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HOW CONVICTS WERE SECURED.
Tbe last iaaue of the Lumbertoa
Robeebnlan contained an editorial
that will require an explanation
from tbe official in charge of the
BUte Penitentiary.
A railroad is being built from
Lumberton to Hope Mills, in Cam
beriand County, and tbe promoters
have been badly in need of labor
Aa early aa last January, and again
In February the official of the road
applied to Mr. J. iS. Mann, Hupcrin
tendent of the Penitentiary, for con
vlcta to work on their road, offering
to make tbe uame contract as did
other parties who had secured con
vlcta trom the state. They were
told that no convicts were available
that all had been hired out that
could be spared. The railroad offi
ciahi then asked If they could secure
some convicts as soon as the con
tracts they were then hired under
expired.
Tbe authorities at the penitentiary
replied that all the convicts that
could be hired out had been con
tracted lor, The railroad got some
of the State's convicts, but they had
to contract for them through a
Florida syndicate, and pay that syn
dicate a big profit. We copy below
a part of tbe Robesonian's editoria
on the subject:
"About ten days ago convicts to
the number of fifty were obtained
and they are now at work on the
Virginia and Carolina Southern, but,
mark you, these convicts were not
obtained from officials of the State
prison ; they were obtained through
non-resident contractors Florida
contractors who charged this rail
road 15 per cent advance on what
they pay the State ; in other words,
these non-resident contractors get
the convicts from the State the
State furnishing guards, clothing
and food for $1.50 per day, and for
these same convicts the Virginia
and Carolina Southern Railroad,
which Is being built by home capi
tal and which will mean much to
this section, must pay these non
resident contractors $1.72 1-2 per
day, at a total profit of $300 per
month for the contractors. And at
the time these non-resident con
tractors hired these convicts to this
railroad they proposed to promise
any number from 50 to 100.
Although the officers of the Vir
ginia and Carolina Southern offered
in January ana February $i.oo per
day for convicts, and were repeatedly
told by the State Prison Super in ten
dent that it would be impossible to
obtain them since ail the convicts
had been contracted for, convicts
have since been allowed to work on
railroads for stock in the roads, the
value of said, stock being an un
known quantity and perhaps worth
less.
If what Mr. Mann stated to the
railroads here be true, how could he
furnish convicts to other roads?
Why cannot citizens of the State get
convicts except through non-resident
contractors, at a bonus of 15
per cent ? Why could not the Super
intendent of the State Prison fur
nish convicts to the railway here
when non resident contractors could
furnish any number from 50 to 100,
ordering them sent here, too, direct
from the State prison ? How could
convicts be furnished to other roads
for stock when the Virginia and
Carolina and Southern could not hire
them for cash, at the prevailing
price? . -
We have gone into this matter at
some length because it is a matter
that is of concern to the people of
this section.' We should very much
like to have these things explained."
This is a peculiar situation, to say
the least, and one that should be ex
plained to the people of the State.
How is it that a Florida syndicate
can get as many convicts as they
want from the penitentiary, and
home enterprise hardly treated with
courtesy when they make applica
tion for convict labor to work on
their road?
The Wilmington Messenger sug
gest that Col. N. A. McLean, the
representative of the road who made
application for the convicts was a
member of the last legislature and
was in opposition to the Winston
Justice faction in that body, and is
persona non grata with the powers
that be.
Is It true that peanut politics
played a part in the situation, or is
it true that the penitentiary officials
made a secret deal with the Florida
syndicate so they could farm out the
convicts at a great profit to them-
selves?
VnAnr
The people have a right to
Our columns are open for any sat
isfactory answer to the situation.
THE PEACE CORrCREKCC.
For many weeks the Pesos Com
mbionera have sat together at Tbe
Hague and only one measure bis
been passed and ucanlmoosljr adop
ted. They seem to be aa a bung
Jury on nearly every proposition
laid before them. Tbe oca resolu
tion which has secured the uuanl-
mous favor of the national represen
tatlv is one applying to maritime
warfare, the same rales and regula
tions that were made operative in
land warfare by tbe Geneva conven
tion in 1896. Henceforth this in
ternational law will make immune
from capture hospital ships or those
used exclusively to aid and succor
wounded, lck or shipwrecked per
sons in time of war. The two Uni
ted States Commissioners have
worked hard but seemingly to little
purpose, for two measures proposed
by them. Mr. Choste gained only a
two-thirds vote In favor of his mo
tion that the private property of
belligerent, if not contraband, anal
be exempt from seizure at sea
Great Britain, France, Russia and
Japan opposed tbe motion ; but its
discussion has probably paved tbe
way for Ita future passage. Gen
Horce Porter's proposition to llmi
the existing practice of collecting, by
force, debts due to the citizens o
one power by the government
another, has not yet come up for
final treatment, but the chance for
success is very small. But the con
ference, with all its limitations and
small failures, is a great institution
and as the years creep by its Influ
ence will be widely felt. The very
contact of the representatives is
doing much to rub off the hard
edges of national antagonisms. The
Peace Conference may yet dictate
the policies of the world if smal
politics is not allowed to creep Into
its sessions.
