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r v. t'Vf--v.j. A. . -.j. ...ir, 1 .j.';ri..;W,i1,;,V THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1892. i i ?:,;-'..l-. ill m II j-. WEEKLY CITIZEN. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY TNE RANDOLPH-KERR PRINTING COMPANY TERMS! One ear, ..... Ii.oo lx Bf ontba, .... so THURSDAY. OCTOBF.R 13. 1892. WHO PAVS THE TARIFF 7 The Jefferson Western Citizen says: "Republicans say the foreigners pay it, Democrats say Americans pay it as a tax. Both cannot be right, hence one or the other is wrong. Lets see which. We will suppose Ashe county to be United States, and Johnson county to be a for eign nation. Ashe levies a tariff or duty of25 cents per bushel upon r.ll corn brought from Johnson. We will sny the price of corn is $1 j.er bushel in Ashe, suppose you sell 50 bushels, you of course get'$50 for it. You have a friend in Johnson who also has fifty bushels to sell and brir.gs it to Ashe to sell; before he can sell he pavs to Ashe 25 cents per bushel or $12.50. He sells at $1 per bushel as you did, anil takes back to Johnson $50. Here are the accounts: voirKfi. To 50 bus. corn at SI per linn $.r0.00 By cost of produd'ou and marketing 1'7 5'i To net profit S3 30 ins. To r0 bu. corn at SI per bus. S.r0 OO By c st ol production 20 Ou By mttrki-tinn 5 OO By duty ntLVi cents per bushel 12 GO Total 37.5(1 i a no "Tlic above is a fair, si inplcatid concise illustration of the tariff question and plainly slmws who pavs the tariff. Is the Anici ic.iu tariff a tax upon the Amer ican consumer ? The Democrats say it is, but can't prove it. The Republicans! say it is not. and can prove it." The first continent that naturally oc curs on reading the foregoing ts, Why in j the world did not Ashe eotintv fix the ' duty at one ''ollar and so get the John-j son man's clii for nothing,? It the for-1 cigner is so anxious to trade in Ashe county, instead of in counties where 1 there is no tax on corn, that he will pay ' a tax of twenty-live cents per bushel, a! little tariff of one hundred cents would i not drive him oil it ir only seventv-five I cents more. This really exposes the failacv of the i Citizen's entire example; hut let us ex amine it a little further. In the first place, it is not a parallel with the exist ing situation as between, say, this coun try and Great Britain. The Citizen's supposition that theloreigner sends over to New York on a hit or miss specula tion a lot of goods which he enters at our custom house and for which he then proceeds to drum up a customer, first paying the tariff on them, is simply not the fact. The goods are bought in the old wottli not Jiere. They are the American merchant's goods the moment they are shipped and it is be who pays the tariff on them in New York. In other words, the trader in Ashe county bears that a producer in Johnson county has a lot of corn to sell and he writes him asking the price. If tbat is satisfactory he orders the corn and pays the duty on it in the Ashe county custom house; that duty, or tariff, be adds to the cost ol the corn in Johnson county and the consumer in Ashe county pavs the tax. Now to illustrate the Democratic posi tion on the tariff more closely, let us sup pose that corn is something that Ashe county can raise very little of to advan tage, while it is at the same time some thing the common people want and must have, and let us suppose that corn is something that Johnson county can raise in great quantities and very cheap as well: the Democrats would say, let corn in free of duty so that the people can have it at the lowest possible price. The Republicans would say : "No; there is one man away up in the north east corner of the county who is rich and votes our ticket every time and gives lots ot money to the county committee every campaign. He has a patch of ground that will raisecorn. Wc will there fore put a duty on corn to increase the price so that he can raise it at a profit, and when election day comes around we Will fry more fat out f him than ever before. It is an infant industry anyway and deserves our support." So Ashe county puts a big tariff on corn which the consumer pays, lor the price goes up by just so much, and ns it is revenue in excess of what is really needed to carry on the county govern ment, the Republican officeholders of Asbe take to squandering it, claiming tbat the county is now a billion dollar county and that everything goes; and the man with the one patch of corn gets to be a millionaire and goes over into - Tohnson county and founds free libraries and buys a castle, and rides around the country in a tally-ho coach, spending Tery little money in Ashe county except to bay voters with, though once in . a : while, he imports a batch of paupers from Johnson county into Ashe where they s hoe corn very cheap and drive out the . ' Ashe county men who bad been doing the hoeing. . ' . Esteemed Western Citizen, wjio pays the tax ? ' - ' " - . . . .''