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1 ' IT1 1 , : v:llc N. c Ti. DAY, Al'IUL 15, 1909. P. J. HLE, Editor sii Proprietor. E. J. Hale, Jr, 0iw(ns Managtii -r L. B. Hal City Editor. THE REPUBLICAN PROMI8E . REVI8E THE TARIFF. TO In hi tariff speech at Dei Moines, la, August 21, 1908, Mr. Bryan said: The democratic party in Hi plat form! and through 1U representative in congress hat for years pointed out that the tariff schedule! are excessive ly high and ought to be reduced, but the republicans have until recently, refused to admit that there wag any necessity for reduction. They now confess, through their platform and through their presidential candidate, that the need for revision la so great as to Justify the party In declaring "unequivocally for a revision of the tariff" and the need Is so urgent that the work is to be undertaken at "a Declal session of congress immediate ly following the inauguration of the next president" - The use of the word "unequivocally" indicate that those who wrote the platform recognise that they are under suspicion. They want to distinguish this promise from the unkept promises of the past by add ing as emphatic an adjective as could be found in the dictionary. It former republican promises had been consci entiously fulfilled, rt might not have been necessary to thus strengthen the promise made this year. The use of the words, "immediately after the in auguration'' is evidence that the re publican leaders are conscious that the patience of the public has been strain ed to the point of breaking, and it is almost pathetic to note the solicitude which they now feel about doing a thing which, but for wilful neglect, might have been done at any time dur ing the last ten years. , . Are we not justified ia saying that "the people can not safely entrust the execution of this important work to a party which is so deeply obligated to the highly protected Interest as is the republican party? The "fat trying" process has become familiar to the American people. Pressure has been brought to bear .upon the protected in terests every four years and to a less , extent in the congressional campaigns between presidential elections to compel contributions to the campaign ' fund In return for former favors and in anticipation of favors yet to come. It is difficult to overestimate the cor ruptlng Influences introduced Into the political life of the nation by this part nership between the government and the favored industries. The literature circulated in support of a protective tariff has studiously cultivated the idea that suffrage should be employed to secure pecuniary returns and the ap peal hy the republican leaders has' come to be more and more a selfish one. Every man engaged In a protect ed industry has been approached with the proposition that it is dollars In his pocket to maintain the system, , while those who could not possibly trace any tangible benefits to them selves have been, beguiled with the assurance that it was all a matter vl public spirit, and . that they ought to . support the system out of patriotic rave 01 country, u attention was call ed Jto the tact that the farmer was tax. ed for the benefit of the manufacturer. the triple answer was that it would ome back to him indirectly; that it did not amount to much for each farm er anyhow, and that a man was small minded who would begrudge so insig nificant a contribution to the nation's prosperity. The plan has been to keep the taxpayers ouiet by keenlna- them In the dark as to the operation of the taw, ana men to concentrate the votes and influence of the tax eaters is fav or of a continuation of high tariff legis lation. If a tariff of 50 oer cent, was - Imposed upon a given article of mer chandise, it was assumed that those engaged In the production of the ar ticle would contribute liberally to keep np the tariff. It was also assumed that "the employes would vote with their employers to keep from having their wages reduced, and It was exnected that the business men of the town would also vote for the tariff because of the business brought to the com munity by the protected industry. Those who are acquainted with the tariff fight know to what an extent tfie pecuniary argument has been niM The recent republican platform is a hnelfl call tn avarv KonAft.im ial privilege to enlist again under the repuoucan banner, and when the elec tion is over and the reoubllcan com mittee publishes the list of contribut ors too late to make the Information valuable It will be found that the re publican party has again so obligated Itself to the protected Interests as to be unable to make a revision in the interests 01 the