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SIXTEEN PACES. X PART TWO. 7 1 sixteen pa::;. PAGES 9-16. , si .i ,v ; in iLJljJili U JiJJ Vcl. XIX f.'3. 72 ASHEVILLE, N. C, SUNDAY CORNING, AUGUST 30, 1S03. PRICE FIVECENTS NAPOLEON OF MONEY WORLD v' ., ' - "" " Is John D. Rockfeller, Standard Oil Magnate HE COULD IN ONE OAY v V CREATE A PANIC Interesting Sketch of Financial Giant V IN, APPEARANCE HE 18 NOT AT , ALL ATTRACTIVE AND SEL DOM GOES OUT. The great decline in railroad and In dustrial stocks has called to men's minds sharply ihe most extraordinary financial situation that ever existed; for a power now rt'ijts in one man's hands, so col lossal as to defy calcula tion. I have heard it said in three dif ferent groups of business men within a week that Mr. John D. Rockefeller could control, for large financial move ments, a thousand millions of dollars. The power that he may use, if this be ven approximately true, may be hint ed at in a dozen ways. He and the men whom he controls, ays the Boston Transcript, could withdraw a few hundred mil lions from the banks If such a sum.be thinkable and quietly buy all the good stocks that are jiow low. This would, for a time, seriously contract the uses of money, for this cash would not instantly find its way back into ths banks. It would, at least for a while be scattered about in small amounts. Then, when these stocks had risen, they could be sold for a profit of millions on millions. In oth er words, at such a time as this th great aggregation of cash, or 1U equiv alent that the name Rockefeller stands for, could be so used in the stock mar ket as to make hundreds of million Iriore. , . But such a use of money as this Is a poor man's opportunity mere com mon purchase of things when they are low. ' It will be better to permit stocks to remain . as low as they can conven iently be kept till the savings of the poor and the surplus of the well-to-do afe again drawn into railroad and In dustrial stocks. There will, too, be much foreign money Invested in these securities in a little while if they re main cheap. Thus such money that was frightened away from the stock market while prices were high will now quickly (owe back. Well, it must come, back , through the New York batik,. From a fourth to a third of the capital of the New York banks Is con trolled 'by the Rockefellsr interests; and thus they get the Use of this mon ey In any event. Coming or going, It moves through their channels. In good times or bad times theirs is tha profit. Incalculable Profits. Or, to put it in Mill another way the financial measure known as the Aid rich bill, If it becomes a law, will permit the national banks to Issue cur rency against other than United States bonds. Then railroad bonds and cer tain others may be (practically) con verted by national banks Into curren cy. The bonds that will be chosen for this purpose as well as many of the great banks ttwt will use them, are Rockefeller properties. Senator Aid rich's daughter Is the wife of Mr. Rockefeller's son. The strong "inter ests" In Wall street, all favor the Ald rlch bill. , luuthlng.-el-lesy. ... V Nor are these the only ways, nor half the ways, in which the command of a thousand millions nr of even half that sum could be used for the rapid multiplication of Itself. In fact, after a man, or a compact group of men, has accumulated so lanje a volume of fin ancial power, Its accumulation will by the sheer force of time reach an un heard of sum. Five per cent a year on a thousand millions is fifty mil lions. Without compounding interest the increase in ten years becomes five hundred million. Yet a five per cent Increase is a beggarly rate; and the Standard Oil company pays dividends that have hltherti been unheard of or undreamed of. Given ten years more, then, what incalculable financial pow er will have accumulated in the hands of Mr. Rockefeller rind of those about him! There is no doubt that his gain In wealth during the last five years has outrun any preceding experience in the history of the world; and where it will end is a a interesting specula- Cntlnued on Page 11 WEIGHS BOOKER III THE GALAfJCE ftaynesville Mao Denies Wash ington Is "Moses" DECLARES THAT BOOKER is NOT A NEGRO Neither is Wife a Genuine Af rican, Yi Says "CHUCKY JOE" POURS OUsT SOME REAL HOT GRAVY FOR GEN ERAL CONSUMPTION. Editor of The Citizen: In your is sue of the 21st I note an editoriul on "Different