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The Randolph Bulletin. IM IBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. PRICE ONE DOLLAR A YEAR U. S. HAYES, Editor and Publisher. Entered as second-class matter June 2nd. 1905. at the nost office at Ashe boro. N. C. under the act of Congress of March 3rd 1879. Any kind of Republican activ itv is "nernicious activity" to chairman Simmons and his machine. The paramount issue in Rand olph county now is the question nf o-nnrt vnads. All citizens of O the county should give this ques tion their earnest consideration. All will agree that our roads are in miserable condition and that nothing is being done for their permanent betterment. We are now expending about six thous and dollars annually on a system which does not make one rod of Dermanent road. A better sys tem should be devised and put in operation. - Crime is on the increase in North Carolina, notwithstanding the state is almost a prohibition one. Attorney-general Gilmer has completed and published his report for 1905 and 1906. Crim inal actions were brought agamst 9,584 persons, in 1905 and against 10,117 in 1906. So says the attorney in his report. The explanation is, the officers of the law fail to do their duty. Peo ples Paper. HOME RULE. A 55 ftur recxlers know, this pa per is a firm believer in the prin ciple of local self-government. We believe that the people can govern themselves better than anybody else can govern, them. We believe that in every county the people should elect their own officials by a free vote and a fair rule. In former days, when the j mf " domocratic party stood higher in j popular esteem than is now the j case, the democratic party as a whole believed in this doctrine: but in recent times that party has in this state discarded this principle and adopted the plan of trying to run everything by means of a machine at Raleigh. Times. Democrats Against Local Self-government. The following is from the Hickory Times-Mercury: "If the General Assembly is for the people, it will give the people the right of local sel f government, the right of elect ing their magistrates, school boards and county Superinten dents." And we will add that the legislature should also allow the Counties, whether Republican or Democratic, to elect their own County Commissioners and County Treasurers. Heretofore the legislature has appointed extra County Commissioners after the number required by law had been elected by the peo ple of said Counties. This is done to prevent Republican Counties from controlling their affairs in the County, and demo cratic Counties extra Commiss ioners are appointed to carry out the bidding of the machine The last legisla ture created the officer of County Treasurer in Henderson, a Re publican County, and then ap pointed a democrat to fill the job. Is it fair, is it just? The people of the State should demand local self-government, and not stop until they get it. Any other form of government is tyrannical. Caucasian. The Proper Proposition. " In his message to the legis lature Governor Glenn suggests a law that will curtail suing of railroad companies. He suggests that if a man is walking on a railway track on the premises of the company, and ignoring the signs which deny trespass, and is killed, that suit cannot be brought. And why not? Why should a man who trespasses upon the property of another man who trespasses upon another, and he knows when he is doing it that danger awaits him, and is killed or maimed, be allowed to recover? The only reason is that juries are prejudiced against corpor ations: because there are lawyers who make a living in such man ner. The law should be plain. The man who trespasses upon the property of a railroad, in violation of posted notices, should be arrested and fined for such trespass. And -if it happens that he is killed his heirs should not be allowel to bring suit. That is simply justice. Fair brothers Everything. 01 FOREIGN LETTER. By A. M. STACK. No. 5. (Copyrighted, 1906, by R. F. Beasley.) I.' In his commentaries on the Gallic wars, Caesar tells us that all Gaul was divided into three parts, one of which the "Bel gae" inhabited. The territory occupied by that people nearly 2,000 years ago was approxi mately the same as modern Bel gium. Since then the country has been kicked and cuffed about a great deal and has had many maters. At one time or another it has belonged to Burgundy, France, Germany, Spain, Austria and at one time united with Hol land under William of Orange. If Julins Caesar could re-visit by the light of the moon the Bel gian part of his province he would not recognize it at all. It is now full of teeming millions of busy people whose victories of peace are no less renowned than those of his wars. Although one of the smallest countries on the globe, it is one of the most den sely populated. It has an aver age of over 600 persons to every square mile. So crowded are the people that the battle for bread is a fierce one with many. The strong push aside the weak and we see the survival of the fittest. The soil produces abundantly everything that will grow in this climate. A large portion of the country on the north and west is perfectly level like Holland. Much of it is rolling" and hilly, ! but all of it is rich and product- ive. Auout one-nan oi it is in cultivation and something like a fourth is pasture lands, the other part timbered or marshes. Twenty per cent, of the people are engaged in farming. The government iosters and encour ages agriculture, and