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CLINTON, N. C.9 THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1892.
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VOL. X.
No. 25,
CAU C ASIAN
Alliance Directory.
;X, I N-U. VA'.'.MKUS
INi'l'S I' III A I
!c.t!t--L
ALLIANCE AN"I
UNION.
L. P.,!k, North Care
:Ut D S-.reef. N. W,
EDITOR'S CHAIR.
HOW THINGS LOOK FROM
OUU STAND TOINT.
V .-'ih';! -t'V.l. I). C
'.-.--l,r: -;lt.-nt li. If. Clover, Cam-
-v . ii i iry and Treasurer J. ll.Turn
, r. t: .ivia. Ad-lrc.Ms. North Capi
tol Mivi-i, N. W., Washington, D. C.
!.. (: r.ri-r I. II. Willc.ts, Km-as.
V.XIJ Vi IVIi HOARD.
c. W. .SU'.cuitti, vVii-iMii-'on, 11. C.
Alon.o Witnlall, Hur n, n.ih D-'-.kon.
.1. T. Ti.hnua, Pa'.nietl'j, Tennessee.
JUDICIARY.
II. C. Dcmmin, Chairman.
ln;uic Mccracken, O.oiie, Arkansas
A. i:. .:o!f, F-nvlemlle, Michigan.
NATIONAL I,E(iI3LATIVK COUNCIL'
TIkj lYcbh'.eiit.s of all the Stat'. oigari-
"-.iio!)3 with L. L. Polk ex-ollkio ChaU-
IUall.
XOHTH CAROLINA FARMERS .STATE
ALLIANCE.
President Marion
North Carolina.
The ODinion of The Editor and the
Opinion of Others which we
Can Endorse on the Various
Topics of the Day.
THEY MAY RIDICULE YOU.
Bvitler, Clinton,
Vke-i'r.
vil e, N. C.
S-.;cre'.ary-Tr
idt.nt T. B. Lous, Aihe-
asurer W. S. .Hamas,
Bale
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Chalk
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-C. C. Wriirut, tllas;
(jl.apl.nn ru-v. Jaskinc lop
Lt-vuh X.
JJ'HM'-Kcl'O'
ettvville, N. C.
A-t-islant J)'r-Ietpjr II. J
Peanut. N. C.
S.-rg.-ant-at-Anns J. S. Holt, Chalk
Lewd, N. C.
Statu Business Agent V
li d-i-h, -N . C.
Trustee. JJs'musH Agency
A. Graham, Machpe'ah, N.
ex i:.:L"nv k com m : ttee
NORTH CAROLINA
STATE ALIJANCE.
S. IJ. Alexander, Chai l".lLo, X
t -i. rrin in . J il. Rlewborue, Kin
N.C.-, .J. S. Johnson, Kuilin, N. C.
SlATi: ALLIANCK JUD.CIARV COM
MITTKI-:.
lviar, ;..rr, A. Leazcr, X. M. Culbreth
M. u. (iivorv, Wm. C. C.'ini.d!.
STATU ALLIANCK LEGISLATIVE
CO MM ITT EE
i. J. Towed!, Ktihd:
Kn-'lish, Tiinily (;.ih
Tulentu :
-W. ILTomlinson, Fay-
King,
. II. Worth,
Fund W.
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II. A
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;e ; .!. J . Youn
I'oitk'V. Ne vlon , N.C.
XMRTI.I (U.)LIA RKF)UM PRESS
ASSOCIATION.
OiVu-ors r. L. Uamsev Fresideiit
M:irii,!i Untlri Yutcvrrcsi 1l:llt : W. S.
IJarncs, Secretary.
PAPERS.
The Caucasian, Clinton; Fro
.fm.ivM KuniHT. Haleisxh; It u nil
I lome, V ilsou ; Fwrinyr's Advocate
Tarhoro; Salisbury Vatcdinnn, Sal
isburv: Alliance Sentinel, Gokls
b,.ro: Hickory .Mercury, Hickory
Tr.fi ltattler. Whitaker.--: Country
Trinitv Colleire; Mountain
I r.miH Journal. Asheville; Agricul
imil life. Goldsl)oro: ColumV.us
i.s. Whitevillo. ; . C: The Bui
Acent. Italei 'h. N. C.
c;iiit A. S. Teace. editor of Alii
anee. Department, Oxford, N. C.
Each of the above-named papers ar
r.-mi.sn,l to keen the lit standini: 01
il... lirsr. lia ',: nnd add oth' r., provide
I.,.. '.r. lnlv i-lirlp(L Anv Hal).'!- tail
ir. 'l.) advocate the Uea!a platform wi
l)e dropped from the list promptly. Our
peoph; can now sue .what papers are pub
lished In their inierest.
rriendsofroforoi you have been
and will still be hooted at as "ca
lamity howlers," "hayseeders,"
fools and iwseV but Jo not flinch
Such epithet are thrown in your
facfi as vour disirraco. but receive
them patiently and with joy. Con
mi cr il Jin nonor. it in viuy
scheme to break your united effort
for honiist. consistent reform. Re
ceive such schemes with united and
renewed strength. It is only an at
tempt to laush you down, or ridi
cule yu into silence. True, it may
e. that ridicule and scorn are pow
erful weapons, but not where logic
and reason have their eternal foot
iold, for their keen aud cutting edge
blunted and gaped when they
strike against hard, cold facts.
