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THE CAUCASIAN. IF YOU- WOULD LIKE CA- SIAN UBMSI'ED EVEUY TIIUI'-HJAY, To comsmelt&te with about tea lj MABION BCTLEIi, BJiler and Proprietor. thousand of the) best country people la tote ttctioa ot Kortk Carolina ba do it through tha COlUTUOt Of Tint Caccahajt. Jf other paper lo the Third Cat grcaaionai DUtritt baa aa large adreulatioa. SUBSCRIBE I Show this Paper to your neigh bor and advise hha to subscribe. moorAor aayxci ""CXTTxlte Bupr VOL. X. CLINTON, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1892. No. 20. Subsription r-rice 1 ..0 Per Year, hi Advance. (r.A 1 Alliance Directory. NATIONAL . Ai'.MKiii' AIXIANCE AND INlCSTUI.U, CNIN. I'l-fMHlt'iil -L. L. L'olk. North Cuiv li:.;t. Aldixw-. 3H I) S.rcvi, X. W., Viihiu''to;i, !).(;. Vice-rr:s'.l,:iit . II. ;l-vi-r, Cam- .-...n:i;iry an. I Treasurer J. IkTurn :r. (ri.-iria. AMn:s-. '2'.' North Cani wi Mrud, N. V'.. Va-h'm't.:i, i). C. lecturer J. il. Will'is. K m-a. ;:xKi:nivK h aup. .... .V. JlauiiiC, Va-;;hij;.:i. i). Alu.i Vur.lai!, I'tiroi tiouth D-koia. .J. F. Tili.Man, I'rtlmctto, T.-n'H-scc. JIM.ICIAKY. !I. C. Dumuiuig, Chainir.ui. N.ia.: McCra:ki:n, O.otm. Arkansas. A i;. CoU', Fowl.TviiU-, Mi::iUan. NATIONAL I.KHISI.ATIVK CoUNJII- Tiic i're.sideuts ot' all the State onym iza'ions witii L. L. Polk ex-oUicio Cnair- lldll. XOf.TII CAROLINA FA P.MErt ' ri TATK j. J.I.IA.n JW Presi'Ji-nt Mario. i Uutla-, Clinton, North (Carolina. Viiri- l'nv i.It i.t T. I I,on4, Ashp- villi-, X. (;. St.,rv.tnv-T: easiirer W liainics, J.'ji-tiiivr J. S. Its-ii, Bms-t-.w , S C. s; in.'. ir l t;. C. Wright, .. . - . . I V . 1. 1 as.-, . ..iap.:i.i; itcv. lv.f.ui.u i - i Lt-.'.vl, X. (,'. -He v. Kikii; l's'p ciiau 1) or-!i-'.-pcr W . lLToininiou, ctt-j villi-, - . ;. jr. Ai-iant l -Keeper II. ni'l' IV unit . l. C. S-jr4.-ajt--tt-At1u.s-J. ". Holt, C.-.a.K l.cvul. X. C l:U I'.limi-s Ascnl W. II. o:tT Kalri4h, N. Tru.sti-L- Buslnes AguncV 1-und . A. (Jraliam, MarlinehtU, N. KXKCUTIVK CO MM ITT EK I' Tin: NOUTU CAKOI.IN'A 'AWltw STATE ALLIANCE. S. .15. Alexin. lev, (Jii.ulo.u-. X. C, Cluiirnui'i ). M. Mewborne, lv.uto;i, X. C. ; .5. S. Jol.nston, Uaii'in, X.C STATE ALLIANCE JCPIOIAUY COM MITTEE. Kll.t C it, A. Ia- -my, S. M. -ulbreU, M. (J. (ri-e4.1i-,. Win. C. C-iui' 1!. STATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. ft- J. L',.'.velS, Itale'ub, N .; X. C. English, Ti UiilV O-'ibe r.ilenta: il. A Forney, .1 . .1.1 ouit-4, Xe vion , X. (J. SOUTH ' CAU-)LIVA RE lUM I I! Y.HS ASSOCIATION Oilieers J. L. U:nn-e Pn clarion En lei, Vice-Pre i ient Lariies, S.'i rei.ivv. Tut: C'Atr.CAsr-vx, Clinton irrt'ssive Farmer, Balcigh U.eid ; w . s. . Pro llural Home, Wilson; Farun-r's Advocate, Tarhoro; Salistmry 'a' cliuian, Sal is!. urv; Alliance Sentinel, Ciolds b..ro;. Hickory ilercury, Hickory; 'The Battler, Wtiitakn-s; Country Lite, Trinity College; Mountain 1 1 1 1 11 1 e .1 11 rnal. Asheville; Agricul- P.eP Goldsbero: Columbus Ne-.vs, Wliitev ille; - . C. The Busi ness Agent, n.tle'u'h, N. C. Capt. A. S. react-, editor ot Alli ance Uepartinent, Oxford, 'N. C. iich of tin- above-nanieu 1 -aners are i.-.iuested to keep the list standing on ti... :.r.(l a. hi u'U i, proviilci th m ai-e duly elected. Any paper f.til- .. . . . .. 1, !.. t!,.. iii-iia lihitl'onn v.iil 1.., .....,iwm1 frnni the list oronil'tly . Oar . ,,....t .'. .... rj nr.- 1 .III je"Ui" c m now m-i; iuiu j.. 1 llshe in their iiuorest. lL JlSSIOXAL COLUMN. w II. ALLKN. W. T. DOKTCH. A LLEN & DOKTCil, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, (ioldsboio, X. U. Will practice in Sampson county. fe'.27 tf M. LEE, M. I). VSIClA.V.SlHir.EO : AND DENTIST, 1) 1 1 in Lee'- Drugstore, je 8 5" E FAISON, ki Attorney and Counsell or AT I j AW Office on Main Street, -in nr:u-tiee in courts of Sampson and J oining counties. Also in Supreme All business intrusted to bis care will receive prompt and careful attention. Je '-liT W. KEULi, Attorney and Counsellor AT 1jAV. oaies on Wall Street. wi nraetiee in Sampson, Bladen, lender, llaruett and Duplin Cou .kc in Supreme Court. Prompt personal attention will be jriven to all legal business. je7-lyr T71UANK BOYETTE, D.DJS. Dentistry fC,.; :!S Office on Main Street.1-1 OiiVrs hi services to the people of Jlinton and vicinity. Everything n the line of Dentistry done in the test style. Satisfaction guaranteed. -My terms are strictly cash. Don't ask me to vary from this rule 11 AND 13 COMMERCE ST., NORFOLK. VA. Owned and controWl by Alliance men for handling farm produce. Cotton and Peanuts SPECIALTIES. Don't sell before writing for par ticulars. J. J. ROGERS, Manager. sept24 tf P. O. BOX 212.9 Clinton Loan Association. Al' persons indffbU d to thi3 Associa tion, by accounts or overdraft?, mnr make payment AT ONCE, or action will Parson oihe -wise irjb:ed are nr centlv reqafsted to see me at once. Ponies hoMicg claims agjmtsibis As-gocit-on re sgna requests si to file them. OfSse bnnrs uotn 9 '- M. to 1 r. at d froai 2 r"M. to 4 P n , W. A. DUNN, Re -ewer. Jwaary 2Ut, 1832.