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No. 10.
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Alliance Directory.
NATIONAL. i'A H.f EKS' ALLIANCE AND
I NDL'STKT A f. UNION.
ri e.-ii'kvit L. L. I'olk. North Curo
;iri. AiMrens, .lit D Street, X. V,
'V,ishint'u, I). C.
Vicc-1 'r -.side! : t I ' . II. Clover, Cara-
lill'N KiUlil.
.ctrrui.sry ;i:i! Troaiurer J. II. Turn
er, f.eoriii. Address. 22') North C'ajn
..! street, N. , Washington, D. 0.
Lecturer J. II. Willetts, Kan",a.
KXKCU'J'IVK I50AKD.
;. . ,V. Macunc, Washington, J). C.
AloiiiAVar'l.i'l, Huron, South Dekota.
J. I'. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee.
JCDICJAUY.
II. (,'. Dimming, Chairman,
iiiiiu; ' MeCraeken, Ozone, Arkansas.
A K. Cole, Fowld-v-ille, Michigan.
NATIONAL LKOISLATIVK COUNCIL.
The Presidents of all the .State organ
izations with L. L. Polk cx-otlicio Cnair
rnan. NORTH CAKOT.INA FARMERS' STATE
A LLIANCK.
President Marion liutler, Clinton,
North Carolina.
Vri:e-I'rer.idcr.L T. 35. Long, Ashc
vilie, X. C.
.Syeretary-Tieacurcr W. b. Barnes,
' llalei'h, N. C.
Lecturer J. S. Hell, Brasstowa, N.C.
Men-ard C. C. AVriulit, Glass, N. C.
Chitplaiu ltev. Lrskine fop-i, Chalk
Level, X. C.
Door-Keeper W. II. Tomlinsou, Fay
etteville, N. C.
Assistant Doo -Keeper II. E. King,
Peanut. .'. C.
bjrgcai,t-at-Atm3 J. S. Holt, Chalk
Level, X. C.
Sr.at Uusiness Agent W. II. Worth,
llal-i-li, X. C.
Trustee Business Agency Fund W.
A. Graham, Machpelah, N. C.
KXKCUTIVE COMMITTEE OP THE
NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS'
STATE ALLIANCE.
S. B. Alexander, Charlotte, X. C,
Chairman; J. M. Mewborrte, Khiston,
X. C. ; J. S. Johnston, Buliin, X. C.
STATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COM
MITTEE. Kins C;rr, A. Leaser, S. M. Culhreth,
M. G. Gregory, Win. C. Council.
STATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE
COMMITTEE.
If J. Powell, Jlalei-h, X. C. : X. C.
Ln-lish, Trinity College; J. J.Yourj,',
Polenta; II. A Forney, Xevlon, X. C.
NORTH CAROLINA RE )RM TRIvSS
ASSOCIATION.
O ilk-era J. L. Kanisey.. President;
Marion Jluilei , Vice-Presi lent ; W..S.
Earnes, Secretary.
TAPERS.
The Caucasian, Clinton ; Pro
gressive Farmer. Haleih ; Kural
Home, Wilson ; Farmer's Advocate,
Tarboro; Salisbury Watchman, Sal
isbury; Alliance Sentinel, Golds
buro; Hickory Mercury, Hickory;
The Hauler, Wliitakers; Country
Lite, Trinity College; Mountain
Home Journal, Asheville; Agricul
tural Bee Goldsbero; Columbus
News, Whiteville, J . C; The Busi
ness Agent, Ilaleijjh, Is. C.
Capt. A. S. feace, editor of Alli
ance Department, Oxford, X. C.
Each of thb above-named papers are
requested to keep the list standing on
the first page and add othvre, provided
they arc duly elected. Any paper fail
ing to advocate the Ucala platform vvid
be dropped from the list promptly. Our
people can now see what papers are pub
lished In their interest.
PROFESSIONAL COLUMN.
U. ALLEN. W. T. DORTCH.
A
LLEN & DOUTCH,
ATTORNEYS-AT-L AW,
Goldsboro, N. (J.
Will practice in Sampson county.
feb27 tf
A.
M. LEE, M. D.
PiIYSIClAN,Su ROEON AND DENTIST,
Office in Lee's Drugstore, je 7-lyi
E. FAISON,
Attorney and Counsell
or at Law.
Office on Main Street,
will practice in courts of Sampson and
adjoining counties. Also in Supreme
Court. All business intrusted to his
care will receive prompt and careful
attention. je7-lyr
"jl W. KERR,
-jLJ Attorney and Counsellor
at Law.
Office oa Wall Street.
Will practice in Sampson, Bladen,
lender, Haruett and Duplin Coun
ties. Also in Supreme Court.
Prompt personal attention will be
given to all lesal business. ie 7-lvr
F
TA .
2
Office oil Main Street.
Offers his services to the people of
ainton and vicinity. Everything
n the line of Dentistry done in the
best style. Satisfaction guaranteed.
SSMy term3 are strictly cash.
Don't ask me to vary from this rule
lortt Alliance Eiclaip.
