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Till: OiWEKVEIi. FAYETTEVILLE. N. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1909. E. i, HALE, Editor and Proprietor. . i. Hale, Jr, Business Manager. U 8. Halav City Editor. , , PARTY TREACHERY REPETITION OP THE BOLT OF 1896, WHICH HAS PERPETUATED REPUBLI CAN CONTROL OP THE GOVERN MENT, , Of the action of the twenty-three bolting Democrats who have prevent ed the defeat of Cannonlsm, Just as the bolters of 1896 caused the election of McKlnley, the Houston (Texas) Chronicle says: "Cannon Saved by Renegade Demo . crata." There were twenty-three of them. They betrayed their party and the hope of liberal cltliena in all parties by voting to sustain the Cannon despotism In the national house of representa tives. ''" " ; r. ' ; . The final vote on the adoption of house rules was 211 to 172. Had the twenty-three renegade Democrats kept faith with their party, Cannonlsm would have been defeated and the American house of representatives would have become once more a delib erative assembly, instead of a herd uf sheep corralled by a .clique represent ing the huge protected interests. Be it said to the honor of Texas that none of the faithless twenty-three was a representative from this state. Fifteen of the sixteen Texan represen tatives were in their places, 'ghting and voting for Democratic rules, and , the sixteenth, Gordon Russell, being 111, was paired with a member of the other party. " The country wanted an end of Can nonlsm. It wanted rules in the Am erican house of representatives under which the representative of any dis trict, in any state, could get the floor to present the desires of his const!-- tuents without having to crawl to the speaker humbly craving hi permis- Tha resolution adopted by the house - concedes three alleged reforms, which are in tact frauds, ia so far as they pretend to limit the absolute despot Ism of the speaker. The first alleged reform ia a pro vision that bills having been on the house calendar three daya can be call ed up by any one and can be consider ed "by unanimous consent" This gives any member a chance to demand ' a hearing on any measure, but not in tact to get it, since a single objection by any member of the speaker's clique can prevent "consideration." Under the old rule the member waa not allow- ' ed to call his bill up from the calendar ' until he had privately obtained the speakers consent to "recognise .him' on the floor, at a day and hoar ap pointed, for that purpose. The old rule permitted the speaker to smother that bill in the calendar, by declining to recognise the author of the bill. . The new rule permits the author of the bill to call It up and see it slaughtered by a single objection front any mem-- berot the Breaker's clique. 'If that is . not a fraudulent pretense of reform, then we know not the meaning of Knansh words. ' " The second of the new rules pro vides that a bill reported from com mittee with the opportunity for amend ment ahut off may, by majority vote . of the house, be sent back to the eom - mlttee to consider any amendments that may be offered. Such a bill can be recommitted only one time. The speaker can, through a member of his clique, have any bill -to him ob jectionable recommitted on a trifling. non-essenuai amendment and report ed out a second time, Ironclad against . such needful amendments as any mem ber may wish to propose. Further, with the majority already lined op in support of the speaker's absolutism and his power to dispense committee spoils, what chance has any bill pro posed by a minority member to get a majority vote in favor of a motion to recommit? This is another false pretense of reform. . The third great "concession'' to the opponents of Cannonlsm is the clause providing that "calendar Wednesday" r the day fixed on which any member can can up any bill from the calendar and can obtain consideration for it by "unanimous consent" can not be dis placed except by a two-thirds -vote. .adjourn on Tuesday until Thursday and the history of Cannonlsm affords no reason to doubt that the partisan and spoils bought majority of ring . Republicans and renegade Democrats would hesitate so to adjourn if the speaker deemed it necessary in order to prevent the calling up of a meas ure a ia tame nil to vested interests. Louisiana, Tennessee and Florida are southern states misrepresented in the list of twenty-three traitors to dem- ocracy and to good government Citizens honorably disagree upon ec onomic policies dividing into groups known as Republican, Democratic, So cialist, etc. But the sentiment of de cent citizens of all parties toward Can- nonlsm in the American house of rep resentatives is one of profound disap proval. ; -y '-; -,.; -s, President Taft lost a great oppor tunity to serve me whole people, and to strengthen himself in their trust when he refused to stand np and be counted with the advocates of real