There is no argument in calling
names in sneer and ridicule.
The Great West truly says:
Thra, methods of warfare are as
o-uns loaded with wet powder, or
hrr.i-on wnnls in the hands ot
x.or soldiers. They have been tried
many times m ine insiui ui
umi.i with but sicklv success.- The
men who call the reformers of to
. . . . l il
div "mml diners nay seen-.
. . . i t. 1 11
"coiehers" and "anarchists" anu
other on!) robrious titles are in many
- r a 1 ,-. ... I. ,
inntnnrfiH (lescenaants 01 tamers wio
ihh-tv vears aero were targets for the
u.lma L'inil OI 111111. DUl LHO vr
justice rolled on regardless of their
siiRprs. talsenoods anu riuicuic,
. Hir. reform train of 92 will as et
fectually crush out the vital sparK
of tlie "calamity makers." The
calamity maker is the cause, tne ca-
lamitv howler is tne eneci, cause
and eifect are inseparable.
A BRUTAL FACT 1
ATKEMKXDOU8 TKUST.
Five men own the Associate Press
control all the news, all the sources
of intelligence, nd modifying
every public expression to suit the
view of the Money Power, l'.-ac-
lically, one max controls it all
all thrt telegraphs of th s United
States, Can ida and Mexico and tne
majority of the st'jck in the Associ
ate Press. He is master of this gov
ernment a .d political thought in
the public press. He owns three of
the seven powerful dailies of New
York City, and is purchasing tne
stock of the fourth. He controls
the cable across the Atlanti?. He
works with the legislative commit
tee of the American Banking Asso-.
ciation, 274 Broadway, X. Y. Truly
the people are in danger when tne
daily press is advising a stronger
government and even the New
York Tribune stated that sentiment
in New York City was rapidly turn
ing towards a king and h monarchy.
The Great West.
My God, where will it end! Free
men, in a free country, having the
news of Its greatness and its disgrace
fed out to you by moneyed kings
and Wall Street brokers. Even the
channels of your thoughts and the
news of your daily life doctored and
warped by such men. The greatest
educator of sixty millions of free
people controled and virtually own
ed by one man !
The next Democratic National
Convention will be composed of 80(J
delegates. By the two-thirds rule,
whir h governs this Convention, GOO
is necessary,' for a nomination. Ac
cording to the New York Herald the
first ballot will stand, Hill 285,
Cleveland 268, a "'Western man
350. According to same report North
Carolina is put down for a Western
man. We suppose that settles it.
Xews fiwn Wasliinirton.
PIUSSIDEXT MUTLER
GREAT PROSPERITY.
Issues a Call for a Conference of
Prominent North. Carolina
Alliancemen.
"I desire to have conference with
i i ! t rrt
one true representative uiwulc
man, or more, from each county in
the State. At your next meeting
elect one man to be in Raleigh May
17th, to meet in conference with me.
TClect vour best and truest member,
act upon ins
Strong fArgunu'iit for tiovern
ineiit Ownership of Railroads.
The recent rail -o id combination
between the Reading road and sev
eral others, forms one of the most
complete monopolies of the oulpu
ot antthraci'e coals ever effected. It
will control at least 70 ercent. of
the product of that kind of coal,
which virtually fixes the price of
all the balance. This combination
i made in absolute deil tnce of both
State and Xationa' law, and depend-
upon its power over im-na.a money
to maintain its position. Several
large railroads have bought up the
coal mines and now they form a gi
gantic trust to bleed the people.
l'his is enough to make city peoph
throv their influence and strength
with the Alliance.
fbere is a vigorous protest against
such action going up from all quar
ters, which indicates the tread of
public opinion. The New York
World, in a recent isue, makes the
following comment:
The coal combination is a conspir
acy of capit.il against industry It
is meant t. make every poor man
use less coal, and pay more for it.
It is meant to levy a tax upon every
industry that uses coal, and the .ax
will be taken in the end out of the
earnings of the men employe.!. The
people need more and cheaper coal.
This conspiracy i- intended to give
them less and dearer coal. Protec
tion has already baen curtailed in
order that the price may be main
tained. The price will inevitably
he advanced in order that the con
spirators may the more rapidly ab
sorb to themselves the earnings of
other men. Under condition of
healthy competition, surplus pro
duction woiLit be reduced, not by
stopping the work and waes of
miners, but by a reduction of price
sufficient to iuduce the people to use
more coal. The conspiracy is intend
ed to destroy healthy conditions, ex
clude competition and decrease pro
duction, while increasing the profits
of the monopoly in control. It is a
conspiracy against good morals and
against the public welfare. It vio-
ates the spirit of the law. It sets
at naught every principal of equity.
It threatens the people in their
homes and their workshops, it is
unju t, iniquitous ana very ciuei.
It iiiu-4 be brokn unit there be law
enough in this free land to piotect
a free people. Ex.
NOTES AND IT II MS FROM CON
GRESS AND WHAT 1 f IS
DOING..
Some Rills Introduced
al Mention.
leron-
Aa Interview with the Chinese
minister on the subject of Chinese
immigration is rinted. lie pys
the treatment ot the Chinese by the
United States is -'inconsistent with
the constitution and the principles
laid down by George Wasiili.gto."
