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GO R EM. I I T5he COURIER . Leads in Both News and J3he COURIER Advertising Columns J Bring Results. J I Circulation. Issued Weekly. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. $1.00 Pr Year NolT VOL XXXIII. ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, April 9, 1908. K jLa IMPORTANT MOVE. Democrats Succeeding in Foicing Peoples' Will. TRUST CONTROLLED REPUBLI. CAN REBELLIONS. President Notified of What leniorraU ' In Congress Want and Will De mand fur the Peopls of the Nation. 1hi'Iii1 Cirremilt,ni'e. Cong rteis is still standing put and the Republican members would be quite williug to adjourn after pass ing the appropriation bill if they did not fear the effect of such do nothing policy upon the vjters. No reform lull ha been passed by Con gress a'id from the first there has been no intention by the Republican leaders .of allowing any such legisla tion, even that recommended by Piesident Roosevelt. An exception, perhaps if the Aldnch currency bill which liis.pased the Senate in an emasculated form. The reason that the Republican 1-aders will try to pass tile Aldnch bill is that Ro :ke feller a:id Morg m ami Wall Street favor it, ami tlie amoirit of their contributions to the Republican campaign lund evidently depends upon its favorable consideration. A stroug faction of the Republican memuers of Congress and all the Democrats are opposed to it and the businesi interest of tbecouutry favor the Fowler currency bill, if the ex pressions in its favor by commercial add banking organizations are a fair indication. It is said to be the in tention of the Republican leoders to hold a Republican caucus to force through the Aldnch bill. Needed legislation. On March 27th John Sharpe Williams, the Democ-atic leader in the House of Representatives, made a very important speech and an nouncement that there w-re some recommendations in the last mes sage to Congress by the President that, "are so immediately important to the interest of the entire country as to pass the bounds of partisan ship". Mr. Williams then publicly informed the country that "all the President has to do is to deliver twenty-nine Republican House votes in favor of such measures. These conjoined with the solid Democratic vote will put them through", lie then gave the recommendations of the Piesideut that the Democrats would support, namely: Campaign contribution publicity, within constitutional limit, giving names, post-office addresses, aud amounts of contributions to be pub lished before election. Regulation of child labor, hut not the unconstitutional Beveridge bill.- An employers' liability law. Compensation to Government em ploye) for injury or death incurred in its service. Requiring that no temporary re straining order should be issued by any court without notice. Abolishing the tariff duty on wood pulp and print paper. It seems unlikely that any of this important legislation will be allowed to come to a vote by the Republi can leaders unless the employers' liability bill introduced by Senator Knox be taken, which is not accept. able to Organized Labor. It also seems nnlikely that there will be enough Republican members, who will support the Presidents recom mendations, added to the Democrats, to pass such bills. To bring the Republican leaders to the point which will impress the conntrv with their do-nothing poll cies Mr. Williams gave notice that he would object to any unanimous consent for the consideration of bills and wonld require a roll call on all occasions when the rules of tne House required it. In other words, the Democrats will fillibuster until the Republicans act upon what the Democrats consider urgent legisla tion needed by the people. Two W ir Cloud". There are two war clouds on the political hon.m that although now no larger than a man s band may develon into storm centers. Al ready diplomatic relations with Venezuela are so strained that Presi dent Roosevelt finds himself unable to proceed f u rtlier in trying to ad just the differences about the as phalt and other ia-ues and the whole matter h.18 been r turret; to vjou gress. It is reported that the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has tentatively agreed on the vigorous program of placing a prohibitive tariff on Venezuela products and the exclusion of all importations of as phalt. Also that the President will be authorized to take whatever Bteps he may consider necessary to treat with Venezuela in the future. As President Castro has so far outwitted President Roosevelt in negoatims and as