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t ! 1 : i 7 1 : " 1 ; ' " 17 I ' : i I ! : ' 1 . . .. . n j TV T1TI IT nn. - For the Democrat. i Labor and Capital. i . ! v. . The prosperity of all men de I pen ds on double forces inherent m the nature of things, and de velopjed by the fixed rules of recompence and retribution. These forces and these laws ap :ply to labor j and capital in the development of material things ; and when fraud, circumvention and cheating is done fear is be - gotten, and; the father of lies rules for a season the destinies .of men as well as nations.: Fear teaches there is rottenness some where ; as well as the hovering of the carrion crow ; and fear indicates that the abuses of so ciety, the unjust accumulation of property, are to be avenged. When equal rights are denied, and special privileges are given by class legislation, fear bodes, mows, and gibbers over govern ment and property. That obscene bird now hovers over the destinies of this nation while ; the golden sun of liberty is well nigh sinking with the . millions of workingmen beneath , 'the mountains of wealth, wrung from j the hands of toil by un wholesome laws that giveth to the rich by oppressing the poor. It has been said that " the timidity of slavery, as it once existed in the South, led to se cession ; secession to civil war, and war gave freedom and citi zenship to . the slaves."" So, it may be said, the continuous op pression of i the people has frightened capital into most formidable organizations, bv means of which the fetters and shackles of controlled j labor have turned three-fifths of all the wealth of the country into the hands of comparatively a few millionaires, of whom it may be said forty-one are United States Senators. The situation is appalling to everjn lover of country and kin ! i ADsoiute truth arranges the logic of facts so as to force home the truth of all that can be said of the injustice, and de grading legalized tyranny, by which $648,220,000 of the peo ple'sfmoney is locked up in the national treasury, and turned over to the .rich without inter est to be loaned at a high rate of interest. With such a state of things, caused by a wrong financial policy, the "country is threatened with anarchy and factionalism. Claris are organized in every. uepanment ot industry, many of whom make quite unreason able demands upon all not of their vocation, forgetting the inevitable laws of recompense arid retribution. To illustrate: There be those who consider it a if avoir conferred upon the pub lishers: of a newspaper for them to! read the paper, when the law of recompense says, " Pay for the paper, then read it to thy heart's content." Then there be those who consider it a favor conferred upon school teachers for their children to attend the school,; day in and day out, tu ition linpaid. and tlm d retribution corning when that community is without educa tional facilities. The same class strikes! the lawyer and the doc tor in j the form of a gale, but when they strike the verdant merchant there is a regular fi nancial cyclone, and down goes the man: of the yardstick. These illustrations indicate why it is there is! a want of confidence, and organized clans, not that the meritorious, pay as you go, fefir being left, but because dead beats and those who live be yond their income create dis content by persuading their fel lows that the wheel of fortune is j grinding those of their par ticular; vocation. To reverse this wheel of for tune local clans were organized, then unions and alliances, which by combination havp oiie fermented, seething mass o discontent, demanding, God only knows what, as their doc tors disagree about the diagno sis of the disease. j We find those whose life work has been to aid in perpetuating lajws favorable to the growth of monopolies, standing side by sijle with those whose life work has been for the greatest good to the j greatest number. Both paid jlecturers to enlighten clansmen on the causes of hard times, and prescribe the reme dy. These doctors of different political schools confound -confusion .when a draught of simon pire elixir, drawn from the pure fountain of democracy wpuld .elevate the world's work ers to Ithinking, acting, respon sible citizens. j Some men are mining iron ore and coaMrr Alabama ; others are erettiner out lurnhpr i Carolina. After certain changes are wrought by the hand of in dustry, of these a plow; is made, sold to the farmer, and in turn he produces the materials of food arid clothing for those who contributed to ! his wants in making the plow. I ! The miners and lumbermen cannot wait for the users and' consumers of their products to produce what they most need; food and clothing ; neither can the farmer cultivate j his lands till he! has tools:; To accommo date both the capitalist and merchants step in with money the representative of values arid tie laborers, both in the mines the factories and on the V. ! i - ! I . iarm, receive a warrant every