OUR CHRISTIAN AGE.
CKUACHES GAINING FASTER IN SPIRIT
UAL POWER THAN EVER DEFORE.
The politicians, partisan papers
and the mouthpieces of plutocracy an(i empower him to
have agreitdealto say about the best judgment tor you in are preseu
, I? , -x , v!jf ino- in thfl tative capacity on any matter that
...on.iurr.ii nrffcsnenf'.v existing lntnoi J ..
United States, Some classes pros
per as the following shows:
There are .30,000 millionaires in
the United States.
There are 1,000 millionaires in
New York.
Seventy parsons in the United
States are worth $2,700,000,000.
may come up for the good of the or-
ganiadlaOU nuu uictauac u. ''ui
Marion Butler.
.
WHO PAYS THE TAXES?
ilO V ESS LON A L CO LUMN .
T.
LEE,
ATTO ux ey-a -l w,
Clinton, N. (
Odica over Shoh'.-i, opposite The
Cauc.sia Oflke. iachlT tf
w
K. ALLEN. W. T. DORTCH.
LLEN & DOHTCH,
ATTO KX EYS-AT-LAW,
Ooldsboro, N. C
Will practice in Sampson county
fel27 tf
A
The Alliance, Tallahassee, Fla.,
ojve. Tid vou know that all the
tftires. which are now running over
a million dollars a day, are paid by
. . ii nonia nwn tnr-neoDle who produce the mate-
ininyone iuuu r- - - - r tiou? anddid
over one-half the weaitn y0U know that the small class who
country. . own and control the money oi uie
One hundred persons in the Unit- COuntry do not pay one dollar of the
S3.000.000.000 or taxes? and did you Know uiai youi
V I I I 'J 1L..L U nUn!d
envernment nas saiu nmi it wwum
ed States own
wealth.
Looking at that picture of peace
and prosperity, reader, and wnen
you have fully realized its import, j
look at this:
There are 1,000,000 out of work in
the United States.
There are over 500,000 tramps.
Ten thousand children die annu
ally in the Urn ted States from insuf
ficient food or clothing.
There were 5T,C00 homeless child
ren in the United States in 1890.
be so?
Yp. our national Congress has
made this the law of the land.
It has said that labor should tear
the burden of government whiles
capital should go free and revel in
luxury. Go back to June 3d, 1864,
and you will find ou the nationa
statue book the following law:
"All stock, bonds, treasury notes
and other obligations of the Unitep
State, shall be exempt from taxat
ion bv or under state or inumcipa
or local authority"
M. LEE, M. D.
Is II YSICtANVSt! UOLO.V AN' I) DENTIST,
OHice in Lee's Drugstore, je 7-1. vr
E. FAISON,
Attorney and Counsell
or at LW.
Oince 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
W. KERR,
Attorney and Counsellor
at Law.
Office on Wall Street.
Will practice in Sampson, Bladen,
lender, Harnett anu uupim v,uuu
ties. Also in Supreme Court.
Prompt personal attention will be
given to all legal ousiness. t i-iyi
OF THE THIRD
Out of 2.000.000 who inhabit New (i
York Citv only 18,000 own homes. cONOBKSSius ai rxvic
luIit ViiJ J I ,,,,i4r(o rrf' I,1 VlniT'l'I VrK'
, ,.i. cc chmva O (KH).UUIJ I JJiiJiovA"y m., - . ,
tne xaie ccuoua w..
mortgages in the United States, or
one to every seventh inhabitant.
In New York 49,000 working wo
men are so poorly-paid that they
must accept charity, sell their bodies
or starve.
In an argument whicn aceotnp
inles a lengthy petition prvsented
in the United States Senate yester-j
day, Hon. B. G. Harris, of St.
Mary's county, urges payment tor
the Maryland slaves taken by the
general govtrnment or emancipated
by a State convention at the instance
of the general government.
'
The President has laid before - the
Senate in executive session Lord
Salisbury's List note on the Bering
sea question, as well as a copy of
his reply to Lord Salisbury. The
tone from the latter is said to be
evasive and unsatisfactory.
The interest in tha silver debate
in the House was unabated, and
there is considerable speculation on
the result of the vote, the passage of
the bill being generally conceded.
The United States Senate yester
day passed bills appropriating 518,
750,000 for the lmprovment of the
Mississippi river, $1,745,810 for the
cascades of the Columbia river and
$2,800,350 for a bolt railway at The
Dalles and Olilo Falls and Ten -Mile
Kapids on Columbia river. The
House took up the free coinage of
silver bill, and speeches were made
by Messrs. Bland, Williams, Hunt-
:r,
ltaynerand others.
WHAT THE ElHTOR WOULD
LIKE TO SEE.
"Comi.ig" to
The money that
us arrive.
Our sweethearts "get up in arms"
against us.
Jack r rost call around and settle
the mosquito's bills.
The young man who dances with
our girl get religion and quit danc
ing.
The boys and girls who earn their
living by honest toil, crowned kings
and queens of society.
Less attention paid to tne heath
ens at home.
Every boy and girl who receives
a copy ot this paper senci in tneir
subscription and at least another one
with it.