both thesa rulers are some what hotheaded, it is more than probable that armed force will be usedtobiing Castro to time. As to the merits of the asphalt question there is a strong presumption of Venezuela being in the right, but as the asphalt trust appears to be favor ed hy the Administration, Castro will "likely be bullied into submit ting to our demands. What may result in much more serious trouble is the Mill smaller cloud in Manchuna, which in ly in volve us with Japan ami iiussri L inter instructions from the IM-Ue Department our consul at Ilirhan has refused to acknowledge that either Japan or Russia has any tet- ritorial rights in Manchuria and looks to China alone us the soveiign power to deal with. I his is no loubt done to compel the "open loor" in Manchuria which, it is said, Japan has been closing in a de-j cided way, though hy round-about methods. With a Preside it thirst ing for glory in a war with some one there ij 110 telling whither we are drifting, and it. is quite possible that oeuding the fleet to the Pacific may have other than pacilio intentions. Rohekt Mili.ek. MR. COX BUYS IN THOMAS- VILLE. Thumasvllie College Property Sold Picker Stick Factor) Nearlng Completion. The Tbomasville correspondent to the Charlotte Observer says Prof. H. W. Reinhart has sold the old Tbom asville Female College property to Mr. 0. R. Cox, of Asheboro. $16,000 or more was involved iu the transaction. The correspondent wiites that Mr. Cox expects to move to Tbomasville iu May and will erect some manufacturing ecterpnse oo the property acquired by hnn. The new picker stick tactory ot O. R. Cox & Sons is being rapidly pushed toward completion. Hon. Locke Craig will speak at the Tnonia-ville opera house Friday night, April 10th. Lane Morgan Captured. Sheriff Kelly and Deputies Mc intosh and Jackson of Montgomery county captured Lane Morgan, a 30 year convict, who was sent to the penitentiary from Montgomery couu ty for murder, and who escaped af ter servitg six years, at the home of his motber.near Spies last week, lie will be returned to the peniten tiary to complete the twenty-four remaining years of his sentence. Khankle-Andrewr. Mt. Gilead, N. C, April 3rd. A quiet home weddiug was solemn ized at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. George Andrews in this coun ty lust Wednesday, when their daughter, Miss Mary, became the wife of Mr. Victor L. Shankle, of Norwood, the ceremony being per formed by Rev. J. A. Lee, pastor of the Methodist church, in the pres ence of a few friends. Utironxtltutlonal Tai. Senator Overman has offered an amendment to the bill which pro vides the payment ot $8,000,000 to the West for piblic laudsrefunding to the South $15,000,000 collected by unconstitutional tax on cotton from 18C6 to 1870. North Caro lina would secuie about $2,000,000 should congress act favoiably. Thirty-si Are Drowned. Advice came from Portsmouth, England, last Friday that thirty- six men, including lieutenant Alia dliton commanding the torpedo boat deBtroyer Tiger, of the hnglisu navy, lost their lives iu the collison off the Isle of Wight Thursday night. The vessels were eugaged iu Bight manouvers. Murder at iciicer. Willis Franklin, aged 35 years stabbed to death another negro, Andrew L'nden, at Spencer Thurs day. Franklin, who is a tliigmau on the Southern accuses his victim of paying undue attention to his wife. WHISKEY ROBS OF ALL THAT IS DEAR "It Would Be a Crime Against God and the State Which No Politieal Party Could Either Outlive Or Profit by for it to Espouse the Cause of Whiskey, Even if it Could Win an Elec tion by so Doing. " To the Editor: I ask leave to say to t ie rea lers of this paper, in my opinion, enry voter in the State ought to .-a st a ballot May 20th "Against the Manufacture and Sale of Intoxicating Liquors.' The other bal, ot reads "For rbe Manufac ture and Sale of Intoxicating Li quors." All must vo one or tn.' , the Courage , ot her, or be lacking in of uiiiiho.id. More liin two tiimis 1 of the co inlies have already voted ' whiskey oil'. Why"' Because it ! fi'ats more than anv other live com-I modules used 'h the Stale ami dot no good ami n ore harm than all the, evil influences combined. Nearlv all crimes are traceable to It. If debauches practical ly every man and family who handles it for a longtime. It is a thief of the brain ana reudeis those who use it regular ly incapable of perform ng thedut'es I business, social or domestic lile. It enters s j ea-iiv mi iware and robs of all that is dear. Not one per cen'. of tiie lu-o.ile of the State have escaped Us baneful