North Carolina Newspapers

I vol. xxix. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 9. 1911 Ho. 5 if H I i I . editorial briefs Look out for the machinery bill. Wonder when the legislature will atl don to "brass uck"? 7be successor to Aycock's mocking fcird has been busy in this Slate for the past week. That million dollar State building ould also provide more room for . . . lABiocrauc cier . . . t ..... 7 anti-truU bill maj have teeth in Lyt they don't slow up very proraiin. jv, The head of Tammany '1 favors the direct vote of United fc. s Sca tters by Charles F. Murphy. The suffragettes nave not yet sent' ...... it their petition, to the Legl.lature. ; iJcwever, it is not too late. ! Senator Brown says the SUte's j Triury needs a "watch dog." Well, I ves that is4 they did need one. As the State is already in debt, aow can it afford to pay for the Dem ocratic primaries all over the State? If they establish all those new counties many will have to learn their geography all over. An exchange says that office hunt-j was held to consider what position ing is contagious. Yes. but the Dem- "iat Party would take Congress on ' the new reciprocity treaty with Can- ccrats haven't quarantined against j ada Qnly aDOUt a hundred Demo-it- i cratic members attended, and those present split wide open on the ques- Champ Clark says the world is'tj0n at issue. Some were squarely rowing better. Champ probably lor free trade; some were out and thinks so because M was elected out for protection as the great Amer- j ican principle. Speaker. ; etween these two extremes there . T . . , . , , j were all kinds of varying Democratic Phis Legislature has made a rec- . i views, apparently covering the forty rd for the number of bills intro-,; ninQ different known varieties of duced. But that is the only record j Democrats. Some of the most mark it has made. ' ed differences in these varieties were . i that one would be for free raw ma-Ex-Governor Glenn dropped off in ; terials and for moderate protection Albany, N. Y., for a few minutes last I on manufactured articles, whihi an- Monday to tell them how to run their Legislature. If they are going to make the ext Governor's salary $6,000, then! they should make it a point to elect j a 6,000 Governor. The bill to create four new judge ehips in the State causes many to wonder who are the four Democratic -lawyers that need relief. The Democratic primaries have bankrupted several of the Democratic .politicians and now they want to put the expense on the State and bank- jupt it The fact that the State is running out $200,000 in debt each year aaay be a sign of "good government," bnt it looks different on the surface. A resolution was offered in the State Senate Friday against the frequent change in fashions. Well, wait un til the hobble-skirt becomes obso- And now they do not want one man to keep over a quart in Cleveland and Rutherford Counties. They probably are afraid there will not be enough to go around. A press dispatch says that a Cox y's army will march on Washington early next summer. It will be about lime if the Democratic Congress gives be country free trade. Aa the House voted Tuesday to re peal the charter of the town of Shore, the inference is that Mr. Glenn Williams has no further use for the town. The Democratic politicians want to gerrymander the close congres al districts, but at the same time they seem to he afraid of the propo sition. At last accounts the Wake County officers had not paid the $200 assess ed against each of them by the News and Observer for its free use of "poke-berry juice" during the cam paign. Some days ago the Biblical Re corder contained an editorial on "The Unfairness of the News and Obser ver." The Biblical Recorder has been long suffering in not expressing such an opinion of that sheet moons ago. a democratic split Party Caucus Showed Widely Divergent Views on Reci- nrnritv With CanaHa .w.,7 w THE PENSION PROBLEM Southern Soldier Should ILcceire Share of the Millions Voted for Pension. Still ProsiectJS of an Ul tra sMon of Uongre -initiative and Referendum in Oregon Cain? Before the l"uiteI State Supreme Court. (Special to The Caucasian.) Washington, D. C Feb. 7, 1911. ; President lalt has won a great vic- torjr in the House in putting tnrougnjin the campaign in order to dodge that body the measure which he has ) the real issues. They did it to prej- &rctiu0ualy ailvocate1 pro,ldlng ) udlce and bind tna voters. Ti for a permanent tariff boara or com-L. . ,., i mission, w ith broad uowers. to gath-i . . t . cost of production here and abroad. I The argument was so overwhelm ingly in favor of this rational solu tion of the tariff question as a great American policy, that thirty-three