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i I THE OBSERVER. FAYETTE VI ULE. N. C THUR8DAT, JUNE S, 1908. E. J- HALE, Editor and rroprieter. L 4. Hale, Jr, Budiwu Manager. U B. Hale, City Editor, .; DEMOCRATS CAN ALWAY8 WIN ON THE TARIFF, BUT THOSE WHOM THEY ELECT BETRAY THEM. " . W bare written the abore beading - as an appropriate one for the follow ing taken from a contemporary:' "Not alnce 1876, except In 1892. hare the manifestations bees ao strong of ' a popular discontent with the condi tions resulting from a purely protec tive tariff. In the first year, the Dem ocrat, standing squarely on their tra ditional creed, elected Tilden to the presidency under circumstances whicit bad seemed practically hopeless. In 1892, the slogan of a tariff for revenue was raised again and again the ver dict at the polls was against the party of protection. In view of these tacts, it does seem remarkable that Demo cratic leaders should be weakening on that Issue which has never failed to bring them Into power when present ed squarely. It will be brought to the front dominantly by the bill of abom inations which Aldrich has perpetrat ed under the guise of revision, and there is small hazard in the prediction that two years will suffice to bring leisure for repentance to many politi cians of both parties who have mis read the signs of the times and ac cepted the plea of selfish interests as expounding the sentiment of the pu) Uc." . THE PROBLEM OF TRANSPORTA TION. At the "Good Roads Congress" at Baltimore, the other day. Senator : Bankhead of Alabama said: The question of transportation has attracted the attention of our wisest statesmen for years. There are three Important methods railroads, boats and roads and In my Judgment roads are most Important, as 90 per cent, of all freight must first be bauled over the roads. "In the early days of the Govern ment it was decided that Congress had the right to appropriate money for building roads and canals,' yet some say that it is unconstitutional. Why does the Government appropriate an nually large sums for harbors, canals and riversr Because of the clauje in the Constitution which gives it this right for the general welfare of the country. It is done to Increase the advantages of transportation. The Government has been liberal Intending funds to aid in building rail roads throughout the country to aij in its development and to increase lu wealth, and consequently to increase its revenue. Everyone knows that this has been a good investment for the Government Congress is spend ing millons every year for irrigation. The levees on the Mississippi river are not built for commerce, but 'o protect vast amount of property and wealth. It Is absurd to talk about the counties and different communi ties building roads. The burden is too heavy. "We are today using 1,000.000 miles of roads in the delivery of our mails. When the rural free delivery service waa first discussed it was charged that Its adoption would bankrupt the country. Eleven years ago Congress appropriated 1-40,000 to be used as an experiment on the system. Only $16, 000 of this was spent by tbe Postofflce Department before its success was as sured and last year Congress appro priated 838,000,000 for the service. The deficit in the Postofflee Department la no greater now than it was befo-e the service was adopted. This is due to tbe Increased revenue. City people re more benefitted by good roads tban the cctntry people. The city depends on Lie counties for its sup plies and the quicker and cheaper they can be brought to the city the better for city people. I Says Roads Bring Education. ,Wlth a system of good roads we ' have a better system of education. ' Good roads permit children to as- A semble, and then good buildings' will be erected and good teachers secured. Because of the poor highways In many sections of the country it Is imposst- ble for the children to reach the schools during certain periods of the year. - "Good roads are the only Immigra tion drawing cards. We cannot at tract desirable foreigners . unless we have good roads, as all desirable im- migraats are invariably accustomed to such in their native countries. At nresent 70 ner cent, of tha nxarnM. tares of our Government Is used In , preparation for war. Last year 810 006,000 was appropriated to foster the agricultural interests. This, in com parison, waa insignificant - "If yon want to start this question ana get results stand your ground. Make your States take a stand, and then your representatives In Congress will get in line. Governor Crothers is leading the way in Maryland, an! the public will follow him. Tour Rep resentatives at Washington will take np the question, for they might fur mat me Governor is alter their job, and they will get In line. The pres ent auegea constitutional barriers ami limitations will not be ao high to Con gressmen when they realize that a large element in their Ccngresslocai constituency demand good roads from ine Government ",-,,.