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DAILY EOIIION. $4.00 per Annum, in Advanm 3.00 for 6 Months, in AdvasSg 1. 00 for 3 Month, in Adtan4 WEEKLY EDITION. ,$i.oo per Annum, in Advance. -4 '.: OLD SERIESVpL LXXINO 3,935. FAYETTEVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTBER 4, 1906. "NEW SEIOESS.V0LTltXIII-r.N0. i.aai. BMMYME. "To Cure a Felon," says Sain Kendall, of Phillipsburg, Kan., "just cover it over with Buck len'a Arnipa Salve and the Salve will do the rest." Quickest cure for Burns, Boils, 6ores, Scalds, Wounds, Piles, Eczema, Salt Rheiiin.Chapped Hands, Sore Feet and Sore Eyes.. Only 25c. atB. E. Sedberry's Son drug . store guaranteed. , " r "" - - Jenny. Treatment for pimples and blackheads calls for. absolute cleanli ness, rim pies show that the body is absorbing poisonous substances and needs Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. Tea or Tablets 35 cents. Ask your druggist. In this state it is not necessary to serve a five days' notice for eviction of a cold. Use the original laxative congh syrup, Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar. No opiates. Bold by ArmUeld & Greenwood. Beautify the Complexion IN TEN DAYS. Nadinola The UNEQUALED BEAUTIFIER, en donei ty thotuuib; guaranteed to rcmor freckle, pimplei, ill facial diicolorationj and rotor th Tlu wont caaei In twenty daya. SOe. anj $1.00 at all leading1 drufl atorea, or by mail. I IT NATIONAL TOILET Ca. Paria.Taa. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. MIL A. SINCLAIR, HODKKT II. DYE. SINCLAIR & DYE, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, 117 Donaldson St., Fayetteville, N. C. Q. K. NIMOCKS, Attorney and Connsellor-at-Law. Rooms 1 and 8 K. of 1. Building. FAYETTKV I LLB, - - C 'Phone 229 H. McD. Robinson, John G. Shaw. (Notary Public) ROBINSON & SHAW, Attorneys-at-Law, Office 121 Donaldson Street, Fayetteville, N. C. Prompt attention given to all business. H. S. AVERITT, Attorney-at-Law, (Notary Public). Office over Beasley's Store. Fayetteville, N. C. H. L. BROTHERS Attorney - at - Law. Office in the Fayetteville Furniture Co. ' - Building. DR. SEAVY HIGHSMITH, Physician and Surgeon. Office: Higtismith Hospital. JOHN C. DYE, M. D., PHYblCIAN AND SURGEON, OFFICE: Armfleld & Greenwood Drug Store. Dr. E.L. HUNTER, Dentist, North-east Corner Market Square, Fayetteville, N. C. Dr. J. E. HIGHSMITH, DENTIST. Office: Highsinith Hospital. W. S. Cook & Co., 1 Room 6, K. of P. Building, Fayetteville, N. C J. & E. Mahoney Portsmouth; Alexandria and Norfolk, Va Distillers, Rectifiers and Wholesale LIQUOR DEALERS. Some of our Products : Arlington, Cammeron Springs, Hampton Roads, Bella of Virgini a, Lake Drumm ond, Bed River, Mahonny's Best. GEO. A. BURNS, Feed lales S l.ivery Department The Best in the State. Polite and attentive drivers, who know ail the country roads. First-class Har ness and Saddle Horses' always on hand and for sale. Sole agent for the celebrated BABCOCK BUGGIES. tm ajTloir how to obUla pauou, ao mark oprrtslita,aM, )N ALL COUNTRIES. Burinm djwlwfe Wathkgto taint Hm, manry mud often tlu patent. . httntindlirfrinpmratPnictlMbclyilvtly. Writ or mm to a. at IU Kata 1W, nt- VIM ln hM WAaHINOTON, D. C. mm HAIR BALSAM 9 mam and kouillrloJ h ,hM. l'mnmlrt MxuiUnl urowlh. 110 Iff Hworo w, it. Youthful Color. Own mla Hiimim 01 hir fulliuf tan ins REAPING THE WHIRLWIND. How surely we reap the whirlwind when we sow the wind! A contem porary calls attention to the obliga tion which we assumed as the com mercial debt collector and guarantor when we interfered in Cuba while it was a Spanish possession. That is, unfortunately, more true than agree able to recall, and it is an awful re minder of the never ending wroitg which war begets. , How terrible are the results of the war of 1861-65 ! Behold the disas trous consequences in Atlanta to day, in one form, as well as through out the country in other forms, in cluding the purchase of the presi dency in 1896 by the Republicans and Clevelandites with the trusts funds of Democrats as well as of those whom the purchase gerved behold the dis astrous consequences of the war of 1861-65 that lie about us on all sides ! Behold, as our contemporary reminds us, the incalculable and further evils which we seem to be entering upon as the result of our war upon Spain in 1898 ! War is the plaything of despots, who iorce their subjects to fight, but do not themselves incur the dangers and hardships of the battlefield. War should be the last resort of a self-governing people, and then only in de fense of