consumers. with a president who, toward the close of his term, admitted the neces sity for tariff revision, with a two thirds majority in the senate and near ly sixty majority in the house, the re- puDiican party has refused to permit any revision whatever. Mr. Williams, the leader of the minority in the boose, introduced a bill providing for a reduc tion of the tariff 100 per cent, when ever it is now more than 100 oer cent It would look like the republican party might have taken this step toward iana revision, naa it been deeply in earnest; but no, the bill was not even reported from the committee. ' When ever attention was called to an inde fensible schedule, the answer was that they could not afford to open the sub ject for debate just before a campaign, but there is no force in this objec tion becauBe the house rules are so framed that the majority can cut off debate, prevent amendment and si lence opposition, i . The administration has claimed cred it for the fine against the Standard Oil company in the case which was lately reversed, but no effort has been made to relieve the people from the fine v. hli ii is imposed upon them every day by the Standard Oil company through the operation of the tariff law which gives that company more than 100 per nt protection against Its chief rival, llii-sia. What faith can a real tariff reformer, whether he be a republican, or a democrat repose In the republican ! mlm-8, when they debllerately put off pi! reduction until after election, and linn call for contributions, with the i:-i!i'rstandlng that the public shall 1 t 1 now the names of the contribut es imUi after the polls are closed? The republican platform says that ' c t 1' if is Intended for the American i -mi iii'iurors. farmers and produc- . 11 ml ex'ci.illy for the wane earn- . If . i..nmT and the :i n earn- , re "v Hie chief beneflourieg of 11 ifoie'tive system, will the ropub i 'i 1 .1 i ' n why the f 111 it'tev.' t 1 nr have coul 1 lbut ' '11 to 1 i" 1 '! Iiean camii'tirn tn publish a lint 1 h day of nest 1 r live advnnt- m' etiiier, r tj 1 j is f.n t I 1 ml ,n in measured by the contributions receiv ed from eai h chum? Why Is It that the manufacturers are expected to fur nluh so large a proportion of the money to run the campaign, if, as the republicans claim, the farmers and the. luuorera enjoy so largo a proportion In the hpnefltfl nf tha avatam? Ia if not a significant fact that the farmers ana wage earners wno are always put In the foreground when the blessings of a hlph tariff ara helnor Antimnrntoil are in tne Dackgrouna When the col 1M-Hnn. H r hut n ir mnlot la i, -t plftcaat that the manufacturers, who furnish the funds, are so little adver tised as beneficiaries T Is it not sig nificant also that the wage earners, in- ftteait of the mnniifnntnr.r nra alarava described as "the most direct benefi ciaries 01 the protective system?" , '-. . ,. Are thfl WAftAnt iaaifora mnm tmnoat than the ones who framed the existing tana? Are uey not, in fact, the same men who are responsible for the tar iff ATtnrtlnn jfnHtia- Mia laat ilAMilaf If this new-born seal for revision were a nunareo. times greater man nis nou- would the republican candidate have 01 secuirng any real tana reform at the hands of such republicans as now renrAftAnf thaf nartv In tha nnita a nrl house, the very men who represented v in vn receui national convention T Speaker' Cannon, who has suppressed tariff legislation in the present con gress, was a dominating factor In the convention and. if the ntnnhllrana re tain control of the house, will be the speaker of the next congress. Does nis prominence afford tans reformers any assurance of a reduction of the tariff in the interest of the consum ers? In case of a republican victory. Congressman Sherman will become the presiding officer of the senate. He has been the confidential companion of Speaker Cannon, and in the con vention it was Speaker Cannon who vouched for him. ' ftnt 11 a mattor nf fact, Mr. 8herman's stand pa tism need ed no endorsement; his record Is a guaranty that no beneficiary of special privileges will be disturbed.'' It was Congressman Sherman who, In - a speech in the house on the 18th of last Anril hnaatrnllv Hjw-lanwf w recognize the fact that we have a re puoucan majority in tne senate, that we have a republican majority In the house, that ia readv to reanrt to mrv legal, every proper constitutional right to enact such legislation as it deems for the best interests for the greatest number of our people, and which is wiliinc and readv to accent full re sponsibility, for all. those measures Which are Introduced here and which are not enacted into law." We Wnnlll TkrJ nnftnt a 4npw in Ai justice to the defendant If it was com posed entirely of the relatives ot the Imuran;, neiiner can ww expect a con gress to do justice to the masses If it is composed of men who are in sym pathy with, and obligated to, the cor porations which have lor a generation been enjoying special privileges. There is no prospect for relief from a republican president and congress. "NORTH CAROLINA'S NEW HOLI- DAY- - Mr. R. D. W. Connor writes most in terestingly to the Raleigh News and Observer concerning our "new holi day," to-day. as follows: To the Editor: By an act nassed at the recent session of the Legisla ture, to-morrow.