-,....,,,,.. FOR THE COMMON GOOD. Norfolk Virginian.! . : "Cummins, Dolliver, Clapp, Brlstow, vrawrora, Burkett, LaFoliette, Suther . land; Borah, Johnson and Jones, all from the Wild and Wolly West, are . Senators who are talking the way their constituents feel. - Can the Re publican party affront them and still liver' Memphls-Sslmltar. , Yes, that is one way to look at it The Senators named are pleading for the relief of the body of their peo ple from unjust exactions and are Incurring the enmity of the represen tatives among them of the segrega ted Interests which have so long fat tened on the special bounties - ex tended to them, at the expense of the whole cltlienahlp, by the preferential and exorbitant tariff. . -- But Southern Congressmen elected " by Democratic districts or States are . pursuing a diametrically opposite course. They are openly disclaiming obligation to the national platform of .Vic'r-part", -.sneaking and,votJog Kit'uwt tho principles ana policies on which Democracy has stood Arm for fifty years, and are helping the extremists of the Republican party to jnnko heavier the burdens of tax f" n on the r;;t a of the consumers i 1 to Knint k I more extravagant f 1 to the reiiiiiet'ij classes already I 111 jMttt n pains. Does a i. ; ; .. ra . t. crats lu- Congress reflect a cqrresonl ing change in the attitude of tao rank and file of tho party in the Southern etatos toward the tariff? Are these progressive gentlemen "talking the way their constituents feel?" Is It true that in . a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, the Southern Democracy has become enamored of, those moral and political theories in opposition to which it baa moved and had its being for more than half a cen tury?. Have the many in this section succumbed to the heresy that their interests can be promoted by further subordination to the greed of the few? Is the multitude clamoring tor a con tinuation and increase in the pretend ed taxes which take toll of their ne cessities and swell the profits of a fractional number of their fellow citi zens without adding appreciably 'o the revenues of the Government? We do not believe It If we did. that would not alter the purpose of this paper to continue to champion the greatest good of the greatest number; to cling to the doctrine that no gov ernment is honestly administered which does not adhere strictly to the Jeffersonlan precept of "equal rights to all. special privileges to none." At Washington tor three months past ev ery aggregation or group of produce: in every State has had Its missionary promoter or lobbyist laboring to con vince his Senator or Representative that this or the other industry would surely die out were it not granted even a larger supply of the public pap than that heretofore furnished t. Every Oliver has been there, with Ms cup extended, greedily begging, for more. The daughters of the horse leech have beaeiged the doors .of the committee rooms and Importuned I he schedule-makers not to disappoint the appetite which has grown only more fierce by what they have previously gorged with. If this clamor has been mistaken for vox populi, these who have so construed it have been egre giously mistaken. All the producers of a certain sort hare been heard from, but the millions of consumers have been conspicuous by their ab sence. Senator Lodge ventures to say that this is because there are no consumers who are not alao pr ducers. He sadly errs, if he meaas by this that there are no consumers who do not share the feast spread for the producers. The merchants, the bulk of the farmers and land owners, the army of bookkeepers and clerks, the salaried and wage-earners of every description, the professional man, skilled labor all of these class es are producers in a certain sense, but each of them is oppressed by the system on which' the preferred ele ment fattens. The trust makes pig iron tor $7.60 a ton including the cost f labor which is $2.10. The product veils for nineteen to twenty-one dol lars a ton through the grace of Pro lection, but not a dollar of the ex cess goes to swell the Income of the men who help to produce it This is true in all the tines of Industry which are the peta of the government What boots it to Tom, Dick and Harry that others roll in riches by reason of high duties on the articles they nrtf ducet The tiller of the sell, the man with the hoe, the driver of tbe pea. the salesman at the counter, get ao stiver of the harvest but are forted to pay higher prices for all they eat and wear. Do the latter realize this? Wait and see! If they do not kaow it then, they will learn the u4 'act when the revision has been completed and they find that their condition haz been made worse instead of beter. 11 tnetr eyes are not opened now to the fact that they are ruthlessly rib bed under the forms of law, that what is filched from them under the color of taxation goes directly to the nock eta of the monopolies, that the exten sion of the system to new objects of partial treatment only multiplies the numoer or licensed robbers and ac centuates the Helplessness of the plundered it will not be the fault of the Virginian-Pilot if their blindness continues. What punishment Republican voters will visit on the leaders who lave nullified their part? pledge and dis appointed their popular hope of sub stantial relief, It Is not our province 10 enquire. But we shall nree in season and out that the Democrat: of4 the South shall rally at the next elec tion to replace the representatives who have wavered In their duty bv men who will be true to the people to me masses oi ine people, to the general as against the sneclal Inter est, to the great silent multitude in stead or the noisy tew. We will enter into no truce or oarlev with that phase of Democracy which holds that a dishonest system can be mode honest by extension and diffusion. It Is raw sophistry , to say that the obesity of the producer does not come from the starvation of the consumer. It betokens moral obtuse ness and eco nomic ignorance, to claim that a pub lic evu can oe ameliorated by fore- geing opposition to it and Joining with is iuremosi practitioners. We are opposed to such a tariff as the Diaglay act provided or as the Aldrich bill foreshadows because It is wrong be cause it does not conduce to the gen- prosperity oi ine country; tie cause It takes from one man to en rich another, and lastly because It Is on-Democratic The Democracy which condones such a tariff Is not true Dem ocracy for It creates a privileged class, lends the powers of government to the creation of