The time come in this country
when rates for lahor will be paid on
the basis of what it earns, when vir
tue will be rewarded according to
the true standard of merit, andplen-
tv. peace and happiness will reign
everywhere.
. B-
FAR FROM SATISFACTORY.
A fire in the folding-room of the
House of representative destroyed a
large number of public document.
Secretary Blaine is gradully re
gaining his strength, and is now
able to take a short walk in the open
air whenever the weather is favor
able. The President has approved of
tha action of the court-martial
which found Major Giles B. Over
man guilty of conduct to the preju
dice of military discipline and sen-
tedced him to be repiimanded.
In the House there was a prolong
ed and exciting contest over the
wilver bill. The debate closed at 5
P.m., and at one a motion was
made to lay the bill on the table.
'I he result was a tie, with the vote
of Speaker Crisp against the motions
Then followed dilatory motions tor
adjournment, etc., in quick succes
sion by the opponents of the bill,
and much time was consumed in
calling the year and nays. At 12;J5
this morning the House adjourned
oil the motion of Mr. Bland, who
abandoned all hope of passing th
free coinage bill at present. Tha bill
now takes its place on the calendar.
Iu giving a report
ville meeting to
of the States-
the Charlotte
COMMITTEE-
Dr. Cyrus P. Thompson, chair
man, authorizes the announcement
that a meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Third Congres
sional Disrict will be held at the
nsnii TTmise in the citv of Wilm-
n .mi- I . . . fPI 1 . , - rfil 19f h
Ye-s the country is rapiuiy ington, on xnueauaj,
in, richer, but those who make th. 1892, t I o'c to p , u to -
products that make the country, rich It is
earnestly desired that every couuiy
in the district be represented.
THE ED OF THE WORLD.
be
or
. , r. cr nivirnr.
are tnemseives r
WhP.t is the matter? This great
wrong must stop or there will
imnhin There must be reform
there will bo a revolution
THESTATE CHRONICLE SOLD.
tw TorV..,a Tlanipls hfW Sold the
" i.ATr t n Tprriiiran late final round-up of things earth
Chronicle to Mr. 1. R. Jernigan, iaiu ... -. in ino
Associate Editor of the News and
Observer.
Observer, among o'her things, the
reporter say:
"Major Bobbins asked him (Col
onel Skinner) several pointed ques
tions in rega.cl to the stab-Treasury.
Mr. Skinner's replies were foil of
generalities and far from satisfac
tory."
Yes. so "iieneral" as to floor the
Magor every time. This was very,
ery "far from satisfactory' to Mr
Robbing and his friends. Those
who think that Col. Skinner did
not answer him plainly, let thim
ask the other liwyers of Statesville,
or go and hear them for themselves
on the 9th of April next. Hickory
Mercury.
.r. m
15UTLER WILL IS E THERE.
F
RANK BOYETTE, D.E.S.
Dentistry
Office on Main street,
Offers his services to the people of
Clinton and vicinity. Everything
in the line of Denustry done in the
best style. Satisfaction guaranteed.
fiST My terms are strictly cash.
Don't ask me to vary from this rule.
REMOVAL. !
.1. rF GIM'XrHY
"Has removed his Tailoring Estab
lishment from his old stand to his
office on Sampson Street, neit to the
M. E. Church. - .
Tho great and orignal leader in
.low trices for men's clothes, Ecoa-
-omy in cloth and money will force
von to irive him a call.
-Latest Fashion plates always
nn hand. June7tn. iyr.
For Sale !
Two Lot' one containing a Store H: nse
tho nhr a Dwellmtr. located at
Tomahawk. rn the C &. Y. V. New
and in good condition. Apply to
.... n.ifPT
Our population in I860 waa 35,-
819,282, and our circulation $1,803,
409,210, being -1. per capita of $52.
In 1890, our population was 65,000,-
000, our circulation being $306,999,
982, a per capita circulation of $4.72.
March 19. Lieut. C. A. L. Tot
Un, professor of military science in
Yale Colleere. is again making bib-
nai fvjinnlntinns to Drove that tho
ana
ourthlv will take place in 1999. He
says seven lines of calculations lead
down to the year. ) u the year 2000
the millennium will begin, he says
by the ascension to heaven of 144,
000 christians. July 4th of the pre
sentvear Totten will go dowa to
Atlanta, Ga., to join his regiment,
his three years' teaching term ex
piring at that time, tie says people
reeard him as a crank, but they
djn't know him.
The reference in the last Edito-
rial Letter from Washington to a
Congressman elected by the Alli
ance votes was not intended for any
of our North Carolina delegation.
