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The News and Observer. VOL. LIV. NO J2H. tLsaaOs ©DO ©ffitPcDUßonsi RALEIGH'S PRIMACY IH EDUCATION Fifteen Hundred Students Come Here Every Year. OUTLOOK FOR 1904 The New Railroad, Masonic Temple. New Buildings for Baptist Univer sity, the most important Op erations Already Guaranteed. To the Editor: —This city has had and is yet enjoying its full share of the gen eral prosperity of the State. During the past year a larger number of handsome residences have been erected than during any previous period of the past, and the city now presents a more handsome and dignified appearance than ever before, having many mile§ of well graded streets and paved sidewalks. The health of the city has been un usually good, and the exemption from business and financial difficulties has been remarkable. The banks and other finan cial institutions have prospered and are in excellent condition with larger deposits, than at any previous report. The volume of money paid out for cot ton and tobacco during the past year has greatly exceeded the usual average and has carried comfort and prosperity to the surrounding county. Land sales have been numerous and many debts have been paid. The seven colleges located in Raleigh have been filled to their utmost capacity, new buildings have been added and oth ers are being planned for the coming years. The various mills and other in dustrial enterprises have been in con tinual operation, and with satisfactory results. The Yarborough Hotel has had a \ change of management and extensive im provements are now being made, which • will make it, when completed in February, one of the best hotels in the State- During the year Raleigh Iras had the pleasure of entertaining a large num ber of visitors from all parts of the State, who came to attend the session of the Summer School, held in the splendid new auditorium of the College of Agri culture -and Mechanic Arts, meeting of State Superintendents of Education, meet ings of Grand Lodge of Masons. State His torical Society, several conventions, pleas ure excursions and the Annual State Fair in October. These various meetings brought to the city many thousand citizens, who we trust enjoyed their visit to the Capital of the State as much as we enjoyed having them with us. One of the important results of the year 1903, was the organization of the Raleigh and Pamlico Railroad Company, and the year 1904 will witness the build ing of the road and give this city another outlet to tidewater. During this year a large amount of money will be expended in the erection of the Masonic Temple on Fayetteville street, which promises to be the most imposing building in the State, and in erecting a new dormitory at the Bfptist University. At the close of last yc*ar, the city lost twenty-four saloons, which were re placed by a dispensary, leaving that many places of business which have been occu pied for other kinds of business. The Summer School for 1904, is already receiving attention and it is confidently expected that with the advantages of fered and the central location that one thousand students and visitors will attend during the month of July. A great amount of work has been accomplished in this city during the past few* years in the improvement of the streets and sidewalks, erection of hand some churches, public school buildings, two orphanages, public library, Baptist University, buildings, manufacturing en terprises, residences, stores, bank build ings, two new' railroads—South and East. Several office buildings give an oppor tunity to make this city tlie headquarters of the various insurance and business agencies in the State. The Textile De partment at the A. and M. College, the Business College with one hundred and fifty students, about one-half coming from a distance, the Summer School, the His torical Society, and several other societies for school and school-house improvement, loan and trust company, savings bank and several financial organizations show' a substantial growth and increasing pros perity of the city. Raleigh needs an addition to its teach ing facilities by which the young women ®> ® jy I Senator Hanna Would Consecrate His Carpenter Hearst Recommends a Plank Senator Morgan Throws Down the Ham- A Hopeful Chirp. Threatened Hostilities. ' The Only Firing Done So Far. Life to Peace in the Habor World. For The Platform. | mer and Takes up The Grab Hook. and young men of the advanced classes can be trained and be prepared for in dustrial work —as knowledge of cooking, sewing, dress-making, wood-working, etc., would make them more valuable to the city and State, and the amount required would prove to be a good financial invest ment. The past success attending intelligent efforts, should stimulate our citizens to renewed exertions in the future. In union there is strength, and now' that prosperity is with us, there is every en couragement for our business men to de vise and to aid in carrying forward sev eral new enterprises during this year- It will require a strong pull and a pull all together and possibly a long pull in order to succeed. The Chamber of Commerce will in the future, as it has in the past, take part in every enterprise that promi ses benefit to the city. GEORGE ALLEN, Secretary Chamber of Commerce. THE LATE RICHARD PEED. Humor and Pathos in 4he Career of One Whose Life Was a Benison. To the Editor: Ever since the death of Ibis remarkable