their liberties. A self-gov erning people who engage in a war of aggression arc bereft of reason. Not the least of the evil conse qnelices of the war of 1898 upon Spain nay, it is probably the gieat est of them in its effect upon the Uni ted States is that it facilitated the defeat of co-operation in North Caro lina at a critical time. The defeat of co-operation in North Carolina in 1898 defeated the national Demo cracy in 1900, and this yaved the way to our treacherous subjugation of the friendly Filipinos. after we had asked and accepted their indispens ible aid in the capture of Manila from the Spaniards. When one realizes the awful conse quences of war, he is prepared to ap preciate the importance of Mr. Bry an's resolution, adopted at London the other day, extending the scope of international arbitration. Rut our first duty is to ourselves, and Mr. Bryan's efforts for peace in the inter national field are in harmony with his efforts for peace where the United States is concerned. How different the attitude and career of Mr. Roose velt, who will be remembered in our history not as the pacificator of dis tant Russia and Japan, but rather as the American god of war. IN MAINE, FOR EXAMPLE. The platform of the New York Re publican Convention, which was forced to nominate Mr. Hughes, the insurance investigator, as its only hope for a successful contest against Mr. Hearst, contains the following remarkable tribute to the influence of President Roosevelt in State elec tions : "He the President has fought the battles of the plain people so cour ageously and successfully that his name is an inspiration in every State campaign and his record the plat form on which every good citizen is willing to stand." Take for example the recent elec tion in Maine, where the administra tion threw all its strength and effect ed a Democratic gain of many thou sand votes ! Passes and Legislatures, Atlanta Journal. Various railroads in the country having yielded to public sentiment and cut off the use of free passes, the members of a number of legislatures are howling about it, thereby proving that they were extremely anxious to be subsidized. In Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey the mercenar ies are dancing the war dance and brandishing their tommy hawks at the railroads that have done what they should have done. General Grosvenor, of Ohio, who may be better known as ."Old Fig gers" Grosvenor, perhaps, is evident ly touchedjn a very tender spot. "If iHatme," says the Ohio repre sentative, "that the railroads have been losing $10,000,000 a year on. ac count of the issue of free passes, they can now afford to carry the mails for $10,000,000 less, and the government will save the money." It is typical of a certain sort of pol itician that he should be unable to see where the government could save ten millions per annum so long as he benefitted personally by the con ditions which kept that sum out of the public coffers. It is very evident from the lamenta tions that are going up from various quarters that the railroads , which have quit giving out passes had no difficulty in gettihg rid of them, and could tell pretty well where to place them. It even looks as if the roads had been systematically "held up" on different occasions. The roads that have cut off the free passes have done exactly right, and intelligent public sentiment all over the country backs them up in this action. The legislature that aie raising a row about it are demonstrat ing how utterly' contemptible and "easy" they are. A sour stomach, a bad breath,, a pasty complexion and other conse quences of a disordered digestion are quickly removed by the use of Ring's Dyspepsia Tablets. Two dayi treat ment free. Sold by McKeftW $ Co. , THE MUGWUMP EFFORT TO STAM PEDE THE DEMOCRATS. Mr, Bryan's "Commoner" makes Ue following comment upon the ef- lort of the New York mugwumps to stampede the Democrats after his Madison Square speech'! TREAT IT VAIHI.V. While Mr. Bryan did not expect to nave bis views on government own ersnip 01 railroads endorsed unani mously, he did expect the opposing newspapers would treat the subject lairiy. Some of the interviews published in the New York papers against gov ernment ownership were man u fad ed. For instance, Hon. E. J. Hale, of .Nortn Carolina, repudiates the in terview which was attributed to him, ana uovernor .folic was made to say that Missouri had tried government ownership, whereas Missouri has simply tried the aiding of railroads the same as the other States tried, and with the usual