-Anril 12th., hmmiHi legal holiday. The act was intro duced by Senator E. " U Travis, of riaii ax county .and Is In commemora tion of the passage by the Provincial Congress of the famous Halifax Reso lution directing the North Carolina delegates in the Continental rMmn to vote for Independence.: Already the date has been placed by legisla tive enactment on tne state flag, and on State Seal alnnr with that nf u 20, 1775, and It is but proper that this next step snouid have been taken and that Anril 12th should hemma a kml holiday as Hay 20th has been for some years. wnatever one may think about the Mecklenburg Declaration of May 20th, 1775, there can be no pos sible dispute about the Halifax Reso lution 01 April iz, i( 6, and II there had been no Mecklenbnrr TWlnnHim the later event alone entitles the State to the claim of priority in the move ment for independence, which those who disoute the - Itecklenbnr rww laratlon are sometimes - supposed to aeny. --. . ;. v The Halifax Resolution ot April 12, 177S. Was the flrat daefcaraHmi ha fa. l-vor of independence by any Americas coiony, ana properly considered, that date is the 'proudest date ' in North Carolina history. On April K, 177 the rounn rrovineiai congress met at Halifax. The people were greatly aroused In the nrovinrea hv tha virtm at Moore's Creek on February 27. On aprii , samuei jonnston, President of the Congress, wrote to James Ire dell: "All our oeoole here km nn fnr independence". "Independence is the word most . usedV . wrote . General -Howe. T am told that in manv mn. ties mere is not one dissenting voice. In resnonse to thla umflmi( April 8, Congress passed the follow ing resolution: ' Resolved. That Mr. Harnett Ifr Allen Jones, Mr. Burke, Mr. Nash, Mr! luncnea, sir.-Thomas Person and Mr. Thomas Jones be a aelert mmiitA to take into consideration the usur pations and violences attemnted anil committed br.the Klnr amt Parlia ment of Britain against America, and ine runner measures to be taken for frustrating the same, and for the bet ter defense of this Province." Of this Committee Gornellna n. nett was chairman, and' wrote the re port wnicn ne submitted to the Con gress on ADrll 12. Aa Dr. Smith an well says: - 'In ringing sentences, not nnwnrth of Burke of Pitt, the report set forth In a short preamble the usurpations of the British Ministry and the mod eration hitherto manifested br the United Colonies.' ' Then declaration. which to those who made it meant long years of desolating war, smoking homestead, widowed moth ers, and fatherleaa ehlMren tint a and our descendants a heritage of lm- pensnaoie glory. . , , : The renort which Cnrnellna TTameO read, and which the Congress unani mously aaoptea, ana in commemora tion of which the State has now made April 12 a leeal holiday, waa aa rd. lows: . 'It appears to vour committee' that pursuant to the plan concerted by the British Ministry fnr mhlnniin. America, the King and Parliament of ureat uruain nave usurped a power over the persons and properties of the people unlimited and uncontroled; and disregarding their humble peti tion? for peace, liberty and safety, have made divers lerlslatlva acta Aa. nounclng war, famine, and every spe cies or calamity, against the Continent in general. That the British fleeta and armies have been anil aim are daily employed In destroying the peo ple, ana commuting tne most horrid devastations nn the ennntrr That Governor In different Colonies have ueciarea protection to slaves, .who should imbrrie their hands in the blood of their ' masters.. -That' the Khlps belonging to America are de clared prizes of war, and many of them have been violently seized and cwC Mta. la coiiats'iiienca of ail which multitudes of tha people have been destroyed, or from easy circum stances reduced to the nio-.it uuuuu la bel distress. . "And whereas, the moderation hitherto manifested by the United Colonies and their Blncere dealre to be reconciled tn Ihn mnlher fAiinirv ... - -- ,. on constitutional principles, have pro cured no mitigation of the