Saturday night on the World's great (store for what each indi vidually has contributed: during the previous week to the stock in trade. What is the i stock in trade jut so much accumulated hands of Havoc Among the Dogs. When Maj. T - was appointed pro vost marshal on St. Selena Island, in rront ot Jtseauiort, justj after the, war, he found it I inhabited by half a dozen whites, some 1,500 negroes and several thousand dogs. These j dogs j belonged to the negroes, half a dozen to a family, and were; dangerous brutes, generally crosses between the mastiff; and blood hound. It was unsafe1 to dismount or enter a yard without first warning the inmates o the house of one's presence, t One day he started to enter a yard when he felt his hand seized. He looked Ft dog, which mouth and labor waiting in the , . j , the merchant to be exchanged tor other labor: at the fiat of money. ,! . J -: L ; j ; j . I jTheri the life and vitality of all labor is a rapid exchange of products, and j liberal consump tion, which means good wages to all working men and women so that each may have' tho abil ity to 'purchase at the world's great Store such products of la bor as may be desired for com fort and pleasure. To be Continued. To (The Service Investigate the Civil Commission. civil service commission has much to gain from the in vestigation ot its methods arid results which the House civil service committee has decided to recommend to the House. The charges are that the corrij missioners evade the law arid show partiality, in their selec tion of persons for appoint ments These are to be inquired into, as also the results gener ally of the new system. The reports made by the commission of its own investigations ought, perhaps, to dome within the scope of the committee's! inqui ries, us appointments may nave been all right, but its in vestigations of the charges made against various postoffices dur ing Mrj. Cleveland's administra turn at the request of republican ciyil service "reform clubs were considered by democrats at the tiriie very partial and preiudicfirl efforts. The reports on the in vestigations were desired by the clubs for campaign dociiriienti! arid some of them wp.re sn framed as to he utilized for hn purpose. The paucity of like in vestigations and reports ! in the past year is noticeable.' Mr! Roosevelt's recent report on the New York custom house rather COnhrms .the rule, as it is nirpp.t- ed to showing up the wicked ness ot democrats only. Right eousness is not, we believe, at any time a monopoly of either party. Baltimore sun. . Mr. Windom's Silver Scheme, j The Milwaukee Sentinel wpII says: With the market value nf . f - - - the metals fluctuating,: experi ence shows that we are in rrml stant danger of losing either our gold or our silver. ! As gold wjas driven out because the mar ket value ot silver was less than its money value! under Hamil ton's ratio, and as silver was driven put by the act of 1834 be cause the market value of silver was greater than its money val ue under that ratio, so would we lose our gold under present con ditions if there should : be a large foreign demnad for specie from this country. Under Mr. Windom's plan it would be im possible; to undervalue or over value silver in relation to gold. ine bullion I value Of silver might change from day to day, but the ratio would change with it- A silver bullion certificate for one dollar would be worth - f v V V -K. A down and there saw a big had taken his fingers in its was holding thenl, tightly enough tc hurt without actually! biting. As soon as he could he withdrew his fingers and reached around for his revolver. The dog was still menacing, and as Mai. T leveled the weapon the brute opened his mouth fojr a growl, which was never finished. The major dropped a forty-four bullet down his throat. i The provost marshal finally came tc the conclusion that there were more dogs than there was any call for.; So he sent up to Charleston and got a pound oi strychnine, with which he idoctored up about twenty pounds iof meat chopped up into little cubes. Armed with this, he rode quietly over the island and gave a mouthful to every dog he met. If the dog was particularly noisy, he gave him two. Within the next twenty-four hours scores of excited negroes rushed in upop him. , ' j j J ' i "MarseT , dedawer'all daid. Sorm pow'ful misery done tuck 'em un dey's dyin' ebry whar. I losj free dawg. Sam Jenkin he done los' de bes' coon dawg oc St. Helena. My boy jPete done los' aD his'n. We dunnaw vkt make of hit." j "The epidemic lasted three weeks said the major to Tlie Post. "I must have poisoned over s000 dogs. If the negroes had. suspected me, my life would have been in danger. " ' Washington Post. j Forsrot Himself. With radiant smile iand bewitching tuc ucctuuiui iieiress piacea nei hand in that of the 'ardent young for eign nobleman who knelt at her feet, j "I am yours, count.Tcame softly fron: ner iovely hps. , The count sprang to; "Zis eesjze happiest he exclaimed, in that I ILL ta " ' ! ? -- - ' 'i ! : ! 