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the Caucasian; IF YOU WOULD LIKE VUM.ttiUE.lt EVKBY THCKSDAY, To comiaa&icite "with about Us By XARIOX BUTLER, IMHor and Proprietor. " thousand ot the best country peddle In tnU wilon or JforUi Carolina thru do U through tbt SUBSCRIBE I Show this Paper to your neigh bor and advise him to subscribe. Txtro Domoornoy axic "Wlxlto Bupromit oar. columnt ot Tins Cavcaius. N other ir in th Third Cn gmtional District baa aa Urj a circulation. VOL. X. CLINTON, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1892. Subscription tlrice$l JiO Vcr Year, fu Advance. No. 35. THE CAUCASIAN. . i Alliance Directory. NATIONAL KAUMEKS ALLIANCE ANP I.VKCHTKf AL UNION. President-- I.. L. I'olk, North Caro lina. AiMres. 3H I) Street, X. W., Vasbhiri'tii, D. C. Vict-rrc:Hl:iit 15. II. Clover, Cam bridge, Kansas. Hcin-tary and Treasurer I. II. Turn er, r.f-oria. Address. 22'.) North Capi tol Street, X. W., Washington, J). C. Lecturer J. II. Willelts, Karicas. , ' EX K I VI I V E I10A HI . ,'. W. Mjm:u!ip, Washington, J). C. Alnz Wardall, Ilurou, South Dakota. .. 1'. TiUir.an, J'almetlo, Tennessee. JUDICIARY. II. C. Ptinuning, Chairman. Isaac Mi'.r.rncken, Ozone, Arkansas. A. 1". Cole, Fowlerville, Michigan. KAiroNAi- i.r.;i.r,ATivi: council The I'n;-id;'iitH of all the State organ izations Willi L. L. I'olk ex-ollicio Chair man. NORTH CAROLINA FARMKRf' riTATE AlAA.VS.'V.. I'n sidi tit M;ui'-n RutU.r, Clinton, Noi tii 'arolina. 'iie-l're idtt.L T. 15. Ihi, Ah ville, Nr. C. S1.(ietruy-TiL'a.-urer W. S. Humes, l'aU l-h, M. C. I..vlurcr J.S. r.eU,15rasstowu, X. C. M.r.anl C. C. Wright, Chis, X. C. ( i,iip:;iiii Il v. Krskine I'op3, Chalk I.rvei. X. C. JM.ir-Keepei W. II. Toinlinsou, Fay-ell-viiie, X. -'. Assistant I )or-ICeoper II. E. Kinij, I'unint. X. C. S'-reant-at-Ann.s J. S. Holt, Chalk T.'-vei. x. ;. Siato Business A-ent W. II. Wortb, Kihuh, X. C. Trustee Jlsiness Airene.y Fund W. A. (inil.nm, Maehpelah, N. !. j;Xl;CIIVK COM MITT EE OK THE NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS' j STATE ALLIANCE. S. 1. Alexander, Charlotte, X. C, cli.iirnian; .1 M. Mewltorue, Kin.ston, X.C.; .!. S. .Johnson, Kullin, X. C. HI ATE ALLIANCE JUD.CIARY COM MITTEE. Kilas Cisrr, A. Leazcr, X. M. Culhreth, JI. (t. Crejjorv, Win. C. Cumuli. HTATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. If. .1. Powell, Kaleih, X. C. ; X. C. English, Tiinity College; J. J . Youtii, I'oli nta; II. A Forney, Xe-v ton, X. C. NORTH CAROLINA RE )RM PRESS A-SOCIATION. Oil leers .J. L. Uanisey President; Marion Rullei, Viet-l'ie-srli at ; W. S. Rai lies, S ( reiary. FA REUS. The Caucasian, Clinton; Pro gressive Farmer, Jlaleigh ; Itural Home, WiiMiii ; Farmer's Advocate, Tarhoro; Salisbury Watchman, Sal isbury; Alliance Sentinel, Golds lu.ro; Hickory Mercury, Hickory; Tho Battler, . Whitakers; Country liit'e, Trinity College; Mountain Nome Journal, Ashevilb; Agricul tural I5ee (Joldshcro; Columbus Kows, WhiteviUe, . C; The Busi ness Agent, Jtaleih, X. C. Capt. A. S. Peace, editor of Alli ance Department, Oxford, XT. C. Kaeh of the above-named apcrs are rctpieMed to keep the list standing on the that pae and add other, provided they are duly elected. Any paper fail ing to advocate the Oeala platform will lie dropped from the lust promptly. Our people e in now see what papers are pub lishe.l In their interest. F LIOFE8.SIONA L COLUMN. .-P CIIAS. S. IiOYETTE, t( DENTIST, sis his services to the public. 1-ges moderate and work guaran I. ORice at Dr. Flowers' old I. my 28 tf 1 Mr LEE, ! ATTORNEY-A-IAW, Clinton, N. C f()iTice on Mam Street, opposite Court rise: nicbl7-tf K. ALLEN. W. T. DORTCH. A ATTORNEYS- AT-LAW, Goldsboro, N. U. Will practice in Sampson county. feb27 tf A, M. LEE, M. D. PlI YSIClANjSlJ ROEON AND DENTIST, Office in Lee's Drug Store, je 7-;yr HE. FAISON, Attorney and Counsell or at Law. Office on Main Street, .ill practice in courts oi Sampson ana ""Adjoining counties. Abo in Supreme Court. All business intrusted to his !il v nrt1 in rr fn 1 Art; Will I'lViupv ttention. je7-lyr E ( Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office on Wall Street. - AVill practice in Sampson, Pdaden, bonder, Harnett and Duplin Coun ties. Also in Supreme Court. Prompt personal attention will be given to all legal business, je 7-lyr - II A -VTT." lUiVrTTl? T1 "P. R V ' Dentistry rim on Main street, Offers his services io ui peopie .. Clinton and vicinity. Everything in the line of Dentistry done in the best style. Satisfaction guaranteed. rMy terms are etrictly cash. Don't ask me to vary from this rule. L. J. ME1UIIMAX, 232 Washington Street, N. Y., COMMISSION MERCHANT In Vegetables, Produce, Fruits, Berries, &c. ' - Hhinmfinta solicited. mchl7 trT, Many Persons Are broken down from overwork or household can Brown's Iron Bitters rebuilds the nvstcia, aiw digestion, removes ex. pes of bile, and un iualaii. Uct Uie jjeuuiua ' I : i ! ' " I 1, ' EDITORS CHAIR. HOW THINGS LOOK FROM OUR STAND POINT. The ODinion of The Editor and the Opinion lof Others which we Can Endorse on the Various .Topics of the Day. Let the people of North Carolina congratulate themselves thai the State is saved, and to a great extent harmony prevails in Bpite of the damage done by certain ignorant and hot-headed newspapers, and certain unscrupulous and domineer ing politicians. The days of bossism are numbered, the people will rule. Evidence of the rottenne.