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emmTT7i DAILY EDITION. 16.00 Per Annum, In Advance. 3.00 for 8 Months, In Advance O 1-60 for J Months, In Advance. WEEKLY EE1TKSN ; fx. oo per Annum, in Advance. 1 Hi n 1 OLD SERIESVOL LXXIII NO 4.H0 FAYETTEVI LLE, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25 1909. NEW SERTJES-VOL; XXVR0. a,34i ' This Is Just the time ot year when you are moBt likely to have kidney or bladder trouble, with rheumatism and rheumatlo pains cauBed by weak kid neys. Delays are dangerous. Get De Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pllln, and be sure you get what you ask lor. They are the best pills made tor back ache, weak back, urinary disorders, Inflammation ot- the bladder,, eto. ' They are antiseptic and act promptly. We sell and reoommend them.. Arm- fleld Prug qo,. 0. It. Kluger, the Jewoler, 1060 Vir ginia Ave., Indianapolis, Ind., writes: "I was bo weak from kidney trouble that I could hardly walk a hundred feet. - Four bottles ot Foley's Kidney - Remedy cleared my complexion, cured my backache and the Irregularities disappeared, and I can now attend to business ' every day, and recommend Foley'! . Kidney Remedy to all suf ferers, as It cured me after the doc tors and other jwmedles had tailed." McDuffle Drug Store, (O. 0. Souders, Mgtr . - .-W-v-;v:( - 1 ; t-f.r, Personal experience with a tube of ManZan File Remed) will convince you It is immediate relief for all forms of Piles. Guaranteed, 60o, Sold by MacKethan ft Oo,- .r Washington Once Gave Up " to three doctors; was, kept In bed for five weeks.' Blood poison from a spld- .eft 1lte caused .large, deep sores to . cover his leg. The doctors failed, then "Bucklen's Arnica Salve comr "pletely cured me." writes John Wash ington, of Bosquevllle, Tex. For ec zema, .bolls, burns and piles It su preme. 25o..at B. E. Bedberry's Sons. Woods Liver Medicine ' In liquid - form regulates the liver, relieves sick headache, constipation, stomach, kid ney disorders ; and acta, as a gentle laxative.1 For chills, fever, and mater ia. Its tonic effects on the lystem felt with the first dose." The 11.00 hot- 110 COUUlluS X'O UJIU ao an the 60c size. Sold by MacKethan ft Oa. - !',: - -;-; "'i-r.-.-r-V';-; W. BAKER, ' f -CIVIL ENGINEER, ' Land Surveying and Municipal En gineering, I over Shuford ft Rogers' 8 tore, Fayette vllle, N. C. - : Qi K, NIMOCKS, A Morney us CoamneUor-at-ta w. Rooms land 8 K. of P. Building. . mvsttsvilis, - o. - r 'Phone 229 H. Mc0.: Robinson. John U. Enaw. ,- (Notary Public) HOBINSON & SHAW,, - Attorneys-al-Law, ' Offices on second floor national Bank Of fayettevilla " H. S. AVERITT, - -Attorney-at-Law, ' (Notary Public, Office Thornton Building Hay Street, Fayettevllle, N. C. VC. BULLARD, - . Attorney ana, counsellor V . at La w, ., , - . , - Notary Public, Surveyor. Office K. of P. Building, - - ; FAYETTEVILLE, N. 0. ' HR. WM. S- TORDAN. r . - . 1 M . pnysician ana ouigcuu. Office in Palace Pharmacy. Hours: 9 to 12 and 8 to o. ' - Dr. E. L, HUNTER, . , Dentist, "' 1 North-rast Corner Market Square, - Fayettevllle,. N. C. Dr. A. S. CROMARTIE, . " " DENTIST, ' i " Office In' MacKethan Building,; 102 1-i T person : street. :"""-B?-! Thonr338.T . . Fayettevllle, N. ft J. M. LILLY, M. D. practice limited to diseases of the re. ear. poe and throat' Office in Hlghsmlth Building, 111 Green street Hours t to 1 and t Jto 5. "Phone no, 0. B. Patterson. D. D. B. . . - .'. J.H. Judd,D. D.B. Drs. Patterson & Judd, Offices tlihi Hay Street,' over Dunn ft ; Co.'s Store, "Phone fib. , - E. T.S. SCOFIELD. M.D., Offers his professional services to the oltltens ot Fayettevllle and surrouno , log country. ' Office with Dr. J. H. ' 519 TTav Street 'Phone 77: Residence St. Luke'a Hospital, 'Phone Public Accountant; - Auditing of Partnership, ? Corpora ttnn and Public Accounts a specialty Would leave city for a few days at a time. . ... Refers to County Authorities,-D. H. Ray, Esq.,' and Dr. H. W. Lilly. W. N. TUXINGHAST,' SR. September 19th. y Phone 852 i ':cKETHJiN WTRUST CO. - Market Squure, ., , " tsttvilli,.o. J ;;,; -; ' ' Ral Estate bonnht and told, iMtM neKotmted and gnaiantewl Ream and Inteteit oolleoled, - laaaraaca piamlnssa Wkeu aud loaned aara 1. S. VacKSTSAM, att'v. 300. Farm 60 acres, house and barn. $300. Small farm mile north city. 75. lot Cool Spring street. , . $150. Tenement lot Rowan street $400. House and lot Blue street. $225. Tract 31 acres mile Victory 0 Mill. . ! $150. Lot Mechanic stre&U, $000. House corner lot Mechanic ' street. .......... $C0. lot Manchester street. $300. Each 2. lots Arsenal Hay- . mount. $15 eneh 10 lota Fayhope. . '. , t'.;3. Ckare LuFayelU Audltoiium., THE PATHETIC FAILURE OP THE LIBERIAN EXPERIMENT. A Washington telegram says, that earnest efforts are being made by the administration, to secure the appro prlation ot $20,000 for the expenses ot a commission to go to Liberia to make recommendations as to what specific action on the part ot the government desirable that will most aptly Ven der effective relief to that Republic under the present critical circumstan ces,-',..;-' -i -. ;,:.;';.; There are but forty or fifty thousand Llberlans, a majority being . descend ants, of American negroes. Consular reports speak of the magnificent