-4t A Great Gailerim! OF THE FARMER AND LABOR THE 0 1 1( i A N I Z ATIO N OF WHOLE UNION. Overu Thousand in Attendance. A COMMON PLATFORM OF. PRINCI PLES AND DEMANDS WILL AGREED ON. (Editorial Special to Th CueaiiiD0 St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 22, '92 The Farmer and Labor Organize tion are here in full force and have captured St. Loui.s. Delegates and reorescn'.atives are here front the following organizations viz: F. A. & I. U.. F. M. B. A.. P. of I., A. F. of J j., F.A., K. of L., B. of L. E C. A., & C. F. A. The great Indus trial j'onlerence met this morning in tl'.e Exposition Building. Henry Terrell, of Texas, called the conference to order Hon. C. P. Walbridge, president of the City Council, welcomed the dn'oyatef, after which addresses were delivered by Messrs. L. L. Polk president of the Farmer's Alliance and Industrial Union: T. V. Pow- derlv. General .Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, and Ignatuis Donnelly, on behalf ot the Farmers of the Northwest. "I he convention will not get down to business before Tuesday mornin Such demands will be adopted as t ie various organizations can hai monizoon. Will write a letter for i.ext issue giving proceedings. M. B FROM JEFFERSON TO BRICE. The call for a national Democratic convention, is signed "Calvin S Brice, chairman," asking all cit'zens who favor "pure, economical antl co .st tutional government'' to unite with the democracy. Where are the principles of Jefferson ian Demo cracy? They are certainly not re presented by the national Democra tic party, if a man who is attorney for the Standard Oil monopoly, who is one of the principal owners in the Briceville, Tenn. mines, wher convict labor starves out honest men is the typical represent Ative of the part.- . What perversion, wh tt de generacy, what a land slide fron Jefferson to Brice ! The same Brice whose large fortune is invested in railroad stock, well watered, and the people paying the dividend thereof. The same Brice whose domicile is in New York City, and his office on Wall Street, but who represents Ohio in the United States senate. This is the man who stands sponsor for "puie, economical and constitutional government," and the Democratic party, thegreat party of the people recognizes the leader ship of such a man. If the manage ment of the National Democratic p;utv does not change, the pure Democrats will leave it. If the pure Democrats take hold of the party and bring back the principles of Jefferson, the plutocrats will leave it. Which shad it be? The Asheville Citizen says : The anti-Pinkerton bill has passed the New York assembly. It prohibits the hiring by corporations of any i.rtvntP dptpotive. 'iwould be a good thing if every State in the uni on had such a law and the many al prrJ(i "detectives" frozen out. In the main. Pinkerton's crowd is a set unfit to have anything to do with the execution of the law. Astothe "private detective," hecan never be relied on to detect anything more important than may be a hunk ot boarding house butter. Yet they are allowed 10 carry pistols and 111 fact, I expect many of them join the e agencies just to get the privi lege of carrying a gun. The ordin ary 4,detective" ot to-day is what might be termed a Loo-loo. A resolution has been introduced in Congress by Hon. Thomas Wat son, of Georgia, to investigate the Pinkerton Agency, but it met with opposition Irom men like Otes and will probably be laid aside with many other good measures. The Earl of Chatham, England's greatest statesman, oncesaid, "Show me the laws of a country and I will show you the condition of its peo ple." You may talk as you please, and swear like yon wish, but govern ments will always be as bad as the people allow them to be. Bosdsm must ceas'sto be the order of Lhe day. The people are tired of it. The farming that pays seem to pay he wrong man. WHO PATSTHE TARIFF TAX. The value of our dutiable Imports ad the amount of duties collected have been as followsduring the past five years : Average Dutiable Duties rate imports. collected, of duty. 1887 $150,325,322 $214,222,310 47.10 1888 408,143,774 216,042,256 45.63 1889 484,856,768 507,571,764 466,455,173 220,576,989 45.13 1890 1891 226,540,030 44.41 215,903,729 46.23 Total ?2 377,352.801 11.093,285,120 .40 The value of imports subject to duty given above are the sum of the values of the irood( it th ;late ot purchase, that the prices at which the goods are offered for ale to any one in foreign markets. Th9 duties collected represents the tax which is imposed on thee goods by the uni ted States at its custom houses Who has paid into the treasury of the United States ?l,093,28o,f20 dur ing the past five years? It was certain! v oaid bv one ot the five parties concerned in thei rportation of the $2,377,352,801 worth of goods, either by the importer or i he foreign manufacturer. If the importer paid these duties he added the amount to the price oi the goods, and, as Mr. Depew says, the tariff tax "rested on the bottom7 that is, was paid by the consumer But Mr. Foster, the secretary ot the treasury, says that the foreigner