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VOL XXXU. - ' ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1907 No 2l
Business Man in Politics
Business Man's Interests.
J. All.KN HOLT,
Conjuring Rod of Lobbyists.
Much has been said during the
last few years about taking care Of
the business man's interests, both at
the National Capitol and at capitol
cities of various states, when Con
gress and the Legislatures are in
session. I propose to analyze the
meaning of the term so far as I can
understand it, and have been able
to observe. The term has been vised
as a conjuring rod of lobbyists.
The lobbyists have almost invariably
been in the employ of trusts, rail
road companies,' telegraph and tele
phone companies, insurance com
panies, and protected manufacturers.
These lobbyists usually make com
mon cause ami whenever a piece of
legislation, ho vever just and in the
interest of the whole people, is pro
posed; these at once and altogether,
raise a great shout that the '-business
interests of the country are mei.
aced" by drastic and unwise legisla
tion. Furnished with ample funds,
they set about to defeat such legis
lation; they get around the reporters
and send out alarming reports to the
newspapers throughout the state
and country. They try to impress
upon the ordinary conservative legis
lator or congressman, who honestly
desires to aid the great mass of the
people, that he is -'wild and woolly"
and that his little bill is populistic;
they flatter, cajole, and abuse and
arrange to have hundreds of letters
and telegrams sent to him at the
psychological moment, with the ex
pectation of controlling his vote.
They are past-masters ia the art of
controlling legislation, and generally
uceeed.
Opposes Business Interests.
Now, the purpose of this brief
article is to deny thai these men,
who constitute themselves guardians
of the business interests of the
country, have any authority what
ever to represent the business man.
As I said before, they represent only
the great trnst combinations and
monopolies, whichjare usually trying
to get control of the business, or en
deavoring to prevent the enactment
of laws which will disturb the sys
tematic robbery and injustice in
which they are engaged.
Legislator And People I u Common.
The average legislator has no de
sire or purpose to interfere with any
legitimate "business interests of his
state." He is as keenly alive to the
interests of his constituents involv
ing all the enterprises of his state,
as the lobbyists who essay to in
struct him: and, at the same time,
he is not retained by any fee which
would prevent his regarding his
oath of office to legislate for the
whole people. If he is dishonest
enough to be influenced by any re
tainer, it is always in the interest
of the very men who maintain the
lobby. The interests of the great
mass of business men are the inter
ests of the whole people. To every one
business man who raises a hue and
cry about adverse legislation, there
are one thousand such men saying
nothing and attending strictly to
business at home, who would proba
bly be helped by the legislation pro
posed. Same In legislature.
Let us for a moment take some
conciete examples. The railroad
lobby the past winter was perhaps
londest in its outcry against propos
ed legislation. It fought every bill
before the legislature, without a
single exception.
And yet, there were ten thousand
business men in the State of North
Carolina petitioning the legislature
by letter and telegram to give tberu
relief from unfair freight rates. So
earnest were they in this matter
that they were willing to defer pas
senger rate reduction to get the re
lief desired. Had the Legislature
listened to the cry of the railroad
lobby, neither passenger rate nor
freight rate reduction would have
been obtained. Again, where one
busineis man would have been hurt
by anti-trust legislation a thousand
business men would have been help
ed, and ten thousand farmers and
others upon whom the ordinary bus
iness man depends for Bupport
would have beeB helped. Take the
buggy manufacturer; if the farmers
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Oak Kidge, X. C.
RANDOLPH AT GUILFORD.
Si, J. Coltrane elected to Position at
University of Tennessee Pour Mem
bers of Graduating Class.
Randolph County was well repre
sented in the commencement exer
rises of the Guilford College last
week. I1 our members of the grad
uating class were natives of Ran
dolph and took a prominent part
in the exercises.
C. C. Frazier, son of Cyrus Fra
zier, and David Petty, son of J do.
Petty, of Greensbjro, bat who forj
merh lived in Randolph; Miss Lin
nie Shamburge, daughter of Mr.
and Mr?. Peter Shuroburavr, of
Hills Store, and E. J. Coltrane, of
New Market, all graduated with
honors.
It has been announce ) that Mr.
Coltrane has been elected ti a pos
ition as teacher at the University
of Tennessee.
( The Telephone Monopoly.
The Greensboro people propose
to make it warm for the Bell Tele
phone Company '-not only foi
raising rates," the Greensboro cor
respondent of the News and Observer
says, ,4biit if the reported statements
of sme prominent men are correct,
of unfair discrimination and op
pressive rules."