an aristocracy of favor, and places A and B in an unequal re lation to the law... Democracy means a government by the neoDle'for the mvl of the people, not for the aggrandizo- mem oi a small fraction of the peo ple. Those who can not subscribe -o that definition should not hold Demo. cratlc commissions to legislate for uemocratic constituencies. - "Those persons who are maklne uch a clamor la favor of reducing the tariff in the Interest of the con sumers seem to forget that in this country nearly every consumer is also a producer. - consequently -a policy which will aid the producer is almost certain to be for the best Interest of the consumer." Harrisonburg Times. It may be to the interest nf mlL lions ot consumers to pay the pro ducers prices for the necessaries of lire from eighty . to one hundred and nay per cent above those whk-h would constitute a generous profit on the cost of the nroducta. btft nelth.-r tbe pockets nor the eommon-sease of those who are so mulcted alva ea- aorsement to that view of the case. An arrangement . through which the woolen mills can put their shoddy on the domestic market at a price double that which the Canadian manufactur er charges for the genuine article can scarcely be called advantageous to the millions of Uncle Sam's sons' and and daughters who are thus doomed to Inferior apparel at a superior cost t,ike tne exploded assertion that the foreigner pays the tax, the above is one of tne Protectionist sums that "dont prove." - FLIE8! HOW TO REDUCE THEM. W. F. Masse?. t Every one will admit that flies are great nuisance la summer but tew fiiltjLerBtand JHlangeTWWfrom flies as carriers of disease germs and nun. i nave ottea urged the Im portance of getting the manure out on the fields as fast as made. This Is a matter of even more Importance than In winter, as the hot weather comes on, for the horse ' manure Is the breeding place of the house flies, Bud It !a not piensantj to jMy Jhetatn themselves.When cornered the luaM, to have files covering our food when they are right from tho manmo. niie. Flies on the farm can be niado much scarcer by keeping the manure well cleaned up. Then the woven wire screens are now made very cheaply and easily adapted to all sires of windows, and wire screen diiors fitted with springs to close quickly wii' also aid In keeping out flies aad mosquitoesi The tew that get In can be rapidly disposed of with one of the flue wire brushes now sold in tho hardware stores. With one of these , the housekeeper can go around the room and kill every fly on w-Ul or window very rapidly. Especially should there be the closest attention to keep out files when there is sickness In the neighbor hood, and people are careless about the wastes of the sick room. I called attention last year to. the fact that flies in the dining-room caused the out break of typhoid at the State Normal College at Greensboro, and doubtless, many other, cases of diseases that pux xled people to find the cause, were due to the flies. Hence It is not-only important for comfort tq keep the flies out. bit especially important as a pre ventive of disease. With a farm-house Isolated from other buildings, it should be easy to prevent many of the files that are usually found there, by keeping the stables and farm-yard absolutely clean of manure, and getting It out wtere It will do good and not harm. Remember that they have horse manure and filth to breed in. and you do want these carried into your milk or otter food. SOtfe BALANCE-OF-TRADE RE FLECTIONS. . Atlaata Journal , - " The department of commerce and labor has recently finished Its calcu lations ot the International trade of the world for the year 1907, in which the important part played therein by ifae United States Is duly noted. - As indicating mere volume ot trade these figures are indeed inspiring, hut as indicating tbe magnitude of the scale on which the American people are plundered by means ot a protec tive tariff they only serve to make the judicious grieve. r ; We are told that our Imports repre sented fourteen and four-tenths per cent of the import trade ot the world, and our exports nine and two-tenths per ce.it ot the export trade of the world.' Putting it in gross figures, our ex ports amounted to one billion eight hundred and thirty-five millions of dol- ar second only to that of Great Jritain while our Imports were one oiilion one hundred aad ninety-four millions. This leaves a balance of tfade in our favor of six hundred and .'orty-one millions. But as Dan Sully pointed out In the iarca Cosmopolitan, our exporu ! raw cotton, sent to' England to b? -nauuiaciurea ana then sold back to as, represents the entire value of this aalaace ot trade, and we continue in ndu3trial vassalage to Manchester. We have been protecting cotton joods for ninety-two years, and today naiataia a tariff of practically fifty er cent on them, and yet we ship ibroad only fifty millions of cotton ;oods while great Britain alone, after juying the" raw cotton from us, sells hree hundred million dollars' worth ft eetton goods. Applying the figures o ;he two countries, we are selling io Jgiard less than two million dollars' vorth of manufactured cotton goods, vhile she is selling to us more than :w, otj -three millions every year. - Ot the great volume ot imports flg ird out by the department ot com- nerce and labor, at least six hundred md finy million dollars' worth paid a ariff tax ot fortyfive and a quarter per eest t ut while we were Importing- dutia ble goods to this amount the internal u&.le was thirty-five times as great, and oa a large proportion of this am sunt the American consumer uaa to pay an extra price ar. proximately equal to the tar iff of forty-five ner cent Whii th government was eoleetin innwiMin ;l8 three hundred millions from