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FREE A Ssfc of Beautiful -'iSpcosio or.A Pair oiBt, SciccorG . FREE 'to. 'Hustler ReadersFREE n - , , . Six' ' '. P-, : ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR HENDERSONVILLE. N. 0. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1908 VOL. XVII No 53. rn 4 X For my mouth shall speak truth. Prov. Viii. 7. " THE VERY SAME OLD, OLD CAMPAIGN UE! About Crawford Calling the Country People "Ignorant." The Local Radical Organ Prints a Mis-statement Which Roosevelt Would Call by a "Shorter and Uglier" Word. 0 "Mr. Crawford in his ad dress at Franklin said that Grant was away back in the hills and coves, speaking to the ignorant country peo ple." From the Western North Carolina Times, Dec. 4th. There you are! The same old lie! The very -same, familiar old lie, worked to death, 'most, in the recent campaign, and now trot ted out again for political effect is it to have no rest between now and the next election? The Times, in publishing it, is' like the newly elected Congress man who said: "Mr. Speaker, I rise for infor mation." "I am very glad to hear it," remarked one of his conferees, ' 'for no man needs it more. " It's just one of the countless untruths which composed the very woof and fabric of John Grant's re.cent campaign of mis representation and which has landed him in Washington, there to rattle around m tne seat oi a MAN and to make a big .and empty , noise as the alleged repre sentative of the people of the Tenth District Godsave the mark! . Mr. Crawford never made that alleged statement about the coun try people being "ignorant." Grant knows it and tne local re- ihlip5m orcran an alWed news- - o - ' . paper which throws a Jtew big lines of tvue haphazard over its front page in an effort to be real sensational quiteWillieHearstie, in fact knows it too. This is what Mr. Crawford act ually said: ''Grant is going around in the country districts and talking to those he thinks are ianorant . but who, as he will find out are ianorant.11 Congressman Crawford would no more insult or question tne intelligence of his constituents, i who have repeatedly honored wno nave TXonnrS I conducted by Rev. Shirley Hugh 5!I?Lylmf:a H. a The week-day LUClll, Ulail lie ruuiu owuj w uiiv mud-throwing, gutter -snipe methods which elected his oppon ent for two years. Crawford is a man of the people from whose lowest ranks he has risen to be a figure of national import ance. He is a student, a thinker, whose sheer force of character and unquestioned ability has placed him in the foremost ranks of the country's legisla tors. v But John Grant is elected ' very largely by the aid of such absolute untruths as this about country people being "ignorant. " He is the representative of this district for two years. He has promised to do many things for the district to blast out Buck Shoals and get a Federal building for Hendersonville amongst them. Now let him deliver the goods. He is with his , kind in Washington and has made cer tain definite promises, but in the meantime let this tired and weary old campaign lie rest. Get ac quanted with the truth. It pays. "You can fool part of the peo ple all of the time; all of the peo ple part of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time." SPARKS FROM A LIVE WIRE! Daily expected, 500 assorted doors, surprising low prices. 1650 pairs of sash, to be sold for less than outside competition. Flooring and ceiling at bargains. See us before buying. By buy ing in car lots we give the ad vantage to our customers. RIGBY-MORROW CO. A KILLING. . Frank Mayhew, colored, was shot and almost instantly killed by Sylvester Watson., white, on Friday night, about 8 o'clock, on taeorge bummey;s place, about 6 miles .from town, watson sur rendered on Saturday, and is now in j ail. Coroner Kirk summoned a jury and the body was viewed by them on Sunday afternoon, the inquest taking " place in Stepp's undertaking establishment. watson, it is alleged, had been gambling and drinking with Mayhew since Thursday night On leaving he asked Mayhew for drink. It was given him. He left, returned and asked for a pint. As it was handed him, the shot gun in Watson's hand dis charged its contents into May hew's body, inflicting a horrible, gaping wound in the abdomen from which the intestines prx 'traded. The colored man lived about 30 .minutes. , His 'wife drew the body inside, barricaded the door, lifted a loose plank in the floor and fled to a neighbors. The body remained in the house all night.' watson left and sur rendered on Saturday. The men had not quarreled. The dead man bore a fairly 4 good reputa tion. A throng of curious peo ple viewed the body in Stepp's undertaking rooms on Sunday. He was buried on Monday. A j widow survives him. LOCAL NEWS Mrs. T. R. Barrows is expected home from Boston this week. i Rev. R. N. Willcox has return ed from his business trip North. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hill left on wi1nAc:r?nv trr TTlnrMn wVpra ; they will spend the winter. Mrs. F. S. Thomas left on wed- nesday for Titus ville, Fla., where ane wm vlw, xxcx uiuu. . . Miss Grace Bate and Miss Helen Christian SDent Wednesday with friends in Asheville. R. A. Moody, of Atlanta, spent a few days in town this week, visiting his family. Mr. Moody . . 1 il Ail i- I is now in cnarge oi me Auanut. branch of the Crane Co., of Chi cago. Miss Martha Sullens:er, the u:ui.. iotnnl :vInStitUte' in : town Saturday. W. J. Davis, President of the First National Bank, and T. B. not : Carson went to Spartanburg Sun-1 1 Justiis, supplies -i Hnv whprp thev will remain sev- R M Pryor. lumber j eral days. '.I -J - Special services are being held at St. James Church this week, services, are at 10 a. m. and o p. m. Homer Collins, 16 years old, son of Henry, was accidently shot in the mouth by his brother, last week. Dr. L. b. Morse is at tending him. . The shooting oc curred at Lum Dalton's mill race. Miss Annie H. Flynn and Leroy Scott, both of this city, were married at the Methodist parsonage last Sunday night, Rev. J. w. Moore officiating. The Hustler joins their many friends in hearty congratulations. - Revival services will begin at the East Baptist Mission Sunday, Dec. 13 at 4 o'clock. These ser vices will be conducted by Revs. R. V. Miller and J. w. Moore. All are very cordially invited to attend. If the man who took Judge Pace's fine Stetson hat, Monday, and who left an , old, battered thing in its place, will plasecome back and swap once more the judge will sure be obliged to him. The Judge can't think, well with out his own hat, and besides that when he swaps he says he likes to have something to say v about the trade. Married, at the home of the bride's father, Mr. L. F. Hood, in Hendersonville, Dec. 2, '08, Miss Anni May Hood and Rev. Jas. H. Montgomery, of South Carolina Conference. This good brother has chosen a worthy help mate in his great work, and, the good wishes of many friends will fol low this excellent young lady .to her new home. Rev. S.K. Breed ing performed the ceremony THE ANNUAL STATEMENT. - - ' of Disbursements for Hend erson County from December 1, 1907, to Dec. 1, 1908. ; - i .- . , . December, 1907 J W Lee, keeper co home $35.65 W P Bane, judge elec 1.00 Alfred. Rhodes, jan dur erf N7.50 MrsN Freeman. jail feesNov42.20 B F Staton, elk co com 44.45 J C Brown, reg elec 5.15 T B Conner, fireman ct hs 2475 J Williams, svs as shf 18.00 AshTelTelgCo 4.50 J W Mclntyre, plub jl 7.50 R M Oates, ct hs lights - 15 15 J G Waldrop, med serv 9 30 G N Sentell, co com 10 80 O E Blythe, rprs ct hs, jail 70 00 C E Brooks, pd for coal for . court house 152 33 W S Young, finan'jeom 5 00 Etta Staton, wit fees . 175 M Sitton. " 1 82 Dr Waldrop, med ser 2 00 Otis Powers, sum Judges R R Election 16 50 Dr Waldrop, med srvs 2 00 C M Pace, stationery 8 05 Walker, Evans Co, ink 3 00 B F Staton, sp sch tax list 40 00 C M Pace, cl fees, . . 8 55 E A Drake, judge elec 2 00 G N Sentell, co com 2 70 J A Jones, " 8 10 O V F Blythe. atty fees 32 39 S W Hamilton, co com 32 00 GN Sentell " " 2 70 " ser on stk law fence 13 15 J S Rhodes, overpaid county 1906 120C00 J S Rhodes, adm B T Morris and serv Finan com 2 90 C M Fletcher, finan com 11 60 J F Jones, co com 5 40 W S Young, finan com 10 00 HW Allen,' " 10 80 J HDittmer,stm heat co jl 425 00 Total $2,295 68 Bridge Fund F M Nicholson, material vP P Corn; serv Hend tp " ' J M Sitton. labor 100 45 08 28 79 16 25 $91 03 J B F Revis, labor Total Chain Gang waiter tfyers, serv, sup 116 65 30 50 3 80 30 92 27 62 9 50 180 9319 21 75 9 50 105 55 5 00 10 oo E R Garren, wk and lum A W Hoots, supplies ; W H Souther, overseer D o outlier, serv auu iuu t- n r ii i BFSS, rsLinYdaims Bly Bros, supplies J O Williams, supplies ! Walter Byers, potatoes , l T ior Dnages P F Patton, sal for Nov Clarke Hdw Co.. hdw 25 oo 17 35 17 95 $526 08 Total Paid Paupers Wm Nelson 2 oo Ellen Phillips 5 oo David Howard 2 oo Wm Carver 3 oo Allen. Robertson 4 oo Eddie Murry 2 oo Mrs Sallie Hollingsworth 3 oo Sarah Ann Jones. 4 oo Sallie K Loftis 2 oo Alonzo Drake 5"oo Mrs G W Johnson 4 oo Isaac Henry, Oct, Nov, Dec 6 oo CNeill 2 oo C Murray 2 oo Eula Blesinger 1 50 Harriett Jackson 3 oo Mrs E A Robertson 4 oo Lewis Ward lo oo 4 oo Mary Owens 4 oo Mrs Lawrence 4oo Mary Guice N lo oo P B Justice for one year 48 oo Walter Corn 3 oo Ernest Reese 5 oo M Rhodes 3 co H K Jones 12 oo Elias Heatherly 6 oo Total $163. 