Government owuership is not
practicable and the American peo
ple do not desire it. It is sure to
come, however, witfl the inevitable
crash to follow, if public service
corporations of which the Bell
Company is one, do not deal fairly
with the people and with ail alike.
Salisbury Post.
Death Wear Spero.
Mrs. Woodburn, mother of Mrs. J.
R. Steed, of Ashehoro, died at the
borne of her sou, Watson Woodburn,
near Spero, Saturday.; The burial
took place at Charlotte Church Sun
day afternoon.
The deceased had been in declin
ing health for several months, old
age being the cause.
Besides Mrs Steed and Mr. Wood
burn the deceased is survived by
another daughter, Mrs. Arncgton
Bunting, of Greensboro.
Marriage Announcement of Interest.
The people in the city generally
will be interested in the following
announcement.
Mr. and Mrs. David Stanton Davis
announce the marriage ot their daughter
Jennie
to
Mr. Jacob L. W eJbora
on Thursday, May 23rd, 1907
Greensbero.N. C.
At home Burlington, Ni C. After Jane 1 .
RandlemaE's Xtw Paper.
We acknowledge receiDt of The Cen
tral North Carolinian, published at
ttanuieman each week. .Tbe paper
is edited by W. I. Boone, a
veteran in newspaper work and
presents a nice appearance. Its
columns are brieht and newsv
and the advertising patronage is
gooa. ine uouner extenus con
gratulations to both Randleman and
the management of the new enter
prise. North Carolina Bailding Ooe ot Tbc
Handsomest.
Raleigh, May 31. Joseph E.
Pogue has returned from the James
town Exposition whre he spent
severaljdays as director genera1, rush
ing the work of installing the ex
hibits from North Carolina. He
says the North Carolina building,
one of the very hansomest on the ex
position grounds is now ready to
turn over to the State.
Death at Cole's MIUs.
Mr. A. N. Mclver died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. J. W.
Cole of Cole's mills on the night of
the 20tb ult, in the 86th year of his
age. Mr. Cole was one of Moore
county's beBt citizens aad hia death
is deplored by a large family con
nection and a host of friends.
A Wet Grave.
Ed. Dockery, a negro, returning
from Wadesboro toMt. Gilead last
week, well tanked with whiskey,
drove into Pee Dee river, and was
drowned. His body and seven gal
lons of liquor were recovered a tew
hours liter.
BISCOE DRAMATIC CLUB.
East Lynne Presented With Marked
Success Thursday Night.
The presentation of ''East Lynne"
by the Biscoe Dramatic Club at the
Academy Chapel Thursday night,
was greeted by a well filled house
an at the close the audience was
delighted. Frequent applause dur
ing the performance expressed the
appreciation of the excellent work.
The play is one often played by
professional troops, but seluoni is it
presented with more success. The
stage settings were fine and the
parts were executed with ease, each
entering heartily into the spirit of
the play.
Miss May Shatnburger, in the
dual role of Lady Isabel and
Madam Vine, was excellent, a
was Herbet Sink, as Archibald
CarlvK Mr. Frank I'ase. as Sir
Francis Lvison, the villain, and
Miss Jane Cogiriu as Miss Carlyle.
Thae wf-re the principle char
acters and thev were strongly
supp irte-1 with equal ease by the
remainder of the cast, which was
published last week.
The audience was delighted, and
so well the death-bed scenes
plaved that there were few tearless
eves i" the ho'is?.
GRADED SCHOOL FOR BISCOE.
The First Session Will HeiOpeued ext
September.
At a recent election in Biscoe the
question of graded schools was
carried by a majority of thirty.
Arrangem nts are beiug made to
es'abhsh the graded school begia
ning with the September term. Mr.
Hays Taylor, of Durham, has been
elected principal and Miss Elizabeth
Liles, of Jonesboro, assistant. Miss
Liles has just closed a most success
ful school term here, and i3 a young
ladv of rare accomplishments.
The machinery for Francis Cotton
Mill at Biscoe has nearly all been
placed, and the mill will probably
be in condition to begin operation
within a few weeks.
Many new dwelling houses are
being erected in Biscoe, and the
demand for such houses exceeds the
supply.
STAMiN(; OF CANDIDATES.