these imports, the protective machinery tf ih g vernment was used to boost pri ces furty-five per cent on a volume of domestic trade thirty-fire times as urge as tne imports. Te put it succinctly, the Americin consumer was robbed of morn than billoa dollars, in domestic trade. In ordeij for the government to collect three- hundred millions of dollars and at the same time support the Infant inaustnes, many of which like the woo.ea and sotton industries, were, ac- cu.uiDg to me pioneers of those in anstrtea, self-sustaining before 1833 ana nance needed no protection it sounds magnificent to read that our Imports in 1907 were a billion one hundred and ninety-four millions cf dollars, but there is but little comfort to the American consumer in that fact, when he bitterly recalls that the ma chinery set up by the high protective tariff .is collecting thirty-five dollars from ihe people every time the govern ment gets a dollar, and that this sys tem has become so thoroughly Imbed ded that even such earnest protests as those of Senator Dolliver, himself a leading Republican, find no sympa- iucuv. response irom tne rank and file ot his party. The tendency of the revision now 3:ng on. in congress is apparent to tne most casual .observer. President Tart was elected on a pledge to reduce ui a tariff, and yet we find that the measure reported by the finance com mittee ot tne senate reduces the tar iff on some three hnndrd and odd ar ticles, wane It increases the tariff on r.v, ive nundred. no human being conceived. whn t!.e tariff was beine Increased dnrin? the war to offset the Internal revenue taxes required by the exigencies of that time, that the scheduiesrfar-ln eccss oi ine "tantr ot abominations, ta anything but a temporary meas ure. -Before 1872 the last of those jo urnal taxes bad been reoealed. 'But the protection sriven the lactorer at mat time to Indemnify him against those internal taxes, have gone on increasing year bv rear, until it I no longer pretended by honest men issc ue protective duties are an v. thing store than a device by which the oieiy are plundered, to enrich the privileged few. The bright hopes which had been inspired by the Taft administration, In regard to the tariff, have been disap pointed, as they have always "been dis appointed dnring these forty-odd years. There is but one hope of relief from tms burden of taxation, and that Is for tne Democratic party to wrest the reins of pawer from the Republican party and to revise the tariff, not as the manufacturers would have It re vised, but as the advocates of a reve nue tariff demand. DEMOCRACY WA8 "OFFERED THE CHANCE OF WINNING IN 189 AND 1900, WHEN THE SOUTH WAS 80LID AND THE WEALTH OF THE EAST HAD NOT BEEN The Norfolk Virginian contains this editorial: A Mix-Up Impending, In their eagerness to revise the tan- Iff upward the. standpatters are re sorting to all kinds of tricks to main- other day they undertook to show Hint the prevailing high prices of tho necessities of. life wero caused by the retailers and not by the tariff. This moves Tho Washington Herald to ak It "the business men ot the country, the retailers, large and small, who have been tbe mainstay of the party in recent years, meekly accept that arraignment? Will they submit to being put in the role tf publlo oppressors, that the trusts, under the protection of an iniquitous tariff, law, may wax the greater and stronger? We do not believe If Sounds reasonable, but such things have happened as people meekly sub mitting to a thing under the guise ot party regularity. . Much speculation la rife over the charge that there is great opposition to the present tariff bill that there is in fact a "great uprising," but The Herald confesses It does not - see signs ot It, for In the same article from which the above Is taken that paper says: Assuming that the people, tho great body ot consumers, are taking a deep and burning Interest In all that la transpiring , at Washington, the warnings and prophecies now given out by Gov. Johnson, James J. Hill, and others seem to be abundant' ly warranted. Certainly the Republi cua jzny is Inviting an overthrow in the t. Congressional - elections next year.' ... , - ...;.., ' . "But is the assumption Itself that the people are aroused over the tariff warranted? Is It true? The con sumers ought to be taking a deep and burning interest In the spectacle at the Capitol, for their welfare Is deep ly involved in It: but are they? Often we are moved to doubt it Frankly speaking, evidence Is lacking of a great public demand for honest tar iff revision. People are aroused In spots Iowa, for example, Is said to be literally on fire for tariff reduc tion but taking . the country as a whole. It Is manifesting marked un concern, an obvious indifference, res pecting legislation vitally affecting it We do not undertake to explain It; we simply call attention to the fact, or what seems to us a fact "A consistent and persistent advo cate of revision downward, this pa per is constantly hearing frora the Interests the selfish Interests by way of protest or defense; but from the consumer,' the payer of the tax, rarely a word. He apparently Is sub missive, acquiescent, longsufferlng, and reconciled to his fate. "Does any rational being really be lieve that the Republican party, through the Congress which it con trols, - would dare disregard Its pledges, as it Is proposing to disre gard them, by raising tariff taxes in stead ot lowering them, it the people of the country, the millions of con sumers, were actually aroused as Jiey ought to be? No; the spectacle at he Capitol would be quite a dif ferent thing." As a result ot all this tariff tinker ing it looks like there Is going to be a new allignment soon, with the Solid Bouth broken and some of the West ern States