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HENDERSONVILLE. N. 0.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1906.
VOL. XV. NO 40
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CONDITION OF OUR FARMERS.
Bureau of Labor and Printing
Gives out Interesting Facts
Concerning the Agricultural
Industry of the State.,
Following will be found a general
summarjof the information contained in
. the tables of chapter one now in prepa
ration for the 1966 report Bureau of
Labor and Printing:
Table No. 1 shows an increase in the
value of land In every county. Fertili
ty of land is reported maintained in
eighty-nine counties; eight counties
report that it is not. Four counties re
port a tendency ' to have larger farms;
ninety-three smaller. Every county re
ports labor scarce. Ninety-six counties
report negro labor unreliable; one no
negro labor, Sixty-six counties report
employment regular; thirty-one irregu
lar. Fifty-even counties favor immi
gration; thirty-seven oppose it and
three do not answer.
In Table No. 2 ninety-five counties
report increase in cost of living; two re
port no increase. Highest average
wages paid men $21.71, an inorease of
$1.85 per month over last year; lowest
13.09, an increase of ninety cents.
Highest average wages paid women
813,13, an increase of seventy-six cents
per month over last year; lowest $8.65,
an increase. of thirty-seven cents over
last year. Average wages of children
$8,01, an increase of fifty-six cents per
month oyer' last year.
Table No 9 shows that seventy-three
counties produce cotton at $33.18 per
bale of 900 pounds; twenty-four counties
do not report. Seventy-seven counties
produce wheat at a cost of seventy-three
cents per bushel; twenty counties dp not
report wheat. Ninety-saix counties
produce corn at forty-nine cents per
bushel; one county does not report..
Eighty -nine counties produce oats at
thirty-four cents per bushel; eight
counties do not report oats. Sixty-seven
counties produce tobacco at $7.50
per one hundred pounds; thirty coun
ties do not report.
Table No. 4 shows present market
p?ice of cotton,., wheat, corn, oats and
tobacco. ' v
Table No. 5. shows cst of production,
sailing price and profit on cotton, wheat,
corn, oats and tobacco, upon each of
which, with few exceptions, it will be
noted that there is a substantial profit.
MR. SHIPMAS'S REPORT.
Assistant Labor Commissioner M. L.
Shipman has returned from a visit to a
number of cotton mills which failed to
make the annual report. The law is
very defective, there being no penalty
for suoa failure. Mr. Shipman says that
he has reports now from about four
fifths of all the mills. He has visited
. several new mills, including three at
Concord, one of these having formerly
been operated by negro labor and now
being owned by the Cannon Company,
which has three other mills there; two
mills at Gastonla, One at King's Moun
tain, one at Dallas and one at Belmont.
He says that there is a large increase in
the number of miscellaneous factories
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and a considerable increase in a number
of furniture factories. The cotton mil1
laborers are not organized into unions
nor is there any such organizations of
furniture factory employes or those in
miscellaneous factories. The great pro
portion of the manufacturers favor com
pulsory education and say they think
this the best solution of the child labor
question. Mr. Shipman says that par
ents of children who work in factories
favor the. law as it, in other words do
not oppose child labor. Several mills
nave reduced their day labor to ten
hours and others seem to be coming to
that plan. Raleigh Correspondence
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BRITT TAKES DAY OFF.
Feigns The Belief that He Will be
Successful In Congressional
Contest
James J. Brltt, the republican candi
date for congress from the Tenth district.
put on a sub" at Murphy today and came
to Asheville to aid in welcoming Secretary
or the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw. .Mr.
Britt and his democratic opponeut, Mr.
Crawford opened the joint campaign at
Robbinsville Monday. The canidates
were due to speak at Murphy today, but
in view of the fact that: Secretary Shaw's
visit to Abheville was primarily in the
interest of Mr. Britt's candidacy, the re
publican aspirant to congress from this
district felt that it would never do to be
absent on so auspicious occasion, and con
sequently delegated Mr. Benbow to meet
Mr. Crawford today. The arrangement
was entirely satisfactory to Mr. Crawford
the joint discussion of national issues
would have gone on uninterrupted but for
the fact that Mr. Benbow failed to show
up. Mr. Israel the socialist candidate,
filled in the time.