.' MO FREE TRADE, Do tbe people bf the South content . plate entering upon an era of manufac turing under a system of free, trade laws and successfully competing with the wealth, the experience and the multi tude of other advantage ' possessed by all the . old established manufacturing centres of the world ?Hepderonville Jjmea. if- : 7 ; , :, :. ; .f, :i. i; , . There is no evidence that, the people of the South contemplate anything of the kind except, with lister States. Tree trade-; is , not .proposed by ay political party with which we are acquainted. It ia a fact, however, tbat some of tbe unprotected industries of the United States do successfully com pete with the "wealth, the experience and the multitude of other advantages possessed by all the old established man ufacturing centres of the world." In fact we hear it told these days that some parts of tbe South are competing suc cessfully with such an "old, established manufacturing centre" as Pennsylvania in the production and manufacture of iron. RONE NKW DEMOCRATS. Why should these men leave the Re publican party if it is what it pretends to be? Hugh McCulloch, the financial mem ber of the Lincoln and of the Arthui Cabinets. General Cox, of Grant's Cabinet, a gallant soldier and ex-Governor of Ohio. Carl Schurz, of Hayes' Cabinet, and Republican Senator from Missouri. Judge Gresham, ol Arthur's Cabinet, and a prominent Republican candidate for President in 18SS. Charles Francis Adams, a leading Re publican of Massachusetts, and a 'on of ex-President John (Juincv Adams. Wayne MacVeagh, of Garfield's Cabi net, and Republican Foreign Minister. Judge Tlios. M. Coolcy, the eminent lawyer and late chairman of the Inter State Commerce Commission. H. La linrrc Jayne, an eminent Phila delphia lawyer. j William Dudley Foulke.of Indiana, one I of the foremost advocates ol civil service reform. , Judge Hare, a life-long Republican ol Pennsylvania. Judge Harold, a prominent Indiana j jurist. , Mr. Wet more, the most inllueiiti.il Re-1 publican in southern California. Albert R. Leeds, professor ol chemistry ' in Stevens' Institute of Technology, IIo boken. R. (). ( idell, of Minnesota, appointed' I'iiited States Land Commission).!' by ' President Henj. Harrison. i William Crosthwaiie. an influential eoloreil lawyer ot Nashville. Tcnn. Against this list the Republicans have ; one man of prominence to show George TicUnor Curtis, an .able lawyer, once a Deinocrat. who says that tariff for protection is not unconstitutional and that therefore he will vote with the Republicans. The liest legal opinion in the country, from the supreme bench down, is against Mr. Curtis, but he is entitled to his opinion and we shall not call him names and make up faces at him as the Republicans do when their party is deserted liv some of their best men. Unfortunately for the Republicans how ever, Mr. Curtis has no influence politi- cally that, canfor one moment bc com; pared with the influence wielded by the least influential of thasrecent Republican seceders. We ask the Republicans of Western North Carolina to look oi that list and say if it does not mean that the Republi can party of today is a better party to leave than to stay in. 8TILL THK FORCE BILL. Said Mott the son of Mott in the court house Saturday night to an aud ience made up mainly of negroes ? "This so-called force bill ? I call it an election bill. Yes, I'm for it. Pin for anything that will make an honest man out of an infernal thief. You can't get a Democrat to say that a Republican is rascal enough to steal a vote. The bill simply provides that every man shall cast a fair ballot and a Democratic or Republican judge must count it, whether he wants to or not. I am for a free ballot and a fair count if it takes ten thousand beads in North Carolina every head in the Democratic party." This then is Republican doctrine. And yet they tell us the force bill is a dead issue! To enforce it this man Mott would willingly see ten thousand Demo cratic voters' heads roll in the dust. And remember that this remark was made in the presence of negroes to in flame their passion and toconvince them that the Republican party is their Iriend because it is willing to make into law a bill that was described by one de cent Republican as the most "imfamous measure that ever passed the doors of theSenatc." Which party will you vote with Mott's and the party of the force bill, or with the Democratic party, the enemy of both? THE REMEDY. The Monroe Enquirer, speaking of tbe running over of a useful citizen of that