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TIE BR! XSh9 COURJBR Lada in Doth Nwa aad A Circulation. Gfc COUIUER Advartisinc Co.umna Bring Raaulta. ft. IC3UED WESZLT PRINCIPLES, VOT MEN ONE DOLLAR PEA TEAR VOI XXXVII ASHEBORO, N.d, MARCH 21 , 1912 No. WOOLEN TRUST GR1SLEY JESTERS Advise Underpaid Employ ess to Buy Homes Save Money Tnd do the Impossible. Washington. March 20. Will it be possible to transfer the $53,009. 000 sugar tax from the breakfast table to the shoulders of the rich? Are the people sufloiently in control to accomplish tha end? These questions are being asked everywhere. The statue of the sit ' nation is this: : The Democratic H.use, trne to ' its promise to rednce the cost of liv ing in this country, will at this ses sion pass a bill repealing the $53, 000,000 tax on sugar and another taxing ineomee in excess of $5,000. The bills will go to a Republican senate If the progressive Republi cans vote with the Democrats, both bills will pass the upper body. The fate of the two measures will then rest with the President. - If Mr. Taf t accepts the advice of those about him, who were described by the late Senator Doolliver as being "met who know exactly what they want," he will vote the bills. Protectionists oppo e an income tax for two reasons; 1. They are rich as a class and like other humans have no desire to pay more taxes than necessary. 2. Protectionists know that if this country, like Great Britain, France, Germany, bolland, Switserlaud, New Zsaland, Australia, Denmark and many others, gets into the habit of raising revenue by taxing wealth ins;edrf the thingB the people must have in order to live, the tariff tax iwh ch gives them monopolies on the particular eommodit'es m whioh they deal, will te rednced, which would be damaging to the nice fat dividends, particularly to such "American industries" as the sugar trust, the steel trnst, the woolen trust, the harvester trast and Mr. Roekerfeller's oil trust. High pro tectionist politicians receive stu pendous sums ta campaign funds from the tariff trusts, and money is a mghty handy thing in campaigns. The income tax is a menace to the citadel of high protection, so why should protectionists, countenance an income tax? Breaking Away Froa TaUttM The greatest importance of the Democratic program providing for the abolition of the sugar tariff and the imposition of a tax on incomes in excess of $5,000 is that it breaks away from tne tradition that the government's income must of nec essity be derived wholly from the things the people eat, wear or nse, a tradition whioh has been responsi ble for wlth not bearing its juat proportion of the burden of federal taxation, and a tradition which has been responsible for so many tariff outrages tuiou6ti so many years. Regardless of whether the bill is voted b Prudent faff, there :s he ' tie question mat the Demociau havs ooeucd Aiw for iw enactment w'hen another man is in the White Honse ,Her li Real Hauor Tnese millionaire woolen trust nothing if not numerous. As evidence of their humor, wit nesi jay envelope N). 1707, issued to a Lwrance mill worker. O i the hack of this envelope, solemolr put there bv the Broad war savings B ink a woolen trust institution, was this . advice:: sx, . . (9 Wot Spaaa all Yor Ihhii Start a ' Bask Amokbi aaa rtp.ad.at. ii'i Dmty tm Hlanlf to Sav Bo; o HIl KuBlal . No for the woilen trust j ik ! Jilt tpmt-thi, f'lheriv attvid were the figu-es $6.05. This wax 1&e worker' fait pat! "Bay a home," was tne advice; to MWkUCI VUlfilr, uu IO CUg" III Whose pay envelope was written $3. "Alter you have paid the grocsry bill ffApi ro.mil at n ir nr mv " mnojanra tne fatherly oia wooien trnst, nd bougat same coal, and pa d tha land lard hie share, and tickled the baby with a r.ew pur of shoes, and paid toe uoctor qui, ni puntuwa gome warm underdoes fur Wi'nr, rid bought iiiAin nar pf.v shawl, take wbati Mtroiyuur waeaaud buy a home." s llovlong w the AmerioA.i jeo pie go ,u r tj i.jkud for this km I of Lnniuj? . ' UwriiH ti IToreica Wild U.r3 13 a c)jaj:h)a jf fall tiau Good Roads Meeting On Tuesday a good roads meeting was held at the court house during the noon hour. Mr. D. B. McOrary ao ea as chairman. Mr. Leonard Tufts of Pinehnrst was expected to be present and make a taix but waa unable to come on ac count Of illness. Mr. Tofts sent as hia represents. tiVbS J. M. Vuncannon of West End, and J. R. McQueen of Pinehnrst. Mr. McQ ieen, made a uraotical instructive talk on the road condi tiona in Moore county. He made a oompacative illustration of the con. xiatinsr in this conntv and that he had observed the re leaving his home in ;nty