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SOe Cftatbain TRecott- TTbe Cbatbam "Recorl). H. A. LONDON EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: S1.5Q Per Year STRICTLY IN ADVANCE NORTH STATE HAPPENINGS Occurrences of Interest Gleaned From All Sectlcus of the Bvsy T&r Heel State STUDENT LOAN FUND. A Practical Method Adopted by the Management cf the A. & M. Col lege at Raleigh for the Assistance of Deserving Young Men in Ob taining an Education. By means of a unique plan adopted by the management of the Agricul tural and Mechanical College at Kdeigh. a small fund of about $2,000 tit liars has in the past seven years been the means of helping nearly a hundred boys and young men of this State to obtain a practical education this institution. lor the information of "students deir;!!!r to avail themselves of such p.ii! r-ml persons in position to assist di.nii in tine Ycor 'xtre -v tUA -fl I losing extracts from an appeal re cent iy issued by a committee of the Ci'Ih-ire alumni association for an in c:cde in this fund: Among those who anxiously desire to receive training at the Agricul tural and Mechanical College are 1:' numbers of bright, ambitious rr.ii ratable boys who are not able'to ray their way in full through college, but who can save enough from their work to pay part of their expenses. These boys are therefore cut off from preparation for life b3' the lack of a iew dollars. A limited number or beys do pay nearly all of their ex por.ses by work at the College, but the amount of remunerative work at a:;v institution is tco small to help a tithe of those who sadly need to tit themselves for proper farming. President Hill reports that he re ceives scores and scores of pitiful letters for help from farm lads whose hearts are set on receiving an agri cultural education, but Avho cannot meet all of their expenses. These boys lack only opportunity to become large contributors to the wealth and hap piness of our State. "To help such boys, the College i started a few years ago a Loan Fund, which r.ow amounts to $2,000. Small as this sum is. it has already helped ; eighty-eight boys through College, j These boys could never have received an education, but for tuis fund, which has been lent on an average of H'j per student. 'The Loan Fund is managed in this way: Loans are made only to poor hoys of character. Each loan is se cured by a properly endorsed note, find bears 6 per cent, interest. "As seen as a note is paid, the original auiount with the interest is returned mii:'-' inner wortny student, it is most gratifying to say that these notes are promptly paid, and that so far not one cent of this money has been lost. "Now as graduates of the College, with a Aul knowledge of how valu-i able its training was to us, we appeal to the farmers of our State to con- i tribute to this Loan Fund such sums .1? (Ley are able. The State can give r.o tr.cney for this purpose. Each dollar will aid somebody's boy to get the special education for which he is longing. Each dollar will grow j'ear by year from the interest and soon be helping several boys instead of one. We feci sure that when, our J farmers and business men know how j much good this small fund is doing, and when they realize how much more , good a larger fund could do, they; will gladly and generously add their contributions whether these contri bute ns be larjre or small. A. E. Escott, Walter Clark, Jr., and R. II. Merritt, all of Raleigh, N. C constitute the committee of Alumni to whom remittances can be made. G&stcsia's Eig Poultry Show. Optoma, Special. Arrangements ! ? .-' already begun for the next exi j ''-:; of tins Gastcnia Poultry As f : ..i ;., At a recent meeting new 1 ni;:. v.rrs elected, dates claimed r-l jdge appointed. Mr. . J. W. wns elected president, and R. S. Morris secretary. The dates are December 7th-10th. I Boy Kills His Brother. Hickory, Special. Saturday affcer rr u ihe twelve year old son of J. A!! red, of Granite Falls, accident ia s-ut and killed his brother,-a boy f about eight years. The older boy l'i . ariied the . gun into the yard ' shoot at some sparrows and had it cocked when he attempted to b ' ' the hammer cf the gun. In way the gun was discharged and 'be entire load passed through the r-e 1: of the younger boy, who was landing only a few feet away, al-K:o-;i severing his head from his body. Committee Returns. "i'cneer, Special. The committee 11 f iesenting the machinists and other labor organizations, which has been in Washington for the past week in conference with the Southern Rail officials relative to the wage -(;de, have returned, but will give 01 -t nothing for publication. It is ?;-nl. however, that the employes will S'A all