place by a railroad train, says: "Let everybody beware when crossing the railroad. The only remedy for these accidents is to keep out of the way ol the train. No engineer can stop his train in the short distance necessary to avoid ac cidents in such cases. Tbe public must beware and keep off of tbe track. This is the only preventative of auch acci dents." Decidedly we take issue with the En quirer's conclusions. It is a matter of necessity that often leads persons to cross, the railway tracks; they have a right to cross them; in most cases the highway was there long before tbe rail road. Tbe remedy for tbese accidents is to have the railways either depress their tracka or. build overhead bridges at all principal crossings, so tbat there shall be so crossing at grade. In these latter days there ia too much proposing to give up everything to tbe railroad. ', - THE TIME TO DROP CLUBS. , When' New York's afreets have been crowded to witness a parade or proces sion it baa always, o recent year, been a leading feature of the show to see the police crack some" dozens of heads in tbe attempt ' to make '' the . people "stand back." Somehow it occurred to the powers that be that tbe discovery of America could perhaps be celebrated without the usual police brutality, and the experiment was tried three days of this week. Strange to aay, it worked well. Tbe crowds tbe largest New York ever saw were easily handled, and though the police feel that they have been deprived of a lot of fun, it does not appear tbat the people wilt demand a return to the old system. Probablv their heads suit them as they are. At all events, we gather that the New Y'ork papers are very proud of the change, which indeed would do credit to any barbarous people. Whether the old sys tem was ever a credit to the metropolis of this great country we leave New York to say, now that she sees how unneces sary has been all the cruel clubbing her police brutes have indulged in. FREE TRADE IN LABOR. In a speech at Ophir Farm, Whitclaw Reid's palatial country place where the servants are in livery and there are vari ous other signs of Republican simplicity, Mr. Blaine said the other day : "I think I shall rely on mv good friend Egan, the brilliant and successful minis ter to Chile, whom I feel especially glad to meet at Mr. Reid's table this evening I think 1 must rely on him to intercede with his countrymen his countrymen in two senses not to aid the Democratic partv in lowering the standard of and wages ol American labor by their poten tial votes and their potential numbers." Lgati is a regular old stnnd-bv of the kVmiblij-.'in ivitIv vvllf-tl it u-.'itlt I hi- lrib vi 1 1 1 " but i v,"i b cntmnf I it r vt-n t his countrymen from knowing that the Democratic partv is not proposing to lower the standard of wages in this country. The Irish were never a dull race, and they know as well as if Blaine or even Lgnn had told them, that the Democratic partv has just as much at stake in t his country ns the Republican party. The Irish know, just as every body knows, that the Republican policy ol pit t'eiion does not protect the work- ! man; that the only thing that protects ! him in the least is the cost "to the ptu- per labor of Europe" ol a passage across the Atlantic; and that sotneof the unpro tected industries average bight r wages than the proteetetl ones. DESPERATE. The people of the United States pay Mr. Miller, of Indiana, to be their attorney-general pay for his entire time. Nevertheless he was'ecently engaged in the Supreme court of the United States ns a private attorney in a case in which his friend Benjamin Harrison is especi ally interested. This is the case of the new Michigan election law providing fof the choice of electors by districts, the cITeetAeing that Michigan will, under it, undoubtedly return some Democratic electors. There was no call for the Attorney-General to appear, any more than for President Harrison himself to do so, and it is consequently a gratifica tion to learn that Mr. Miller's argument was very weak and that tbe probabili ties are that the United States Supreme court will sustain the constitutionalitv of the new law. The Supreme court of Michigan a majority of whose members are Republicans has already done so. Mr. Miller is not a great lawyer, and the President has only betrayed the des peration with which he reaches for a few electoral votes, in thus violating good taste and common decency. AN VMHOI.V TRADE A. H. Peeler of Shelby, in withdrawing as a candidate for sheriff of Cleveland couutv on the Third party ticket, says: "I have evidence of the unholy trade that has been made by Butler and Exum to sell the State to the Republicans for $50,000. I have tbe best reason to be lieve that a corrupt bargain exists be tween the leaders of the People's Party and the Republicans whereby the rank and fi'e of the People's Party is betrayed into furthering the plans of the Republi can party. Mv heart revolts against such treachery and corruption, and I will not allow myself to be made.