re form. His attitude was technically correct but when the plain people are fighting for decent government they are far more concerned with results than with correct technique. Through Cannonlsm the big rich that thrive on special governmental favors tiave obtained absolute control of the popular branch of the national con gress, and have reduced the represen tatives of the vast majority of the Am erican people to political slavery. - It Is a shameful and intolerant condition and the moat shameful feature of It all is the betrayal by twenty-three Demo cratic members of their party and the people. . The memphls Commercial-Appeal Bays: Treachery Among Democrats. ; It was the old story of Democratic d'iBorg.mlzfttlon that caused the suc cess of the Cannon programme Mon day In congress. - Knough rnon were seduced by ap iH iiling to their greedy appetite for piusoiuil gain not only to defeat the i cmornils, but to make them ridicul ous. The Democratic members of the ! ouso, had they remained loyal to 1 itpv. were Joined bv enoueh Re--.me;i) to have carried the day. .,io ci.rv.Mnii'iiin could have smashed r. f if rtJK'S and could have (rmc 1 1 . r T-;Mp. i:l ;r, . vho had most tO , if-- ' 1 . ral to the compact !. !i .! i wont over to the t f v :.r. j v re worse than i'l i . ft there is a I i t -i i j u -n i'i.-d by calling It treachery. - Congressman Moon, of this state, refused to eater the Democratic cau cus, but the other Democratic con gressmen, after taking part in the cau cus, went over body and soul to where the offices were the thickest There Is little hope for Democracy when Democrats flinch when they are threatened with temporary separation from the pie counter: The present brand of Democracy seems to lack ad hesion and conviction, and until the people elect Democrats who under stand the meaning of Democracy and who are brave enough to stand up against demagogues, political fakers and quacks, the Democratic force In national councils will be a constantly diminahlng quantity. The Atlanta Journal says:' A Probe For the Bolters. A committee of Democrats has been appointed to Investigate the conduct of the twenty-three bolters, including six from Georgia, who blasted the hopes of defeating Cannonlsm In the very hour of victory .and the senti ment of the country is that this in vestigation should be remorseless la Its thoroughness. We have examined with due care all the ."explanations" that have thus far. been forthcoming; but the weak ness ofthem- all consists in the fact that they do not explain. The ' one tact remains mat tne insurgent Re publicans, whose natural alignment Is with the Democrats on leading ques tions, stood to their guns, and that the defection of the twenty-three Demo crats, reputed to be under the sinister Influence of Tammany hall and even more plainly subservient to the ap pointive power of Cannon, destroyed the opposition to Cannon and Cannon lsm and placed the house once more un der the arbitrary dictatorship of a par liamentary czar, whose hostility to all manner of reforms Is as familiar as his features. Tbe Fitzgerald amendments were a Trojan horse, the deception of which was known in advance, and now that the full meaning of those amendments Is made clear we find that the roles are more arbitrary and drastic than ev er. The power of the speaker has been increased rather than diminish ed. The men who had committed themselves, in the caucus of their party, to his overthrow have placed additional weapons In his hands, and for two years more the Democratic mi nority in the house is bound hand and foot The effect of this defection from the caucus agreement has been comment ed upon in no uncertain terms through out the country. Nowhere in any re sponsible quarter have the explana tions given out by the bolters met with acceptance. The Philadelphia North American, for instance says. "The more the deal by which Dem ocratic treachery and Republican sub mission to boss control effected the re-establishment of Cannonlsm as the dominating system In legislation is in vestigated and analysed, the more it assumes the proportions of a great national scandal. 'Regarding every Democrat who went to Cannon's assistance Champ Clark and the other Democratic lead ers had. advance information of Just what pressure waa being brought to bear; what they would get and what would be the effect of their treachery. "Clark hesitated to believe the state ments made to him regarding his oil- leagues, and in view of their assur ances that they would stand by the party pledges, he felt that Cannonlsm was to be overthrown and, the house placed ia a position where It could control itseit "f ' r ; ; "It Is now seen that all Clark's ad vance information was absolutely cor rect, and that the Democratic treach ery had all been planned and agreed to." These, and charges even stronger, are being bandied about the Country without hesitation or qualification. The