5o . January 19o8 R B Ward, judge elec J H Jordan, material re building boiler at ct house J P Hyder, lumber ct hs Rigby-Morrow " " C F Toms, atty fees 19o7: Rigby, Morrow, glass c Iv S Johnson, mdse James Lee, co home Mrs N Freeman, joil fees ( J G Waldrop, med serv F M Corn, wk at ct hs 2oo 5192 15 o4 12 6o 6o oo 195 6 75 38 75 3125 lo65 55o Continued on pagos 3 and 4 PRESIDENT'S iESSAGE. Hakes Annual, Recommens dations to Congress. ATTACKS ANTHEUST LAW 3 . Sherman Act Should Be Amended to Permit Combinations Which Are In ine jmerest ot in ruuuut ojr w 10 I President Urges Legislation to I Cf.H..nHJ iU. Aan.uinrlpcnuilla v i . . r it. . O..U!:. t lU. on Need of Protection For Forests. Views on the Army and the Navy. ' Washington,' Dec. 8. In his message to congress, read -. to the two houses, the president said: The financial standing of the nation at the present time is excellent, and the financial management of the na tion's interests by the government dur ing the last seven years has shown the most satisfactory results. But our currency system is imperfect, and it is earnestly to be hoped that the cur rency commission 111 be able to pro pose a thoroughly good system which will do away with the existing defects. During the period from July 1, 1901, to Sept. 30, 1908, there has been a net surplus of nearly one hundred millions of receipts over expenditures, a reduc tion of the interest bearing debt by ninety millions,' in spite of the extraor dinary expense of the Tanama canal and a saving of nearly nine millions on the annual interest charge. This is an exceedingly satisfactory showing. There has been a reduction of taxa tion. -'" Corporations. As regards the great corporations en gaged in interstate business, and espe cially the railroads, I can only repeat what I have already again and again. "said in my. messages to the congress, I believe that under the" interstate 4lause of the constitution the United States has complete and paramount : right, to control all agencies of inter siate commerce, and I believe that .the national government alone can exer cise this right with wisdom and ef fectiveness so as both to'secure justice from and to do justice to the great corporations which are the most irn Dortant factors in modern business. I believe that it is worse than folly to attempt to prohibit all combinations, as is done by the Sherman anti-trust law, because such a law can be en forced only imperfectly and unequal ly, and its enforcement works almost as much hardship as good. I strongly advocate that instead of an unwise effort to prohibit all combinations there shall be substituted a vlaw-which shall expressly permit combinations which are in the interest of the public, but shall at the same time give to some agency of the national government full power of control and supervision over them. One of the chief features of this control should be securing entire publicity in all matters which the pub lic has a right to know and, further more, the power, not by judicial, but by executive, action to prevent or put a stop to every form of improper fa voritism or other wrongdoing. The railways of the country , should be put completely under the interstate commerce commission and removed from the domain of the anti-trust law. The power of the commission should be made thoroughgoing, so that n it could exercise complete supervision and control over the issue of securities as well as over the raising and lower ing of rates. As regards rates, at least thi3 power should be summary. Pow er to make combinations and trafflc agreements should be explicitly con ferred upon the railroads, the permis sion of the commission , being first gained and the combination or agree ment being published in all its de tails. The interests of the sharehold ers, of the employees and of the ship pers should all be guarded as against one another. To give any one of them .undue and Improper consideration is to do injustice to the others. Rates must be made as low as is compatible with giving proper returns to all the employees of the railroad, from the highest to the lowest, and proper re turns - to ' the ' shareholders, but they must not, for instance, be reduced in uch fashion as to necessitate a cut in the wages of the employees or the abolition of the proper and legitimate profits of honest shareholders. - Telegraph and -telephone companies engaged in Interstate" business should be put under the jurisdiction of the in terstate commerce commission. - Ample Rewards For Intelligence. It is to the interest of all of us that there should be a premium put upon individual initiative and- Individual ca pacity and an ample reward for the great directing Intelligences alone com petent to manage the great business operations of today. It Is well to keep In mind that exactly as the anarchist Is the worst enemy of liberty and the reactionary: the worst enemy of-order soothe men who defend' the rights of property have most to fear from the wrongdoers of great wealth, and the men who are championing popular rights have, most .to- fear from the demagogues who in the name of popu lar rights would do wrong to and op