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The outburst of cries for the tariff as the Democratic Issue next year, at iimo wnen me acute issue before the people was railway regulation, caused the Observer to take note of the fact that this movement, like the demand wr a southern man for the Democratic presidential nomination, came from the old Cleveland contingent that part of those whOkcall themselves Democrats which helped Mr. Cleveland sidetrack the tariff Issue In 1893. It will be recalled that this was done when he had a united party back of him In favor of a revenue tariff, and a majority In both Houses of Congress ready to follow his lead In enacting such legislation. The following, taken from the Rich- mond Tlmes-Dlspatch, is pertinent in this connection:. "In denying the report that he la candidate for the Presidential nomin ation, senator Daniel outlines plat form which Is sound, practical and sensible. The Tlmes-Dlspatch does not exactly understand his meaning when he advocates merely a judicious revision of the tariff. Tariff for reve nue only is a Democratic fundamental, and while nobody wants such radical reform as would destroy business, the demand for a tariff for revenue strict ly ought to be the underlying princi ple in every Democratic platform. At all events, we hope that the Democrats are not preparing to recede from the position on which the fight was won in 18DZ." The Democrats who did not help the Republicans elect McKlnley and Roosevelt will certainly not "recede from the position on which the fight was won in 1892;' but wo imagine that that Is precisely what the other kind and their converted sympathizers will do. MR. 8HIPMAN FOR COMMISSIONER OF LABOR. We are Informed that Mr. Varner will not be a candidate for re-election as Commissioner of Labor and Print ing. We learn also that Mr. M. L. Shipman, the present highly efficient Assistant Commissioner, will be a can didate for the position of Commis sioner. Mr. Varner has been the Commis sioner since the position wds created. and he has brought order out of chaos and organized .the present very efficient and useful Department. He will retire with the commendation, we imagine, of every person in the State oonvorsant with public matters. Mr. Shipman has been Mr. Varner's assistant in the work, and he deserves, by all means, the promotion which he asks at the hands of the Democratic party. He has been of great serv ice as a party man; he has fine execu tive ability; and we doubt not that the party will bestow upon him the promotion which he seeks. COTTON ITEMS. You remember that we reported the fact about four weeks ago, that Mr. Joe Johnson was wounded very badly Sandy Run. He is still confined to Sandy river. He is stil Iconfined to his bed and not able to be up. Drs. Gilbert and McNeill attended the case. Considering the extent of his injuries he seems to be doing very well. Mr. Will Gales, a son of Mr. Frank Gales, the young man who was shot by Policeman Alex. Arnett, of Hope Mills, last Saturday, is getting along very well and will probably recover. The bullet has not been located. Mrs. M. W. Driver, of Chester, S. C. after spending a few days with her father and mother, Mr. and Mro. J. W. Elklns, has returned home. Mrs. Flora Glisson, of Dairy, Ga. is here on a visit to her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. David Smith. A number of our young people at tended the closing exercises of the Parkton school last week. RevrJr-Mr-Glbbs-4s-home from-the Rantist convention at Richmond. He took In the Jamestown Erposltlon, Miss Watson is home from the Bap tist University at Raleigh to spend Hie Vacation. , Throuih blood poison caused by a spider bits, John Washington, of Bos- rjuevllle. 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Heart or Kidneys, are merely symptoms ot a deeper ail ment Dont make the common error of treating symptoms only. - Symptom treatment is treating the result of your ailment, and not the cause. Weak Btomaoh nerves the inslda nerves means Stomach weakness, always. And the Heart and Kidneys as well, have their controlling or inBlde nerves. Weaken these nerves, and you inev ltably have weak vital organs. Hera Is where Dr. Shoop's Restorative has made its fame. No other remedy even Oiaimi KJ worn v Alsw-for-btoaUng,- biliousness-- Dad breath or complexion, use Dr. Shoop s RestorativeWrite for my ,5 now; Dr. Bhoop s ltesiureuTB m B. B. Bedberry . buu. " LET THE PEOPLE RULE." Highly Interesting Speech Bryan. By Mr. Mr. Bryan took the text above quoted for his speech before the "Peo ple's Lobby," at Newark, New Jersey, on the 1st of May.' It is eminently worth reproducing; for, while the rule of the people Is popularly supposed to be the law of the land In this country, corrupt politicians are night and day plotting to defeat It. While the triumph of the Doctrine of Force In 1865, as we have so often pointed out, turned