Democrats broke away from the ma jority of that party of inaction and negation and voted with the Republi cans. Another Serious Democratic Split. Last night a Democratic caucus oiner wouiu oe eitner lor inouerate or high protection on raw macerials , and for moderate or no protection on manufactured products. As an illustration, Congressman Webb of North Carolina announced tnat ne was opposed to tne recipro- "ljr uciauw u uu a.u. tue present lunu. uuues uu buuit5 raw materials which he had promised the constituents of his district to vote to protect, while, at the same time, Congressman Kitchin took exactly the opposite position, in that he had voted against any duty to protect lumber, and that he was opposed to protection in any form on the raw materials of his State and the South, or on anything else. The majority of the caucus, how ever, voted to endorse the reciprocity treaty, on the ground that it lowered some of the present tariff duties, even though it will, if it becomes ef fective, hit very hard some of the raw materials of the South. StitU Prospects of an Extra Session of Congress. President Taf t announced, when j his proposition to have a permanent tariff board provided for by Congress seemed to be doomed to defeat, that if that measure failed he would call an extra session of Congress imme diately after the fourth of March. Whether that position of the Presi dent influenced many votes in favor of the President's policy or not, is not known, yet the situation as to the success of the legislation for such a tariff hoard at once became more favorable. It is now thought that the Presi dent may also call an extra session if the reciprocity treaty with Canada should fail. The Pension Problem. There has been agitated for some time in Congress a proposition to pay a pension of some kind to every per son who served in the Union Army in any capacity during the late war between the States. The scheme to increase pension bounties has been as strenuously urged by Northern Dem ocratic Congressmen as by Republi cans for many years. The war closed forty-six years ago. A quarter of a century after the war closed, the amount of money paid for pensions by the Government was only about one-fourth of the amount paid to-day. At that time It was thought that the appropriations for pensions would rapidly decrease each year, and no one dreamed that at this late date there would be as much as ten mUlion dollars to be paid in pensions to Union soldiers. ! There are not. living to-day one tenth as many Union soldiers as there were twenty-five years ago, and yet the pension rolls hare doubled, trip led and fquadrupled To-day, even many of the cooks and body-servants and hangers-on of every kind have The Democratic Somc pf Ae RcajonJ Why They The' Lincoln Tlces.J .hbj are ttili sauallin BatSr and bond, They are not very iitil, eithr. No one credit! them with bring ignorant in the matter. If But ler had had anything to do with the carpet bag bonds" every honrsf an j sensible man knows Senator Sltamoni and Editor IMniei would have met him in Raleigh and proved It on hta; they would have jumped at the chance. Butler offered them the chance- They did not accept it. That proves that they knew it was simply a campaign squall. They squalled "Butler and bonds" 'Knew ii ine voters cuum &e uu kx- managed in one awy-or another to ffAt An Vi - runciAn rt1 j Everybody, no matter whether a Union man or a Confederate, is in favor of proper and adequate com pensation for all war veterans, no matter whether in the Mexican War, the War Between the States, the Spanish War, or the Indian Wars, but to-day we have reached the point where it seems the whole business may run to seed, through partisan politics. There is a serious economic 6ide to this question, which may be briefly stated as follows: That when one hundred and fifty or sixty million dollars is annually taken out of the National Treasury, which money comes from taxes collected from the people in the South as well as in the North, and is paid in a lump to peo pie in one section of the country, that this creates an annual and eternal drain on the South, which contributes its measure of the taxes but receives none of the disbursements A Measure of Justice to the Southern Soldier and Also a Financial Equity If it is to be the continued polhv of Congress to appropriate a hun dred millions or two hundred mil lions, or three hundred millions for that matter, annually for pensions, then why should not there be some attention given to a proper distribu- tion of this enormous sum. There is now pending: in Congress a propo- sition to increase larerelv the Densions for Northern soldiers or the hangers- on of the Union Army. During