result. When the southern statesmen understand the proposition, they will not be so vio lent in their opposition to it: in fact it affords the only means yet proposed oi securing the benefits of public own ership without the dangers of central ization. THE ROOT OF THE EVIL. Says the Raleigh News and Ob server : THE TKUU POSITION. Corporations in this "age of co operation are essential to the wise conduct of the world's business. The laws wisely make the small savings 01 many move the wheels ol com merce. The putting together of the hundreds of dollars by a half hundred people or the thousands by a score of people, establishes industries which the individual could not successfully launcn. inerelore, it is to the inter est of the small corporation and the legitimate corporation, whether large or small, that the combination in trusts should be prevented and these giant trusts held in check. Lewis Kmery.Jr., the reform candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, states the true position that ought to be adopt ed toward all corporation.! when he says : "We do not aim to destroy, but to regulate and make it impossible for the corporations to do wrong. The first step is to break the political ma chinery by means of which the wrong is accomplished. Instead of submit ting a system under which the corpo rations make the laws, we should see to it that the corporations obey laws justly conceived and fairly drawn so that neither the interests of the pub lic nor the rights of the corporations shall be endangered. That is right. But how shall re form be effected ? By removing the obstacle to the control of bad corpo rations. And what is that? Boss- ism ! Bossism is the root of all po litical evil. And what is the condi tion precedent of Bossism ? The con centration of power in one man's hands. That is also the condition pre cedent to monarchy. Democracy is the antipodes of monarchy. Its car dinal do ctrine is the diffusion of power, instead of the concentration of power. It is useless, not to say in consistent, to rail at the wicked cor porations while keeping silent in the face of the concentration of power in the hands of the Boss, for without the intervention of the Boss, the pop ular will would make short work of the bad corporations. Keep the eye on the office-holders who aggrandize their power as such by adding that of the control of party machine. It is upon them that the Democratic batteries should be turned. HOT SHOT FOR BAILEY. Says a Houston, Texas, telegram : A further step in the fight being made against Senator Joseph w, Bailey in this State has been taken in an address issued by the Harris Coun ty Good Government Club, entitled "The Shame of Texas," of which half a million copies are to be scattered throughout Texas. In part it says: "Joseph W. Bailey, by his own ad missions, is a traitor Senator. By his own word of mouth we denounce him as a self-confessed traitor to the people. We simply ask that he be judged by hi own utterances. "All over this broad State there are mutterings of disapproval and disgust at the idea of returning Mr. Buileyto the United States Senate. "During his brilliant career in Congress Mr. Bailey has become a wealthy man, as wealth is estimated in Texas. But that is not the point. A statesman may often acquire wealth by fair means. How has he acquired his? He does not deny Mr. Kirby's statement that he made $225,000 of it in negotiating, as a lawyer, deals with-Wall street magnates, by which Mr. Kirby and the Kirby Lumber Com pany weie enabled to un load some millions of properties, including that railroad in East Texas, purchased by the Sante Fe system. "Mr. Bailey said he was asked to 'intercede' in 1900 in behalf, of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company, which had been convicted of violating the anti-trust laws of Texas. Who sent Mr. Bailey to Texas to 'intercede' for the Standard Oil Company before the Department of State at Austin? Who made it enough of an object to induce famous United States Senator to travel from Washington to Texas and bring to bear upon the Secretary of State the tremendous force of his per sonal and political influence? He claims that he did not know that the Waters-Pierce Oil Company was a branch of the Standard Qil. He says he interceded 'upon the distinct and positive assuiatice that the company wus an independent one and not con trolled by any tiust.' "For jo-years or more the Waters- Hi- R!it iPEPSIAUELETS "" pntf 9tfflH Troublf! Pierce Oil Company had operated in Texas, unopposed by the