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-p-p A PCWEIjI-, Editor.
’"FiainaedETery Thursday.
Saoaeription RatesSl.OO peryear
E~^*'red at Pos*offlce~»e ^eron/* c\&*' n^tu-y
Thursday, July 30, 1908.
The warmer the weather, the ,
juleper we are inclined.
Thefields are "dry enough to
satisfy the most advanced prohi
bitionist. »
The romancing on the politicsfl
outcome Should be confined to the
doubtful States. •
The knocking off of that fine will
not induce the saintly Rockefeller
to reduce the price of oil.
If each one of us practiced pro^
hibition, the law would be a use
less encumbrance to the statute
books.
The Taft chairman has to"b'e ac
ceptable to the Trusts, the rail
roads and other corporations that
are expected to furnish the boodle.
“My man Taft” goes to Oyster
Bay to have his speech censored
by his boss. Under the circum
stances this is only proper.
The failure of the Roosevelt Ad
ministration to bust the Fertilizer
Trust will hardly help the Repub
licans to break the solid South.
In other words we want 9 navy
that is so big that no one w ill
fight#. Spain once thought sbe
had it in her invincible Armada.
This is the silly season in po i
tics, and the wise man will only
bel eve w hat appears reasonable
and appeals to his common sense.
More light on the offer to pur
chase or lease our light plant,
would be welcomed. ithout
more, some may be disposed to
treat it as a light matter.
It is reported that Candidate
Taft will in his speech of accept
ance, favor more tariff revision
than the Republican platform calls
for. But after all it is Congress
that makes tariff laws.
Owing to the republican pros
perity the factories here are giving
their hapds two days in the week
to loaf,, this is no doubt too much
loaf for the full dinner pail they
have been told about.
As long as the Trusts can domi
nate the courts by having their
men appointed to the judgeships,
the Standard Oil will never have
to pay of that $29,000,000 fine
more than 29 cents.
The republicans seem to he all at
sea for a candidate for governor.
They have been trying to get one
of the Freizes to run, but each as
it is said declined. Kind of a
freeze out so to speak. Such will
be exactly the case in November.
All governments have been
formed to improve the conditions
of mankind. The republicans have
and would continue to administer
this government to enable the few
to accumulate dollars out of the
mauy. The dollar before the man
has been the main spring of every
act of that patty for more than a
generation.
The “piazza politicians,” whose
thoughts center on campaign fund
collecting, are laughing at the Re
publican treasurer’s lack of knowl
edge of the Federal law against
corporations “organized under
any law of Congress” being allowed
to contribute.
Anent the plea for a curfew
ordinance by R. J. Salisbury, man
ager of the colored A. M C A., it
is not amiss to remember how
Shakespeare describes 12 o’clock;
the
“Very witching time of night
When churchyards yawn aud hell
itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.”
BRYAN AND THE CONFEDERATES.
The Hon. Tom. Watson began
his campaign for President by
charging William Jennings Bryan
with having said that he would
not vote for a Confederate soldier
for speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives. Mr. Bryan answered
his accusation by pointing out that
he did vote for a Confederate, Mr.
Crisp. The record supports Mr.
Bryan. Mr. Watson is net satis
fied, however, and has called a
witness, Alfred Henry Lewis; who
says:
“Bryan said to me of the Crisp
Mills fight ‘I don’t think I care to
face old soldier element along the
Platte with the record of having
voted for an exConfederate.”
Mr. Bryan was'iu a situation of
some political delicacy. He rep
resented a district nominally Re
publican and containing many men
who had served as Union soldiers.
For him to support a Confederate
soldier was sure to offena many <qf
his constituents. That he should
wish to keep their support was not
unnatural. Yet he voted for the
Confederate in spite of the injury,
his vote might do him at home. It
is difficult to see wherein the
incident reflects discredit on Mr.
Bryan, or what capital Mr Wat
son can make out of it, or how any
Confederate can take exception to
Mr. Bryan’s attitude. Is he tq be
censured because he nndei stood
the possibility that his vote for
speaker might result in his defeat
at the next election in which his
came before the voters*—New
York Sun.