aroresald wrongs and usurpations, and no hopes remain nf nhtntnlm rpriroaa hv thuaA - ... f, . - " J ......... means alone which have been hither to tried,- your , committee are of opinion that the-House should enter Into the following resolve, to-witv "Resolved, That the delegates for tnis uonoiy in the Continental Con STeas be ImnowerAit tn mnnur with the delegates of the other Colonies iu declaring Independency, and forming foreign alliances, reserving to this ColoBV the ante and Arolnalva. rltrhl of forming a Constitution and laws for mis voiony, ana 01 appointing dele gates from time to time (under the direction of a general representation thereof), to meet the delegates ot the ouier colonies lor such purposes as shall be hereafter pointed out." , Comment is unnecessary. The" ac tors, the place, the occasion., the time, the action Itself tell their n story far beyond the sower of the pen to add to it or detract from It Discussing the growth of the senti ment for independence in America, tiaocroii says: . : The American Conn-en needed an Impulse from the resolute spirit of some colonial convention, and the ex ample of a government springing wuouy rrom tne people. Following aa account of how South Carolina let sllD the honor of rivinr thla Im. pulse, Bancroft continues: "The word wnicn south Carolina hesitated to pronounce was given by North Caro lina. That colony. Droud of its vie tory over i domestic enemies. . and roused to 'defiance by the presence Of Clinton, the Rrltlah mural In one ot their rivers "unanimously voiea lor independence. North Caro lina was the first Colony to vote ex Dllcit sanction to indenendenea " - . A copy ot this report was Jmme- aiaieiy sent Dy express to the dele gates In tha finntlnental Pnnvnaaa and was welcomed by the friends ot independence throughout the Colo. ales. The newspapers printed It, and ueia 11 np 10 tne outer colonies as worthy ot Imitation. Samuel Adams, John Adams and Elbrtdge Gerry, delegates from Massachusetts, hasten- a u uiy 11 ociore ue Massachusetts Convention, and to urge their colony to follow North Carolina's example. utesar Kooney. delegate from Dels ware, did likewise. As Elaoa says in nis nuHory ot the united States: This was a move 01 the greatest bnnort- aace, and it was but a short time n. til Rhode Island and then Massachu setts followed the example of their Southern sister. " rtn the ih r iua Virginia also followed the example. ' - un me zin ot June. Jnaenh H laid the North Carolina resolution be fore the Continental Congress, and Immediately afterwards the Virginia ueiegates laid the Virginia Resolution oeiore me congress, and In oheviienee to which Richard Henry Lee moved that the Colonies were and ought to ov ltttj ana independent states. Thus North Carolina nnlni a4 the way to her sister Coolnies, and took the first step in favor of a declara tion 01 independence. . v -; It Is strsnze that thla rnrirnanfruie event in our history has been so much wKiecieo. - averyoody Is familiar with the meaning of May 20, 1775, but tew of our neoDle are familiar with the meaning of the more significant even. 01 April 12, 1776. . The Leeial ture has .performed a patriotic duty ui maauig mis oate a legal holiday. THE OBJECT OF POLITICAL PART , IES AND THE NECESSITY FOR THEM PARTY LOYALTY INOIS- - PEN8ABLE. , The Richmond . Times - Dispatch makes a timely quotation from Burke's Maxims la the following article. We commend it to thoughtless party rep resentatives. . K . Says our Richmond contemDorarv: r Of the nceeaaltv' fnr men a aIa... wwaw together .In defense at an innnnM. snd common principle, a great student , uw science 01 government has written: , v, . .. , ...... . "When bad men eomhlne the' awvi must associate; else they will fan one uj one, nn unpitied sacrifice in a con temptible strnesie." Of the necessity fnr nartv laura 10 cieave to their party's prin ciples with an eye to opportunism or uuuviuuai advantage, the same student wrote: Tt'is the hnafneu f .A.rA4i! ' mw BpTVIUiUTE philosopher to mark the nmner ot government. It la the hnin.. ..1 the politician, who Is the philosopher ui acimu. 