back many years the hands on the dial that pointed to popular government, the excesses of corruption and arbitrary rule which followed have produced the reaction In public sentiment which Mr. liryan gives voice to. I am a friend of harmony, sail Mr. Bryan, for I have learned the value of It by Its absence in my party dur ing recent campaigns. But harmony is not the moat valuable thing a party can have and it Is a more difficult thing to secure than some think. when I find that a group of people, boast that they think alike, I concludo that they do not think at all, for when people think differences of opinion ap pear. A party can be perfeotly har monious if there is only one person In the party, but even then the voto must be taken at once, for he may change his mind. If there are as many as two persons in the party, you can not expect harmony because one will be radical and the other conservative) There are eighty millions of radicals In this country, If. you take the opin ion of the most conservative man In the nation; and there are eighty mil lions of conservatives if you take the opinion of the most radical man. Rad icalism and conservatism are relative terms. That which is radical to-day may be conservative to-morrow. It is necessary to have both radicals and conservatives; but for the conserva tives the radicals would go too fast and without the radicals the conserv atives would not go at all. The rad ical suggests, the conservative inves tigates. The radical makes a sugges tion and his suggestion Is not heeded. and a little later he makes his sugges tion a second time, and if that sug gestion Is not heeded, later on he makes the suggestion again, and so on, and each time the conservative says no, and finally the radical drags the conservative on. When I was in Jaoan I saw two lions, two Korean lions, that stood in front of the doors of the temple; they are not fierce looking lions, but rath er comical looking. One represents the positive and one the negative they Teoresent the eternal conflict be tween the radical and the conservative, I brought them home with me ana have them on either side of my porch steus. and when I go up the porcn steDS I walk as nearly as I can In the center between the two. Progress is between the two ex tremes. We are now having a con test In the Republican party, between the radical and the conservative, and no doubt the radical will finally win, There is only one place In the world for the stand-patter that is in tne grave; that is the only place he Is at home, for everything that has life lives, and If it has intelligence as well as life it moves forward. There is no such thine as standing still. If the Republican party dared to stand still for ten vears It would not hold power in a Blngle State unless it be New Jer sey. In fact there is some prospect here Of progress, but, to be frank with you, I think this is one of the least hopeful States we have. But we have to go forward, and the party that does not go forward Is going to be left in the struggle, and in the contest now waging between reform and the stand Dat Republican, there is no doubt about which is going to win. If your stand-patters are going to control the policies of that party, it Is bound to die. The only hope of any party Is in a progressive movement Lincoln suoke on the battle field of Gettysburg of the unfinish ed work of those who died there. Every generation finds the work of the last unfinished; every gen eration leaves to the next an unfin ished work everywhere the work ot government is in the line of bringing the government nearer to me peopio. I believe in everything that tends to bring the government nearer to the peo ple and to give the people larger control over their government I am in favor of the election of United States Senators by the direct vote, of the people, be cause It-brings them nearer to the people. And if any of you doubt that the feeling Is growing in favor ot broader democracy, let me tell you the his tory ot this country on that sub ject It waa over -one hundred years after the Constitution of these United States waa adODted before a protest against the present method ot electing Sena tors reached the point where there was an expression on the-subject in the Coneress a little more man hundred yeanand yet in 1892 the Fifty-second Congress adopted a reso lution Droooslng the necessary amend ment to the Constitution for that pur pose. That was fifteen years ago. After one hundred years of waiting, during which time first one and then another, and then a tew more, were ad vocating this reform, the sentiment be came atrona- enouah to secure tne pas sage of resolution through Congress, and in the last fifteen years mat reso lution has passed five times through the popular branch of the Federal Congress. Twice the Congress was Democratlo and three times the Congress was Re publican. , But if any Republican boasts