11 AND 13 COMMERCE ST.,
NORFOLK. VA.
Owned and controled by Alliance
men for handling farm produce.
Cotton and Peanuts
SPECIALTIES.
Don't sell before writing for par
ticulars. J. J. ROGERS,
Manager.
P. O. BOX 212.3 sept24 tf
Clinton Loan Association,
All persons indebted to this Associa
tion, by accounts or overdraft.?, mast
make payment AT ONCE, or action will
be taken
Persons otherwiee indebted are ur
gently requested to see me at once.
Parties holding claims againts this As
eociaMon are again requested to file them.
Office hours from 9 A.. M. to 1 P. M.,
ani from 2 t. M. to 4 PM.
W. A. DUNN, Receiver.
January 21st, 18'JZ.
THE EDITOR'S CHAIR.
HOW THINGS LOOK
FROM
rTTi
c"Ti i XT r nr(TXTfP
The Ooinion of The Editor and the
Opinion of Others which we
Can Endorse on the Yarious
Topics of the Day.
HOW CAN SUCH THINGS BE?
Itich in everything except money,
anl poor with everything -for the
wa it of noney. This is the condi
tion of the South to-daj It la the
condition of the farmer. Money i
not wealth. It Pimply reprwerts
wealth. It is a convenient medium
for exchanging wealth. Our people
have the wealth and would be pros
perous if they had this convenient
medium for exchanging the wealth.
Then is it not a crime inthegovrn
ment not to furnish it? Is it not a
crime to turn over the managing of
this essential, instrument of com
merce to a few individuals and allow
them to manage it for their own pri
vate gain to the detiimeut of every
wealth producer in the laud? Is it
not a crime to allow high rates of
interest to be charged so that the
profits of honest and haid-working
toilers are eaten up by the money
lenders ? Yes, it is a crim, and a
crime that must soon stop or com
plete degradation and poverty will
dry up the springs of prosperity at its
very source, and then revolution
would come. Which shall it be?
These are momentous questions for
tbe voter and the statesman.
THE KEY TO PURE DEMOCRACY.
The Atlanta Constitution in dis
cussing the political outlook and the
probable nominees for the Presiden
cy says:
"The candidate mutt of necessity
be satisfactory to New York - there
fore, the candidate that New York
selects or settles on will be selected
bv the Democratic convention."
We hope the Constitution does not
speak for the people of Georgia. A
candidate that is satisfactory to New
York will not be satisfactory to North
Carolina, nor do we believe to the
whole South and West. The conven
tion may nominate the man New
York selects, but his chances of be
ing elected would be very doubtful.
For a quarter of a cent ury, we have
nad a kicd ot harmony between the
New England Democracy(?) and
and Southern Democracy, by the
South in every case submitting to
the dictation of New England. In
this way we have ourselves been par
ties to fostering a system that has
worked great discrimination and de
triment to our setion. Shall we do
it longer? For one we will not.
The candidate that is satisfactory to
New York is unsatisfactory to us.
We want a candidate who by educa
tion, experience and training is in
sympathy with the interests of the
South and West, the two secthns
whose interests are identical and who
must fight together for equal justice.
The Democracy of the future must
champion the cause of the South
and West.
HISTORY OF FINANCIAL LEGISLA
TION FOS THIRTY YEARS.
Th article that appeared in Thk
Caucasian a few weks ago in refer
ence to the infamous bond swindle,
by which the public debt was great
ly increased, by which more taxes
were levied upon the people without
value received, and by which the
bond-holders and bankers have pock
eted millions of dollars, has attract
ed jiiuch attention. We have been
asked and received letters calling for
more information on this line. It is
difficult to explain or to understand
the infamous and corrupt legislation
that has bean perpetrated upon the
people, unless the various measures
are taken up and consecutively
considered in connectiou. There
fore as soon as we can find the time,
we will begin a series of articles on
the Financial Legislation of the
Government for the last thirty years.
If our readers will follow these ar
ticles closely they will get p consider
able insight to the corruption at
Wahingtoa and the causes that have
in a large me-isure brought about the
present depressed condition of af
fairs.
While we advocate diversity of
crops we also believe that the people
should diverssfy some in politics.
They should put men inpubli offices
who will represent them and not the
moneyed interests of the country.
Too much indifference and negli
gence in the past, have brought the
country to its present condition.
Teachers' Advocate.
In the death of Ex-Gov. A. M,
Scales, the State looses one of its
most honored and beloved citizens.
A man of kind feeling and generous
nature. He served his people wel
in war, in legislation halls' and in
the Governor's chair. The people of
the whole State will mourn their
loss.
1 i i i 1 ' " ' :
STRAIGHT TALK FROM A REPRESEN
TATIVE MAN.
Read the following extract from
the Statesville Landmark and then
think a minute and you will see to
what straights the enemies of the Al-
iance am put and the little game
they aie trying to play :
"The .Landmark had an entertain
ng conversation, Tuesday, with J.