in every province there is an agricultural commission appointed by the ine tarms are very small, about what we would con sider a good garden, but they keep them rich and a little soil pi-oduces a surprisingly large quantity of truck. Perhaps no one thing would surprise old man Laesar more than the highways and bridges in the northwest of his province. No other country has better or prettier public roads, and it is a pleasure to drive over them, Many of them are paved with stone blocks and have a row of pretty trees on each side. The superior advantages of good highways are especially obvious at this time of year when there is so much rain. The weather here is very variable. More than once I have seen the sun shining brightly and in less than" fifteen minutes it would be snow ing, raining or hailing. Belgium is essentially a manu facturing country, and it makes a little of everything from a steam engine to the fine lace which the ladies rave over so much. It is full of factories and smoke from them can be seen in every direction. The whole country is a scene of busy life and activity. It is no place for a lazy man. Belgium is one of those coun tries that have no language of their own. The language of the court is French and Flemish, and every lawyer must be able to plead in both, but the people generally speak everything. The kingdom is surrounded by France Germany, Holland, and just across the channel is England. A business man, to be success ful, should be able to talk at least those four languages. But whether he can or not, he will try. The business men here have an eye to business and they do business. They are right up with the procession. The women too, are workers "from away back." They enter the arena with men and ask no quarters. They peddle fruits, flowers and vegetables, sell newspapers, black shoes, keep shops, etc. They ask neither the weather nor the men any odds. I have never before seen women make such a brave fight for an honest living. They deserve a better lot. The country is thoroughly Roman Catholic. Out of over 7,000,000 people, less than 50,000 are Protestants. The public schools are in the hands of the clergy, and Catholic the country will re main. To a man born and rear ed in the U. S. where there are so many Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians and Episcopalians, it is surprising to find virtually none of them in these parts. What is still more surprising, many of the people seem never to have heard of those denomina tions. Any American who be longs to either and who has the "big head" over his church, ought to visit this country, and it will give his sectarian pride a jolt. A large per cent of the people never heard of John Wesley and John Knox, and some evidently never heard of John the Baptist. I had a pleas ant conversation with a gentle man over in Rotterdam a man holding a good position and well posted in the affairs of his own country and I never could make him "understand what I meant by a uaptist. I tried him on the Methodists and he dropped his head, studied for a moment, and repeated to himself, "Messen gers? Messengers?" and then answered that he knew of none. I changed the subject. II. The Belgians do some things like they do over in Holland, but not a great many. They tax doors, windows and. dogs, and also a special tax tor every ser vant you keep and for every horse you keep. Not an ad valorem tax on the horse, but for having a horse; and like wise a tax for having a servant. The dogs also are put to work and are worked hard! a veteran of the civil war, lost a ! leg at Gettysburg and still car-: ries in his body eleven bullets from Southern guns. He showed me a gold medal given him by Congress for bravery on;the bat tlefield. His tribute to Southern soldiers was outspoken and un doubtedly sincere. After the war he went South and married a Georgia lady. Speaking of his marriage he used these words, "I decided that the nicest women in the world lived south of Mason and Dixon's line," He has no children and the President will heir his medal, Sword, etc. Col. Roosevelt has been in the consu lar service twenty-nine years continuously. He writes well in prose and verse, and iet me see a witty poem on Mr. Cleveland and the Mugwumps, which so amused Mr. Cleveland that he sent for Col. Roosevelt and told that he could keep his consular position. Some of his conversation tick led my State pride. Said he, "I am glad to meet a North Caro linian. I have met them when it was not a pleasure to do so, happily those days are gone. The State owns and operates The North Carolina soldiers were the best fighters m the war, and ahe Northern army so considered them. They always staid long- Col. Roosevelt facetiously its railroads and the service is very satisfactory and popular with the people, so I am in formed. But how it would work in our country is another ques tion. It might work all right and it might not I leave that to the politicians. While in Brussels I have looked up some historical places and visited them. I was anxious to see the house in which occurred that famous ball given by the Dutchess of Richmond on the eve of the battle of Waterloo, er. remarked that the North Caro lina soldiers looked taller to the Northern soldiers than any other people, and, said he, "ar, the battle of Williamsburg the Tar Heels looked like they were ten feet high and our boys turned and ran. "In order to see wheth er or not they were correct in their oppinion, he said they measured the first North Caro- and