Sylvan Yalley News
Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
miner & BREESE.
BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1904.
VOL. IX-KO. 30
^nns Rock Lodge No. 267
A. F. Jh Ji- M.
Meets Friday on or
before the full moon
in each month, at 2 p.
in. Visitinj; Masons
. are c<.)rdially invited
'Tif'et with ns.
sptly Wm. Maxwell, Scc’v.
Conestee Lodge No. 23f,
O. O. F.
Meets every Monday nijjht at S
brotiiers are cor-
oially invited to visit us.
T. D. ENGLAND, N. G.
Transylvania Lodge No. 143,
Knights of Pythias
MONEYIN HANDS OF FEW
HIS NATIONAL ANTHEM.
Concentration of Power Men
aces Popular Government.
BANK AND RAILWAY COMBINES-
They Control Ilr.If the Nntlon*«
WealthoNo Uenl K^Tort Made b>-
Repwl»llemi» to IOni'c»roe fl»e Auti-
trnat Roosevelt Under Obli-
■ration* to the Two Uoxulnunt In-
terests.
lleirular convention ev
ery Tuesday ni^ht in Ma
sonic Hall. Vis it in
Kni|>hts are i.’ordisi Ily in
vited to attend. W. E. BREESE Jr., C. C.
Brevard Telephone Exchange.
HorKs:
Daily—7 a. ra. to 10 p. m.
Sunday—8 to 10 a. m., 4 to p. m.
Central Office—('ooper lilock.
Professional Cords.
W. A. GASH,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Rooms 7 & 8, McMinn BId'g, Brevard, N. C.
W. B. DUCKWORTH,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Investigation of Land Titles a Specialty.
Ilooms 1 and 2, Pickelsimei' Buildin«j.
ZACHARY &. BREESE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offices in McMinn Block, Brevard, N. C.
WELCH CALLOWAY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
I’ractices in all the courts
Rooms 9 and 10 McMinn Block, Brevard, N. C.
Miscellaneous.
Dr. H. H. CARSON
Surgeon Dentist
OtUce over baiilv.
HEXDEKSONVILLK, X. C.
Satisfaction Guaraiitefd iti all <)i>tTatioiis. f2»*
C. C. KILPATRICK,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Office ai Barber Shop, Brevard, N. C.
Kstimates jriven on all kinds of work
in the buildinjr line.
T. B. CRARY,
Contractor for All Kinds of Brick Worl(.
Cement Work, Plastoriny. l^e>)ble-
dasli and Iloujrh Casiiiij; a Specialty.
BREVARD. N. C.
G. W. Summcy—Carpenter
IJest of recommendations—liis work.
Jobs in or out of town accej)ted.
All work fruaranteed.
A. C. NORTON,
Practical Boot and Shoemaker
Harness Work a specialty.
West Main Street near Caldwell.
The JEthelwold
jjrcvard's New Hotel—Modern Ap
pointments—Open all the year.
Yhe patronaofe of the traveling }>ublic
as well as summer tourists is solicited.
Opp. Court House, Brevard, N.C.
Dissolution.
The partnen>hip heretofore existing in the
business under the style and name of
Vfull & has been dissolved by M. R. Lanee
•'jthfirawio}'. The busii e-« will be e»)utiinie I
hv >V. •-< Mull, who will make all roHecaions
the firna and pay all demands apfinst it.
This July V, 1U04. W. L. MI LL.
' M. K. LANCE.
The concentration of wealth in few
hands !s obvious to every one. The
euorinou.s and fust Increasing wealth
of the liockefellers, Morgans. Vander
bilts, Goulds and others is a constant
exhibition of it. But few, however, ap
preciate the extraordiiiarj' tendency to
ward the concentration of the banks of
the country iu few hands, which is the
most striking feature of tlie financial
situation and shows the enormous pow
er that two interests i)ossess over tiie
money of the country. The most im
portant of these interests is the Uocke-
feller or Standard Oil group and the
other the so called Morgan life insur
ance group. TUis coml)iiiation of finan
ciers, virtually controlled by two men.
has command of one-half of all the
banking business Includt'd in the re
port of the associate banks.