D. Uli'fk, Esq., of Chambersburg
township, ex-member of the legisla
ture and now chairman of his town
ship executive committee, in the
course of which he said that the Al
liance, as it originally existed, com
mended it3elf to him in all respects.
but that it has been entirely perver
ted from its original objects and so
has left him. So long as it was a
farmers' association, designed to
advanc the interests of the farmers,
he was with it heart and soul, but
now that It has become a personal
machine which is being worked to
promote the political interests of
certain individuals, he has no sym
pathy with its aims and is prepared
to say that it is doing the country,
and particularly the farmers, injury.
oquire Click is lor the nee coinage
of silver, and says that Cleveland's
attitude to this question is the only
objection the Alliance has to him,
and that after all he is not certain
that Cleveland does not iknow bet
ter than he does what is best for the
country. He has no stock whatever
in the sub treasury s heme, and
says that the Democratic party and
old-fashioned Democratic principles
are good enough for him."
Now Squire Click may be a good
man, as good a man as there is In
Iredell county, but we are sure ot
one thing, that he does not know
much about the Alliance, except
what he has learned from reading
the Landmark and papers of that
kind. In fact we are sure that he
does not know what the fight is
about. He says (if the Landmark
quotes him correctly) that the
organization is simply a "personal
r achine." Now we call upon him
and the Landmark to say whose
personal machine it is. This state
ment is a nlander upon thousands of
earnest, intelligent, honest and hard
working citizens; and these same
farmers will pity his ignorance and
ittleness when he says that the
organization is an injury to the far
mers themselves. He is repoited to
say that he is for the free coinage of
silver, but his next statement shows
that he has tot the courage of his
convictions, for he is willing to give
up what convictions he ny have if
Mr. Cleveland says so. Bfe says that
Cleveland's position on the silver
question is the only objection the
Alliance has to him. We don't be
lieve ihat a men who expresses him"
self as Squire Click has (or 'is re
ported) can speak for the Alliance
of Iredell county. But' when he
says that he is opposed t j the Sub
Treasury, the Landmark is happy.
It is that part of his statement that
makes his opinion valuable to that
paper. Well the number who are
opposed to that great fundamental
plank which is the remedy we offer
to correct the great evil of evils, is
so small that tbe Landmark can
afford to give each one of them con
siderable space. They are so scarce
that it is a great price of news to
find one and the fact must be pub
lished. The last statement that
Squire Click is reported to have made
was "that old fashioned Democratic
principles are good enough for him,"
is ridiculously amusing or rather it is
sad. For it sounds like Squire Click
has a good heart and an honest
purpose, but shows that he has been
woefully mislead. It shews concln
sively, as we said in the begining.
that he has never known what the
the fight for reform was about. If
the old fashioned Jeffersonian prin
ciples of Democracy had not been
perverted, the Alliance would never
have come into existance. 'ihe Al
liance as it stands to day is a pro
test against the perversion of Dem
ocracy. We challenge Squire Click,
the Landmark and all other oppo
nents of reform to show a single
principle of Democracy as promul
gated and advocated by JeffersoDian
that the Alliance (the so-called
"personal machine") does not en
dorse and advocate, we pause for
an answer to the challenge.
THE B. B. COMMISSION. :
Maj James W. Wilson, chairman
of the North Carolina railroad com
mission says that while the railroad
commissionof North Carolina has
only been established about ten
months, they have increased the
assets in tex valuation of railroad
property in the State about $ 6,000,
000, and, by regulating the telegraph
tariffs and reducing passenger fares
and freight charges, have saved to
the people between four and five
hundred thousand dollars.
A NEW CONVEBT.
Postmaster General Wanamaker
is another calamity howler. He
wants the government to own tele
phone and telegraph lines, and to
establish postal savings banks.
Our circulating medium has been
contracted from two billions at the
close ot the war to one and a half
billion dollars at present, while, the
population has increased from thir-
ty-nye to slxty-t our millions.
News from Washington.
NOTES AND ITEMS FROM CON
GRESS AND WHAT If IS
DOING.
Some
Bills IntroducedPerson
al Mention.
It is about settled that the first
bill reported from the House Tays
and Means Committee will be that
placing binding-twine, an agricul
tural necessity, on the free list.
The House committee on Terri
tory has practically decided to re
port bills for the admission ot Ari
zona and New Mexico as States.
Capt. 8. B. Alexander, of North
Carolina, who is at the Metropolitan
said last night to a Post reporter :
"These cities that are full of money
don't seem to realize the scarcity of
money in the rural districts. It is
the present mode of distribution of
the money that causes the demand
for the Increased circulation. The
collateral that the farmers, have i
not negotiable out of the sections in
which they reside; this causes a
stringency of money at the time of
making the ciops and forces the far
mers to pay ruinous time prices for
their supplies."
The People's party in tbe House
ef Representatives has joined with
the free coinage people in demand
ing the ptompt consideration of the
Bland bill.
The free silver men in the House
of Representatives are making
strenuous efforts to have action ta
ken or. the Bland bill.
An effort will be made to induce
this Congress to suppress the cirgar
ettee trade by imposing ai tax of
510.00 per thousand on all imported
and domestic cigarettes.