ARE YOU POOR
Remember the present financial
nolicv of the nation will make you
imnrPT. That THilicv can only be
changed through an educate! ballot,
o Kantintr svstem that is to educate tne voie snau u mo
.,"i:cu, Z Ty,a " hfltit is sionoftheCaucaian. -not
based on the theory that it Is The fight between Rev.Dr.Park
lawful to take advantage oi a man i hurst and Tammauv Hall is on
necessities. - again. Dr. Parkhuist laid before
his congregation Sunday affidavits
hir a . vote I Rhowinsr violations or excise ana
i if" lrAUO ijc&iat((vuj-w wj - cs
- I cram hlino- loura in 9fti different case
88 to 8, ii structed tne uongressmeu &
from that State to vote for a free sil
ver bill,
Eternity iscryingout to sou loud
er and louder es you near its brinK
The man who favors men and ? a . . nnt flt for
measures opposed to financial reform anri give up wishing for it; learn
i,. tn himself and a traitor what you can do, and do it with the
IS uu. j I - T7 T l,.l,orr3nn
energy oi mau. x- muuvh"
The correspondence between Sir
Julian Pauncefore and Assistant
Secretary of State Wharton on the
Berinsr sea question is made public
fheauestion was discussed by the
Senate committee on foreign rela
tions and it was decided to recom
mend the ratification of the treaty
The Senate discussed the treaty in
executive session. The .President
was supported in hi s position by
Senators of both parties. It is stat
ed fio n L indon that three BritMi
war vessels nave been ordered to
Bering sea. The London papers re
srard President Harrison's attitude
as taken for campaign, effect.
PRESIDENT BUTLER
"The Foolish Prophecy Craitr-d to Col
onel Iintroll-Ilitr tirr Wm K
3Iavb t'eiao tuid Artitity Atnoo(ChrW
tiiuil Now Sine th Apotllc A,
Detroit, March 27. V-v. Thomas
Dixon, Jr., prrachl in th.. city tonight
!q Plymouth churtli tooue vt rhe Ur,-xt
audience ever ft-s- mb'tsl her'. Ho lec
tured on Satunlay uight in the Star
conrs to an audience of 4,0oo px.pl
and then consented to remain in the
city over Sunday and preach. Plymouth
church, where the service was held, in
the jrreat people's tabernacle of Detroit,
boing the largest church in the Hate.
The pastor. Rev. L. Morgan Wood,
preaches to the largest regular congre
gation in the city and one of the largest
in the entire west. The audience packed
the great tabernacle this evening to
overflowing and several hundred were
unable to gain an entrance. Promptly
at 7:30 Mr. Wood ordered the doors
closed and then tho great throng, led
simply by a cornetifrt and precentor,
joined in singing our routing national
hymn "America." After tho opening
exercises Rev. Mr. Dixon delivered a
most powerful and eloquent sermon on
"Christianity Triumphant." He eaid,
ppeaking from tho text, "But ye cannot
discern the fcign of tho times'' (Matt,
xvi, 3):
A few years ngo Colonel Ingwrsoll is
reported to have uttered the prophecy
that within ten years from the time he
ppoke there would lie two theaters erect
ed where ono church would bo built. It
is remarkable that a man of the intelli
gence of the distil) guii-htd infidel could
work himself up to such a pitch of prej
udice and blind incapacity that he could
utter eo remarkably stupid a prediction.
It only shows tho height and depth of
the pit of blind folly into which preju
dice can lead a bo called freethinker,
Any man who labors beneath a moun
tain of prejudice such as incapacitates
liia judgment can in no sense claim ti
be a freethinker. He is a slave of elaves.
Tin: old neci:o.
We cannot imagine how tho colonel
could have the check to face tho world
today after sv.ch a prophecy, except that
he had su'ihme conhdence m tho igno
rance of the great public to whom he ut
tered his proi hecy. I suppose he relied
upon the same power which an old col
ored man of whom I heard in the
south did, when indicted in a court of
justice. The judge asked him if he had
any lawyer.
He replied, "Iso, Ban.
Tho judge asked him if he desired ono
to bo appointed to defend him
He replied, "ro, sah."
The judge asked him what he pro
posed to do then
The old man renlied. "I les tot I a
leabe my case to de ign'ance ob do co'tf
Colonel Ingersoll must have had I
boundless faith in the fathomless depth
of the ignorance of the public he ad
dressed, or else his own ignorance waa
unfathomable; We are all liable to
draw conclusions wide of the fact, if we
base our estimate of the world upon our
own limited circle of acquaintances.
Sometimes when we know or,e or two
people who differ with us in religion, or
indeed any subject of vital importance,
we are too apt to feel if wo are out
numbered in our acquaintances, that we
are outnumbered in the world. .Many
of us feel, when we are surrounded in
our daily work by scoffers and un
believers, that all the world has deserted
the truth and that there is no hope for
the future. So the colonel knows a lew
fud this rt marVatsSy tupld prly.
niftACt-r vr wtHfaoxs.
Soad Within this very prvl tho
dvflopmnt of raMoro toj.uwwi Lai
rtched point ef which or father
nevrr drrarac!.
Th sdvuic hM lxrn imjJy ur
reloua. Every nation of rth U ikw
open to the prt jan. of CLrunan
doctrine, and every uatk n c f rth h
it C"uritian luissKrnary prtx-Uuuunj;
that giptL Wilhia this pmt.1 we have
had such remarkable' develoj nimu u
that of Dr. llotij-h at Onjule UapUi5
ten thousand native in Mrsl year,
and the remarkable development the
great inUud minion in China, where
hundred of missionaru are tup.rtd
yearly by the voluntary giving ef the
Christian world hacked by no ornuA-tiwi-
To take au illuMratioa at our own
doors, within oar own city uf New
York, there in single church, with no
rich men in its memU-ndiip, that ends
out thia year into the nation field 1U0
missionaries. Thia organization, which
w only h few 3 cars old, ha e.tiblihed
thirty-three mnwionane In India, the
Congo Free State, China, Japan and
Hayti, and within the past six inontha
lis, 500 has been contributed toward
furthering the Guspel in heathen lands.
refer to the remarkable work conduct
ed by tho Rev. A. B. Simpson.