that they are asking of the r -mpany except the number of hours ti ey are to be employed, tys, VOL. XXXI. SOUTH DAKOTA INQUIRES. Paving the Way to Return the Money For Repudiated Bonds. . State Treasurer Lacy has received a letter of much interest from Dome Robertson, superintendent of the leg islative reference division of South Dakota. The letter is as follows: "I am requested to inquire of you the present market value of the State bonds given in aid of the western North Carolina Railway, ten of which were presented to South Dakota. There is, as you are perhaps aware, a movement in our Legislature to re turn to your State the money received from these bonds7 and in the dis cussion growing out cf it the mem bers desire to know the present value of the paper." "This State paid South Dakota, for the ten bonds, .$27,400, which is $2,70-1 each, including not only the face value and coupons, but com pound interest. It compromised with Mr. Schaefer, of New York for $215,000 for bonds he held, these be ing valued at $S92 each with no in terest. It is stated that of the $27, 400 wjiich went to South Dakota, the lawyers in he case for that State, Daniel L. Russell anl Marion Butler, probably got half. Henry Ewing Insane. Salisbury, Special. The case against Henry Young, alias Henry Ewing, who attempted to criminally assault Mrs. James R. Moss, at Moss Siding, in Stanley county, on Decem ber loth, was taken up in Rowan Superior Court, where the case was moved, Wednesdaj' morning, and the result was, after examining several witnesses and Dr'l. H. Foust, that Judge Jones had the jury to decide as to Young's sanity and it was of the opinion that the negro was in sane and the court ordered him con fined in the criminal department for the insane at the penitent irry, and should he ever recover, which is doubtful, he will be put on trial. It was feared that he would be ljmehed in Stanly, where he fought those who rescued the lady. It Was Set on Fire. Rocky Mount, Special. A fire that was beyond a doubt of incendiary origin, was discovered in an unoccu pied residence here Saturday night about nine o 'clock by persons living nejet dcor in time to prevent the de struction of the building. Saturday night a few minutes before 9 o'clock, it was noted by the occupant of the house next door that someone was in this house, which it was known was unoccupied. Later it was seen that one of the rooms of the house was in a blaze. When the cry of fire was made several pei-sons who were attracted by the alarm saw a person flee from the building. A well-directed bucket brigade put out the fire. Line is Assured. High Point, Special. At last it ceems that this city is to have an electric railway and interurban lines. Coler & Company, who bought the in terests of Vanbrunt and his associ ates, had their counsel before the board Tuesday night and submitted a contract, which was unanimously indorsed. It insures cars in this city within a year, and an interurban line in operation in two years. It also fixes the price of travel. In connec tion, a gas plant will be installed, and the company agrees not to sell elec tric lights in competition with the city, which owns its own plant. Work on Line Begun. Salisbury, Special. Work was be gun Monday on Jthe new line of the Piedmont Street Railway, a newly which wjii extena uem uu j rart of the eity to the Yadkin Valley 1 Fair Ground, to East Spencer, and i to China Grove. The. first rails haye tftM-nnd the line is to be in t . . . ... -1 9 A 1. ..nfv,l operation by May 1, of this year. Boy Meets Awful Death. Goldsboro, Special. One of the most shocking accidents in the his- I tory of GcldsVoro befell Charlie King, son of Horace E. King, super intendent of the Southern Cotton Seed Oil Mill, at this mill Monday ;afterncon, when the boy fell into the j large conveyor and was fearfully cut before aid reached him. ine nrst alarm that any of the employees hpard was the shrieks of the lad. ijoe Atkinson, rescued him. Every thing that the medical protession could do was done, but death finally came about 6 o'clock. Mining Company Reorganized. Salisbury, Special. With Walter George Newman, a well known finan cier of New York, as president, and a working capital of $200,000 avail able, the TJion Copper Mines, of Gold Hill, Rowan county, have been re organized and operations resumed on a large scale. Mr. Newman was pres ident of the mine company ten years ago, but it passed into other hands and was sold at auction last week. S2fct rill CW) 6 u u w PITTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C. WEDNESDAY, FERBUARY 17. 