mildest view that is taken of the matter is that the bolting Democrats have deliberately thrown away the op portunity of years for curbing the ar bitrary power of the speaker that the "Foxy Grandpa" ot the house simply played on them like they were a hand- organ.'' - There will have to be a reckoning. The matter has now attained to pro portions wnere It cannot be allowed to go by default The Philadelphia North American is very nearly it not entirely correct In saying that.lt has become great national "-IM To take the most temperate view of the case, the binding force ot the party caucus cannot be trilled with, and in a ease of such importance as that la question, when the one supreme op portunity had come to crush Cannon- ism and was deliberately thrown away by Democratic disloyalty, the investi gation should be made so thorough that in itself it will be disciplinary. It was General Grant who said that "yon could always count on the Dem ocratic party to make a fool ot itself in the hour of victory." Some of Its professed friends can at least make the Democatie party look extremely foolish in the hour of vic tory. - ' : - SPEED THE UPPER CAPE FEAR IMPROVEMENT. . ' ' The following editorial taken from the Winston Jcurr-al supplies another reason why all of North Carolina's strength In Congress should be devot ed to hastening the Improvement of the Upper Cape Fear, so that Middle and Western North Carolina can be reached by a freight line entirely with in North Carolina and under the con trol . of our State Corporation Com mission. Every - day's d evelopment reveals, more and more, the reason why so many- devices have been re sorted to to '"sidetrack" this great North Carolina project --Saya our Winston contemporary Y The Increase In Rates. , From an interview . with President Vernay of the board ot trade it will be seen that the railroads, by a re cent change' of their rules, have largely increase affreight charges on small shipments coming into and going out of this state. The railroads cannot do this on shipments moving oetween points entirely within North Carolina, because such shipments are under the Jurisdiction of the corpora. tlon commission, which limits the charge to a reasonable sum. Interstate shipments, however, are by law under the Jurisdiction of the interstate commerce commission and while this tribunal is thorough in its Investigations, and no doubt fair In Its conclusions, it Is swamped with complaints from all parts of the coun try, and it is far behind with Its work. For Instance, a decision bas not yet been announced in the coal rate case of Winston-Salem against tbe Norfolk ft Western Railway, testimony In which waa taken here a year ago. The complaint, which was shown to be meritorious, was filed with the inter state commission as far back as Sep tember, lU7. The last congress did not give the commission authority to suspend an advance in rates, pending on investigation, so that unless the railroads recede from their position voluntarily, It Is probable that those advanced charges on small packages will have to be borne by the public for a year or two to come. Express charges are nit restmaole enough aa a substitute fur freight, and there is no probability of relief from this source- It seeius to'us that the railways have acted unwisely in thus Increasing their rates. People cannot help feeling that when an article weighing forty pounds and shipped as sixth class stuff Is paid for at the same rate aa one hundred pounds ship ped as first class stuff, the railroads have stooped to petty robbery. And in the long run, when the public feels thii way. the railroads usually suffer. Much ot the antagonism to railroads is self-created by the roads themselves through some arbitrary act, which ahows small disregard for the individual.'-- IT WAS NEW ENGLAND'S GREED, NOT SLAVERY, WHICH WAS THE WEDGE THAT SPLIT THE UNION. ,v,, .,,.,, ' v..r ' ' ;..; A,;- As. higher education has become more prevalent at the North, influen tial men and writers there are ap proaching nearer and nearer to the truth of American history. - The mistake which a chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy made - in inviting a prise essay from a college where negroes and whites ait together In eq uality, has. stimulated the study ot the events which led to the war ot 1861- 65.. We have given our readers recent ly the benefit ot this movement la a number of notable articles; but the best one on the subject which we have seen since Rev. Dr. (now Bishop) Mo- Kim's, is the following by ex-Congress man Grady, which we find In the last Issue of the Clinton Democrat:1 The Wedge Which Split the Union, Mr. RHtlnr-If win will mlnA tha records tit th m, nntata whtoti have saddened the human race in dif ferent countries and different ages, I doubt whether yon will come upon one wnicn nas been so thoroughly misrep resented as the sectional struggle In the United