influence upon' themselves or a near im-nd or a relative. What good does it dc'r Burns eulogised John Barley coi n , as "a hero hold," w hich "makes a I man forget uis woes:" but who km-w ' better than lie that when its brief j iri'ti is past it makes the memory i of them return with tenfold vigor aad powei? Will a fortune built on whiskey stand:' Will a mnd in flated or excited by whiskey retain or mainta n its power; Will i. body or mind tlectntied and then par Ivzed by it possess or retain endur ing qualities? Will the offspring of drunken paient have an even chance iu the race of life? I repeat, what good does it do? "It takes away my lioerty,"say some. You become by not being allowed to drink the slave, in that respect, to the idea of some sober gentlemen, fanatics, if you will, who think you ought not to diink, but if you drink you become tha slave of an appetite that makes you the slave of poverty, of crime, of jailers, guards, wardens and mayhap of executioner and the devil, aud of all .he consequences to whicj drinking leuds. Choose be tween them. If I were to vote for the manufacture aud sale of intoxi cating liquors May 20th, I would never see another drunken mau or widow or orphan of a drunkard, or read of a crime of which whiskey is the cause without knowing I was responsible for it, or at the very least a party in the responsibility. With suih decided views of the little use or benefit derived from whiskey aud iis great cost and the infinite harm it is doing aim crime it is causing, I feel that it would be a crime against God and the State which no political party could ever oullive or profit by, for it to espouse the cause of whis key, even if it could win an election by so doing God tyrant that all nolitical narties ma.tr stand nr fall on anneals to the intellect and not to the prejudices and appetites. j There are countries and climates in which beer and light wines have: been and may be indulged it. with infinitely Kbs harm than in the! southern part of tae United States. e, i ,, populations and a policeman for ui i .v. ' .i.,i still tolerate, whiskey. Rut in the . Hor0ue' "f? LruP; iil und. Kltcn Southem country where a man may ,fn- . r'ie cotinty convei.Uoa will earn some sort of a living bv work-! be.he d ? urd. Al'.rJ1 "th: ing one day in the week, and a large . ,.c u.. ..!...;.. ;.u .. I..-.,-., 1 "t .u " u '. . .1" u-i L l , ' . : .. " ?"f '-.".Horne 1-4 vote. lue pojm Mtuuu niciuic iiciucc guiog from place to place it is so easy to raise the evil passions and appetites, to get and keep the evil spirits up by pouring the evil spirits down, and thus preparing him who drinks it for any kind of hellish misohief that may suggest itself, that no man or town or county or Stale can vote to place or keep whiskey within the easy reach of the idle and vicious without making himself, itself, themselves responsible for the re sults. If it is degriding to a man, to a family, to make or to sell whis key, it is equally degrading to a 'town or county or State to permit ir to be made or sold. If you leave out of view the loss of manhood, of womanhood, the crimes unnumbered that, drinking entails upon the State the cost of whiskey is so jirtat as 10 put its use out of the queaion. In this county of Vance, barely an average iu populaton, a little under twenty Mu.usaiiu, with thiee uispensaru-s wituiii eighteen miles of us, at Lonisburg, arreuton and t'xtord, then- was paid to the Hen. derson dispensary in the year I'.tO? eighty thousand dollars. That is "wre than vr dav, more than l,5oti per week, more than $4 for - - veiy man, woman mil child, white ami black, in I he cmintv. TJ it is, I believe, far moie than aU our grocery stores received. The f unities . I'oli'iiiie'd on I' Mirth i:iire. i SHIPMENT OF WHISKEY. Senate Co illtri- Would 1'rohlhit ' press Companies l-'rom Dclitciiig : WhNfccv. The Senat" Judiciary Committee believes it has nit upon a plai. trom winch it will be able to frame a tom-tifutioiial s'atute th it will stop the s duping of whiskev into prohi- bitiou territory. It will frame a law to prohibit express companies and other inteistate commerce carriers from acting as agents of the distill ers and brewers as they now are understood to do. It is by this means that traffic in liquor in pro hibition teiritories is maintained. SIXTY-EIGHT KEGS SEIZED. Whiskey Was F.uruute l-'rom Salisbury to Wilmington. Officers J. E. Klutz and II. B. Howie, of Albemarle, seized two two horse loads of whisk. y enroute from Solisbury to Wilmington at Albe marle Friday. The load consisted of 68 five allou