1909. NO. 27. WITH N. CJiWMAKERS Doings of the State Legislature Con densed Interesting Items . from Day to Day. Two messages from the Governor were laid before the Senate. One rec ommended the .payment of the $5,700 claim of the estate of the late David L. Swain against the State Univer sity. And the other urged an amend ment to the 1907 anti-trust act such as would fulfil the party pledge in the Democratic platform in this re gard. The following bills passed final reading: Renew the charter of the Edge combe Railroad Co. v Add the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, to the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina." Relating to the time for computa tion and settlement of the State debt, extending the time to July, 1910. In the House the special order for the day, the Harshaw bill for the election of the county boards of edu cation by the vote of the people in the several counties, together with several other bills of like nature for individual counties, including Chero kee, was laid before th. House. Considerable discussion followed. The Governor's message as to anti trust legislation was read and refer red to the judiciary committee No. 2. At the night session many bills of local nature passed their second read ing. The following were of general interest : Empower board of medical exam iners to grant limited license to cer tain physicians to practice in. desig nated territory. For separation of white and color ed prisoners in the State penitentiary convict camps and jails during eating and sleeping hours. Amended by committee so that they shall not be shackled together. This is the bill of Mr. Morton, of New Hanover, and he explained that only four counties now do not separate the races and the bill was introduced to remove all dout as' to the law. A committee amend ment makes a cloth or canvass parti tion suuiclont in temporary struc tures. The fllowing new bills were intro duced in the Senate Thursday. Elliott: Amend charter of Far mers' Mutual Fire Insurance-Association of North Carolina. Doekery: Calling a constitutional convention to be held the first Thurs day in June, 1911. Doekery and Elliott: Amend the constitution of North Carolina by providing for quadrennial instead of biennial elections. Blow: Provide for registration and identification of automobiles on the highways of North Carolina. A number of local bills passed their third reading. In the House the following bills of general interest were offered: Mc Williams: Authorize the State board of education to unite with cer tain land-owners to drain Mattamus keet lake and adjacent swamp lands. Gordon: Establish card index sys tem for grants and change method of tiling warrants, plats and surveys in the office of the Secretary of State. Dowd: Amend Sec. 2S91, Revisal, so that in case a county bids in land at sale for taxes the county shall be responsible for the State taxes. Dowd: Regulate practice of archi tecture and create board of examiners and provide for licenses. Morton: Pension disabled Confed erate veterans. (Additonal pensions to those badly disabled, irrespective of classes and property). Doughton: Authorize issue of State bonds to pay cH outstanding State bonds falling due July 1st, 1910. !.340,000). Graham: Amend Chap. 674, Laws of 1907, by establishing fifth grade for pensioners and making eligible to pensions all persons of color who served the Confederate government. Graham: Authorize State geolo gist to co-operate with the geological survey and make a map of every county in the State. Mairv bills of local interest passed their third reading. The following now pills were in troduced in the Senate Fridays- Barringer: Eneouraga agricul ture and home industry. - Pharr: Amend 1100, Revisal, rtla tive to appointment of receivers of corporations. Doekery (by request): Requiring the use of electric headlights on cer tain locomotive engines. Senator Manning presented a reso lution that when the Senate adjourn it do so in honor of the birthday or. Abraham Lincoln, this being nis birthday. This resolution was put upon its immediate passage. The following bills passed final reading : Make every vessel or boat in home ports subject to liens. Repeal the law relative to the pow ers of the building committee in the erection of the girls' dormitory of Cullowhee High School. Exempt railway mail clerks and rural free delivery carriers from jury duty in North Carolina. Amended by Senator Peele to include railroad en gineers and conductors in active sex vice. To strengthen the constitutionality of the act for the separation of the races on street cars. Require all gates on public roads to be automatic to facilitate travel. The Barringer bill for the elimina- . . . . tion of the rule for mileage boofcs to be presented to ticket agents instead of conductors made special