States, or one in regard to which the ffafAatMl rMo fc. mi roailllv accepted the misrepresentations of weir conquerors aa tne struggle in this country. Manv thlnrs arhioh ha va happened during the last few . years and the expressed opinions ot many of our readers ot thought have brought mis suoauou to my attention; bat none more forcibly than Col Henry Waiterson's eulogy on the late Presi dent Lincoln In the March number of the Cosmopolitan Magazine. As a lit erary nroaucuon it is ot t nigh order; as a picture of Mr. Lincoln, taken by a Northern Dhotoeranhnr. it hi rw.r- haps faultless; but as a presentation ui Historic umn, u is worse man a failure, Just as might have been ex pected by any person who read CoL nauerson s view as given m the news papers during the Brvan-Taft cam. paign. ''...':..' ;' ."':v He accepts as true two of the un founded ehareea. arainat Mia SAnth which can h fnnnri in tho wrltfnra f nearly all the authors ot the books In wnica ine war Between tne Nona ana the South Is discussed, a John ir-tako A. T. Rice (once editor ot the North American Review), R. L. Ashley (au- uior oi ine f ederal atate ), James G. Blaine f author nf Twonf, Vmn, In Congress), John W. Burgess (author oi ine uivii war ana tne Constitu tion"). H. W. Elson f author of a five- volume "History - of the United States"), the contributors to "The Kn cylopaedla Britannica," and-the con- tnuuiors to ine ivew international Encylopaedla," etc The first of these charges which I have alreadr referred In lnriontallv in the Democrat, and to which this communication will ne confined. Is that "slavery1 akin n tha wam which split the Union, the assump tion lurking in most of the. books that some competent power had subjected the Southern people to the guardian ship of the people of the Northern 8tates. This charge has been kept before the; eyes of our people so long and so consistently that all over the South today men and women can be found who agree with CoL Watterson that It ia one of the settled facta of history.? "j-v,.. Jt..'.i ; To remove, then, the stain of a dis reputable ancestry from the "New South," to clear away the clouds which obscure the noble records of our past; and to vindicate the claims of our fa thers to the respect of the Just and the generous, I go among the forgot ten records ot the past and bring forth testihionv Which ahcmM he tr ed ss ancient history, and which noth ing but the necessities of the situa- uuo coaiu juswy me in presenting to your readers. ' - Ia doing this, I desire to give much In a amall nuM- hen 1 win mi. If , . 1U VUUh reference to authorities, except to inform the reader that I am Indebted mostly to Marshall's Life of Washing ton, the Journal of William Maclay (one of Pennsylvania's first senators), Bancroft's History of the United States, Carey's Olive Branch, Kettell's Southern Wealth and Northern Pmflta Galea and Beaton's Annals - of Con gress, luce's .Reminiscences of Abra ham Lincoln, Richardson's Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Benton's Thirty Tears' View, and Davis' Rise and Fall jof the Confederate Govern ment r..r- : ' From these writers I gather the fol- jowtng: ,: . rvf. 1. Just after the adoption of the Dec laration of Independence, a movement was made for adjusting the terms of a formal Union ot the States, and one of the proposed powers to be exercis ed by the Congress was obiected to by Edward RuUedge, of South Caro lina, because "he dreaded the low cun ning of the people of the Eastern States." , i. On November 11. 1775, a Boston privateer, the Eagle, belonging to Eli jah Freeman Paine, captured the brlsv antine . Joseph, which belonged to Hewes and Smith, merchants, of Eden ton, N. C, as she wss returning home with a valuable cargo, Including 3,000 bushels of salt tor which outrage the Provincial Congress of North Carolina demanded of Massachusetts the punishment- of "those atrocious violaters of all law and Justice," and a "toll rep aration and Indemnification" . to Messrs. Hewes ft Smith. N. C. Colo nial Records, X, W7. . In December, 1775, John Adams opposed the appointment to a captain cy in the navy of John Paul Jones, wnose election Joseph Hewes was ad vocating, and afterwards Hewes wrote: "The attitude of Mr. Adams was In keeping with the always em per- ions, and often arrogant tone of the Massachusetts people at that time." ' : 4. Speaking of military movement In 1776, Bancroft says that while John Adams "cultivated confidential rela tions with Charles Lee and Kates, he never extended - the same cordial frankness to Washington." S. In 17S6 the Congress of the Con federation, dominated by the commer cial states, instructed John Jay, Secre tary of Foreign Affairs, to surrender to Spain the exclusive light to navi gate the Mississippi ielow the mouth of the Yazoo, In exchange for a com mercial treaty which granted valuable privileges to New England shippers. Thus the western parts of North Car olina (Tennessee) and Virginia (Ken tucky) 'were deprived of an outlet to foreign countries, and the Indignation of thee people led to much opposition to the adoption of the Fedctul Consti tution In 1788-9. 