The Senate Agricultural commit
tee will report on Monday a resolu
tion favoring the oppointment of a1
committee to investigate the agri
cultural conditio:: of the country.
Hon. M. liun'i of N. C, proposes
to apply the patent system, which
has resulted in the stimulation of
invention, to the domain of agricul
ture, with the hope of bringing a
bout equally beneficent effects. A
bill introQuced by him Friday pro
vides that any person who has in
vented or discovered any new and
useful plant, fruit, or flower may
patent the invention or discovery
upon appliance with the present
patent law requirements, with the
exception that the appliant shall be
made to the Secretary of Aericul
ture instead of to the Commissioners
of Patents.
Senator Turpie has made a strong
argument in favor of &uch a change
in the Constitution of the United
States as would permit of a vote of
tht people for United States Senators.
In making this change one step
further should be taken and the
President and Vice-President be
made elective by direct vote.
Our electoral system sometimes
gives us a President whom a majori
ty of the people do not approve.
Such a President now occupies the
White House, Mr. Harrison having
been defeated on the popular vote
by over 100,009.
The employes of this Government
number 247,291. Truly an army of
office-holders.
The exports of breadstuff's for
January amounted to $3,146,281
against $9,718,586 in January 1891.
Cotton exposts of January 1892,
amounted ta $28,732,225 as compar
ed with $85,038,889 for January last
year.
Mr. Blaine says there is no truth
in the report that he would retire
from ihe Cabinet.
The House Committee on banking
and Currency has favorably repor
ted a bill intended to prevent re
petitions of the National bank scan
dals which have become so common.
It prohibits national banks making
loans to officers or employes except
by authority of a majority vote of
the board of directors and directs
that all such loans shall be reported
to the Comptroller of the Currency.
Mr, Stout, ot Michigan, to day in
tronduced a resolution calling upon
the committee on inter-State com
merce to investigate the recent con
solidation of four great trunk line
railways in New York, New Jersey
and Pennsylvauia and to report by
bill or otherwise, The resolution
states that the Reading, Lehigh
Valley, the Jersey Central, the Dela
ware. Lackawanna & western rail
roads operating lines in different
States and representing a nominal
capital of $600,000,000, the plant of
which conld be duplicated at one
half the sum.
The Democratic members of the
FTnnsa Committee on Ways and
Means held another conference and
hivft nmcticallv asreed upon a bill
to be presented to the full Commit
tea, roducing the duties levied by
thtt McKinlev bill upon waol and
manufacturers of wool. The pro
posed mea5ure reduces to 35 per
cent, an valorem the duty on all
woolen aud wotsted' yarns made
whollv or in part of wool, worsted,
the hair of the camel, goat or other
animal.
The Senate committer on com
merce yesterday agreed to make a
favorable report on oenaior uiu-
son's bill looking la the improve
ment of the Mississippi river.
PEBSONAX.S.
The North Carolina delegation in
Congress are all in their seats, and
vigorously at work, urancn oi na
First and Williams of the Fifth dis
trict have both been indisposed, but
are quite well again and show no
sign of their recent illness. Hon.
John S. Henderson, chairman of the
com mittee on Postv-ffice and Post
Roads, is regarded as probably the
strongest member of the delegation.
Cowles and Bunn, of the Fourth
district, chairman of the committee
on Claims, are pronounced vigilant
rnd indefatigable workers.
The Washington correspondent of
the Richmond Tines say j: "Virginia
and North Carolina members are
.busily employed In v distributing
seeds from tle Agricultural Depart-
mt-nt among their constituents. It is
understood that trie gallant Mr.
Grany, the "ladies' mau" or the
North Carolina delegation, address
ed his entire quota of seed to the
ladles of his district."
VniY- ARK TIIESK THINGS?
If You Cfm't Answer the Ques
tion, "Why Not?
The persoa who can't think is an
idiot.
The person who won't think Is a
fool.
The person who fears to think is a
coward.
B The person who dares to talk about
evils and suggests remedies is a pa
triot. .
c
, In the United States seventy per
soqs are worth $700,000,000 and
less than fifty of these can tontrol
the currenoy and commerce of the
country on a day's notice. One
hundred are worth $300,000,)00 and
24,000 own over one-half of the
total wealth. The census shows
that the railroads of the country
own 128,000,000 acres of. land, and
foreign and domestic syndicates
84,000,000 making a total of 212,
000,000. In New York city 10,000 of the
2,000,000 inhabitants own nearly the
wholo city, and only 13,000 own any
real estate.
In Chicago population 1,200,000
less than three and one-half per cent
own all the real estate.
There are 12.C00.000 workmen in
this country addii g to its wealth at
ihe rate of 7 per day, but they get
less than $1 each. Who gets the
other $6? Porcupice.
The farmer is a pretty little thing
when he stays at home ani votes
as he is directed, but he becomes a
monstrosity when he accepts an
office himself. Nelson (Neb.)
Herald.
A producer produces wealth. A
financier gathers wealth Rensaler
(Ind) Pilot.
LET THE PEOPLE COMETO-
GETIIHR.
They Can Win Without New York
and New. England.