-s of the associated i-ress have been accumu lating for years, and by and bf, the attention of the people will be con centrated upon this gigantic mono poly and vve might say, she-devil of the whole lot. The associated press is under tho absolute control censorship, of a few men, the tools of the money, who do not let anything go to the public that meets the disapproval of tho plutocratic lord., who have set up in our so- called "free America" a form of censorship equally as arbitrary and despotic as that exercised in ltussia or other monarchial forms of gov ernment. One of the recent acts of this plutoc -atic despotism was the refusal to send out as an associated press dispatch at Denver, the article to ho found in another column enti tied "Congressional Corruption," in which Mr. Fredtrick A. Lucken bach, a prominent business man of Denver now and in years past of New York and- Philadelphia, by affidavit authenticates the charge made for years that silver was demonetized through the influence of English and German bankers, and that pior.ey waa used to accomplish it sent over here with, and paid out by Ernest Seyd, as age t of the foreign bankers. Startling and im portant as this statement is, it is re jected by the associated press agents, and notwithstanding it has appear ed as a special dispatch, it has not evoked a single editorial comment that we have seen in a single me tropolitan paper. This cannot be attributed to oversight. This si lence is significant of the fact thai the metropolitan papers of the coun tryas well as the associated prees, are under the contiol of I he money power. Forun. A SELF-CONSTITUTED ORGAN. Mr. Jo 3 Caldwell's paper is pos ing ns the self-c instituted organ of the Alliance. It lays. down the law as follows: "This year there are three ways open to Democratic Alliancemen : they must assert themselves and take charge ot the Alliance, get out of it, or get out of the Democratic party. Their leaders are not going to permit them to stay in thb Demo cratic party and in the Alliance both. If they propose to remain Democrats, they will have to get out of the Alliance or else turn the present leaders out. The plan is now to deliver the whole order over to the People's party. Democratic Alliai:cenien are to b- put to a se vere test within the next few weeks or few months. They had as well make up their minds now tosurren- der, or begin to nerve themselves for resistance." What unparalled cheek and bla tant ignorance! Poor Caldwell, men both in and out of the Alliance who do not suffer with your, com plaint, will either laugh at your folly or have pity for your condi tion. THE TRUE LINE OF ACTION- The Alliance Couference, which met in-Ilaleigh on May 17th, did not "back down from or compromise the St. LouLs Demands." The three planks Finance, Land and Trans portation were separately voted oa and endorsed almost unanimously. The Allianco will continue with unabated effort its work of educa tion on these principles. The organ ization invites the freest and full est discussion on the tstuii'pand thro' the press. And the more joint dis cussions there are on these principles the more they will grow and strengthen with the people. All that )is wanting to make thereat bulk of the reformers of the country as solid on these principles as they are now on the Ocala demands is enough dis cussion and investigation. Mark it I But in all reform movements that do uot go backward, the line of dis cussion is always in advance of, the line of action, Action should al ways be taken on the line on which the largest number of reformers are united. No other course is wise ; aud any leadership that advises a different course will be found to be unsafe. The reform element at the late State Convention selected that line of action and won. In the next fight the line of action selected by the reformers will be advanced to Just that point that tie result of the work of education in the meantime will justify. Some may get impa tient and think that this method is too slow, but it is the safest, surest and best way, and therefore the quickest way. This kind of wisdom on our part means as sure as fate the death of machine parties. There fore in the eyes of the machine.pol itician the Alliance conference was not a success; but those we kcow are satined that it acted with rare wisdom. THE HARM THEY DID. Tho Lumberton Ilobesonian ve.y timely says: "It is interesting to note the n un her of our exchanges that talk so confidently of the fact that all of our political troubles, for the year, have been averted, and amusing to see how many tf them claim all the credit of it." Yes, the very parties who did the most harm, who irritated the plain, hard-working people almost to the point of desperation now have the brazen effrontery to claim the credit