Mr. Britt was in high spirits when seen
by a. newspaper m in this morning. He
said that he found conditions in the west
far better than he expected and that at
both Robbinsville and Andrews there were
more republican voters in the audience
than democrats. He said that while there
was not the demonstrative enthusiasm and
no display of "rough honsc' partisanship
manifested in the present joint campaign
that has featured other joint disoussions in
the district, the people nevertheless showed
that they were vitally interested and gave
close and courteous attention to both
speakers. Mr. Britt was greatly pleased
with the high plane on which the joint
discussions have been pitched and said
the people were humorously entertained
at times by the good-natured tilts be
tween himself and bis opponent. Mr.
Britt is enthusiastic over the contest and
has gone Into the campaign with a determi
nation to win if possible. He sees visions
ot victory at polls and if he receives the
support that has been pledged him he will
give Mr. Crawford a elose race. Gazette-
News.
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Raleigh, N. C., Sept. 18, 1906.
Bryan was here. The people became
complacent in the jamb.- The des.r-
one was on hand. More cheers and the
cavalcade and the carr'aiea starWd for the
Metropolitan Hall through lanes of packed
sidewalks, past fluttering hankerchiefs of
women, urged ahead by the honest cheer-
tng or tne men rrotn me larmes, wnose
voices predominated over those of the
city contingent. It was a happy welcome,
after all. The day was forgotten in the
man.
Scena In the Hall.
The hall filled rapidly. On the platform
when the speech began were Governor
Qlenn and the other state officers, mem
bers of the Supreme Court, Judges of the
Superior Court,' Ex-Governor Charles B.
Ay cock, Congressmen Kitchen and
Thomas, Dr. M elver, Dr. Winston, Jose-
phus Daniels, many others, members of
the legislature, prominent democrats, citi
zens of Raleigh and other towns that had
delegations present.
Governor Glenn made a popular intro
duction, towering ' as he rose to speak,
glowing, strong and happy. Bryan got up
slowly, took a pace forward. As he did
so the great audience rolled out its ap
plause fervently. It bombarded him with
kindness, heaping his head with its en-
thusiam as he stood quietly waiting. The
deep smile was running away, back from
his Irish lip and his eyes twinkled softly.
Presently he raised his hand, an easy, half
unconscious movement of the palm out
ward . As he did so the curious phenome
non of his control exhibited itself. The
cheering and applause was at its height
when he made the sign. It fell to silence
at a breath, checked into instant attention.
The entire speech was listened to by the
packed house with a breathless interest.
The crowd, which was dense on platform,
floor galleries and aisles, so far forgot
itself as to stand motionless and, except at
periods of applause, in an utter silence
which the voice of the speaker dominated
with absolute ease. At the conclusion, of
the rather lengthy speech, the interest of
the audience had been kept at suoli an ab
solute notch of attention as to have mis
led,the majority as to the period of time.
This applied to women and children, of
whom there were a considerable number
in attendance, equally with the men. It
expressed the final touch of ability in pub
lic speaking. There was little of the. Bry
an oratory," but the speech moved on
with a sense of reserve power that was
fascinating. It grace was its distinguish
ing characteristic. It held less of action
than formerly, yet was not cut and dried.
It showed Mr. Bryan's growth as an orator
to have well-nigh reached the point where
he can be spoken of in this regard as con
summate. aratefMl t Nrth Carolina.' .
After his introduction Mr. Bryan bean
with a reference to the North Carolina sup
port of him in the convention of 1896, say-
COIIOMER
ing that at that time the Bryan men were
few. that it was easy tq know who they
were and where they were from. He ac
knowledged the Horth Carolina debt - and
won the first burs', of applause by stating
that "you can cal on me
in a campa'gn you think
my scrvicjs." He teraarked,
whenever
you need
however,
that wbe: ever he came South, he had a
feeling that he was not making the best use
of his time. There was such a general in-
fcliaiion,io vote the democratic -ticket that
it seemed scarojly necessary for him to
come wtth the idea of making converts.
It was made less necessary by the fact
that Secretary Shaw had recently made a
to..r ot speecn-making here before him.
He was grateful, he said, to Secretary
Shaw.
Shaw and Iowa's -'Second Best."