press honest business men, honest men of wealth, for the success of either type of wrongdoer necessarily invites a violent reaction against the cause the wrongdoer nominally upholds. The opposition to government con trol of these great corporations makes Its most effective effort in the shape of an appeal to the old doctrine of states' rights. The proposal to make the national government supreme over, and there fore to give it complete control over, the railroads and other Instruments of interstate commerce is merely a pro posal to carry out to the letter one of the prime purposes, if not the prime purpose, for which the constitution was founded. It does not represent centralization. I believe that the more f arsighted corporations are themselves coming to recognize the unwisdom of the violent hostility they have displayed during the last few years to regulation and control by the national government of combinations engaged in interstate busi ness. . . Labor. - There are many matters affecting la bor "and the status of the wage worker to which I should like to draw your attention. As. far as possible I hope to see a frank recognition of the ad vantages conferred by machinery, or ganization and division of labor, ac companied by an effort to bring about a larger share in the ownership by wageworker of railway, mill and fac tory. In, farming this simply means that we wish to see the farmer own his own land. We do not wish to see the farms so large that they become the property, of absentee landlords who farm them by tenants nor yet so small that the farmer becomes like a Euro pean peasant. The depositors in our savings banks now number over one-tenth of . our en tire population. These are all capital ists who through the savings banks loan their money to the workers that is, in many cases to themselves to carry on their various industries. Postal savings banks will make it easy for the poorest to keep their savings in absolute safety. The regulation of the national highways must be such that they shall serve all people with equal justice. Corporate finances must be supervised so as to make it far safer than at present for the man of small means to Invest his money in stocks. There must, be prohibition of child labor, diminution of woman la bor, shortening of hours of all me chanical labor. Stock watering should be prohibited, and stock gambling, so far as is possible, discouraged. There should be a progressive inheritance tax on large fortunes. Industrial edu cation should be encouraged. Protection For Wageworkers. There is one matter with which the congress should deal at this session. There should no longer be any palter ing with the question of taking care of the wageworkers who, under our present Industrial system, become kill ed, crippled or worn out as part of the regular incidents of a given business. The object sought for could be achiev ed .to a measurable degree, as far as those killed or crippled are concerned, by proper employers' liability laws. As ,far as concerns those who have been worn out, I call your attention to the fact that definite steps toward pro-' Tiding old age pensions have been taken In many of our private Indus tries. Pending a thoroughgoing investiga tion and action there Is certain legis lation whici should be enacted at once. The law passed at the last ses sion of. the congress granting com pensation to certain classes of em ployees of the government should be extended to include all employees of the government and should be made more liberal in Its terms. In this re spect the generosity of the United States toward its employees compares most unfavorably with that of every country in Europe even the poorest. . The terms of the act are also a hardship In prohibiting payment in cases where the N accident is in any way due to the negligence of the em ployee. It Is inevitable that daily fa miliarity with danger will lead men to take chances that can be construed into negligence. I renew my recommendation made in a previous message that half holi days be granted during the summer to all wageworkers In government em ploy. I also renew, my recommendation that the principle of the eight hour day should 'as rapidly and as far as practicable be extended to the entire work being carried on by the govern ment. ' - The Courts. I most earnestly urge upon the con gress the duty of Increasing the totally Inadequate salaries now given to our Judges. On the whole, there Is no body of public servants who do as valuable work nor whose moneyed reward Is so Inadequate compared to their work Beginning, with .the su preme court, the judges , should have their salaries doubled. It is earnestly to be desired that some method should be devised for do ing away with the long delays which now obtain in the administration of justice and which operate with pecul iar severity against