Standard, and time and again it had, by nefa rious practices, crushed out all at tempts 'to compete with it. The Standard Oil Company had never been known to fail to wage relentless war on every real competitor. Yet the bare assurance of someone was sufficient to satisfy Mr. Bailey that he was 'interceding' for 'an independent concern.' That 'assurance', prevent ed this green and innocent one from knowing that he was being used as a tool by the Standard Oil Company, from knowing what every intelligent merchant and farmer in Texas knew, namely, that the Waters-Pierce Oil Company was controlled by the Stand-ardOil." "The Unconstitutional Whisky Trust" Ws have received the following: Soujikrs Home, Califorrvij$. 7,, 96. All destroy (rfl'piiriwpeople are.in constitutional, and should riot be li censed nor allowed in any civil gov ernment. Over Four Million Dollars a day goes from oufa honest laborers into the licensed saloons of our U. S. A. Fifty murders a day, besides mil lions of starving women and children are the product of the legalized sa loons. All those who favor licensing and protecting the destroyers of our na tion and people are traitors to God, and traitors to their trusts, and trai tors to our country and to our peo ple. Worthless Education, Godless, worthless immoral public schools have only made us a nation of drunk ards and criminals, and caused our race to degenerate and die out, pro ducing disease of soul and body. No damages are allowed to the wid ows and orphans of men who are paralized or killed by poisoned drinks given them from our U. S. saloons. Esther said, "I will go before the King and if I perish, I will perish, for it is for my life and for the life of my people. So do I go in by faith with my petition before King Jesus, that this bloody Hanian nmy be hung on his own gallows, that hus been de stroying our sons and daughters. God, give us more brave men and brave women to fight the devil and whisky trusts in Jesus name, Amen. There is no protection for life or home, nor of honest business in our U, S. A. All the protection is given to the destroyers. White Slavery. Our sen.ttors have built the high whisky trust altars and sacrificed our sons and daughters to devils the saloons and harlot houses. For warnings to the dangers of prostitution, read Proverbs 6, 7, and 8th chapters. God made the ninle and female to produce their young nothing more. Real estate cannot hold its own in a whisky town. The plagues left Kansas since she wiped out the sa loons. God cannot bless a whisky state. Worse than earthquakes and fires in San Francisco are the legalized sa loons. Fearful tenderfooted churches are worse than sinners. The whisky trusts are legalized to dmg and rob and murder our labor ing men for their honest money. Our whisky papers stand pat for crime. All honest business is crushed to death by our legislators; and news papers are as silent as death on the destroyers of our nation and people. The whisby trust army of our U. S., led on by our government officers, kills and wounds more than all the wars of the world. The party in power says they are powerless to enforce our laws. More money is now expended for poison drugs to kill people than is for meat and bread in our U. S. Our worthless medical system is founded on the devil's lies and the most deadly poison. H. Hansen, So. Cal. THE BRAIN OF MAN. The brain of mankind has been de fined as a kind of phonographic cyl inder, which retains impressions made upon it through the medium of the senses, particularly through the eyes and ears. If this be true, mem ory must depend for its intensity or retentive qualities upon the degree of observation with which the record is made. Nor is this all. ' If memory's record is kept in the shape of identi fications upon the folds of brain mat ter, are they ever entirely effaced ? In other words, do we ever really for get anything ? May it not be that in the inner depths of the brain memory has stored up recollections of things wnicn are neveragain purposely turn ed to perhaps, but which instantly spring into being and flash through me mind wnenever we hear or see something which recalls them ? There are several well-known men tal phenomena which strengthen this theory. We know that memory of ten brightens during the last mo ments of life, and there are cases on record where Germans, French, Span iards and others who, upon- falling sick in this country scores of years after having entirely forgotten their native languages, recovered and used them upon their death-beds. There is a