because his ' party passed It three times and ours only twice, let me tell him that oura passed It twice before the Republllans passed it at all, and we would have passed It oft ener, but we have only had but two Congresses, and two Republican Con gresses adjourned without acting upon the resolution that the two Democratlo Conn-eases had already passed. . . At last tha sentiment grew so strong that a Republican Congress acted fa vorably, eight years after a Demooratlo Consress had set the example. But I am wllllnc that they should follow even eight years behind the Demo crats. Nearly two-thirds oi tne states have acted, and I think nearly aa many Republican as Democratlo States have acted favorably. Eighteen States are now electing their Senators aa nearly br direct vote as they can un- . der . the Constitution and of these eighteen States ten are Democratlo and eight Republican, So you see that democratlo senti ment is broader than any party. I am FAYETTEVILLE, N. C, THURs6aY, JUNE 6, glad that the democratic sentiment In this country is too large for any party to monopolize. . :. If a man trusts the people . he is willing to let the people Aave their own way. It he does not trust the peo ple he is always trying to build up a system between the people and their officials, and the less confidence he has In the people the more system he wants. - 1 never think of this system without thinking of the story I heard when I was a boy, a story connected with Bt Lous. A peddler went to a six-story building, and when he began to open his pack on the first floor, he was sent to the second floor, and when he com menced to open his pack on the sec ond door, he was sent to the third floor and so on to the sixth floor, and when he went to open his pack there the floorwalker took him by the coat collar and the slack ot his breeches and sent him down one flight of stairs, and when he landed there he was thrown down another flight of atai. and so on until finally, when he got ui into we street, ne turned around and looked up at the building and aald: "My, what a system they have in that place!" Now a man who does not trust the people Is aways wanting some system built up, but the man who does .trust the people Is willing for the people to nave, wnat tney want in government! Now we are gafo aet election of our Senators rK ect vote: It Is bound to come; I pafe no doubt of it whatever. I am confident that It is right, and that which Is right will always triumph In the end. It takes time for right to triumph, but it tri umphs, at last, and we are going on applying fundamental principles until we get wis Government where the people oontrol it absolutely. unevor the most Important reforms In this direction is known as the ini tiative ana referendum. I am glad that I can speak on this subject in this presence without alarm ing the people. I spoke of it in Brook lyn the other night and I was surpris ed to nna next morning that some papers featured it as if it was the only thing I had said during the evening. i mane a speech there of two hours and this was only an Illustration of the principle I tried to present to the people in the line of representative government. Then some of the New York papers talked about It as If it was a perfectly new Idea as if I was trying to smuggle in something from abroad without paying duty on it I am going to wait until they get over their scare and then I am going to tell them that it was in the Democratic national platform six years ago they ought to know what was done after all this length of time. Of course, I know It takes an Idea good while to get from the West down East I don't know but we ought to have a tittt. train for the express purpose of carrying ideas irom the West to the East for the benefit of the editors of New York newspapers. But wouldn't you -suppose that the platform adopted at Kansas City six years ago last summer would, by this time, have gotten down here and be reasonably well known In the East? Why, my friends, it was in the Demo cratic platform in Nebraska four years before it got into the national Demo cratic platform. Ten years ago last summer the Dem ocratlc State convention of Nebraska adopted a platform favoring the ini tiative and referendum. Before you people knew my name, before any of you even suspected my being connect ed with the Democratic nomination for President we were endorsing this doc trine In Nebraska, and I was chairman of the committee on resolutions when it was done, But even out there we had editors who were a sort of an abridged edi tion of the New York editors, and the editor of the Republican paper at my home town said that when I read that plank about initiative and referendum the Democrats looked at each other In surprise and that one. Democrat said to another: "What is that?" And the other Democrat replied: "Why, that Is a new kind of Democratic drink.1 And according to that Republican