for harmony. What an absurdity! Those who engendered the most had feeling, when harmony prevailed in spite of them, claim to be the great and original apostles of harmony. If The Wilmington Messenger, The Statesville Landmark, The State Chronicle and a few other 3nch ex tteme papers had been sunk into the middle of oblivion, where they will soon go unless they are backed by sources .of revenue other than their their subscription lists, there would not be half the Third Party feeling that does exhist to-day. In this sec tion, where The Caucasian has a larger circulation than all other pa pers combined, especially in this county where it goes into nearly every home, there are fewer Third Party people than in any other sec tion of the State. Ye-1, there are here a larger per cent of the people who are opposed to machine politics and who are squarely and determin edly fighting for reform than in any other section we know of, yet there are fewer Third Party people. This has a volume of meaning for those who are capable of seeing it. THE WISDOM AND LEADERSHIP OF THE PEOPLE. The fact that the great bulk of the plain hard-working people, though irritated by many hot-headed aud indiscreet, if not empty-pated news paper editors, and badly treated by the machine politician at many pri maries and county conventions, yet have not been forced into taking any rash steps is a high tribute to the conservatism, wisdom and hon est purpose of the people. It show6 that the plain people are guided by the only safe political philosophy, that is "never to do what irritation! tempts you to do." It shows con clusively that the people are not only capable to rule, but that it is always safest to follow them. It shows that the people are always moved by an honest desire to do what is right and best, and if ihey find that their methods are wrong the same honesty, patriotism and purity makes them turn to the right. The machine element in politics can never be trusted to do this. There fore machine politics is dangerous to free government. The work of the machine politician is what has aroused the people. The machine must be downed, the people will rule. But the machine can not irritate the people into taking rash actionit can not force them to split their forces and fight among them selves. This would have the ma chine politician stid in control, and it is what the bosses desire. Let the people stand together and bide their time and reform will be sure to come. But remember that no last ing reform can come till the ma chine is entirety routed and pure Democracy is completely re-established. The machine can . not be whipped by running from it. Then let us keep our face to the enemy. Let us meet trickery and corruption with a determination bom of out raged justice and backed oy fair play and simple justice. SOMETHING WRONG. Rev. Thos. Dixon, Jr., in speak ing of hi3 recent Southern tour, among other things he said : 'I am not a pessimist, but during my visit to the South I was most painfully impressed with the appalling condi tion of agriculture. The depression of farming interests in the South is truly alarming. Cotton has been king of the South, but the king has not only lost his throne, but has become a beggar. Tho farmers are in debt and are growing more and more hopeless. The negroes are crowding into the towns more rapid ly than the whites and they loaf about and fall Into vice and rascali ty. The South is the agricultural garden spot of the world and when agriculture fails to pay something is wrong.." C0XGESS10XAL CORRUPTION. STARTLING STATEMENT OF HOW THE DEMONETI ZATION OF SILVER WAS ACCOM PLISHED. English Ciold Said to Have Flood ed the Legislative Halls at WashingtonAn English man's Kcvelation to un American. Steeial Dispatch to the Gloltc-Pomoerat. Denver, Colo., May 12. Mr. Frederick A. Luckt nbach is a citi zen of Denver, and is well and fa vorably known by many of Colora do's leading business men. He has been engaged for two years past io introducing his pneumatic pulveri zer and has met with flattering suc cess. It having come to the ears of Mr. M. II. Slater, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the State Silver League that Mr. Luckenbach possessed the startling information contained in the folLwing affidavit, that energetic gentleman waited upon him and induced him to out the whole story into exp'icit form and give it to the public. Tnis Mr. Liuckenoach aid, ana the result is the affidavit published below: State of Colorado, County of Ara pahoe Frederick Luckenbich, be ing first duly sworn, on oath deposes and says: "I am G2 years of age. I was born in Bucks county, Pa. I removed to the city of Pniladelphia in the year 1346, and continued to reside there until 18GG, when I re moved t the city of New York. In Philadelphia I was in the furniture business. In New York I branched into machinery and inventions, and am the patentee ot Luchenbach's Pnenumntic Pulverizer, which mad chines are now in use generally in the eastern part of the United States and in Europe. I now reside in Denver, having removed from New York two years ago. I am