theory that in all such cases the brain folds have relaxed, iust as do the muscles and cords of the limbs and body, and that by so doing they expose to the mind's monitor indent ations (recollections) which were long since folded up and put away as ma terial that could not be of any par ticular use. Whv does the sun burn? Whv does a mosquito sting? Why do we feel un happy in the Good Old Summer Time? Answer: we don't. We use De Witt's Witch Haisel 8alve, and these lit tle ills don't bother us. Learn to look for the name on the box to get -the gen tune, fold uy Armhelu A Greenwood. It is a well known medical fact that pine resin is most effective in the treatment of di . uses of the bladder and kidneys. Sufferers from back ache and other troubles due to faulty action of the kidneys find 1 1 lief in the use ot f ine-uks $1.00 buys w days treatment, gold by McKethan & Co. The English Language. ClieyeiiDe Hun-Leader: We'll tiegin with a box, and the plu ral is bdxes, But the plural of ox should be oxep, notoxes; The one fowl is goose, - but two- are called eeese. Yet the plural of mouse should never be meese; You may find a lone mouse or a whole nest of mice, But the plural of house is hout-es, not hice; If the plural of man is always called men, Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen? The cow in the plural may be cows or Vine, But a cow if repeated is never called kine, And the plural of vow is vows, never vine; And if I speak of a foot and you show me your feet, And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, Why shouldn't the plural of both be called beeth? If the singular's this and the plural is these, Should the plural of kiss be nick named keese? Then one may be that and three would be those, Yet hat in the plural would never be hose, And the plural of cat is cats, m.tcose. We speak of a brother and t.lso of brethren, But though we say mother, we never saymethren; Then masculine pronouns are he, his and him, But imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim. So the English, I think, you all will agree, Is the dod rottest language you ever did see. FOLK ON TAXATION. A telegram from Jefferson Cit", Mis souri, says that Governor Folk l as issu edan explicit statement of his. onvic tions concerning the abolition of per sonal taxes in Missouri and thv shift ing of a large part of the burden upon the big corporations. He said: "It is asserted by some f ersons that the removal of State taxe- from personal property, thus placinj. upon real estate and corporate inon .polies the burden of government, would benefit the rich at the expense if the poor. "On the contrary, in proportion to property, the personal property tax (and by persoriat property s not meant corporate franchises and privi leges) falls heaviest on the poT and honest. "The abolition of this tax and put ting it on corporate privileges annot be to the advantage of the rch as against the poor, for the poo.- man has no monopoly privileges and no corporate holdings. "Every fanner, under the present system, pays on every cow, hor se and hog; every widow or orphan whose estate goei through the probate court must pay in full, while too of ten the man of wealth, having his personality in such shape that U can not be reached, pays practically noth ing. "Some persons object to corpor ations and real estate bearing the burdens of State Government But the State gives to corporations, which are artificial creatures of the State, rights and privileges which the ordi nary citizen does not enjoy, and it is only j1)st that the State could receive full return in the way of revenue for the powers granted." Henry Wattersnn on Rucevelt. (.oulsvllle Courier-Journal.) Nuthing escapes Mr. Rucevelt. No subjec is too hi for him to takl, nor too lo for him to notis. He makes tretis without the consent of the Senit. He enforces such laws as meet his approval, and fales to see those that do not soot him. He now assales the English langgwidg, constitutes himself a sort Of French Academy and will refonn-the spellingln a way tu soot himself. We have ventured to spell the name of the President Rucevelt. It is quite likely that many wiH-say that it is not his name. ..But the majority of the people pronounce it thus, the first sylable ryhming with goose. There are others of course who 'pronounce it differently but if we unsettle the spelling already established pepel will spell according ta-tbjejjndeas of sound, and the name of the President, which it appears few pepel no how to pro nounce, must take its chances with the