North Carolina Newspapers

v The Caucasian AND BALOOH ESTERPIUSC IT- CAD CAS! AB P0BLISH1HG COUPAHT HtlWCKIFnOa BATE I Oss Ysas. git Moimi. f 4s Mostss. Ml WHY THEWS IS XO CHOICE BE TWEEN THE DEMOCRATIC CAN DIDATES FOR THE V. S. HEN ATE, j A subscriber writes a communica tion for The Caucasian, beginning by saying that be believes it is best for the State and the country for a Republican United States Senator to be elected, but he then proceeds to discuss the Democratic candidates and gives reason why he prefers one candidate over another. We do not publish the communica tion because the subscriber admits that he knows it is best for the coun try to elect a Republican Senator. This being true (and we believe that every man who loves his State bet ter than he loves any party should take the same view), then it Is a needless waste of time to Uiscuss the relative merits or demerits of the Democratic candidates for the Unit ed States Senate. If one of the candidates was as pure a statesman as was ever born, and at the same time a mat. of eminent ability, we would not favor his election to the Senate, because, first, as long as he stays with the Democratic party, he shows that he has false ideas of government which, if put into prac tice, will spell stagnation and hard times. In the next place, no matter how good a Democratic candidate may be as an individual, he cannot be elect ed without keeping in power at the! spsiir extravagant, incompe tent and oppressive Democratic ring in North Carolina a ring that has increased our debts, piled up bond is sues and increased taxes a ring that has horribly mismanaged the public school system in such a way as to make the boys and girls of North Carolina have the poorest or next to the poorest chance of any of the boys and girls of any other State in the Union and a machine -which denies to the people the fundamental prin ciple of local self-government. We would not be in favor of electing a man even like the late Senator Vance to the Senate, if, at the same time, we had to curse North Carolina with the same Democratic State machine! that now dominates and oppresses- the people of this State. Besides, when you send a Democrat to Con gress, he must go into a Democratic caucus and there be bound by the false theories and dangerous policies of the panic-breeding Democraitc na tional organization. In short, the thing for every pa triotic North Carolinian to do is not only to be-thinking of how to pre- '-'.." vent the election of any one of these Democratic candidates, but also how to elect a man who stands squarely with the great progressive and con structive parjy of progress and prosperity. WHERE THE TROUBLE LIES. The Wilmington Baptist Associa tion, at its recent session held at Richlands, in Onslow County, issued a very strong and emphaticjstatement condemning the failure of the State Government to properly enforce the prohibition law. The statement is as follows: "Talk Is cheap. Aaron could talk, but Moses did the work. The temperance question is talk ed to death. Something has got to be done. Talk will not settle it; it rather keeps it unsettled. Resolutions will not settle it. What we resolve to do must be done. While we are fuming and fussing, :. and discussing , and sometimes cussing over the sub ject, the devil is rolling off the liquor jugs at every station and the express company is running ( an open saloon at every railroad office in the country. The Southern Express car bar-rooms and cigarette -tobacco trusts playing hell from sea to sea and . from Canada to Mexico, not to speak of the uttermost parts of the earth. What the country needs is a man, and one or two others to help him. Prohibition ' will prohibit when you put a man at the head of i and be hind it, one to pull, and the other to push The curse of Meraz .is updnYns cowardice or -. ' X- ' ' false humility or downright 1 ill ness U damning es. We are whining and grumbling aad growling when we ought to ret down to business, and put the liquor teller out of business." Many rneoeri of this church or ganlration no doubt know where the touble lie. They know, la the flnt place, that the Democratic machine leaders care nothing about prohibi tion one way or the other. They know that that party picked up pro hibition as a campaign issue, simply because iney wougai u was popular at the time, and because they had worn out the cry of "negro and "Im perialism" and bad no other "para mount" for that campaign. The Democratic party passed what Is known as the Watts and Ward laws first, and they did this because they thought it would be popular to appear to be taking a step toward prohibition. We have reason to be lieve that the Democratic leaders at that time did not intend to