10 nnu out proper means to- " w enas, and to employ them with effect. Therefore every honor able connection (or party) will avow It lS their first OUrnoae tn nnrane eun, just method to nnt tne - r -imw UUlU their opinions into such condition as may enawe them to carry their common plana Into execution, with all the nower and anthnrttr nf thn oa. As this power Is attached to certain siiuaaons, it is their duty to contend for these' sitnatlnna-. WlthW . script! on of others, they are bound to meir own party the preference in all things; and by no means, for private consideration, to aneent . offers of power in which the whole body is not Included; nor to suffer themselves to be led, or to be con trolled. Or to be nvArhalaneed In or In council, by those who contradict ine very fundamental principles on which their nartv is formed. A Hal SVOt1 those upon which every fair connec tion musi stand, uuch a generous con tention for power, on such manly and honorable maxims, will easly be dis tinguished from the mean and inter ested strueele for nlare and emMn. menu . . . , ... These exeemts are faVdn nnt tVnm contemporary editorial columns, but from "The Maxims snd Reflections" of Edmund Burke. They were written toward the close of the eighteenth cen tury, which alone precludes the idea that their author had his eye upon the Democratic nartv of thla our Lord 190S. ' ' THE COUNTY COMMlRRiftNFna AND THE ANNUAL EXHIBIT. The following correspondence will explain itself: .. . Office of the Fayetteville Observer, Fayettevllie. N. C Febrnarr 1 ina J. J. Bullard, Esq., Chairman Board of Crnnmlaainnen Dear Sir: . ' UDon mv return business manager (my son) reported ui me mat, contrary to custom, as well as to requirement of the law, your board had called fnr a ''hid" fnr the publishing of the annual county exniuii: mat ne nad "bid" the lee;tl rate, one-half cent a word fnr tnnr cents a line)' which Is the rate here to lore Dald to us whenever wn h.n nan tne county printing, viz: when th democrats, controlled the lm, ot commissioners; that he learned afti wards that the printing had be awarded to a newsuaner nnhiiuhed Rt Kaeford, the most remote point in t to..iiy fi. a t!;3 Couiicy . at, and th. iignii of tiiu advocates ot the dismtmi' 00. meiit of Cumberluud, uotwlth a.amliiig the eirciunsiuiH'o that this limn r nos.ised no eauinmitiit fur aneh woilc and had to sublut the printliiaf 10 it ion omce in Favettnvl a nut u iii.u wun tne democratic party: that Ue waa informed that the aTound uuon wnica tnis diversion had been made from the Observer, the only paper pub lished at the county seat and the rec ognized organ of the deuiocrulio party year In and year out. waa that the Kaeford paper had bid less than the Observer, namely, la the respect that it had bid one-third ot a cent a word and couuted but six words to the line, making an auuarent bid of two rents a line; that he asked the clerk of the Doaru tor a copy ot tne blu by the Kae ford paper, and was Informed that It had diaauueared.' and that ha ankeri the clerk for the bill rendered by said paper and paid by the board, which was snuwn 10 nun ana wnicn contain ed these items, vl: : - Annual EnhlblL 4.051 llnea. 177 Si ttfae difference between 4,051 lines at two cents- IS1.0S, and $77.34, being accounted for by a discount of Ave per cent for "leads", whatever that may mean in this connection-, - and Treasurer's Report, 00 lines, 12.00; total ISS.34. Now, the Observer's books show that we were naid last vear hv the hnard JSS.27 for the same two Items, (Annual uxnioii ana Treasurer's Report) which ia f 1.07 lesa than you have now paid the Raeford naner. nothwtthatandina the Raeford paper's bid was two cents line ana ours lour cents a line! .' I presume that not half a doxen neo. pie in rayeuevuie see the Raeford paper land 1 have seen nn one whn baa Seen a CODY of tha Annual Rrhih it), and therefore I had difficult in finding a copy. This I wished to ex amine for the purpose of ascertaining in woat department ot our county items of receints and eTnendltnma there had been such an enormous In crease as to cause tha number of llnea as charged tor by the Observer a year ago, vis: zuy tines, to jump up :o more than double the number as charg ed tor by the Raeford paper this year, vis: 4.651 lines. ... , . TJoOn examination Of the treaanr. era report as printed in the Raeford paper, I find that there are but 239 lines (containing- wordal in all" fax in first column and 131 In the other column), Instead of the 600 lines Charred by the Raeford nannr and paid for by the board! And, upon ex amination of the annual exhibit in the supplement sublet to the fayette- vme printer. 