a man hauling sixteen - one load and after reach- ro eaw a man hauling six ot the same capaoity. that the people of the - h bavins twentv five cents on the hx. d dollars but at a re cent gyx iroads meeting tbey signified wnr willingness to pay fifty cents or even a dollar on the hundred dollars rather than go back to the former conditions. Mr. J. M. Vuncannon, of West find, a fotmer resident of Randolph and a practical road builder made a short talk on the construction of sand clay and soil roads. he said that after undergoing the severe weather of the paBt few weeks that the roads in Moore county are almost as smooth as a floor. He pointed out the importance of the proper maintenance of the roads aud of the advantages gained by the use of the split log drag. Chairman McOrary asked for five minutes talks bv citizens of the conntv interested in the promotion of good roads. Those responding were: Capt. 0. H. Parkin of Trini ty township: Mr. Julian sec. of the Farmer's Union: Mr. Bruce Graven of Trinity township: Mr. T. . Fou sbee, of Rimseur: Mr. W T. Bryan of Randlemrn; and Mi. Armstrong of Montgomery county. Macs Meetinf t Pleasac Hill. The following is the program in connection with the second quar terly meeting for Randolph Cirouit, March 29, 80 aid 31 : - ;. Friday, 11 a. m., qermon by Rev. W. K. Ware. Friday night, sermon by Rev. J. A. Holmes, or Denton. , Saturday, 15 a. m. sharp, songs, etc., by the ounday schools. Saturday, 10:10 a. m., Sunday school address by tie v. K. AL. Uonrt. ney, of Thomaaville. Siurday, 11 a. m., address on miseions by Rev. E. W. Fox. of Greensboro. Saturday, 11:30 a. m., our schools and church literature, an address, bv Rev. E. K. MeLty. 13:30 p. m. iimner on ground. S'anrday, ft p. m., quarterly con ferenoe. .- Sundav, 11 a. m., preaching by Rev. W. R. Ware, P. E., and Sac rament of Lord'a Supper, wages paid in Eogland, and at Lw. rene Mass., U. 8. A., which fails to substantiate the high protection ist theory that it is necessary to place a high tariff on. woolen clothing ia order to protect American workers from what American .trust magnates delight to desoribe as ''foreign pau per labor." The figures show that the so-called "foreign pauper labor receives as maoh wag?s as the all-but-pauper labor at L!wrenoe( while the coai of living n much higher her than ia England. , In tfngland, spinners reoeive from C9 10 to SI Pr week; in Ltwrenee they are paid from fS.lt to $7 70 per week.-' , Jloglish weatiTa reoeive .7o per week for attending looms; in Liw. renoe the rate is 83 cen;s per loom. The English weaver ibii as mn m j attenuing two looms a the Aaainjia mikes for taking ctre of s?tou. . In the Biglidh mills the a?erage ' pav of women workers of all c'ws is $3 per week: the aver.tg in L iv renoe for the same clasi of wor is $5.10 The English : mill worker who winds the spun wool receives $9 per week; his br n'ter twiner at Ltwreaca reciives a dollar a wk lei3. The wjilen trust wants protection for the sole reaaou tht throngU nnu teottor u is abli i ginge tue o jh sumer, while at the sama time paying the lowest piasible wiges to its em ployes. airv. r Mot dayy Moot . crossl . ing Ay on a wr He alsl county! FLOOD SWEEPS PIEDMONT SECTION Railroad Washouts Houses and Mills Flooded, Lives and Property Lost New Re cord of Rainfall Last Week ' Tying up triffio, flooding houses, putting out fires, carrying away bridges, covering fields of wheat, damaging property and even destroy ing life, the floods of last : week are perhaps without parallel in all the history of this seotion except in August of 1907. Cities, villages andoonntry suffer ed alike in the property Iobs and the inconvenience of being shnt up. Streamlets that were babbling brooks on Thursday beoame angry creeks on Friday, creeks became raging torrents and rivers knew no bo and i, covered the growing crops, carried off bridges, entered the mills and put ont the fires; swollen and booming the angry waters could not i e check. ed,irrespective alike of property and life; especially angry was Deep River. All along its course from its head through Randolph County the wa. ters roee higher than any time since 1908. At Randlema., although the river was the highest known in years, there was practically no dim. age. A small boat house and boat were carried off, bat nothing else of value suffered. At Worthville" where the bridge was undergoing repairs, the weaken ed pillars gave way under the relent. less attack and the bridge was car ried eff, half - of it being twisted from its moorii gs and the other half carried a half mile down the stream Parts which broke away from this were