The Hockefeller Interest owns the
National City bank, witli deposits of
$201.81»2.000 and casli on hand of $09,-
428,800; also the Hanover bank, with
deposits of ;?0o,401,200 and cash iu its
vaults of $lC,»>07,IiU0. The loans of
these two bauks aggregate $235,000.-
000.
The Morgan life insurance group
controls the First National, the Bank
of Commerce and the Chase National
bank, with deposits aggregating
KJ2.000. with cash on hand $08,073,000
and deposits ;^14,811.000.
Tlie Natioual 1‘ark bank Is not in
cluded In either of these groups, but is
allied with them, and if Its resources
are added tl'ese six b.-inks account for
over tie per cent of the lo.nns, per
cent of the deposits and (»0 per cent of
the cash of all the banks iu the New
York clearing house. These banks also
account, according to the last state
ment made, for 70 per cent of the en
tire surplus of all the jissociated banks.
These great financiers are not con
tent with the control of the New York
banks, but also have acquired control
of l)anks in the other largo cities of
the I’nited St.Mtes. Tlirougli their pow
er to loan money to the stock brokers,
their va.st lioKiiiigs of bonds and stocks
of railroads und the industrial trusts
they h;ive power to influence the stock
market iUid can often make or break
at v.'iH those who deal in stocks.
Ti.e ramifications of these financiers,
with their allied corporations, extend
into every state and city and almost
into every county in the United States
through their attorneys and agents.
This vast money jx)wer is part of the
Republican political machine, for both
the groups above m<*ntioned are ar
rayed against the Democrats. How
great this political influence Is may be
judged when the total mileage of the
Morgan group of railroads is 47,liO(*
miles a net the UockefelltT group has
2S.ir»7 mll*^. These railroads extend
into every doubtful state and have at
torneys and agents at nearly every
county seat watching their financial
and politicsil Interest.^.
This concentration of poAver In the
hands of a few men is one of the
great dangers to pojiular government,
and the defeat of tlie Ilepul)lican ma
chine would go a great way toward
arresting the further development of
such combinations. The Uepublican
administration has taken no real steps
to arrest tliis coueentr.'ition. in spite
of the laws* on the statute books, and
the common law is ample to prevent it
if rigidly enforced. The so called “mer
ger” trust suit, which Attorney Gen
eral Knox instituted, is worthless un
less followed by more drastic meas
ures, and the fact that .1. P. Morgan
has declared for President Roosevelt,
an«l the New Yorlv Sun. wliich he con
trols, is now advocating his election,
though formerly denouncing him,
shows tfiat the merger Interests do not
fear further legal prosecutions by Mr.
Roosevelt if he is elected. Any voters
who have been led to believe that Mr.
Roosevelt is lighting the trusts, espe
My army, ’tis of thee.
Sweet band of militeree.
Of thee i sing. ^
Land of my potent pride, |
Land where I roughly ride.
Nor is my right denied
To rule as king.
—New Orleans Times-Democrat.
that the Republican camp.nlgn fund Is ' orld, “the balancing of Platt with
largely furnished by the same Inter- ■ Odell, the placating of this enemy and
ests. * the crnsiilng of tliat, the careful selec
tion of delegates, the procuring of cop
per bound instructlonp. the choice of a
running mate, the ellminntion of all
but the i>lastic Cortelyou from coiisid-
for national chairman, the
One Sided Pronpertfy.
Now that the price of coal, flour, beef
and some other iiet-essuries is advanc
ing, Secretary Shaw is feeling better erat ion
politically, for, according to his idea, ' conning of the platform, the choice of ' <^*»»tnrieB Aro, Bat Hl«
Not the lenat of the president’s
many duties is that of hand.s^hakinfr.
—. ... early ])art
Ttie I»re«l4le«t’« '
of this admijiistra-
Soelal Dutle*. McKinley,
like Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Harrison,
used to “receive” in the east room of
the white house all who cared to pre
sent themselves at one o’clock on Mon
day's, Wednesdays and Fridays. Thou
sands of tourists visiting Washington
were able to say on their return home
that they had “seen the presidv.*nt.”