kegs. When the drivers aud their loads were deliver ed to the officers C. F. Sheek, of Wadesboro, appeared and claimed the goods which were delivered to him after he paid the taxes. He then proceeded towards Wilmington. Denounce Virginia Cities. The Raleigh Retail Merchants Association at a meeting held Fri day night denounced the cities of Virginia of throw ing their influence with the railroads in the fijjht the estate of North Carolina is making to relieve the discrimination being made now by the raihoa Is against, the merchants of the State. Evi dence is now being gathered by the corporation commission to be used in prosecuting the case before the interstate commerce commission. $i5, MM Fire la Lynchburg. Lynchburg, Va., suffered the most instructive fire in 20 years early Friday morning, entailing damages to the amount of $225,000 with 1165,000 insurance. Fcur tobacco factories filled with tobacco foi the Australian and Dalian trade, one 0er h11 totorj a.d four building, e consumed by tne llames. Origin unlinown stmiy Palmary. The Democratic Primary of Stan- ly county was held Saturday, the . . popular vote resulting as fo lows; given 12 votes in the State conveu- tion, Kitchen sets 1 3-4 votes and Collier shovel Fatal. Abraham Collier, a brother of P. F. Collier, the New York publish er, is under arrest at Laurel 15 rook, Md. for the murder of Wm. Haughey a lumberman. The killing was the result of a quarrel of several weeks ago. A shovel was used by Collier iu the assault. (instly Find Near Tarhoro. The body an unknown white nun was found iu Tar River, near Tar horo Saturday afternoon audit is believed that it is the body of a pro minent farmer who is missing. Foul play is suspected. COUNTY SCHOOLS. Five Districts W ill Hold Flections In May .New Houses to lie I'.i ecteil. The regular meeting of the Coun ty Board of Education was held at the court house Monday. The full board was present and much busi ness of importance to the develop ment of the schools of the county 'vas transacted. Petitions were picsented from five school districts asking for permis sion to hold special tax elections to meet the demand for bet er schools and facilities. The districts whose petitions were gramed were No. 2 and No. 5 in New Market township: I,i!ei tv township; No. 1 i.i Coleridge townsnip; and No. 0 and 4 in Cole ridge, which will combine for a graded school. The board authorized new si-hol buildings for No. 4 iu Cedar ("low township, No. in Asheboro town ship, and new buildings will aUo lie elected at Liberty aud Coh-ride, provided the elections are carried for local tax and there seems to be lit tle dount about the success of t he measure. Sever 1 other petitions were pre sented for new buildings, but these w ere continued until next nice. ing of the l.oaid pending a survey of tiie districts anil a proper location for the proposed districts. Prof. Col tiane and an assistant will begin the survey at an early date, and the work, which vill include every dis trict 111 the county, will consume about two moiir.bs. SCHOOLS TO close. (iletiola (traded School will close Friday, April lTth. On the evening before the lilh the puplU will give an entertainment. On rriday an address will be delivered by Rev. Archibald Johnson, of 1 honiasvil'e. This school has been successfully conducted by Misses Lizzie Brad- Shaw and Massah Lambert. The Caraway Graded School, taught by Prof. J. M Purdie and Miss Nellie Doak, will close the 15th. Couuty Superintendent of Schools, L. J. Coltrane, will deliver an ad dress ou "The Public School ttnd What it Stands For." On Friday night the Womans' Betterment As sociation of Caraway will cr?e a ijuuir-io iuiiiraii. Vlll'll Marlboro school will closeuU eiij. 1 Sth. Prof . C. A. Wright a ,., .mi te, Miss Bertha, of Alamance uolac. ty, have conducted a most sa tory school. Providence school closed rriday. Prof. C. II. Mebanc, of Raleigh, was the speaker. GERMANY CONFESSED. liar-Room Companion I '.u listed him In Hand ol Anarchy he Declared. Hardin Germany who was convict ed of sending an infernal machine with intent to kill Caesar Cone, of Greensboro, was sentenced Friday to eight years in the state prison. The prisoner collapsed as Judge Webb pronounced the sentence. On the witness stand the defendant confess ed that he made the machine. Just before he was sentenced Germany stated that he made infer nal machine at the suggestion of a man calling himself Meetings, whom he met in a bar room in Win ston first, aud who afterwards came to White Oak and got him to do the work. Metdings, he said, was preach