Since the above was put in type
the Peace Conference has adopted
the resolution of the Conference of
1899 regarding the limitation of
military burdens, amendments to
the Convention of 1899 regarding
the laws and customs of land war
and the prohibiting of throwing of
explosives from balloons, the bom
bardment of undefended towns, etc.,
were unanimously adopted.
Elsewhere in this issue we copy
an
article from the Charlotte Ob
server stating that the Postmaster
General is in favor of a parcels post
system being established by the gov
ernment and also postal savings
banks, and will make recommends
tion to Congress for the establish
ment of a system which he will
work out. We hope the Postmaster
General will work out his system in
time to make recommendations to
the next Congress. The Caucasian
has been advocating this system for
good many years. Of course the
Express Companies will fight the
parcels post, but if it can't be made
to apply to the whole country we
hope it can at least become effective
on the rural routes. This would be
a great boon to the farmers, enabling
hem to get many of their necessi
ties at a cheap cost without having
to go the city for them. It would
also Increase the business on the ru
ral routes and come nearer making
them self-sustaining.
The New York Sun states that the
Brooklyn Democratic Club has called
off the dinner which it had planned
or August 26, and which was ex
pected to be of considerable political
interest. This course was decided
upon after Gov. .Glenn decided to
ake the advice of his friends and
stay away from the dinner.
Just as we thought. The dinner
was first gotten up for the purpose
of having Mr. Glenn present to tell
about his fight for the new rate law.
They consideied the Governor's de
cision a political one. and thev in-
w
tended using Mr. Glenn for politi
cal purposes.
An exchange wonders that the
papers have stopped publishing scan
dals in connection with the work
on the Panama Canal. The reason is'
obvious. Certain reporters think
hey must always write sensational
stories, snd when the news at home
is dull they write up fake stories
about the Panama Canal and other
places so far away that the people at
home will never be any wiser, even
f the stories are not true. But just
now with railroad injunctions, case
of the Standard Oil, the Jamestown
position, and Kitchin's race for
he governorship, are giving the
newspaper reporters all the real news
hat they can handle.
The "Graham Tribune" has ceased
as a weekly and is now published
daily. We wish this new Republi
can daily much success.
Tbe Dor ham Herald cites Got
Glenn's course as refutation of lbs
charge often mads that tbe man who
Is employed by a railroad or accepts
a favor from it is owned body sod
soul by such road. Governor Glean
was attorney for the Southern Rail
road, and the statement has fre
quently been made by friends o:
Major Stedmsn that Southern Rail
road influence secured him the noml
nation. No one can charge that the
Southern is running the office of
Governor or has undue Inflneoce
over the occupant of that office."
Wilmington Messenger.
Some one has soggested that pos
sibly the United States Senate looks
larger to the Governor than an at
torneyship with the Southern lull
wsy.
ivoceeveii once sua mere are
'good trusts snd bad trusts." After
experience In sorting them out, be
will please tag the good ones."
Wilmington Star.
rne star is in error. It was ex
Judge Parker who said there are
good trusts and bad trusts." The
Judge didn't want the voters to
think be was in favor of tbe trusts
snd neither did he wish to offend
the trusts and keep them from con
tributing to his campaign fund so
he stradeled the fence.
"We were speaking with one of
the most prominent Democrats of
Randolph County about railroad
matters. He thought the BUte had
not treated the Page road right, and
the people of that country will not
stand for such treatment." North
State.
We venture the assertion that this
indignant "prominent Democrat"
and his political friends will vote for
the same crowd again next fall.
Oh, yes, they will stand such treat
ment.
Mr. Frank Stroud, of Hickory,
has leased tbe Davie Record pub
lished at Mockavllle, and in the fu
ture will be its editor and manager.