pays the tariff tax for the privilege of selling his goods in our markets. If his view is the right one, the loreigner has during the past five vears been doing a most unprofitable business in exporting goods to the United Slates, for every dollar's worth of goods which he sends here he pays not only the cost of hand- liner, insurance and treignt, wnicn r. mount to. say, five cents, but also 46.4 cents in duties to the United States. His net return, therefore, when he sells his goods here, is only 48.6 cents. Is any one stupid enough to be lieve tnat this is true? If f oreigners send their goods to the United States, do they not do it because thev can get more for them here than where hev were made? If this is true the consumer in the Unilffd States, not the foreign manufacturer, pays Which view of the the tariff tax. matter is the more unreasonable one? SOME CLEVELAND TIONS. QUES- What do You Think of them? Did Cleveland in his letter of ac ceptance declare against a second term, and did he afterwards accept a nomination for a second term? Did Cleveland write a letter on civil service reform to G. W. Curtis, a d did he afterwards keep in office thousands of republicans who had opposed his election an-' the princi pies cf democracy, when there were thousands ot democrats who had worked for his election and the principles of democracy fully com petent to fill them? Did Cleveland order the restoration ot the battle flags of the South to the Southern States from whose soldiers they had been taken, and in a few days after wards countermand that order be cause of the Northern outcry? Did Cleveland send a message to con gress on the very eve of a preadden tial election advocating radical tariff changes, on which the campaign was fought and lost by the democracy: Do Cleveland's friends call him the "Moses" of his party? If the difference in the votes cast in 1888 for State officers in New York and those cast in that state for presidential electors is the evidence of the betrayai of Cleveland, what will account for a corresponding dif ference in the votes cast for state officers and presidential electors in Connecticut, Virginia, W. Virginia, Indiana, Arkansas and Missouri? Did Hill do all that too? When Campbell was defeated in Ohio last November, certain Cleveland demo- crats charged Hill with it, and yet last week a poll of the Ohio iegisla- tore showed that Hill has t .. ice as manv suuporters there as Cleveland, Cor. in Asheville Democrat. THE CLEAR KING, The Progressive Farmer says the people of Chicago conceived a great plan for a royal visit from the Amer ican Congress. They sent a lumin ous invitation to each member of Congress. to visit that city on the 22d instaut and t ndered the use 01 trains, free passe.-, the hospitality of the city, etc. 1 ney were even so considerate as to send a return en- VetOPe iUHA I"- UCat 1 tir JJUi.Jv 1 1 n ..nut (.cennnca '.inl nn which to write the answer.- Our own Grady wote his reply as fol lows : If Chicago can pay the expenses of members ot congress as propos ed. would it not be advisable to spend thf.t amount' on the Exposi t on rather than suggest tne suspic ion that th's is an effort to influence the action of members on the ?5, 000,000 loan proposition. 15. jr. UBADY." Specimen Cases. b. II. Clinord, .New Cassel, wis., was t oubled with neuralgia and rheumatism, his stomach was disordered, his Liver wiw auecieu an aiariuuis uegn, up- peme iei 1 away, ana ne was lemoiy re- duced m Hesh and strength. Three bot- ties of Electric Bitter, cured him. Edward Sheoherd. Harrisbimr. 111., had a running sore on his leg of efeht vears' standing. Used three Dottles Electric Bitters and seven bbses Bucklen's Amica Salve, and his leg sound and well. John Sneaker. Cataw- oa, O., had hve Iaie ever sores on his leg, doctors said he was incurable. One bottle Electric Bitters and one box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured him entire ly. Sold at 50 cents and 81 per bottle at It. II. Holliday's Drug Store: John It. Smith, druggist, Mount Olive, N. C. News from Washington. NOTES AND ITEMS FROM CON GRESS AND WHAT If IS DOING. Some Bills IntroducedPerson al Mention. The Tariff bill will be called up for discussion in House March. 1st. Speaker Crisp, who has not yet re covered from his case of the grippe, is atFortrers Monroe Cora few days. Congress was not in session for three or four days last week. Mr. Palmer's speech In favor of the constitutional amendment for the election of Senators by the pvv ple and Mr. Sherman's resolution foreshadowing the introduction of a bill o meet the case of the Italian piisoner- killed in the New Orleans parish prison were the chief features of the morning's business in the Senate lasfc week. Democratic absentees are eiving the leaders of the House a great deal of troi ble, and now that the serious business of the session is getting be fore the House the continuation of this practice will prove very embar rassing, as it enables the Republicans to tie the House up at any time by refusing to vote, thus bteaking a quorum, as