pa per, it went through unanimously then, Ten years ago last summer a Republi can editor was making fun of the Ini tiative and referendum and speaking as if It was a new kind of Democratic drink. But, my friends, if It were really a new kind of drink I believe it would be more popular in some quarters than It is. That idea is growing and will grow. State after State has adopted that idea. You came within four votes, I am informed, ot passing a res olution in its favor through one branch ot your legislature. Up In Maine which I have always regarded as more or less an Eastern State, they are to vote on It at the next election And so Is:, growing all over the country. I do not see how any argu ment can be urged against it If a man believes in the right ot the people to govern themselves, how can he object to the initiative and ref erendum? Now there are some people who have a false idea of government; there are some people who think that a representative is elected to think for the people. But that is not our theory. Our theory is that the peo ple think for themselves and that the representative is elected to act for the people and carry out what the peo ple think. I might give you an Illustration of the fact that we recognise that Why do we have platforms If we elect peo ple to think tor us? Why hamper them with what we think? Why not leave them free to think as they please? When platforms are written the writers of them reoognlse the right of the voter to a have a representa tive In harmony with the views of the voter. And so, I believe that the time has come when we should bring our government closer to the people and give the- people a more complete con trol of their government. Now let me digress tor a moment to 'say that there is an Idea ot leadership In the country that is misleading, it Is not the duty ot the leader to think for the people; the leader thinks with the people, not for the people. Some oneI think it was ex-Governor Ogles by, of Illinois aald that a leader Is one who Is going in the same direction with the people, but a little bit ahead. and that is the best definition or leader that I know of. , He must be going In the same direction and he must be a Uttle bit ahead ot the peo ple or he will not be. leading them. i Many Children Are 8lckly. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, ft nurse In Children's Home, New York, break up Colda In 2 hours, cure Feverish-ness.- Headache. . Stomach troubles. Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms. : At alLdruggtsti 25o.t Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen B. Olm sted, Le Roy, New York. and the only way to secure a leader Is to select the one who says what the people want said, and says it bet ter than the people themselves can say It '- - - The molder of public opinion is like the molder of bullets. Tho molder of bullets does not make the lead; he simply puts the lead in form for use. So the molder of public opinion does not create the opinion; he simply gives it form that makes that opinion more ' effective. The man who at tempts to create an opinion that the people .oppose, ceases to be a leader. We have had in this country many in stances of men who have supposed themselves to be leaders, and yet when they have looked around they have found themselves walking all alone. We have seen this In both parties, and I do not know of any thing more pathetic In public life than to have leader with no people following him, and the people will not follow him un less he goes In the direction they want him to go. The leader is not nearly so important as the people themselves. 1-belleve in organization but my friends, the organization is not as important as the voter. I re member a campaign in Nebraska when a pun; nrust), uuu wunuui any pre vase organization, in one campaign se cured enough voters to make it al most a tie with the other two parties. Power comes from the people; n comes up to the leader from those for whom he sneaks, and he only speaks for those nfao want him to speak for trfim and they want him to say what they want said. One of the New York newspapers, discussing the Initiattveand referen dum, said that they have only used the Initiative and referendum In Switz erland a few times In twenty-five years. - Well, that Is an argument In favor of t, not against It, for one of the ad vantages is that even after you get these things you do not have to use them; but if you do not have them you frequently need to use them. Why don t you need to use them? Because, If the people have the Initiative, they have a system whereby they can com pel the submibsion of anything they want to vote on and whon disobe dience is useless the representative is more sure to obey. And If the people have the referen dum, which is a process by which they sit in judgment on what their representatives do, then the represen tatlves know that the people can veto