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VOL XXXIII.
ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY October 22, 1908.
No 43
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LUMBERMEN WILL VOTE FOR BRYAN.
Producers of Southern Pine Are Not Benefited by the Small Tariff On
Lumber Answer by Chas. Ross A Complete and Effective Refuta
tion of the Argument of the Republicans.
Tbe manufacture of Jl umber is one
of the moat important Industrie in
North Carolina. The almoit com
plete paralysis of this business for
the last eighteen monthB has con
tributed more than any other one
thing to make North Carolina feel
the depressing effects of . the Roose
velt panic, which leally hit the
lumber business six months before it
broke iD full force in IjfaU street.
The manufacture of lumber is oue
of the great, industries of -the South,
and one which would for this rea
8 n appeal with especial force to the
best wishes aud prolectiou of the
Democratic party. It is true that
the- Democratic party, in responding
to li s universal demand from tbs
whole coutitry for relief from the
e.Tiu t ; mib of tin1 wn.nl pu'.p paper
manufacture!
hided lumber in
with i( demand that wood pulp, j
timber .iiul 'oirs ,ie placed on the!
free .in, uid t'l s iiV'-ililiciris of
Ism til ' o:i-i:i ha-
this to t . t : - f
people u -v ty fr.'tn the
nationa- t:-'k-1. On
there nriy uproar to ce
thefp.v. i l"h tlu'V
i up in I
tl
lnm'oer j
I ' ooc:iiti(:
f.4-J( .' It
Mr," force in
t;;uke. I 1 1
tile ieir ' ' ' liiaiiu fucptj e ri are a peo
pie who tic a'o:icoui-d to go be
yond thr nu re enrf-.toe of i.oestions
and get a- the es.-nt i.tl t.'V, and
when they do thi thVy will tii.d uo
reason for supporting the adminis
tration whicli lus brought upon
them the most disastrous period of
their btifiiican, or for apprehending
any danger from the Democratic po
sition. The followii.g article, written by
a praerical lumberman, Mr. Charles
Rose, of the Ross Mc A lister Bros.
Lumber Co., of Harnett couuty, in
at dition to being a very instructive
discission t.f the question, shows
that the lumber people have some
practical ideas of their own about
these mattei s, and that they are not
being fooled by Republican misrep
resentations. A Lumbermaa's Views on tbe Tariff as
Averting North Carolina.
"To Lumbermen; The protective
tariff is capable of some exceedingly
ingenious arguments. One of the
latest is an appeal to Southern Lum
berman that the price of their lum
ber is ufftcred by the tariff tax of $2
per thousand. Southern Democrats
hate iM-ter bated their political
judgment upon a monetary standard,
as our Repnolien friends have been
accustomed to do. Nevertheless
some have been disposed to Hay that
if we have been robbed by the pro
tective tariff in the interest ef the
North, for m lf a century and the
lumber tariff does really help our
section, that we should not hesitate
to take advantage of it. But does
it help ns? All of the surplus lum
ber manufactured through this sec
tion finds a market in the Eastern
States. The only foreign lumber
that can compete with us in this
territory is lumber from Canada.
Canada has no lumber that comes in
oompetion with our yellow pine.
The Canadian lumber does in some
instances come in competition with
our secoid growth pine. Tbe second
pine is manufactured principally in
to box boards and "roofers." Six.
inch "roofers' are worth in Balti
more today $14.50 per thousand; in
New York they are worth $1 per
thousand more. Why? Simply be
cause it costs f 1 per thousand more
freight to ship them from the South
to New York than it does to ship to
Baltimore. In Buffalo, N. Y., al
most in sight of the Canadian line,
this same lumber is worth $1 per
thousand more than it is in New
York, the difference being exactly
the difference in the freight rate
from the South. If the cost of
Canadian lumber regulated or in
fluenced the price as we approach
the Canadian line, we wonld find
the cost of lumber reduced as the
cost of transportation grew less.
"Bat I have sold this year in
North Tonawanda, right on the
Canadian line, a number of car loads
of lumber and the price paid was
more than enough to pay extra
freight to North Tonawanda over
what the nume lumber would have
brought in New York city. This
. niakts it p'siu that the Southern
lumber aud not the Canadian lum
ber fixes the price that our lumber
brings in the territory that furnish
es our customers. Then why any
tariff on lumber? I "will t 11 yoa
why. Back in the Northwestern
States, along the Canadian line,
there is the eame kind of lumber
that Canada produces. These forests
are controlled almost entirely by
three or four large compare i.
Now, ia all these Northwestern
States, it is to the interest of these
large companies to keep out the
Canadian lumber in ordtnthat they
may monopolize their local trade.