agri cultural. ; possibilities of the. country. Unfortunately the means of communi cation are practically hon-exlstant, there being only flvesor six cart roads In the entire republic, and horses and mules do not live, the aborigines are not a troublesome people, . They are kept in a state of peace and loyalty by gifts,'; etc.,; from the. government and produce . absolutely nothing beyond their own food. For' commercial pur poses the whole ot Liberia may be looked upon as a strip of coast-land of varying width as the penetration ot ' rivers assists communication, but rarely exceeds thirty or forty " miles. The tlberlan people are generally very shiftless, very poor, and constant ly pressed in upon by their French and British neighbors. " The country 's absolutely undeveloped as to lis rich hinterland.. -: J." i" 'z The State Department at Washings ton Kives out .this Information; ''J , "A comparison Of Liberia With the British-colony -of Sierra Leone, found ed under exactly the same conditions and having the same character of hin terland, establishes that the territory ot the, republic. Is rich in -possibilities. It would be unfortunate for American prestige It we were to fall-at least -to give once more some real assistance to the republic," ' - - v The statement made, by the Depart ment concludes as follows: "The success of Liberia In self gov ernment would, the letter argues; give hope rand .. courage while Us .. failure would bring discouragement to the en tire black race. If action be not tak en, mere is no aouDt mat xmeria wiu not be able to maintain itself much longer ;T and it; would seem that the mnabitants ougnt .to nave at least another trial, with some direction from men developed in civilization, .before being extinguished as a nationality, and placing upon their race the op probrium of being unfit to govern themselves.": . .-; . ... . , - WRONGS TO THE 80UTH IN 30- - CALLED HISTORIES. Ex-Coneressmaa Orady writes as fol lows to the Clinton Democrat: An opinion recently expressed by a Clinton lady carried my thoughts to what Isaiah says in the 28th chapter, where he tells how to teach: , "For precept must be "upon-precept, precept upon precent: line upon line, line up on Khere. a little, and there a little," Daring all the years since 1865 our children, have been studying' northern textbooks, and their parents have been reading novels,, stories, anecdotes, en cyclopedias, - so-called histories, news papers, magazines, etc., etc., which northern publishing houses have been furnishing to us at tempting prices; and in all these publications,, whenev er any reference Is made to any sub ject! which ; relates even' remotely to sectional difference in the United States, we seldom tall to find an un truthful or a misleading assertion, or an ancedote.'a simile, a comparison, a hint wherein lurks a suggestion ot in feriority In the southern, people or of some southern man. The result to day Jhs that there are tew persons In the South who have not been "taugnt" that the southern leaders ot the first half -of the last century- were Inferior to those of the north in all Quali ties which the world takes pleasure In commending. . . - .. 11 ".. This lady's remark was about the superior - humanity of President Lin coln, suggesting, of course, witnout asserting, the - interior humanity . of President Davis:- and while I am in thorough accord with the ancient phi losopher-who advised that we say nothing ot the dead but what is good, and while I would not attempt to les sen the world's respect for the high qualities which Mr. Lincoln undoubt edly possessed, I am unwilling to nave my people suffer from .the misrepre sentations and , exaggerations which are now accepted tor truths all over the country. . -v.:.-- t;-"..i '-.';'." '4 .v-. One of the most inexcusable mis statements Is-that Lincoln . Was "the Great Emancipator," and that he "lib erated four millions ot slaves." 'in truth, however, his-celebrated procla mation did not propose to touch a sin gle slave outside of tne contracted lines of the Confederate military forces. It was ' confined to Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor gia, Alabama, .Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana. Texas and Arkansas, excentlnR the counties - he convert ed Into West Virginia, thlrteen-coun- ties In Louisiana and eight counties in Vlrglnia-ll of these counties having been subjugated by his military forc es. Nor. did he propose to liberate Blave In Maryland, Kentucky, Tennes see or Missouri. But this is not all that can be said about the utter irrnundlessnesB of that misstatement, and of the Intended inference from it, In t- Rice's "Reminiscences - or Abra ham Lincoln" there -la a statement made by George W. Julian, an Indiana abolition 1st who served m congress from 1860 to 1870, and was-one oi tne most pronounced advocates- ot con fiscating all the property of tne soutn Ain whites. Here is what he said: faw anhlactB have been more ae- hat pA n.nd less understood than tne PirvMnmailnn of Emancipation. ; Mr, Lincoln was himself- opposed to the tttAnfliiro. - .. Annihpr mislead net claim is me as- Ait.tnn that his "tenderness ot ueari lort him to onnose slavert, his first op- nortun ty of studying me . revolting fAftturea of the institution being when ha "Haw shackled slaves" on the auc tion hionk In New Orleans, ftway back V"T .. . , . . 