It was fair to tell what a compliment he
paid North Carolina in bringing as an
argumeut to this state, the second-hand
clothing which the slate of Iowa had re
jected. He used the speech he made in
Iowa, and which it would have none of,
probably upon the assumption that he was
so far from Iowa that North Carolina
would fail to detect the difference in the
new clothes and old. Shaw he declared to
be the high priest of the stand-patters,
alone of all men insisting that the republi
can party had done everything that was
necessary, nothing that was wrong; that
the country was in such fine condition
that nothing needs to be done in the next
century.
In other states republicans were com
manding changes v in the tariff, in New
England and in Iowa. In the last speech
made by President McEinlcy he had de
clared that the country could not expect to
sell everything and. buy nothing. But
Shaw was not a reformer. He wants the
republican party endorsed in toto. The
trusts he leaves for future discovery. But
he points out nothing. He makes an
argument that'eonfirms most that the dem
ocrats have said on the tariff question.
Give him time and he would confirm the
truth of all they had said.
Entering into a detailed discussion of
Secretary Shaw's argument about the
"drawbacks" by whioh manufacturers are
enabled to buy imported raw material with
the duty practically off and sell at a cheap
er price in foreign than American mark
ets, he showed that tho claim of the secre
tary that only four million dollars of
American goods were sold at a higher
price to Americans than to foreigners was
open to these fatal alternatives:
Shaw Argument Resolved.
The American manufacturers shipped
$120,000,000 worth of goods, on which
they received from the government the
import duties on the raw material by way
of rebates.
If such rebates were necessary to enable
the manufacturers to lower the price of
their goods to meet competition, the amount
of goods sold in foreign markets at prices
above those exacted in America was $120,
000,000 instead of $4,000,000 as claimed
Secretary Shaw, '
If , on the other hand, there were thus
sold more cheaply in foreign markets only
$4,000,000, as claimed by Secretary Shaw,
the vaunted system of drawbacks amount
ed simply to enabling tne manufacturers
exact the same price from foreign con sum
era as that charged Americans and to put
it in his pocket the amount of the draw
backs. , " . ' "'
In other words, taking Secretary Shaw's
Contention as to the amount of goodd sold
more cheaply in foreign than American
markets to be true, the "draw-back", be-'
comes a bonus.
Mr. Bryan consumed considerable time
with the Shaw speech, concluding that it
was not surprising that that . sort of a
speech should fail to do duty in Iowa,
when it defends democratic doctrine; that
the reasonable deduction from Secretary
Shaw's argument was that "if it's neces
sary, it's not necessary," his own argu
ment proving that it is not necessary to
tax yourselves to pay the manufacturer
two prices, when he is shown to be Bafe
from foreign competition. Mr. Bryan
showed conclusively that the democratic
contention that the tariff was paid by the
consumer was borne out by Secretary
Shaw's argument as well as the other con
tention that the labor of American work
men, paid at a greater wage, was of a
quality sufficient to enable it to" compete
with the cheaper labor of foreign countries,
by reason of the latter's Inefficiency. ,
Roosevelt's ''Democratic" Popularity.
Mr. Bryan then took up in detail the
structure of the Roosevelt popularity, call
ing attention to the fact that ten years ago,
there were a d( zen republicans who, it was
thought by their party, might make a suc
cnssful campaign for president, while now
there was only one.
"When a republican speaks in praise and
rejoicing of what his party has done, it is
something which was not in the . republi
can, but in the democratic platform; when
be commences to elaborate an apology it is
for something that his party has failed to
do which the democrats have demanded."
. There was only one man he declared,
who had a chanee to be elected a republi
can president, and he because he had done
some things which the democratic party
bad declared for, and which his party bad
failed to declare for, and done them with
democratic assistance.
And they can't blame the Lord for it;
I am glad the ciops have been good. The
republican cry is that if the crops are good
the party did It; if the crops are bad, the
party is all right and the fault with the
Almighty."; .
The .Almighty, he declared, had ftent
good. tinicsv-taken away all exeose'and left
Statethent of the Finances of.
Henderson Count jr for e&r 1905
Amount County Tax. .
General County Claims Audited
Special Pauper Claims outside Home
Jury Tickets
Tax Collector's Commissions
Treasurer's Comm..:.......'..