their acts, and that if they do pass laws that the people do not want the people will veto them. The beauty of this system is that it gives you power, and ' yet you do not always have to use the power; the possession of it is in itself a great protection. And nfhy shouldn't the people have what they want; -why should'nt the people have the veto power? Does not your Governor veto the acts of your legislature? And if one man can veto an act of the legislature, why shouldn't the people, who elect the Governor and the legislature, have the right of veto if they do not want a particular law? I read the other day In the New York Tribune an editorial on the Okla homa Constitution, and the greatest objection to -it according to that ed itor, was that it was written by corn field lawyers now get that, right I was about to say corn fed lawyers the other day, but that is not it I mean cornfield lawyers that s what It said. Now I read that Oklahoma Constltu tion, and I say to you that it is the best Constitution in the United States to-day. I was interested to find how carefully those cornfield lawyers had puttied up the holes that the trust-fed lawyers had been making in other Constitutions. It was really Interest ing to see how carefully these cornfield lawyers, looking at the question from the standpoint of the common people, had corrected the things that had been found weak in the Constitutions of other States, and the best thing in that Constitution is the provision for the initiative and referendum. Now, no matter what mistakes you make in your Constitution, if you give the people power to correct those mistakes they will correct them. No matter how bad your laws may be, If the people have the power to make them good they will make tnem gooa, and the most Important provision that you can have In a Constitution Is provision that places In the hands of the people power to correct the Con stitution and make it keep pace with progress and intelligence, and the ini tiative and referendum are the best things that we have found so far to bring the government near to the peo- ole and make it their government But you say the people make mis takes. Of course they make mistakes But I think the people have the right to make their 'own mistakes, Others have made mistakes for them, and the people have been denied the privilege ot correcting tnose Tnisiaaes, You can not expect to have a govern ment that is free from mistakes, be cause we are governed by human be ings and they are not perfect. But there is this difference between mis takes that are made by the majority and mistakes that are made by the minority. The majority never makes a mis take Intentionally, for It never pays the majority to make a mistake. Whenever the majority finds out that it has made a mistake It corrects it but If you have the minority ruling it is sometimes so profitable for tne mi nority to make mistakes that they never want to correct them, and nearly every revolution in society has been an effort ot the people to correct the mistakes of the minority. When you give the people the power to correct mistakes, you will find abuses cor rected very quickly. Now. I do not want to appeal to the radical, but to the conservative, for if the conservative people of tnis coun try took an Intelligent view of their own affairs it would not be necessary to "taakeany-argument - in- favor.-of these retormB. If these conservative people Were foreslghted and took an enlarged view ot their own Interests, they would see the necessity of reform In our methods of government Take the stream as an Illustration; If the current is not obstructed there is no danger In It; you can stand and lis ten to the singing of the waters.- Bur If you attempt to put a dam across the stream the water rises up and presses against the dam; If you ralBe the dam higher the water rises higher yet and after a while there will be a force In that pent-up water that no dam made by human hands can long stay; and then the people .who live In the valley below are in dan ger. : And so, my friends, If you let the people have their way there is 1 danger In any countrvjjbut if you dare to ODStruci tne wm , ui me peupia there, ia always, pressure behind the dam, and the more you raise the dam the greater Is the pressure; If there .1907. Is any danger now V is because preda tory wealth 'has obstructed the will of the people for years. . ' ' Themore freely you allow the people to rule, the more quickly will every abuse be remedied. If you scratch your finger and blood polsoBfg sets In your doctor tells you to'aut the finger off and thus save the fcVnd; If you wait he tells you to cut off the hand and save the arm, and If you still nalt he tells you to cut off your arm In order that you mav save your body. And so it is In the body politic; if you- will jve the peop'e a govern ment that they can contr ol, if you let the people have their way they