These States cannot ship lumber
from the south on account of the
high tariff, and the locil companies
are protected by the result.
"Bur, there are ways that the
Southern lumberman feels the effect
of the protective tariff. When he
buys a saw for $70, he pays $14 of
that l'Hee bv reason of the tariff
tax. When ho Viuvs f 100 worth
belting, $00 of th.it amount is add"'
by the tariff. When In- buys a hoi'
er and engine for $1..00, itlMut $:ioo
or id is
ins trance t our t ir I
policy
To every mile ot railway
from hid mill to mmket rlie tariff
has added iUl extra cost of il.tK'O.
and ins freight rales must hour tl:
burden.
"The ti n; h is t he .Sooth's t.
chief pr hIucih, cotton and J n m in r
cannot be protected bv the tariff
oince we produce a suvi
1 ot botn.
Every piece of machinery that we
use iu manufattuiing tin one and
cultivating the other is added a co.-t
of 25 to 60 per ceut., as a result of
the tariff schedule.
"CII.S. uoss,
"of the McAlister-Ross Lumber Co."
Air. Ross is a sou t l!. K. Ruo,
of Asheboro.
RALLY AT JIT. GILEAD.
Mr. Kltchln Speaker at Democratic
Gathering Monday.
Hon. W. W. Kitchin will speak
at Mt. Uilead Monday, October 26th.
at 1 o'closk, p. ui. The piople of
Mt. Gilead are making every effort
to make this really and tiuly a
"Big" day. . A big parade will fol
low tke arrival of the speaker, ac
companying iiim ti toe sprnkef
staid. One of the largest crowds
ever seen m Mt. Gilt-ad. is expected
on that day.
I' wo trass binds have
been engaged.
A WARNING.
Postmaster Charged With Wltholdliig
Paper From Mulls.
Observer li'in-au.
The Ilolicman Building,
Raleigh, Oct. 16.
Affidavits were to day tiled that
the postmaster at Benson had with,
held from the mails copies of The
North Carolinian, a weekly paper
published bete by National Demo
cratic Committeeman Joseph us Dan
iels and bad sold three issues of this
paper sent to Benson, about fifty
copies each, to a negro woman.
Vade Mecum Co. lu Bankruptcy.
An involuntary petition in bank'
juptcy was filed last week in Feder
al Court, the Crawford Plumbing
and Mill Supply Company, Brown,
Rogers & Co. and the People's Na
tional Bank, all of Winston, against
the Vade Mecum Springs Company
Judge Boyd signed an order direct
ing the Vade Mecum company to ap-
pear before him October . 24th to
snow why it snouia not be adjuag
ed bankrupt.
Broke Into Hearst's State Room.
Governor Chas. N. Haskell, of
Oklahoma,, has begnn a suit in tbe
Douglas county, Nebraska, District
court, against Wm. K. Hearst for
$600,000 for Blander and libel. 1 he
sheriff broke into the s ate room of
the millionaire editor to serve the
summons after he had been refused
admission. The papers were served
while Mr. Hearst was touring Ne
braska last week.
Will Memorialize legislature.
At the annual meeting of the
North Carolina Confederate Veter
an's Association in Raleigh this
week, Maj. Wm. A. Graham was
elected president, succeeding Gener
al Julian 8. Carr. Capt. S. A.
Ashe was made secretary. It was
decided to memorialize the legisK
tnre to increase the peniious of veter
ans who have reached the age of 80
years.
TOO LATE.
Deficit Millions a Day Receipts are
railing Off President Anxious to
Strike a Pair Balance.
In going over with his cabinet
preliminary work to his last annual
message, tbe President has discover
ed that the strictest economy is
necessary to make the reduction in
the deficit which is now piling up
at the rate of two to three uiillious a
dav-
The receipts are falling way be-
hiud tbe expenditures and the Presi
dent is anxious to strike a fair bal
ance before he retires from office.
Misrepresentations of Republican Campaigners
Answered by a Page
As certain Republican speakers are claiming for the Republican
Party the credit of inaugurating the present school system in North
Carolina, in the interest of truth it is well to partly review the history
of education in North Carolina
The Constitution or 1776 provided for free schools and for a Uni
versity, and it has been the constant aim ot all patriotic Worth Caro
linians since that time to build up and develop them. The school laws
have been amended and improved continuously since the foundation of
the ilatc Government, as wisdom and experience suggested needed
changes. The mosl rotable schoji ci prior to the war were those of
JS:0,'l833, J340, ISiJ and 1552.