was done several times this week. Congress, or as many of its mem bers as can spare the time from iui portant committee work, left here Friday for Chicago, as guests of the World'g Fair committee of that city. returning next Wednesday morning. Representative Rayner, of Mary land, this week delivered one of the strongest speeches against trusts ever neara on the noor 01 me House, tie reminded the Republicans that nei t her the Inter-state Commerce law nor the Sherman Act, passed at the last session of Congress, had pre vented the continued formation of the trusts and combinations whhh it was tneir alleged purpose to erad icate, that trusts still blossomed and flourished as -.hey accu ulate in ev ery commercial eentrf, that they still defied the law and the jurisdic tion and. mandates f the courts, and that they still, with arrogant front and bold pretensions, executed their puipoes without the slightest lear of inflicted punishment or the sligh test concern about any encroachment upon their prerogative. They are so powerful and influential that the legislatures of the States seem to tremble at their presence, and tho Congress of the United Siates .had stood by with folded hauds and per mitted them, with an iron heel, to trample upon the rights of the peo ple. The House committee on election ot President and Vice-President and Representatives in Congress Monday agreed to report a bill leaving the election of Senators to the people ana conferring exclusive power on the State Legislatures to fix the times, places and manner of holding such elections. In addition to the bill introduced n the House by Representative Gra dy, of North Carolina, proposing a reduction of the salaries 01 govern ment omcials, Mr. Wheeler, ot Ala bama, has introduced one which pro vides for a reduction of 20 per cent. 00 all salaries amounting to Jo,00l or more and a reduction ol 10 per cent, on all salaries exceeding $800. A bill is to be introduced to put a tax ol $1C per thousand on cigarettes The tax is now fifty cents per thou sand. Gossip on the House side of the 1 Capital has it that the Pacific Coast members of both parties are exceed ingly jealous lest the eastern mem- bers shall share any of the credit of restrictive Chi.-ese legislation. It is rumored by some of the Congressmen who opposed Mr. Mills for the speak ershiD are anxious to make him show his hand on the silvei question be lore the senatorial election in Texa- The report whice is to accompany thft bill adopted by the ways and means comm'ttee of the House in favor of free twine has been prepar- ed. Mr. Denby, United States min ister to Ctina,'has made a report to the State Department of the recent insurrection in that country. There will be a general obssrvanco of the 22d of February in the District. A bill for the better regulation of the liquor traffic 11 the District has been introduced in the stiouse oi ltepre sentatives. The House committee on labor will introduce a resolntion investigating the oieration of the eight-hour luw. The committee holds that it should be strictly en forced. The Uuited States Senate yaster day adopted a resolution or the re turn to the republic ol iiexico o 1 wenty-one flags captured during the war with Mexico. The Idaho ena tonal contested case was further df bated. The House, iu committee of the whole, considered the Indian appropriation bill. YOU ARE INTERESTED. ThPT( is no . reason why there should be any prejudice existi among anv classes against the Alii ance. The object of the organization is to secure reforms in the manage ment of national affairs. It does no seek to destroy any legitimate bus ness interest.Every merchant, every dnf,tnr and everv lawyer, is directly interfcsteU -m the success of agricul- . f when lfc becomes Unproflta fe j ffer jf you Me not a iuOT,rin al.rmld f ?Qe.?b1er theI"S "SJJSt none jom if eleglble, if yoa are not none the less should you WWWyour m of nuence wun ine orgamxatiuu i nf cure reiOTii npon wurea jru m- is pent v as well as tne inrmers de pends. Tarboro Advocate. Whoever control's the volarae of money in any- country is' absolute master of Garfield. all industry. James A ALLIANCE IN DUPLIN. Appointments of lion. G.W.Wil- tox, lMs. Lecturer, district. He will speak at the following: places at 11 o'clock : Island Creek, Saturday, March 12, at Pin Hook. Rock Fish, Monday, March 14th, at Corinth Church. Magnolia, Tajsday, Match 15th, at Magnolia. Cypress Creek, Wednesday, Msrch 16th, at Chinquepin Alliance Hall. ' Smith', Thursday, Marcu 17tb, at Cedar Fork. Lime Stone, Friday, March 18th, at Hallsville. . Kenauville, Saturday, March 19, at Kenansvale. Warsaw, Monday, March 2lst, st Warsaw. Faison, Tuesday, March 22nd, nt Faison. Wolfscraoe, Wednesday, March 23rd, at Lott's Branch. Glisson's, Thursday, March 24tb, at Branch's Store. Albertson's, Friday, March 2oth, at button' Branch. President Marion Butler isxnwt. d to be with him at Kenansville, - 1 Warsaw and Faison. Everybody in vited to attend. JOHN C MCMILLAN, Lecturer Duplin Co. Alliance. I. I... bJH- a " - ' GREAT PROSPERITY. Our