which was immortalized by ! lina prisoner that they captured Byron in the poem beginning, j and he was seven feet and two There was a sound of revelry by inches tall. He said many nice night," etc. Like the birth of Andrew Jack son, it happened at more than one place. There is no trouble in finding the place four of them. No things about the Southern peo ple and their hospitality which I will not take space to repeat. A lawyer has a hard row to -tnere are : travel in Belgium. He is required one really I offonrl low cfVmnla Tnr civ knows where it took place, but i Vfiars wre hp can tret license to practice, r or three years these clever people are always ready to gratify the traveller's love for the historical or the heroic. One guide was showing some visitors the sights. He pointed out a painting of a very noted warrior and said to the visitors that the general he was telling them about lost a leg in every battle he fought. A mo ment later one of the party ask ed him how many battles was that noted general in. was his prompt reply. But there is no doubt where Waterloo is, and I spent a day there. The field of battle is three miles from the village of Waterloo, but Wellington had his headquarters in that village and from there wrote his dis patches. On the field .is an earthen mound 200 after coming to the bar he is assigned to appear for poor people with out a fee. (After three years the court cannot assign him to do such work) . As a rule it takes ten years before he can support himself by his practice, making sixteen years before he can get a living out of his pro fession. And yet, in this city there are 821 lawyers and all of Forty, " 1 1 -.eni rjch. But they were rich when they took up the law. A poor man can hardly become a lawyer here. The Belgian lawyers have an unusually high code of profess ional ethics. They are not allow ed to advertise, nor permitted to talk to clients out of their offices (except at client's home when cuuimuua caruieii muuuu vou : sick) No Qne js allowed to feet high and 1,700 feet in cir- bring a client to a lawyer's office, cumference. It was built en- j Law partnerships are not allow tirely by female labor. Several j ed and the g21 lawyers here are hundred women were four years ; an aione in thA practice. Thev in raising it. They carried the dirt in baskets and received eight cents per day for their work. At the top is a large bronze lion. You ascend the mound by 225 steps, and from the top the positions of the armies can easily be seen. An elderly English man (whose grandfather was in the fight) was on hand to point out and explain the whole thing. He appears to take much pleas ure in doing so but takes more pleasure in annexing your cash for his speech. Nearby is a museum full of doleful reminders of that fatal day caps, coats, guns, pistols, sabers, bullets, cannon balls, bones, skulls, etc., including Napoleon's silver spurs and brass coffee kettle. And what was it all for? Victor Hugo, who visit ed Hougomont f arm years after wards, sums it up as follows: "Arson, massacre, carnage: a stream composed of English, French and German blood furi ously mingled; a well filled with corpses: the Nassau regiment and the Brunswick regiment de stroyed; Duplat killed; Blackman killed; the English guards muti lated; twenty French battalions of the forty composing Reille's corps decimated; three thousand men in this chateau of Hougo mont alone, sabred gashed butch ered, shot and burnt all this that a peasant may say to a traveller at the present day, 'If you like to give me three francs, sir, I will tell you all about the battle of Waterloo.' "; III. Our Consul General at Brus sells, is George Washington Roos evelt, of Pennsylvania, a first cousin of the President, and a splendid fellow he is. He -has all the dash, gallantry and intel ligence, of "Teddy," and even greater magnanimity. He has a lofty opinion of the Southern people, and his praise of them is generous and unstinted. He is regard the relation of attorney and client so strictly confidential that only one lawyer should en joy that relation towards a client. There is no such thing here as the "damage suit" lawyer with his healers and drummers work ing up cases on a commission. For the least violation of the rules a lawyer is promptly dis barred. I was privileged to meet the counsel for the English and American legations in Belgium, Mr. G. de Level of Brussels. He is a Belgian but speaks English well. Last year he visited America and lectured "at Yale, Cleveland and other places . on international law. Next April he will again visit our country and lecture before law schools in the South, and said he would be glad to lecture in our State. He makes no charge whatever. He is a lawyer of large means and travels and lectures for his own pleasure. IV. I paid a visit to the "Palace of Justice" in this city, in which twenty-seven different courts are held. The building is a gigantic structure which cost $12,000,000 and is made of mar ble of nearly, every country in the. world. Many . of the doors are made of American oak. Some of the courts were in ses sion and I dropped in to witness a Belgian trial. In one room the divorce mill was running rapidly and grinding out separa tions for the unhappy. Each applicant sat by his or her attor ney, and when the case was called the party would move over near the judges; no jury in such case. Some of the women seeking divorces were good look ing and no doubt would be will ing to risk another venture. The lawyers wear gowns and