'v. kiw. nearly thirty years oerore on mamuu to the presidency. But, as a member of Congress In 1849, Mr. Lincoln Intro duced a bill to extend the old fugitive slave law to the District ot Columbia, fugitive slaves from Virginia, Mary land and other states being safe, in that dlstriot at that time. And even after his election, to. the presidency, there seems to have been no oliause in his sentiments as to the rights ot the negro race. Gen. Donn Piatt, who canvassed parts ot Illinois tor Mr. Lincoln in i860, and who carefully studied him after the election,, says this In Rice's "Reminiscences." - "Descended from the poor whites of slave state, through many genera tions, he inherited the contempt,- if not the hatred, held by that class tor the negro, r . He could no more feel a sympathy for that wretch ed race than he could for the horse he worked or the hog he killed" And, as. confirming Piatt's Judgment, Mrs. Lincoln, while her husband and their visitor were talking about the earn ing administration, said; "The coun try' will find how we regard that abo lition sneak, Seward" the. man who was afterwards chosen as Secretary of State. Other misleading statements about Mr. Lincoln can be seen in all the bio graphical sketches of him, where his charity," his ."clemency", his "fair ness," his "kindness,'1 -his "merciful ness," and his "tenderness" are kept before the reader as-virtues to which tew men can lay claim.. We should be Inexcusably . unjust to deny that Mr. Lincoln,- or 'any other human be ing possessed these virtues, butthere Is nothing in our public : records to justify : the ' claim that, his share t them was exceptionally consplclous. In fact, the evidence which has been preserved renders the claim doubtful. as Is shown by the following narrative of events: . ' - --j-";'-.- In 1864 Gen. W. T- Sherman's army moved from Atlanta to Savannah, de vesting a strip of country sixty miles wide, as the general boasted an area equal to about seventeen counties as large as Sampson; they burned the houses. In Atlanta, Including , all the churches; burned houses In Rome, Kingston, Ackworth, Marietta and ev ery town or village along their route; they robbed dwelling houses every where, carrying off the contents of the wardrobes, . the bureaus and . the trunks; -they robbed all the smoke- bouses and barns, and burned , what they could not carry off; and. their treatment of the women and children would nave been disgusting to many of the - freebooters of : the ' middle ages. An Imperfect summary ot their work, as reported to the War Department by Generals Sherman and Kllpatrick, is as follows: , c , j : They burnt 14,070 bales of cotton. 13,400 bushels of corn and meal, be sides what they and their horses ate; 80 tons of fodder, besides what they fed to their stock; 60 barrels of mo lasses; 25 barrels of salt; 36 grist mills; 27 saw mills; 271 cotton gins; and large quantities of rice, wagons, tools,- etc., the whole being worth, ao- cordlngto General .; Sherman's esti mate,. $100,000,000. For wiilch Presi dent Lincoln wrote: 'Please make my grateful acknowl edgments to your whole army, officers and men." - ..- Here were thousands of women and children who had never injured Mr. Lincoln, deprived of homes, food, de cent clothing, cattle, hogs, sheep. chickens, vehicles ot all sorts, f arm- log utensils, and. all other necessaries to say nothing of the personal out rages; and Mr. Lincoln was thankful! It seems to me, therefore, Mr, Edit or, that Southerners who have any re spect for their ancestors Bhould in quire whether there are any truthful histories of the period preceding and during the war between the states, and endeavor to prevent the south from being ; permanently - disgraced even In the estimation of our own posterityand disgraced, too. without any Justification. , .THE 8TATE 8EAL8. In one ot his letters to the Char lotte Observer, Col. Olds gives the fol lowing' Interesting account . -of . the Seals of North Carolina: Secretary ot State Grimes, who Is a member ot the historical commission, and an enthusiast as regards the his tory of the State, has had prepared by Tiffany, of New York, a series ot engravings which win place oerore the people for the first time the story of the Great Seal of the State. v In the old days .a seat had far more Im port than at present. - Then it repre sented majesty, power, order and all that sort of thing. A man might not be able to do more than--make his mark but when he was authorised to put. his seal upon a document that document went It: had everything behind it. The diffusion ot intelli gence has robbed the seal ot much Of Its former power and scope, In the old days the. Kings used to call ; in the old seal when a new one -was ordered ' and break it to pieces. This came to be the rule In the States and this is why no . old seals were kept and only Impressions on docu ments are available. As a matter of fact there have- been eight seals in the life of North Carolina, as Prov- nce, Colony and State. The first was he seal of the Lords Proprietors. This was a big affair, with two sides. Engravings have been' made Of each