The names of ladies who have le
oeiveJ votes sit.ee the contest began
appear below:
ItlMEtU 1,
His Lena Roams ooflfi
(orinnu Aummi Hr0
" May liK-kons ffcttso
' bcttie SoamltTirer 7195
' Fuimie Birkhmd 4:-i05
" Iulu Anlrcws MM!K
" M.iv HMifi
' 'hloe LassiU-r dwr,
" Hunri' tia Ik-iit:is s!440
Ada Newbv. IKSIO
" Kona Yow l.SoO
" No'a Kuuoy ws
Mrs. W.L. Keller 50U
" H. L. Kearns 7t',90
-Vl'lIBEK 2.
Mrs. L. F. Fentress 711H0
Hint Flrui Paii. , 500
Lnvey Swaira Sou
(Sal lie Settle. never 50o
Clara Wall 2i;6
Ethel Hurker .Vfru
Luura Stiinsi.H UMto
lilaiK'he coviijgton M)c.
Annie Hlucit lii4r
Ora skmtt SI 00
hoi lie Thomas 600
Florence Luther looo
Killie Koust : 6o0
Lena Smith eoo
Lizzie Smith Wo
Kaisy Osborn 1800
Pwanna Lnwdenullk 1705
Fleta Hatch . doe
Martiua Kobbius 5460
Hess Parmer 9030
Cozy Fox uoo
Pearl Chumnese Boo
Alleen White iiuo
Wiuuie Causey Mut
Kl'MBF.K 8.
Miss Lola Bnitnn 500
" (allte Nance
" Bertha Lewis 3415
" Claudia I'ickens, ftoO
" Ron Wade 500
" Ethel Bipps mo
' MiunieHall 510
Jennie Bruum 4,'tK)
' Mary Boarboro lUtiM
NUMBER 4.
' Muud urnier 500
" Florence Kush 600
Mrs. Geo. H. Yow H)q
MINISTERS.
DISTRICT A0.1.
3. H. Btowe 656
N. R. Richardson ... aoi",
W. R. Swain 4640
B. F. Hargett 565
J. W. liiRle M615
C. A. Wood MO
J. W. Frank 500
C. M. Campbell SM
NUMBER 2.
K. C. Homer r.RN
P. T. Moyle fi!5
W. R. Evans 500
I). N. Caveiiws 560
J. J. Kads 945
NUMBER S.
Parker Holmes 5o0
M.D.HiekB 500
J. H. Moton 500
Henry Sheet BIO
J.D.Newton BOO
Jefiereou Lannlng 500
J. S. Smith, living at the Syd
Alford place in Grant township, has
a plack cat which has 4 kittens, one
of which has a bead, ears and
tail like a rabbit bat feet and claws
like a kitten. Wesley Brower, a re
spectable colored man living in
Asheboro, says he saw this on April
29 of this year.
AN AGED LADY DEAD.
Mrs. Xanry Hiirrow Died at Hume of
Her Daughter Monday Morning.
Mrs. Nancy Burrow, wife of late
Jno. Burrow, died Monday morning
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
J. H. Wright, two miles south of
Asheboro. She was 70 years old.
She hud been a patient sufferer with
dropsy for Eo-ne time. She is sur
viveJ by two sons and three daugh
ter: Messrs Milton H. Burrow and
Walter Burrow, of Troy; Mrs. J. H
Wright, of Ashebo-o;" Mrs. Chas.
Miller, of Central Falls, and Mrs.
Fletcher King, of Troy.
The fuueral occurred Tuesday,
arid the body interred at Brower's
Chape'. Ti e deceased was a daugh
ter of Joseph Keddlng who di?d
many years u;o at his home three
miles west of Asheboro. lie was at
one time a member of the legislature
from this county.
v TRUST RIDDEN.
(ii-ccif-lion. .loins W iii-tnii-Sal) 111 Miite
vllle, tt. a Is., in Itebeliion Against
ISell Telephone t'o.
Greensboro. N. C, May 30.
Tlwre are sijjus of another sympo
sium of divergence of views here in
letrard to public utility corpo
rations, m) opolies. ieal'y. The
Bell Telephone people are being
fired at. not only for raising rates,
but if the reported statements of
some prominent men are co rect, of
unfair discrimination and oppies
sive rules. One of these kicks
comes from a prominent firm of
manufacturers, where 'phone has
oeen removed and service denied be
caus' they refused to pay for service
a month in advance. They say
because the Bell has a monoply is
no sufficient reason for it to compel
what no other form of industry
does, paymeat in advance for service
to be done.
FAMINE IN RUSSIA.