man, I have thought that more than a passing notice of his life ought to be given to the public. There are lessons in his life that are well w'orth studying and learning. He had unusual native ability. His perception of men and things was keen and accurate. He was an original thinker. He gave you many new, rich thoughts. He was not what the schools would call an edu cated man. When a boy of seven or eight years of age lie thirsted for knowledge. He went out one night and looking up at the stars he said: “How beautiful you are. O that I knew who made you!” His father was uneducated and had rais ed him in ignorance. When older he at tended a session or two of the “old field school” taught sixty or seventy years ago. He learned to read and write well enough to help him much in life. Mr Peed enjoyed a joke- When a schoo' boy, one day at recess, he got a lump of rosin from a pine tree, and spread it out on tlie log bench by his ride, where a school mate always sat. The boy came in and took his seat by Peed's side. After a while the teacher called the boy to recite his lesson. The boy made effort after effort to get up but was stuck fast to the bench. The teacher said sharply': “Jim, come on and say your lesson!* The boy tried again to rise but failed. “Jim, if you don’t come I’ll whip you!” The boy made a desperate effort, and broke his suspenders. Richard sat as sober as a judge, pretending to be study ing his lesson. In early manhood Mr. Peed married an excellent young lady. He promised her he would not drink any more. Not long afterwards, early one morning a neighbor came along with a tickler of whiskey, and offered him a drink. He accepted and took a little too much. It addled his brain. He wanted to conceal the fact from his wife. To do this he got into an old fashioned loom in the room where his wife was preparing breakfast. He got over among the tred dles and gear, and took his seat. He sat. a moment, and said: “This won't do; if I sit this way she will find out I am half drunk.” So he changed again and said “this won't do: she will find it out.” He kept changing to every possible posi tion. His wife eyed him with a slight glance, and a gentle smile. Presently she said mildly: “Mr. Peed, breakfast is ready: come out of the loom. I know what is the matter with you.” This was his la>t drink- When he got sober he went out alone, and looking up to heaven he raised his right hand and said: “O God with Thy help I will never drink an other drop. There shall live and die one sober Peed.” He kept this pledge to his dying day. He was called on to tell his loom story wherever he went. He worked and made speeches for temper ance as long as he lived. His wife was one of the most quiet and sweet-tempered women e'er known. He loved to tease her. Getting her in com pany he would say: “Wife and I have big quarrels. We generally quarrel in the morning about the work of the day. She wants to boss me. She quarrels with me when I start to work until I get to the gate. Then I stop quarreling and let ! her have the last word; and when I do this I always get a good dinner when I com e home/' Brother Peed was a good neighbor. He loved, helped and lived in peace with all. But strange to say, he had at one time a neighbor who bated him, and missed no opportunity to injure him- This man was taken sick in the winter. His wife and children could not get fire wood. Brother Peed took his hands and wa gons and cut and hauled wood for him all day, and then left his hands to cut the wood the proper lengths for the fire places, and stack it on the porch, ready for use. This conjured his enemy and made a strong, lasting friend of him. Brother Peed was a devoutly pious man. His Christian experience was based on a heart-felt sense of sins forgiv en. He loved to talk of Christian ex perience, a thing now too much negleet (Continued on Page Three.) ttALEI'iH., NUiiH CAKOLINA SuNDAT MOKMNG, JANUAKY, Hi . IHO4. SENATOR SIMMONS FAVORS RATIFICATION OF THE TREATY rhe Full Text of His Vigorous Argument Deliv ered Before the Senate ou Wednes day,? Last. (Special to News and Observer.) Washington, D- C., Jan. 30. —The fol lowing is Senator Simmons’s speech in favor of the ratification of the Isthmian Canal treaty. This speech was delivered before the Senate on Wednesday and was the first argument from the Democratic side in favor of the Panama treaty. The text of Mr. Simmons’s address follows: Mr. Simmons. Mr. President, it is my purpose in the remarks which I shall submit upon the pending resolutions to make a statement of the facts of this Panama situation as I see them and my conclusions drawn from these facts. When the Fifty-seventh Congress met there was an apparently universal de mand coming from all parts of the coun try for the construction of the canal by the Nicaraguan route. The national con ventions of both parties had declared for that route. The Canal Commission had unanimously reported in its favor, and the alternative route byway of the Is thmus of Panama, on account of the ex orbitant, if not impossible, price asked by the Panama Canal Comany for its concessions, had, so far as the üblic mind and sentiment of the country were con cerned, been eliminated from discussion and consideration. In these conditions the Panama Canal Company, realizing that its only chance of selling its property on the Isthmus to this Government, its only possible purchaser, was about to be lost, reduced its