The assertion is often made that
the country Is so near equally divid
ed between the two political partie
upon secticnal prejudice that pew
York holds the key to the situation
and wie'ds a balance of power in
the interest of plutocracy. In order
to show how much foundation in
fact there is for this statement the
following table is presented. The
vote of the State ot Michigan is di
vided because under the new law in
that State it will probable be so cast.
The practically certain presidential
vote in the States is :
Republican, I Democratic.
California, 9 Alabama,
11
8
6
3
4
13
13
8
6
8
9
17
10
Colorado, 4; Arkansas,
Illinois,- 24 Connecticut,
Kansas, 10
Delaware,
Maine, 6
Florida,
Georgia,
Kentucky,
Louisiana,
Michigan, ,
Maryland,
Mississippi,
Missouri,
Michigan, 3
Minnesota, 9
Nebraska, 8
Nevada, 3i
Ohio, 23
Oregon, 4
Pennsylvma, 23
Rhode Island, 4
New Jersey,
Vermont, 4
iNorth Carolina, 11
Wisconsin, 12
Idaho, 3
couth Carolina, 9
Tennessee, 12
Texas, 15
Virginia, 12
West Virginia, 6
Montana, 3
North Dakota, 3
South Dakota, 4
Washington, 4
Wyoming, 3
Total,
181
Total, 181
The doubtful States are : New
York, 36 ; Massachusetts, 15 ; New
Hampshire, 4; Indiana, 15, and
Iowa, 13, making 83 doubtful votes
to decide the tie. It will be seen by
this that all the bosses have to do in
order to place the key i the hands
of Tammany is to make a trade on
Indiana and Iowa, so that one shall
go Republican and the other Demo
cratic, just exactly as they did last
tall between Xew York and Ohio,
when the Democrats in Ohio threw
off on Campbell and the Republicans
in New York threw off on Fassett.
With Indiana and Iowa in opposite
line3, New York is Supreme. In fact
unless the three States of Massachu
setts, Indiana and Iowa all go solid
tor one party, New York rules the
riMtion. The remedy is that the
West and South, as a purely agricul
tural district should stand together.
Two hundred and twenty three votes
is a majority, and it may and should
naturally be had in the following
States :
Alabama,
Arkansas,
California,
Colorado,
Florida,
Georgia,
Illinois,
Kinsai?,
Kentucky,
Louisiana,
Michigan,
Mississippi,
Missouri,
Minnesota,
Washington,
Wyoming,
Indiana,
HjNebraska, 8
8!Ntvada, 3
SHNorth Carolina.ll
4 Ohio, 23
40regon, 4
13 South Carolina, 9
24
10
13
8
14
9
17
9
4
Tennessee, 12
Texas, : 15
Virginia, 12
West Virginia, 6
Wisconsin, 12
Idaho, 3
Montana, 3
North Dakots, 3
South Dakota, - 4
3
15
13
Maryland, 8
Iowa,
Total,
324
These States would give a majori
ty of 103, and if they could be in
duced to act together could control
the election, even if they lost Cad
fomia, Colorado, Washington.'Wyo-
mmg, Indiana, Nevada, Ohio, Ore
eon, Idaho. Montana, and still hav
a majority of 22. National Econo
mist.
VOR THK BUXIU.
Weaknos. Malaria, Indiceatton aad
BUiousnean. tare - '
. BRfimpa moH bitters.
It cores quietly. For aale by all dealer In
mwiinnr. ..tin u gvuiuue, -
THE LESSON OF PAIN.
REV. THOMAS DIXON OH THE FALLA
CIES OF INGERSQUiSM.
A PrI4 m tki EatUk CrlUM !
iBirlca'i Conn with OiUT Bu
U ril Pit tr.a JjUlt f
New Yoke, Feb. 14 May have bees
turned away from .Association hall of
late unable to obtain settaat the Gqaday
serrioes. The interest continue to grow
in the series en "The lfistat of Colo
nel Ingertou." Her. Thomas Dixon, J r.,
preceded the sermon this morning by
the following remarks, on some of or
recent English critic:
We have recently been treated tp some
extraordinary examples of Engrlihjtejo
dice in the trtetment of America, and
American institution by V certain Flo w
of alleged thinkers in EnjleidT
Tbe cMef characteristics of these critl
cisms hare .been faJsetyc4imal$Qity
and stupidity. We haye uked faipnsie
meot how England conld produce och
a proline crop, of, fools in one seeeon.
How on earth some men who hafe eyes
and ears and bare passed the period of
mental bfapcj conld so ,JMidi tijn
selves has been to ns a prcfound mys
teryv There is only one explanation
possible. It is that the dominant glasses
of .England, who are largely. in the pub
lic eye at this time, are beginning to feel
a resistless reflex Influence of democratic
ideas from America , that .threaten, to
destroy some traditional absnrdities of
the English system. '.Men of this stripe
are so blinded by their f earsand hatred
of American ideas, tha they fall Into
hysterical lying about, everything in
America." The destiny. of th jinglisa
speaking race, is a cozambn one.; The
day is swiftly coming' when. Jhi race
will bo one in spirit and in Institutions,
in spite I the international iiars on both
sides of the Atlantic .They had as well
take due notice of this fact now.