-. part,v to any such movement." If Mr. Peeler has evidence that satis lied him that Butler and Exum had agreed to sell the State to the Republi cans for $50,000 we believe he should make it public. Evidence that would convince him would convince other Third party nun and aid the Democracy mate rially in Cleveland county as well ns else where. Nothing for vears, it we may believe the Republican organs, has so pleased them as the present stampede of promi nent Republicans into the Democrat party. Hear Murat Halstead, for in stance: "The procession of Republicans who rushed to the help of Cleveland, sympa thizing with the change of heart marked by the difference between hi apeech and bis letter of acceptance, has ended, and they amount to a constitutional crank (Cooley ), a Presiden tialcrank( Gresbam ), a professional crank (MacVeagh) and an egotistical cranx (Julian), iour votes, and all of them, with tbe exception of Coolev, have been in the babit ot voting for Cleveland. They are old and cold chestnuts. Republicans may bless God and take courage that they are gone." Tbe most curious thing about tbe whole matter if, tbat such Republicans as Halstead never find out the true char acter of their fellow Republicans till tbey go out from among them; then they know them like a book and, singularly- enough, never know any good of tbem. The action of tbe Buncombe county Farmers' Alliance in its regular , quar terly session Last week was such - as to show those who are trying to use' the order for selfish purposes, political Or otherwise, that tbey could not bend or break tbe constitution in tbat way. The Buncombe alliance is ma'de up of intelli gent and well to do farmers who mean to hold fast to the original principles. Tbat meeting passed resolution! con demning the spirit w hich prompted some of the actions t the recent State al liance, in using it to piomote a politi cal party contrary to the constitution. No partisan politics are allowed to enter the door of this noble order in Bun combe. Pkitciiakh charges that the last Dem ocratic House appropriated $53,000 to the widows ot Congressmen who died without serving cut their terms in Congress. Crawford shows that the Republicans for years have been paving the families of dead Congressman $10, 000 when they died, and the last Con gress UIlUCrlOOK lO Cut II uuwil iu $5.0(10, and every Republican voted ngainst it. If three Republicans had voted lor it the bill woultl have passed, and yet Pritchard calls this an argu ment. Crawford votca against mc ap propriation, and every Republican in Congress voted for it. i D. B. Hill, alter much solicitation had gone through Brooklyn and made '"""; .- m v.e t it " . " . , , l urches ticket, but to stand in with the his speech Iroiii some Democratic farmer T,ljnl ,iariv everything except the na porch iii the country, and if in that tioual ticket. speec.'i lie :i.'tu in Cleveland, what t referred by name to i howl the Republicans up! Now that is just and the Republicans! i Mil ) have sent what Hiaiuc did Prod SS t 1 )e very proud ol his "support" Blaine went out to Fanner ! tit tlic I ' ' Kcid's link i "inch, made a li w remarks j about l he Irish vote and lorgot to re- member that llai i isoti w tin- presidency. M.igniti is rumi'iig for cut support! Po w i ; 'al eat hiisiasm I r t he Republican tiCKt t . Pi:: iCiiAKP devotes Idtien minutes of his hour .:t:d a nuaricr each tlav, in try ing '. make the people believe that Crawford was guilty ol a 'political crime. ;;s well as base ingratitude, in not voting lor Roger (J. Mills for speaker of the House instead of Crisp, lie says that Mills was in favor of the repeal of the McKinlev biil and Crisp was not. He also charges that Crisp is opposed to the tree coinage ot silver. 1 wo more utterly ridiculous and untenable posi tions could hardlv be nssumetl, much less maintained. Yet Pritchard calls this discussing the issues. Pkitcharp says the Republican Senate passeil the free coinage bill and the Demo cratic house failed to pass it. The re cords of the Senat show that thirty Re publican Sent' tors voted against free sil ver, and -fourteen for it, and that thirty Democratic Senators voted for it, ane ten against it. Docs tbat look as though Republicans passed the bill? And Mr. Reid, the Republican candidate for the vice-presidency, says in his paper, the New York Tribune, that tbe bill would not have passed at all if Vice-President Morton, a Republican, had been in the chair. Pkitciiakd charges