Estimated That A Hundred Thousand
Infants Have Perished.
Twenty million peasants are
starving to death in rive provinces
of Iv'issia. Hundreds of thousands
have succumbed to lack of food and
shelter in the winter just passed.
An appalling number of babies
estimated at anvwhere from 100,000
to twice as maay, have perished,
beaming with claw-like hand against
the hreasts of mothers who were
unable to give them sustenance.
As to Premium Publications.
A great many old subscribers
have recently paid up and piid a
full year in advance. Theie are
also many new subscribers who have
paid a full year in advance. We
have directed those who are collect
ing for The Courier to offer certain
premiums to all those who have
paid a full ycai in advance. These
premiums are annuul subscriptions
to c-rtuiu newspapers and maga
zines and are never given except
when requested. So if you do not
get the premiums and are entitled
to them vou should after, a reason
able time, write us requesting that
the premium publications be sent. Do
not wait until the year is out and
then complain.
Will Move to Asheboro.
T. D. Harris, of Liberty, returned
home Monday after spending several
days in Asheboro on business. Mr.
Harris has recently disposed of his
interests at Liberty and announces
his intention to move back to
Asheboro. Mr. Harris is a good
citizen and the announcement is
heard with pleasuie by our people.
Mrs. Blair's Trial This Week.
A Colombia. S. C, dispatch says:
Mrs. Ethel W. Blair, the handsome
Greensboro woman who killed her
husband, conductor Blair, at Col urn
bia several weeks ago, will face the
jury of Richland criminal court this
week. Mrs. Blair has been out on
bail since the preliminary hearing,
Crimes-Olive.
Miss Erie Olive and' Mr. Koscoe
Grimes, both of Tbomisvil'e, wer
married at the Baptist parsonage
there last week. Ine marriage was
a surprise to their many fnends.
The bride is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. J. Olive, who formerly
lived at Randleman.
G. Sam Bradsaaw and W. J.
Sherrod, of Greensboro, have formed
a partnership for the practice of
law.
Construction and Cost
Of Good Public Roads.
JOHN W. IIAVS,
FISH STORY.
Whitney Dam Credited With Storking
1 he luliarrie Willi Fine Specimen
of The Finny Tribe.
A letter fiom X. II. Thornburg,
of Hill's Store, tells of a handsome
catch by fishermen near the mouth
of "Silver Run" creek.
He writes that when the river had
ceased to rise from the recent beavv
rain, Jake Briles, a lucky angler,
lowered a gate made of chicken wire
across the mouth of the creek which
empties into the Uwharrie river
about three miles above Lassiter's
Mill. Sunday (veiling when the
waters subsided large fish were seen
to bend the wiie in their efforts to
reach the river bed. Monday morn
ing Briles aided by the Gainer boys,
Drought to shore six carp. I be
smallest one weighed 2?J pounds
and measured 34 inches.
STRONG A CONVICT.
Moving Picture Man Serving Sentence
011 t.uutoru lounty Koaris.
John F. Strong, convicted of em
bezzlement in Guilford co'tnty at
the last term of court, has begun
his sentence of 18 months at hard
labor. The Record says petition is
being circulated for his pardon.1
fetrong spent several davs in
Asheboro last fall with a moving
picture machine, giving perfor
mances at the academy and at other
towns in this and adjoining counties.
The Courier did a laige amount of
printing for him which is still open
on this ledger.
The Wrong Man.
G. M. Patterson, a clever and re
spected young man of Mooresville,
was arrested last week on the charge
of murder, whicB was committed at
Chester, S. C, March 28 1898.
He has been at Mooresville three
years and foimerly lived at Greens
boro. He was cloth inspector at a
cotton mill at Mooresville-
The case of the arrest of G. M.
Patterson at Mooresville unon a
warrant from South Carolina charg
ing him with murder has been closed
because of the failure of the author
ities to establish his identity. The
murder was committed at Chester
bv one Upcburch whom Patterson
is said to resemble. He is not the
man.
Patrick Henry Day.
The Anniversary of the passage
by the Virginia House of Burgesses
on May 30, 1765, of Patrick Henry's
famous resolution against the British
stamp act, was celebrated as Patrick
Henry Day at the Jamestown Ex
position Friday with William Jen
nings Bryan as the central figure in
a speech delivered in the convention
hall on the exposition grounds be
fore 2,000 people on the subject
"Taxation Without Representation
Is Tyranny."
Ross-McKay.