Views of the Negro Ques tion," in which you refer to Bookar rVashlngton as the, "Moses of his raca." Now will you permit me the ln-lUiry-rdoes Booker W. In any exact jense belong to the negro race? He .his himself stated that nis father wus a white man, but asserts that r11 of hit oeBt qualities were derived from hit mother, who was a black woman. Title Jtatenient, however, is a mere ipse Jixlt, not worth a moment's considera tion, and all the less so as he has con t'jssed that hi knew nothing of hit Luther and his own illegitimacy would .end to Bhow that his mother inherited .hat moral looseness which is one ol .ho marked traits of the unadulterated negro. Using the word in Its true souse, B. W Ilka Fred Douglass, Paul Dunbar, Dr. Crum, and many other lenders oi prominent men of the "colored race,' chough nearly always spoken of as 'negroes," are not "Africans" of pure blood, but simply mongt-'ls; or if thil term be considered offensive, let us say hybrids. Would It not give a fairer and more correct view of the ibilities and achievements of our "col ored people," If we applied to such mixed breeds a word that Would more exactly characterize their racial ori gin? For instance, if mulatto or mon grel are objected to, let us say "Anglo African" or ."Afro-American." - I remember reading some time ago In "The Outlook," I think, an article by B. W., on what he culled a negro community or settlement in one of the Western states. This was illustra ted, giving portraits of many of the prominent and successful citizens of this neighborhood and without a single exception they were of the mongrel '.ype; some of them could easily pass in Cuba for pure-blooded Spaniards. The same appliae largely to many pho tographs I have seen of the students of Booker Washington's Tuskeegee Instir tute. Booker W.'s own -wife is clearly not i negress, but, Ilka her husband, a hy brid, and of much lighter complextion. In fact the aristocracy of our so-called 'Africans," is composed largely, not of negroes of the "double smut," but of mongrels, the products of that misie- glnation, that if not cliecKefl would soon concei t tha "South at least into something that was neither pig, perch, poultry, nor good plain pickles. Ths true negro has from time imme morial been brought Into direct con tact with the most ancient civilization known to us, that of Egypt: yet then, as today, ha has neverjieen u ruling race, but alwuys a "hewer of wood and i drawer of water. It is true, in all of th? ancient nations of Africa and Western Asia, neijro women have often been inmates of even the harems of kings; and no doubt the racial corrup tion resulting from this sort of polyg amy has had much to do with the de terioration and final destruction of many of these old-world empires. No true negro race, in all these ages, .has ever shown any capacity for high self development, and no mixed or monprel race has ever long endured, or attain ed to any high degree of civilization. If capable of self-development if con scious of their own powers of aehlev ing an independent national existence, these hybrids, nay even these Hotten tots, would scorn to owe ul login nee to a government, tnat owing to prepon derence of numbers, If nothing else, can never become completely African ized. There is a wise bishop of some negro church (Bishop Turner), who frankly recosrnjzes the inevitable, and invokes his people to break the bonds of social ostracism by an African exo dus. But even Booker Washington fails to rise to the height of such a sacrifice; or is blind to the fact that ten million blacks will never rule sev enty, nay. nor even ten million whites in these United States. Indeed, if misceglnation were not only legalized, but even encouraged. It Russia's Black Sea Fleet Steams For the Bosphorous to Force (j(JJj Sultan's Hand in Macedonia. TypicaJ Scenes in Great Eastern Question Now Threatening Europe. O-T ST I . rjr '"V ABDUL HAMiOS CAPITAL ' tgiPPISON IN MACEDOM'A j ' ? ' J " ".l )l IWPLPIAL PALACt OWTHt 805PQPU& r ' -f v iMMMMmmm,mmmmmmmwmwmiwi iwiiii iriAninMi ' I DEFINES (.1! ilt is Will and Understanding Makes the Creature DESTRUCTION OF ORGANS CANNOT KILL THE BEING Beautiful Lives Apparent De spite Suffering STORY OF DAUGHTER OF ASHE- VllLE WHO LIVED EXEMPLA RY LIFE. ti,0 hnv Krone, a tvnlcal views at the great centre of European events In the present crisis. The ultimate design .of Russia form a shadowy background to