Even u7>on the stormiest days a good
ly number appeared at the appoint»ed
hour. When the Spanisli war came on
so great was the pressure upon the
president’s time that the triw'eekly
receptions were {iibandoned, and they
have not since been resumed. Per
haps there was a feeling that it might
not be entirely safe to admit the pub
lic indiscriminately without some
scrutiny. Most of the visitors to the
national capital still have an oppor
tunity to see the president. For ex
cursion parties from a distance, dele
gates to various conventions and other
large groups a special appointment is
usually made through the president’s
secretarj'. Many persons are taken
to see the president by their repre
sentative in congress, or by a senator
from their state; occasionally a cai)i-
net officer will accompany to the ex
ecutive mansion a few home acquaint
ances who desire to pay their res]>rcts.
Not long ago President McKinley was
obliged to keep a party, numbering
about 200. waiting for nearly an hour
on account of unexpected executive
duties. The unusual delay led “Jerry”
Smith, a colored man wlio has long
been employed about the white house,
to remark by way of consolation to
those who were waiting: “Dere ought
t^r be two presidents—-one ter ’tend
ter business an’ one ter do hand-
shakin’.”
A LOST KING.
high prices are a sure si.sjn of prosperi- orators, the rovi.«:ion and touing down
ty. The man v.'ho is called upon to pay of tho.se extravagruit wonls of eulogy
the advance is not feeling so jubilant, • wl.ich rose so s[)ontaneousiy from the
especially he who is .still working for fullness of his hoait to the Jlps of
the same wages. And then there are Fniiik S. Pdnck! Would it be too much
those who have had their w.iges cut to say that these matters of such great i
and those who are out of a Job or on personal Import occupied half of his
Strike. Their idea of the prosperity waking hours and all of his dreaming
caused by Idgh prices Is entirely hos- ones?
tile to the Shaw’ theory. j “The personal strahi must have been
: great, the presid»Mitial strain greatly
A Tlrkll.<ih Question. exaggerated.”
Pnlthfal People StHl Walt
for Hia Cominir.
Although the president and the sec-
n*tary of the navy are entitletl to the
privilege of selecting the women who
name ships built in government yards,
they have directed that the governor of
Connecticut be inviteil to make this
lection for the battleship Connecticut,
which will be lannchi'd at the New
York navy yard Sept. 1*0. In a presi
dential year It doesn’t pay to be selfish
in dealing with a doubtful state.—Bos
ton Globe.
PLEASURE AND POLITICS.
KooHevelt Worrle« That He Cannot
Ite More In the l*uhlie Eye.
If any one thinks that President
Roosevelt is not busy these days, be
cause he is not talking for pulilica-
tion, he is min-h mistaken. Tie
president is fully ciupluyed frt?m morn-
OFFICIAL PERQUISITES.
Extravnflrnnee of Present Ailmlnln-
tratlon Beats All KeeordN.
The bad example set by President
Roosevelt in Isaving two government
vessels elaborately r.ttcd u]> f‘»r the use
of himself and family is bearing fruit
in the use of government vessels by
his cabinet for their outhigs. Secretary
Morton has hardly got his seat warm
as secretary of the navy when he starb? i Heved by many, and on stormv nights
for Newport and the ollu-r seaside re- credulous Portuguese citizens will
sorts iu the Dolphin with a party of j wrap their cloaks about them and go
friends and other ollieials. Besides the | outside and watch the storm, thinkin,"
whole Morton family there were Attor- ■ that the king may appear in a clond of
ney (leneral Moody, Representative
Foss of Illinois, Mr. Nonlh<»us(‘, secre
tary to Mr. Mort;ni: SjieaUer Cannt)n
and his family, witli their accomp;iny-
ing sei’vaut.s and retainer.^ all at the ex-
In olden times, when European kings
were as plentiful as Kentucky colonels
are to-day, it was not ;;n exceptional
’ occurrence for a king- to disappear and
I never be heard of again. In recent
j times, however, the jjeopie have been
I more careful of their kings. Ho v.hcn
King Sebastian of I'ortugal disappearKi
in battle July 29, 1578, while fighlirg
' ihe Moors at Alcazar, there was great
fonimotion. The Moors surrendi rod
to the Portuguese a body said to be that
' of the king, but it was rumored that the
Moors had the live king in custody.