1 find tnat then are hut :,u9i lines t counting lib lines to each u tne eignteen columns and adding the 27 lines on the aeventh rami In. stead of the 4,051 hues charged for by the Raeford paper and paid for by the ooaru: . .. Outside of the indnrementa offered by this novel and apparently deceptive meinou, as analysed above, I respect fully submit the Observer waa entitled to be Kiven 1 this nrlntinr aa because: ..; , . , ,. - -,-, . .. ': .. The Observer offered to do the work at the rate Dreacrlbed hv law and there being no requirement in the Jaw wai mis printing oe let to the lowest kl J J The Observer is the ontv miner In the county having an outfit capable oi qomg tne worn neatly and proper ly with a new face of type cast (by unotypet ior this special purpose; 1 joe uoserver is tne only paper published at the county seat; The Ooserver is the only paper puV uanen wnicn baa a general circula Uon in the county, nearly ten thousand persons la the county reading it every Ken: . - The Observer Ii the nnlv itunuwniln paper puouaned in Cumberland coun ty; . : ine uoserver is tun nniv naner wnicn carried the full democratic tick' et at ita head in the eamnnlim- - .- - The Observer Is tha nniv naner in the county which opposed the dismem- oerment 01 tne county, a proposition wnicn, it naa generally been said, Carried out. wonld have made tha county republican; and because, as to i-uumj printing in general, - . ine Observer has spent many thou sands of dollars and untold effort in successfully maintaininar a newananer at the county seat, year in and year out,; for many Years, while the mm and more of other papers, which have appeared ana disappeared at short in terval meanwnne, cannot airly claim equau consideration especially if es tablished just In time to enter into uioaing contest witn tne Observer. I aid abOVfl that the ntiaerrer la the only democratic paper In the county. iy immediate reason for this Is the loiiowmg extract from last week's sue Of the Raefnrd naner via- - , "IX the division of the county' re- auiia in nepuoucan rule, ana they give the county a more economical and sat isfactory SOVernment. whn nrnflta ha it?. The people, of course. If the peo- pie eiect a local Republican ticket, and the officers nrnve tn he iih.oM. factory and incompetent the people may ue aepenaed upon. to correct the ujisiaae tney made; so the worst that can come from the formation of a new county is an experlment,-and we. iw loois, can only learn by con trasts. Let OS trnst the nennle I said above that the nhmr,. 1,111 last year for the same work" as that now unaer review, yix:- The Annual Exhibit and the Treasurer's Report- was JJjn. That ia emrl a. wiu see dv reference to ,nn, aiaa t notice that the exhibit In the Raeford paper has this item aa 184 ?7 That la not, correct, the additional $6.00 being iur aererai . amaii notleea. un.nu from this work and printed at other times. - .... j. I remain, dear Sir, .. , Tours truly, . .. . ' (Slg.) E. J. HAUL Office of the Fayetteville Observer. Faveueviiie N rt Mamk ah num Capt. J. J. Bullard, Roseboro, near Bir: ' - v . Mai Male deairea tn hnnar If received hi letter nf C.hn ,o,u addressed to you officially as chairman OI tne Board of IVimmloa nnera f Cumberland county. . Knclnaed ia a postage stamp for reply. ' ' ' Yours truly, . . E. J. HALE, Jr, t . Bus, Mgr. y , Roseboro, R. 7. D., No. J, if. C. Mareh H)h lona Mr. E. J. Hale, Jn, . ' .. Fayetteville. N C. Dear Sir: . . Yours of 8th Inst received Tn swer will ay, that Major Hale's letter came 10 nana, and I filed It with the Clerk of the Board, which I will call It up at the next meeting of the Board snd have, it read, it came up last meetiue but two m,niw. .. Board were absent I ordered it filed until 1 could get s full Board when I Will take the matter nn tf u.. riale deairea fn ha n..nl t 111 ... " ,hii, x mil vu. deavor to notify him What hour I will it np so as to give him an oppor tunity to do so. 1 am, your oht. servant, I- 1. 3. BULLARD, Chairman, '" Ofllce of the Fayetteville Observer Fayetteville. NT. ft m,, wtca Capt. J. J, Bullard. Chairman Board of Comity Coriimltuloneri ivoseooro, m, w, D No, i, n, C, l:xt Bin My son has received your letter of March 13th, which you wrote In reply to his letter of tith March, which he wrote for me. I thank you for your offer; but I have nothing to appear before the Hoard" for, aa my letter of Fahruary 16 stated all the facts in the case, known to me. It is for the Board to say what they will do about them. , I desire to thank you for your habit uai courtesy; audi understanding that you voted to give the county printing to the Observer because It offered to do It In accordance with the law; be cause it was the only paper In the county carrying the full Democratic ticket at Its bead;; and because it op posed dismemberment of the county I desire to thank you for that also. - Yours truly, ' . E. J. HALE. THE PAYNE BILL MEAN8 A DEM OCRATIC HOUSE irf 1910, SAY POO AND PAGE. Mr, Pence. In his Washington letter to the Raleigh News and Observer, sayaT; ' ' : ' ' ' : The House nan finished Ita work and the Senate has undertaken the Job of Miaping a win 0111. rouucai wasn Ington began to take stock to-day of the work of the House and It is