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Tin: oasEitvi:iw FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY, JAN. 21, 1909. E. J. HALE, Editor and Proprietor. E. J. Hal, Jr., Business Manager. L. B. Hal, City Editor. "WHAT TO DO WITH OUR EX PRE8IDENT8." No one can read the President'! re cent communication (to Senator and Congrewmen), or consider hit recent actioni, without being Impressed with his natural fitness for the lite and practices of a detective. Plainly, he 1 an underbred person, lacking the In stincts and training of a gentleman. He should be Impeached, -convicted. and. then employed, as a detective. Ha would revel In this work of the half world, which not even Hearst who buys other people's agents with brutal frankness and Is a number of lifts above the President which not even Hearst would condescend to. It has been a . much-discussed ques tion, ever since the war of 1861-65 brought a new class of persons Into the presidential office, what should be done with pur ex-presidents. ; The ait- nation removes all doubt as to what might be done with (he one who will be thrown on our hands after the 4th of March. RooMvtlt a Detective and "Sneak." In the course of his letter to Sen ator Hale, making the detective charg es against Senator Tillman, the Presi dent says:' :," ; '.'"'"-. "' , "Of course. In the Investigation of specific frauds w sometimes come ac ross wholly unexpected phases of mis conduct Tne frauds in the postal de partment, which were unearthed some six years ago, for Instance, oar a case in point. My suspicions were first aroused by a report made as to the very extravagant and debauched man ner of life of a certain postal employe, this report being made by an official of the secret service in connection with another transaction on which he was at wort "So with the cases of the abuse of the franking privilege. The postoffice never, of set purpose. Inspects any package sent through the malls by a senator or congressman, but some times, through the accidental breaking of such package, the contents are ex posed,, and If they are of a character which makes their transmission - by franking privilege illegal, steps are taken by the postoffice authorities to collect the full postage. Some of these Instances represent real abuses, but In other cases they are due to careless ness or ignorance, and very often doubtless are entirely unknown to the congressmen themselves, and no good purpose would be served by any pub licity in tne matter. "But, a ease has Just arisen of a different kind, which. It seems to me. I should put before yon as Illustrating la striking nauloa the way la wnicu Investigations begun by any of these various agents ..In the strict line of their duty may" develop facts "of high . Importance, which' the' Investigators would not, in the .first Instance, have sought to discover, which, when dis covered ought not to be hidden or suppressed, but the' development of which may tend to create an erroneous Impression-that the agents In atten tion were being used for purposes not within the line of their lawful duty. ..,.. . . : "In enclose the circular referred to, as exhibit B, the report of the post office Inspectors, under date of- July 27. 1908. as exhibit C. This is a con fidential report of a type usually not furnished, but In this case the matter to so serious that I feel I should put It before you. I enclose you also, as ex hibits D-1, D-2. D-3, D-4 and 0-5, photo graphic fae similes of letter and en velope and telegram from Senator Tillman and hi agent, Win. E. Lee. A CONCLUSIVE ARGUMENT FOR X BOND ISSUE FOR WATER-WAYS. . - ; .'." An extravagance In other directions has bankrupted the Treasury and left nothing for river and harbors, this necesary work can only be done by bond issue. Below we give a telegram which gives the substance of Presi dent Ransdell's conclusive argument why a bond issue for this purpose is Justified by precedent at. well a rea son. Says the' telegram r 'r . When the National Rivers and Har bors Congress, at .its recent national convention In this city, accepted the general challenge that no concerte proposition had been submitted to the Congress of the United States for the development of the Nation's rivers, harbors and canals, .by unanimously favoring a bond Issue of $500,008,000, for waterway Improvements, and auth orizing the appointment of a commit tee by President Joseph E. RansdeU, of which he should be chairman, to draft a measure providing for such a loan, the Issue became squarely Join ed. - .. ... With regard to the step thus taken It Is but fair to, those who are opposed to such a loan to say that the most earnest advocate of a bond issue does not expect the money to be borrowed at once, nor to be expended at once, but Instead, used as needed, covering a period of years, the expenditure of the money to-be provided by Con gress. "" . At the close of the war, August 1865, the Interest-beailug debt was $2,380, OoO.OOO, the annual interest charge thereon being $143,000,000. In 1892 the Interest-bearing indebtedness of the Government mas $585,000,000 with an annual interest charge of $23,000,- (100. The principal of our Interest-bearing debt was increased during the years 1893-1897 by $262,315,400, this being made necessary for the purchase of gold to redeem greenbacks and treasury notes presented for redemp tion within that period of time. . ; In 1898 the principal of the debt was Increased $198,000,000 to secure funds to prosecute the Spanish-American war and under the act authorizing the construction of the Panama Canal the uVbt has been Increased by loans ag rrpirntlng $84,215,340, making the total i ii.-roMt -hearing debt on January 1, i.