well known in New York. I have been a member of the Produce Exchange and am well acquainted with iany members ot that body. lam well known by Mr. Etastus Wiuian. In the year 18G5 1 visited London, Eng land, for the purpose of placing there Pennsylvania oil properties in which I was interested. I tooic with me letters of introduction, to many gentlemen in London, among them ooe to Mr. Earnest Seyd, from Itob- ert M. Foust, ex-Treasurer of Phila delphia. I became well acquainted with Mr. beyd and with his brother, Richard Seyd, who I understand is yet living. I visited London there after every year, and at earn visit renewed my acquaintance with Mr. Seyd, and upon ea:-h occasion became his guest, one or more times joining his family at dinner or other meals. In February, 1874, while on one of these visits and while his guest at dinner, I, among other things, allu ded to rumors afloat of Parliamen tary corruption, and expressed as tonishment' that such corruption should exist. In reply to this, he told me he could relate facts about the corruption of the American Con gress that would place it far ahead of the English Parliament in that line. So far'the conversation was at the dinner table between us. His broth er Rickard and others were there also, this was table talfc between Mr. Earnest Seyd and myself. After ter dinner ended he invited me to another room, where he resumed the conversation about legislative cor ruption. He said: "If you will pledge me youi honor as a gentle man not to divulge what lam about to tell you while I live I will con vince you that what I said about the corruption of the American Con gress is true.' ' I gave him my prom ise and he then continued: "I went to America in 1872 3, authorized to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetizing silver. It was to the interest of those whom I repre sentedthe Governors of the Bank of England to nave it done. I took with me 100,000, with instructions that if that was not sufficient tv ac complish the object, to draw for an other 100,000, or as much more as was necessary." He told me the German barkers were also interested in having it accomplished. He said he was the financial adviser of the bank. He said: "I saw the com mittees of the House aud Senate and paid the money and staid in Ameri ca until I knew the measure was sale." I asked if he would give names of the members to whom he gave the money, but this he declined to do. He said: "Your people will not now comprehend the far-reaching extent of that measure, but they will in af ter years. Whatever you may thiuk of corruption in the English Parlia ment, I assure you I would not have dard to make such an attempt here as I did in your country. I expressed my shame to him, for my countrymen in our legislative bodies. The conversation dr.fi.ed into other minor subjects, and alter that, though I met him many times, th matter was never again referred to. (Signed) Frederick A. Luckenbach. Subscribed and sworn to before me at Denver, this 9lh day of May, A. D., 1892. (Signed) James A. Miller, Clerk Supreme tourt, State of Colorado. 'How to Care all Skia Diseases.!' Simply apply "Swayne's Oint mjent." No internal medicine re quired. Cures tetter, cezema, itch , all eruptions on the face; hands, nose, &c, leave the skin clear, white and healthy.- Its great healing and cur ative powers are possessed by no other remedy. Ask. your druggist r Wayne's Ointment. ccmous FAcrs. Thedail? rftrwra rrfvjSrtn1l v print interesting: items under tho neau oi "vun us Jr acts." The s-t ioined naratrrarth. whirh an rnt! w . fc - - - - - tied to a place under that head, are now puoiioiiea lor the first time : In Claresville. this Hnrinsr. a far mer found nnder the hay in his barn L 4 1 a. . cea inai naa evidently oeen ourl ed there last Hummer. Th fowl was not only as dead as tho Silver i)in, out it had not laid a single egg during us long imprisonment. A Iadv. while bathiup at thr f- s-hore last season, lost a valuable diamond ring from her finger, a few days ago a large Qsh was caught near me spot ; and when It was cut open, much surnriu wiu naturally manifested when it was discovered that the missing ring was "not in it " A young woman in this city, rec ognizing her lover's pull at the door lell, went in jK?rson to admit him. During her biief absence, her mis chievous little brother stole into th. parlor, and placed a hunk of soft molasses candy on the big rocking chair. When the vnum ladv' invpr entered the room, he deliberately wok. a sear on ir.e sola, and the girl's littlo brother nicked uu his ranrtv and left the room in disgust. A young man, employed by a large firm, took two thousand dol. lars from his cm plover's saf. untl staked it all on a horpe race. He won three thousand dollars. The money he took from tho safe was his own. Last Winter, a noor but rpfl!cta. ble young man saved the life of a wealthv old crentleman bv flMP-cinc him from in front of a moving loco motive at a railway staiion. The rich man took the rescuer's suld rem and a month ago he died. When Ins will was read, it was found that he had left $700,000 to