demand from one hundred and nine to forty millions of dollars. Thereupon the Canal Commission was promptly re convened and changed its recommendation from a unanimous report in favor of the Nicaragua route to a unanimous report in favor of the Panama route. As the result of this changed situation the old controversy between the two routes, which had slumbered for years, was revived and reopened, and the rela tive merits of the two routes again be came the subject of earnest investigation and heated discussion. The discussion in this chamber was long and exhaustive. Every phase of the question was debated. In consequence of this debate and the discussions througli the press anu by the people there occurred one o* tiif I in*, set remarkable changes in public send- Iment ever witnessed in this country. The j Senate, following the recommendation of ! the Canal Commission, adopted the so called Spooner Act, expressing prei crence for the Panama route. The House, which had already passed a bill authorizing the construction of the canal by the Nicaragua route, reverscl itself and followed the footsteps of (he Senate, and the people acquiesced, as is shown bv the fact that in States where the demand for the Nicaragua route’ was once the strongest, notwithstanding their disapproval of the methods by which the Hay-Varilla treaty was made possible, the people are now demanding that that treaty shall be ratified. I will not undertake to say what argu ments, or reasons, or facts, in addition to the* reduction by the canal company of its price, and the demonstrated feasibil ity of the Panama route, brought about this sudden and extraordinary change of opinion. It may have been the fact that a canal by the Panama route may be made a sea level canal, while a sea-level canal can never be constructed by the Nicaragua route. It may have been the fact that it will require two nights and a whole day to: a ship to pass through a canal at Ni caragua, while a ship can enter and pass out of a canal by the Panama route with in the light of a single day. For the pur pose of this statement and argument, suf fice it to «ay that this change was not brought about by artifice or trickery, buv that it was undoubtedly t.lie result of a real change of opinion respecting the relative merits of these two routes. In view, Mr. President, of these cir cumstances, in reaching a right conclu sion as to the duties of the President under the Spooner Act, in locating the canal, the prefer once expressed in that act for the Panama over the Nicaragua route can not he considered as a mere per functory declaration by Congress or by the people. Undoubtedly the lawmaker by that declaration or preference meant j more than simply to say to the President ■ as between the two routes, ‘‘While we j somewhat prefer the Panama route, it , does not matter much which you select so we get the canal, and get it quickly.” On the contrary. Mr. President, they meant to say to him. and to say it with unmistakable emphasis: “Panama is de cidedly the best route. We have selected il after long and mature consideration. We therefore direct you to construct the j 16 PAGES—EDITORIAL SECTION-PAGES I TO 8. canal by that route, if possible to ac quire title thereto within reasonaole time.” The circumstances to and contemporaneous with this expression of preference show that it was intended that this prefex-ence should be treated as vital, the only condition of defeasance being the failure to acquire title in reas onable time. Manifestly, Mr. President, by “reason able time,” as used in this act, is not meant the reasonable time of the court house. That phrase when used in litiga tion, in civil controversies and transac tions between man and man has to do with the recurring terms of the courts and must be interpreted in the light ot the universal principle of swift pustice and its corollary, a speedy trial. The phrase "reasonble time” used in connection with this great transaction, which considered in relation to the grent transactions of the world today is easily the greatest, the consummation of which after half a century negotiation is still in the future in which all civilized man kind are profoundly interested, must be interpreted in vieav of the supreme im portance of the subject-matter and the slowness with which nations move in mat ters of such high import. So interpreted, I cannot believe there was no such lapse of “reasonable time ’ as would have mad' it the President’s duty to tufn to the alternative route des ignated in the statute. I think that no one will contend that the President should have abandoned hope—broken oil negotiations and gone to Nicaragua— while the Colombian Congress was yet in session and in any manner whatever considering the treaty, and this did not happen, as I understand, until the lat ter part of October. But, putting aside and out of consid eration the fact that a call had then been issued for an early extra session oi Congress, and putting aside and out of consideration the President's claim t u at he thought, in view r of this fact, it was his duty to wait and refer the whole matter back to Congress, the President -iSFTfCw, as everyone knew, that Colombia really and earnetly wanted the canal; tha*t, if anything, she was more anxious that jt should be constructed across the Isthmus instead of Nicaragua than we ourselves. He knew that the secret mo tive of Colombia's tortuous and dilatory diplomacy