-, S3ui2.900.hr0. This Is all we have r t In Interest-bearing bonds since 'inning or the Government, the Eov- nt'iit having reOueefl the inhtrest 1 i-ittar debt from $2,3K0,0OO,00 to ,,(i!iO,0"0 between 1805 and 1W '! :e Hhinuil interest. he;lrlnir rti.irt.n ' eorreRpondtngly reduced to $23,- " '0, i n tn the Civil War there were two 1 mens of lontiT, one for 6 per !::;! the ti":)cr for 5 per cent. '.. -;Mut f J,77G,C.iil. the great increase In the Indebtedness of the United H lutes having grown out of the Civil War, the redumption from 1893 to 1897, tho Spanish-American War and the building of the Panama Canal. The authorization of bonds does not seem to have worried the peopleiof the United States to any alarming extent, for their representatives in Congress with decided unanimity voted the Pan ama Canal Issue and will vote for oth er Issues as they become convinced of their needs. And they will be convin ced of their needs by the disclosure of practical enterprises In the Interest of the people. The practical point in the problem of Inland waterway Improvements la that something shall be done to bring re duced transportation charges to the producing sections of the country. The burden or benefit of a bond Issue must bedeclded from the purpose of Its issue, just as mortage. If any debt Is incurred In the winning of profits It may be regarded as a wise business policy. In this manner rail roads have been built, great manu facturing establishment have been erected and large business enterprises have made 'centres of activity out of the wilderness and built citle. If In like manner the people of the United States can by a loan of $500,000,000 open the inland waterways to safe and easy transportation thereby securing untold commercial benefits, it might with entire propriety be asked would not the end to be attained justify such a pledge in view of the comprehensive policy of waterway treatment so strongly urged by the National Rivers and Harbors Congress T THE SPY SYSTEM. We believe It was in, 1884 that the government of this republic, fir t ad vanced the doctrine that the mails were not sacred. It was then, if our memory serves us, that power was given to the postoffice department to exclude from the mails " the sealed letters of the Louisiana Lottery Com pany. Such letters could only be identified by opening them. That opened Pandora's Box, and was the beginning of the clothing of the spy system with the garment of the law. The cloud then was "like a man's hand." but now the heaven la "black with clouds." . Many newspapers, the Observer included, protested against this Introduction into our free government of one of the most powerful of the agents! of despotism this assumption of the right ot the government to break the seal ot let ters entrusted to it. They predicted the logical result of this doing of evil that good might be effected, and were laughed at for their pain. The liter ally awful -results of the s jstem are now before as. They are to be seen in the contest between the President and Congress over the misuse by the former of the powerful detective es tablishment which has grown up. It has grown with such a mining rapid ity la the quarter ot a century that has elapsed,' that It has reached propor tions that would cause a revolution In the monarchies of western Europe, and it I quite abreast with the spy systems of Russia and Turkey. . Extracts from the recent speech of Senator Foraker ' on this subject are worth " reproducing. As "collated by the . Baltimore Son's excellent Washington correspondent, they are as folows: - -Senator Foraker charge that the President illegally diverted $15,000 from the $3,000,000 emergency war fund of 1899; that he directly violat ed the law ' prohibiting - the employ ment of Pinkertons or any other pri vate detective agency by employing W. G. Baldwin and his agency; that the' President ha used everr means in his power to hound down the dis charged negro soldiers, and that he has done this through men who, la order to secure "testimony have used -"fraudulent impersonation, mis representation, lying, deceit. Honor and intoxication, coupled with, promise of immunity ana tne excitement ot hope sod fear, and the offer of employment ana remuneraare wages." It will appear," said Senator For aker, "from the President's message and the exhibits thereto attached, showing the mode In which the de tectives are operating, and the testi mony In answer thereto, that fraud ulent' Impersonation, misrepresenta tion, lying, deceit, treachery, liquor and Intoxication, coupled with prom ises ot Immunity and the excitement ot nope and fear and the offer of e pioymeni ana remunerative wages, have been resorted, to to secure the testimony sought for." He contends that the proof he present show that we coniesaions ue president pre sents are antrutntui, and that "these facts make all such testimony Utterly incompetent ana worthless. . "It does not lessen the gravity of ni oaense," said Mr. Foraker, " that it appear to be Imperceptible to him: or If not so. that he ha become utter ly oblivious to all the restraints of law, decency and propriety In his mad pursuit or these belples victim of nis ui-considered action. Foraker Represents the President a 'i''' ...'