CHR1STUX rsiTT,
Third The growth of unity in the
Christian world within this ier.td of
agnostic phophecy has been uiont remarkable.
Twenty-five years ago the Protestant
churches were busy fighting ono an
other. Now they are bny seeking to
co-operate with each other in lighting
evil. Co-operation in aggressive church
work is one of the orders of the day.
The teinjier of the Protectant world in
most accurately expresntd by the lnt
Professor Austin Phelps, of Andover.
Ho says: "I was once a blue Presby
terian; I thought Episcopacy a t-iu and
Itomanism of the devil. I now find a
great deal of piety everywhere where
Christ is owned as the living head. 1
work Congregationally because I mut
work somewhere, and am ueither wise
nor 6trong enough to work alone, and
am not such a fool as to throw away
nine-tenths of my power for good by
trying to work in ecclesiastical solitude.
But I cjuld work just as well in half a
dozen other organic forms of church
life. There is an Episcopal teinixTa
ment and a Methodist temperament and
a Calvinistic temperament, from which
sects grow by natural evolution. At the
core of character they mean little mere
than red hair or a birthmark. The m;is
ter will know his own only by tho name
in the forehead."
There has come likewise to be a lietter
understanding between the Catholic and
Protestant world. Today, if any move
ment is started in our great cities look
ing toward the destruction of evil and
the uplifting of society as a whole, you
may count with certainty on tho supjiort
of a largo and influential element in the
Catholic priesthood. They will le found
by your side on tho platform aud co
operating with you in every way to fur
ther the common cause.
Within this period we have witnessed
the remarkable reconciliation of science
and revealed religion. Twenty-live year
ago the church militant shivered at tho
mention of science and men timidly
thought that tho remarkable' develop
ments of modern science threatened tho
foundations of the church. Today sck nee
is the servant of Christian truth. Today
science is the handmaiden of religion.
Today tho preacher's library contains ns
many books of science as liooks of phil
osophy and theology.
NEW LINES OF BATTLE.
Fourth The display of the power of
THE WORLDS XEWSL
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1 SINCK I. XSTTIiriLsPAV.CAltr
Pl'LLY ASSOKTl'.l ANU
CONBKNSKD FOU Ill's Y
Pl-OPLi:.
stt.
Tho Morgniitnn ll. rM .!vo-nu
S. U. Ahx.tt.ter fort to vt nur.
Th i.ew Zlttjetidorf h del t
Win-ton Un iVnti'y. The ptuuihlti
rlcm r;i $3,.vm.
Mr. P. It. Kpjmt of s..nu t
the flr-t telun! t. mviy iio,tf to
prtclhv Pharmacy In tht Mite.
Ju.lgo Walter Clark of tho Sy.
prenif Com t, will deliver the uddr
at the celebration at t'e tliitir.ird
Courth..u initio groui.d July
4!h.
The negro i x ! in from KnUtn
Ctiunty hM greatly rodiicvd tho
lathering lorn', and thti ii tho onlg
county in the Mnt thun aiTectry
thin year.
, . . , 1, ...
-oriii .iron 11.1 gel, yi -i.ncn an.
nually ai in r leini ,i u.e rvrtsl
t'lll t.y cimuitto of ll.ui, of
It jK'M'iitatlvi ft r Mil ti.ry
I r prbtiuti.
p-
asrnostics and infidels, and basing Ins
prophecy on his own limited observa-j adjustment to new conditions, khown by
tion he predicted the downfall of the church within this period, has given
Christianity. Let us lift our vision a
little beyond this narrow view.
In the new century Viat ts daxnnng,
what is the status of CJiristianityf
We see in clear outline a new world
whose heart is nearer the Jieart of Jesus
Christ than that of any age before seen
in human history.
cncEcn growth. -First
We are led to this conclusion
because of the remarkable progress m
organic church life within the period of
0 ... -, .ri
years covered by this remarKaoiy siupiu
prophecy of Colonel Ingersr jj.
VV umn tnis precise period tne uevei-
evidence of its immortal power and its
immortal deetiny
Within this period the great social
problem has become the problem of the
V i - Al A.
age, ana tne cnurcn uas mown mat
within its heart there was the principle
of salvation not only for the individual,
but for society. The pope of Rome has
swung the great ecclesiastical machine
of the aires mto lino of iattle. lie
champions today the c.iu.se of the masses.
lie lays his hand on the church in t ranee
and savs to the clew. "The cause of
the republic i.i the cause of the rieople,
And whereas once tho ecclesiastical ma-
Will Speak at Kcnansville Mon
day, April 4th.
opment of church life in America has chine stood, for monarchy and centrali-
There was no joint discussion at
Statesville yesterday, and the
Obervpr has its serious doufts about
there being one there on the 9th of opportunity,
April. Not, however, that Maj.
Bobbins will backcutby nomeans.
Charlotte Observer.
You only hope Butler will bacu
down; but your hopes will, be blast
ed He will be there unless provi
dentially prevented. So,' you can
prepare fora room" pie. iiick-
orymercury.
WARSw, N. C.