AN. EJIQUSH FRSJUL
One of these, recent, critical signs the,
name of Edward Wakefield to a mass of
stupidity in The Contemporary itoview,
which.bears the lttrid title, The, Brand
of Cain in the Great Bepuplic. . Be de- j
clares that the American takes so blood
as a duck to water; that any man holds
himself in readiness to shoot another
from whom he thinks himself in danger
of a blow, or with whom he has even
had high words. He gravely Illustrates
his statements . by . relating that while
traveling in the south he left, the car at
a station to get Junch and asked two
passengers to fkep his seat, for him.
Hear him:
"When I returned to the ear I found
a talL, gaunt jman, in a broad slouchi
hat, apparently, about to . take, to, seat, ,
but yet not actually taking it" A glance
at my. acquauataacea opposiW, showed
me why ha hesitated. 1 Each oC them
was holding a cup of coffee to his month
with his left hand, while . his ; right
grasped, a revolver covering the intruder.
Time being, short, they were" dxinking
their coffee while. they .Icepti theCJJrit
ifiher s seat' The tall stranger politely
retired on my appearing.!, The .others
put their revolvers in their hip pockets
without any remark, and .we resumed
our journey.
A better title to . this article would
have been, "A Brand. New Idiot, from
the British Museum."
In The Fortnightly Review : for Jan
uary, one William. Uoberts, gravely in
forms the world that mob law in Amer
ica dominates even without a mild re
monstrance. The animus of this fellow's
stupid malignity, is easily, seen in, the
following -r sentence: , ; "To .my , Jungnsb
readers I would say, pause s, Utgtejand
make sure that these American,, institu
tions you now so, ardently fdmir. are
really worthy of ybux admiration, j Be
lieve me, it is not a bad thing to. uye in
a country where the law is administered
without fear or favor, where, joggej are
men of honor and without reproach and
their decisions - upright. .-. Whereas u
America it is popularly said, and largely
believed, that every .judge., a&s- his
price."
Could stupidity and malisnurr. reach
absurder heights? Syhatever .may be
said of the police magistracy, before
whom passes the slum population of. the
cities,! have yet to. see the citizen of
this republic who does not believe in, the
honor and integrity of the men who. ad
minister the real; judicial functions of
the state.
IKTERXATIOKaI. lyixq.
In the recent controversy with Chill a
certain class of people ip. England, have
filled the pcess with the most Jirnial and
contemptible comments upon. American
nationality, No epithet ha, seemed too
vile for them to hurl; no falsehood, too
absurd for utterance. ..Their whole treat
ment of the subject has bees, foom . the
beginning to the end a succession of hold
lies end vue insinuations, mere is no
longer any doubt that thernlingxlasse,
whose authority rests ou traditions and
abuses, have sniffed the hreezes. from the
coming battlefield of . the .. &ge.waen
classes will go down .before the tnum
phant charge of the manhood of the
masses! Well, let them look to & In
the meantime we might calmly ask the
English inossback what is the use to lie
about it?
EXGLISH. DCDES.
It is a good season to remember that
American manhood means, something.
It is a good time to recaind-society of
this fact again.." The effort of society
swells to ape the decaying so called aris
tocracy of Europe should be met wuh
the emptianc contempt, ,vCTmn
who claims an ounce of American, man
hood. . The so, called imdeifJSoneri
can society, who roll in the dirt before a
title stuck to some attenuated ipexaaen
of the missing link, masquerading as a
man, merit the contempt .they receive
from the object of their worship, and
the scorn of a free.manhood and woman
hood.
The American girl who marries a for
eign snob is a fool. of such unfathomable
stupidity as'to deserve bttie" pity; when
she is kicked and abased by the brut
she calls "My lord. ' Th4 mother who
sells her own Tirgin daughter to. the
licentious embraces of ; a ,tttled ; e
bauchee is meaner; than, the procuress
who seIIs"for; money the. virtue of in-
tmaAp A liifleaaed debauchee is still a
diseased debauchee, . though he doe
wear a checked suit, an idiotic, expres
sion, a single, barreled eyeglass, nd.,a
pauper title. ,
It is good time just now foronr to-
cietT to recall these racta.
1 It is 'a good time" just now for -the
American onsen to giM up bis touts
and recall the meeting of his miMkn on
the earth. Let him remember that he
is the pioneer aad the leader of the nag-card
of the triumphant world democ
racy that is swerping oa to an age tri
umph! The destiny of the manhood of
nations and of rao is bouad up In
your. Yon are a ktg of the royal
blood ef humanity. Lire your life!
COLONEL INGER3QLLS TROUBLE.
G4 fa otaa la ate own Una. ad4 Ot4
w varjt&lfic that he had asada, awL bhol4.
tt was wry xxi. Gcaoala t, ?, M.
la Colonel IagersolTs recent address
before the Unitarian dub, he gave utter
ance to at least one serious thought It
is not original. For that reason it is all
the more worthy of serious considera
tion. For a moment the colonel leavM
the realms of rhetoric and nonsense and
her talks sense. We have hitherto been
considering mere rhetorio and fancy.