side. An engraving has also" been made ot the reverse side on a large scale,' with the arms ot ' the Lords Proprietors given In detail, these having been supplied from England The second seal was that of Albe marle, the Province" of that name having adopted the reverse of the bwds Proprietors' seal, wttb. this (in ference ' thai between the arms ' ot each of the Lords Proprietors was the word "Albermarle, which : gave an effect like panels. This seal was used up to-1730. Next came the shield oi King George. II., S 8-8 Inches In diam eter, of wax, 'and weighing over one quarter, of a pound; Bhowing the arms on a large shield. - This was attacnea to documents by ribbon ana u was used up to 1767, when It gave place to the fourth seal, that ot George IIL Both of these seals had the English arms - on one side and on the other Liberty Introducing Plenty to the King, who was represented as seated on the throne. ' Next came what is known as the "Cow Seal," which was adopted In 1778, having been author ized by the convention of 1776. - This anal was used until 1794. On It cow, a most' Impossible creature, Is reDresented as grazing beneath . an eoually . impossible tree. . The seal adonted In 1794' was used until 1835, whan the State - convention adODted another. This had the figures ot Liberty and Plenty. The seal adopted In 1835 was used until 1883 and show ed Liberty and Plenty also, but in the eighth one, shows a more attrac tive design, with the words "May 20th, 1775," and also the motto ot the State, Really the seal used from 1794 to 1835 was the most artistic in the lotnd the writer was able' to furnish- from the Hall of History to RAnntarv of State Grimes an ex- ti-emoly fine Impression ot it.""" THE CONFEDERATE REUNION. AT . MEMPHIS. . General Mlckle, adjutant general of the United Confederate Veterans, has issued the following announcement concerning the coming reunion:' - 'The general commanding announc es that, according to the custom here tofore in force, which leaves to the general. commanding and the depart ment commanders the fixing of the date of the reunion, the nineteenth annual reunion of the United Con federate Veterans will be held In the city of Memphis, Tenn., on June, 8, , 10, 1909, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday respectively, those days hav ing been named by our host as satis factory. "For the fifth time in the brief his tory of this order, the people of Ten nessee throw open their doors and In vite tne survivor of the glorious arm ies of the Confederacy to partake of their hospitality, while the noble and patriotic citizens ot Memphis a sec ond time beg the wearers ot the gray to be their guests. ' The general commanding . with much pleasure, announces at the re quest of Its most energetic president, Mrs. W.r J. Behan, that the Confeder ate Southern Memorial Association will hold Us meeting at the same time. The general commanding ; sincerely hopes that the press of the entire country will endeavor to stir up Inter est in the coming meeting, and to this end he requests that that order be pub lished, and editorial comment , made thereon." . . ;. --':,?. . IF "THIRD DEGREE" CONFES8ION8 WERE NOT ACCEPTED BV THE COURT8, THE PRACTICE OF THE "THIRD ' DEGREE" - TORTURE WOULD NOT EXI8T. '. Says the Philadelphia Ledger: ; i Most people not learned in the law will be surprised to learn that no pro-. vision is maoe in the law ot the land for the use ot the "third degree" pro cess to which Jan Chowlnskl is said to nave been subjected on the mere sus picion that he might have killed Mr. and Mrs. - Harry James In Chester county. The law not only does not recognize any form of terrorlzatlon, persecution, or abuse, but expressly provides the most stringent provisions aesignea to prevent Turkish, Persian. Kussian or Abyssinian methods. All through the criminal law there wi)l be found to - run our American maxim and doctrine, taken from the English common law, that every man Is not only supposed to be, but must be deemed to be Innocent until he Is proved guilty. So carefully has this wise Idea and canon been Interwoven and Imbedded into the very heart of our. laws that every man is protected from giving testimony that may In criminate himself, even If the Judge, Jury and witnesses all agree that he is surely guilty,-'- -- - The judges acquainted with the laws and rules of evidence will always throw out a confession If It may be found to be the result ot persecution and they will direct the jury to disre gard it if it may be shown that it has been wrung from the prisoner by. vlo- ence and persecution and . Is not In fact his voluntary act - ; - OUR WATERWAYS THE PLEDGE OF THE PLATFORM. ' Two bills of the utmost Importance to all trade and commercial Interests of the country are -now' before the House of Representatives. ? One bill authorizes Ithe appointment ot the Waterways Commission to consist of fifteen members, and i charged with the investigation of all questions per tinent to waterway transportation, the permanent improvement of the inland waterways of the United States and with the duty of suggesting to the Con gress the legislation necessary to bring., to Completion the work, than which there could be none of greater Importance and none that