best opinion that the majority party failed of Its opportunity. .j. The Pavne hill will ha moat remem bered by reason ot the fact that It Increases taxes in the breakfast table and necessities of life. . At the same time affording: nroteetlon to tha trusts and tariff monopolies. It is a tariff oiti in lavor or ue rich and against the Door: It revises the tariff nnwarda and fails to raise the necessary reve nue to run tne government; and Anal ly It provides for an enormous bond Issue to meet current expenses ot the government V. " . " : ' In the face of such a situation, there are many people. here who think the Renublican nartv haa at laat hemin Its toboggan trip. Representative R. N. Page believes that the Republicans will be whipped from power in. the House at next year's election as the result of the tariff bill offeied the country. , .- ' ; , Will Lose Them the House. He Said to-dav: "The Rennhltean party has broken faith with the -peo ole and I venture to nredlet that the bill in anything like its present form mane operative win result not In a reduction ot the price ot the necessi ties of life, but rather In an ltureaae And In a decrease rather than an In crease of revenue. " , - , Representative' Pou, .'' who, a a member of the wavs and meana mm. mittee, has been in the thick of the House ngnt,. has made a clear, cut analysis of the Payne bill for the New 1 and . Observer. ; He believes with a great many smart people In Washington that the Republican ef forts at revislnar the tariff will irt the House to the Democrats next year. sir. rou said to-day: : ,- ..' ; "When the Pavne hill waa rennrted to the House several prominent Demo crats suggested that the bill was en titled to the support of Democrats in Congress unon the around that it re duced the duties, and was a step in tne right direction. I said then it Was a more Oblectlonahle meaanre than the Dlnelev hill I hardiv think- any Democrat will -now take issue witn me m this expression of opinion. The bill utterly fails In two respects: , wnere Bill Falls. 1 -. "First, the Democratic party of wie, nation- lorcea the party in power tot undertake tariff revision heeanae the" Dlngley law was forcing the peo- ,r 3n. when it nominsted Lmooln pie-to pay more than they should fori. ' , tte Pre"WHri- while repeating very many of the necessities ot life I empnasizing tne views of the Fre-en-for aa ih 1. . . j 1 mont Convention about the "rt. SO far as tha eonanmer la enneerned nothing will be cheaper by reason of the Payne law, -while the price of some of the neceagitle nf Ufa Win he materially advanced. - , . j , --. . second, the expenses of the gov ernment are so laree that, a . ffreet sum (not less than three hundred and twenty-five millions) most be raised from custom duties, or from anme other source of revenue not provided by law at this time. The .Pavna hiu if passed as It left the House, will J not proviae as much revenue as the present law. it ia therefore a fnllnre from the standpoint of the consumer, wuicn suouia oe considered first, and as a revenue producing measure. "Forty - millions of dollar ennid easily be raised by cutting down (not raisingj ma rates In the woolen schedule, but this never aeemed in occur to those charged with the duty ui wriupg tne Dili. "The Increased duties on gloves and hosiery are absolutely indefensible! "The action of the committee with respect to women and children's ap parel Is without the semblance of excuse, even from- the Rnnhii. standpoint, and the -House .made itseir a party to the crime when It re fused to permit a vote on this propo sition. : , ; ' , , . , Nothing Else to be Expected. The nreaent altnatlnn 111., the absurdity of a hiph ' nrmuiinn party attempting to revise the tariff downward. The result is, and always will be, higher duties, more protec tion, higher prices to the consumer. iu me very nature or things the party which believes In the principles of protection cannot make a ainnr,.i revision .ot the tariff downward. This can only be accomplished suc cessfully bV a DartV Whlnh haa follV. - . - . H HWW 1U.LU in' what it Is doing, snd which does n violate its principles and it plat form every time S aehednle la rAJI The Dlna-Iev hill la had th. d bin worse. What the Payne bill will oe wneu Messrs. Aldrlch, Burrows, and their colleagues have done with it, 1 will not venture to nredlet Man . fer man came before us last winter during the hearings on the bin to tell US that his intereat - w avU,U UVQ protection; that he wanted ail com- peuuon snut out, and that his busi ness could not survive it we reduced duties one lota. ' Thev mm h. i tf all competition was shut out those and ; Asthma 1 A aUICk