carried down under the bridge at Central Falls and left on Mr. Ra. tm Yow's bottoms, At Central Falls no damage was done, although the wa er rose Into the boiler room and forced the mill people to remove their driving belt. t At Franklioville the riyer -covered everything that was anywhere near it, entering the mill, putting out the ores and givtne the operatives a day OB? Friday and another Saturday for cleaning uu. The liver at Ramseur was not so high as- in &907, but was high enough to enter the weaving room of the mill and made the emoval of the warps from the machines neces sary. No great damage was done, but travel was stopped. Folks on the effdide of Reedy Creek did not come to town on Friday. At Coleridge the water was higher than at any time since 1961, but no damage of any consequence is re ported. In the Uwharrie section the re ports are or. tne highest water ever known, the river rose too , -within few inches of the ffjocing of the bridge, Toms creek rosa to the bridge, still there ras no damage to amount to anything. uacaway rose nigner than ever known and bxabt cooeiderable damage. P.rctaMiH had Ms water honse turn awv. This was wa-hfd down stream aud carried agiict the Carawxy bridge with reef hi nu.g a to put tne latter uut of cauiiuidtou, aittkmg crossing impossible until budge is repair ed. AH urivel out c Caraway was practically stopped, th mails being blocked. The Carrier on Ho. 1 managed to get oat by going around about way, .but Ni. J was hopelessly Med up. The Uwharrie brides at Mr. L. C rarrish a Mill was disabled by the fljod, whici here was the high est water ever een on ike U wnarrie. While the bndr was s-4 as early as Saturday, p ..roach was made bard by i be water atta cover.! the en tire bottomX After evf-i lilt dranagp has been done in Ramto'itii County, consider- u.g the dejah t therainL 1 and the hetghtb a 1 I ios of the waters, j The whe . fields, which h ve been flooded, way or may not be injured, owing to the Udposit of umu left whan tht waters receded. If this heavy tue hm is considerably espe cially along Deep River, where more wbe is flouted in the bottoms than onUfiiarne and Carrawav. Tnroo.ji'out all of thi i.edm)nt tk(OM.inth rain was uniform y hery. Wtihouts tied np the mainii .q trains of the -uihern Railway U miles north uf Spencer for several hours, n.any b.anch lines of the system were tied up altogether. The South I bound Railway had to call in its Lin h T. UadenrtMd Entertains Ramblers. - Despite the storm that raged last Thursday afternoon, many invited Eieeta ; and the members of the smbleroBook Club, brayed the mud ia happy . anticipation of an afternoon in the home of Mrs. J. T. Underwood. The gloom without, served only to enhance the prettily decorated and brightly lighted home and the guests immediately rec ognized that the decorations were suggestive of the "An Id sod," hospi talHy,hone of the birthplace of wit, also the con ntry that gaye to the world, St. Patrick dear old Ireland. Bat it was not indented that the guests spend the entire after loon in the Jand of the "ahamrock green," for itieation was soon turned to the oiub-study, the land of cherry bios, soms white -Japan. Mrs. Pen n read a very interesting paper on "Japan's Army" and this was followed by 'iThe Men of Japan" and "Educa. (ion of Jpau" by Miss Penn. Mj-p, Johnson very sweetly sang ''Wffre the River Snauuou Flows," aftej "which Master James Under woow favored the guests with, "Ha Anyabdy Here been BLelly," both songs' much eujoyta. Sucre cards bearing shamrocas and harps were pa3"d and for some uuie the animat ed iiime held sway. At the close of tin game, it was ifouud tbat Mrs. Honti-r had scored higtieat and had thn won the pratty Lisli painting, whilr 'lrs. E. Morris won the con. solatia, an attractive brewn jug, useful as a receptable for email chancrr. In fee delicioos green nd white cream, also the delightful cake and mints! which were served, the color Scheme was again observed. Eachfguest wa preuerted with "Where dear old Shannon's flowing, wherej the three leaf hmdi rock grows This vjtfee being on gray card board, tied with green ribbon aud this favor will always serve ai a reminder of the pleasant afternoon ttpeut - with Mrs. Uoder wood. . x X xt-' nX' x rafitew Commiftee MeetTr At a meeting cf the Woman's flower committee of the civic de partment was held at Mrs. Otis Rich's March 18tb. Plans were made for tha distribution all over the town of the verv genetons sup ply of nasturtium and received through the kindness of our sena tors aud representative. The request is made that each householder receiving setd will make a special effort