persons of small means and favor only the very crimi nals whom It is most desirable to pun ish ' - - -, . . - : At the last election certain leaders of organized, labor made a violent and sweeping attack upon the entire ju diciary of. the country, an attack couched in such terms as to include the most upright, honest and broad' minded Judges no less than those of narrower mind and more restricted outlook. Last year before the house committee on the judiciary these same labor leaders formulated their de mands, specifying the bill that con tained them, refusing all compromise, stating they wished the principle of that bill or nothing. They insisted on; a-provision that in a labor dispute -no; injunction should issue except to pro tect : a property right and specifically. provided; that the right to carry on business should not be construed as a property right, and in "a second pro-; vision their bill made legal in a labor dispute any act or agreement by or between two or more persons that would not have been unlawful if done by a single person. In other words, this bill legalized blacklisting and boy-; cotting hi every form. The demand was made that there should be trial by jury in contempt cases, thereby most seriously impairing the authority ; of the courts. All this represented a course of. policy which, if carried out. would mean, the enthronement of class privilege in its crudest and most brutal form and the destruction of one of the most essential functions of the judiciary In all civilized lands. The wageworkers, the workingmen; the laboring men of the country, by the way in which they repudiated the ef fort to get them to cast their votes in response to an appeal to class hatred have emphasized their sound patriotism and Americanism. Courts Imperiled by Judges. But the extreme reactionaries, the persons who blind themselves to the wrongs now and then committed by the courts on laboring men, should I also think seriously as to what such a movement as this portends. The ennrts are ieonarded nrimarilv bv '.the action of these federal and state judges who show inability or unwill ingness to put a stop to the wrong doing of very rich men under modern industrial conditions. There are certain decisions by va rious courts which have been exceed ingly detrimental to the rights Of wageworkers. This is true of all the decisions that decide that men and women are by the constitution "guar anteed their liberty" to contract to enter a dangerous occupation, or to work an undesirable or improper num hpr of hours, or to work in unhealthy surroundings, and therefore cannot re cover damages when maimed in that occupation and cannot be forbidden to work what the legislature decides is an excessive number of hours, or to carry on the work under conditions which the legislature decides to be un healthy. There is also, I think, ground for the belief that substantial injustice is often suffered by employees in conse quence of the custom of courts issu ing temporary injunctions without no tice to them and punishing them for contempt of court in Instances where, as a matter of fact, they have no knowledge of any proceedings. Pro vision should be made that no injunc tion or temporary restraining order Issue otherwise than on notice, except where irreparable injury would other wise result, and In such case a hear ing on the merits of the order should be had within a short fixed period, and if not then continued after hear ing it should forthwith lapse. Deci sions should be rendered Immediately and the chance of delay minimized in every way. The courts are to be highly com mended and stanchly upheld when they set their faces against wrong doing or tyranny by a majority, but they are to be blamed when they fall to recognize under a government like ours the deliberate judgment of the majority as to a matter of legiti mate policy when duly expressed by the legislature. The people should not be permitted to pardon evil and slipshod legislation on the theory that, the court will set it right. They should be taught that the right way to get rid of a bad law is to have the legislature repeal it and not to have the courts by ingenious hair splitting nullify it. People Themselves to Blame. For many ' of the shortcomings of justice in our country our people as a whole are themselves to blame, and the judges and juries merely bear their share together with the public as a whole. It Is discreditable to us as a people that there should be difficulty In convicting murderers or In bringing to justice men who as public servants have been guilty of corruption or who have profited by the corruption of pub lic servants. . ' The huge wealth that has been ac-, cumulated by a few Individuals of re cent years, in what has amounted 'to a social and Industrial revolution, has
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