Mr. 8troud is a practical printer and
was editor of the Hickory Hornet
for some time. We wish him suc
cess in his new field.
"The New Bern Sun says that 'it
the business of the people to make
the politicians quit preaching dema
gogy.' The Sun is right, but then
how is it to be done ?" Wilming
ton Messenger.
'1 hat's easy. Just don't put any
political demagogues in office. That's
a sure cure. Try it.
What has become of the reforma
tory for youthful criminals ? Young
boys are still being sent to the peni
tentiary to associate with the har
dened criminals. And there has
been no arrangements made to
remedy this situation.
If
Jefferson Came He Would Have to
Bring His Politics With Him.
Washington Post.
Somebody has wondered what
Thomas Jefferson would do if he
came to America in 1907. and the
best answer is that he would have
to make a political party before he
could get into the political awim.
Yet everybody, except Mr. Roose
velt,, traces his politics back to Jef-
s.
arson, mr. uryan will prove to
you that Ldncoln got his politics
from Jefferson, though Lincoln re
cruited some millions of soldiers and
shot to death on the field of battle
the "Resolutions of '98." as- nerfect
Jefferson ian Idea as the Sage of
Monticello ever delivered himself of.
Mr. Jefferson was the father of
the Democratic party that lived 100
years and went out of the political
business in 1896, just s century after
Jefferson's first; race for President.
The Democratic party was created
to combat paternalism in govern
ment, and the party of Jefferson was
true to that doctrine all the days of
ts life.
This new Democracy, that is noth-
ng if not paternal, like the devil
quoting scripture, claims to hold its
estate under title coming down from
Jefferson. If there was anything
for which Jefferson distinctly stood,
was jealousy of Federal power ;
hut this new Democracy, so far from
hat, seeks to augment Federal
power to an extent that Alexander
Hamilton never dreamed of.
We are satisfied that Mr. Jefferson
would have to fetch his politics with
him, if he came again to America.
or keep out of politics altogether.
Not as Poor as She Seemed.
Some weeks ago Mrs. Rebecca San
ders, of Stony Fork, sn aged widow
living alone in a one room house,
departed this life and to all appear
ances died in almost abject poverty,
leaving one son, Warren Sanders.
After her demise a search or her
humble quarters was made, and
concealed here and thereabout the
room was found $801 in cash, repre
senting the small earnings of a long
life of self-denial. -Much of the sil
ver was very much corroded and
showed that it had not been handled
for many years. The paper currency
was nicely preserved, but was, in the
main, of very old series. Her much
loved cash is now in the vaults of
the Watauga County Bank, to the
credit of her son, and she is beyond
want. Watauga Democrat.
LIGHTNING
" Till I "f I '
asm s. - .
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
Some Squibs of Interest We Have
Gathered With Our Paste-pot
and Shears.
It is a fight between the railroads
and the politicians with the State to
back them up. North State.
The right will prevail. But that
does not refer to the work of the
North Carolina legislature. Raleigh
Enterprise.
Perhaps after a third battle the
Democratic party will feel, as others
know, that it has had enough noise
without votes. Union Republican.
Cigarettes are destroying more
boys than liquor is. They are mak
ing of them physical and mental
wrecks. Not only that, but moral
wrecks. Hickory Mercury.
When Mike McDonald was burled
in Chicago on Monday his two wives
met at the grave. This probably was
the first time they ever saw Mike
"at rest." Wilmington Star.
What has become of the reform
school we heard so much about dur
ing the last session of the legisla-
ure ? As far as we can learn youth
ul offenders continue to share the
fate of old and hardened criminals.
Industrial News.
Senator Jeff Davis, of Arkansas,
who was depending upon Vardama n
of Mississippi, to help him raise
whatever he called it in the Senate
will have to go it alone. Vardaman
won't be there, the hill-billies and
red-necks failing to -pull him
h rough. Philadelphia Press.
A Pennsylvanian died of laughter
some time ago. Perhaps he got hold
of a late issue of the Commoner and
read about Bryan's reunited Demo
cratic party. It were enough to
make a bronze statue grin, a dumb
brute giggle, and a live man laugh
himself to death. Yellow Jacket.
We would like for some one oj
answer the Industrial News' ques
tion. Who can tell us what is being
done under the act of tbe last legis
lature ? It looks like the law is to
be completely ignored. Wilming
ton Messenger.