the recent dis' ssion in Congress on this subject, it develop ed that the question of the receivers of the pension being a Union soldier, with a meritorious record, was some what lost sight of in comparison with the question of the amount of money to be distributed, the chief door the negroes opened fire. Mum idea seeming to be the bodily sufler- ford was shot through the head and ing and exigencies of the recipients of the fund Most of the Southern soldiers were killed during the War Between the States There are not a very great number still living. Every one of these Southern soldiers who is still living is equally entitled to a pen sion from our re-united and common country as the Northern soldier. Most of them are more needy than the Northern soldier, and, besides, tney nave struggled in their maimea and decrepit condition for more than forty-five years without any compen- sation. A pension to these soldiers would not only be an ordinary mat- ter of common justice, but to some extent it would equitably distribute the enormous fund now raised and paid in pensions to the different sec- tions of the country If the pending bill and the pro posed amendment thereto are made especially applicable to the Southern soldiers, there would still go four times as much money to the North as would go to the South in pensions, Why should the South be further punished and drained financially, even if the needs, to say nothing of the deserts of the Southern soldiers, are to be considered? The Supreme Court Passed on Oar Form of Government The establishment of the initiative and referendum in the State of Ore gon has resulted in raising a grave constitutional question that Is aowciety mUst eventually conclude to so pending before the Supreme Court of segregate feeble-minded children as the United States The purpose of tQ preyeI1t their reproducing was one those who favor the Initiative and J of emphatic declarations made referendum is, through that method, to-nicht by Dr. H. H. Goddard, of to eitner aooiisn or moauy tne publican form of government pro vided for by our National Constitu tion The primary object of the support ers of this reform Is praiseworthy, in that the theoretical desire is to bring the Government closely to the peo ple, but in doing this a more or less radical attack has been made upon the organic act known as our consti tution' The square question that will "Pie-counter Dispensary" SqualI-"ButICr and Bonds. t rata gist the iMxocrau h4 been. many of them mould think before they voted. They ttiali "Butter and bond so. m belief e, for to rea sons. (Jl To divert the isiadi of the voters from the doing of the "pie - counter dispensary" now la ila leljKti creatine oSce. salaries, debt and bonds, and 2 they think But ter will have re-published the report hoing who were the real bene- Cclaries of the "bondi" they talk o much about; they want to prejudice and poison the minds of thep eople against the facts in that published report. They would give a one hun dred thousand dollar bond iue and make the tax-payers foot the bill they could destroy the facts has. As we see it, this is why they squall "Butler and bonds." be presented before the court in the argument of this case will be: Does the Constitution of the United Staes provide for a Republican form of gov-. . -" & ernmeni, or noes it provide lor a:. pure democracy where the people act i directly in manging their local. State! auu .anonai uovernment insieaa oi through representatives elected for that purpose? The argument of this case before the Supreme Court, and the decision of that august tribunal will be watched with unusual interest by ev- i3 Muueiit oi popular government. ; ...la . ' not oniy m tnis nation, but in the j whole world TWO OFFICERS SHOT Deputy Sheriff Mnmford and c, : an expert W right aviator. of Police Glover the Victims ; Aviator Volunteer for Service. Were Trying to Arrest Two Neg- j New York, Feb. C. Alfred J. yo lws nuirfwi Whii linhiuntr titnr. ! sant, brother of the late John B. at Dunn. Wilson, N. C, Feb. 3. This town is laboring under the greatest excite - cold-blooded murder of Deputy Sher - iE George Mumford and the probably fatal shooting of Chlef-of-Poiice A. O. Glover this afternoon by negro desperaders, whom the officers were trying to arrest. This morning the authorities here were notified to look out for negroes who broke in a store at Dunn last night and stole several pistols and other merchandise. This afternoon one or more of the negroes was lo cated in a negro house near the Nor folk Southern Railroad yards and the officers went to the house to make the arrest. Deputy Mumford and Chief Glover went to the front door and Policemen Warren and Wynne stood