PINETOPS WINS.
A much enjoyed game of base
ball Friday between the nines of
Pinetops and Saratoga at-the form
er place resulted in a decisive
victory for the Pinetoppers; score
15 to 2. A large crowd witnessed
the game.]
LET US KNOW.
Is there any one who would seek
;he nomination for a county office
n a primary, and not from the
invention? s
It is important that the dele
»ates to the approaching conven
bion were apprised of such persons.
If there are no other candidates
than those who have declared
themselves in the newspaper col
umns, it should be as plain as a
pikestaff that there is no call for
a primary.
The convention would not be jus
tified in putting the expense of a
primary upon the announced can
didates, when these are willing for
the convention to make the nom
ination.
The editor of the Southerner is
a delegate to the convention, his
action in regard to a primary, will
be governed largely by those who
would be candidates before a pri
mary. So wiM quite a number of
other delegates with whom he has
discussed the matter.
It should be apparent to the
m( st'prejudiced that there is no
sound reason for holding a pri
mai y, uuless there is some one to
lio’d it for.
Names seytto the editor, will be
regarded as confidential 4>r other
Yvse as the senders prefer.
PROTECTION IS SOCIALISM.
Protectionism, in its last analy
sis, is socialism. If our President
and our Congress have become too
meddlesome the cause may be
directly traced to the Socialistic
protective system. The republican
party has created the Socialistic
moment, and it will be destroyod
by that movement. The Democracy
has opposed it, and will throttle
it.
REPUBLICAN EXTRAVAGANCE
The United States Treasury is
paying out nearly one million £
day more thau it is receiving, that
is the deficit for the first 17 days
of July was $16,157,618. The las)
session of Congress appropriated
the enormous sum of $1,008,397,
543.56 for the fiscal year, begin
uingJulyl, 1908, and the session
of Congress beginning Dext De
cember may be expected to appro
priatc as much for the fiscal year,
beginning July 1st, 1909. That
would give our present Republi
can Congress the unique record of
being a two billiou dollar Congress.
Every dollar the government
spends is paid in some way by the
people, and voters should remem
ber that this year they will pay
$12 in taxes for each member ol
their families—a total tax of about
$60 for each average family of five
persons.
£>uring the last four years ol
Republican extravagauce there ha?
beeu appropriated $3,428,000,000
or $33,900,000 more than the vast
expenditures during four y?ars ol
civil war, so that during that
period each head head of a family
has paid in national taxes over
*200, and what has he got for itf
Under Republican policies th2
tax paid by the poor man is as
great as the tax paid by the rich
man. In point of fact, in some
casds the tax paid by the poor
man is greater. For instance,
when Mr. Rockefeller or auy other
rich man, buys flannel for under
wear, valued above 70 cents a
pound, he pays a tariff tax of
86.39 percent, but when a poor
man buys a cheaper grade of flan
rel for his underwear, valued at
not more than 40 cents per pound,
he pays a tariff tax of 143.67 per
cent. These figures are the actual
duties paid on •‘flannel for under
wear” as officially* reported by the
government for the year 1907. As
the present Republican Congress
refused to consider any revisioa of
this unequal tax, or the many
other like cases which the present
tariff law imposes, the high rate
of tariff taxes on flannels and
everything else that is included in
the tariff law still continues.
Yet many business men, farmers
and those who have to lely upon
w ages still vote the Republican
ticket, which is virtually to en
dorse the Republican policy of
taxing those with small incomes
more than those with large in
comes.
Surely it is time for retrench
ment or reform, and experience
shows that neither can be expect
ed from Republican politicians.
PRIMARY VOTE.
When the county convention
assembled in May, the editor of
the Southerner offered a resolu
tion that the convention adjourn
sine die and a new convention be
called to nominate a county and
legislative ticket. That motion re
ceived only 3 votes, while the
proposition to adjourn till August
Iltb, received all the rest^jfi2.
This is stated, that those who
desire to contest for official honors
before a primary, should let the
fact be known, otherwise even the
three who voted flbr a new con
vention must conclude that all the
candidates have announced them
selves and appealed to the conven
tion to make the choice.