The government keeps on sug
gesting that the women wear white
hose to keep -the mosquitos from
biting their ankles ; but we are in
formed that the suggestion is not
being carried oat. Columbia State.
Will-our esteemed contemporary
please tell us bow he found out?
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
,
Give the people of North Carolina
decent freight rates and the passen
ger fare question becomes of second
ary importance. People may travel
or not as they see fit, but they must
eat food and wear clothes and obtain
the articles entering into the ordi
nary affairs of everyday life and
nearly all of these things are affected
by the cost of transportation. In
dustrial News.
A very knotty question has arisen
in connection with the railroad rate
question, which is in effect, that if
the Aberdeen and Asheboro Rail
road should decide to discontinue
passenger service could the State,
under the charter issued, force this
or. any other road to continue a
business, or a feature of their busi
ness that was operated at a loss?
Union Republican.
STRIKES THE STANDARD
Warrenton goes dry by a big ma
jority. It is said Governor Glenn's
speeches did it. He ought to try
them same speeches on Winston, his
oia home, and ltalelgb, hh new
home. It may be the folks in these
hometowns know him too well for
his speeches to be effective. Hick-
ory Mercury.
x ne ureensooro itecora is our au
thority for the statement that there
are more young men learning trades
in me penitentiary than there are
outside. If this be true then there
must be something wrong with our
schools and colleges who train young
men for their life's work and the
public sentiment that endorses it.
All of our school and college-bred
young men connot expect to live by
their wits. The trades and the farms
are as important as the professions
and should call for a training as
careful and thorough. Union Re
publican.
PARCELS POST FAVORED.
Postmaster General Meyer Would Have
This and Also Postal Saving Banks--Recommendations
to Be Made Con
gress.
The Washington correspondent of
jr0 .
T V, r, T A n .
iwiuiMMjr urenerai. Mr.
Meyer, is in favor of a parcels post
system being established b the
PostnffiTf.fi TWrtmonf ol"
tal
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wu V7 1 ri f ru noniro nrkiiA m. . i
noi yet wonted out the details of
the parcels post system he has been
IUtl.! 1 At. ..
imu.iug smug mis line ror some
Mima a m 4 L a m
iiuio, iuu uo expects to maxe rec
ommenaations 4to Congress for the
establishment of a system which he
will work out. He has thmio-ht
more of the savings bank idea, hav-
navmg realized the need of them
from noting that many foreign and
native worxmg people make sure of
saving by buying postal orders pay-
able to themselves which they can
casn as they need the money. From
this it is ascertained that they prefer
ioao without interest rather than
entrust their monev to ir!nM
banks, and while Mr. Meyer says it
is not intended to run the costal
savings banks in opposition to the
regular savings banks, he think
they are needed to encourage thrift.
The amount of deposits will be
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limited and Mr. Meyer will recom
mend the resumption of the issue of
postal orders limited to $2.50 to
$5.00v Davablfl tn ho.ro r nnlv
- ..' . .
-uixewise in -establishing the mtsI
cei posi, Air. Meyer does not wish
i -
to establish this In opposition to the
express companies but only to meet
a public demand.
The department is eoinsr to ha
operated on a more business like ba
sis than heretofore, according to Mr.
Meyer. As proof of this he points
to the recent order weighing all mail
and noting the amount paid for and
the amount handled far. the govern
ment departments, and that franked
by Representatives and Senators.
"we are going to ascertain where
our deficit lies and see how it can be
remedied as far as rrcrfhTp
Mr. Meyer.
The Postmaster General says that
the criticism of the cost of the ru
ral delivery service is unjust. . In
iub, i2o,uoo,opo was expended on
it, but the entire posts! deficit,
which was $8,000,000 in; 1896 when
umy io,ouu,ooo was spent on rural
free delivery, had Increased to only
$10,000,000.
It is; expected, says Mr. Meyer,
that the rural free .delivery" expen
diture for the current year will ba
$35,000,000, and that the deficit will
not be increased. For the quarter
ended March lst there was no de
ficit. The rural mail delivery sys
tem has proved a decided boon to
farmers, says the Postmaster Gen
eral, and has raised the general
standard of living among them. -
OIL COMPANY
Sir Walter Raleigh's Greeting.