rharitv. nnl not a cent to the young man who nad saved his lite. Dunncr a thunderstorm last wcpV. three men took shelter under a large tree. Suddenly there vas a blind ing flash of lisrhtniutr and a terrible crash of thunder, and four cows standing in a field were killed. The three men under the tree were not hurt. J. II. Williams in Puck. mm &m - SUB-THEASUKY BILL. In the political hullabaloo oi the last two or three days the fact that Representative Watson, of Georgia, actually succeeded in getting his sub-treaury resolution through the House the other day has been gen erally unnoticed. This resolution was o;w instructing, the ways and means committee to report the sub treasury bills which were introduced early iu the session by the alliance contingent and referred to the ways and means committee. As it was evidently the intention of the com mittee to take no action on these bills Mr. Watson has been endeav oring lately to force action and at last he has succeeded. Inquiry at the committee room this morning elicited the information that the committee now felt compelled to re port the measures alluded to and would probably proceed to their consideration at the next meeting. It may be added that the report will undoubtedly be an unlavorable one. Until he got his resolution through Mr. Watson had been conspicuous as the chief "objector" on the floor of the House, aud it is now under stood that he will continue in this role until he secures from the House a date set apart for the considera tion of the sub-treasury bills. There has been little or no pro gress of late in the ways and meahs committee on any of the remaining little tariff bdls." The bill in re lation to tobacco is next on the list, but it will not be ready to be report ed for some time yet, apparently. SECRETARY BLAINE RE SIGNS. Washington. June 4. Secretary Blaine has lesisrned the secretary ship of state, and the resignation has been accepted by the President fhe following coirespondence ex plains itself: Department op State, Washington, J une 4, '92, 12:45 p. m. To the President: I respectfully hei? leave to submit mv resignation of the office of Secrcary of State of the United States, to which I was appointed by you on the 5th of March, 1889. 1 The condition of pub lic business in the department of State justifies me in requesting that my resignation may be accepted im mediately. 1 have tne nonor to De, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, . James G. Blaine. Executive Mansion, Washington, June 4, 1892. To the Secretary of State : Your letter of th's date, tendering your resignation of the office of Sec retary of State of. the United States has been received. The terms in which vou state vour desires are such as to leave me no choice but to eccede to y.ur wishes at once. Your resignation is therefore accepted. Very respect! uily yours, Benjamin Harrison. To Hon. James G. Blaine. MILLIONAIRES AND PAUPERS-WHERE LIES THE REMEDY? There are said to be 30,000 mil lionaires in the United States to day. It is estimated, and correctly too, that to make one millionaire, 1.000 people become paupers. Thus there are a thousand times 30,000 pauper.- in America, making a total of 30,000,000 dependent numan oe ings in our grand country. Thick of it. : n : Corns, Warts and Banionry SemoVed qaickljand surely by uicg Abbotts ajt Indian Vora. faint t ' 1 ' " - - fc. OUIt PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THEIR RELATION -TO THE DEVEL OPMENT OF PATRIOTISM. SUtr. TTaeotM Dixon. Jr., DUtMnn Iatr mU7 I pea Fr E4aeaUa Iepa4 Our Vrvttm and Pmpcritf sad ta , rrptaUj of rr latUtaUaao. Mw loax, June 5. Her. Thorn t"V . . a a k vixon, jr., preceoea tne rg"aiar tr- mon in Association hall thu morning by reriewing the relation of our pablio cLogIs to the ' development of national patriotism. lie said: In a few days 13,000.000 school children will file through the doors of our pnblic schools, marking' another year in the na tion's life. The public school i the heart of the nation, from it pours into every artery the new b'. ood that must build and enrich or poison the body. ' A BAREFOOT BOY. America has long been a wonder to tho European mind. They cannot un derstand how "mob government" has made such a success. Matthew Ar nold while in Boston was amazed to see one day in the public library a little barefooted newbboy, seated proudly Lb one of the big armchairs with his legs crossed, jrravely reading the "Life of George Washington." lie a&ked if bare footed urchins like that had free accexg to the libraries and reading rooms. He was informed that this embryo citizen king had eqnal rlghta there with the president of the United States. lie en gaged the youngster In conversation. He was not long in finding out thst he had encountered a young man of most em phatic anti-British sentiment. The philosopher here touched the secret of our strength. On the free education of our boys we have built the republic. Upon the education of the boys of today depends its life and"growth. MYRIAD TONOCES. Our nation is a peculiar one. We have built here the home of the free with por tals open