, The surrendered body was buried with
royal honors at Belem, hut the faithful
Portuguese |)irsisted in waiting for
the rrturn of their king. Long after he
would have died in the course of nature
hif coifntrymen lor.gingly awaited his
eoming. Even uj> to this day the legend
of the return of King Sebastian is be-
fire and agrin rule o-''- his people.
Tlir<*<* .7ur«n-.s C'liriMl
()f cholera iuo; buswith ono «nui!l
bottle <)t‘( hM!iiJi,“rlaiM’s Colic, Choh*-
ing to night, although he only devotes | pense of the goverumeiit. The people
a “short liour” for the duties of hia i pay the bills, and the politicians have •****• niiii fbo'ea FeinedvA G. ^\ .
office. It frets and worries him that | a good time with the trust magnates
he cannot be more in tli3 public eye. | and the cream of society they meet at
but the Republican leadcs have im- j the various resorts,
pressed on him that he must “keep | The smaller fry Republican poli-
quiet.” So he takes long tn»aip.s. | ticians do the best tljey can to also fol-
rides and drives, camps out, lioxea, j low in the footstep.'^ of tlioir leaders.
wrestles, fences with the bro.idsword They acc-ei^t f«ee tnuisportation from
F()wler of Hightower, Ala., rehite.s
an experiem'e he had while ^orvwg
on a petit jury in a murder case at
Ed wards ville, county seat of Cle-
boiirne fomity, Ala., lie says:
“Wlhle there 1 ate some fresh meat
and single sticks, rows, chops trees. I the railroad.si and steamship companies, | , travp nn- cbi>lor<i inorhns in
plays tennis with his cabinet the and those who are left In Washington . ^ “ cnoitia niornu, m .i
younger members—shoots with ride , ride in the carriages i»aid for out of ap- i seveie lOllll. 1 \\asne\er more
and revolver and to till in spare time * propriatioiis made for other purposes. I sick in my life ;ind sent to the driif'
practices jiu jitsu, the Japane.se mus- j Even a Republican congressman pro- store for a certain cholera ml.xture,
cular formula. Those are the amuse- ; tested at this extravagance and abuse ' he sent me a bottle Of Chamber-
ments. Then there are political <-on-: of what Avas intended only for cabinet i • , i- r-i i •. i i
ferences with Platt, Odell, Root, Lodge. i oiticers and told his hilarious associates | ^ ^Cholera ana Diarrhoe.i
Cortelyou. Addicks, Black and I..OU ^ that the <*arriages so used would make Remedy instead, saj iiig th.it be had
Payne and “fixing things’’ with Mor- i a Kne reaching from the capitol to the what I sent for, but that this niedi-
gan, Stillman, Gould and other Wall
I Btr<‘Ot and trust magnates, all of which
I takes time and lots of it.
I In fact, most of the time of Mr.
; Roosevelt since he wjis accidentally
* inducted Into the presiOential ollice
I has been occur>ied in like strenuous
dally the railroad and financial combi
nations, should remember that he Is i
directly under obligations to the great j
railroad corporations for thousands of j
miles of travel in special trains and i
Occupation, much to the detriment of
! the serious business of the government
White House. The extravagam-e of the was .so much better he would
present adnunistration beats all former I .i ^ . t
records f rather f?e»a it to me in the tix T was
j in. I took one dose of it and was
Walking Is now recommended as a i better in five nnnutes. The .second
cure for appendicitis. If the appendix j dose cured me entirely. Two fellow
is all right, walking Is also good for the jurors were afllicttd in the same man-
Ilver, and if the liver does no< need It | ner and one twenty-five cent bottle
Think of the record breaking swing | exercise is good for the lungs, the cm ed the three of us.” For sale by
around the circle at the exi)ense of j
the railroads,” says the New York ,
muscles and, above ail, for the nerve
centers and think machine.
Z. W. Nichols Brevard and O. L. p]r-
win Calvert. *