the drama developing in Tu:kcy Waters.1 The danger threatened by the present situation lies. In the fact that other Kuropean countries may send sqwadrons to the same point and that overt action cm the part of RusfIii may leail to the long-oxpecicu puimuuu i-uiriiu .iiiaus. : would not resiult in tho triumph of the negro, but In his practical elimination as u separate "race," though it is ulso very evident that his blood would con taminate and corrupt the higher race or centuries to come. A frank uceeptunca of tho political iqualtty of the blacks, would. In the long run, sooner or later, force-- u (here In the "South." at least) to ac cept them also as socially our equals, and that would mean finally intir-mar rlage, with eventually the mongrelfza tlon of the whites. That renegade to his race (S-'eimtor Burton U suspect, however, there may be the "touch of the tar-brursh in his ancestry), at Madison, Wis., tha other day, asserted that the negro, if afforded equal op portunities, would soon outstrip the whites in both tho moral and industrial worl I give the Senator full cred it for sincerity, but he probably was comparing his own mental and moral traits with thosa of his negro neigh bors; and we are all uware that some few whits do not compare favorably with the best class of our black citi zens. As to tnter-marriages (which I call "misceglnation") between whiteB and blacks, 1 am satisfied that nine-tenths of the better classes even in New England today, would not endorse the sentiments of this "Senator," who is either a fool, afanutic-r a fraud. In our marriage aarvice it Is said: Whom God hath joined together let.no mini separate. Is It not even more, scientif ically and wonderfully true that whom Odd hath sundered shall no man unite V Is it rri'ilibl- that the Almighty should have created rates so widely diverging not merely in color, but in ehainc ter, capabilities and both menial and moral qualities, and yet not set his curse on those who should endeavor to undo the work of his hamlx, mid mo st at naught the very laws if nature. It is my conviction that misi egiiiiiticm Is not merely a mistake, but an unpar donable sin. ..Yours truly. t'H 1'i'K.KY JOE. Waynesville. N. '.. Augua 24. WARD TO BEAT. From the Cleveland Plain Denier. .. "There la a child out In Indiana with a mouth so large that the other day it accidentally swallowed a toy drum. "Wall, tha'ts hard to boat." WHY COMPANY RECEIVED ROAST Capt. Kirkpatrick of Da. H., N. C. N. G. Tells About It. MAJOR NEWTON SLIPPED IN AN HOUR AHEAD The Men of Course Were Not Ready to Show Up MAJOR NEWTON WANTED TO CATCH A TRAIN FOR ASHE VILLE SO WHAT COULD -YOU EXPECT? . ivlilor of The Citizen: Having boon requested by a numh-r f parties who Ikivc a kindly interest In tin' Kleh hind Rifles, company H, First N. C. N. Ii., to explain why it wan ro-isled by Major Newton, of the l". S. A., in IiIk ii'ijort to the War Department, sub mitted some weeks since and regret ting the necessity which compels a sol dier to Hheilhe It i si Hw'ortl and seize his pen, yet ill justice to this excellent or ganization; the facts must- com out. When ilaj. Newton reached Waynes ville lie staled to rue that as captain of the company the hoar for inspection should be named to fin t mv own con venience HiulNlhal of the company. Ac cordingly 1 named 4 o'clock p. in. ln steail of respecting this H?t"emcnt the Major decliled that he wanted to like (Continued on page I",) VASTNESS OF "ROCKISLftND" Conceded 1o be Most Gigantic Railroad in World TRACKS LEAD TO HOMES OF 45.000,000 PEOPLE Network of Details Directed by a Masler Hand BY SERIES OF SHREWD COMBI NATJONS THE ROCK ISLAND HAS BECOME ALMOST INVINCIBLE. By a series of movements astounding In their vaslness and the tiolfln-ss of their execution the Chicago, hock isi ind timl Pacific Railroad, or "Rock Isl and," nr, it is familiarly known, has be come the largest railway, ill the world, says the Ilrooklyn Kagle. From an in definite road Icadhi',' to Nowhere it has (;i-own, wilhln th ' l ist few months, Into a. mighty system leading to to Kv civwhere. Since May il has more than double I its mileage, and with its Ifi. dtil mill's of track now outstrips all its rivals. With its spider web of iron it is retching to the West, the Northwest, the South and 111" Southwest, flndir; liv its latent achievement the acqui sition of the Seaboard Air Une-an outlet to the Atlantic and a tentative gateway