-'. A Thief, "Moreover, an this has beon don without authority of law and with pub lic money that has been filched from the public treasury In flat defiance of the Constitution and a statute In full force and effect, " ""No precedent for anrthlnr so shocking can be found in all the his tory of American criminal lurlsDro- oence. "It Is impossible to find language with which to fittingly characterize such procedure as this detective busi ness has been from Its inclpiency down to the monstrous stage it ha reached. It I atrocious, revolting. shocking to every sense of fairness. Justice and, even common decency ' How many crimes have come to be committed in this fair land in the name of the law, and how many evils have resulted from the making of laws that violate the natural right .of States, cities and citizens! . THE .8TUPID AMERICAN SLAVES OF "PROTECTION." . . - , . " ; , A correpondent of the New' York Evening Post sends to that paper the following allegory:- , This discussion ot tariff changes re minds me of the following, which I ye adapted from the French of Bas- tlaf: . poor farmer of Pennsylvania rais ed, with great care and -attention, a fine crop of wheat, and forgot, in the ny ot bis success, how many drops of sweat the precious grain had cost him. "I will sell some." said he to his wife, "and with the proceeds I will buy carpet for our bare floors.' The honest countryman, arriving- In Philadelphia, there met an American and an EnuHshman. "Give me your wheat." said the Amerit-an, "and I will give you seifonty-flve yards of carpel." jne Englishman said: "Give it to mo and I will give you a hundred yards, for we Englishmen can make cheaper carpets than Americans can. for our wool Is not taxed." But a customs house officer, standing by, said to tho countrjmnn: 1 good fellow, make your exchange, II ; ou choose, with the American, but my duty Is to prevent your doing so wl h the Englishman." "What!" exclaimed the countryman, "do you wish me to take seventy-five yards ot American carpets when I can have 10 J yards from England V "Certainly. Do you not see that America would bo a loser If your were to receive 100 yards Instead ot seventy-five." "I can scareoly understand this," said the laborer. "N or can I ex plain It," said the customs house o fa cer. '"But there is no doubt ot the fact. . for congressmen and editors agree that a people la Impoverished In proportion as It receives a - huge compensation for any given quantity of its produce." The countryman wis obliged to conclude his bargain with the American. His wife carpeted four room. (Had they sold to the English man she could have carpeted five.) These gocd people are still pouting themselves to discover how It can hap pen that people are rulpad by receiv ing four ..instead of jf jte, and why they are richer witA seventy-five yards than 100. -. ' The next year the farmer voted tor "protection" as usual - He wondered why he could not make ends meet. THE STATES AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. Woodrow Wilson, In Raleigh News and' .Observer. The Question of the rotation nf the States to the Federal Government in the cardinal question of our coni. tui tions! svstem. At vlhr turn nf nnr national development we have been orougni race to iace wun it, ana no definition althAr nf iitstMman nr nf Judges has ever quieted or decided It It cannot. Indeed, be settled by the c pinion ot any one generation, be cause it is a question of growth, and everr successive stam nf nnr nnllticaV and economic development gives it a new aspect, maxes it a new question, l'be general llnea ot definition which were to run between the nowera granted to Congress, and the .powers reservea to ue state tne maker of the Constitute n were able to draw with their characteristic foresight and lucidity; but tie subject-matter ot that- definition is constantly chang ing, tor It is the life ot the nation it self. Our activities change alike their scope and their character with every general io a. The old measures of the Constitution are every day to be filled with ne graia aath varying crop ot circBnwtancea comes to maturity. It is clear enough that the general commercial. - financial economic - in terests ot the country were meant to be brought under" the regulation of the Federal Government, which acts tor an; and it is equally clear that what are the raiwrni nmmArHtl financial, economic interests of the; country n a question ot tact, to be determined bv cirrnmstsnrea vhlrh change under our very eyes, and that. case oy case, we are inevitably drawn on to include nnder the established definitions of the law mattnra n anil unforeseen which seem. in their mag nitude to give to the powers of Con gress a ' sweep -and vigor certainly never conceived possible by earlier generations of statesmen - sometimes almost revolutionary even In our own eye. ' The Jbjet-matter of this troublesome definition is the living body of ' affairs. - " " t It la difficult to discuss so critical and fundamental a . question calmly and without nartv hmtt or htaa whan Is has ccme once more, as It ha now, to an acute stage. Just became it lies at the heart- of our constitu tions STfttMl tf AvIiU 1, WMnlv la . , - WlUUgtJ IS to alter the whole structure and ope ration ot ocr government, for good or for evil, and one would wish-never to see-. the liassioa of nsrtv tmu-h tn distort It. A sobering sense of re- sponsiDinty mould fall upon every one who handle it No man should argue It thi- way or that tor party vantage, y aire to' "bring the im partial truth to Hrtt must ' in anh i case be the rst dictate alike of true statesmanship and of true patriotism. Every, man thould seek to think of It ami to spesx of tt In the true spirit of the founders of tba mmrn Almost every great internal crisis in our affairs aas turned upon the question of State and Federal rights. Te take but two Instmiuw it central subject-matter' of the great controversy over tariff - legislation which led to attempted nullification and of the still greater eontrovey over the extension of slavery which ted to the War Between the States; and these two controversies did more than anv other in mr Mstm-v tn h termine the scope and character of we reaerai. uovemment. rne principle of the . division of powers between State and Fwferi governments is a very simple one when staiea m its most general terms. It Is that the Legislature of the States shall have eimtml nf ail h i - - .un vuciai subject-matter . of law, of. private ngnis oi every kino, of local Inter est and of everything that directly Concerns their nennta as mmmnni. tie free choice with