flopping over to the Dem ocratic party. We of the South have stood for a reduction of the tariff un til recently, cut now we are being tinctured with protection in a more or less high degree, while some of the States of the West are giving vis ible signs of kicking out of the traces. New England and the East are running things to suit them selves and the sight is not pleasant to the West . " We cannot say that we would wel come a shake-up of this kind, but it would be most interesting at least It would be something new. THE GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT Atlanta Journal - Our people are at last awake to the fact that in a far-reaching system of good roads lies the best hope ot our future social. Agricultural and Indus trial development For too lone we have moved along like Bnnyan's Man witn tne Muck Rake, with eyes fixed upon the ground immediately at our ieet we nave not taken a broad and comprehensive survey of our needs. The only aspect of transportation wnicn nas enlisted our attention has Deen tne railroads. But in the devel opment or a system of good public roads we would place ourselves very argeiy in a position of independence, me growing use oi automobile ve hicles of various kinds emphasizes this phase of the question. - The value of good roads as a sup plement to, and largely as a substi tute for railroads, is shown In France today, where the postal employes are on strike. Automobiles were prompt ly vroognt into ptay over those high ways, which are the finast In h .m and they are making regular trips ct iwu uunurea anv nve miles to carry nits uiaus. , . i ine importance ot good roads Is brought home to us when we realize that, according to a conservative eati. mate, the cost of transportation over the muddy public roads of OeoriHa i about fifteen millions of dollars a year iuui w me rate or twenty-five and thirty cents per ton mile. On a system of good roads this transportation charge should easily be reduced by two-thirds, thus effecting the people ot Georgia, and particular- y io me iarmers, of ten million dol lars per year. me saving or such a sum wonn striving lor? " : If every state along the Atlantic sea- uoara is wasting ten million dollars a year by reason of bad roadn. m not the most elementary proposition of common sense that we can afford to spenn at least a few millions in each siate m order to provide cood roads? . And yet this saving on the cost of transportation is Out the smallest Item to be considered.' The taxable value oi tne land will enhance in nronnrtlnn as it Is made more accessible tn h market towns and cities. Everv ennn. ty and every municipality will receive a direct Denent from this Ineraajiarf value by securing a lartrer amount nf anuuat taxes. , - , .. , it is ODvlous that anv amount nf money wnicn may be invested in good roaos, particularly in a system ot Bcienune and continuous good roads, will yield a return of from ten to a hundred fold every year. ' The knitting together of neighbor- uuuu huu me sirenetnemnc or th social tie will contribute Incalculably towards the education and culture of ine peopie. me dreary isolation in which so many of our farmers have lived will give olace to the nnnditinn. of country life which in a climate like ours, blessed with so many natural re sources, would he ideal. : The people of older countries have Inn tin.. reached the staee where tw am Weary of the shut-in life of cities, and set their hearts upon a home In the country as the end and aim of their aspirations. They have begun by mak ing transportation and cammnnn. lton, by private conveyance, easy and ample, and everything else has follow ed naturally. ' ' ' Virginia, the Carol nar-end Gwei would become at an earthly naradiae if such conditions should ever prevail morig. otir ownpeople. We would material prosperity beyond all meas ure. . . This proposed hlehwav bfltwt New York and Atlanta has set tha ma. chlnery in motion ajid it is entitled to the warmest support of every pa triotic, as well ai'of every thrifty, cit izen in every state through which It Is to pass. ' '- THE FAITHLESS STEWARDS. Newport News (Va.) Dally Press. There Is one way, and one way only, by which the Democracy may re instate Itself in publlo eBteem and be prepared to wage a battle at the polls with a chance of winning. That is to retire at the primaries every so-called Democrat In spite of" the blandish ments ot special Interests and the se ductive persuasion ot the Republican boss. . NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN ; PORTS. Minneapolis Journal. ' ' Boston is no longer the second port ot the country, but she remains the capital of New England, and perhaps that is glory enough. Boston la not even the third port, bot Galveston and New Orleans. having passed her in the year 1908.' - - While New York la the first port In the country... her percentage of loss in 1908 was 14.9 per cent New York's lead, however. Is so great that a relatively large loss does not alter her position. - However, other Northern ports, In cluding Philadelphia, exhibit percent ages of loss, whereas Galveston, New Orleans, and other Gulf ports, and Norfolk-Newport News show Increases, in some instances very large. Thus is demonstrated the shift toward the South -In the commercial routes, as well as the development of the par ticular region of the South behind each, of the ports exhibiting .In creases. ' The Boston Chamber of Commerce ascribes the Boston losses to "unjust railroad port differentials." The dif ferentials have, however, received the endorsement of the Interstate com merce commission. New England, as a matter of tact, has no auarrel with the railways, which by favorable dis criminations preserve her Industries. Boston is simply suffering in some- wnai larger degree rrom the