'ge 8-page Weekly Paper, BY ROBT. M. FURMAN AND DAVID M. VANCE w his feet in ecstasy. iday off my lifer charming: accent mat so delights the ear of the romantk ASHEVILLE, N. C. THE PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. mat so delights the ear of the romantk A CITTTITTTT T Tl TVT n maiden or America when uttered by s AfoJlL V iLiiXj, V. JN . U. titled foreirnfr. i i ' i titled foreigner. "my lore" he said from his pocket and tapering finger, "permeet me to present you zees;leetle tokane off Our enkache ment," " I : .i And he tenderly jabbed a kiss upon it. "Dear count," rep drawing a ring slipping it on hei ied the blushing girl, "I wiJI wear it foreverj And now, m return, I know you will accept this ring from me, and wear it on your little finger." ' j , . j The count took it. As he turned it about in his hand arid inspected it, a dreamy, abstracted ljxk settled on hie face, and he murmured absentmindedly: "Mees, I 'couldn't possibly let you haff more zan feef ty cents on zis piece off cneweiry i "jUhicago Tribune. 1 ' 1 r Important Ili Benevolent Old Lady (to I little girl) my mue oear, ao you wash your face and nanas every morning?! "No, mum." "Good gracious! dreadful. Do you waih your face in the middle ot the day?" "No mum." "Dear mel When do you wash your- sell?" . "I never washes." "Horrible! It is shocking how 'de praved the lower classes are! I must organize a society to 'see that children are properly washed. Tell me, little one: do you really never wash vourself?" M JNo, mum, mammaj washes me every morning. -xexas Sittings. It will be a large, 8-page, weekly paper, devoted to the Social, Industrial and Political, interests of Western North Carolina. It will be the earnest endeavor of the editors to make THE DEMOCRAT useful tothe great and vaned interests of this rapidly growing city and section. M No efforts will fee spared to make it entirely acceptable because of tts usefulness. Dealers in DEMOCRATIC IN POLITICS That's perfectly A cook w It wHl be Democratic i politics-emphatically and reliably so-as its- name and. the life-time creed of its editors imply. Where Was ittae Cat? Real Estate no had burnt a niece of roast veal weighing four pounds threw it away, and afterwards explained t6 her mistress that the catj had eaten! the meat. "Very good," said the lady, "we will see that directly." j : j ; bo saymgL she took the scales, and found that it weighed ex actly four pounds. I "There, Fxederike, four pounds of meat, but cat?" Kolner Tageblatt. on she said, "are the where is the i always one eroldl dollar's wortK of silver, no matter What the bunion price ot silver might be. Unless silver should d frightfully, there would always be bullion enough in the Treas ury to redeem it, and mining vuuiu cease n it snouid tlenref - ate enough to involve a danger. j I Because passion has never touched with its fire l and its glory the prim life of the es thetic DriiT. or tlie rotnnH Pin'. Hstine: it is not for that perished off the face of the earth, jit exists in the same force and same fervor as in the days of Othello and Stradella ; and, I confess, seems to me more ntly a subject for the nov elist or the dramatist I than the factitious "realism" of the spine less commonplace. Ouida. J i A Poser. Bennie Mamma, do people really buj ! : . i f course1, child, of cnnrs. Run out now and plav. Bennie (in a brown study) Then, whv is it, mamma, that poor people buy more oi em man anybody else? Northwest Magazine. In all its branches SeM iD y0UT names with the ca?h at once- dress, ! . . r . ; Smith What do you think of my new J suit? Jones I can't he Clothier and Furnisher. myself think. The recent tieavv mine in nQi norma j drowned thousands of gophers and destroyed the eggs of the Hessian flv. vhifh j me iarmers some consolation. i i I i' I Ckmfor;ins. j Professionftl Mendicants-Would yoa please help bie, sir? I jhave only one leg, sir, and I am cold an-l j a Why' y dear mn you have a de cided advantage over me in having only one foot to get cold; good day." Time. Refer, hy f Permission, to all the Banks of Asheville. For Particulars, Price List. : ; .- i ! Etc., apply ori address us at this place. THE INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS OF THIS SECTION, Agricultural, Mechanical and Mining, win receeive special attention. The resources of every: county, the various enterprises of all the people, will have constant consideration.' The department for the Home Circle will be complete, i As THE DEMOCRAT is already assured a large circulation in the city of Asheville and all the Western Counties, it will be an excellent medium for advertisers. Rates will" be reasonable. THE ASHEVILLE DEMOCRAT, FURMAN & Asheville VAfslCE ' ' j ' , Editors, We wiU thank any one for any name or names of friends residing in any of he States or Territories that we May send specimen-copies of THE DEMOCRAT."
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