Crawford and tbe Democrats in the 52nd Congress with having increased the expenses of the House $213,000, but be does not men tion the fact that the 51st Congress, which was Republican, created 1,600 new offices, raised the salaries of 1,200 officials, and increased tbe expenses in that Congress three million dollars. The Republicans ought to have learned long before this time that such comparisons are odious and damaging to radicalism. Pritchard did not know tbe facts, how ever, and got his foot in it ns usual. Pkitciiakd says the Republican party has never promised the people free silver. And Pritchard told the truth. Counting both the Republicans and Third party men in the last Congress, in the Senate and in the house, there were only 3G of them in favor of free silver. The Demo crats hud 100 men, counting both bouses, in lavor of the bill. If the people expect to get free silver, thcfcc figures show them where to go to gel it. Pkitciiakd says that Crawford voted to put wool on the Irce list, but wrote a letter to a man in Mitchell county say ing that it was not the policy of the Democrats to take the duty off of mica. Crawlord says the free wool bill took the tax off the farmer's clothing, but be is opposed to taking the tax olf of the rich man's stoves with mica fronts to them; yet Pritchard says Crawford is opposed to tbe farmers. It seems that the World's Fair mana gers were determined to have a Demo crat speak at the dedicatory ceremonies, and so have called on Henry Wnttcrton and he has accepted. There will be no insects of any kind on that speech, and it will be a wonder if some good demo cratic doctrine does not get into it. . Pritciiakd claims that the pi Ice of clothing is no higher now than before the McKinley bill passed, and proves his assertion by reading an advertisement of the Baltimore clothing house in Asbeville in which a $15 suit is offered tor$12,and a $10 suit for $8. And Pritchard calls that argument. " 7 ' . , ; i.v-' "'': We knew that if this stampede to tbe Democratic party from the Republican was not checked there would be trouble, and now Eli Perkins has got in. Well, the bars should be left down so that be can wander back at any time. ' ' "Columbus was a liar." said Albion W. Tourgee ip a lecture before 3,000 peo ple assembled in Detroit, Mich. This is the finest tribute Columbus has received in all the recent mention of his name and exploits. .:..:'-'-' -;: ';';'''' "-v ;::.'-' POLITICAL NEWS AND COMMENT. Lenoir Topic : Georgia, old sister, you did pretty well. J. T. B. Noe. president of the late Peo ple's party con ven tinn of Carteret county, has joined a Clevelund-Carr club. Tbe news from the fifth district is to the effect that Williams is getting away with Settle on the joint discussion. We regret to say that there is but little expectation that Hill will speak at all in North Carolina. News and Observer. The Wilmington Messenger says there are not three counties in the State that have any semblance of real organiza tion. In one of the eastern counties some Democrats had the bad taste to have in their procession a hearse with a coffin in it labeled "Weaver and Field." The Raleigh News and Observer is d.tt- ticularlv pleased with Maj. Malone's letter, recently printed in the Thi; Citi zen, and makes long extracts from it. Stanlv county's Third partv conven tion could boast only 18 members. The Charlotte Observer says the concern is so weakover thcrethat ittakes two men to lilt it. . Dr. Mott issues another address to Re- Mr.J. L. ! didate for illoway, a Third partv enn iii office in Rockingham count v, withdrawn from the ticket, re- ptuliai'S the Third party and returns to the 1 leinot rac v. A. P. Peclc-, Third party candidate for I sheriff in Cleveland county, litis with draw n, and announces his allegiance to I the Democratic party. This is a very : impottaut detection. j W. K. Pigford declines to n!low his ' name to be used as a candidate lor lieu ; ti iianant-govcrtior on the Third partv ticket , to take tin' plate ol K. A. Cobb, whose name is taken down. The Third party and Republicans are making the greatest efforts to carry Wake count v. so far as the legislative and county officers arc concerned. They are using all possible means to hold the negroes together. retierai suixrvisors nave uecn ap pointed for Halifax countv. The Demo cracy of old lltihtaxcounty is unternfied, however, and will snow the Rcpubli cans, Third party supervisors, and all under by ballots in November next. The Newbern Journal speaks highly of I. en. Kansom s work in Onslow and other eastern counties. The Third party had considerable following in Onslow, but under the powerly arguments of the eloquent Senator, their strength for evil has much weakmed. Htm. Wharton J. Green, of