to have an attractive bed of nasturtiwms toward the front of the house so that pfler-by may also eni jy seeing the njwers, the naBtnrtium having been adopted as the a)wer for the town. scnedule, travel was well nigh im possible in central and western North Carolina Friday nd Friday night. At Oreepsbore a seven-year-old school child, Annd Bell, was swept away with the Bioffilo bridge and arewned. A Kockmgbam negro was drowaded also. in Islington property loss was considerable, a stopped-up pipe of the Elks Furniture Company Erod ing furniture to an estimated loss of $3,000. The Peacock Conch and furniture uompaurs plant was damaged to the extent of about fl,000. , Salisbury last a put of . the con erete retaining walls at the Southern Station from a eave-m, estimated at (5,000. The Southern Power Company's plant near Charlotte was tied up. From all over the State comes re. reports of teavy property losses, while the loss in Georgia is esti mated at at least a million dollars. Tha destruction wrought by the storm over the entire state was ap palling. The Southern Railway was almost hopelessly tieu up, trains be ing held at almost all points. There was a washout at Reedy Hork above Greensboro, another just north of 8penoer, another between Kernesville and Winston.Salem still others on the branch lines. Mail was delayed, passengers went stone broke for lack of expense, money to stand the extra time. Guilford county lost about twenty bridges, Forsyth was similarly afflict ed. The disastrous results of the storm were visible every where. Indeed. Randolph seems to hava fared better than almost any ether section. COURT PROCEEDINGS The charge of Judge Oliver H. Allen to the grand jury at this week's term of superior court was unusually and most comprehensive as related to the duties of this im portant branch of the judioial sys tem ; furthermore it had in it a di rect Btimolna for . constructive work in the betterment of conditions of the entire county. Court opened at 10:30 a. m. on the arrival of the sonthbonnd train, the grand jary was drawn and Jndge Allen proceeded to charge them with the seriousness of their oath and dn. ties, to define their specific duties and to give them a line on some. thing wbich tbey could do to botter conditions cf the connty. . lmoprtuuce of Grand Jury. The jury system, said Judge Al ien, is tue safe-guard of the liberties of the American people, state offi cials, county omctals, legislature and judges all are agents of the peo ple, out tne grand jury is composed cf the people themselves. Rep resenting the average citizenship of the country, they must hold to a high standard and sincerity of pur pose, if the people are to be a suc cess at self-government. The judge reminded the jurors tbat the gov ernment of the United States, a gov ernment based on the trial by jury, was at present uudergoiug the severest test put upon it. The juries of the country must reconizj their responsibility and deliver the goods. Jnrjr and Education, The investigation of crime, said the judge, is of course the function ottbe grand jury, but . more dt Ho itely the cause of crime must' be looked into, analyzed and removed or rmninr.zed. The judge th stated that crime was largely cue to ignorance, and that when this ignc ranee was in Aimed with strong drink that crime must follow. .. ih figure of $i per cent, was giveu s ah estimate of the amount of crime caused by an ignorant, drunkeu mind. To lesson crime and preveut it is the duty of the grand jary. This is best done along the lines of bettering the educational facili ties of the county moral education, mental and physical. The graud jury was charged to look into tbe school buildings of the connty, see that they were sanitary and that con ditions were suca that the yonn& people could have a chance to mak good CitiziDB. Judge AlUu im creased upon them the fact tha cms constructive wore waj uo icae a duty than the direct suppression and reporting of crime. Stopping the crime in tbe pro cess of incubitioo. by reruoviug the cause was the Hue tbe judge took, and be made bis points clranj. Te grand j iry was told th t th-y must see to it that the childruu of the country had a fair show ar;i' right training in the ecnooU, ami W?re started on their duties of citi zenship unhandicapped by misinfor mation or wrong altitude toAurd the law. Relation of Drink to Crlmo Directly causing almost all cr nr-u, making bad men of weak on-s, a law-defying community of crtlt-a one, dissipating the money anu tue morals of any community, Judge Allen placed the sale of liquoro. Going farther he affirmed thai, tbe sale of liquor in a prohibition