ever gof any further toward prohibition, butj their Watts and Ward laws werej such a fraud and caused such a j protest against such sham measures that they were forced to go further. Thousands will remember that when the Democratic party was making prohibition its chief issue, that one or more high Demo cratic officials campaigned the State either with a bottle of whiskey in his grip, or begging for a drink or for his bottle to be re-filled at some town, when it was empty. Much more along this line might be said, for the facts are known to more than a few In different qjuarters of the State. Members of this religious organi zation know that to-day no honest effort is being made to enforce this prohibition law. - It is difficult to en force a prohibition law, even when the party in power honestly favors it and when every effort Is honestly ex erted to have the law obeyed. The failure of prohibition has al ways been due to two causes: First, the passing of such a law where public sentiment had not been edu cated up to a point to properly sup port the measure; and second, the want of honest and sincere purpose to have the law enforced. This is" why we have always thought that more temperance could be secured by simply placing prohibition upon each county or locality when it was ready for it, that is, when public senti ment would help to force officials, whether they were in sympathy or not, to carry out the public demand. Besides, we believe eternally in the fundamental principle, of local self government. Indeed, no law of any kind can ever be .enforced unless it is supported by healthy public senti ment. To those who favor temper ance we say, put not your trust in politicians, hut in the people. - THERE'S A REMEDY. The Lincoln Times, in an editorial, says: v "The Democraitc machine carried Maryland last week in the Etate primaries Already charges of wholesale frauds, corruption and bribery have been made against the 'machine and indictments are predicted. They can catch the election thieves everywhere but in North Carolina. Here they prac tice their game unmolested." The Democratic government of this State not only does not prose cute the ballot-box thieves, but a Democratic Governor not long ago declared that he would use every cent of the people's taxes, if neces sary, to defend their election thieves if any one should attempt to prose cute them under the law. The remedy is for the good citi zens who believe in the enforcement of the law and the stopping of high taxes and bad government to vote to repudiate the Democratic ring by a majority so big that the Simmons ballot-box stutters cannot steal it WOULD HELP THE NEWSPAPERS AND EVERYBODY, EXCEPT THE EXPRESS COMPANIES. The Southport News, in a recent editorial, says: "In another column we are , quoting from a letter by Arthur ' Brisbane on the rural editors and the parcels post. "The letter is so apropos of the present time and conditions that we ask our readers to pe ruse it with care. We have for many years advocated the par cels post; now it is soon to be a - medium between the country man and the markets of the world. . , "The country merchant can no longer keep a handful of goods as a 'stock and make the coun try customer confine his needs to it. On the contrary wtta the , parcels pott established, the country merchant nail keep an up-to-date stock, aad nstt ad vertite the same. If he wants to keep op local trade. Otherwise the city merchant will get the rural trade and keep It. "The Government has already found the parcels pott where It has been established a success; and Postmaster-General Hitch cock is also very enthusiastic on the subject, as well as on posts! savings basks, "It is now op to the country merchant to reap the revrard by preparing for the sew order of things which will soon face him right here. Get a good stock of goods and advertise it." This is all well said, but there is one pertinent thought that should be added. A number of concerns would now advertise their goods in the daily and v weekly papers, bat the goods would have to be shipped by express to the purchasers who would telephone their orders or send them by mail, and the express rates are so high that no one can afford to use the express unless they are able to be robbed. This is why the express companies oppose the cheap and quick parcels post.' WHY THE DEMOCRATIC RING OP POSES THE AUSTRALIAN BAL LOT. The Charlotte Observer in a recent editorial quoted what some citizens had said in a petition favoring the Australian ballot as follows: "By this method the individ ual ballot can be more freely cast in elections for issues and for officers upon issues of vital concern." ' The Observer, commenting upon the above language, says: "That