Cumber land, has withdrawn from the Farmers' Alliance, and the Favetteville Observer publishes a strong and manly letter from him to the President of the Alliance to which he belongs, giving his reasons for withdrawal. Thev ars that tbe Alliance basgone into politics. Tuckaseige Democrat: Locke Craig, esq . Democratic candidate for presiden tial elector, favored us with a call, on his way to the speaking at Cullowhee. We hear that at Cullowhee he upheld the principles of Democracy most gal lantly and achieved a signal victory over both his opponents. From the most reliable sources it is learned that Mrs. Lease, the Kansas woman who is making. the tour with Weaver, has received an offer of $5,000 from the Republican National committee to speak in New York and two or three other Northern States on "Southern outrages." It is not known yet whether she will or will not accept the offer. Franklinton correspondence Raleigh News and Observer: "It was our pleas ure to listen today to a most able and telling speech from Hon. H. A. Gudger, of Buncombe. We have had some excel lent speeches made in this section from time to time during the summer, but ar a campaign document there has been none m re forcible and logical than tbe one referred to." Charlotte Ne ws: During Blackburn's speech at the court house here Monday night, he said that he heard the Demo crats were mnking up a fund to buy the negroes. "We can get all we want for a cent apiece," interrupted a fellow with sound lungs. To this an old negro rose up and said: "Now you knows you knows you kaiut do that. You kaint buy me, nohow, for less'n a dollar." Shelby Aurora : Crawford's general appeal ance is not attractive, but when he begins to speak, his whole counten ance is changed; be soon become an imated and pugnacious in debate and the magnetic orator then appears and holds the crowd, who catch every word that falls from Crawford. He is fortified with argument and is more than a match for the cunning and able Pritchard, R. Z. Linney, of Alexander county, is aiding D. M. Furchcs. the Republican candidate for governor, in bis State can vass. It it now proved tbat two years ago Linney made an agreement, tbat if during Harrison's administration, all taxes on tobacco sjid fruit-brandy were not removed, he wonld vote for the Democratic candidates, bbtta State and national. Now Linney is told tbat be must comply with the terms of this agreement, and be ia in an awkward position. , ; ..- .; - Here are what a Third party paper terms the demands of the party: The reduction of the appropriation for the State guard to $1,000 A year; tbe dis continuance, of the geological survey; the abolition of the agricultural depart ment and placing It under the roof of tbe Agricultural and Mechanical col lege; the sale of the governor's mansion. The paper says tbe latter can be sold for $100,000 and then gravely "demands" that $75,000 be turned into the State treasury, and that tbe remainder be used to purchase a mansion for the goy ernor. . " s. '.' ;,:-.' Just as the duties upon imported mer chandise have been increased so has t be grade of imported labor been low ered until now, under the McKinley bill, there are coming here every month many thousands of more ignorant, and,-therefore, less desirable, laborers than ever before. It is not easy to exaggerate the ' moral evils tbey are liktlv to inflict upon our social order and our national 'life. From Wayne MacVeagh's Letter.'. KTBB TATTLER. omeThlnn And Hear. Worth Talklnsr About. It has always seemed a peculiar thing to me, this almost unanimous, fanatical support accorded by the colored people of North Carolina to the Republican party. I say fanatical, because it seems that the colored man hnj the idea from his birth that he must on attainii.g an age nt which he becomes an elector, vote with thnt party and nothing else seems to enter bis mind. Here and there, almost as scarce as the teeth o a hen, we find one who will break away from his race and vote with tbe Democratic party and a breaking away it is in deed! I have seen colored men who wanted to vote the Democratic ticket, and vet were afraid if they did so they ould in some way b.