order for next Wednesday. - In the House the following bills were introduced: Cotten :- Provide for the settlement of titles to lands in North Carolina and institue he Torrens system, Poole : Prevent forfeiture of life policies without notice. Smith, of Harnett: Amend 2672, Revisal, as to penalties on railroads for failure to deliver freight in reas onable time; amend 2634, relating to failure of payment of penalties, pre vent persons from walking on rail road tracks, repeal 2631, relating to penalties for failure to receive freight The sepcial order bill, the Fish Bill consumed much time for consideration an dthe House adjourned at 2:30 till S p. m., when it passed a number of bflls on their second readings. In the Senate Saturday new bills were in part as follows: Spence: Protect holders of accident insurance policies. The Manning bill to authorize the issuance of refunding bonds for the the State bonds that fall due in 1910, agg-ragating upwards of three million dollars passed second reading, being a roll-call bill. Bills passed final reading were: Amend the charter of the Virginia Carolina Southern Railroad Com pany. Amend Sec. 1112, Revisal, relating to the power of corporations, giving them an insurable interest in the life of officers and employes or agents in cases where a financial loss would be suffered by their death. Amend act of 1905 and authorize the settlement of the remaining five outstanding bonds of the South Da- nota class for the construction of the Western North Carolina Railrad. House bill relative to the propertv of insane people discharged from in sane asylums and providing that a certificate of recovery by the superin tendent duly recorded in the county shall restore such persons to rights of property. A number of bills were introduced Saturday in the House of local na ture. A goodly number also passed their third reading. Among them was, Committee substitute for Senate bill to provide for inspection of gas, electric and water meters in towns adopting the law. May Send War Vessel to Liberia. Washington. Special. The State Department is considering the ques tion of dispatch ;ng an American war vessel to Liberia Avhere alarm is. felt for the safety of British and French citzens employed in the customs ser vice cf the republic. Already the British government has dispatched a Avar vessel to Monrovia and also a company of soldiers. The present sit uation, according to official advices, may result in the passing of its 40,000 miles of territory into alien hands. Jack Bians Welcomed Home. Peterborough. Eng., "Jack" Biiiiis, the wireless telegraph oper.itvr who was on board the steamer Re public at the time of her collision off Nantucket last month with the steam er Florida, was given n rousing recep tion in Peterborough, his native town Tuesdav afternoon. He was met at the railroad station with bands play ing 'See the Conquering Hero Comes" and the mayor in his chains and lobes of oAlce, extended him welcome. NKWSY. GLKANIXCf. Archbishop Farley said the stae was worse than ia the days of pagan ism. The French Riviera football team defeated a team from the American warships. The Viceroy of Manchuria, fore warned that he was to he removed, has resigned. The Storthing, at Christiania, ap propriated $18,000 to finance the Amundsen polar expedition. Governor Hadley, of Missouri, rec ommends State legislation regulating tho prices to he charged by monop olies. Anarchists held a mass meeting in East Broad way, New York City, to protest against the suppression ot free gpeecb, Commissioner-' Edwards, of. New Yorfe City, ia a speech declared th street cleaners would continue to wear vhlte. English newspapers have rpened a campaign of militarism which la causing alarm to supporters of the Liberal party. Plans were announced for the cel ebration of the 100th birthday of Charles Darwin at the New York Mu seum of Natural History. President Davila, of Honduras, has sent an apology to Guatemala for a reference to the latter country in his annual message to Congress. The feeling in Vienna is that Rus sia's intervention in . the Turco-Bul-garian difficulty has resulted in in tensifying the war sentiment in Ser via. " Reports submitted to the State Prison Commission following the in spections severely criticise the condi tion of .several penal institutions in New York State. As a brewer recently argued, mince pie does great damage to the Ameri can health. Therefore it should be prohibited. Tight lacing is injurious. On the same ground, argues the Near York World, there should be a law against it. BILL'S MARKS. Sister Ann Did you get any marks at school terday, Bill Bill Yus, but they're where they don't show. ThejSketch. ...... V " THE