begin nings or a movement that Is inevi table. Exports originating in the west and Southwest especially will uoi continue iorever to now east ward over a long railway route, when tney can reacn salt water at the uuu at. a longrtade as rar west as Kansas city. ; The loss of Boston and New York for 1908 waa not only relative, but absolute. Much of the absolute loss is, of course, to be ascribed to busi ness depression, and will be recovered in prosperous times. The more south. erly ports, nevertheless, are destined to take a greater and greater percent age of the nation's exports and im port Dusiness. Mere excellence of harbor does not avail to give a city predominance, or Boston with her superior harbor, the best perhaps on the Atlantic Coat would have surpassed New York. Be sides, the. more southerly harbors are Ine estuary of the James river. In which are Hampton Roads, Norfolk and Newport News, furnishes road stead anchorage, safe havens ' and deep water np to the very shores in such manner as for twentieth cei tury shipping make of It as com modious and convenient a harbor as exists in the world. The Charleston harbor Is, of course, oimcuit ror the new vessels, nnr the Savannah river any too advanta geous, although out of it Is carried the cotton of the South Atlantic states. in we uuii, nowever.- there are plenty of havens. Galveston, no that her sea wall protects her from hur ricanes, is assured a commercial fu ture, as ner spit of sand fronts natural harbor of the first quality. THROWING THE FAT IN THE FIRE ... JUST AS WE DID IN 1893. . Raleigh News and Ohserver. ' A prominent citizen, who was In Washington last week and who has peculiar opportunities tor knowing the sentiment in and out of the Senate, In a jiriraie tetter, writes tne following ine Democrats are so badly de moralised nere, each trying to get something for his own State, that it Is humiliating In the extreme The eighteen Democrats who followed Bailey in voting tor the tariff on Iron ore, eighty-five per cent of the Iron ore of this country being owned by the trusts, have made the Democrats of the country sick, and some of the Senators tell me if they had It to do over again they would vote for free ore. The newspapers of the country have been roasting them, and letters teuing inem mat their party has gone to the bow-wows, by reason of their action, etc., are being received. One Senator stated he was going to change his vote, as he voted under a misap- IficuQIigiuji. It is most disheartening and dli couraging ior Democrats all over tho country to see so many Democratic senators ac Washington voting in manner mat opens the party to the charge of Inconsistency and will surely make it more difficult for the party mu uie election next year. The Democratic party never had so fine a chance since 1892 to sweep the country and It will carry the House two years hence without doubt unless ine inconsistent votes of Democrats in Congress prevent Just as the party woo wining into its own, it nas damp ened tbe ardor of manv to im thii the eternal principles of the party are uvsuiieu m an attempt oy -some rep resentatives of the nartv to nt Hruw.iat uuuro uu arucies owned KV naranna of Influence in their particular State. The Senators have, in their desire to s special rates ror local Interests, inflicted a blow that is the only lion Zzt OI ' democratic victory nexf year. Of course. thv win t differently but they have erred and errea grievously. . : : r ;-,. LIGHT WITHOUT HEAT, New York American! ", This is not anJlesop fable, T although There are two things In whose nrea. u !"e sianos wondering and abashed the little glowworm (of the yet tinier firefly) end iha miot ft arching the sky with Its glimmering train. Each of them holds the same secret how to make light without heat The man who gets that secret win revolutionize tne planet.- The late president of the Royal As- huiiuuhwh society or Great Britain referred to the value of tho Mm.)'. secret in his retiring address. He thought that we do not anfflMantiv predate the wondrous spectacle of a comet's tail. It shows us hundreds of billions of cubic miles of space simul taneously glowing with luminosity whose origin is a mystery. ; . .'. . it is a gigantic" experiment in a branch of physics of which we as yet -"" " iiliw. ine comet is Im mersed In what we mar well n,mrA as a vacuum; at least it is a far more perfect vacuum that we can produce. Yet the persistent glow of the comet's tail shows that there is no real vac uum there, but a vast ouantltv nf r. tremely attenuated matter which tV doubf.pc,se ofVlomlnoslty - r "u611l., rruiessor newaii thinks, to awake to tha im.i..,. hint ,n;v; -v. v uu niiuwi. np ava "ttrh mf v aiOLli we could discover a method of u.iuiiiug Kes ana vapors In ultra vacuus spaces artificially maintained on earth, we should not have a meth od of artlflolal Illumination at econom leal as that pf the gJowwpnn anO-as brilliant as la needed for our noctur nal life?" This thing may really be within our reach, although at the present time we cannot even suggest to ourselves exactly how it is to be attained. But the tendency of recent investigation is in that direction. As Sir John Her schel said ot another dlsoovery which was Just at the door, "We can feel it trembling along the farreachlng line of our analysis." There are not a tew men, who are regarded by their harder headed scien tific brethren as "dreamers," who pic ture to themselves a fast coming time when we shall not only obtain light at as cheap a rote as the firefly has It, but when we shall have tapped the ex hauatless stores ot energy that sleep all around us in nature. We are like one In a dream sus pended in the midst ot a vast work shop crowded with multitudinous ma chines, all whirling and fluttering In a storm of