will reform every abuse as soon as they find it out. But If you dare obstruct the will of the people yoa simply in viu more radical reform. Ti n years ago, when I was a candi date, I never mentioned government ownership of railroads, and six years ago I was so conservative that I never mentioned, either In writing or in speech, the possibilty of government ownershp of railroads, and yet so rap- Idly has public sentiment grown and so arrogantly have the great railroad corporations obstructed the will of the people that a Republican President has, In two messages threatened gov ernment ownership if the railroads did not getout of politics and allow the people to attend to their own business. Is not that evidence of truth of what have said, that if you refuse mild remedies you must be prepared Sooner or later to meet harsher remedies? Now I believe in the initiative and referendum, and I have believed In them for years; and I have believed in them because I believe that they make it possible for the people to correct abuses whenever they want to correct them. This is the only way to save society from great convulsions for great reme dies must be applied to great evils. I know of nothing that Is milder as a reform than the lnitative and referen dum, and I want to encourage you in fighting for It, be you Republicans or Democrats. If you are republicans do not object to it because you are told that the Democrats advocated it first. Of course we will boast a little. You can not ex pect that we will not be human, and it is human to rejoice; but I will give you an answer to make to us: If we rejoice, too much, if we acuse you of borrowing our ideas, don't cast it aside on that account; just tell us that we got it from the Populists, and then we can't say much more about It. And the Populists borrowed it from somebody. But there is no patent on ideas; ideas belong to the world, and an idea once sent forth can never be with drawn, for man has no ownership of ideas. And let us not refuse to accept a good idea because we did not orig inate it. We did not originate the telegraph system. For years man saw U ughtnipg',. but he saw in it nothing but menace, but after a while some one conceived the idea a great American of bringing it down and miikluK it of service to. man, and it has been imprisoned in wires, and those wires now girdle the globe. We use this idea. We use this idea, and we do not feel badly because we did not originate it So it is with all the great ideas that have been used in this great world. If we advance tne idea first, let It be said of us that we adopted It as soon as we did see it; let it be said of us that we did not delay after we had a chance to adopt it. The idea and the ideal belong to the world. You may see a man living in a house so fine that yeu may never hope to have one like it it may be entirely Oiit ot your reach; you may find one bu well educated tnat you can never hope to be his equal In that respect; but, my friends, there is no one who has an ideal so high that you can not hope to claim that ideal and make It as much yours as his. And so with an idea. No man has any special ownership in an idea more thau in an ideal, and there ought to be no feeling on the subject because it belongs not to one party, but to the whole country. And if anything more need to be said to encourage you let me sav that behind every truth there is an irresistible force. You find that the grain when it is put into the ground will send forth first the blade, then the stalk and then the full head; and when we find that is true the world around we conclude that back of that grain there is a power irre sistibly and constantly at work and, my friends, the force that is back of truth intellectual, moral and political Is just as irresistible and as con stantly at work as theforce that is behind the grain. Go into any part of the world to-day and you find that everywhere our theory of government has been plant ed, and you find that everywhere it Is growing. In Persia they have adopt ed the first Constitution they ever had within the last two years. In Austria they are enlarging the basis of representation; and they are doing the same thing in Sweden at this same time. In England the great con troversy Is between the House oj Lords and the House of Commons, and the House of Commons says that that hereditary body shall not defeat the will of the people. China has sent envoys througW&t the world to gather information for the forming of a Constitution. Every where this leaven is at work; every where you will find two great parties, one struggling to bring the government nearer to the people, the other ob structing the way. Everywhere in the world the people's party is growing, and everywhere the party of the aris tocracy is dying. And It is true in this country as In every other country. If I did not have faith In the final tri umph of right I could not fight