After the. iioa ot property qualification and the establish
ment of "Ftec ulrraijc" or ''Manhood Suffrage" in North Carolina by
the LXm vr :t'c Part every energy oi the State was beat on the secur
ing ot r.n : juc. lci ci.-cl ora'e- So great was the succtis of the party in
this respe than at the beginning ot the war North Carolina had the
best system ot common schools in the South, and was making greater
educatton.il progress than anv ctiie., Southern State. At tliat time the
State held in trust for the public school fund more than two millions of
dollars. 1 he State University, in
five hundren students, was the leading University in the South.
When Sherman entered Raleigh in looa the Superintendent of
Public Instruction was in his office, and schools were regularly in operation.
In 63 and 1869 the Republican Party passed a new law, and
that oroviJed that tne Board of fc-ducation might "securely invest" the
public school fund in bonds and securities of the State or united Mares.
At that time about one-halt or the two million dollars ot the school
fund had been lost by the destruction of values by the war, and of the
balance six hundred thousand dollars or more was represented by shares
in the Wilmington & Manchester and Wilmington and We'don Rail
road Companies. These shares were soid to W. T. Walters, of Balti
more, for $ (58,00'), which was invested in fraudulent special tax bonds
which were worse than worthless- The Cash .cw-. id by th State,
jlMfiAA), was divided among tne memoers or tne Legislature as pr
diem at seven dollars per day and
1869 the Legislature was in session
at $7.00 per day and 20 cents mileage, and cost the State $430,958.06
In the fiscal year ending Sept. 30. 1869, there was spent out of the edu
cational fund $167)153.18, not one dollar of which great sum was spent
on teaching the poor children of the State, white or black, to read or
write. For the year ending September 30, 1870, $2 3,411.01 was spent
out of the educational fund and only $37,981.86 was spent on the public
schools. In the year 1870 to 1871 the Legislature was in session one
hundred and ninety days and paid themselves five dollars per day and
twenty cents mileage, and cost the State 2 12 593-25.
During the Republican management Kev. S. S. Asheley, a non
resident New England Carpet bagger, and his negro assistant, were in
charge of the public schools in North Carolina, and the President of the
State Board of Education was the
League of America, for North Carolina. Both were preaclvng and
teaching the doctrine of Union Liberty Equality." At that time
the mismanagement of the University was so great that they only had
thirty five student1:, and as Asheley and his assistants reCDrnmended
the establishment of a negro department at the University, it was sou:.
compelled to close its doors for want ot patronage-
In 1871, under republican administration, the amount collected
for publio Hchools was $115,042. In 1872, under laws passed bv . IVmo
cratic Gtneral Assembly, the school fund whs increased to $211, 239. 22,
and from that time tbe school fund has continued to increase and the
schools have flourished.
In 1876, when the Democrats came back into power in all the
branches of the State Government, the educational interests of the Mate
were revived; the University was reopened, the public schools took on new
life and the school fuud greatly increased until, in 1894, it amounted to
$777,079.29.
In 1881, under the leadership of Capt. J. O. Scarborough and
Maj. S. C, Finger, a new school law was passed. This, with some amend
ments, will be found in the Code of 1883.
, An examination of the Code of 1883 will show that chapter 15
was taken almest entirely from the Laws of 1881 and the Revised Code of
1854, and tbe Laws of 1869 were almost entirely ignored.
In 1891, 1892, 1893 and 1894 the Democrats taught 50 46-100
weeks, at a cost of $3,019,103.30. and bad 235,486 white children enroll
ed. Iu 1895, 1896, 1897 and 1898 the Fusionists taught 50 56-100 weeks
at a cost of $3,461,393.12, and had in 1897 only 222,252 white children
enrolled. Under the Fusion school law, which had negro school oommit
teemen over white children, it appears that the white enrollment decreased
13,234, and it will be seen that the Fusionists lengthened the school term
in four years only one day, which one day cost the State $442,289.82, al.
though there were 13,234 less white children in school.
Thb record since tbe return of the white people to power is ably
set out iu tbe Democratic handbook, and will be partly shown in the fol
lowing table:
A Deadly Parallel, Showing
Public Schools Under Fusion and Democatic Adminis
tration. Rep., 1897 Dem., 1907
Total value of public school property $878,632.73 $4,250,429-00
Total number of rural libraries 0 1,922
Number school houses erected No report 375
Avetage lergth white rural school term... 11.73 weeks 17.68 weeks
Aveiage monthly salary whit? rui;il teachers 23.81 31.40
Number white rural teachers employed 4,819 6,477
Total number of rural local-tHX districts.. 0 600
Number of rural high schools 0 156
School fund from local taxation No report $54',131,53
Enrollment of children (white) 222,252 '289,053
Average ('inly attend men (white) 106,254 253,137
Average oai.-iiy of Couiuj fuiperitit.ndeut- No lecord $644.56
Number tclioulhoujts erected from l!)U2-'07 1,830
(Continued on pig 5)
MICHIGAN TOWN DESTROYED.