energies, hut which he can neither control nor understand. If we could see these things they might terrify us, as the dreamer is terrified by the whirring belts and spinning wheels ot his vision, seeming to grasp at his lite. If the scientific Investigator needs to-establish a ralson d'etre in the eyes of the public which cannot follow either his processes or his results, he has only to point to the fact that the greatest practical, discoveries of mod ern times have come Out of the labora tories from things as incomprehensible to the uninitiated as so much magic. Jt is a well known fact that the growing might ot Germany springs from her devotion to "pure research." Referring again to the pregnant hint ot the comet, Professor Newall li clearly right in saying, "Here is a theme that should stir up the most commercial mind in the support ot as tronomy." . .. -; THE LIBERTY POINT DECLARA V TION. , -Some Local Incidents of the Revolu tion.. '-' . Capt Jas. D. McNeill, chairman ot the Committee ot Arrangements f ir the celebration of the 134 anniversary of Liberty Point Declaration ot Inde pendence and to Mrs. S. G. Ayer, pres ident of the Ladles Liberty Point Mon ument Association, Dear Sir, and Mad am: " ., ,. In compliance to the request ot both of you, I herewith send you a few f the events that occurred during tha Revolutionary War In this section of the country related to me, when 1 small boy, by my great-grandmother, Mrs. Mary Gee, the then widow of James Gee, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. James Gee, during the early part of the Revolution, was one of General Marlon's men In South Carolina. He hearing of the depredations ot the Tories In this part of the country. uy uie consent or his general, re turned home and organized a compa ny to keep the Tories In subjection. He was elected captain of his com pany. One ot the most striking In stances that impressed Itself upon my memory, was the skirmish fight be tween the Patriots (then called Whigs) and the Tories on the WII mington road Just below the Buxton' woods.. .. , Signs of breastworks dnring. that skirmish can be seen this day. Signs of graves of the Tories and a British officer that commanded them can be seen. - in that battle Capt Gee had his three-cornered - cocked hat shot to pieces and a scalp wound. Home of his men wanted to take him off to Camp on account of his scalp-wound, but he said, no, he would not leave them, that time, and the doctors would enre his head, but the rascals have destroyed my hat, and I don t know where I will get another. The Tories were finally defeated and fled down to Bladen county and In Tory Hole on the banks of the Cape near near Elizabethtown. . Mrs. Gee resided pn Hay street .: a house located about where Mr. Ran dall McMillan now lives." - Hay street was then not more than a cart path and south of that was nucaieoerry - swamp, afterwards known as Mumford's swamp The Tories had captured Mr. Theo phllus Evans and Mr. Jno. Oliver (both were signers ot independence) aim uea weir legs under a horse's belly. wine on their way to headquar ters in tne western part of this coun v, uppea at Jirs. Gee's house tor oreauast . . They asked tor liquor, but she refnu. eu unless they released their prisoners, im. proposition they rejected. But sne nnaiiy thought she would niav trick oh them to gain her wish to set me prisoners tree, so she supplied um oounuruiiy with Jamaica mm yum iney oecame drank.. Then she went out and cut the Cords that hnmM the prisoners and set them free.' She rarnisned them with fresh horses and u uiui to nee ror home as fast iney could. ' : ' : After the Tories had recovered tm. their drunken stupor they became very "i-uuui ana tnreatened her. but aha tooa ner ground and defied them uee moved just west of Pav. ettevuie on a large tract of land .h naa purchased and-lived there until and died at the age of 88 veam sue was Durled In a coffin mad t tne lumber of a walnut tree. th .aad ra wnicn she planted. ' & ' Shd was a devoted member nf . Baptist church, and her funeral was l'""KU y ev, James McDanlel n much loved pastor ".of the RnH vuurcn oi nayetteville. His text was Rer. 14, 13 verse, being selected by i. t . . ... aurwju ana is at follows: " t And I heard a voice from heavan aylng unto me: Write, blessed are uu wnicn die In the j Lord t, henceforth: Yea, salth the Spirit, that they rnay rest from' their lahnr.. their works do follow them." Wishing yon much anccea. lir laudibleand patriotic undertaking t am, with kindest regards, Tours truly. ' ' ' - 'k" o Mr, L. Bha Is In town today from . : t0 ,89 Mn 3' B- Humphrey, in the Hlghsmlth hospital. , Ve are glad -to learn her condition Is much taproved today, She has about recov. eredjrora Jrjr eriout ppmkw DOINGS AT STEDMAN. Stodman, May ?9. Mr. Alex Carver, of FayetteviUe, and other points, hw been spending a few days w'th niece, Mrs. William Watson, and aUo calling on other old friends. The 81st birthday of Mr. Owen Gard ner waa celebrated last Wednesday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. F. Beard, with whom he now lives, Mr. Gardner Is one of Bladen coun ty's most worthy citizens. The follow ing programme was carried out: 1Dlnner plo-nlo fashion, i J A social,-informal reception. 3-Slnglng by the choir, led by Mr. Sankey Bullard. 4 Prayer by Rev. N. M. McDonald. 6 Singing by the choir. 