regard to all matters or local regulation and de velopment, and that Congress shall have control onlv of such mutton concern the peace and the commerce of the country as a whole. The op ponents of the tariff of 1824 objected to the tariff system which Congress wa so rapiaiy ouiiaing up that It went much beyond the simple and leeitimate-nhtK nf Federal . Government with revenues to such a way as to stimulate without too much disturbing the natural de velopment Of the countrv ann woa . mlstakably Intended to guide and de termine ue whole trend of the na tion's economic evolution,, preferring the industries of one aarfinn nf lh country to those of another In Its be stowal ot protection and encourage ment and so depriving the States 'as self-covernlne commnnffioa nf oil t.A. economic choice id the development ot their resources. Congress persisted in its course; nullification failed as even an effectual protest against the power of a government of which Gen eral Jackson was the head, never so sure he was right as when he was op posed; and a critical matter, of last ing Importance, was decided. ; The Federal Government was conceded the power to determine the - economic ODDortnnltlM nf th dtito, it suffered to become -a. general provi dence, to which ' each part, of the country must look for it chance to make lucrative use of it material re. sources. And now the question' ha 'come upon us anew. ' It Is no longer sec tional, but it is all the more subtle and Intricate, all the less obvious and tangible In It elements.' on thus- count It Involves, first or last th whole economic movement nf th and necessitates an analysis which ha not yet been even seriously attempted. Which parts of the many-aided pro cesses of lha nation's economic de velopment shall be left to the regu lation of the States, which part shall be Klven over to the rppulail nf . Federal-Government? I do not pro- pouna mis as a mere question of choice, a mere quoatlon of statesman rtilp, but sIho as a question, a very .Jiiduniental iies:iou. of coiiatiui tloual law. What, reading our Con stitution in its true spirit, neither sticking in Its lettor nor yet forcing It arbitrarily to mean what we wish It to mtun, Khali be the answer of our generation to the old question .of the distribution of powers between Congress and the States? For us, as fcr prevloua generations, It is a deep ly critical question. The very stuff ot all our political principles, cf all our political experience, Is involved la it In this all too distinctly marked field of right choice our states manship shall achieve new triumphs or come to eventual shipwreck. Tho old theory ot the sovereignty ot the States, which used so to engage our passions, hat lost its Vitality. The War Between the States established at least this principle, that the Federal Government b, through its courts, the final judge cf Its own powers. Since that stern arbitrament It would be Idle, in any practical argument,, to ask by what law ot abstract principle the Federal Government is bound and restrained. Its power is "to regulate commerce between the States," and the attempts now made during every session of Congress to carry the im plications of that power beyond the utmost boundries . of reasonable and honest Interference show that the only limits likely to be observed by politicians are those set by the good sense and conservative temper ot the country.- . .-. ,,'' -i-..- :' It is Important, therefore,- to loot at the facts and to understand the real character of the political and economic materials ot our own " day with a clear and statesmanlike vision, as the makers of the Constltutloi un derstood the conditions they deal: with. If the jealousies of the colonies and ot the little States which sprang out of them had not obliged , the maker ot the Constitution to leave the greater part of legal regulation in the hands ot the States, it would have been, wise, it would have been necessary, to invent such a division o f powers as was actually agreed up on. It is not, at bottom, a Question of sovertgnity or of any other politi cal abstraction ; It is a question ' of vitality. Uniform regulation of the economic conditions ot the vast terri tory and a various people like the UnUed States would be mischievous. If not Impossible. The statesmanship which really attempts it is premature and unwise. - Undoubtedly the recent economic development ot the country, particularly the development of the last . two - decade, . has obliterated many boundries, made many 'inter ests national and common which until our own day were separate and dis tinct; but the lines of these great Ganges we have not yet clearly traced . otudiously enough, considered. To distinguish them and provide ' tor them is the task which is to test the statesmanship of our generation; and it is alread. plain taat, great as they are, thea new combinations ot Inter est have not yet gone so far as; to make the States mere units ot local government. Not our legal consci ence merely, but our practical inter ests as well, call upon us to discrimi nate and be careful, with the .carer ot men who handle the vital stuff ot a great constitutional system. - ; We are too apt to think that our American political system Is distin guished by its central structure, hy its resident and Congress and courts. which the Constitution of the Unlo.i set up; . As a matter of tact, it la V unguisnea Dy its local structure, the extreme vitality of its parts, would be an lmnosslbllitv without division ot powers.: From the first H has been a nation In Ihn mnbin- I it has come to maturity by the stimula- uvu ot no central iorce or guidance, but by the abounding self-helping, elf-sufficient energy of Its carta. which severely brought themselves into existance ana added themselves to the. Union,, pleasing first . of all themselves in the framing of