toward the oppressed of all races and climes. Tho weary and rest less from all the nations of earth throng upon us. Walk the streets of our cities and call the roll of a world; they are all hero and they answer by thousands and tons and hundreds of thousands Africa, Asia, Atlantic islands, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bohemia, British America, Central America, China, Cuba, Denmark, France, Oermanv, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Greece, Green land, Holland, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Luxemburg, Malta, Mexico, Nor way, Pacific Islands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sandwich Islands, South Amer ica, Spain, bweden, Switzerland, Tur key and West Indies! All here! Here to bless or to curse! I believe God has specially chosenthis nation to lead the hosts of freedom and truth In the first pitched battle in the world's final war with tho wrongs, traditions, supersti tions, lios and iniquities of the past. A magnificent destiny opens before us, or a tragic failure awaits us. Which shall it be? We must teach patriotism in oar pub lic schools. 7 WHAT WE STAND FOR. We must teach the children of all theso conflicting creeds and races what the stars and stripes stand for in the his tory of the world. We must teach them the history of America. We must teach them the meaning of American citizen ship. We must teach them the meaning of citizen-kingship, and that the Ameri can nation stands for something in the history of tho nations of the world. That we are to lead, not be led. That we are to originate, not imitate. It is a task for Catholic and Protestant, Jew and Gentile, to work out shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart. Love of country is the common creed upon which all American manhood can meet in fra ternal love. NEXT OCTOBER 12. The 12th of next October is being set apart now by all the states in the Union as the day on which we will celebrate thj 400th anniversary of God's gift of this new world to man. The pnblic school is to be made the center of this day's celebration. Let every teacher and scholar and educator and patriot of whatever name join in making that day eventful in the history of our people. Every child heart may be made a patriot hero, touched by the fire of truth and freedom, on that day. Let every teacher and scholar who is not fully informed of the patriotic plans for this day address "The Executive Committee of the National Columbian School Celebration," in Boston. Let us join in making this day to be the morning of a new era in the history of our nation an era of wider and deeper knowledge, sweeter spirit, truer citizenship, an abiding patriotism and a nobler life! THE PUBLIC SCHOOL THE HOPE Or THE NATION. The truth shall make you free. Job a viU, 32. We are approaching the 400th anni versary of tho discovery or America. The history of our country affords much for rejoicing and congratulation to the friend of the race. And yet, however glorious the past and however much we may congratulate ourselves upon it on the Fourth of July, the problems of the present are the real problems which are to test the stability of the republic. We have in these years of trial firmly launch ed Jie nation, withstood assaults from witnout and fratricidal Btrif e within. We are now the richest nation in the world, and perhaps in all that makes greatness we are one of the greatest, if not the greatest nation of earth; and yet we are but an infant in the role of na tions. In this open arena there have be gun to clash the contending creeds of the world. Here we must meet ana treat the world's diseases. Every creed of Christendom, every cult of heathen dom, every theory of madman they are all here, battling for the mastery of this the giant nation of the coming century. What will be the future of our repub lic? Will we grow in strength and fi-ee- dom, or will the pendulum swing back? Will we be able to solve the problems arthe centuries which tfie composite population of the nation make our own, or will we fail? For an answer to these questions you must take your stand in this month of June at the doors of he public schools and atk the 13,000,000 children, as they pour through the cpen doors for their season c re L These millions of children hold the answer. Knowledge, truth, mean fret-dorn. To inculcate truth, teach the truth, is tc niake man rec,v: Tii-Jreedoi of the rice, the freedom f the world, U tb roal ot oar natkn. T. mu tvi. t. ... fall la the attaincM-nt of the object of cmr creation. TKt jWmj thoul it tk kiy of f J America rrput-iie. a xrw cucos. Flrrt Becau hrr the eorerrbja dtj ten king is prepared for his empire. As a great nation among armed nations our condition aevms defrtuwhww. Our rroy U on paper. Our navy U a dream. Our eoaat defense are nowhere even to right. Our investment U in the free brain tf free boy. In the past the world hat found thi investment an inrincibU bul wark. In the hour of meet eerion crLi in tne history or the nation, out of the free brain of our free cituen there prang fall grown the idea that in a day