would so completely solve the question of trans portation wltir transportation . deter mining the value of every marketable article not regarding Its character. The other bill, complements! to the bill authorizing the appointment of the Commission, provides for an issue of $500,000,000 in bonds, the proceeds, to be devoted exclusively to the begin ning and the completion ot waterway Improvement- with the " proviso ; that the Secretary ot the Treasury shall not Issue more than $50,000,000 ot the bonds In any one fiscal year. '. With the enactment ot the two bills the question ot waterway improvement would i be determined satisfactorily. Work on Waterways now In process ot completion 'could , be carried on to speedy ' and successful ending. Work on inland waterways which can not be .begun under the present hap hazard method ! ot - appropriations, could not only be undertaken but com pleted with the entire country enjoy ing the benefits of a system of Inland waterways furnishing not only a safe and continuous but a cheap means ft transportation to which the trade and the commercial and the agricultural Interests ot the eountry are entitled and -which all classes have demanded in terms not to be. mistaken as to their earnestness,- their insistence and their sincerity.: It has been well said that the ques-. tlon ot inland waterway improvement has been taken out of politics and K is a true saying and brought about by the strong and -the convincing plat form of the Natlorial Rivers and Har bors Congress,-2A Policy; not a Pro ject." But It was taken out of poli tics, contradictory though It may seem, by going Into politics. The leaders of the two great parties recognized the justice ot the demand ot the trade and the commercial . interests of the country, formulated as It had been by the National Rivera and Harbors Con gress, and in their political platforms not only united in recognition of the absolute necessity for an increase In transportation facilities - that could only be brought about by making the Inland waterways navigable, but they pledged their parties and their candi dates to hearty and to Bincere co-oper ation in the work, The parties and their candidate went before the people on their re spective platforms, with the chief questions In each platform being re vision of the tariff and Inland water way improvement, Inevitably one party went down to defeat and the oth er achieved victory, with, the leaders Of tho victorious party Immediately setting themselves at work in hearing testimony and arguments whereon a tariff revision bill could be framed and submitted to the legislative branch ot the government ' ; ; . ' '. . ; i. Their action was a compliance with Uieir party pledge but there I not a shipper nor a receiver who. will not assert, with tact tor hi, basis, tht line question ot transportation is the very fundamental and underlying problem ot, trade and commerce and that without, transportation It Is of slight moment whether, there be pro duction of articles or a tariff to pro tect the producer. The pledge of the victorious party with reference to re vision of the tariff was a pledge made In good faith and it was the part of good faith to Institute proceedings to carry out the promise. But the tariff affects only the foreign trade and the foreign trade of the United 'Slates export and Import combined Is insig nificant when contrasted with the en ormous bulk of the Inland trade and commerce of the United States. That inland trade and commerce is. entitled to the same degree of good faith and like performance of party pledge as the foreign trade.. These are self evi dent propositions as self evident as the freight congestions which the rail ways cannot avoid for the reason that the volume of the inland trade and commerce la outstripping their facili ties, and their possibility ot Increase ot facilities In the ratio of 100 to 20. There is yet time for the Congress to take up and enact the two bills Into law. ' The question of inland waterway transportation is not In poll- tics. It Is au economic question than which there Is none more important If there be even one equalling it in Im portance. Representatives and Sena tors know the public mind oa the sub ject and they should act accordingly. JUDGE ADAM8. Judge Adams, who Is - holding his second term of court here, and whose recent appointment to fill the place ot Judge Neal, resigned, gave so much pleasure to this writer in common with hU hosts of friends in this section, is destined to make one of our very best Judges.' His brethren of the bar re gard him as a learned lawyer, who is oarefuL and painstaking without suf- fet ihg these necessary qualifications to Interfere with the dispatch of busi ness. . He is pre-eminently an honest man, ever seeking justice. ' All Cumberland welcomes this ex cellent gentleman for his own merits, as well as because he is ot our next of kin, being a native and an honored resident of our neighbor, Moore. FIRM 8TAND AGAINST PRIZES. The Historian General of the U. D, C, Mrs. J. E. Robinson, has Issued a circular taking strong ground against the use of the funds of the association in the giving of prizes, clt'ng the bad effect of the recent experiment of of fering a prize for an essay on the South's