Into New York over the Pennsylvania. With its owned, leased and controll ed lines It passes' through twenty- three States and Territories, covering an area of 2.000.000 square miles -lar rerbv far than the combined areas of the nations of Germany, France, Italy, Austria. Hungary. Spain, Great Britain and the Insular seaports, with their populations of 250.OOM.000. The tracks of the Rock Island and the recently consolidated St. Louis and San Francisco, or 'Frisco system, together with the control of the Sea board, lead to tha homes and the farms of 45,00(1,000 people more than half of the entire population of the Untied States. The resources of these out stretching lands In farm products an nuallv placed upon our markets, are represented by U, 000,000 nearly 60 per cent of all the farm products In the country. Along the lines of the great railroad they raise 85 per cent of the corn grown In the new world and 50 per cent of the wheat. They raise the greater part of the 25,000.000 hogs and the 10,000,000 cattle Klilea eacn year. It was to secure the lion's share of this mass of traffic, the figures of which ar almost beyond conception, that the new Rock Island was planned The project whs carefully thought out. The possibilities of the big comhlna tion of roads were foreseen. Then the lines wire laid. The old management went to sleep one night and left the road outdoors, so to speak. In the morning the new management line control. Yet It was all done so quietly, and In such a gentlemanly way. that even astute Hall liireel never suspect ed what was going on until the news papers announced that a new deal had he'll closed with the old Rock Island. Not a kid glove was taken off dur- Inir the rutin; transaction. The donil mint powers of the new Rock Island do not use chilis. They are trained dip lonints." Only once have they used the bludgeon.'" That was when they gain It Is the will and understanding that constitute the creature, man, and is , In tho human form, because God, the Creator, Is a Personal Iteing, in the human form; for. in the Holy Writ, we read: "God created man in III own Image and in His likeness." It doe not say that the body is man, but on tho other hand it points out the dis tinction between them. For It SDeaK of tho spirit and not of the body, and being accountable for tne aeeaa aone In this life. See II. Cor. VI, 6, 10, and I. Cor. 111. 76-17.. Hence the body U the picture of them an. created to be an Instrument of life, to serve the pur pose of reproduction and perpetuation, uid to aid in developing tns mina. An able mental philosopher has said; Man stands outside of the natural body, and controls It through the agency of the soul (which are spiritual forces), Just as the engineer controls tho movements of uie locomotive through tho agency of steam." Hence the deterioration ot tne body, the destruction of an organ,- aa of sight or hearing or even the death of the body does not destroy the man. It is the mind that shapes the brain, though some Infidel phrenolo gists have reversed this truth and say the brain makes - and controls the mind. The BDirit of man is as the electric force that gives vital force to the dynamo of the brain centers and sets in motion the wonaertui macnin- , ery of nerve by which the body of man performs its continuous luncuons, which is called living ana existing. And this brings tne to the subject I have in mind, the deeds and achieve--ments of "the Southern matron," com- menelnir In 1S!3. and extending? On 10 ind through the Confederate war and town to 1874, and all this time suuer ing as only an Invalid, confined to h oom and couch, can suffer.';": - ( i And besides "the Southern matron, the founder of "the Mount Vemou Ladies' association," by whose man igeraent and exertions the" house and omb of Washington is preserved to . .he Republic, as the mecca of all free Ten a sacred shrine to the jn,emory if the father of his country. i I will also tell of a daughter of Ashevillo, who has bean a "ahut In" i'or many years; and though dwelling In the "shadow side" of life, she has radicated it with philanthropic deeds, which still throws a, gleam of gladness jpon the sunless problems of our ex stonce. She has dwelt here among us with a living, loving heart, and ac tively proclaimed the heart-side of life to her fellow citizens. And though Of ten racked with pain and enduring treatments from the most skillful spe cialists, her