ing against the preseHt order of sjcie ty all the time, especially against the influential politic! leaders and officials and the rich industtal lords like Mr. Cone, '-lie got me to be lieving that society was perfectly rotten and in that belief I listened to his suggestions and made the box and gave it to him, but afterwards did everything in mv power to pie vent harm to Mr. Cone." Rowan Negro KepuhllraiiK In I'.iideure. Rowan county Republicans held convention at Salisbury Saturday. The convention endorsed Taft for President and Judge Adams for State Chairman, lhe convention sat in silent astonishment while Thos. W. Wallace, a mulatto, enter ed protest as to the regularity of posting notices of primaries. He based his protest upon the failure to post a notice of the primary held rriday 111 west ward, Salisbury. Chairman Adams, of Greensboro, and his friends were iu control. The W. C. T. U. will meet at, th ("railed School Thursday evening at i o'clock. All who are inUresied ihould attend. 5 YEARS FOR LANG. Notorious Safe Blower Returned, to Prison Cell. PUNISHMENT FOR LOOT ING BANK OF DAVIE. Daring Criminal With a Lonj; Record ol inihlx i io ian All-.round Had Man nil The Hotter in Ni tv ork. James Lang, convicted in the Superior Court of Davie county of looting the Bank of Davie in 1003,. was sentenced last Fridav to a term of li -e years in the State penitentiary He has just completed a sentence 111 the Feueral prison at Atlanta for btirglarizint' post.iflices. Lang is .V years old and seems to be very weak physic ill v. A hAKIN.i ulMlXAL. Jam most d s. Lane; himself one of the Sperate a'id daring ''yeggs'' that ever touched oil a fuse, was thf leader of a gang of pr. fe.-sional safe robbers, which operated extensively in North and South Carolina in the early ;iart of l(i(i:. This gang, which was Jclosely allied with the famous Nolan-McKinley srang, was compostd of the following well known "veggs": James Lang, alias "Black Billy"; Chas. Rogers, alias 'Shorty" O'Connor: Harry 15. Wil son, alias "Philadelphia Harry"; and Walter Wood, alias George Ca'iter. The gang was connected with the notorious Tom Lee, a Bowery saloon keeper, who is an ex -burglar and whose saloon is a rendezvous for safe-crackers. During their brief career in the South the ganj was extremely active and Postoffice Inspector Gregory places the responsibility upon Lang and his "pals" for the following burglaries during the month of Jan uary, 1903: On night of January 16th, safe in postoffice at Greer, S.. C.; on night of January 22d, safe in the bank at Benson, Johnson county, N. C: on night of January 25th, safo in Bank of Davie, Mocks ville, N. C; on night of January 30th, safe in store of W. G. Shoe maker, on outskirts of Charlotte, and on night of January 31st, two safes in store of Heath. Barrett & drier at Matthews, N. C. fOllowinir the Matthews rnKhArw Lang and Rodgers was arrested at Monroe. Hlorkadera Tried at Greensboro. A number of bUrWIorM Iiq... been tried in th Vudorul rv-. Greens oro this week. Among them were W . B. Lucas, of Montgomery, una ueeu out on OOUU Since lifOO who is held for sentence at this term; W. K. Freemsin unrl o.-.n rt U Freeman, also of Montgomery, weae, convicted, hut not yet sentenced. Safe Robbed. The office of the Del ton WnrniL Co., at High Point, was broken mto- oaturaay mgbt and $75,00 was taken, from the safe. This is the second time the safe has been opened within 30 days. The combination was not broken, which shows that the thief is some one familiar with the prem ises. Hcluftu Crime ol Aped Father. J. J. O'Neal has been arrested charged with criminal assault on his 11 year old daughter. The crime was committed at the home at Elizabeth city Friday while the mother was at work in the mill.. He is 70 yean old and owns consid erable property near town. officert Aid In Kohhery. The arrst of Harry Rathenberger,. aged 19 years, at Philadelphia Sat urday, revealed the fact that four of Philadelphia's policemen had been aiding in many recent rob berers in tbe wholesale section of the city. Th ofliceis have been, arrested. .New Taper FaiU. The Wilmington Messenger,, which was established 10 yars ago at Wilmington failed .viouday and publication has been suspended. Whit disposition will be made of the plant is not known. Nolloll Weevils In N. C. The State Department of agricul ture has issued a bulletin in which it declares that there is no part ot North Carolina infected with boll weevil. North Carolina cotton, growers may feel "safe on the matter-
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