6. By the c!d Ctngresa In 17S3, hav ing in view perhaps the Importance of "expanding" the North, a trade waa made by which this body sold to a number of Northern gentlemen (in cluding Dr. Manasseh Cutler, Qen. Ru- fus ruuiian, (Jen. 9 II. Parsons and Col. William Dur) 8,000.000 acres of land In Ohio, and acceptod for pay ment 13.500,000 of "Continental money," which at that time was worth only one-eighth of the face value. In other words, these Northern gentle men purchased a tract ot bind one fifth aa large as North Carolina, and paid less than nine cents per acre, j- . 7. In Charles Plnckney s proposed Constitution, which presented the gen eral form and many ot the provi sions finally adopted, it was denied to Congress that It could pas a naviga tion act unless It was supported by a two-thirds vote In each house, the ag ricultural states being afraid ot the commercial States. i The subject waa debated tor months, and fruitless ef forts were made by the Northeastern delegates to have this proviso reject, ed so that a bare majority ot a quorum in each house could enact a navigation act At last a "bargain" was planned by which they got it stricken out 8. Patrick Henry's vigorous opposi tion to the adoption ot the Constitu tion (1788) was founded mainly on the character and disposition ' ot the peo ple ot some ot the States with which Virginia would be leagued. : 1 i. Speaking ot what he bad experi enced in the first session, ot the first Congress, Maclay said: ."We Penn sylvanlans act as it we believed that God made of one blood all families of the earth; but the Eastern people seem to think that ne made none bat New England folks;" and In another place he says: , "For my knowledge bf the Eastern character warrant me In drawing this conclusion, that they will cabal against and endeavor to subvert any government which they have not the management of." . - 10. In the first Congress, of the 'more perfect Union," in spite of vig orous protests from Southerners, as Hugh Williamson and William B. Giles, laws were passed to give New England shippers a monopoly ot our coast trade and a partial monopoly ot our foreign commerce. ' . . . 11. In that same Congress a plan was Inaugurated which gave to New England - cod , fishermen bounties amounting In all to 113,000,000 by I860.. v ". ... .... .v, j . 11 In that same Congress stxty-fotr millions ot dollars ot new Federal bonds were given to Northern specula tors in exchange for nominally- the same amount of Continental and State Revolutionary War bonds for -which those speculators had paid eight mil lions oi aoiiars. id omer woraa, is free gift ot fifty-six millions of dollars, in bonds, was made to those specula tors, a sum equal to . nearly twenty dollars per capita of the total popula tion at that time. - rs i -13. At the same time- a law was passed to give Northern shipbuilders a monopoly of our ship market, and to uuux u, a. ouuiueruer.uie ngui ui pur Chase a foreign ship, if the price wis half of the New England price, 11 While these measures were be ing perfected (for granting unjust priv llges to commercial New England) Fisher Ames said that "some forte waa necessary" to compel Southerners to employ New England ships,- and that he was in favor of applying it-j-what he called "the common good" oetng his professed object .. . I is. i ne committee appointed in the first Congress to draft a tariff bill wis dominated by Northern merchants, and although they were appointed in April and soon agreed on the import ant features of the bill, it was kept In the pockets ot some of the committee until July, thus giving merchant ves sels time to bring their cargoes be- lore it Decame a law. Maclay says: "The merchants have undoubtedly reg elated the prices of their goods agree able to the proposed duties, so that the consumers of dutled articles real ty pay the whole ot the Impost' 16. In 1796 the Hartford Courant spoke of the "general opposition of sentiment which distinguishes the two great districts of territory." "Senti ment" about what? Most people now adays would say It was about slavery! but- at that time, according to the Duke : de Rochefoucauld-Liaocourfs voyage dans les Etats Unls, "nearly twenty vessels from the harbors pf ine nortaern states ' were' employed in the importation of . negroes "io ueorgia and the West India Isles, 17. Referring to the years follow ing the Louisiana purchase. Bancroft says: "An ineradicable dread of the coming power of the Southwest lurked in New England, especially Massacho- aaatta i : 18. In Henry Cabot Lodge's Life of ueorge caoot, wno was one of the sen ators of MaaaachiiRAtta fnr several terms. It Is stated that after the acqui sition of Louisiana, Mr. Cabot as well as many New England statesmen, ex pressed great dissatisfaction because of the danger of a diminution of "the Influence' 'of the Eastern States 1 nth recerai councils. 