5 ot the earth could be computed. Tb attraction of r the earth to Heaven! bodies, and vice versa, would also b y U3 I the Larth! After all th2 u.UoUl suf le "rui: fuer an xn3 u.uuiu am- feriD and lcss of lifc: afUr lh cx" Penditure of a King's iT.nsoni. It may posiHe to compute the avordu- polseT the globe and on an average of three-quarters or a rcn: a pound be able to tell just how Zonz it would require William J. Bryan in the White House running the, mints coining silver at the ratio c: 16 to 1 I to buy the whole biased UyouL ii:ur-r-a-a- flA4VA J4 Vi V Ut 44- f ': - . - i . . . . A
The Yellow-Jacket (Moravian Falls, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 16, 1909, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75