their law -and constitutions, not asking leave to exist, but existing first and as xmg leave afterwards,. self-originat ed, self-constituted. - self-confident, self-sustaining, veritable communities, demanding only recognition. . Commu nities develop, not by external but bv internal forces. Else they do not live at alt Our. commonwealths have not come into existance by invitation,, like plants in a tended garden; they have sprang up ot. themselves.. IrreDressU ble, a sturdy, spontaneous product of in aature oi men. nutured in a .tree air. .. .... . .: :. -;..' The division of power between the State and the Federal Government effcted by our Federal Constitution was tne normal and natural division fur this purpose. Under it the State possess ail the ordinary legal choices that shape a people' life. . Their s the whole of the ordinary field- ot taw; ue regulation of domestic rela tion and of the relations ' between employer and employee, the determi nation ot property rights and of the validity and enforcement ot contract, the diflnition of crime and their punishments, the definition - of . the many and subtle rights, and obligations which, lie outside the field of prop erty end contract, the establishment of the laws of incorporation and of the rules governing .the -conduct of every kind of business. The' presump tion insisted npon by the courts tn every argument with regard to the Federal Government is that it ha no power not explicitly granted it by the Federal Constitution or reasonably he inferred as the natural or neces sary accomplishment of the powers there conveyed to it; but the presump tion with regard to tho powers of th States they have always held to beTol exactly the opposite kind. -It ia that the States of course possess every power that government ha ever any where exercised, except only . those powers which their own constitutions or the Constitution of the United States explicitly or by plain Inference withholds. - They are the ordinary governments of the country; the Fed eral Gavernment Is Its instrument only for particular purposes. .,., Congress is, indeed, the legitimate government ot the people. It does not govern the States, but acts dl cctly upon Individuals, as directly ss the governments of the States them. elvea. It does not stand at a dla. tance and look on, to be readv for an occasional Interference.-Mjut is the Immediate and familiar instrument cf the people In everything that it un dertakes, as if there were no States. The State do pot stand between It and the people. But the field of its action is distinct, restricted, definite. We are not concerned in our nroa. ent discussion with its powers as rep resentatlve of the people in regulating the foreign affairs of the country. The discussion -of the relation of - the States to the Federal does not touch that field. About ft there has never been doubt or A. bate. Neither is the nower nf th Federal Government to tax,- or to regulate the military -establishments of the country any longer In dispute, even though the Federal Government nse Its power to .tax to accomplish many an Indirect object of economic stimulation or control which touches the independent Industrial rhnfroa nf the States very nearly. The one source from which all debatable Fed- erai powers of domestic regulation now spring Is the power to regulate commerce between the States, THE DOCTRINE OF MONARCHY. The Commoner. The November number of Every body's Magazine contains an article, by Mrs. Kleanor Franklin Kgan, entitled "America's Record In the Philippines." it begins with the following, endorse ment from President-elect Taft: "I have road the following article of Mrs. lOgan's with a great deal of pleasure, and fuily concur in its statement It Is well worth the perusal of every one lutereated lu oue of the most Interest ing experiments in national altruism ever undertaken." Mrs. Egan says, "Briefly stated, the American policy with regard to the Philippine Islands is to govern them tor the' benefit and welfare and the uplifting of their people, gradually ex tending to them, as they shall prove themselves fit to exercise it, a greater and greater measure ot self-government" - .. . This is a statement that ought to be easily understood, and as It la en dorsed by the president-elect, it may be accepted as expressing the admin istration's views ou the subject The policy is "to govern them (the Phili ppine Islands) tor the benefit and wel fare and the uplifting ot their peo ple. This Is plain statement of the monarchical theory . ot government The czar could not have presented the theory more - bluntly. According - to the Declaration of Independence . the government derive its just powers from the consent ot the governed. Un til Imperialism took hold upon imagin ations ot the republican leaders . no American ever thought ot defending any other theory of government But every condition requires a theory to explain It and the only theory that will explain imperialism is the monarchi cal theory the theory that govern ment rests upon force. The theory of a republic is that the government is made by the people tor themselves; the monarchical theory is that the government is a thing separate and apart from the people a thing which may be thrown over the people as a i-et Is (hrown over a bird. According 5 U' theory a government may prop arly be administered over a weak peo ple by a stronger people, and there must be some excuse, the excuse' ah ways Is that endorsed by Mr. Taft, namely, it is "for the benefit and wol fare and the uplifting of the people." The dominant government however, is to decide what la for the benefit and welfare and uplifting of the peo ple and If the people who are to be benefitted ' and uplifted object, they must be suppressed by force.