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The McsseDseiv
I C. W. EZZELL, Editor.
CUMBERLAND PRINTING CO. ,
PROPRIETORS. s
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION,
i One year, - '- - $1.00.
s Six months, - - - j .50.
i Three months. - j .25.
j ADVERTISING RATES
; Made known on' application.
OCTOBER 28. - -
1887.
j AMERICA'S CHIEF PERIL
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''Are we a nation of sramblers?"
by a re-character
This ' question was asked
tired merchant of hiarh
and sterling integrity. His com nan
c j -
, ion, the head of a great banking house,
sadly replied: "I 'fear I must answer
yes." They were conversing about
the fluctuations of Wall Street, and
about the corners that had been manT
ipulated so frequently of late years.
f'Oh," said the first speaker, "the
papers talk about our danger in case
of foxeign war, ibecause wej. have no
naval defences, and of the ease with
which the gr'eat ships of even some
of the South American States could
compel our seaport cities to pay trib
ute to them; but perilous: as it is:to
remain in this defenceless condition,
- it does not trouble me half j as much
as ltdoes to see 'the demoralization of
the public mind brought about by the
great gamblers' of the country."
. There are good reasons1 for such
gloomy forebodings as these. Gamb
ling of -every degree and kind is an
evil, if not a , crime. Every State
has laws more or le?s repressive that
represent the enlightened public sense
on this subject, but all these refer to
petty things, while in .Wall Street and
all the other commercial centers the
eyil increases, anhas reached a mag
nitude exceeding anything th:s '001111 -...
try: has heretofore known: Railroad
co-pperations. transportation and tele-
grapn companies, and even the food
of the people, are at the mercv of the
men who play for stakes almost as
great as the wealth of thej countiy.
, The honest investor no longer dares
to buy stocks and bonds to hold for
legitimate income. It is impossible to
foresee how long it will be lefore the
soundest and most valuable properties
will be wrecked, not by misfortune or
by 3 "visitation of God," but by the
selfish operators with more! millions
than consciences, who care only for
their flwn aggrandizement, I and are
utterly reckless of thej sufferings of
their victims.
tive in tbejr business ideas and meth
ods. Her people, like those of other
sections of the Union have suffered
somewhat from the. gambling opera
tions elsewhere, and as industrial de
velopment goes forward and wealth
accumulate, thy will feel it still more.
The Manufacturer Remrd calls nnon
its readers to consider this grave sub-
iect- and to use their inflnncf to
arouse a public opinion against it. If
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iuib cn uuunuuts i .luirrrast; in me ;
POST OFF I CE BANKS.
We have before snoken of the KVSU
tern of post office banks, recommend-
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ing iiieir huujjiiuu 111 in is country
The benefits f,derivei therefrom by
XI 1 3 X J . :
me poor wiieretcr auoptea, ana espec
ially in France are set forth in an
artjcle upon the Parisian working
class in Paris, in the Par urn of Ser-
temoer. ,
The bulk of the working: class live
i m the top stones 01 line houses
W. THE ' .
Wilmington Messenger,
WU.MIXGTOX, X. c.
Bemoved from Golfs!oro to Wilmington.
cena your name and ihe uaiue and ad
dress of five of your neighbors or
friends on a postal card and
fet free for youreeir and
them a specimen copv of the
KEW DAILY PAPER,
1 THE
" j" ,, ; z "" in meiop stones 01 jiine nouses m
same ratio it has for the ; last decade, , spacious thoroughfares, where they
Jt will demoralize all legitimate busi- Mx der far hett ?
and work untold miscief in all parts
of our land. It is tlie( chief peril of
the country. Let us all ioin hands
v
to suppress it. Ilecoiyl ' ' ;
BOYCOTT, CHILD-LIKE AND
BLAND.
liniiMfNOTON-
IflLMIXGTOX
We believe in bovcottiner ti h'fri bov-
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cott is just. We delight in ho matt
ing when its object has committed
a crime ajfainst the risht-s of ins t'L
low-man, such as denying fair, pay,
honest nay, for labor skillfully and
faithfully performed. We "would
rather, we admit,. that there were no
boycotts, wh ch m?ans tfiat we would
prefer to live in a world of people
with men so honest, with employers
so fair, that theie would be no just
occasion to wieiu mat terrible, dead-,
lv weanon known mulur t)o Antl.m
, -,- - ' WUlIiUl"
dish name of - "boycott" But per-
naps mat aay win onir come when
iasnion piates win ; be no more; and
assencion robes, cut biased, become
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tne universal guru. Ana wtv propose
to ooycott nisticn a manner that all
theSnellsaud all the Worthinons
and all the acrents of misnnnfd nrl
(-j - "1 - w
uircooFtrued law cannot nolo crimin
al. e proMse to stoud by our friends
by those who through just dealing
show good claim to our friendship.