W were forced to do this, becanae the
most of what the colonel says consist
of this staple. , When he utters a serious
thought it is worthy of serious attention.
In this address he says: "But here is my
trouble. . I ind this world made on a
very cruel plan. Life feeds on life.
Justice does not always triumph. Inno
cence is not a perfect shield. 1 do not
understand ft a God that has life feod
on life; every joy in th world born of
some agony I 1 do not understand why
in this world, over the Niagara of cruel
ty, should run this flood of blood. If
there be a Uod, he understood this. IIo
knew when he withheld his rains from
Russia that the famine would come. He
saw the dead mothers, he saw the empty
breasts of love and he saw the helpless
babes. There is my trouble."
TIES OLD, OLD QUESTION.
It is the same old trouble that has pre
sented itself to every human heart since
man began to think. Round about this
awful probhyn of pain and suffering man
ha waikedwith eager, agonizing ques
tioning through all the years of the post
do not profess to have solved all the
mysteries connected with this great
problem. It is a problem as old as the
race is old, as profound as is the mystery
of man. ' I confess that when 1 look
upon the havoc wrought by suffering
and pain in the world, there are many
things that puzzle the heart When 1
see the husband stricken on whose
shoulders rested the sole responsibility
of the home, and starvation stalk
through the open door, I confera there
are elements of tragedy the depth of
whose meaning I cannot fa'.hom.
When 1 seo young manhood stricken ,
in the pride and glory and strength
of life's fullest hour, I cannot fuUy
understand. As he stood beside such
grave, Jesus wept As he looked
down the ages he saw this ever present
shadow. He saw that sorrow is sorrow,
that tears must flow. While I acknowl
edge ' the mystery . which surrounds
much ef pain, I 'do say emphatically
without fear of contradiction that the
only light that has ever broken in upon
this dark problem has been the light that
has streamed through the rift in the
clouds that hung over Calvary. The
only salvation yet given to the human
soul in these extreme hours of darkness
ha been the light, and the hope, and the
knowledge in Christ If all I knew of
human life and human hope were limit
ed to the barren philosophy on which
the colonel builds his objections and
doubts and fears, I would confess that
the good of life were a question of doubt
ing. 1 would feel that the world was in
the last analysis a failure.
1 have no disposition to avoid this
issue. It is one that any honest mind
must confront Let us fairly meet it
The question is. Could God have made
a better world?
In epiU of many dark mynteriet, it
$ttn$ to me that this world is Vie htghext
potnbU product of Infinite Wisdom and
Infinite Love.
First Because the climax of the cre
ative process is man man the wonder
ful If God be infinitely good, he is
necessarily under obligations to make
the highest possible creation. Anything
short of the highest possible effort of
Infinite Wisdom and Love would be to
contradict his nature. What is the
highest possible creation at the hands of
such a Being? . We say at once that if
he be infinitely wise and infinitely good,
the highest possible creation is for him
to reproduce himself. This is precisely
what he did.
Uod made man in his own image.
The ages through which the creative
process stretched all pointed forward
toward this supreme end of the process.
Man, was Che magnificent product of
these countless ages. Man with his ca
pacities and powers that reach up into
the infinite and the eternal. Man with
the power to survey the whole process
by which : he was created. As we look
upon man and regird his magnificent
attainments, his capacities and powers
we say that such a creature is a worthy
product of the groaning and travail of
tbe creative . centuries. Now God has
revealed himself to man through man.
AH we know of God we have learned
through his image. The more we know
of man tbe more we see the divine.
A BELT MADE WORLD.
Second Having made the highest pos
sible creature as king and ruler of the
material universe. Infinite Wisdom and
Love should of necessity make the high
est possible world in which this creature
shall move and grow into the perfect
likeness of his Creator. What is the
highest possible world in which such a
being can move? We say at once, a free
moral world. Any other world would
be a. world of mechanics. We will
readily agree that the world of morals
higher than the world of mechanics.
A; free- moral .world I precisely tbe
world God made as the arena in which
this creature, hi image, should grow.
The material . universe itself is a free
world. It is a self made world. It was
created by the free play of divine law
. . ... , , - ! 1
nrwn matter, au law is oiyme uw.
Law is itself an attribute of God.
., The Supreme decree under which the
material, universe has been evolved and
made what it. is was the law of the sur
vival of. the . fittest Under the full
operation of this law we have produced
a self made world. ..The highest creanon
is that which is, thus made to create it
afelf. It oartakee then of character. The
onlr man that is a real man is the self
made man. The only man who has
character Ja such .a man. This is the
MirhMit derelooment of manhood. So
the highast development of the material
universe would be a self made world.
Such is the world in which we live.
DEATH OATS.
H we say thai fuch a world could have
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THE WORLD'S XEW&
sinck last Tiling iwy.caiu:.
FULLY A NHOKTKl) ANI
CONDENSED EOll lirsy
PEOPLK.
State.
Durham Li to have an Ico factory.