rest. Still it is a safe gu?ss (or gess) that he will continue to sine Roosevelt. Perhaps Theodore Ruce velt would not be recognized in forin lands. j NEWSPAPER ETHICS. Richmond Times l)l.iatch. Mr. William J. Bryan, who is mak ing a tour aiound the world, and who is just now investigating comiitions in. the F'ar East, has declined an invi tation to be the guest of Acting Gov ernor Ide during hid stay in Manila, for the reason, alleged, that he will visit that city as a newspaper repre sentative and not as a private citizen, and that his acceptance of th,: Gov ernor's hospitality would place him under oligations to the government and embarrass him in any comments he might see fit to make in the pub lic print. In taking this course Mr. Bryan shows that he has a keen sense of newspaper ethics. No reputable newspaper man will knowingly place himself under embarrassing obliga tions and, so to speak, muzzle the press. The conscientioiii newspaper mn is very careful how he accepts favors. He lives in an atmosphere of independence, and if lie is true to himself and to his duties, htf will never tie his own hands It is his concern to keep himself free from all 8orts.of entanglements and to keep himself in position to speak his mind ' without fear, fBvorjtisra or prejudice, THE NEW YORK DEMOCRA PLAT FORM. " Following is, in part, the platform adopted by the Democratic State Con yention of New Yoik, at Buffalo, day before yesterday "At this time, when theauthoritv ot Democracy is invoked to defend plunder of the masses by a "few rich men, through partial laws on one hand, and, on the other, to justify many extravagant and revolutionary proposals which if adopted must in evitably produce worse disasters thari the abuses they seek to cure, we deem it eminently "fitting to declare that the whole of Democratic principle is embraced in the injunction laid on the first man that in the sweat of their brows he and all his posterity must eat their bread. "We affirm it to be as much the su preme duty of government to prevent any man from takine by violence fradulent device or legislative favor one dollar or its equivalent pro duced by the labor ol another man, as it is to protect every man in the enjoyment of all the property, how ever extensive, produced by his own labor. HIGH PROTECTION DENOUNCED. "We, therefore, denounce Republi can high protection, which enables a few to plunder the whole body of their fellow-citizens, by charging ex tortionate prices lor the necessaries of life and the essentials of industry "We deplore as the most sinister consequence of the corruption and graft which degrade our political and industrial life the widespread distrust and discredit of Republican govern ment which they have produced and which have led many men of undoubt ed probity and ardent patriotism to listen patiently, if not approvingly, to proposals distinctly socialistic, which if adopted must inevitably wreck the foundation of Republican government and endanger the entire fabric of Christian civilization. "We h Id that the cure for these abuses is not in socialism, which by enormou. y extending the power of government must aggravate them but in Democracy, which by exclud ing government from any inteifcrence whatever with private industry must cure them. MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. "Every proposal that a municipa' lty assume operation of all public utilities and reduce rates to persons using them, regardless of what the service may actually cost, is an at tempt to force soiue men to bear the expenses of others, because where the outlay for operation exceeds earnings the dt ficit must be made up by tax ation snd this would be socialistic, and therefore hostile to justice and subversive of Democratic govern ment. "It is the duty of government, therefore, to ascertain the actual cost of operating all public-service corpor ations ana nx lroni tune to tune rea sonable rates for the service they per form . FOR CI-'NKRAI. INVESTIGATION. "We denounce as a crime against morals and decency the refusal of the Republican administration to permit an investigation of the diflerent de partments, especially of the banking department. "If intrusted with the administra tion of the State government we prom ise that there shall be an impartial and public investigation of every de partment of the State. "The rtciut investigation of ''nsur ance companiv.s ailords but a faint idea of the gross corruption which has govenud lluir administration for a long period. It i a scandal of un paralled dimensions