HEWS IN BRIfT Items of Interest Gathered B Wire and Cable GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY Live Items Covering Events of More or Les3 Interest at Home and Abroad. A company to manufacture brooms has been organized in Roanoke, Va., wjh ample capital to operate success fully. The principal stockholders are James S. Yeatman and Charles S. Fox. It was recently found that some inmates of the-West-Virginia' peni tentiary had an outfit kit for counter feiting coins. Some had been pass ed out of the prison. The barkantine Matanzas bound from Philadelphia to Fernandia, Fla., got in distress Thursday night 12 miles south of Diamond Shoals and signalled by wireless telegraphy. Six ocean-going vossels to her side. She has a cargo of lumber and will be towed into port, Hon. D. E. Hydrick, of Spartanburg, S. C, was chosen as associate Justice of the Supreme Court of South Caro lina, on last Thursday, after 37 bal lots were taken. At Lakeland, Fla., Charlie Crumly, a negro, who -was believed to be the criminal who assaulted a white lady, was taken from jail Wednesday aiid was on the point of being burned at the stake when officers-plead for him and saved him. He claims an alibi, and was not positively identified. The last rail was laid Wednesday, connecting Dante, Va., with Bostic, N. C, on the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio railroad. The sheriff and other officers cap tured three distilleries' in Lincolnton county a few days ago. Mrs. Harry Samson is to be tried in New York on the charge of mur dering her husband, who was a nephew of the late Admiral Sampson. The National Bureau of Forestry, it is said, will get an army of An gora goats to eat paths three hundred yards through the California forests as checks to forest fires. Street cars stalled in the streets of Sioux City, Mo., Tuesday night in snow 13 inches deep on a level, and a 55 miles an hour wind. Roby Baskin, a Negro who robbed and then murdered Rev. W. Y. Hud son was lynched at Houston, Miss., Tuesday. The mob of 300 was not resisted. They ealimcd that justice was too tardy. The Illinois Central's Chicago Flyer plunged into an open switch at Cold Water, Miss., killing Martin Stanton, of Memphis, and injuring several others. . i The yeggman killed at Laurens, S. C. last week proves to be "Sheeny Mike," who has been recognized by a former, but now reformed, crook, who had been in prison with him. In New York recently a baby only three days old suffered a hemorrhage and would have died, the doctor thought, but for the fact that about a- pint of its father's blood was transfused into it. It is now doing well. The Mauretania, Cunard Line steamer, has made a new record, crossing the ocean, 2,934 miles in 4 days, 20 hours and 27. minutes. V ashington News Notes. C. H. Martin has been made pri vate secretary to Senator Overman in place of Fred L. Carr, resigned. The House of Representatives has voted the sum of $12,000 for auto mobiles for the president's use. It now appears that it was an erroneous story in circulation some time ago to the effect that President Roosevelt struck, with riding whip the horse or horses of lady riders. Admiral Sperry is regulating the speed of his fleet so as to arrive in the Chesapeake on the 22nd, when a reception program will be carried out. President Roosevelt will be on hand. After 50 years in the present .Nat ional House of Representatives it is proposed to return to the old plan of arrangement of seats without desks, that members may hear more perfectly. The change in the Hall will cost about $35,000. President Roosevelt takes part in the ceremonies at the Lincoln Home stead, at Hodgcnville, Ky., Friday, the 12th, the occasion being the 100th anniversary of the birth of the murdered president. The nomination of Dr. Crum to be collector cf the -port at Charleston, has met ..with such opposition in the U. S. Senate, that it is thought the matter will go over for the considera tion of Mr. Taft. A story has just come to light that President Lincoln narrowly escaped death from. a bomb in Baltimore, when on; his way to Washington to be inaugurated. : Foreign Affairs. . The American Red Cross has given $250,000 to Queen Helena to found an- orphanage for the parentless children, the victims of the earth quake. Death has just recently claimed two of the best-known men in France, Catulle-Abraham Mendes, the poet and novelist, and Ernest Alexander Honore i,Coquelin, known familiary as Coquelin Cadet, one of the last of France's celebrated actors TAFT HOMEWARD BOUND Talks Through South Remarks at Hattiesburg, Miss. Canal Manage ment Deserves Support. Birmingham, Special. Talking through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, just