debts represent our invest ments and our mortgages are an evidence of our prosperity." So said I the Kansas republican league, and so has re-echoe i man republican orators and papers during the past year. We have just learned that one land loan agtncy, late of Huron, has within tho past week commenc ed foreclosure proceedings on 65 mortgages in Brown county .alone, and almost as many iu Spink county. This only represents a small portion of the homes that are being lost through that prosperity ot wnicn a mortgage is an evidence. A great many who are threatened with fore closure, knowing that they cannot redeer: their farms, are Induced to give up possession on receipt of 25 to 50. Then the boomers point to the payment of that mortgage as another evidence of prosperity. II( re then is quadruple evidence of pros perity : - 1st. Contracting the debt. 2nd. Giving a mortgage for it. 3rd. Giving a deed of the farm to pay the debt and raise the mortgage. '-th. Take to the road a homeless tramp. Great is our prosperity fr mhhy- ock's point of observation. Dakota lesident. A CASE OF CONTEMPT. An old farmer from one of the back counties was the defendant in a suit for a piece of lnd, and he had been making a strong fight for it, stys the Detroit Free Press. When the attorney for the other side be' gan his speech he said : May it please the court, I lane the ground " The old farmer jumped up and ung out : "What's that? What's that?" The judge called him down.. "May it please the court,'' began the attorney again, not noticing the interruption, "I talte the ground "No, I'll bed d it you do, either," phouted the old farmer, "anyhow not until the court decides the case." The fine for contempt was remit ted later. Animal Magnetism. Judge Fow .r Speak up, now! How did you come by those chickens? ttastus He .1 shaw Dat jes' de trouble: couldn't get by dein no Hiow, sah The Brilliant Spirit of Beparter. She: It is reported aiound town that we are engaged. He: I haye heard worse thing than that. She: I never have. A Paradox Straight from Boston. The person possessed of idle curiou sitv has a curiosity that is never idle. SQUIRMING AND DODGING. The Republican party through its platforms ana teachings tor a quar- ter of a century has lead its people to believe that it was in favor or free coinage. The Democratic party has done the same thing. 1 hey have preached it on the hustings, pleaded for it through their papers, and pro- claimed it in their platiorms. They have denounced the frud atd treachery and duplicity, through which silver was demonetized in 187S and vet we find to-day both trese parties squirming ana aooging ana in every way that is disgraceful and coward'y. trying to evade, the loud demand of the people for free and unlimited coinage of silver. Pro gressive Farmer. Pranednt Polk in his last annual message predicted that they would do that very thing. THE WHISKEY FIGHT. To-al uarers have been served upon the commissioners .f Mecklen- hpfW Jnd?a Rwnnm n l.,,. fho 91 onH shnw oairsji uu ucou;, i - - why licenses should not be granted nrtQtn Mnnlirants. Tne cmn mis - to certain applicants. Tne cum mis sioners In various counties have been refusing applicants for license wholly on the ground that no man wno ap plies for a license to sell liquor caa have a yood moral character. State Chronicle. n.l.f&a 1 niai lt.l The best Saive in tne wOTjd for Cuts BrJsesf Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fc rer Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, ChiL vawr a h ph a w a,a.TT i a . i ir iiiica uauuo, tT nh.nnaJUottHo fhiL lands, Chil- Eruptions, blaia. Corns, and all btcin and positively . cores Piles, teeuired-v It 15 suaranteed to give p.r. . . tect safelacticn, or money refunded, Price 25 cents : -per box. For sale by Dr. R. Bolliday, Clinton, and j . o kirrm TVnnt. Mount Olive. N. C. REAL CHRISTIANITY. REV. THOMAS DIXON ON THE UN FAIRNESS OF SOME CRITICS . A TrrtmAm mm tkm BtU hOfav la Kmmr York IaUltr AaUtHatc BI mt Uqaor 3day Bw CUmI lBgnoIl Attack a raacUal TaJa. New You. Fetx 21. Bar. Thoc&aa Dixon, Jr., preceded th aerxaon ia A boci&Uqq hall this morning by review ing the question involved in the bill now pending in the New York lecisUtort proposed by the liquor dealers, which grants practically free whisky eresy day and Sunday too. He said: It is s dark day in the history of the great temperance reform. Apparently tne saloon is sboat to roaster toe roroca of otxr Christian civilisation. Every where the saloon is aggressive and tri umphant. The reason for this is not far to seek. The forces of temperance are sadly divided. The Prohibitionist sullenly maintains his position upon the rock of ultimate truth and demands an nihilation or nothing. The high license nxancarnesa razor in his boot for the Prohibitionist. Our little church tem perance organizations spread out their wares and declare they are the only gen uine reformers and all others axe base imitations. Our Catholic brethren work within their own lines. Meantime the devil laughs and grows fat, rides into power on every popular