-,v It la not necessary to . inquire whether we can benefit the Filipinos by governng them without their con sent ,' The first question is whether we can afford to give' the lie to our theory , of government and ' paralyze our Influence as a teacher of the doc trine of self-government The repub lican position Is' that the Filipinos are unfit for self-government; this Is the theory that Spain adopted when she fastened her colonial government upon them; It Is the theory that Eng land followed when she endeavebred to continue her colonial government In the United States, and it is the the ory upon which India is now governed by a viceroy ana a council. In thn choosing of which the : Indians ' have4Kentackv, took lnto tnelr own ands no voice. The democratic theory is that the Filipinos are now capable of self-government and that our stay there should not be for the purpose of developing in them a capacity for self-government, but to help them to establish a republican form of govern ment, the government to be then turn ed over to them. Capacity tor self goyernmeat 'is not easily defined; it Is a matter of degree, like self re more'.aelt restraint than other-v and some people areable to provide for themselves a better government than others are. But the doctrine that some are fit for se gjvernment and others unfit-this Is" the doctrine ot kings, for those who claim a monopoly ot the capacity for telf-government must al ways ba in a position to make their c ajm good by tbe exercise of a force superior . to any force that i be uiut-gui against inemvl .-. .;..,-;.-.v, JI it were necessary to consider- a means of benefiting the Filipino it might ba easily shown that we could render them better service after rec ognizing their rights than we can be forethat our example as a teacher of American principles would be of more servce to them than any service that we could render by. a denjal of the principles upon which our government luuuuea. But for the present' let the readers of Tbe Commoner medi tate upon the doctrine of imperialism briefly stated in the passage above quoted, namely, that the new Ameri can policy is to govern people with, "u " consent and tax them with out representation "for the benefit and welfare-and uplifting" 0f tbe pople ... Dutci ucu muu 1UOQ. .' .. t ..(j.', TAINTED EDITORIALS. The Commoner.l ' Senator Carter, tif Mnnt.n. '. ed In the senate a few days ago some specimens of tbe literature prepared ... w arV -alKTTJU against the oostfti unvintr kiw km. "J "is uauACri BSSOCIArinn tn twa r is w " Will, He called attention to the fact that wim literature was ueing- sent to local iueri wun tne request that It be uc',tra w weal papers, and those sending It out took the precaution to ask that the instruction sent with 'the literature should be removed before it was delivered lo the press. :. Here to a deliberate attempt to manufacture opinion antagonistic to the postal sav Ings bank, and those who are back of mo movement are unfair ennnvh t seek to make the arguments appear a if of local origin. It is bad enough to have a great central bureau supply, ing the ammunition for a fight against the people, but what shall we say when these eminently respectable men resort to deception and seek tn to their argument a weight to which they are not entitled? What shall we Bay, too, of the local papers that are willling to print a editorial matter tue stun inrnisned by those who are back of this crusade. ' - The republican nlntfnrm AamnnAnA the postal savings bank, and the demo cratic platform endorsed the postal savings bank conditionally, that to, If the guaranteed bank could not be se cure. More than ninety per cent of tber voters have supported the reptib- u v"rni or tne democratic plat form, and a large majority of the peo ple can be counted as favorfnr Jurtty to the depositor, and yet the uauaers association does not hesi tate to resist this demand and in ho. &m b ngni to aereat the verdict In fav or of the postal savings bank. It the average voter knew how much of minieu news ne reads and how many tainted editorials are accepted as gen uine, we would have no difficulty In se curing remedies! degislatlon, but tbe press has not yet awakened to Its duty to the public. .. Governor Haskeli, of Oklahoma, yes terday caused the arrest of 8cott Mo Reynolds, attorney and special agent for William R. Hearst, charging con spiracy to defame the Governor. Tho attorney's rooms in the hotel were searched And papers believed to be pertaining to the IJbe suit against Hearst obtained. ' ' ' THE CHIEF OUTLAW. Norfolk VlrglD'an-Pilot - Said the President ot a great Unl vui .-i- ue oilier day, "The beauty and tho saving clause ot our political sysUm U that thore Is none uuder It nor subject to the law." Congress must legislate in pursuance of the Con stitution, else . Its aots are void. The Courts must deal out their decisions and sentences in accordance with the law. The Executive department has. no authority except that conferred by the law, and from President to the humblest citizen la the land the obli gation is equal to obey the law. Such Is the theory on which the Am erican publlo was founded. The sur vival ot the republic depends on the fidelity with which that theory Is ap plied in practice. What Is called "The capacity of a people tor self-government" Is to be tested by th measure ot respect which the community pays to the rules of conduct which, by con sent ot the majority place restraints on the individual in the Interest ot the whole. .And where this respect pre vails in the popular mind Jt will not only manifest iUelf in the law abid ing habit of the masses, but also in their jealous Insistence that their offi cials should confine themselves strict ly to the. fields of activity, prescribed to each by the law.. There is no surer sign ot the decadence ot the spirit of liberty In a people than that they should accept with indifference the will, ot their elective servants as a substitute for the requirements of law. When those In high places plead em ergency in publlo affairs as a ground tor crossing the motes and bounds -set by law upon their powers, the inevita ble effect la to breed contempt for all law In the body of the citizenship. To substitute the personal judgment and inclination for that collective consci ence which is The Law is to enthrone anarchy' on the wreck of order, and there is no surer or quicker way ot propagating license among the multi tude than by the example ot the man or men to whom the duty ha been confided of governing and being gov erned by the tow. r, i.