Mr. Editor: The people or our
county weie much dinappoitted at
not having President Butler to speak
in the county wfce 1 Mr. Wilcox,
District Lecturer was here. He has
agreed to speak at Kenansville next
Monday, April 4th. The time is
short, but there will bealargecrowd
of our representative people out to
hear him. We all have been anx
ious to hear him and this is our first
X.
been the most remarkable in many re
spects in our history. Within this past
twenty-five years tne number 01 commu
nicants in Christian churches in Amer
ica has increased nearly 100 ier cent,
faster than the increase of population.
The increase of our population within
ration, it has, today, adjusted itself on
the platform of triumphant democracy
that is to lx
The church of Christ has developed a
liberality in giving within this enod
ucb as" the leaders of church life and
mission work did not dream of twenty
A portion .f Mtrti. H:'nHMi.V
Smith S irltino Cbiiuicd work
t;iar Wilmington, wr' dedrnyd
by fire on Saturday nmrnli g. I,o-
J 1,000, paitly injured.
But lor the timely mid prompt
net ion of tho liif department, tho
whole of the McAdoo Houm In
(trtviehoio would have burned lust
Friday night. The flro o.iginsU-d
in a dett dive flue.
(Jov rnor Holt has appointed Ir.
It. H. lit wis a delegate to r. rcM tit
North Carolina at tho third annual
convention of tho 'National Hairy
and food Con:niiK. loner's, Aocla
tion," ut Washington. I. C
The Board of Hi rectors of tho
eiiiti -Hilary has reeelvel reports of
he total number of convict) In tho
State, which how that thero
le l,u'Jl a Hiualler nuinlKr Until
t any time In iiltecn years past.
Tit State Agricultural Society
ias elected Hal, V. Ayer uv-l4.int
t coireiMuiding secretary, and ho
takes rhurue April 1st. Mr. Aver
was formerly secretary to L. L. Polk.
reMdent ol the National Al
ance.
Nine trunks of trees, each twenty.
live feet King, have bee 11 shlrnd
form Abbeville to Chicago to form
olurnn in the North Carolina
forestry building in the Columbia
vxpoHtic n. They Hre the gift of
George Vanderbilt, and are from
iU cM ate near AshcvHlc.
(ieneral Alger having declared
that Southtrri Republicans calhl
upon him for nmney to inrther hU
andidacy for tho I'roldency, tho
Stato organ of that party demands
that ho givi the names of any
North Carolinians who thus offer to
nerve him for his money.
Mr. Cora Morris, a eouln of tho
do Gov. Scales, whose trial at
Bidi!!i in 100 ntuktul su.h a
sensation, has married nirrln. Hhn
was tried for poiM.nmg her husband.
and there was a great demonstration
when hhe was acquitted. She Is a
strikingly handsome woman. Her
new husband in a telegraph or,Hrator
m tho lino of the Richmond J
Danville Railway.
In Edge,mbe county two younir
children were burned to death.'
York S! ration, their father, and hi
uil" went to piaycr-ineeting, and
left four chi Id ied t-hut 1151 in tho
iou-e. It caught flro, and was in
flames when it wrs discovered. A
man burst i t tho door nd seized
two of the children, but when ho
attempted to go lu for the others
the names leat him back. In tho
presence, of tho crowd tho others
were burned, (kvpite ull t-fforU to
rescue I hem.
that period has been one of the miracles gve years ago. Last year we gave about
in the development of nations. The
progress in organic church life in the
development of the numbers 01 cnurcnes
has been equally remarkable. Think ot
a prophecy that within ten years tnere
would be two theaters constructed iot
$40,000,000 to home missions and -T),000;
000 to foreign missions,
All along the line of the Christian
world within this past decade there has
been a forward movement. There has
been a remarkably forward movement in
IT lS BAD LUCK.
Happy Hoosicrs.
WTm. Timmous, Postmasterof Idi J
villn. Tnd.. writes: "LiectricUitters
has done more for me than all other
medicines combined, tor thnt baa
feeling arising from Kidney and Liv
n trrmhlA. " John Leslie, farmer
j.svm -
nnd stockman, ot same place, says:
'Find Electric Bitters to be tne best
Kidney
me feel
every church! The period of this proph- education. Within our own denomination
ecv has expired. There are about twen- jn the past two years there has been given
ty-five theaters in New York city with a over $5,000,009 to tho cause of higher
population of 1,800,000. There are over education. There has been established
500 churches. There were more cnureneh the trreat U niversity 01 (nicago, wuicn
built in New York city last year than has iid Hnder tribute the scholarship of
" National.
Hon. It. Q. Mills has been elected
United S.ate Senator by the Tex a
Legislature.
Over 2t'0 people In various ecc
t'.ons of thi- country died or grew
hopelessly insane during the past
year a- a conepuenco of (igaretto
smoking. Most oi the victim) were
young men under 10. Congress ha
tftn a-ked to prohibit the rnaiiu
i dure and sale ofcigaettes.
tha higher education of the whole world.
THE AGE O THE MASSES.
Within this period we have had a re
markable development of evangelism
finch as the world never saw liefore.