like campaign days, the President-elect had on Saturday the gratification, which he evidently enjoyed, of being heartily received by large and enthusiastic crowds who had not voted for him. He talked from the rear platform at Hattiesburg, Miss., in a vein of pleasantry and then touching on the Canal subject he said: "The Tanama canal is going to be built," he declared," and what I want every American citizen to do, is " i o stand by the men who are building it. (Voices: "We will do it.") Don't set a fire in the rear, don distrust the men that arc giving up their strength and energy and enterprise to put that great work through. When you have agents who are doing your work, you stand behind them. If you don't, you cannot get your work done. The men who do your work are entitled to your help and enfidence and you ought not to allow yourselves to be led astray by buncombe speeches on the floor of the House of Repres entatives, or by headlines in sensa tional newspapers, and go back on the men that are doing your work. "I don't care whether you are Democrats or Republicans, 3rou want the work done and when the army engineers who are doing this work are giving all their time to the carrying out of this -work, 3-011 arc not men to go back on them and to believe every idle story that comes from the mouth of some politician who is seeking to make himself prominent or to give himself the advertisement of a little unfounded sensational statement. "That work is being done honest ly. I know what I am talking about! It will be built and all the wind op poition that comes merely from a de side to exalt and exploit the man who makes himself responsible won't ob struct it. "I know what the people of tho United States want in that regard and in so far as I have power, as the Executive of this country, I am going to push that work and I am going to stand behind the men who are- do ing it. And now, gentlemen, you have gotten me into more heat than I expected but I think jou very much much for j-our welcome.' Policeman Fatally Shot. Salisbury, Special. Polieeman W. A. Monroe and Policemrn Siceloff were called to North Church street, a negro settlement, on account of John A. Jackson, a negro, beating his wife Saturday night. As they attemjAed to arrest him and while trying to es cape Jackson shot Policeman Monroe and made good his escape. Monroe was taken to the Whitehead-Stokes Hospital where his wounds were con sidered necessarily fatal. He was shot in the abdomen. He is about 50 years old and was esteemed for many years faithful service on the police force of Salisbury. Against reason able expectation Monroe expects to recover. $150 reward is offered for the capture of Jackson. Scarlet Fever on Receiving Ship Han cock. New York, Special. Between 200 and 300 men on board the receiving ship Hancock at the navy yard, Brooklyn, are under quarantine, owing to an outbreak of scarlet fever on the vessel. Eleven men suffering with the disease have been removed to the naval hospital in Flushing avenue, Brooklyn. Care has been exercised to prevent the spread of the disease at the navy yard. Tuberculosis Exhibit -Opens Sunday. Philadelphia, Special. The inter national tuberculosis exhibition which was formally opened here Monday was visited Sunday by many nursea and school teachers. An exhaustive programme has been arranged for the coming week, each day being devoted to some particular phage of the evil or its remedy. Loses His Life in an Attempt to Res cue Aged Woman. Rochmond, Va., Special. Mrs. Robert Skipwith, an aged woman be longing to a prominent family, and a man named Johnson were burned to death in a fire which destroyed an old mansion near Clayville, Powhatan county, Saturday night. Johnson and his wife were tenants in the house ivhich was the property of Mrs. Skip tvith. Johnson returned to rescue Mrs. Skipwith when the floor fell in. Severe Storm Strike Mississippi Town Learned, Miss., Special. A storm struck this place from the northwest about 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon with terrific force, blowing down a ne gro church, killing Dick Harris' wife and one child of Maggie Bennett, and injuring eight or ten. About seventy five persons were in the building at the time. If it had not been for the arched ceiling they would all proba py have teen killed. RATES OF ADVERTISING: On Square, oae Insertion $!. One Square, two Insertions.... 1.5 One Square, one month aop For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will be made. KITCHIN ON TRUSTS Sends Message to the Legis lature. IN ACCORD WITH PLATFORM Urges Amendment of Anti-Trust Law of 1907 Give Attorney Gen eral Adequate Opportunities. " After a brief introduction of lha subject tho Governor says: "An opinion has been placed before the people in the press, that the present law cannot be enforced, though noth ing was suggested to strengthen or render the Jaw enforceable. I con ceive that whatever difficulty exists. 