guard at the rear. As Mum ford and Glover entered the front Glover through both lungs. The former died in less than an hour and the latter is expected to die at any moment. Make Good Their Escape. Immediately , upon seeing the of ficers fall and before either of the officers stationed at the rear could run around to the front the criminals darted out ,ot front door and es- ranlfl ninndhnunds were broueht here on a speciai train and are now following the trail. Posses in auto- mobiles iL buggies and on foot are scouring the nearby country, and the miUtary company, reinforced by hun- dreds of citi2ens, is 0n duty picketing tne roads to prtyent the negroes' es- cape from tne territory in which they ar SUDI)osed to be hiding. Several arrests were made, but parties who witnessed the Ktooting exonerated the prisoners. Feeling is running high and the ' excitement is most Intense. Over a thousand heavily armed men are ' scouring every inch of ground In this 1 section and, should the murderer or J murderers fall into their hands, a lynching would cause little surprise, j Mumford leaves a widow and six I voune children. Glover has' a wife and one child. Both men were popu lar with all who knew them. Favors Seregatlng Feeble Minded Children. Baltimore, MdL, Feb. 7. That so- Vineland. N. J., before the Health Conference now in progress under the auspices of the Medical and Chi rurgical Faculty of Maryland. Dr. Goddard spoke of "the feeble minded child as a menace to the State, socially and moraUy," declared f eebleimindedness to be hereditary and said that 2 per cent of the public school chUdren of the United States are deficient mentally in some way, according to the law of averages. Tt view w.u iv .t:notn.!Sf: Ktiittrt Wilt It MS TtU wuff.r nrn wia w lW"ttt, Watilotoa. ti C . "c 4. far a as aroflR t&& dtcter. fiesef a? Jloft. the cores tsts4er f b t;nT meat f Tela-, will ffb&! tooa; t-e is a ;crtltJ5 to detertBlfee .the fad at to the artltitir of t& tsaf Sent alocic the MeiUan border. To-4ty General Vm4. rhirf of ataff. let it W kfean that at tratt ot.e aeroplane would te enjtoye 3 in observation work a lose the ilia (irande. Thi dec! Urn reacted after a ticultation with tleftem! Al ln. chief tirnt ocer. who ! in charge of the aeronautical er ice of the War lepartment, and John Barry Hyan. president of the tnite4 Stae Aeronautical Reserve. The War IK-partment ha accepted the tender o fKobert Coliier of one bill if of his new Wright biplanes, which the fashions aai agaltm th uaiight Butler !s now in New York, and thi will he :y cartoons la o atier. runHi to tne Meiican torier uy e pre and turned ver to General ,Ioyt- In order that the Government may be able to purchase areoplanet for 11 .r in nafrnllinr thi Metiran Irfir.lcr 7 i I 1 1 " ... 1.1 . . ." . . 1 hsm taken nn ' ,th w "rr rh.ierV t 'with Senator Warren. Chairman of nu,,,v rv.,,,, .k- question of making the appropriation of $12rt000 for aeropUn ,tt the army available Immediately instead of on July 1st as would be the usual course. The bill appropriating the amount mentioned for the purchase. maintenance ana operation or aero-; pianes ir; me army aireaay passea me House and is now in the hands of lhe Senate military affairs commit- tee. The areroplane offered the Govern- nient by Mr. Collier will be operated :by Lieutenant Foulois of the signal ; ! corps of the army and A. L. Welch,; Moisant, received word here to-day from San Antonio, Texas, that Ro- i land Garros, Rene Barrier and Rene I Simon, have volunteered to fly over i lines at Juarez to test the worth oH ! aeroplanes in actual war. There isj i to be an' aviation ''irieet'at'EI Vk'scT, T j Texas, this week, just across the bor- ! der from Juarez, and Mr. Moisant left here to-night to superintend ar - ! raneements on the snot His plan j is to observe the strictest neutrality. I All observations will be reported I i to him and the United States army! ! officers stationed along the border and to no one else. On the strength of this guarantee, he says, he has re ceived assurances that neither side will fire on the aviators. A complete report will be made to the War Pepartment at Washington. DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEEMEN SUED. Charged With Fail are to Pay for Au tomobile Hire in Their Campaign. Chicago, 111., Feb. 7 Senator Ben jamin R. Tillman, Roger C. Sullivan, Norman E. Mack, Thomas E. Taggart and fifty other members of the Na tional Democratic Committee of 1908 were made defendants to-day by Louis F. Burgh, an automobile own j er. in a suit for $63, claimed for au tnmnhil hlr Roger Sullivan said to-day the bill should not be paid by the committee because it was contracted in giving rides to a speaker duriag the last Presidential campaign, and this speaker, the plaintiff asserts, denies the bill. Being unable to straighten out the difficulty, after more than two years, suit has been brought N'orfoUi's Democratic Election Judges Kolndlcted. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 7. The grand jury re-indicted the judges of elec tion in the court-house precinct of Norfolk who were originally accused in fifteen indictments charging viola tion of the Virginia primary election laws in the conduct of the Democratic Congressional primary of August last The defendants who were dismiss ed on demurrer prior to the action of the Supreme Court of Appeals up holding the constitutionality of the primary election statute were to-day re-indicted in one indictment embrac ing all fifteen counts of the old In dictments The cases will be tried February 15th. Wife Beater Given Five Lashes on His Bare Back. Baltimore, Md., Feb. 6. Five lashes on his bare back and two months in jail was the sentence im posed by Judge Duffy in the criminal court here to-day on George E. Wood en for assaulting his wife and terri bly mutilating her face with a knife. The last time the whipping-post in the jail here was used was in 1907. with hie lAcnissns Two QUli to Cfcasife its Di- vorxe Ltw Btlone Iks Lesiiatare core hew courmr ms IrfcM40i ia n CWaty el 1 rmakila mm4 'rmh Crtiai,.r tUc grit UtfTwiscr m -.U-Trm4-ltiit-.lt -T- liar Nv nm lUamiacO- lUlt ft?r iVttr . Jmdgrm VriM I'arorwU tbrfwrt. iaator G rah an Jferel a utksa i; :ie Senate Thursday frots a tieman frota Orang Cismty ;rotet. Irs agalait ta frraurnt thtec la Senator Hawktzu yraicrdsy fmt- troduced a bill to etfabli.h tMt Of Jtaaltu th county of Han Km la fct taken out of pant of Wake. Joko. 6ton. Nah. WlUoa. and Fraa!: rv..... - . v ... . "' mat tai qaca ai... k . .. . . . 7 . l""lwr' iauB hll rt tnr ik. .i.,!ia.i uch county The queatloa ef what ihall be the county-teal fa t5 k left to the vote of the residents. Tb three points mentioned are Mlddlt ex in Nash, and Zbutoa and W dell in Wake. The bill also nrovfdea that Uuri Ciaude B. Ilarbee of Wak n W Ballard of Franklin, M. C. WltsUm of Johnston. Thomas M Waahlsgtom of Wilson, N. B. Finch of Nash. O. M. Bell and Jt. B. Whitley of Kaa- ora, shall constitute a loard of artU trators to decide what proportion of thc IndebtedncM of the old counties shall be arsumed in cats of th er- ih er- tion of Rantom. rsel Third Heading. To authorire the comnilsdonert of Sampson County to erect at Clinton a monument to Confederate veteran. Resolution to pay member of tub committee that visited the Deaf and Dumb Institution at Morganton the. ,6S C; ,5r xPn- S'nt e "oue wllb0ut ngi-sfmenL nilia ' VntiomL " s- 4 67, by Sir. Uohgood: To continu to provide for the malnten- ance of the Guilford Baltic Ground. Committee on Pensions and Soldiers Home. s- r$ by Mr. Johnson: To j amend the act incorporating the la dustrial Training and Educational School of Falson. S. B. 4 67, by Mr. Thome: Resolu tion to encourage the use of goods made by independent manufacturers, and to discriminate against goods made and sold by trusts and Illegal corporations S. B. 472. by Mr. Cotien: To pre vent the use of coupons la connec tion with the sale of cigarettes, cigars and tobacco. Committee on Proposi tions and Grievances. S. B. 487, by Mr. Starbuek: Reso lution to invite non-resident North Carolinians, investors and agricul turists from the North, East and Western States to visit North Caro lina in October of each year, whllo the State and County Fairs are being held. Committee on Agriculture. S. B. 489, by Mr. Cobb: To amend laws of 1903 relating to establish ment of North Carolina State Veteri nary Medical Association, aad to reg ulate the practice of veterinary medi cine, etc. Committee on PabUt Health. In Uae HonAe. following bills were The latro- duced: Connor: To prevent frauds oa merchants. Gay: To amend the divorce law of the Revisal. Kennedy: To amend the road law of Sampson County. Spainhour: To provide primary elections throughout the State. Allred: To provide records of the foreclosure of mortgages in thia State. Ewart: To make effective the pro hibition laws of this State. Taylor, of Brunswick: To amend the Revisal so as to give to was aad cities power to operate and maintain water-works and other public facu lties. . The following bills were reported favorably by the committee except when otherwise stated: To amend the fertilizer law of 1907. To amend the anti-trust law of 1907. To amend th law relating to tres pass. ' '" To erect a woman's building at the Soldiers' Home. Referred to Appro priations Committee. Bills Passed, 1: The foIlowUg bills parsed their final reading: (Continued on Paco S.)