The following from an address
livered by Edward Ercleston before
the American Historical Association,
at Boston, in 1900, Is pf interest
North Carolinians: "All who have
sren the ancient maps of North Caro
lina will remember Win - gin -
coa' as Its name. This was the first
thing said by a savage to Raleigh's
men. In reply to the question,
What is the name of this country r'
he answered Wln-cin-ta-eoa
was afterwards learned that
North Carolina .aborigine said In
this phrase, Those are very fine
clothes you have on'.' " Excernt
from Charlotte Observer.
"REGULAR AS THE SUN"
is an expression as old as the race.
No doubt the rising and setting of
tne sun is tbe most regular perform
ance in the universe, unless it is
the
action of the liver and bowels when
regulated with Dr. King's New Life
Fills. Guaranteed by all druggists.
zo cents.
Much tMe Same.
His Wife I see by the naner that
at a wHiainff in t iiihnm. nrAb
the man nrnmi. n k i
i oi me woman, i wotuinr hn th.
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marrlftom will nrn
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nthor rn.i.t t '
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soiy amn'i mean it any more than a
cago News.
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says ur. u. u. Hays, a prominent
business man of Bluff. Mo., th.t
Bucklen's Arnica Salve is the an Irk-.
" sno surest healing salve ever an.
plied to "ore,' burn or wound, or to
CMe 01 P1Ie I've used it snd
kno,ar wh I'm talking about."
uo&nmteed by all druggists. 25c.
examinations for A. and V. Call.
mi . .
j. no next session of the Aortmi.
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i-urw ua juecnanicai College will
oegm Thursday. Rente m her nth
Entrance examinations will t hM
S J L T ln West Sleigh,
S eanesdiy 9 n September 4th.
sppucauis ior admission will
be examined then, and applicants
who failed to pass the Jnlv
nations at the County seats may try
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b " viuege.
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wouldhU ?JAyea?s' eery month- Sometimes I
entirdt k"iZ P anin could st0P he Pain
wom-? Wln? .of C311' di- 1 advise all
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, It does this by regulating the' functions and
toning up all the Internal female organs to health.
-It ls a-Pure. specific, reliable, female remedy, with
-iccumor 70 years of
success. It has bene
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Why not you? Try it.
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THE LIMIT OK UlX
The most eminent mdkxj
entists are unanimous io
slon that tbe generally a MT
UUon of human life U m48,j
below the attainment loejbieV!
wmj nw is now poeneMHtxi. TUef
cai period, mat determine iuT
tlon, seems to be U-u.n
. Ilia wwwm r
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dllH nc t h la riArari .
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being fatal to longevity.
best helper after &0 is KUxtrfcU
ters, the scientific tonic tc
that revitalises every urgu
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In a Wonder.
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cuing to a girl as to wonder L'&
to
man in the soat In front or httk,
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"The meet popular remedy U a
sego County, and the beet frks
my family," writes Win. M.ftd
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editor and publisher of the 0tf
Journal, Gllbertsvllle, N. Y-
the
ur. rung's New Discovery. Its
proved to be an Infallible rank
coughs and colds, making short ib
of the worst of them. We tin
keeps bottle In the houae. lb-
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Bcriptlon known for Lung and TLxI
diseases,'' Guaranteed never to 4
appoint the taker, by all drcr&
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free.
If She Could.
II a woman could use aaetia
postage stamps over again for ma
sort of preserves she would this
she was the best housekeeper is &
world.
Arrest It S50 lend
A small sample bottle cf Ec-t
will be sent free to every reader i
ne Caucasian who is iaCrut
with any kind of skin disesMf
eruption Eozema, Blood PoUcj,
Fever, Sores, Cancer, Rheum
Pains, or any other Germ dlaaa
or aore of any name or nature.
$50 reward will be paid for ir
case of Eczema that la not pros?
ly oared with Ec-ilne. Ec-xiBrI
heal any sore or cure the vw
skin and make it look like velra
Thousands cured dally. Xi
mind what you have tried ; forf
the failures made bv other reined
and send for free sample of Zoti
w lch alwiyg gives relief aad p
manent care. A $1.00. bottle ofui
caret the worst case. If 7c
draggicta dos not have Eo-z2
Company, If. Knpermeier, Salei If
US Dearborn tit. C hicaro. UL
Time to Divide Profits.
Unless all signs fall, cotton f 3
bring fifteen cents at the openisfrf
the season next fall or very
thereafter. In fact cotton goods btfi
been selling all summer on a bub
fifteen cent cotton. It's about tin
for a division -of profits.-
Aurora.
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