ware, makes legislatures and governors his puppets. HEIX U1UT1UX It is Christendom divided against Hell united. The liquor dealers of New York have met in solemn council and drafted a bill to suit themselves, which they have presented to the New York legislature. It will vastly surprise ma if their pup pets do not obey their requests to the letter. They modestly demand that all the liquor laws passed during the last quarter of a century snail be repealed. They want saloons opened on Sundays, concert halls and dives opened all day and all night, free whisky at all hours at public "bawls," protection from the pos sibility of police interference, the repeal of the civil damage act, the free right to sell to boys and girls, and all license fees reduced to next to nothing. I must confess that I admire the sub lime cheek of these men. Think for a moment of the daring of a set of chronio violators of law that is, habitual crim inals meeting and drafting a bill grant ing themselves immunity in the prose cution of crime and demanding the po lice power of the state to protect them while they are about it. THE LICKKSX HCTfBOQ. I confess to the secret hope and pray er that they will succeed in passing this law and give as free whisky for a sea son, it seems to me it win oe ror our good. First, because it will be a shock to the miserable factions of a temper- imceguerruia war tnat wuioringumiy i . . . out of chaos; second, because the whole license system is a humbug and a lie. It is a delusion and a snare. It is wrong in principle and utterly devilish in prac tice. For the state to go into partner ship with the manufacturers of citmi nals is for the state to commit suicide. Go into partnership with the devil he always owns the whole concern. If it is right to license the whisky business it is right to license the lottery swindle the lottery to a mild evil in comparison. The lottery takes in $20, 000,000 a year. Our whisky bill last year was $1,200,000,000600 times morel A bill is , now pending before this same legislature to license prostitution in New York state. If rum to licensed why not license all crime? If the sys tem is right and good we cannot have too much of a eood tiling. The enforce ment of the license system to the grand' est farce of the times. It to said that prohibition could not be enforced. Pro hibition is always enforced better than the excise system. The grand jury hu morously and pathetically petitioned tb legislature last year to repeal the excise lawB and relieve them of thousands of cases that would never be tried! To in dict a liquor dealer under the present excise laws is a joke. Everybody knows this. Why not repeal the farce and give us free whisky awhile? It is estimated by conservative men that there are be tween 2,000 and 3,000 unlioemed drink ing places today in New York city alone! Why continue such a travesty on law? The back door of every saloon is open on Sunday. Why not open the front one and thus lessen its power politics at least? Why should we be os- reformerB? Why deceive ourselves? them pass their law. They will aDOlish a swindle and give us the benefit ot a Btorm of moral wrath and the air be purified. Free whisky or prohi- bition are the ultimate issues. They bad as well be joined now as later. Let the war begin. COLONEL INGERSOLL'S IGNORANCE. I am com that Cher may bar life. Joba x.10. Be that beUevetb en tne Son batb tne UTa. ijomt.c Hot every one that aatth unto me. Lord. Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; bat he that doeth the will of my Father wbtck a la heaven. Matthew vli, ZL A new commandment 1 give unto roo, that ye love one another. John xUt, Si. For the whole law la roiauea in one wora. even in this: Thou, shalt love thy neisfahor ae thyself. GalatUns v. It In the colonel's recent broadside he at tempts a definition of Christianity. The errors in this definition are so funda mental that it is impossible to proceed further in our discussion until we point out these mistakes and give a definition wnicn may do nseo as a sxauoaru wnw we refer to Chnstiamty. m say rHJhristianity is a code of moral. Be I then proceeds to declare mat uinnnan- . I "v.t mTO-- 1 murder, ana aeciares .na u w founder of Christianity had plainly said 'It to not necessary to . believe in order to be saved; it to only necessary to do. and he who really loves his fellow men, who is kind, honest, just aaacnar ttable. is to be forever blesf if be had only said that there would probably have been but little persecution. Dew school. Reaver Dam - 1 "''"""ZIZkIaT w. - i ... - . I OUI mmM " . rX.iTT Jrfa saying that, as itT n 1 s human oeu as persecuted 0f W human being, and as amstianity; ha "lit 1 was added to morality. - tBMDKavcs rarana The blender of such a dennitiaaaf Christianity rrtmia U fact thatOJooal Ingeraoa Is so Ignorant of what real Chrltriasrfty Is that it to hnpoaaftU tat him to give of ttaatikUXUgettt 4MlHiim. Let us again dearly emphut the fact that tha Christianity of tradition and hia tory to one thing and the Christianity mt the Christ to another. The force of Oalonal IngeraoUi assault to always toend in his attack spca historic perversions of troe Christianity. When be sill narrow ness and bigotry and superstition and ecclemasticum, he to on solid ground. 