Forest Fire Beyond Control Train
Huraed Fifteen Fatalities.
Fifteen people lost their lives
Friday ight tn t'ae burning of the
Detroit and Macimac railway train,
which was carrying tbe inhabitants
of tbe village of Metz to safety from
the forest fires which were sweeping
away their homes. The tires are
beyond control. The Michigan
towns reported to have been des
troyed by forest fires are Me z, a
towD of 100, Milersburg, with a
population of 850, Polaska and
A hum let.
of School History.
J56U, with an enrollment or neatly
twenty cents mileage. In 1868 and
three hundred and four (304) days,
Grand President ot t u Unrom
Comparative Condition of.
OUTRAGEOUS SLANDER OF HEROES.
Judge R. H. Sutton Declares That the
War Were Only Traitors Abominable Slander of the Names of Lee,
Jackson, Davis, Gordon, Yance and Those Who Fought With
Them.
GOLD IN MONTGOMERY
The Y'ellow Metal Appears Rich on the
Surface.
Montgomery Countv is recognized
one of the le.t gold rodncing co.in
tien in the South and a leceut dis
covery of a vein on tie surface, O'l
the land of Lialvin Sedlterry, n-at
Oniille, has excited the people
even mote tii n,f inn r disowned.
The vein discovered was seen on the
top of the ground and ws about 12
inches acr"8, hriideuiii2 tjelow
the surface. It, lias been found to
he the i ir.ht ''em
ver opened in
urface arouiui
the enmity and t lu
ll P vein p:ni idl.
'. is iuid t :Ht a
lirin can niiKi
lis a d-iy pan-
ver a huicl e I Uolh
mu on Hi ' pi. -:n -rt
A. Arm-
I'jtiir has .i
ii red a bond on t.lie
t is proOaolt; that d.'
! tiffin a! once.
! I)i iijg guarded day
t i ty an I
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i'i-e cla.iii
mi tin
THE MONTGOMERY SPEECH.
mocrall,- S:.lc Chuirnmii tJlvea it t
I tie I'euplc.
State Ch urnum A. II. Kller 1
sending through the mails to the
voteisot Norm Carolina the speeuu1
f ex-Associate Juet'.ct W. A.
MoutgoMtry praising the liecon
s'.ri!rt;oi.it of theEorth and de
'loiiucing the Ku Klux Klan.
The speech is heiog ssnt as a cir
cular, w.th inn following head and
introductory remarks:
"JUDUK MO.VTOO.MFRY
Ilrfcnai
llvuuatmutloa aud UeuoKavci Kb
Klux.
"In porh Introductory of HopmhM-
vn Candidate fur Uovernor, J. Kl-
wooil I'm, He Praia to JHagnaiilm
Itt ot the North In the Hrrouatroctlon
t.ovri Hmrnt lutllctrd Oil the South,
aad Dtuoauoei the Ko Klux a a
'CiauK of Ineffable Meauneaa.'
The people of North Carolina
have bten taught for a generation
that rhu darkest period in its history
wis tiiar, period wnen the Confeder
ate sol tier retarued frein defeat,
and, Vfdile engaged iu the hard
struggle- of rouilUuig neglected and
det'ove homes and fortunes, the
carpet-tagb'ers, under encourage
ment iif the National Government,
organized and enfranchised tho up
grces, disfranchised tilts Orat white
citu."iish:p of the Siate and ui'.de of
our g 'Ve; ..(iii'ut ouch a mixture of
f tree ami tragady, of rasta'ity and
S.'-rikh, of dishonor mid dlto.'der.
:hit few Republicans nave dared
openly to defeud it.
fnit in tail campaign there has
been found iu North Carolina one
Republican, of enough proruiueuce
to have bem made a Supreme Court
Judge iu tbe one interveaing black
period when that party was iu pow
er in the State, to defend it anu to
denounce the men and the means
which put a stop to that nightmare
of horror and restored peace and
safety to the State.
Precious tltones P reduced Ia United
States.
The total value of precious stones
produced in the United States dur.
lug iwui ia piaceu dt luv geological
survey at $471,800, as compared
with $208,000 ia 1906. This great
increase is dne chiefly to a Urge out
put of sapphire in Montana, of both
the blue sna tne variegatea variety.
A new gem mineral has been added
to the list of known precious stones.