If there are any other candi
dates now is the time for them to
speak out. .
INDEPENDENCE PARTY
The Independence party, a crea
tion of W. E. Hearst, has nomi
nated one, Thomas Hisgen, of
Massachusetts, for its presidential
candidate, and- John Temple
Graves, late of Georgia, but now
of the Hearst papers, for vice
president. v
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BRYAN'S REAL WORTH
The record of’W illiam J. Bryan
since his first appearance as a pub
lic man has been such as to inspire
the (confidence and win the admira
tion of men of all classes. Person
ally, bis life has been ~ worthy of
emulation in all ways and in every
respect. His utterances on ques
tions of public importance ha ye
been those of the mairwlie thinks,
and who 1ms r< ached his conclu
sions after most exhaustive inves
tigations of all obtainable facts.
His position on matters of moment
is unassailable, his integrity be
yond question, and his earnestness
unmistakeable. Mr. Bryan is a
man of mote than ordinary ability
and what he advocates aud stands
for is worthy of serious considera
tion by the people of this couutry.
Any mao who can lead as he
has done toi the past twelve years,
and in aH that -ime in the face ot
discouragement and defeat, main
tain his leadership and retaiu the
loyalty of those who believe as he
does, possesses traits of character
that mark him as more than a re
markable leader of thought in this
great country. A dishonest man,
a demagogue, would have fallen
and passed into oblivion with his
first defeat.—Pittsburg Post.
STOLEN SMILES
Bill^Taft has lost just 2 1-2
pounds, which makes room on the
band wagon for Joe Foroker.—
Louisville, Herald Rep.
Lather Burbank is to enter
politics. We are sorry to hear
this somehow. Luther is about
the only graft cr iu this country
who isu?t already iu politics.—
Washington Herald.
colonFlcommends
Capt. Jones, after his company
had boarded the train for home
aftei the encampment, was handed
the following letter from his col
onel:
On train, July 22, 1908, C m
manding Officer, Co. A 2nd Inf.
Sir: Express to your command
my app'cciatiou of the g<»od^ con
duct and military spirit shown on
train, going aud coming Horn
camp, aud their part iu making
the trip, both lor ihe officers /and
lor themselves, most pleasant,
without au accident or unSortu
nate occurrence.
' RAiLROAD AND LIGHTNING.
During a severe storm * harles
F. A\ res, a former policemau oi
Charlotte, was stru.yk by lightning
and seriously, perhaps fatally,
injured. Ayres was sitiiug ou his
front p.»rch eud was hurled to the
floor unconscious. He was recently
badly .injured iu a railroad wreck,
was nsiiivr crutches and wore a
steel brace on one leg, which was
smashed a*, that tune. It is
thought that this biuce attracted
the current.
--
AUTOMCB:L£S USEFUL.
An automobile, Sunday run
over a cat and killed it. if the
automobilians would grow in popu
larity and usefulness they will try
their death dealing machines ou
the dogs>
KUCHIN ON FIFTH.
W. W. Kitchin, Dcmocra'ie
nominee for toveruor will address
the Confederate v terans at their
reunion here on Wednesday, Aug
ust 5th.
This be Mr. Kitchin’s first
speech in I he county. Every-one
is invited to hear him. lie is one
of the fore most, if not the fore,
most, speakers in (he Slate. He
will begin his address at 12 o'clock.
WHAT IS A TRUSI.
Gradually, thanks t> the oc
casional elucidation of the courts,
wc are getting nearer to the proper
co:■ ceptfoil of a trust.
The most recent light turned
ou the question is found in the
decision of a St. Louis judge who
.holds £hata combination formed to
control pric si by all the steam
laundries of that city, is not a
trust, because it does not take in
the washerwomen.
In other w ords, as long as there
are washerwomen and home lawn
dries to compete with the concerns
that do washing by steam, it is
impossible for the latter to form
any sort of a combination that can
within the meaning of opposing
laws, be denominated a trust.
This materially clears the skies.
Our impressions as to the qualifi
cations of a trust have been alto
gether too vague and determinate.