Friends in Asheboro have received the fol
lowing canis:
Mrs. Keill McKay
requests the honor of
presence at the marriage of her daughter
Frances Iteid
to
Mr. Charles Ross
on the afternoon of Wednesday June twelfth
at six o'clock
at the Summerville Presbyterian Church
Snmmerville, North Carolina.
Mr.
Arthur Ieach Completes Ijiw
Course.
Capt. R. Leach, conductor on the
A. & A. vestibule, is off on a vaca
tion. Capt. Leach left Monday
morning for Chattanooga to attend
the commencement at Grant Uni
versity, where his brother, Arthur
Leach, completes a course of study
inlaw. Vice President Fairbanks
spoke to the graduating class there
Tuesday night.
Attempted to Kill Himself.
The Lexington Dispatch says T.
C. Loflin, a merchant of that place
attempted suicide last Weduesdav
by taking laudanum and cutting his
thi oat. Business troubles was the
canse.
Hon. J. R. Blair, of Troy, was
in Asheboro yesterday. '
Civil i:nKineer.
Not only is a badly located road
l"ss efficient for teaming but it is
moie expensive in maintenance.
Steep grades wash and mateiial put
upon such roads finds its way quick
ly in toditches. The ditches Wash in
to gulches. And soon money and la
boi are both lost, leaving regret and
disappointment. Several years ago
I rode over an improved ro id in one
of the middle counties. Loam was
being spread upon clay roads that
haJ been hub deep in winter mud
since the oldest could remember.
The surfiice work being done was
beautiful, the very nest of its kind
so far as treatment of material was
involved. It seente I like a dream to
glide smoothly over the old time
sloughs and clay hummocks. Re
cently I drove over this road and
theie was scarcely au evidence upon
these clay hills of the beautiful work
I had seeu. The labor - had beeu
put upon old roads having tea and.
twelve per cent grade. The good!
material now lay in the bottom of
the creeks gone with the sprkg rains
Ilad this road beeu relocated around
these hillsides 1 educing grade to three,
or four per cnt the excellent mater
ia! used would be doing service today-
Change Location if Necessary.
Location should follow the old
reads only so lar as old roads may
be the best location. Radical change
is not to be sought for the novelty
of change but only when shifting
d wn th s hillside and up that wet
ho'low will effect decided improve
ment. Remember that these loca
tions are being mad for many years
of service, perhaps centuries, and
should be made regardless of whose
low ground or pasture lot they enter
Probaly no man will be more" direct
ly benefitted than that honest felloe
who grows red in the face and talks
of shot guns when the road stakes
are set in his fieids. He had pulled
his mules, his father's and his grand
father's out of that old hill and yet
thinks he will be ruined by a broad
level road through his pasture lot.
Never fear, he will come around all
right when he sees the finished road,
clean and firm, approaching in long
straight lines and sweeping in regu
lar cnives about his home provided
always that you will have done a
goofjob.
A Good IOCstioB.
Good location seeks the sunny side
of hills where possible, and if
through woods aud swamps the trees
and shrubbery should be cleared
away that winds and sun may do
their work. Through middle Caro
lina the grade need rarely exceed
three or four per cent. Over such
giade a horse will draw a buggy in
a trot without fatigue. The road
leading west from Durham towards
Hillsboro and seen from the railway
is only i per cent except where the
engineers location was subsequently
changed by the road-builders. Two
crossings of the railway were made
by them here, over arid back, in
order to follow the old location past
the farm bouse of one of the road
officials. The Engineer's location,
would have avoided both railway
crossings and at less expense for
construction. On this 2 per cent
road a team can draw more than
three times the load which it Jean draw
on a ten per cent road. Or to put it
in another way a farmer can take
to town over this road in one trip
what on a ten per cent grade would
require thrte trips. I heard one man
say, "Before this loud was built I
loaded what my mules could pull,
an now I load what my wagon can
stand under." It is safe to say that
nowhere east of the mountains wil
a grade exc.e ling 5 per cent be
neceessary, while 3 per cent can
generally be found. .
Care Must be Exercised.
Location should be made in work
manlike manner. A house with
walls cut of a square and standing
out of plumb may be a) serviceable
as if it were square aud plumb but
few would accept such a house from
bnilders. It is unworkmanlike. It
does not suggest 6kill and efficiency
It is poor work, even if it does keep
out wind and rain. Likewise a road
which does not show evidenoe of
good workmanship 13 not satisfying
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