19. One ot the demands of the fa mous Harford Convention was that the Constitution be amended so that "no state be admitted to the Union ex cept by a two-thirds vote ot both houses of Congress' . -. ; 20. Up to 1814, according to Caret the New England States had "derived all the benefits from the Southern States that thev would from an mnnv wealthy colonies;" and ap to I860, ac cording to uen. uonn Matt, Southern slavery - naa oeen more valuable to the North than to the Sooth." i - 21. Accordlna to Carer, "the nam. gogues of the East" wbo were making "princely fortunes" by their control ef the Booth's enmmeree lnarlat.1 treated Southerners with "outrage, ln an ana injury. - - . t 22. Soon after manufacturing sprang UO in New Ens-land, lawi were to compel Southerners to pay for their guoa irom z to liw per cent more man lair prices, the result being ai early as 1828 a bitter sectional wran . 23. After - the Louisiana purchase give promise of more States which Would likely strengthen the Sntilh convert "the wealthy colonies" into uiuepenaeni states, Mew England be came alarmed and raised a bitter cry against me -expansion oi slavery this opposition being represented t all tbe later writers as evidence superior humanity, "awakening con- wiuiii-B, etc, aunougn nrteen- years after the 'Missouri Imbroglio abolition ists were mobbed In Boston, Concord ana otner New England cities and towns; nineteen years afterward wnimer lacen an enraged mob In Philadelphia that destroyed the print ing office where his abolition news paper, the Pennsylvania Freeman, was printed;' and aa lata aa lan ..... Ing to Gen, Piatt, abolitionists 'were be ing -ostracized in noston and rotten egged in Cincinnati" ' 24. When. In 182." Mrs. fltnw searching for a most revolting brute u urcHiueni ner uncie Tom s Cabin, she selected "Legree," a New Eng lander, who bad moved to Louisiana and become a slaveholder; and then she lectured the women of ber section as follows: "If the mothers of the free Stats had felt as they should, In time past, the sons of the free States would not have been the hold ers, and proverbially, the hardest mas ters of slaves." 25. Ud to 1860 the North's share ot appropriations tor publio buildings and internal Improvements were several times as large aa the South 8. -26. Ud to 1860. according to the re port of "The Publio Land Commission" ot 1883. millions ot acres ot the pub lic' lands about seventeen twenti eths of all appropriations had been aiven to territories, corporations and individuals In the Trana-Mtsslsalppl secUon for tbe purpose ot building up Slates over there which could be re lied on to vote with the North against the South. - " ' 27. Up to 1838 the Revolutionary pensioners ot the North bad drawn out ot the Federal treasury more than two and a halt times as much, per capita, as those ot the South. - 28. The result ot the long quarrel about which section should have un disputed control of the Federal gov eminent, waa that by i860, counting Delaware as a Southern State, the South had thirty-two and the North thirty-tour Senators, and that some ot the Territories were then about ready to come in as States and add to the strength ot the North. 29. By nb - Northern statesman or author has it ever been charged that any Southern statesman, from July 4, 1776. to March 4. 1861. attempted to have a law passed to enable any Southern man, corporation or State to "prosper" at the expense ot other States. ' , v ; -, 1 The Inference Is unavoidable, then, Mr. Editor, that sectional unfriend liness made its appearance long be fore there waa any movement in any ot the colonies to abolish slavery; that It was due in pirt to the assumption of superiority In one section and dis trust in the other; that the right of one section to "prosper at the ex pense ot the other many be regarded sa the determining cause;- and that the "slave" was simply a club in the hands ot those who stood 1 nthe door way of a Territory to prevent the In gress of Southerners.' B. F. GRADY. THE COST OF IMPERIALISM, ' Eight years ago the "paramount" is sue of the Democratic party, was Im perialism. ' By clever manipulation the Republicans and McKlnley "Demo crats" kept the anti-Imperlallsts apart What the '' intervening years have brought to us is thus described by the New - York World : u.... In the debate on the naval appro priation bill Senator. Hale based an impressive if , futile warning on the rapid Increase In the military expen ditures ot the government at a time when Its revenues are steadily falling. Last year, when there was a treasury deficit of 160,000,000, for the- navy alone, congress appropriated 1122,000,- 000, an increase of $24,000,000 in one year. This year when the deficit prom ises to reach 