- made to suffer for that very act by the people of their own race even fearing bodilv harm. I have seen them vote the Democratic ticket and retire from the polling place amid the sneers and taunts of voters of their own color. And even after that, I have been told, these men were subjected to petty persecution such ns might well tempt them to renounce their allegiance to the party so hated by the rank antl file of their race. Hut these instances I speak of are rare extremely rare. The body of colored voters apparently never stop to think of the existence of a partv other than the Republican, for fear they may accident ally cast a ballot in the interest of the Democratic party, a party they have been taught by the Republican cam paigners to regard ns the arch-enemy of the colored man. I repeat, it is peculiar, that here iu North Carolina, where the Democratic party has given a good gov ernment for years; where it has btiiltand maintains asylums and institutes for t 'it ear e of the insane, the dumb and the blind of the colored race; where schools for the education of the colored children are provided for just as the school for the whites are; it is peculiar tn.it the race thus cared for by the Democratic party, and bv italone, should herd about the polls on election day and by its votes bite the hand that befriends it. Yet it does this. It mav be that tbe Republicans are be ginning to fear that thev are losing a grip on the colored man here. Anyway they thought it necessary to bring to Asheville a Republican speaker of the name of Mott to talk to colored voters, inflame their passions and keep them so idly in the old line. The white Repub licans got little notice in Mott's speech last Saturday night, the bulk being in tended solely for the Brother in Black. A better man for the work than Mott could not have been found. The effect of his bitter s,ccli can best be told after election day. . I read in Tub Citizk.x that City At torney Cobb advises the Board thnt its paving to tbe rail of the Asheville Street Railway company will not operate as a waiver of its right to make the company pay for the eighteen inches on either side of the track. Then again I read in a morning paer, that Mr. Cobb said the board's action would be a wuiver. Surely boths reports cannot be correct.. The city attorney also said that a d bt due the street railway company to the city for paving could not be a first lien on tbe road's property. Referring to this opinion a prominent young at torney remarked to me Saturday tbat it was a little singular that the man who had drawn the Improvement act, which says this debt shall be a first lieu, should now adviw the Board that it ennnot be a first lien. There are all sorts of lunatics in this world, and some of the most pronounced once in awhile get intopublicassemblici. One of the "looniest" of lunatics Js he who attends the theater and persists in laugbinghis loudest in the midst of a pathetic scene on the stage. Then there is another kind the one who wants to be "swell" and dees nothing but chatter lkea magpie (if there be another to chat ter to, and there usually is) throughout the performance hearing uotbing him self, and pre ven ling those sitting near from bearing. Tben still another comes to mv mind the one who carries to the playhouse a great big cane with which he industriously thumps tbe floor in season and out. These are some of the latter-day nuisances, and it is high time a reform wus instituted. Does Asheville need another hose com pany, and that with, an old hand reel that can be taken no where unlaws tbe route to the fire be down hill? I think not. It would be better if tbe member would stick together in N. 1 and strive faithfully to make the organization one of the greatest possible efficiency, in stead of doing anything that tends in the least to cause dissent and draw the mem bets away. .' '. It's a fact that I dare any bod v to dis pute,: tht.t Asbeville's women are the -best id tbe world. See bow a number of tbem worked for the success of the "World's Fair" last week. Night and day tbey toiled in their preparations, with what splendid reward ia shown by tbe report of receipts of the three nights' entertainment. Tbey did this for -the Mission hospital, a most worthy instil- . tution, of wnose good- work we never bear the balf. And they'll work just as v hard for anv other object that ia deserv ing of their help. All honor to the good . women ot Asbeville 1 The Tattler. , The opposition to tbe force bill, as not -only sure to create far greater evils, than it could cure, but as also subversive of the rights ot the States, hat become so earnest and widespread that it is said to have been abandoned, out it must not dc forgotten that only two years ago sucU a measure was warmly advocated by , President Harrison, earnestly supported by the Republican party and very nar rowly escaped becoming a law. From Wayne MacVeagh's Letter. ' : ; . , The farmer is learning that the prices of hia products are fixed in foreign markets, where be suffers from a compe tition Invited and built up by the pro tective svstem If is B!kcd to support. Crov ' C . i t Letter of Acceptance. " 7
The Semi-Weekly Citizen (Asheville, N.C.)
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Oct. 20, 1892, edition 1
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