position to persons alien to the South. That Is right All "prize" contests are bad; It is a species of gambling. THE CALIFORNIA JAPANESE QUESTION. The Norfolk Virginian applies sound constitutional test to the Call, fornla-Japanese affair. Under its an alysis, the mists clear away, and the sound position, as taken by Mr. Bryan and aH correctly taught Democrats, is upheld. Says our Norfolk contempor ary. .... ' . I , There are two sorts ot Constitu tional lawyers: one uses his learning to find arguments to bring the lan guage of the organic law into support of a oreconcelved political theory or purpose; the other studies the ration ale ot its provisions to bring them in to harmony with-each other, and so exnounds not what he wishes to be but what is the true meaning of all. Mr. Root belongs to the first class; we nope Mr. unox may oe propeny assigned to the second. v It Is not easy to believe that the Pennsylvania unst would commit himself to a proposition so untenable as that a State Is Inhibit ed by the Constitution from passing any enactments discriminating against aliens resident within its borders. The 14,th Amendment does -forbid a State from discriminating between citizens of the United States, but there is no hocus nocus by which an unnaturalized ailed can be transformed into a citi zen. - ' ,- " f .- ". : It Is elemental law that the Federal Government Is supreme In jurisdiction over foreign relations. It can dic tate bv legislation or by treaty that the subjects of other powers shall be excluded from our Bhores or on wnat terms they mar be admitted; but when once the foreigner has entered into the boundaries of a State be be comes subject to Its domestic sover eignty, and the Constitution limits in no way whatever the right . of the State to presoribe the terms on which the alien resident may acquire proper ty, or participate in the, benefit of its educational .- or eiemosynary tlons. ! ' ' In other words, the United States is Bupreme in its delegated powers over the matters to which they apply, but can not so exercise them as to fringe on the reserved provinces which the States are supreme. Ana when a foreigner ceases to be a for eigner as to residence, but remains an alien as to citizenship, he passes- worn the Jurisdiction ot the Federal Govern ment to that ot the State In. which he may take domicile. Mr. Cornelius Faunteleroy puts this very clearly In a communication to the Richmond Ttmes-Dlspatch, when he says that "The only provision of that Constitution with reference to State J legislation nffocting cttlscnslitp is that contained in the fourteenth amend ment That amendment says that "no State shall make or enforce any law Which shall abridge the privileges, or immunities of citizens of the United States.' This limitation upon the powers of State legislation related only to citizens of the United States, and does not and can not relate to aliens. Aliens dp not have the status of citi zens of a country. , Unless a Japan ese is a citizen by birth within the United States or becomes a naturaliz ed citizen thereof, he can claim no pro tection under the fourteenth amend ment. Citizenship In a State Is a gift of that State, and the status of afiens within her borders is . one of . favor and grace from that State, and not of legal right" , ., The treaty making nower Is sunreme only within the boundaries set. aside to the government of which the President and the Senate are component parts and must be used In repsct td all oth- requirements and reservations of the Constitution. No more sanctity or validity attaches per se to a treaty than to an, act ot Congress. . The claim of either to respect rests upon the fact that it does not invade any other pre rogative guaranteed by the fundamen tal cnart from which all rights are drawn. Any legislation enacted by Congress In violation of the Constitu tional limitations Is null and void and many acts so repugnant have been set aside by the Supreme Court. 8o also with a treaty of every rule of. lust and consistent intrepretation. "THE NEW MAN ON HORSEBACK." We append an article under the above title from the Monroe Journal, an ably edited paper; It is the best presentation of the trust question which we have seen. As we have bo otten said, the tri umph of the doctrine of force as the result of the war ot 1861-65, shifted the Incidence of the "checks and bal ances" of the Constitution from de fense of the reserved powers of the States to dei'ense of the power of the centrtl government at Washington. which, has rbsor'oed ths most Import ant of the former. Our Monroe con temporary clearly sees the disastrous end of the present concentration of power. What a rebuke, by the way, its ar ticle administers in effect to those who call Mr. T-ft standing on the Republi can platform, a Democrat and Mr. Bryan, standing on the Democratic platform, a Populist The strange thing in present-day politics in the South, is the fact that reputable men should call themselves Democrats and vote the Republican ticket. We pre sume It Is consciousness of their error which causes them to spend their time in ridicule and abuse of Bryan, the leader of .the Democracy, as v many of them do; for they dare not assail the Democratic platform. Says the Journal ' The New Man on Horseback. The trust question is the supreme one before this generation. Those who take the superficial view that trust agitation is merely the handy capital that politicians use to gain favor with their constituents, show themselves sadly unappreciatlve of the importance of the most stupendous problems of their day. We are to-day in the midst the most rapid and far reaching economic revolution that the world has ever seen. It Is the question that receiving the closest study of stu dents and thinkers, and while mere politicians and time servers are tak ing advantage ot it for selfish pur poses, that should not prevent the average man who wants to know and p predate the great forces that are moving about him seeking such light as he may find as guide for his own thoughts and actions. . The trust ques tion is not a matter of politics, of par ties or expediency. It Is deeper than these things ever go. It Is fundamen- al; it involves the attitude ot men to wards men; it threatens the progress of democracy; It challenges the Am erican asertion of the equality of man; it raises again the black flag ot feudal ism; it thrusts into the face of the American people a question four fold more important than those settled at Yorktown and Appomattox; The trusts are the natural outgrowth of the triumph of the doctrine of force at Ap pomattax.1 Observer. It does all these things for ' the simple reason that it relates to the control of the necessities of life. The cringing Shy- lock, about to be despoiled ot his gpods. exclaimed, "You take my life when you do take the means whereby live!" So the great mass of the people may say to the few great cap italists, "You Will control our lives and actions when you succeed In con trolling the food we must eat, the clothes we must wear, the fuel that warms us, the machines that do our work! The man who controls the tools con trols the worker. Ancient feudalism was based upon land monopoly. Land was then the only tool with wnicn men worked. The few owned the land and the remainder ot the population were vassals of greater or less degree, The invention of gunpowder destroy ed feudalism because It made the foot soldier equal to the knight In armor. Thus a purely physical discovery was the first great step in establishing aem- ocracy. Justice and equality, where art and culture, phllanthrophy and. etnics, religion and philsophy had miserably failed. The next great step was the discov ery of steam and the Invention of ma chinery.. The past century has been taken up with the perfection oi tnese new forces and the extension of their benefits to mankind, in knitting man kind closer together, in controlling na ture's conditions for the happiness ana comfort of men, and In making life easier and haooler tor all humanity. So rapid has been the development ot natural resources in this virgin con tinent ot the Western world, and so nrodlgally has nature opened her hand, that a tew men who happened to be at stateglc points have acquired Immense amounts of money, which has given them an unnatural advantage over the balance ot mankind. These great for tunes, increased a thousand told by natural growth, by combination, by un fair laws, by various undeserved fa- vorsj-now-awe so huge that they may reach out and take what they wish. , Aggregated capital has become the man on- horseback; it Is dally coming Into possession -of all the tools with which men work; it choBe to take the coal fields, and it haa them; It chose to take the oil fields, and it has them it chose to take the railroads, and I has'thefflrrthe-telegrapli- lineir-the street railways, the gas business. It has likewise taken over; it will take the water powers when It chooses, and the land when it Is needed; and all the time the circle of men into whose hands -all the tools, machinery and forces of our .vast industrial life are falling, Is growing smaller and small er! .. . h- .- How far Is the mass of mankind" in principle from the day when the Nor man conqueror parceled out the land, tne key to all power in his day? Stalk ing everywhere to-day is the ghost of the despoiled Jew, crying, Ton take my life when you do take the means whereby I life!" - . . , . We can't it we would, go back to the old days. - In the wake of modern Invention and development an Irrevo cable change has taken place. It Is Immeasurably for the better. But why should the better day be allowed to harbor the seed that must grow Its own destruction? Why should the changes that are working . to make things vastly better and happier for mankind be controlled by a tew men and be Inevitably used selfishly? Five lines here are torn and are Il legible. Observer. But, last of all, why should we, seeing-what Is hap pening, hesitate to rise to the occas ion and so direct development that its blessings shall be showered upon all mankind and not withheld from them? As President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton said in his address at Chapel Hill last month: The whole face of our national life has changeOv. In the economic field the old ordenof work and enterprise has passed utterly away. We must make use of combinations and of or ganization upon a great scale such as past generation has not dreamed of, and because