revoiauonize modern naval warfare. If th nation tnnd her foundaUooa deep enougn, m come wnat will whatever the crii there will arlM a new Eric. ton In the hour of trial who will re vol n uonize for the Twentieth century the preeent system. Universal suffrage make universal education a neoemtity. riere the nnried king can prepare himMlf for his great responsibilities. Upon the citl ten rest the crown. There never ha been in the history of the world a king who ruled a kingdom worthily who did not prepare himself for hi work. The public school is the training ground of the future eovereign. Second In knowledge man find Ood and freedom. To know the tiuth U to know God. All education la acred. All truth U divine truth. Truth that 1 not sacred therefore U not truth at alb Attempts to dUUngttiah secular from religious education is In the last analyws an absurdity. An ecclesiastical training in certain tradition is one thing and a real education is another thing. But all education that ha it foundation in reality must be founded in truth. It must therefore be divine and must im part the knowledge of God. Teach to a child any truth in any branch of science or of knowledge it i divine. Hwtorjr let him study it, and through the ct n turies he will hear the tread of the host of the living God. Through the cen turies he will find the footprint of Qod. There is nothing that so overwhelm the soul of the student of history aa the fact that through all ages there sweep tho resistless power of a living God, making for righteousness and truth. To teach a child the history of tMe world is to teach a child the story of Ood' dealings with mankind. He who studies science finds out God. To teach science is to teach Qod. The superficial only cry from their laboratories that they do not find Ood. The difficulty is that with then knives they have not gone deep enough. A tldier in the army of Na poleon, wounded, was undergoing a severe operation. The surgeon' knife was cutting dangerously near hU heart. Turning to the surgeon the soldier said, If you go a little deeper, sir, youTl find the emperor. Every scientist who cut deep enough with his knife will touch the throbbing heart of the great em peror of the universe. lie will find the throbbing life of God. BETTER THAN RUBIES. Teach philosophy and yoc teach God. Teach man how to think and you bring him in touch with God. When man learns to think be touches the infinite and the eternal. Thought is the witness of God in man. To rouse thought is to rouse the divine in a man's being. Thought is infinite in sweep. The body may be chained in a dungeon, deprived of liberty; but over the ramparts of the prison, defying chains and bars, man's thought rises to the infinite blue of the eternal. Our missionaries have learned this secret at last most thoroughly. Wil liam Cary, tho pioneer oi modern mis sions, was deemed a fanatic because he not only said we must tako tho Gospel to the heathen, but that to make it ef ficient we must teach them science. We must train their minds. It lias taken us a hundred years to learn this truth, but we are beginning to learn it. lowwe send not only preachers to preach the Gospel of Christ to the heathen world, but along with them we send teachers to train the mind of the heathen to think; and when they have been ushered into the possibilities of thought, they have been led into the outer chamber of th-s holy of holies, of God himself. To teach a child to think is to teach the child the infinite capacities of his immortal being that links him to God. The man who knows the truth is a free man. He only is free who knows the truth. Constitu tion and statutes and laws, written or unwritten, do not make men free. Free dom L from the inside. We are not free because we have a constitution. We made the constitution becanpo we were free. Onr sister republics in South America havo illustrated this truth over and over and over again. They have made consti tutions and laws, proclaimed themselves free again and again, and the wires have scarcely ceased to quiver with the shout cf their proclamation of freedom, when we hear that a dictator has taken his seat on the throne. The trouble is that the people are ignorant. They do not know. They cannot be free until they do know. Ignorance is the fertile soil of crime and vice and superstition. KNOWLEDGE IS POWEB. I know that men have said education in itself does not conduce to morality. That statement is false in fact and false in philosophy to the very core. All true education does not only conduce to morality, but education is the funda mental basis of a moral life. Show me today on this continent the densest ig norance, and I will show you the densest percentage of vice. Go to the south to day, and among the negroes the average morality is so low that it falls beyond the power of statistic to illustrate. The ilsfegard of the marriage relation Is something appalling. There is only one bright spot in all the darkness of this tad picture, and these flashes of light yon find and find only around the edu cational institutions for the negro in tho south. , Here