But we are being enbghtened.
We may take from the St. Louis
judge’s view that there can be no
beef trust w hi e we are at liberty
to fatten and slaughter t*ie last
old home ra’sed steer; that exist
ence of au oil trust is illogical and
absurd" while the gas meter works
and sperm candles may be had
at two for five.
“Steam laundering is only a
method ofovashing,” says the St.
Louis court, “and as there are
other methods, the steam laundry
Companies are not effecting a com
bination in restraint of trade by
agreeing upon a schedule of prices.
The use of sugar is only a “meth
od” of sweetening eoffee; there are
other agencies which might be em
ployed. Think, therefore of the
injustice whifh has been done the
united sugar refineries by classing
them as a trust!
Boiled down, we have it that
while there remains any sort of
competion, there can be no monop
oly.
Oar great commercial combina
tions mast have enjoyed the Miss
ouri decision.—Atlanta Consti
tution. '
SAY IF YOU WANT A PRIMARY.
Primarily to huld a primary
here must be someone to bold it
or. < *
Thus lar, uo aspirant has inti j
nated that he would prefer a
primary to a convention.
So there you are.
■■ —
WHISTLE AGAIN.
The personal organ of the Taft
family, the Cincinnati Times-Star,
pts very much like the boy whist
ling to keep up his courage while
passing by a grave yard when it
say*:
“The sun is shining, the birds
are singing, and William Jennings
Bryan has again received the
Democratic nomination for ( resi
dent of the United'States. Why
shouldn’t republicans be happy ?
OUR CRACK SHOTS.
By order of Governor Glenn
each company of the Second regi
ment is allowed to send two men
to the camp of the Third regiment
next week to participate in the
rifle practice. The team to be se
lected to represent North Carolina
at the Camp Perry national rifle
match will be composed of five
pen from each rceiraent.
Capt. Jones Ik s not desk nated
the two who will represent the
Edgecombe Guards, Thereare some
good shots iu the comp liy and \vr
expect that they will render a
good account of themselves, rot
only at V\ ilmiugton, but at i amp
Perry. '
UP AGAIN.
Judge Neal in Wake Superior
court dismisses the receivership of
the-company publishing the Ral
eigh Evening Times, the piper
being restored to the former man
agement, with the full consent of
creditors, with .John C. Drewry
president of the corporation, and
J. V. Sirnm-, business manng-r.
The old Tunes, the former Times
was good, we wish thepreseut
Times to be even better.
Report of The Coi dition of
THE PINETOPS BANKING CO.
at Pinetops, in the State of North
Carolina, at the close of busi
ness July loth, 1908.
RESOURCES. , .
Loans and discounts, £02,983 OS
Overdrafts •
securtd, £13,OSS. 44
Overdrafts
unsecured, 244.77 13,333.21
Banking
3,010.87
2,104.31
ui:k.» and
~ houses,
Furnit ui e
and fix
tures,
Due from
bank cis,
Cash items,
Gold cciu,
Silver c in, includ
ing all minor coin
currency,
National bank notes
and other U. S.
notes,
5,151.18
*37 82
1J 2.12
4o.uO
1,009.08
3,704.00
Total,
£91,991.39
4,000 00
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock, $15,0( 0.00
Surplus fund,
Undivided p olit-.Uss
current expenses
an<l (ax - s paid,
Bills pay a’do,
Time ertiinates <d*
deposit,
Deposits subject to
check, (33,322.90),
Cashier’s checks out
standing,
19b 14
10,500.00
22,500.20
33,322 90
471.09
Total, $91,991.31
State of North Carolina, County o
Edgecombe, ss:
I, J. V. Cobb, Cashier o
the above i anied'batik, do so cn n
iy swear (hat the above statem nl
is true t" the b.st of my knon U dg«
and belief.
J. V Cobb,’Cashier.
Subscribe 1 and sworn »o before
me this 22 d.»y of July, 1908.
W. L Duuu, J.T.
Correct—A ttest*
W. J. Webb '
W. E. Phillips,
W. L. Keason,
Directors.
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