1 heartily agree with many of the posi tions he has taken upon these questions. but the Christianity of Christ to on thina and the historie parrarsione of that Christianity entirely another thing. This aefiniaon to an attempt to gire us ths meaning of real Cbristiaa4r. At least, upon th surf aoe, such would be the Impression of th erLary roai Th colonel therein displays tgnorano profound, maiafoi. pathetia. took a blunder vitiates all that may follow based upon such conception. Eto tes timonr. after such a deftnttioa; to real Chrtottoaitr. to absolutely wc Parts of what he says may be partly fa truth, and ret it to a half truth that to the farthest removed from th real truth. You may so aooent that which to true that it may be the rex anttthi of the truth. WHT BO MX Bcsmm. The colonel her reminds me th boy who was studying history. His teacher told him that the "Emperor Nero played the fiddle while Rom burned." Be went bom and told his mother that the "Emperor Nero playing th fiddle so they burned Rome!" The language h used was al most identical with the language of the teacher, and yet the boy declared that they burned Rome because they did not like th tune that Nero pbxyed. II al most got it right Out in almost stating the truth be missed it the more com pletely. And yet we must not jtdge the colonel too harshly. We cannot demand too much of a man who makes no profession of Christianity. Especially w most not be sever in judgment upon the failure of such a man to know true Christianity when we remember th tragic blunders of the apostles themselves. Christ's own chosen followers misunderstood him up to the very day of his death. They drew their swords and attempted to defend him by force. Be had to rebuke them and to explain again that his kingdom was not of this world; not of force, but of the spirit His leading disciples were found wrangling over the first places in the kinrdom temporal which they sup posed be had come to establish. I xnougn uinj uiou uioa ia umuj m.. o- 1 f victan m hi real mlasion that not I until after hto death did th meaning of his words begin to dawn upon thetr souls, wnen we rememDer. now v I u J. A I ht A V4. : " . :T7Tr7 u ZIuLj, 1 Tarrii HHHHii iiiitiwera uxavB mimi kuuii 7". . , mA I if itzoosisiAA) auu w iouvu w smww- i stand his mission through th years or riTl ' rriTriM ill thi msurrtA num. Wl must not I be too harsh in our iudzment of such a man as bigeraoU if he fail to find the I secret ot tne greas near or vne true unruc. xne lauures ox men inxougu au i tb r to omnrehend the hebrht and depth and glory of his mission only bring out in bold relief the sublime proportions of the truth that he came to teach. What is the Christianity of Christ? What to the Christianity for which this church stands today, for which 1 as a minister am striving? 1 do not ask what has been taught in the past about Chris tianity by theologians and expounder of nutann tt rt41narmliv I lutlr what ia tha Christianity for which the Hring church strives and stands in this hour of th nineteenth century? faith which manifest iUtlf hi a lift of love, hve to God and man, lore to Ood through loot to man. DBVUJi BBUBVK. First We say it to a heart fKh. "With the heart man belieyeth." Chris tian faith to not a feat of the intellect over a philosophic proposition. It to an attitude of the ' soul. Devils believe. Belief in itself does not constitute Chris tianity. A man may believe any system of theolomr he may select, and have nothing of Christ in his heart or life. I Theoloiry to of the head. Religion to of the heart Theology is a science, re ligion to a lif 8. Man is not merely what he believes. A creed in itself has no necessary connection with conduct A mati may believe all things a an .intel lectual fact and accept nothing connaet- j ed therewith as a. moral fact H may very aogma t w opc ereeds of all the ages and yet hav with in a heart as black al beu. Intellectual belief nlavs upon the surface of life. It does not touch the center of man 's "being. With the heart man believeth. "Out of the heart are the issues of life.' BErnxD a baystagc A man's professions of creeds o." phi losophies may be one thing, his actual character another. Profession, in fact, may or may not signify reality. Is man a soldier and patriot? Ua profene to be a soldier. Ha wears a uniform. He has epaulets on his shoulders. He has brass buttons on his coat, a strip down his pantaloons, a belt with an m- blaaoned buckle strapped with his sword. But to he a soldier? . He profena to be 1 1 1 one. we can omy learn wnexnernis when we see him in the fight Aowth battle to joined. Across the plains the op posing hosts charge upon each other with deadly fury. Tb field to swept with torms of bullets, shot and aneu. mow walk over the field and yon will find th Dldiers On such an occasion, a com mander passing , over the field found a