Daring January there wre emly
14 deaths lu Italcigh.
The discovery of g hi U reports
from Nh eouuty.
Evangelist Fife will, oa March 1,
begin a meeting t WJUin.
Ex-Oovenvr A. M. dlwl nl
hb reoidenre In UnwiroriTuvl.y
night, after a Jong Minis.
J. It. Noland, gi nfinl manager ot
thoSeecuNftl railroad. Inc. t.,Jcrtti
hi resignation, a UU t-rtYn jtfau-h
lt.
The Xeuo I.uinVi MUUoi'd M.
born were totally !tryid by tin
ht Friday. Mr. I. S. 1). Su!, u,
proprietor, ha sluro iujU an as
signment. Governor Holt has spjMV.ed Geo.
A. Shufonl, K-i., Nurior Cuuti
Judge for l!u Tufinti Judicial Dis
trict, to succeed JuU'o Jiiuui II.
Menrluioii, resigned.
A Lutnberton .;kk'!h1 niHrts that a
young man tore out a niul' tongue.
l no animal had heroine eontr;irv and
whilu the nun exasperated Im
grabled tho mu!' tongue, which
rotruueil, ana tore It oat.
A rurio J storv I told hv the ICIm.
tor. Vreo I'rr-i of n in ia in I uulr
county who c.iii write hul t iiii'ts'N.il.
Ih wife, fan hk-11 but eiu't re id
lor writ- Together they rati vritj
i letter, which It leglhle, bat which
neither cti re:d writin-f diwu
the words M sae Ppell tlieui.
One IVter Cobb wa tnlaii tn the
penitentiary to mmvo a-penteheii of
1C yearn, having been emivk-ted of
committing cverai lurki.u im alomr
the Wilmington and WeUim rail
road. Ill his pnaxexilon Wiw found
lot of jewelry taken from theftoro
of Geo. L. Parker, at H ockV Mount
and a lot of dry gooi stolon from
tAi orady's storo at Momt Olive.
The Republican fxtato Hveentlvn
Committee met at HaleigU There
wan much dicuion an to whother
the convention could -nominate can-
idiltei for tho Htate oflhVr. or Mtrt
delegates to tho National Conven
tion. It was. bv s larim nmlnnU'
decided that it Hhould only decide!-
egates, a nl that the uomhiatiuf con-
v ntlon hiiouid bo held later. April
14' h U the date and Kalcigh the
phtce.
.National.
Tw necroes were lynched in Ala-
bams a few daysarro lor'robMmrand
burning a store.
The Manflachutttla ITouho of Ui-
rentallres rasKel a h'A rr.MMtm
the use ot free pauses by legislators.
The c0minltt?o of flftv smotnfe.l
by the ntl-prem.nture convention
ineetinr at l'(xir Union lin.ian.4iMl
headuuai tera and manv men from
other net-lions of tho Hiato nre coop
erating with them in their opjhjsI-
non 10 me convention ot the Zziul
Inst.
Foreign..
Tbe n ported revolt of trnm at
Moutevidi'j Is contradicted. .
Ferdinand, Count Ulucher. a irreat-
grandson of the famous Geueral,
died in New York m destitute cir
cumstances A cablegram from Ik-rlia sava the
Empreai Augusta Victoria i still
quite ill and several court feslivltleft
nave been abandoned.
FOIt DISTILLEUS.
The National Iloiia Amends the
internal iccvcaue Law.
Wasxuxgtox, Feb.5.. A bill that
will interest the people throughout
the distilling Hcelion of the riouth
was reported favorably to the House
to-day by Mr. By num. of Indiana,
from the Judiciary Committee, jit
ia substantially the bill Introduced
by Mr. IIendero, of North Caroli
na, 10 amend thj intornul revenue
law?.
Hection 1 aboli-.hcs wh:itare known
as minlrnun punishment as Li in
tended to dh courage frivolous pros
ecution. Section 2 provides that no war
rants in internal revenue cues can
bo issued upon an ullidavit making
charges "upon inf'urmutioti mid be
lief," unte-s made by certt in fa
cials, nd a!o makes more, Cropper
tne law relating to fee of court offi
cers with the view of removing
some of the temptations to rnako
CdM9 for fees to re dCTived there
from. .
Section 3 requires warrants to
be made returnable to the nearest
Federal CommiAsIoriere or other ofil
cial9.
Section i gives to the Attorney
General a veto ujon the appoint
ment of United States Commission
ers rnd the power of nummary re
moval of Comaiisrdoners. .
Section 5 empowers the Commis
sioner of Internal ItevenutV WIlh
tl approval of the Secretary of the
Treasury, to discontinue or com pro
mise civil and criminal cases.
t-
"Hew t Care all Skii Diseases.!V
Simply apply "Swayxe's Onfr
mext." No Internal mexlleina re
quired. Cures tetter , cezemi. Itch, all
eruptions on tho face, ftacde, nose,
&cn leave the skin clear,' white and
healthy. Its great healing and cur
ative . powers are possessed by no
other remedy. Ask your druggist
for SwAYXE'sOintmenL