1136,000,000 congress is about to appropriate for the navy $137, 000,000, an increase ot 815,000,000. - Next year Senator Hale predicts, the navy will cost $160,000,000, and In 1911 probably $200,000,000." "This means," he concludes, "that it will soon be the unscapable duty of -congress either to borrow money or greatly to Increase the taxes. - . Of course, the Jingoes will resent Senator Hale's carping economy. For, in pointing out the plain consequences of heedless extravagance the ' Chair man ot the senate committee on naval affairs was doing what Mr. Roosevelt has described aa -"hampering us in the upbuilding pf the navy and acting against the real advocates of the na vy." . Did he not admit that -it was "mighty hard work" last year to pre vent the authorization of four of the new battleships, a cause to which Mr. Roosevelt" devoted page ot burning rhetoric In a special message to con gress full ot mysterious hints of for eign complications 7 - - - Indeed,, has not the senate itself, in-loading the bill yesterday with an amendment -advising the equal divi sion of the fleet between the AUantio and the Pacific, played Into the hands of the Jingoes and the enemies ot na val economy? - ; - c " The eight years of President Roose velt have witnessed a series of mount ing . expenditures for the navy. ;, For that - period the appropriations will amount to $859,000,000, as compared with- $401,000,000 for the preceding eignt years, including the extraordi nary expenses of the war with Spain. The year Mr. Roosevelt became presi dent . the navy - cost $69,000,000; the year ne leaves office the cost has risen to $137,000,000, practically double. With the -continuous agitation at the white house for more and bigger oattlesblps the - country has suffered from a succession of violent attacks of Jingoism, accompanined by cunning ly fomented war rumors, and the In heritance left to It is a top-heavy nary ana a aepietea treasury. . . ; - A8THMA VANISHES. So. Does Catarrh Croup, Hay Fever ; . .. And Bronchitis.. , Hyomel is a confidence creator. The first time yon breathe In this pow erful vet aonthinff antlsentln air will know that it has marvelous cura tive virtues. There . 1 .nothing dis agreeable about Hyomel. It 1 a very pieasaut ana prompt remedy tor cat arrh, colds, asthma, croup, bronchitis, etc. .- v-.. ..-.( - If your head is so stuffed with mu cous that yon cannot breathe a parti cle Of Sir thfoilffh vnnr nnafHIa lTn- mel will open them np and give' relief in five minute. .. Why j will sensible people suffer longer, why will they wheeze and hawk and spit and smother, when Sedberry Pharmacy will guarantee Hyomel to cure or money back. .1.00 Is all Sed berry' Pharmacy asks for a complete VUIUU .. ... . J "I have Used Hvomef for nav fever and can pronounce It the best relief for this trouble that I ever tried or heard ot I have had this malady for years, and have doctored and used many remedies, but Hyomei is far ahead of any ot the others, and has ray neariy enaorsement." Mrs. M. B Martin, Cassopllls, Michigan, Aug. 27, 1908. . . ..u. Your money oadc I & don't ' Gives in. miiate reliel from heartburn, tour Mom. ach, stomach distress and tick Headache, SO cent a large box at Sedberry's Pharmacy. Croup positively stopped Id 20 min utes, with Dr. Shoop's Croup Remedy. One test alone will surely prove this truth. - No vomiting, no dlstrest. i A safe and pleasing syrup 60c. Bold bv uvuucnj i son,. v. r vt? R " lih it1 it TO TEST MERIDIAN LINE AT FAY- ETTEVILLE ALSO TO DE TERMINE SEA LEVEL AT THIS PLACE. For Construction of Levees on Caps Fear, ,,':. Special to the Observer. Washington, March 22. Representa tive " Godwin " ha secured an ; or der from the Coaat and Geodetlo Bur vey of the Department of Commerce and Labor providing for the testing ot the meridian lino at Fayetteville, N, C. The testing line will be establish ed by the erection ot two stones at the north and south end of the meri dian line. The Department has prom; lsed to send a magnetic observer to Fayetteville, wbo Is now on field work in . Tennessee, to ' establish and test the meridian line. Mr. Godwin is also making arrangements- with the Geo logical Survey to establish ai perman ent bench mark at Fayetteville to de termine the height above the sea level at that place. -;"' ; - Another, very important matter af fecting the - sixth district Is the . re cent success Mr. .Godwin bas achieved In securing the promise by the Agri cultural Department .to undertake the examination and surveys looking to the construction ot the dams or levees on the Cape Fear river at Kelly's Cove in Bladen county to prevent the escape of water from the river during fresh ets which flood French's Creek town ship damaging some ot the most fer tile lands in the district - - Vr , .fr it will be remembered that during the abnormal freshet last August the water escaped from the banks ot the Cape Fear river and completely