subordiaato officer crouching behind a haystack. Turning upon him, he de manded. -What sort of a place to this I mauded. "What sort or a Place is wis for you,irr 'th reply thai greeted 1 . , " j. 1. iw v.v him was. "Why. do you really think the bullets can come throughr Tnis I can come toroajp the full uniform of battle. He had on all the accontermentsof war; fcut he was as far removed from a sol- e'ier as thooffh he hid been thousand miles removed from that battlefield. Belief about Christian history and doema to not Christianity. Belief about v - - . i r4nit. A man mav Dacev I tute Christianity. A man inaybebev everything that to stated m SScabout the Atonement everything that to stated in dogmatio max, yet may believ l-'ZJr wSS. hi taT averv truth taught fa tt A man tContlnned on Second Page. JCOttUnneB on oww""! I Education in Sampson. A HISTORY OF OUIl PMVATK SCHOOLS. lroIxU KorTWFuturo, Mr. Editor: I propose to wlU a few article for Tug Cavcaiian ir I hey sre acceptable, In this paper I shall refer to tho private nchool of tho cojutv. In future papers I shall speak of the public Krhool.public school teachers. chotf hottsoa, and tho general lm provements In t& various branches of lotloatry, lo the different part of the county. ' ALXaT HIGH SCHOOL. In January, 1875, the writer lift Warsaw, came to Salem and aryanl ted Salem High School, la Honey cutl1. township. This aehool has been la suceonsful operation for tho last seventeen years. Ever, since the writer rave up the school It has been conducted by tialem boya," those who were prejiard for Coltrx In this Institution. First, Marion Butler, now PtmI dent or the State Alliance, had charge of the school for several year?, and made It a suoceas. It Is now under tho management of Geo. E. Butter, who wu a small boy In the school, whonlt was first opened. He and Mis Janle Evans, his atsls lant, are msklng the school well worthy of patronage, and 1 now In a proiprioua condition. BELLKVOIR HIGH SCHOOL. This cho 1 Is also In Honey cult's township and was successfully con ducted for several years by Mr. J.D. Kzrtll, who did good work hero. Mr. Heodsen the present principal has now an excellent school ut this place. riNEY ORE EN HIGH SCHOOL. And still another school in Honey, cutt's township. Plney Green HIsh School is now progressing finely In Its fitst session, under the leadershlf. 0 Mr. u. I. Smith, an eXDerienend and mr1I y.U. IT ... w "cir, near 11 ney Grove church, I a rood build- ing in a section heretofore dvold of rhnnl rum.- th.i- i , . "ViWI 19 UW lined to do much toward thamani.i " -wa and moral lmt,mv.R..n .u. - w viuvu vi ttlv ril- tiro community. HAYXX ACADEMY. . 1 "C""V " in Little Uoharle township and Is presided over by Mr. pireet lire wer.sflret-class Instructor nd bv hia . ' . y hlB K Work many are being trained for the vari ous duties of life. Heretofore edu cational facilities were not In reach of many in this section who are now receiving the benefits of a good prac tical education. SOUTH RIVER BAITI8T IVBTfTrtT Thia Institution la In Little Coha- I rl township, and is known as the I school of the South Itiver Aaaoela tloi. The rood, substantial nA , ' ' UU,,U1,,K was erecied by K pt. James L. Aetry, at hlsows expense, and the use of It tendered to the South Itiver Association as long as they maintain a' Baptist school. It Is now In a flonrUhlnv. I Ing condition under the managejient or Mr. D. T. Oatet and Miss Venle J. Biazell. rJOttHKIf HKJU SCHOOL. In lhe land of "Oothen," In Plney Grove township, and In one of the , most thrifty and industrious section of the country and nearonenrthA largest churches Is Goshen High School, conducted by Mr. J. D. Er- zell, a veteran ani successful teach er. This school 1 doing much in educating the boy and girls of this community. VJUOX ACADEMY. ' In Franklin township b Union Academy, built several years ago, but has at times been without a I school. There ' have been several good schools taught heieby W. M. Shaw, W. W. Holding, Isaac Fort and Mrs. Lucai. Ml Kathleen El- more, a progressive teacher, la doing go jd work there-new. ixoold ACA&EiryV In Lisbon township near the beau tiful village of Ingold Is an excellent school building, which is a credit to the enterprise, good judgment and , liberality of the citizens in and around Ingold. "Tom" Sloan holds the post here, and with Miss Berta Marshbum in the primaries and Miss 3Iuriel Richardson to give in struction In music, be la makin? bis school rank with any of almalar grades. At the requestor Mr. 81oan I visited the school, sometime ago, I . ,...... -- 1 and was delighted with the thorough- ne of the work and the progress the children, ef all gradeti was mak iK- , - ;:r:' . BEAVZS DAM ACADZKY. In Newton Grove township ia an- I , : Academy Is now In her first session unfertile priatfpal&Uip of. Mr. Jno. E. '. Fowler, ; a", progress! re - young man, reaching out : her ' arms and gathering in the boys and girl to C4mtiaiiedonTbi.dPagjr i II
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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