dark caps in court. They have no jury in civil cases whatever, and have a jury in only a very few criminals cases,, where the pun ishment is capital or the impris onment five years or more, or in political crimes and offences where the press is concerned. Capital punishment is still ad judged but neVer carried out. Even in larceny there is no jury. I saw a woman tried for larceny and three judges tried the issue of her guilt or innocence. Her lawyer was making a game fight for her, but the Belgian lawyer has a small ring in which to fight. The judges can consider any kind of evidence they wish to hear, or they can reject any testimony they do not care to hear. Only the judges can ques tion the witness, and if they start a swift and biased witness to talking the lawyer has no way of stopping the witness. Their rules ot evidence are not like ours, or rather the judges are not hampered by any rules of evidence. They have no such thing as cross examination of witnesses. The nearest thing to it is, a lawyer may ask the judge to please ask the witness so and so, but the lawyer can't speak to A 1 "J A me witness. An attorney can address the opposing counsel only through the court. There is no such thing as side remarks or personal thrusts at the oppos ing lawyer. Some of our lawyers would get in .nail in five minutes if they were to try a case here. In the case referred to above, the woman's fawyer would speak to the court, the court would make some remarks to the prose cuting attorney, and then the latter would address the court, Part of the tims both lawyers were addressing the court at the same time, and once the court and the lawyers were all talking at the s:irae time. For small offences one judge tries the case. The great writ of habeas cor pus has no place in the Belgian law. Their laws are taken from the Code Napoleon, but modified to suit the spirit of modern times and the customs of the country. They have no sxich institution as the grand jury, but have a "pub lic prosecutor." His functions correspond somewhat to those of our grand jury. He is a lawyer (but does not practice) and lays criminal charges before a crim inal judge and the latter issues a warrant. Whenever a jury is allowed, twenty-four men are summoned and each side can stand aside six. Trials are pub lic. They have no municipal courts. There are justices of the peace who may try petty offenders. The next court tries any crime, and in civil matters may try anything up to $500 without the right of appeal. When the amount involved is over $500, the losing party may appeal. The next in order is the "Court of Appeals" and then the "Court of Cassation," or Supreme Court. They have separate courts for merchants and mercantile matters. Their laws and the method of their administration are very different from ours and possess not the excellence of out system. Their trials are tame affairs. I wish they could see our lawyers try a case. An old fashion "rough and tumble" American trial would shock Belgian judges and lawyers but they would see a better .'method of getting at the truth than they have. Brussels, BeLGiUM. doors: now AT THE GATE. Lift up your heads, unfold ye Before the New Year's portal The King ot uiory wi. The gray dawn oreans; me - waxes; . The bells of New Year ring. Throw wide the. gateway oi w And welcome in me . . i i flanA and The Hosts of troe auu Hate, , e. The Lords of Shame and Sm, These all await tne openings-"- And haste to enter in. the threshold tasi hail the King XIOV.wu ---- . This rebel ssawn wT.".r tu mtiu nrirle nine to. nd.ii Whose ngni n ws No pomp and pageantry i No elint of shieia a bi.w, But hfpe and joy and righteousness Attend His meek advance. Love is the banner over Him, Peace is His gift to men. , Lift high your Tieads, ye New Year a gates. And let your King come in. -W. E. G., in Christian Evangelist. jo. G. Hendricks Prosperity is General. Increase in wages has become a regular feature of the daily news. All over the country wages are going up, and while higher wages must make the cost of living go up the increase is comparatively small. The average increase in wages is 10 per cent., the average increase in the expense of living is about 2 per cent, above normal. In every trade there is a scarcity of hands. All who want work can get it and get it at good wages. The increased wages paid to mechanics enhances the cost of building and that raises the rent, but an abundance of work and good wages makes an increase in rent and living expenses a light burden. It is much better than no work at. any kind of wages. The general prosperity has come and stayed under a Protec tive Tariff. It is insured for two years more by the Republi can majority in Congress. wnen the time comes, if it ever does come, when the Demo crats get either Congress or the Tresidency and begin tinkering the tariff, prosperity will recede just as it did a dozen years ago. The talk about changes in the Tariff will do very well for the minority party. It must have something for an issue, but so long as the people remember the Democrats hard times the Demo crats will be the minority party in Congress and in the Presiden tial issue. Jersey City Journal. A CALL FOR A SQUARE DEAL. We are not prepared to go as far as The Monroe Enquirer does in rri'timam of Senator Simmons on account of the bushels of charges he has filed against Fed eral office-holders m North Caro lina for their pernicious activity in politics, but are prepared to who eats his bread from the hand of a politi norfv tnA