toward the treaty was directed to coercing the canal company into pay ing her fer consenting to the sale of its concessions to this Government. He knew that the property of that company would become utterly worthless f the canal went elsewhere, and in these circumstr.n- I ccs he might reasonably have concluded i that mutual interest in the spoils would ; bring these traffickers togedher, and that either Colombia, with the canal and ten millions at stake, would abate her de mand against the canal company or the canal company, rather than lose its only i possible purchaser, would yield to the demands of Colombia, and that in this manner and “w'ithin reasonable time” the way might be made edear to give ef fect to the preference expressei in the Spooner law' for the isthmian route. But, Mr. President, let me return to the recital of the facts of the case. Some time during the month of March It 03, the President presented to the Sen ate a convention known as the Hay- Herran treaty, duly signed by the ac credited representatives of this Govern ment and Colombia, granting to the United States, on certain conditions and terms not inconsistent with the Spooner law, an easement to build a canal across the Isthmus. That convention was rat ified by the Senate, although if all tho Senators who voted for the Nicaraguan mute had voted against it, it would have failed of the two-thirds vote necessary for ratification. 1 assume that those Senators who pre ferred the Nicaraguan route voted to rat ify the Hay-Herran treaty not because they liked it, not because its terms were satisfactory to them, for many ot them some of these terms were notori ously objectionable, but because they thought it was their duty to aid the Pres ident in carrying out the law and wilt of the majority as it was written in that law*. This convention was .ejected by Colombia and for that reason became in operative. The President now' presents to tut Senate another treaty, known as the. Hay-Varilla treaty, accomplishing tin raine purpose as the one with Colombia which has already been ratified by the other contracting party, and therefore cnly needs our ratification to make it effective. With this ratification the hos tile interests both in this country and abroad which have so often circumvented our efforts to secure a canal in the past, which perhaps brought to naught our recent negotiations at Bogota: which, if they had had sufficient time and warn ing, might have defeated the negotiation which eventuated in the treaty now under consideration; which, should wc repudi ate this treaty anti go to Nicaragua, might indefinitely delay and ultimately deteat our necessary negotiations with that country or Costa Rica, one or both; which sought, with sinister designs, to lure us to Nicaragua when we were about to go to Panama, and which now. should we start to Nicaragua, would with like motive seek to lure us back to Panama; which, in divers and sundry ways, through many and long years, nave suc ceeded in confusing and dividing our counsels and bringing to naught our ne gotiations for the construction ot this great enterprise, will have finally met irretrievable defeat, and the last obstacle in the way of the accomplishment oi the long-cherished aspirations of our peo ple for a canal connecting the tw T o oceans will have been removed. Shall we refuse to ratify this treaty and enter again upon the long and weary struggle, with all its vexations, difficult ies, and uncertainties? Mr. President, I do not intend to discuss the provisions of this treaty. I am pro hibited from doing that in open session ot the Senate, but the treaty has been or dered published and I think it is not im proper for me to say, generally, in pass ing that in nearly every way th’s treaty is much more favorable to the people of the United States than the one nego t'ated with Colombia and which was rat ified, but which failed of ratification by the Congress of that country. I have heard of no contention nor in timation that Panama did not have thb legal right to make this treaty. Some question has been made about the author ity of the President, under the Spooner Act, to make it on behalf of this Govern ipent, but rone has been made, and. in my judgment, none can be made, to Pan ama’s right in the premises, for when we recognized the independence of Pan ama, and shortly thereafter practically all of the other great nations of the world, including Nicaragua, her compet itor for the canal, joined us in that re cognition, whether that recognition was rightful or wrongful, whether in accord ance with international law’ or in contra vention of it, Panama becama an inde pendent and sovereign state, with all the rights and powers which sovereignty im plies, including, of course, the treaty-raak ing power. But. Mr. President, the opponent® of this treaty, admitting that it is highly favorable to us and that Panama is a free St,*te possessed with full right to make it. still contend that it should not be ratified—first, because, they say, the President had no right under the Sp»>nt*v Act to contract with Panama for the light of w r ay across the Isthmus, the lan guage of that law restricting his authori ty to negotiations for that purpose to Colombia; secondly, because, they say, the President unlawfully and in violation of our treaty obligations with Colombia incited and promoted the revolution in Panama, and recognized her independence in violation of