active mind was continu ally devising methods for the allevia tion of the slick, not so favored finan cially as herself, and chiefly through her suggestions and exertions, there was founded an institution which was developed In the "Flower Mission" now, and for many years a blessing to ill sufferers, both rich and poor. These favored daughters ot the Carollnas were confined to "sick rooms," help less invalids; and yet by the force of their Intellectuality, the each carried to success the yearnings of a sympa- thetic heart. Asheville lias long been a resort for heiUh-f-oekers and pleas ure lovers. But bfsldes these there ire to be found (he sick as in the healthiest loeilitiei. f And there Is one whom I nave often thought of citing as an exampla of Christian resignation and fortitude, who, living amidst all that heart could wish, the devotion of a fond husband, ind attentive children and frlends.and 'n the bloom of her youth, confined to a sicH room; one wouia expect to near often complaints and despondent ro il an entrance into St. IamiIs find beni Hie mlghlv combination arrayed I plnlngs, but such Is never heard in Uie there against them into submission. First came the news to (lie street of the assimilation of numerous small er ro, ids -all unimportant In them p: Ivor, hut nil occupying- strategic (Continued on page i.ri) sick chamber of Mrs. Sarah Elisabeth Frlerson, from the sunny planes of Sumter, R. C, though originally from the classic hills of Abbeville, S. C, where many of the Less of Charleston (Continued on page IB) ' j J. H. XAW, 35 PATTON AVENUE, ASH LVILLE. N. C. Chafing Dishes: In great variety and all that goes with them, such at Flagon, Trays Spoon, Fork, Toaster, etc., to match. Five O'clock Te Kettles and Stands. Our Pure White Enameled Cooking Ware looks the best and wears the best. In the long run it Is the' cheapest. DecoratedDin ner Sets. We would call particular attention to our Decorated Dinner Sets and Open Stock Patterns the largest and most complete lines we have ever offered, and at low prices,-too. Now is the time to buy class of goods while stocks are new and complete. " Thin Semi-Porcelain Sets at $8.50, $10 and 512.00. Austrian China Sets at $19.50 and $2378. French Sett, $24.75 and upward. Japanese Screens About six feet hiph and four folds, made in linen, in' various shades, snd richly embordored in pold and colors. American Scre:n, madi of Burlap or Denim or Silkaline, all at very close prices.. A few 3-fold Screen patterns we are closing out at 85 cents. . Bowls, Pitchers, Toilet Sets, Etc. Large Size White Bowls, and Pitchers (roll-edqe basin) at 85c. and $1.00 per psir. Small Pitchers, 16 other pieces in same proportion. 10-Piece Toilet Sets in plain print decoration, $2.75. 12-Pieces-$4.75. 10-Piece Toilet Sets, decorated in transfers of flowers in rich colors large size and with roll-edge basin $3.00 per set. Specials. White, thin Semi-Porcelain Cups and Saucers, a good size and shapeper set of six 48c. Choice Thin White China Tes Cups snd Saucers, per set of six 75c. Lot thin China Pistes and Cups and Saucers, decorated in small flowers and gold 14e. each. Japanese Bowls 7 cents. Japanese Cups and Saucers 25c. Etc., Etc., Etc. 3s Oa, a , ON 35. -Idenl 1: ILLE, I v 5ANK- I ' , i'tibiu id on 12:25 ',,11:00 9:S0. ; fl.No.7 -f P.M. ' V, fiphlre I h and ii . (indent ( !- ittes.:,. . any sut- , f itrewie) s f lines tot- "- u 4 r j' i iv;nci. . if I arid ardfT' h. "Rate 'it Grand '..'rue Re ust 80th, ;.mirsjri: , mnd tr. t . g Grand ; . Bepiem on Bala; nit SeD- ound trip 'pool, July ,b0, . --ve points : Hallway. I hud upon lent of the ).l le I led s of con- lag the tin j WOOt,', r-'r-''''-'r buntry ACE IN; PR VA- - ! ' In Ac . lor the , la and table un tains In Ian average feet, With kn the mala .'Is of South ountry full h touriaL fr which has 1 "The ' Sap 3ute or re .5 and water- mountain. ikes. ;, mnnv at- ;r- - ind are the phlre lakes, at tbls,I water. "All ' lmpresMd ' and great tery. . Thar) kbruptly lor shores, and falling dl- h the lofty i true of the ranee .in lousand feeV verdict of t in this re- . blnatlon and c hcter of lake r. i .atlnn 'la . iworid...Cr- i,--ur UmasrMft filial b in me soumi mtnln rnrtn.'ourth' fndsome MTif open tor tjf , remain open 1 It ticket are .Jin September olpal point, October Slst can be h': huthern Rali 1 of ! 'h i I e- v-!n-t - IfJur sli
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