Amount over the Court House Fund
Increase of Indebtedness
Genera.! Report of
A. S. R. R. Bonds.. '. $ 97,000.00 on interest at 6 per cen
Court House Bonds ........ ....... 37,000.00 " "
Bond Judgment 5,446.56 " "
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On Interest t $139,446.56
Floating Debt of County.... 12,000.00
Total - ..... $151,446.56
In the above report we estimate the floating debt of the county at
$1 ,000.00. There is no way of ascertaining the exact amount without
an enrollment of the claims. The tax levied this year will be sufficient to
pay off the bond judgment and $1000 of the court house bonds. The
floating debt of the county has increased nearly $4,000 the last year, but
we think by economical management the county can be run, with the
present rate of 23Jc on the $100: We recommend that the office of
Treasurer be abolished and that the paupers of the county be properly
cared for in the home of the aged and infirm; so far we have no report of
the proceeds of the old court house; neither have we any. report of pro
ceeds of rooms rented in the new court house.
Respectfully submitted,
B. T. MORRIS,
CM. FLETCHER,
W. S. YOUNG, i
This 25th day of September, 1906 Finance Com.
them to stand forth on their record in the
sun-light, . ,
Examining the record, he referred to
Roosevelt's appropriation of the democrat
ic declaration in favor of arbitration in the
face of his eulogy by Black as a god ot
war, to the settlement of, the coal strike, to
the rate bill.
Republicans, he said, were saying that
the only attack the democrats could make
was that they had stolen their thunder.
" - My answer is," he declared, ''let them
take the lightning, too. They have the
noise, but they haven't stolen nny effective
legislation."
Treatiaeat of Trusts,
Of treatment of trusts, he attacked the
half-hearted measures to which Roosevelt
has consented to lead himself. First, by
Injunction, when extortion had become
notorious, and asking, please to stop."
That wouldn't do and then . they tried a
fine actually a fine of five thousand dol
lars when the criminal at the bar was mak
( Continued on page 8 )
A MIDNIGHT: MARRIAGE!
The Elopement-and Marriage of
Frederick VV. Gordon von See
feid, a German Baron, and, Miss
Call a Polteyeat, a New Orleans
Heiress, a sister of Frank VV.
Haynes, the Cotton King, of
Flat Rock. r V
. At the unusual hour of one o'clock
in the morning, on Sunday, Sept. 2,
Mi-js Calla Poiteveat, sister of the wife
of Frank W. Haynes, the New Orleans t
cotton king, who has been spending the
summer at Flat Rock, and Frederick
W. Gordon Seefeld, a German baron,
were married in" the offices of Staton,
Rector and Cunningham, by Squire
John H. Tlnley. The witnesses were
R. H. Staton, J. B. Gannon and J. H.
Cunningham. v -
The baron had been staying at the
Gates. Immediately after the ceremony
he and hiB bride went to the Wheeler,
going to Toxaway the next morning
and from there to Asheville and New
York. It is said the dashing baron
came to the United States with the ex
press purpose of mrrrying an heiress,
and he seems to have succeeded, as Miss
Poiteveat has an estate in her own name
in New Orleans. . : -
The marriage was In the face of
strong opposition on the part of the
brides relatives. The brother of the
bride followed the eloping couple to
New York, and It is said hired Pinker- -ton
detectives to trace them to their
hiding place, but he was just a little too
late, as the happy couple sailed for -Germany
on the day he received the'
correct information as to their stopping
place. It was his intention to bring his
sister back with him to Flat Rock."
Sam King, at the Court House, on
Monday received a letter, postmarked
New York, Sept. 21, with a request ,
that a certified copy of the marriage
license be forwarded to 65 Broadway,.
New York, but according to best infor
mation obtainable, they have already,,
left that city.: , -". ;.. ' j ;
'The aron ishaiadsorae, smooth- -faced
manj7,r while hi-wifes-age is
$ 8,293.52
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of Infirm....
....
3,942.40
$ 9,099.77
967.00
1,000.00
411.81
207.34
550.00
$12,235.92 $12,235.92
Co. Indebtedness
given as. 20. Miss Poiteveat has more
than a local reputation as a typical
Southern beauty. Her sister, Mrs.
Haynes, ownes one of the handsomest
country places in Flat Rook, while Mr.
Haynes is one of the richest men of New
Orleans. The baroness has many
friends here and in Asheville, and was
a leader in New Orleans society.
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