that these shock ing exposures have resulted metely in the discharge of a few officers whose inefficiency for plunder was established by the fact that they had allowed their enormities to be discov ered, while the more desperate cul prits who were most adroit in plot ting these villanies and who profited by them most extensively have been allowed to remain in control of the vast trust funds they have pillaged and wasted. TO PROSECUTE INSURANCE MEN. "We demand the passage of such legislation as will deal effectively with the whole subject of life insurance and encourage this form of economy by making its fruits absolutely se cure. We are resolved, above all, that every rogue who has aided in planning this plunder, who has con nived at it or shared in its profits, shall be pursued by every punitive weapon of the law, wielded by honest, fearless, loyal public prosecutors. THE RUSSIAN JEWS. "We ask the Federal Government to exercise its influence to bring about speedy cessation of the atroci ties now being committed against the Jews in Russia. MR. IlltVAN. In common with the Democrats of all the States, and expressing the sentiment of the high-minded citizen ship of the republic w ithout reference to party, we vii w with pride and sat isfaction th' lio.-i.;t 1 it y and acclaim which have been accorded, I at home and abroad, to that great Democratic leader and typical American, Wil liam Jennings Jiryan. to whom the Democrats of New York extend jnost cordial and sincere felicitations "EMULATION IN PLUNDER " "Finally, we recoid our solemn- be lief that corruption in the public ser vice or In corporate manajji ment can not be eradicated while m hemes of plunder arc i ui pi mted in liie very body of the law i'.-v If. "VVhtre tile 1 , v . t only permits, but empowers, g ci .l t' lists to exact for their product (1 , 1 the people of thi- toutitty pks 11,, exceeding thote uskid in Itc 1. -i counliks, and this power to plumb r mil citizens is treated as the propcilv oi 'cut in 'pri vate corporations, openly capitalized for billions of dollars, the vast volume of tribute drawn from the masses of the community is the least pernic ious of its results The wide emu-l-iiion in plunder which it evokes is its worse result. "The spectacle of government tak ing from masses of men some of the Tone the liver, moye tlie bowels, cleanse the system. Paijn'g Little Liver Pills never eriri, Sold by Me. etrmn t Co- " profits created by their labor to en rich a few favorites encourages the socialist to insist that government should monopolize the entire field of industry and divide all of its prof its among the whole people. ' SOCIALISM 13 -DENOUNCED. "We denounce the socialism which seeks to make government the sole agent of production as nothing else than a proposal to re-establish the institutions of tyranny and industrial slavery which perished before the ad vance of Christian civilization. For the very essence of despotism is to vest in the State absolute control of all industry, and therefore ownership of all its products, while the essence of democracy is to confirm in' every man the right to dispose of his own labor and possess in peace everything produced by it. "Realizing every social stic pro posal however disguised under so norous and misleading phrases to be a step leading inevitably toward the re-establishment of despotism in government and servitude in labor, the Democratic party must always be vigilant in unmasking it and inflex ible in opposing it. In this opposi tion we ask the co-operation and sup port of all citizens who feel that the is sue now before the country is uomere struggle for office or for advantage between political parties, but a con test for the existence ol Christian civilization and of Democratic gov ernment, its last and most valuable fruit." IS THE PENDULUM SWINGING BACK ? KnltKh New-i rtlid Olwerver. A few years ago there vas a craze for consolidation so as to cheapen cost of management and bring scattered industries under one strong central management. Most of the cotton oil mills were brought up by the big fer tilizer compani s and a gigantic scheme was nearly csnsunimated to get most of the coHon mills of the South in one gigartic company, to be managed by famous captains of industry in the money centres. For tunately the cotton mill trust fell through and independent oil mills were constructed. Then it was thought the thing to have was a few "captains of industry" finance and run everything and to minimize the brains and capacity of local business men, manufacturers