terri tory waa a direct insult to the offi'. cers of the law, showing more plainly than any words could that they were grossly derilict in their duties, winking at law breaking, conniving at crime and debanohery. He called attention to the fact tbat a community once letting a still or blind tiger in its midst would sel dom stop this side of mu.'der, and that in the meantime ignorance would be augmented, schools hin dered or closed. attarnaat ol Condition PtnlH. With the increase of effioienev in education, the driving ont of drink, the bunding of good roads the grand jury's work wonld be diretly productive of results. Crime with out the augmentation of drink and under the hght of good training and clean conditions will be minimised md almost wiped out of existenoe. Judge Allen here emphasrZ3d the value or gcod roads. Jaror. ' Those choaia for grtnd jary ser vice are: W. II. Wianicghim, fore- KILLED JUDGE AND SOLICITOR Mountain Outlaws Make a Sham. bles of Courthouse at Hillsville VaK Ming: Took Place as One of Them Was Receiving: Sen tence r- Later Chief Offender Was Captured While Floyd Allen was being sen tenced for having freed a prisoner from a depnty sheriff, his two broth ers, Sidney and Jack, rodenp to the courthouse at Hillsville, Vs., at the bead ox about twenty mountaineers. All were carrying rifles or revolvers. Judge Maasie had called np Floyd Allen, a man of 50 years, to receive his sentence and had pronounced. "One year at hard labor" when. the shooting began. Tbe prisoner with an oath that he would never go to prison leaped from the prison er's box and Judge Masaie fell dead,. anotber rain of bullets and the so licitor crumpled. Sheriff Webb made for his prisoner and was shot down. Three jarors were seriously wonnded and also Clerk Goad. Then leaving Floyd Allen, who had been wounded in the firing,. 8idney Allen, tre slayer of Jndge Massie and also wounded, led the party for the tall timber. . Owing to the state of the roads after the heavy rainfall of tbe sea son and to the consternation which reigned in the minds of the specta tors of the horrible tragedy the out laws hid twelve honrs start before any organized pursuit ceuld be made. On Friday the rain came in torrents and made pursuit difficult. Floyd Allen, the cause of the trouble, had in the meantime been j tiled under a heavy guard. He immediately whipped ont a pocket knife and slashed his throat, flow 1 ever, his wounds were not serious. Making their way to a strongly fortified cave in the Blue Ridge, the Aliens and their clan have so far ' evaded capture. , Fights have been reported and a horribly, bloody one Yeetfis tff have been Rnponnded. The ontlawB are bountifully sup. plied with monitions of war, Sid. -ney Allen being a part owner of a hardware store in Mt. Airy. Squirrel's Spur, the mountain re treat ia which the Aliens are in trencbad, is said to be nearly im. pregnublc, walled in by large bonld n aud cuff. It cannot be taken without tevere loss of life. Forty or more delctives are besieging the refugees Since the hunt for the outlaws begau rlh r evi Jences of law-break, iug have couie to light. Stills for the illegul manufacture of Virginia's chief tou rue of revenue bnve been fouud fieie inl there showing that the AMeiia their confederates have r-er swined tj have respected the dignity ot tne courts or the law of tue law. Ns8 if 1 ia1 emptor or kill--ing of 'li- AJicu 'intMiers is expected aaily, i ! etpjucs it to .take place without g tat diffi 'ultv,and bloodshed. "Well, m' little min." queried the minister. whi was making a call, "do you alwavs do as your mamma tells you?' You bet I do, answered the- precocious 5 year-oid "and ao does papa." mar; Amos Keisey, bi. a. Yates, 0. W. VNiliiama. C. H. Skeen Wm. Albright, J. H. Graven, D. H. Fraaier. E, C. Crtuturd. J 8 Smoake, Jahn Low, E aie Yow, J. w. jiiiiBon, twis i Umshaw, Elias Luck. W. J. Edwards. Tilden Luther, Stephen W. Cox. CtHl Trt4 On Mondav casea sminRfc fW. Garner, larcenv. and Geo Bnmn assault with deadly weapon, wera- continuea. xnree cases against Jav Wilson for retailing were continued, Jim Olover plead gnilty to gamb ling ana was nnea $o and costs. Geo. Rich plead sruiltv to a charra of retailing. Judgment not yet pronounced. fJurney Thompson was found eniltv in three cmm of retailing, judgment not yet pro nouncea. On Tuesday Walter Tvsinrer. at. tempt to commit rape, was given a jail sentence of a year with privi. leee of hirinsr ont. P. B. Ial wu cleared of charge of retailing, con. viccea or crneity to animals, judg ment suspended on payment of costs. ,
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