-v, ,..-' Everywhere In this country to-day the evidences abound that conditions in this .respect ..have sadly changed tor : the worst within the last ten years. - It is easy,- but It I idle, for dreamers and demagogues to point to the unrest among the people as a sympton. of that "noble discontent" which betokens a moral Uplift This Is the jargon ot the hour, made fash ionable by ' the man to whom" more than all other men may be traced re sponsibility. In the presence ot things as they are - the -note of optimism, which proceeds from the White House, and is echoed by the shallow and syco phantic in sanctum 'and' pulpit; is a mockery. Where lawlessness, was ex ceptional, before the -President began to treat the. Constitution as as obso lete fetich and the statutory code as a plastic agency ot bis caprices, It la now, rampant and organised.- A' lax Chief Magistrate has indoctrinated the entire body politic with his. own .idea that circumstances are superior to written ordinances' and that the ends ot fancied Justice vindicate the means employed. It was In compliance with this- creed that the' night riders of tbe readjustment, of the relations be tween the tobacco planters and the Tobacco Trust. It was in pursuit of lio same doctrine that the Tennessee white-caps banded together to kill in truders on whit they held to be the'r rights outside of and above the law. Like Master, like man. If the Presi dent can set aside the-'law or bend it to . his own .purpose, making his own mind,, conscience and objects the arbiters:' why not Nick Bud or Ton! Goss do' the same? One statute is no more sacred than the other. " One citl sen 'is no more obligated to walk by the code than the other.' it the Free dent can give royal assent to" the Il legal absorption by the Steel Corpora tion ot the Tennessee' Company why should not Harriman go ahead and gobble np all the railroads in -sight? It ; is all of a piece. - 'The- foremost outlaw of the era to he who Is bound by oath to be the sleepless Guardian ot the Law. ; ;i.-t "SIDE LIGHTS ON CONCRETE." The Cement Aee.1 7 ."As everyone know Nho has been led astray by the careless nse of the word, concrete is. a . hard stnntiu substance composed, in, ,varying pro portions as Its uses may1 demand, cf waier. oroxen. stone-os gravel, sand and cement. The nearest approach In nature to concrete is found iff the old pudding stone, those round tre mendously hard boulders that we find so often forming the rugged stone wait or ew England' farms. "Crack the pudding ton and you will find it seemingly , a mass ot peb ble of varying slie, from that.ot a grain of sand to an Inch or so in -diameter, all knit" together Into a com pact mass by some cementitous sub stance. That i nature' a concrete. - . "When concrete is used for building wunuitww iv is almost invariably reinforced, and It is in the mrrM estimating of the size and placing of '"uwremj steei mat tne science of '-reinforced concrete construction comes in. - . - . ' , : "While the nse of concrete "goe so far back into history that Its ,riH. i. unknown, the utilisation of steel a a reiuwrcement or concrete is a com paratively recent Invention.. Thi ery is creaiteo to a French garden er who oonceived the happy Idea ol putting a wire reinforcement intn hi. vMnameni mortar nower pots in or der to prevent them from m.irin. He found that his experiment was so enormously successful that , he gave up mi i work as a gardener to devote himself to the studv .'. of relnf. concrete. Many of the first relnforc- cuucreie truciures were built from hi designs. - "The reason for thla reinforcement easy ior a lavman tn n.j...j when it I exnlainait that nn. like granite, has enormous compress ive strength, that to to say, a column iCOncrete w111 "PA"' very great "wfiui, vut concrete is waair 1m He or pulling and bending strength. "" u are correctly placed and properly embedded In a concrete beam they will take un all th hanin. and shearing stresses and the concrete stresses6 " th9 comPrei",loD The reason whv connrnta la ' . onomlcal building material aside from vij. im.-v mat it nroproofs the steel reinforcement Is, as one enelnnar aii expressed it, -One dollar will buy as much compressive itrenath In as two dollars will in steel.' -, , inus wis combination utilizing the economical concrete to sunnnrt h compressive loads and the equally ec onomical steel rods to withstand the tensile strains produces the cheapest and most servicable building material, o far discovered, reinforced qoocrete , T "Vn wwn' industry. . Edwin C. Eckel, one of th iat expert In the cement Industry and until recently In charge of tbe cement work for. the United flat. i cal Survey, recently stated before the ""UC"UI' ol American Portland Cement Manufacturers, according to Csment Afle, New York, that while tne actual annual outnut of Pnrti,i cement may be -expected to increase as population increases and as now us are found for tbi nrniinnt n , not be expected that this Increase will, la the .future, be as steady as It hai i....,n in tho mint. The astounding growth of the industry, from 42,000 barrels in 1880 to more wan o,uuu, 000 burrels In 1H07, has now ceased, i h nrnriimilnn for 19(18 belnc estimat ed at about 47,000,000 barrels, or