To ??et hanared on Friday;
To catch the small-pox on Frid
To get jilted on Friday;
To go to prison on Friday;
To lose vour money on Friday;
To have an eye put out on Friday;
To get a leg broken cn h riaaj ;
To get drovvne 1 on Friday;
tv hav-A vnnr house burned on
Fridav:
,
To have the toothache ou j?riuty-,
To hft found dead in a sewer on
Friday.
TOWN VS. COUNTRY.
there are theaters in the whole city. The the world and will be a contribution to
Methodist denomination alone built latt
vear in America over 4,000 churches. 1
do not believe that there are 4,000 thea
ters in America.
THE STEW CHCBCH POWEES.
Within this Drecise period of agnostic Men believe, sometimes, when they read
T ivpr Medicine made prophecy tho church has developed with- the past, that the age of Whitfield was
y and Llvff m"lc VJ ? ' V5 itseif powers hitherto unknown in the the age of power in the evangelization of
il like a new man. j. v . , , iV 1A wi ,ia rrwi t, .- ..nrt t.,.
I . , 1 n.Al,ont onmli I BiSlOry l vi". I I uian. . " - 1
tiarancr, naru w a.c DVt the magnificent organization known as ty-five years has been the age of remark
iday; town, says: Llectnc mtters is jut kw8 Daughters has been born." It Vie development in the evangelization
the thinff for a man who is all run
dawn and don't care whether he lives
or dies; he found new strength, good
appetite and lelt just line ne nau a
new lease on me. umywwuwn
bottle, at R. II. HoLLJDAY's Drug
store, Clinton, N. C, and John R.
Smith, drugrist, ALi.uuve, .
uumbera now hundreds of thousands of
consecrated women, who.with their hand
of charity and love, touch human pociery
at almost every possible point of contact.
Within this period has been oorn tne
Youns Peoples Society of Christian l-n-
4eavor, numbering over a million active
members. Such an enlistment oi tne
forces of young manhood and woman
Wood in active organic church life is a
development in the evangelization
...f mrsses of people. There is a man
now ut work, whose name many or you
do not know, whose meetings are far
more remarkable in results than any oi
the meetings of Whitfield or Wesley.
Rev. B-Xay Mills recently held a meet
ing in the city of Elizabeth, N. J. There
were over 2.000 professions of faith in
those two weeks. All business in the
citv was suspended. Stores were closed.
The Mecklenburg Times remarks
with genuine wit that the only two aayeiopment of power of which the I -niirty-five saloonkeeper quit Uieir bma
things!) t"al Falu CAcua JU
nrih numlina, last vear were tne
.A. a a. a v
penitentiary and the evangelists.
"How te Core all Skin Diseases.!'
It is worthy of note, that the
Inli Ho a hppn On
rit for Simolv apply "Swayne's Oint
hotu-oan thA llenrs- MEST." ISO lUieiuai uieuiuuo
three davs. is
entatives of rural constitue.icfes,
nn the one hand, and of city on
fnnstifiipncifis the other. The ad
option of a free silver law would
trmteriallv enhance the value of
every agricultural, product. State
Chronicle.
auired. Cures tetiei, cezema, itch, all
eruptions on the face, hands, ncse,
lAAVfi the skin clear, white and
healthy. Its great healiug and cur
ative powers are possessed by no
other remedy. Ask yoar druggist
for SwAYNi's Ointment. . S
ehurch never dreamed twenty-rive years I nega an(j mae confessicu of religion.
ago. I Mr. Mills has just closed meeting in
wuv.iT tia vei-:i.d has been born the rsnrmnati with results equauy a re-
Young Men's Christian association, that raarkable. The night that he left 10,009
ti fii-ilizad world with its TenTle filed before lam, taking him by
thousands of buildings and thousands of the hand, thanking him for the work he
organizations and thousands of doors had done, for the blessing he had brought
-iT,ir,o. wi.in r.TwTi in all the centers cf tr their lives. There are scores of men
lifi. Into those doors pass tdn-r in the field in -active evangelistic
""l"""' " ' t I . - , ' . -i ,1, A.
and repass millions of young mem i wort, reaching nunureus anu iluuu.
mention only these three among the of people whose work is as large as the
scores of such organizations that have work of the frreat evangelists of tisstcen-
been developed along lines of endeavor
that are new to church work and were
unknow forces in that past which pre-
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Foreign.
The Englirh House of Commons
approjiriates $.j0,(RH to havo Oreat
Britian represented at the Chicago
Fair. France aud Denmark will uh
no lake pa it.
Another Bank at Parishassusfend
ed, liabilities 24,000,000 francs,
axeets 5,000,000. Two of the distort
have abscodod, one has teen arrested,
one committed taicide.
The American Steamer Indiana,
laden with flour, gifts of penerotas'
Aniericin8 to the etarving Russians,
has arrived at her destined port. Af.
t eho an4 mrmml a number of
orthodox Greek clergy proceeded
aboard of her and hsld thanksgiving
services.
Several balloons coming from the
German frontier have recently been
seen hovering over the Itasdan for
tresses andcamps and are believed
to constitute a special spy service.
One at Kovno was fired at, but the
occupants continued to vse their
glasses undisturbed. The balloon
set ui to bo under perfect control.
It is said that at Dombrowice a bal
loon was seen sailing again t a
Iresh breeze, stopped when It plead
ed and rjiauouvered as if fitted with
a perfect 6t3e: ing and proDelllD2
uppareto!
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