and bankers. So far did this. idea of combination go that the local banks became alarmed for fear the much advocated branch bank scheme would swnllow np or put them at a disadvantage if they re fused to sell out to the giant banks that threatened to invade the whole country. Today the pendulum -is wisely go ing in the other direction. We have learned that Raleigh men can run a Raleigh factory or bank better, more safely and economically than it can be run from New York. Instead of wishing to get, in the hands of the "captains of industry," who are often wolves who organize to devour, small industries dread them and fight shy of them. We have learned that in manufacturing and in business, com binations are often more hurtful, and that the big men supposed to be able to do everything, are often incapable and oftener dishonest. Mr. Stuyvesant Fish calls atten-' tion to no trivial evil when he points I out that ' too few men try to manage too many corporations. He cites a notable example to illustrate his re marks when he gives the records of the ninety-two men who a year ago served as trustees or directors of the three large life insurance companies which have recently been under ex amination. One man was a member of seventy-three boards, another of fifty-eight, another of fifty-four, an other of fifty -three, another of forty- seven, another of forty-three and an other of forty-one. The ninety-two held a total of 1,439 directorships In most instances they were mere dummies, as recent insurance inves tigations disclose. In truth, no man ought to be a director in many insti tutions or have his fingers in too many pies. He ought to accept no responsibilities that he cannot fulfill to the best of his ability. Whenever you see a man who is director of scores of companies tht dema carelul attention, you can in nine cases out of ten put it down that he is a Napoleon of finance or has little regard for his name. "Too few men try' to manage too many corpora tions." The best managed concern is that managed by men who confine their energies to or.e thing. When they spread out too much they can not give the necessary attention, and it is then that a directorship is a fraud and a delusion. The safe rule is for no man to accept a directorship in any concern to which he cannot give enough time to be true to the trust. Competition and many small strong concerns are minutely Inner than gigantic combinations and too many corporations in a few hands. The pendulum is now swinging back in the right direction. Let us hope the era of trusts is to end. Senator Bailey. The Charlotte News well says: Senator Bailey, of Texas, is one of the ablest men in the South, or in America, for that, to-day. Recently he had a client who was a million aire. It later developed- mat ttiat client held heavy stocks in the Standard Oil company, and for that reason a lot of newspapers have been accusing the Senator of pandering to that big corporation. Senator Bailey has as much right to appear for a millionaire who held stock in a cor poration as a dentist has to pull the tooth of a miinhrer. In the latter case the simple act of pulling the tooth does not implicate the dentist in the murder ana with equal reason, in the former case, the semlor is not implicated in the affairs of the Stand ard Oil. Of course the Senator is ac customed to having folks criticise him. That is one thing that has made him. In other words such un wonted and unfounded criticism of nny man merely boosts the would-bc- v'i-tiin while it only lowers the ac cuser. When the Senator gets through; with some of his pigmy critics there i some oi nis pigmy criucs inererr 'Phone No. 11. won t oeenongn ei o cusinguigo i FAYETTEVILLE MARBLE LND GRANITE WORKS. Strictly First-class . Work. Call at my yard or write for prices. Respectfully, E. L. RKMBBUKG, Proprietor, Fayetteville, N. C. Cigars and Cigars. We carry all tha popular brands in a variety of colors. Also a full supply of Smoking Tobac cos and Cigarettes. H. R. HORNE & SONS DRUGS PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED. NEW : STOCK. KING DRUG CO., (The McDulIie Drug Store) 0. 0. SOUIiKKH . . . .Proprietor. TELEPHONE 141 During this warm . weather. Any thing you order will be delivered promptly. We make a specialty of bicycle delivery. A. J. COOK & CO, BKtrMISTt AND PHABMJaJKKl (Next door to Postoffiee). FRESH TURNIP :-: SEED. 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Fayetteville Observer [Weekly, 1880-1919] (Fayetteville, N.C.)
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