the new organization is vast and complicated we can neither express it nor control it by means of the Isolated Individual endeavor which used to be sufficient for carrying our material enterprises forward. There must be governmental con trol, but that control must not go the length of actual management of our industrial affairs through government al agencies. "It must take the form, rather, of clearing, ordering and policing of the field of Industry, whose object be the restoration, of equality of oppor tunity, the removal, so tar as possible, of the opportunity for monopoly, and abve all, a return to the principle of strict Individual ifcsponslblllty." The new man T is In' the saddle. Shall the mass strive to unhorse him while the fight may be on the level, or wait to fight till they have felt the mangle of his hoofs? MAKING TRAVEL SAFER. Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. For the second time within the aonth the steel passenger coach has demonstrated Its value as a saver of life and limb both demonstrations oc curing on the Pennsylvania Road.. In rear-end collision some two or three weeks ago, the wooden coaches which made up the bulk of one of the collid ing trains were smashed into kindling wood, while the one steel car In the wreck escaped without so much as a dent. Last Monday morning the Eighteen-hour New York-Chicago spe cial, running at the rate of forty-five miles an hour, was derailed near Al toona. Five coaches, all ot steel, left the track. Pasengers all received a severe jolting and some were slightly bruised, but not a single life was lost nor a limb broken. Had the coaches been of the ordinary wooden variety, there would have been an altogether different tale to tell. The Impact and rebound would have knocked them in to splinters and the loss ot life would have been terrible. This is what rail road men say, and their statement is only too well borne out by past ex perience. Now that the steel coach has been weighed in the balances of repeated tests and not found wanting, there ought not to be any further hes itency on the part of railroads gen erally In substituting them for the wooden coach In the handling ot pas senger traffic. This will, ot course, re quire some time and necessitate a heavy outlay. But there ought not to be any holding back on account of ex pense. Safety of travel Is Infinitely more to be desired than cheapness of fare. Human life and limb are above and beyond valuation in dollars and cents. The public would be much bet ter employed in demanding better and safer equipment than in agitating for reduction of fares. Colds contracted at this season of the year are quickly relieved with Bees Laxative Cough Syrup. Its laxative quality rids the system of the cold, Pleasent to take. Best tor children for coughs, colds, croub' and whooping cough. Bold by MacKethan & Co. Pneumonia Follows La Grippe. Pneumonia often follows la grippe but never follows the use of Foley's Honey and Tar, for la grippe coughs and deep seated colds. Refuse any but the genuine in the yellow pack age. McDuffl Drug Store, (O. O. Sou ders, Mgr.) If you need a pill take DeWltt's Lit tle Early Risers. Insist on them; gentle, easy, pleasant little liver pills. Sold by Armfield Drug Co, Foley's Orlno Laxative cures consti pation and liver trouble and makes the bowels healthy and regular. Orlno is superior to pills and tablets as it does not gripe or nauseate. Why take any thing else? . McDuffle Drug Store, (U. O. Souders, Mgr.) Hexamethylenetetramine. The above Is the name of a German chemical, which Is one of the many valuable Ingredients of Foley's Kid ney Remedy. Hexamethyleneterami ine is recognized by medical text books and authorities as a urlo acid solvent and antiseptic tor the urine. Take Foley's : Kidney Remedy as Boon as you notice any. Irregularities ana avoid a serious malady. McPnffie Drag Store, (O. O. Souders, Mgr.) Plneules for the Kidneys are little golden globules which act directly on the kidneys. A trial will convince you of quick results . for Dackache, Rheumatism. Lumbago, and tired, wornout feeling. -30 days' trial $1.00, They purify the blood. Sold by Mac Kethan Co. ; .-. -, .; : . i If you would have a safe yet certain Cough Remedy in tne home, try ur, Shoop s t least once, it is tnrougn- ly unlike any other Cough prepara tion. Its taste will be entirely new to you unless it is already your fa vorite cough Remedy, v no opium, chloroform, or any other stupifying 'Ingredients are Used, . The tender leaves of a harmless, lung-neaiing mountainous shrub, ; give to Dr, Snoop's Cough Remedy its .wonderful curative properties, It Is truly a most certain and trustworthy prescription. Bold- vr o .a. Sedberryt Bon. - Jutice of Removal I have moved my marble and granite works In the Ledbetter Block, No. Ill Maxwell street opposite the F, I. L. ; I. armory, where I am orenared to' execute the same high-class of work as In the past " - ,.i Respectfully, E. L. Remsbiirg. WOOD'S ; HIGH-GRADE GARDEN SEEDS. WE INTRODUCED THESE 80ME YEARS AGO, AND THEY HAVE PROVEN . ENTIRELY SATISFAC TORY. 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Fayetteville Observer [Weekly, 1880-1919] (Fayetteville, N.C.)
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