two- thirds of the capacity oi tne existing ninnta Turn nf thn three business de pressions that the Industry has pass ed throuKh left It unscathed, but tho third one, that ot last year, uruugiu the faot home to the cement manufact- urese that henceforth the course .01 the trade will be marked by the suc cessive periods of high and low out nut. corresnondlns to the condition of general business at tbe time. Mr. Ec kel also stated that prices win, u let'. to r absolutely unrestrictea competi tion, tend to fall to a point which will yield a fair profit only to the largest and best mills. .The future decrease In prices, however, cannot be compar- ahln In amnnnf tn that whlph has si. ready been experienced, since -manufacturing costs show little prospect pt marked decrease. ' r NEWS FROM RAEFORD. ; Raeford Institute has opened again, after two weeks vacation, with a grati fying enrollment, of about 150 pupils, with twelve additions to the boarding department The Community at large Is loud In Its praises of the school un der the -business-like management of the joint principals. Profs. Mcintosh, and Holler. On Monday evening the seating capacity ot the Auditorium was taxed to accomodate the audience assembled for the Expression Recital, given by Miss Ida Norman Womack, from Greensboro Female College, as sisted by Miss Kate 'Anderson ot Miss Womack has mastered ber art, and exhibits rare talent and a high degree ot culture, these combined with personal charms , and a rich, mellow voice, perfectly trained and controlled, beld her bearers for an hour, as she gave "The Spinner In the Sun," Im personating six characters. , Y Miss Anderson's vocal solos met with warm appreciation, and encore after encore. She has an. Unusual so prano voice, clear and sweet, and her rendering ot difficult numbers clearly attests the musical advantages of St Mary's School at Raleigh, N. C.' Pub lic sentiment ' pronounces the' enter tainment "the best we have ever had."; V Miss Womack has accepted the place of expression teacher In Raeford In stitute, "and every one who enjoyed her recital Is confident that no better selection could have been made. Miss Daisy Reid, Primary teacher, has returned to her work -after spend ing the Christmas holidays In Wil mington. -.' ; . Mr. J. W. McLatichlln has returned from a few days' visit to Cheraw. 8. a . : - - .- Mr. B. H. Gatlln has gone to Dart : iactory out iStheSoutHtoo tuuuii seea on, superrre-, $ fineel : :; by oiir gxdttsive1 1 " someness, : and econbin v. )f7 ' SOVTHEHN His Hands FOURTH NATION AL BANK: CAPITAL 1100,000.00. SCHOOL BOOKS! I School Book., si.,.. ; Crayon.. Tablet.. ! Copy Book., Vo Vo. , - j oidooks lurnished upon aoolicatlnn - . - f TA substantia, BOOK COVER iv'eacb book purchaacd. ) Tne New Book Qtorc Company, j Opposite Post Office, FafettevMe, N, Ct ' CAROLINA MiMllllrTliai, fRUCK WHEELS, IV, ror saw Mills, planing (Will.. rry Kl,n" tJOOLj JAFIV Ington, B. C, on a bui'itif trip. Mr. M. N. WcLeuna Hn, illl, a confined to his room wlih a broken log, A vicious mule struck Mm with his front foot, bruuktng both bones, botween the kme and ankle, Mrs. W. A. Multtliburn, .of Tampa, Fla.,- after spondlnR sortie weeks with ber father, Dr. A. i Dlckuon, has re turned homo, with hor llttlo daughter, m I I I -I .,1. . ' Mr. Rufus Dickson, nas returned to Union Theological Seminary. Messrs. Paul and Tom Dickson, and Will Mc Lean to the University, and Mr. Al bert Dickson and Fred and Julian inhnmn tn Davidson Oulleirc. and Mr - John 8exton to the A. ft M. at Ral- elgh. . Miss May Holler has resumed her studies at Raeford Institute. Miss Lottie Rhodes has returned to her work In the Henderson Graded School Mr Harhart Mnlxan has moved his grocery business Into the new brick store, recently built for rent by Mr. J, W. MoLauchlln. ' : ' ' M. J. M. Macf nerson, rrom c ayette vtlle was In town Wednesday on hit way home from Laurlnburg. - . : CATARRH CURED. ' . No Cure,' No Pay, I a Most Generous - ? . Offer, ... ..- -v. : To get an antiseptic strong enough to kill catarrh, germs and hot destroy the tissues of the membrane at the same time, has been a problem .which was never solved until the discovery of Hyomel (pronounced Hlgh-o-me). Hyomei Is prepared from eucalyptus, . the most powerful yet healing anti septic known. Breathe it through the inhaler over the inflamed and germ ridden membrane four or five times a day, and In a tow days the germs will disappear. ' The Inflamed condition will go,- too; and the snuffling, hawking, and oflens Ive breath, and the discharge of mu cous and crusts In the nose will cease. Then why should any catarrh suffer er hesitate, when Sedberry's Pharm acy has such faith In Hyomei that he offers to return your money It atter a fair trial Hyomei does not oure catarrh. . . A complete HyOmel outfit, including the inhaler, costs 91.00, and extra bob- -ties, it afterwards needed, coat but 60 cents. Hyomei also cures asthma, croup, sore throat, coughs,' colds or grip. ,.v-- ., -.- ;:a. Your money bade if ft don't Gives in mediate relief from heartburn, sour stom ach, stomach defies and tick headache, SO cents a. large bosal- :' v Sedberry's' Pharmacy. i Hern - sta tidaf d: ' COTTON OJ L CO M Are Tied tor the lack ot a Uttla needed money. ', nan often misses excellent oppor--. . tunltles In lacking tbe needed funds', to aepurp them with. Tf you save . aome of your salary and let It tecum., late yan will have a working capital ' to assist you to. grasp present offer's, tags: - V J ' WE PAY 4 PER CENT, ' ' .' INTERE8T COMPOUNDED . - quarterly on J' :. 1 s.---,,.. .. --,.- ...... --, vw-..,.. i .U-v T"V.eAVING " DEPOSITS," " SURPLUS 60,000.rO. . c c. r.ucLL, Fr.cp'n. Fayeiicvt::, . . . N. C. mm "tin AALt) and coxrx '4
Fayetteville Observer [Weekly, 1880-1919] (Fayetteville, N.C.)
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