vpt does not lift his own hand to do anything he can in a decent way for that party is a tolerably sorry white man Rprintir Simmons would have a Door opinion of a Demo cratic office-holder who pursued nf inaction which he would enforce upon Republican office-holders. He has not pro tested against the political activ ityof any Democratic State or fonnr.v officer and should not - protest. In the Cleveland days there were postmaster-editors in North Carolina and office-holders in various branches of the Fed eral service who were openly active as party workers, as they should have been, and no voice of obiection was heard. Yet no table among Senator Simmons' chareres is one aerainst Mr. R. D Douglas, the editor of the Indus trial News, of Greensboro, a pa per of especially high character, which manifests at all times a purpose to tell the truth and be fair, who has been nominated for postmaster of his town and whose nomination is held up by the postoffice committee of the Senate, of which Mr. Simmons is a member, largely at the in stance, according to report, of Representative Kitchin, of the fifth district, our next Governor, because Mr. Douglas wrote some thing in his paper though noth ing defamatory or insulting about him, which Mr. Kitchin did not like. We cannot under stand the affiliation with the Re publican party of a man like Mr. Douglas, but in an justice ne is entitled to his confirmation. No doubt some of the people against whom Senator Simmons has filed charges which he de mands be investigated, have act et scandalously and should be ousted, but this cannot be said of men who have merely, without neglect of their official duties, done decent and legitimate, ser vice for their party, and it is not right to demand their punish ment, when, were conditions re versed, there would be a mighty outcry if there were registered charges against Democrats . who had acted similarly. The import ot this writing is simply the suggestion of a square deal to every man. Observer. T I ft & Company's ! One Price Cash Store! Leads all dealers in quality, style and prices in f Men's and Children's' Shoes, j The Screemer shoes for men has no i equal, every pair warranted. I The Old Virginia shoe for cheaper f grade for women and children cannot be 4 excelled in price and quality. g Largest stock of U A TQ I in town. 1 1 j The celeorated .TrVm r st0trn hat No. , i 1 Quality, at $3.50, whiie others chargo $4.50, other grades in proportion. A beautiful line of RUGS Children's suits, men's rain coats, men's and boys pants, Infact everything usually kept in a first- class general store, including a full line of Heavy and fancy groceries. All kinds of country produce; cross-ties and chair stock taken in exchange for merchandise. They have recently erected a number of new stalls for the accommodation - of the public. Vv'hen you come to town, come dire-t to Hendrick's stalls where you will find a good place for your horses T I t THE DRUG STORE, (next door To the bank.) We carry a full stock of the purest and freshest drugs to be had. If you want BOOKS, STATIONERY OR MAGAZINES, give us a call. Our circulating LIBRARY will be in operation soon, come in and see it. ASHEBORO DRUG CO. J. D. SIMPSON, Manager. KKXX0X0C000 ( LEWIS & W1NSL0W HARDWARE CO. If you need A BUGGY, WAGON, PLOW, RANGE OR STOVE, BUILDERS HARDWARE, Or anything- in the HARDWARE LINE, WE are the people jtou are looking for. We carry in stock The HIGH POINT BUGGY. The best brand of . O STOVES 0 on the market. Lewis & Winslow Hdw. Co. 00X00OOXHXKX00KKK OOOOOOOO Parent and Child. The preacher thinks of the poor salary and the deprivation and he longs for his boy to be com fortable and independent; or he reflects upon the joy he has had in the service, and he wants that joy shared by his son. The lawyer reflects bitterly how he is compelled to earn fees in dis tasteful causes and wants his boy to be able to call his soul his own; or else he longs to give the boy the benefit of his own reputation and experience. The doctor thinks of the ceaseless suspense and broken nights and hopes his boy will be spared them; or else he thinks he would be able to give the boy a better start in hjs own office and wants him to practice medicine. It is love that calls us into the world, it is love that watches over our early years and craves the best for us in life and mourns for us with unswerving fidelity when we are gone Generation after generation this solicitude of parent for child runs like a silver thread through the variegated pattern on life's loom. It is the sufficient answer to the pessi mist. It is the sufficient demon stration of the benevolence of the principle that sustains the universe in its august ' course, from the tiniest globule of sand along the shore to the soul of man with all its majesty of in tellect and aspirations toward the divine. Star. Peoples House Furnishing Company HIGH POINT, North Carolina 35-41 SOUTH MAIN STPKUT Everything in Furnishings . for the Home Furniture Carpets Mattings Curtains Shades Rugs Comforts Blankets Clocks Lamps Stoves Heaters Couches Book CasEs Crockery Glassware ?Il?,saIile a"' Grate . Shades made to order D. N. WELBORN CHAS. S. WELBORN SPOON & REDDING KEEP ON HAND AT ALL . TIMES A FULL AND COMPLETE LINE Heavy and Fancy Groceries. And will seli as cheap as the cheapest. Quality cpnsidered. GOODS DELIVERED ANYWHERE IN TOWN. ARMFIELD & LAUGIIUN, REAL ESTATE DEALERS. ReSIDEXCTR TOTS IX SlZKK AND Terms to Suit Purchasers.
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