for anything, but believing, as I do, that every righteous principle will at last prevail, I can fight for It whether it triumphs in my day or not. I am glad If I can hell) the least little bit to has ten the victory even if It does not come until after I am dead.. And now I want to say just one thing In conclusion. I have been In terested In politics for a good many years; I have been making political speeches for twenty-seven yars; I have been acquainted with national politics for seventeen years, and I have never seen so much to encour age a man who believes In a govern ment of the people, for thejjeople and by the people, as I have seen within the last few years. Until recently I saw great campaign funds collected from corporations that contributed the money In order to purchase Immunity or legislation, and the public con science Beemed dead. "It is more than tearears ago that Mr. Havemeyer, the president of the Sugar Trust, testified to campaign contributions before a committee of the United States Senate. You rmember that MfrTTa?effiyet sald.iwhen-.theyL8ked;Jilm -Jt .he or the Sugar Thrust had contributed to the campaign funds, yes;, and they NEW SERIES asked, "To which party?" and he said, That depends on circumstances." He was asked, "To which party did you contribute In New York?" and he replied, "To the Democratic party." To which did you contribute in Mas sachusetts?" he was asked, and he replied, "The Republican party." "To which party In New Jersey?" he was asked, and he said, "Well, New Jer sey Ib a doubtful State; I will have to look at the books." Now, that was the testimony ot the head of the Sugar Trust, testimony given before a Senate committee, and yet I will venture the assertion that not one prson in a hundred In the State of New Jersey ever read it, or, if he read it, that it did not make an impression on his mind so that he could remember it. And so for years we saw elections bought and sold; for years we saw these great corporations controlling executives and legislatures for their own benefit and use that's what we saw and it Beemed as it the people were Indiffernt. But within the last three years what a change has taken place! Investiga tion has shown how the great insur ance companies contributed, to cam paign funds, money belonging to their policyholders, and we have been al lowing men for years to make an Im proper use of fund i in their hands. and at last the President of the United States has recommended (he passage of a law that will prevent such con tributions. I thank the President for what he has done In this respect. But I do not think he goes far enough. I am glad to have him go as far as be will, and then, standing on the vantage ground that he gives us, we will fight for better things until we drive the corporations out of politics. It Is a good thing for corporations to be prevented from contributing campaign funds. No one can defend corporation contributions to cam paigns. The money belongs to the stockholders, not to the officers, and the officers have no right, moral or legal, to contribute political views But that is not enough. We must go farther than that. If we stop there we will find these officers will get around It by using the money and covering it up so as not to violate the letter of the law. I believe the time has come when men who contribute any considerable sum should give their names and let the public know where the money conies from to carry on campaigns, for we have certain indi vlduals with such large interests that even if they contribute out ot their own pockets they could finance a cam paign Committee and give ten times as much as all the rest of the people. If they succeed In electing those they want, they can get ten times as much out of the people's pockets as they contribute. So I say that it is necessary that we should have the names of contrib utors of campaign funds. Nor is that enough. We must have publication, publication before the election so that the people may know what Is going on. And, if necessary, we will have a law strong enough so it can not but be effective. I am not .satisfied to have the law provide for publication by the committee alone; 1 believe man when he contributes should be compelled to give notice, so you can have him to check against the commit tee. And I would go further, and would make it a penal offense, for if there is anything that offends one's sense of justice it is to send a man to the penitentiary for stealing a horse and not send a man to the penitentiary for stealing an election. But, my friends, I was only calling attention to a few evidences of growth that encourage me to believe that bet ter times are coming for those who want purity in politics and a govern ment responsive to the will of the people. And now let me give you what regard as even a more encouraging sign; that is, the activity of the well- to-do men on the peoples