the principles of interna tional law'. Mr. President, I can not agree, in view bf the present ownership by Panama of the territory to be acquired, with the contentions that the Spooner law does not confer upon the President full au thority to acquire the right across thb Isthmus from Panama. In the construc tion of every legislative act the intent of the law-makers and the bhjects and purposes of the law furnish the rule for determining its meaning. If it had been any part of the intention and purpose of the Spooner Act to in directly confer a bounty upon Colombia by buying from her a “specific thing” at a greater price than its actual value, then the President undoubtedly would not have had, by virtue of the powers vested in him by this act, authority to buy that “specific thing” from another who had in the meantime succeeded to its own ownership, because that would have contravened and defeated a material purpose of the law*. But it was no part of the purpose of the Spooner Act to confer a bounty upon Colombia; the sole object of that law was to authorize this Government to ac quire the right of way to construct a canal across the Isthmus, and Colombia was named as the nation with which the President should negotiate for this right solely because at that time she was the owndr of the territory over which we sought to acquire this right of way. To deny to the President authority un der this act to acquire this right of w'ay from Panama, its present owner, would be to hold that the letter of the law respecting a non-essential is of more importance than its letter respecting its main object. It would be to defeat the main intention of the law-makers, as well ag the only object and purpose of the law itself. And in that event, Mr. President, who would be benefitted; what public policy would be promoted by this straied construction of that statute? Surely wo would not be benefitted. Surely no policy of this country w'ould be advanced, for we have declared our preference for- the Panama route. Col ombia would not be benefitted, because she no longer owns the territory, and can (Continued on Third Page.) PKICE FlVfe CENTS. WILL SPEND OVER THREEMILLIONS Greensboro's Building Outlook in Year 1904, IT MEANS PROGRESS One Corporation. The White Oak Cot ton Mills Will Expend Two and a Half Millions in Buildings. House and Ma chinery. (Special to News and Observer.) Greensboro, N. C., Jan. 30, 1904. —Two weeks ago, the statement was made in this correspondence that the outlook for a prosperous year in Greensboro was as sured for this year at least, owing to the fact, including improvements already under way, just completed or to be erected during the year 1904, the sum ot three millon dollars would be put in circulation in that line alone, and this would not embrace a single item of strictly private expenditure such as resi dences, etc. From letters received by this correspondent, regarding the state ment, it is evident that many people have considered it extravagant. For the purpose cf verifying it, Ihie correspond dent, in association with Mr. J. Stuart Kuykendall, a most intelligent and re liable real estate dealer here, the follow ing itemized list of such expenditures has been prepared, of improvements already definitely decided upon or already in pro gress, and this not counting those that may be undertaken at a later date during the year. It will he seen that th? total, instead of three millions, foots up nearer four million dollars. White Oak Cotton Mills with 900 operatives’ houses, 3,000 opera tives 3,000,000 Enlarging Revolution Mills, 190 additional houses, 400 addi tional employes 100,000 W. I. Young Cotton Mill, 600 houses, 1,500 operatives 250,000 Sisters of Charity Hospital; free 100.000 Carnegie Free Library 30,000 Improvements city streets and waterworks 250,009 Macadamizing county roads, $70,- 000 per year for five years.... 70,000 Addition to county court house 15,000 Addition to Federal building, post office, etc 65,000 ErecCon Methodist Protestant College 75,000 New Lutheran church $3,000. New Spring Garden St. Methodist church $5,000 S,OOO Benbow business building and hotel annex—s story 25,000 Greensboro Furniture Company; enlargement 10,000 Johnson and Watson Shoe Fac tory, new building 20,000 Empire Drill Company, new busi ness house 5,000 R. G. Glenn, brick business block 15,000 Dr. W. A. Lash, brick whole sale block, Davie St 15,000 G. S. Boren, brick business house on West Washington St 15,000 John R. Cutchin, brick business house on South Elm St 5,00) J H. Gilliland, brick business house on Davie St 3,090 Mrs. L. M. Kirkman, business house on South Klin St 5,000 Making a total 0f— 53,581,000 To this sum might with propriety be added the amounts which have to be ex pended in rebuilding property destroyed by fire since the first of January, which will involve the following amounts of cash construction: Normal and Industrial College $60,000 Bcvill Building 5,00»> Katz Building 6,000 $71,000 Making a complete total of $3,654,009 ANDREW JOYNER. Tiie wife of John Hog Knight, a col ored man who lives on Mr. R. H. Vail's place, in Lileeville township, has pre sented him with three children in less than 10 months. On March 30th of last year bho gave birth to a boy. and or Wednesday of last week, January 20th. she became the mother of twin boys— Wadesboro Messenger. If the uses of adversity are sweet there ought to be more sugar-cured hams on the stage.