and IVlWrTflll merl:. For Group Sloan's Liniment hatred cllaoZ VTf, ' Sloan'o Liniment Dr. Erl S. Sloan. Boston, M.,s. lusidd the wall would compete with each othor 80 fiercely that the prioe to the consumer would be cut down to the lowest possible point. "One guutluman .told us that the higher we put the tariff wall the low er would bo- the prices of tiie articles protected. Of course we all know that exactly, the contrary takes place; that when competition from abroad la shut out those inside, Instead ot com peting, get together and agree not to conipeto at all, A prominent Repub lican told me yesterday that the only smart thlug that my party had done since 1892 was to force his party to undertake tariff revision. The Cannon rules and the Payne abomination will give .us the next House," '; -" ; CAUSE OF THE WAR OF 1861. Ex-Congressman Grady has another article in the current, issue of the Clinton Democrat on the subject of the cause of the war of coercion. He is an accurate as well as a painstaking stu dent ot history, and his statement con cerning the motive which inspired the heroism ot the Southern armies Is cor rect :;" :;,.. ;;..':.:.;' V. Says Mr. Qraai-.v'v,..;.v-;.t... ' After the niinnarnnce 'nf mv article On the causo of the war between the States, in the Democrat of the 18th ul timo, my attention was called to a bio graphical sketch ot the late H in ton Rowan Helper in one of our leading dally newspapers lu wbloh it It stated that "in his influence tn precipitating the struggle for abolition of slavery he stood with Harriet Beecher Stowe, Phillips, Garrison, Greely and others whose preaching stirred the North to such revolution .as made the conflict Irrepressible." ' v L- -, .-y-, This is an unfortunate statement, whatever the intention of the writer may have been; it accords with what oar people have been reading tor a half century, and Is misleading in two particulars: :: .. - - 1. It inferentlally agrees with, the Northern abolitionists that some pow er had authoilxed them tn free tha slaves in the Southern States; and, z. it accords with what we see in about all the Northern mairazinea and newspapers which find their way into uie nom.es 01 soutnern people that Lincoln began the Invasion ot the Con federacy for the DUTDOse of freeins the slaves. ' i . - : . ,.: 1 As to the claim of the abolitionists we need not waste time pointing out its impudence and its absurdity; but to throw light on their methods ot tree ing their consciences from tha sin of slavery in the South I nnnle an ay. tract : from Garrison's . Liberator - of July 13, 1855. which, I found in Ell Thayer's Kansas Crusade: . "Thomas Wentworth Higginson was the next speaker.. His declaration ot his belief in the certainty ot the disso lution of these States, and Of his own readiness for that event, met with the general , and evidently f carefully ' con sidered assent of the audience." ... As to. the oblect Mr. T.liwnln" had In view when he sent his armies into tne Southern States, all doubt Is re moved by the. platforms of the party he represented. In 1856, whan Fre mont was nominated for President, the platform, after denouncing any at- temnt tO "ertend" . ilavars Intn Kan sas or any pther territory, declares in piam terms tnt "the Federal Consti tution,1 the rights of the Stales, and the Union of the States, fihflll- Via Tifxa- served thus radically differisg from I n, ' , 7 " n'wu" auuience; and I "8 Platform of the same political nar- uio views 01 Higginson s audience; and sion . of slavery, declared "that the maintenance Inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State tn nrder anrf . 1 i.. VUUL1UI I US own domestic lnsUtutiops according to w una juagment exclusively, is es sential to that balance fit nnnin n which the perfection and endurance" of our political fabric depends; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force" Jnhn Bmni. 1 ample "of the soli of any State or lerntory. no matter nnder ah,! text, as amonr the araveat ni . It is evident, therefore, even if we urn jot nave Mr. Lincoln's declara- uou m nis inaugural address, that he had ho Intention, as wall a. " "to interfere with the institution of slavery m tne states." - ; Permit me then to repeat- my "pro test against the slanderous ch'srge that the Confederate soldier endured u uie narasnips 01 a four years' strug gle for -the nnrnnae ....... a fri.n -T." " K '"iV4B"na " tory, , , a. r. URADY.' SIGNING PLAYERS FOR THE FAY ETTEVILLE TEAM, First Practice Gsme April 26th. 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Fayetteville Observer [Weekly, 1880-1919] (Fayetteville, N.C.)
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