side of these questions, for these reforms have generally heretofore found their advocacy among the poor people. I regard it as a splendid sign that men of independent means, men who have no fear for themselves or for their own positions, are beginning to recog nize that there is something in this world more important than the mak ing of money, and that the.se men are beginning to give these questions the benefit of their business experience and of their brain. In the last few years I have been gratified beyond measure to have men of means come to me and tell me of their Interest in these reforms, altruistic interest, if you please, unselfish interest; men not seeking public office; men asking for nothing in the way of favors from the Government, but men who recog nize that this Government must be better than it has been if we are to leave the legacy we ought to leave to our children. I am glad, my friends, to find this increasing number, and I want to look upon these questions as these men do, for I am in an Independent po sition. My poverty was overestimated when they called me poor just as my wealth Is overestimated now, when they call me rich. I was never so poor that I could not have everything I needed, and my wants are as simple now, and my tastes as modest as when I was a struggling young lawyer and my wife and I were doing our work together. I have no fear about my income, no doubt that I can take care of myself, no doubt that I can leave my children as much as I think I ought to leave them. I do not believe in leaving children much. I am glad my father did not leave me much, for if I had grown up in anticipation ot fortune I would not have developed the Industry that I did develop when I found that I had to make my own living. I do not want my children to be spoiled by the expectation of great deal of, money ; I shall be able to leave them enough. Why should a man want to leave only money to his children? If you leave money It may take the wings of the morning and fly away. You inust leavd. your children something better, than money. There is a grow ing class In this county, an increas ing number of our cltzens who rec ognize that the best legacy a father can leave to his children, Is not fortune, but a government that will protect his children in their enjoy ment of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and guarantee to them a fair share of the proceeds of their own toil. I welcome, therefore, as allies In the great fight that we- have before us. not only the poor who have felt the pressure of bad laws, also those well-to-do people whose hearts beat In sym pathy with the hearts of the strug gling masses; and I am glad to have these' two classes stand side by side and fight shoulder to shoulder. The fact UartheTiyraoffif It TrincTeatf lng-number s evidence of the. truth of what Dumas wrote thirteen years ago and Tolstoy ten years ago. They - VOL. XXIIINO. a,25a. declared - the coming of an era of broltcrhood. I rejoice that "I have lived to seo this day when men of means are rec ognizing .that the poor man Is mado In the image of the same God whoso image the well-to-do man wears; that the :e men are recognizing that the poor man loves his children as much as the rich man loves his children. This recognition of kinship will enable us to solve these questions in tho spirit of brotherly love, and, solving them, give an Impetus to progress and civilization. MECKLENBURG LITHIA WATER from Mecklenburg Mineral Springs, Chase City, Va., ior Bale, ice cold, at the fountain. Also in 5-gallon demijohns. : : : H. R. HOK NE & SONS.. Don't Worry About your drug store orders. Simply 'phone us, and our bicycle ser- vice is at your command both ways, to take or der and deliver. A. J. COOK & CO., DRUGGIST8 AND PHARMACISTS, iN ext door to PololBet!). 'Phone No. HI. Now is The Time wlieu every one needs a good TONIC one that builds up the system generally and prepares it for the long and trying summer that is just dawning npon us This tonic you can find at Mcduffie drug store, with everything elsa carried by a first class druggist. Bed Pests Our Bed Bug Killer is an un pleasant thing to talk about, but it does clear out the beds breaks up nests, kills little aud big. It has been sold for years. Nothing better. Pint bottle for 25 CENTS. McKETHAN & CO.'S DRUG STORE. Agency for Cut-Flowers. Straw Hat Cleaner Make your last Bummer'B hat look good as new with L I N A-N E- iox contains enough to clean 8 IIats--25c. Sold only by B.E. SEDBERRY'S SON, Palace Pharmacy. Ice-Cream and all the other pop ular drinks at our new 1 'Inovation Soda fountain.'' Try SPECIAL FLOSS CREAM SODA something new ARMFIELD & GREENWOOD. All prescriptions filled by "LICENSED PHARMACIST." 'Phone No. U. ' HI n 7 oi- Dl 1 a Da m a A met riliivm vtc? oiwiM ran,
Fayetteville Observer [Weekly, 1880-1919] (Fayetteville, N.C.)
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