It is called "benitoite," has a blue
color and a high reflective index.
and is found in Alexander county,
North Carolina.
Without Work He Committed Suicide.
Despondent because of his beiog
out of employment and nnible to
supply the necessities for his family
Wm. II. Blank, committed suicide
at Salisbury Monday. He was 50
years old and a native of Ohio.
Sew County Wanted.
The citizens of La Grange are
urging the establishment of a new
couuty with that town us county
jaiit, aud formed from parts of Le
noir and Wayne counties.
Leaders of the South in the Civil
Judge W. A. Montgomery's in-
suit to the white neiple of North
Carolina and the Smith has been
matched ?u the n t ranee of another
Radicnl stump sp-ik"! with the
"Judge" handle to his nam, but he
is Lot a North Carolinian. He
"blew in" a on pie of years ago from
N ?w Mexico, lie is "Judgi" R. H.
Sutb-ii. II" has been t pea'ng in
'abrriis county undr t!in direction
of the Republic m County Executive
Jommittee.
The story of his outrageous slan
der of the names of our Southern
heroes, name-i that are ta"red to
every Sou 'hern wh't..- nun, is pub
lished i'.i curren'- issue of the
Concord Tini.-i, as follows-
"Judge 1. ii. Sutton, who came
here about two vvn a-o from New
Mexico and lo i.'ii place just
ibow t..v:i, is miuic u very active
intfi-est i i the lii'icrMcau campaign,
and bus made 8'Vu.al speeches by
:!) ui-i.!i!ni..i', and auitioi'ity Oi
the R-pub'i'Jia ex..v.ative oniiiiittee
of the county.
"From n lia'i!" r r .; ts of a speech
he ii...' i. ii8-.om.ii ii.iiist: in N ' 4
U wmdiip heiir Kai.nnp'l8 last Mon
i.l. )V ois-'hr, he h:is male at least one
speech toi rrianv. Mr. John L.
Miller, Mr. Dave Earnhardt, Mr.
Lee Earnhardt and a number of
Democrats were pusent and heard
the speech, much cf which was
taken down. Thec gentlemen sav
he uttered sentiments which are an
insult to Southern white people, and
will be lesentcd by thi-m in no un
certain way.
Judge Sutton stated ia opening
his speech that he cum? by tne au
thority of the executive committee
and under their direction, tie pro
ceeded to give what he termed was a
hintory of the two parties, beginning
with 1860. He made the statement
that North Carolina at first refused
to secede in the w;ir between the
States and that she only did so when
she was whipped in:o li ie by the
bosses, lie then made the uitrage
ous statement chat the is;.d-'i.-: of the
South in the Civil War w.-re traitors.
When it is reuieuibeied that iu the
leaders were included such illus
trious men as Lee, Jactsei;, liaxis,
GonloB, Vauce aud scores of others
whose nauies"will ever be held in
levered rememberani bv all true
Southerners, the ahoiiitra'.ie slander
is el:i-li r to tuaivf a S -II !.-!l lliun's
i ii'oii licit wit.ti mail' nation.
If these gr'.-at ii d .ood men,
whom the South ioved and honored,
were tr.r.ors, those who followed
tiiem through tiie war were also
traitoio, aud their sons uud grand-
t'ois forever are the tous and grand
sons of traitors. It is iuconceiv-
t.oie tbut any mu can be found in
Una tlatv who would utter such a
rentiuieot anywhere much less
among tbe people wh are traduced.
lne fact that Judge Sutton
made three remarks is cleaily sub
stantiated by the present, and no
one has denied that he made them.
Mr. John L. Miller asked the speak
er if be meant to say that his father
and uncles and kiusmen who fought
iu tbe war were traitors, but to this
question Judge Sutton would give
no answer.
"North Carolina and the South
will welcome with open hands and
hearts the citizens of any section
who come and cast their lot with us
in developing our resources, but
they have had enough of carpet
baggers, and no man who utters such
sentiments as the above will ever be
welcomed among them.
"We are reliably informed that
Judge Sutton in a speech recently at
Georgeville, said that only land
should be taxed, in other words that
the farmers and land-holders should
bear all the burdens of taxation. If
Judge Sutton thinks this, he has a
perfect right to his opinion, but we
want to show the people of the
county what manner ef mai the Re
publican executive committee is
sending out to instruct the voters."
Parker-Petty Announcement.
Mr. aud Mrs. Johu W. Tetty, of
Greensboro, anuounca the engage
ment of their daughter, Miss Rachel
James Petty, to Horace, NValdo Park
er, the wedding to take place early
in November at the Moravian church,
Greensboro.