That is all there is in'i it. If we de
sire to purchase a suit of clothes,, it
win oe Dougnt irom one wlio employs
union bailors and who closes at 7
o'clock. Thrre may be others in
the same line who do not emnlnv'nriimi
tailors and who do not close at 7
o'clock, but with them we have noth
ing to do. This is a great American
Republic, where the eagle scream? and
the Godd ess of Lilertv has her wjinn.
tuarv, and the merchant tailor . who banker.
so elects can employ the pauper labor
to his heart's content, and he may
burn the midnight gas to the glory of
mammon and the profit of the Wash
inarton Gasllerht Comivmv vi-i-
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in the year save Sunday. That la h(a
great privilege guaranteed by the Con-
. A. M.: a m - m
srirution 01 our torelattiers, and as
dit'ons than the Door mechanin iii
overgrown British Inetropolis, " who
dwell in close foul smelling slums and
courts, amid noisome emenations of
'mi flushed sewers and reekinsr cessl
pools. ! ' I
Tangible proofs of jheir well beinff
is anoraea oy tne deposits m the
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.; Wilmington, N. C.
nost office saymff banlfs, which have Subscription : lTiree months Mi trial tor
"M-rv;iMu sieauiiy every vear smc -w in rtavancc.
that institution was' establish fiv
years asro. Hnd bv thefstill more tellL ' The Wekkly
ing fict that the eat emmission of . Transcript-Messenger
the Pans loan in Mav last for 90: , .
000,000 francs was tovered tw.tv !55 elV The bright
Vi-m vor flc. L x. x, eeKiy.: 'ieaes eveiT
m nit ouiiip pfini jnio rne
various banks and financial agencres
01 fans. j
1 lie frreater part was furnished by
the working classes, for most of the
nepositors purchased shares nf snmll
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amounts, varying, from twontv to
t h roe hundred f rn n est Th ev h oa rrj
their economies chief! vf for in vestments
of this kind, which are gauranteed by
the state. These people were not irt
such a thriving condition in the
earner navs of the existing regime for
w are tniaoi a trejl k'nwn thief who
tMv himij 11 ,s muustry at a meet-
lnrr rt fVio y x, " i U " , , .
.ys. vx man uaiLv wiui;n urno Main
those days, having been warned bv a
police who was watching him replied
with a shrug of his sljonlders: j
"Don't talk to m ahnnt m.,. !
publicans! have searckwl th
of over a hundered ofinorsnnc i
and conldnt firid asingle sonf
" hose nockets ar wrll 111j!
I his result has bppn br 'i
ov rne system of post office saving
banks, where a denosit of fn
cents to five doll
, . - j iiiiiue
anci the tTovernmpntr: 1
Journal ofTjobor. j
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03IPANY,
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C.
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When io ueed of
6ii red to him bv the .TndP
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a. fuougii mnz tne small courc. , nuz mat does not carry
investments in stocks and bonds upon I with it the right to compel us to pur-
which the widow and the fatherless j chase there. Oh, no; we buy from
are dependant for support should b ' our friend. It may be over so wrong
made worthless, as they have been to' "conspire " to the detriment of
time and again bv the manipulators of one who would grind the faces of the
Wall street, but it is far worse that poor, but it is right and just and law
it should 'be in tVe nower of one man. ful to eive our friends th IwvnofU
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ur auy eomomation ol men, to force
the prices of food and fuel to a
that carries suffering to the laboring
-Til A . -m V'
millions 01 this country.! These
things have and will be done nnti
thejpublic conscience is aroused andimen of our town have excellent; facil-
www aiiu uauonai iaw-maKers are
compelled to make all such evil acts,
and crimes tranishable bv law. Tf ha
been said that this is impossible, but
mat is a mistake. J he same princi
ple that underlies the laws against lot
teries, policy shops, ' and cramblino-
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xiuuocb, applies witn equal: force to
mese weigntier evils. hen men
conspire together to advance jthe price
of wheat or pork, or of any other
thing that enters; into general con
sumption, oy creating an artificial
scarcity; they do an evil thing that is
easily to be proven, and that ought
to be punished.
Thus far the south has escaped to a
great extent the gambling mania that
prevails in the north and northwest.
Her bt.nV, cotton and produce ex
changes have been notably conserra-
our natronasre. And that, tt,0 '..
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we shall boycott. And lest anyone
feel concerned as to how we may as
certain who is our friend and who is
not. we assure them that the working-
Kiiiglite of Labor
Co-op't Oil R'f Co '
Manufacturers and dealersjin
LUBRICATING and!
ILLUMINATING OTLSl
IrkilvJ I
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Of ANY DESCRIPTION.
First Class Goods.
ities for ascertaining that interptinw
fact. Wa7iigtoit,I), C, Craftsman.
Rev. Sam Small savs' in giving in
his political experience: ' ' I was born
born a democrat, raised a democrat
I studied its principles thoroughly. I
worked for it. I have snent mnnpv
for it. I have drank whiskv fm. if
I have lied for it, I have stolen bal
lots for it. I have stuffed boxes for
it. I did all it told me, and it took
me within half a mile of hell.,,
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A big pecan crop in Texas this
year. At Brownwood the merchants
paid farmers $1,200 in one day for
iJt:uuii. in, oj cents per pound, and
v Agents vanted in every citv in
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o.i , "UI, number of shares of stock a. I
iiVZ le to Kai ot Labor STtoS
K. of L. Co-op't Oil R'f'q Co
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L. C. Pitts, Pres't
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