6 Address by Rev. 0. W. Dowd, ' 7 Singing of the closing song by the congregation. , About seventy-five people wero pre sent; Mr. Gardner's children, grand children, and Ufe-long friends. .' Rev. McDonald and family will fe'o today on a visit to Mrs. McDonald's parents at Hope Mills. ' . Mrs. Mattle Ringgold and children have moved for the summer to the home of her father, Mr. Johnson, be low Cedar Creek.. r ; Miss Lela Home was a visitor in Stedman Sunday. . j :. Mr. Love Autry was also a visitor in Stedman last Sunday. Misses Maria and Ethel Sessoms are making a week-end visit to Mr. and Mrs, R. S. Autry. Miss Clara Sessoms is able to be out In a wheel chair, and her many friends hope she will soon be able to Walk and talk again. RAEFORD LETTER. Correspondence of the Observer.. The exercises of the Fourteenth An nual Commencement of Raeford In stitute began on Friday evening, May 14, 1909, with a contest tor a debater's medal, awarded by the Literary Socie ties . Query: Resolved "That tbe present tariff of two dollars per thousand on lumber be retained." Affirmative- Ell Cole, David War ner and Raymond Monroe.- Negative Benton Thomas, Eldridge Chlsholm and Oscar Leach. Rev. W. C. Brown and Messrs. B. ft. Gatlln and W. T. Covington decided the question, announcing that the af firmative had won, but withholding the name of the speaker until commence ment day proper. 1 Rev. W. Hi. Britt, of the Baptist church of Richland, N. C, preached the sermon to the graduating class Sunday morning, and Sunday evening to the Y. M. C. A and the Y. W. C. A. Monday evening the primary and; in termediate departments under the di rection of Miss Daisy Reld and Miss Annie Barnes entertained delightfully a large audience with a "sunbonnet babies drill," "alphabet children," "a dream of Sowers" and "a May pole dance." Tuesday morning at 10:30 the con III IBB HOGliESS MRD III p III o The Southern standard of vsuper lative satisfaction. Purity person ified. Nature's natural cooking- fat, for all purposes, from bread making to fish-frying. Economy, wholesomeness, and ( healthful ness combined. There's none other anywhere near so good. - O III o O III III i THT-5omracoTTONonro in o STATEMENT FOURTH NATIONAL BANK OF FAYETTEVILLE, N. C, - 7 - At the Close ot Business April 28, 1909. RKsnrrprwa. Loans and Bonds.,,..,, ! Overdrafts ., Building and Fixtures T!" Demand Loans 1132 lis 71 714,277.18 2,659.41 28,000.00 Cash and due from banks... 194,880.87 828,993.08 11,069,829.67 H. W. LILLY, President; JOHN O ELLINGTON, V.Pres. and Cashier. . JOHN H. HIQHTOWER, Assistant Cashier. , Your Business Solicited. SCHOOL . book., ,i.r cPy Bobk, Ac, Ito. Price list of books furnished upon aoollcatton IOTA substantial BOOK COVER gCw?1 wS each book purchased. J ' The New Doolc Gtorc Compan test for the declalmer's modal was en tered by Jonathan Elliott, Avon Elliott and Btarr McMillan from the Eupheu nlon Socloty and Frank Cameron, George Fuller and James Currle from the Lee Socloty. , . The contest was very close and each contestant bad a number of. followers that would have awarded him the med al, but the Judges decided that "The Hand ot God in History" delivered by Mr. George Fuller, was the winning number. Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 Mr. W. S. D. Dameron, a prominent attorney of Burlington, N. C, and a one-time student of Raeford Institute, addressed tbe Literary Societies, speaking a very brief hour on "The Place and Influence ot the Publlo Speaker." Mr, Dameron Is a man ot Ideals and he imparted to his audience the fire that was burning in his soul. The arrival on the four o'clock train of the cornet band from Rockingham gave an Impetus and enthusiasm to the remaining hours and days. : v Bennettsville and Raeford crossed bats at 4:80. Score 4 to 2 In favor of Raeford. v-" Tuesday evening at 8:30 a very at tractive programme was given by Miss Mary Atkinson's muslo pupils and Miss Ida Norman Womack's expression pu pils. Too much cannot be said In praise of this' feature and the excel lent work done In both departments. It Is Impossible to mention each par ticipant and unjust to omit one. Wednesday morning expectant hun dreds awaited the coming of Dr. Hen ry Louis Smith, pf Davidson College, who came from Fayettevllle by a twenty-mile drive, reaching us at 11:30 to deliver the commencement address. "The Age of Mind" was presented in Dr. Smith's own style, thought and power, and this alone was sufficient good for the commencement of any In stitution. ' ' A steady rain prevented a . second game between Bennettsville and Rae ford Wednesday afternoon. - The debater's medal was' presented to Mr. Raymond Monroe by Dr. Smith. Wednesday evening at 8:30 Misses Mary Currle, Mamie Blue, A Gat lln, Wllma McMillan, Susie Dickson and Ruth Townsend entered the lists for the elocution medal, given by the Athenian Literary Society. The hard won honor was awarded to Miss Ruth Townsend, whose fine Impersonation provoked much applause. - , v Miss Susie Dickson brought down the house with "Christmas at the Quar ters." v-yv . Dr. A. P. Dixon in a few words ex pressed the sentiments of the trus tees of the Institute and the commu nity at large by saying that the clos ing year was the best In- the history ot the school and that each teacher had given.' work of such merit that the trustees desired to retain the en tire faculty tor the coming year. We regret to say that Prof. C. E. Mcintosh will not return, but will re sume his work at the University of North Carolina. Prof. Zeb Holler al so declined reelection. --- - Mrs. Albert Pickett Dickson Is at tending the graduation of her son, Mr. Albert Dickson at Davidson College. Mr. Rufus Dickson Is at home from Union Theological Seminary. . ' Miss Lizzie Lee Currle of Seventy First, has been visiting Miss Inn Poole. .. Miss Bettle Mclver from Ocala, Fla., is with Miss Bessie Blue. . OF CONDITION ; " LIABILITIES. Capital Stock ,r.i Surplus Undivided Profits Circulation ...... Deposits " " Re-dlscounts ., V. B. Bond Account 100,000.01 60,000.00 3,765.65 100,000.00 681,674.02 69,500.00 65,000.0 11,069,029.67 BOOKS ! - c$r, -A 3S "7- 0PPlt Post Office, Fsyrtteville, N. C,
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