you will find the highest percentage of morality to be found through the length and breadth of the Vnd. And the contrast between these iducational centers and the average ig norant tunmunity is ao great that there is no room for discussion as to the causes. Go today among the poor whites in the -mill districts of the south, and you will find the same truth illustrated. In the densest mill populations, among these people 50 per cent of :thgirjs who work io those mills, according to the statement of mro who had spent his life among them, are f ennd wanting In the fundamentals of social morals. Continued on Second Page. 1 HI THE WORLD'S NEWS. SINCE L VSTTIIUIUSPAY.CARi: FULLY A8SOKTKU JVNII CONDENSED FOH liUSY JUte At GrrttMioro KrUUy big barb. ciw -am given by tbe Ktt ly lo.tj. tute. The wheat crop In the High !dnt section lhlytr will b th Uivret lo yearn. The democratic county ronvrn JUki, or Jol.a(on rumty, will t held (K-toUr I. Thursday a negro brokoout of Jail at Oxford. Friday ho was rwu. turn! at Durham. Dr. Tyre York will probably I the republican candid te Tor Con. Krwa in tho eighth district. A farmer near, Iurlnburg, Ml tho Exchange that ho mM faoo worth of peavloe hay liwl year. tho Luxelliin.Hociety of Wak For eet College with a poi trail of him. self, painted by Albert JatutM tenant.- Tho aovlely ha nutvd the picture ior f l.ooo. Ilrldgo Totter. 03 vear nl.i . dent of lteaufort county, walked 21 mile to Pamlico court, lie h uj four wive, tho Waihln:rton f .u.. Hate, and ha lived with tho ht,t one flfty-sov.'n .veers. The Slate lUllwsv C.imniU.ln.. has issued u order to all railway 1- aft... A.- i.t . a u me rtmie eunerio lower Uiete4 tf their pMBM-nirer rMtrbiM. ..r build plat forms ho that can more eanlly get In the earn. At Klnz a Mountain Ml f Frill, about 17 Year old. nliniin.h.1 to commit suicide by taking laud, num. hhe was found In her room In time to bo around from ber stu por by htrcnuotu i lTort on thu ttart of physician. Deputy Collector H. M. Jones cap uri d Hi d destroyed a on Imtwlr.i gallon blockado whiskey Mill be tween ;utrry uak ami New Hill on lHt Monday He dcetmyod about 25,000 gullons of beer. Two men were wnn running from tho Mill, Ho recognized ono of them. Oue year airo. kiv th fUtifW.! Expres, the wife or Henderson Urowdy fcol.l died. Ahnnt th natno time Frank M elver (cel.) died leaving a wiaow. Their funerals were preached on hut Kundav. nn. demon Urowdy aud the widow Mc Iver will be married on next Hun. day. Tho J tall way Commission haa re ceived a eworn complaint against mo Aiarpny Dratch of the Western North. Carolina railway. In t!Uit is alleged that In Jackson county tho roau is in a aangorotu condition and that tho grand Jury of that county haa presented a bill for criminal nejr- wgenco. u u nirtoer alleged that the road from Jackson county to .Murpny, us teruuuufl, 14 m au even worse condition. lleV. It. II. WhitalfPf. aAltnr r the Friend of Temperance, a strong i rumumoniKi, nam no am not think: i he party would increase Hi voto iu tne fcitate. at least, ha uw n., atom of It. Efforts are being made to get i,ouu,uw signers io a pledge that they will vote the prohibition tlrtr. et. Of course if 1,000,000 do not ign there is no obligation. Mr. iiuaaer Coea not believe that nam be will be secured. Ex-Goy. John P. St. John ha rpoken at several places Jn the Slate. Homer L. Ferzuon. of North Par. oil Ha, one of the graduating clam at i i;e navai scJiooi, win renpond to a toaxt at the cla ball In Baltimore on June 4th. He graduates second In his clam. Geo. Erdman. f KnHk Carolina, i on the Board of Editor of the Prlncetonlan, of Princeton couege. j. ii. Grant, of Goldsboro, I tho orator of the senior class at Amherst. 8. II. Ilemson, of New Berne, a member of lh nnmo .! i a contestant for the Hyde pilxe in oratory W. W. AthPhm, Iran Is I ui degree ftt Cornell. Theodore G. Km- pie, oi Wilmington, la on the Epi tome Board at Lehigh. Rational. Negroes in Logan count r. Vut Virginia, lynched a negro murderer. ThiM Tnoa nnt ..r.t 1 - v. ucch BUBJecuun of Senator by tho Louisiana Legis lature. fennesNee ProhibitIonlht hnUi a convention and put a full Stato and Presidential ticket in the field. Thv endorse St. John for President. The United State dianfc in nlnA moJths 465.187.732 pound nf nnfT.x an increase of 100,000,000 pounds. The dricklng hib it seem to be a growing one. The Chicago wtewam for th Item. oerat will scat 20,000 people and It 1 expected that many will attend. The work 'of gathering will begin a weea; in aavance. The contest between the Harrison and Blaine factions at Minneapolis IS growl PZ very bitter and manv harsh things are being said on both J a . iue. .ueaaers wno beig to nei ther faction are bwmlng wrfous over the situation. -Did yoa destroy this feather doster?" asked Freddie's mother. Yes'm,' answered Freddie, "I wanted to be an Indian chief." r "But don't yon know that feath er dasters cost mom y." ; -; "I did, hut Indian chiefs don't think of eac h thta."- People, V
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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