's largely ja (he machineiy for its ! enforcement. Two years ago many able legislators thoroughly consider ed anti-trust legislation. All realiz ed the difficulty of the State's coping with the evil against which their ef forts were aimed. A bill was con sidered, Avhich by its supporters was thought the best that could be devis ed. It became a law in all its es sential features save one." He quotes from the last Demo cratic platform theso words: "Private monopolies should be de stroyed. Conspiracies by prospective purchasers to put down or keep down the prices of articles produced by tho labor of others, should be made crim inal, and all persons or corporations entering into such conspiracies should bo punished." The Governor says the opportunity has come to muke such conspiracies criminal and to prescribe punishment for such conspirators. "Failure to make such conspiracies criminal can be justified only in case it can be clearly demonstrated that the convention was wrong in adopting 6uch a platform. "A mere statement of the proposi tion that a conspiracy by purchasers to put down t.he price of an article produced by the labor of others, is wrong, is so clear and convincing n its simplicity, that it would seem idle to argue its justice to any American legislative body. Every community which produces more than its people consume, must suffer the oppression that comes, from any artificial de pression of the price of its products. A community producing peanuts, cot ton, . tobacco, wheat, lumber, or other article in excess of its ofn consump tion of such article, its unjustly de prived of material wealth, liindered in its industrial development, weaken ed in its revenues, injured in it3 edu cational progress, and crippled in all its social life, by conspiracy of men or coropration, which puts down the price of such article. The univesally acknowledged principle of self de fense, applicable to States as indivi duals, would destroy a conspiracy so damaging in its effect and so general in its blight. The duty of repressing wrong and protecting those who can not protect themselves, requires tho law makers to put the Avhele power of the Stato against such conspiracies. I therefore recommend that the General Assembly comply with that declara tion, because it is right and ought to be the law, and because the dominant party is pledged to its enactment; and I also recommend that the put ting down or keeping down by pur chasers of the prices of articles pro duced bv the labor of others, in pur- s suance of such conspiracy, be made criminal. "Assuming,, as I do assume, that the General Assemble will amend the law in acordance with the specific platform utterances. I recommend that the A.torney General be given the power 'md charged with tho duty to institute action, civil or criminal, in the Superior Courts of this State in Wake county, or in any otner coun ty of his selection, in any and all cases of violation of any of our anti-r trust laws, or any amendments to them. Where such laws are violated most, it may lie difficult to have buo-! cessfu prosecutions, on account ot the fear and favor which the wronff doers inspire and esert in the com munity, 4 'I m of the opinion that after per fecting, as far as possible, our anti trust laws, declaring the offense and prescribing the penalties, it is im portant and even essential, to confer upon the Attorney General the duty of undertaking its. enforcement, and j of selecting the venue subject to the power cf the court to removal in its discretion, for proper cause, and of giving him every proper authority ' securing evidence, including the com pulsory production of books and pa pers, the examination of witnesses prior to trial, and all other powers appropriate to the full discharge of duty in the faithful execution 01 the laAv. Respectfully submitted, W. W. KITCHEN, Governor. Uncle Sam Not Responsible For Rainey's Utterances. Washington, Special. The United States government disavows all re sponsibility for remarks made by Representative Rainey, of Illinois, in the House about two weeks ago criti cizing President Obaldia, of Panama, according to a letter sent by Secretary cf State Bacon to C. C. Aorsemena, minister frem Panama, in reply to r protest bv the later made b direc tion of tbv adjuster's government. I1' ; I 4 Si I jj I 4 1 1: I : i t I 4 I j 1 J J! H .1 ; , ' r' i i , r, 1 1 t i t, !i If
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