over flowed a large aera of fertile land in Bladen and Pender counties, complete ly destroying crops and -rendering many citizens destitute,' and quite a number homeless. Mr. Godwin im mediately made-an effort before the War Department for funds to be used In constructing levees along the river at that point; but was Informed that no funds were available at that time. He then Introduced a bill in eongreis providing tor an appropriation ot $100, 000 for the construction of these lev ees; the bill went to the Rivers and Harbors Committee where It now re main because that committee did not report any bill during the last ses sion except the bill for surveys., - He did not cease In hi efforts for that section of hi district, and finally suc ceeded In getting a promise from the Agricultural Department to send an ex pert engineer to that point In his dis trict to make a full and complete. ex amination with a view to building the levee and draining the swamp lands In that section. ' Mr. Godwin is deeply gratified at the results ot his efforts, and no doubt the news ot his success will be received with a great deal, ot Interest i - . 1 " - ; POWCR OF ONE VOTE. (Thlnam .Tmirnsrt T ' . - - j, .. In the Continental congress of 1775 Beniamin Harrison v defeated John Hancock by one vote tor the presiding omce. tint tne Virginian insisted on a new ballot and by his own vote chose Hancock.. -" - In 1784 the illness of one delegate irom New Jersey kept slavery out ot state admitted to the Union after 1800 and thus confined the civil war contestant to the ; south Atlantic states. . . - July 25, 1788, one vote ratified the constitution after the famous debate between Madison and Henry at Rich mond.. Tbe next day tbe debate be tween Hamilton and Clinton ended wit hNew York following suit. Tn I7ftn Rhode Island came in with an equally small margin. -,, -.. : Alexander HamiltofLSwung one Vote trt Thome ToffnMnn I n .fen .Ia.u..! collesre of 1800. thus breaking a AaaA. lock after thirty-six ballot and de feating Aaron Burr. This really be gan the feud which cost Hamilton his ine on ine raiisadea at Weehawken. 1808 Jesse Thomas hv hia awn vote went to congress from the Tn. dlana district . He succeeded In mov ing the northern boundry of Illinois fifty mile north, thus giving It a lake ouuet. ma Illinois been united com mercially with the sonth anit her In. terests tinged with southern Ideas the election of Lincoln couldnever have taken olace. and the whole htoinrr n the country would have been different . nay zo, iscu, tne senate of the unit ed States declared "against the im peachment Of Andrew Jnhnann hv AIM vote, 85 to 19, when two-thirds were necessary to decide. . . - A 8erlou Accident .- . , From Saturday'a Dally. . . - Mrs. Sarepta Humphrey, of Sad dle Tree,. Robeson county, who has been In the city several days visiting ner sons had a very serious accident last night caused by falling out of the house of her ton, Mr. D. J. Humphrey, on Ramsey street , ". The doctor who was summoned found her in a critical condition. Be sides suffering from several bruises her hip Joint was broken, which makes the accident all the more serious on account of her age....... . No Need of A Veterinary ' "We run a Livery, Feed and Sale St Die. h&VA ft Hv tranafn. ah J 1 ji - "V uowi auu UHUU10 nard and oft coal and consequently ucch a guuu many norses," say dell Bro. nf Hfnnti rnv,ni Tit t v-iuiwi, in, VYfJ Bave Used Rlnan'a T.lnlmn, yt.i erlnary Remedle for year and find uiy gjye perrect satisfaction. As lone as Slnnn'a rentela. ... i .....Vint, u, iu uur barn we do not need a veterinary sur- bwu. oro never wiinout them and cosclentlously recommend them to all horsemen." Colby Bros-, of lh Min Aval Sft I.. cryv.Port Doric, in writ A. ..i t. used Sloan's Colic Cure, Liniment and "w "u uisiemper uemedy for the past ton years, and since I have been 118 02 them T have ... .-. . Inary in my barn, and bave not lost a , ellner 00110 w d stemper, and win av that n. . rr. ' . . ut.ii wiiu m nurse f110 keep 8l0an' Liniment -uu rewriiiary itemenies in his barn Will never have nv.,.1,.. i- .... . veterinary." w Sloan's Treatise nn th. u . " r " noise, sent Dr. Earl S. Sloan, Boston, Mass. Southern Standard of Satic.-acti:: HOGLESSLARD Nature made it, and made it right, the just-right cook - ing-fat for all purposes, the economical substitute for but? ter. There's no indigestible hog-fat in it. It's the pride of the. South, her. leading agricultural contribution ,to International food-purity. SCHOOL BOOKS ! , i School Book, Mlatea, ' " : Crayons, - Tablets, Copy Books, ttc, Alc. f .,-.. - ., ." f- 'f ;. ."-.,:: .' - ' i , I" " , (' i ' -v...' .,' I- . .. - Price list of book furnished upon application. J J9A substantial BOOK COVER given away with each book purchased.-,, The New Book Store Company, v Opposite Post Office. Fayetteville, N. C. 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