is exactly the truth, and for that very reason it will not be adopted in North Carolina for many years to come. There is no) possibility of intimidation or coercion under it." The Observer might have added that there is also less opportunities counting. The ballots would be pre for ballot-box stuffing and false served and could be recounted. With this law, the Republican vote would have been at least 20,000 votes more as counted in the last election. If the people will repudiate the Demo cratic machine at the next election by a majority so big that they cannot steal it all, then the next Legislature will adopt the Australian ballot, stop extravagance and bond issues, give free text-books to the children of the public schools, and much more. Every farmer who is forced to sell a bale of cotton for ten cents a pound this year is losing $25 a bale at least. If he is forced to sell cotton at nine and a half cents, he Is losing $27.50 a bale, for a fair price would certainly be fifteen cents a pound or more. If farmers were receiving fif teen cents a pound for cotton, it would not hurt so bad to pay the in creased taxes which they will be forced to pay on account' of the ex travagance and incompetence of the Democratic State machine. The time has come for every man to look the facts straight in the face and think what can be done to remedy the same, or at least to prevent a re currence of such a calamity. If you want to keep taxes from going up and stop cotton from going down, then put the Democratic machine out of power in North Carolina arfd don't send any more Democratic Congress men to Washington. Farmers are to-day getting a bet ter price than formerly for their to bacco. Why does not the Raleigh News and Observer charge that Presi dent Taft is responsible for this, in having the Tobacco Trust dissolved under the Sherman anti-trust law? But one thing is certain, and that is neither the Raleigh News and Ob server nor any one else can charge that Governor Kitchin is in any way responsible for this happy result. We are glad to see that our con temporary, the Lincoln Times, has doubled in size and comes out In a neat and attractive eight-page pa per, and that it does this in the cele bration of its fifth anniversary, and at the same time it promises the peo ple a better paper, than ever before. We are glad to bear testimony to the fact that the Lincoln Times was al ready one of the best weekly papers in the State. Under Democratic rule taxes go up and cotton goes down. Every Demo cratic voter now knows that this is an ugly fact. If any one wants to know why it is so, then let him read Butler's Raleigh speech. j iucaf snora C8y J. P. CUcM PcpaUft who tote-4 for Bryan fce caase of Ms latfora and trethf al ee, esstt tf conslsteat. mt for Taft now, since Bryan says Taft is a his platform. It will take awful big lying to con vise farcers sensible one- that a? Increase of taxes and a decrease in the price of cotton, both at , the samPtiae, Is to their moral, finan cial, or political Interests. Certainly the State would be safer financially, and the people much hap pier, but what in the worldand It full of good Lawyer would become of Simmons, Aycock, and Hitch in. if the could sot hold ofSce and draw a salary? No poor man need ask for the Democratic nomination for Senator. It now takes a heap of money and advertising to "fluence" papers and local ward-heelers all over the State. For they, like these office-seekers, are in politics "for revenue only." As proof, ask three of the candidates after the convention. All our Presidents are put down as belonging to some 'church, ex cept Mr. Jefferson. He is not cred ited with having any kind of re ligion even professedly. But this would not be so bad, however, if the party that claims him as its head had any, or would even practice re ligion a little bit. t m Farmers are the worst Imposed upon of any class. They have less representation in offices of honor and pay of any class. Even in the Agricultural Department, generally nien from towns party workers, get the positions of pay and honor. But it seems many farmers are content to simply be "hewers of wood and drawers of water." Now listen for a howl. Agriculture is the foundation upon which every other business must depend. It should be the surest and strongest. Politicians want to encourage farm taxes and sending theorists around to follow the example of our State farms. Haven't the bank account sufficient. Instead of increasing taexs and sending therists around to towns and paying them big salaries to (?) encourage and (?) teach far mers how to farm, why not say to every farmer that every acre from which he gathers a crop, shall be re leased from taxes. The good roads question is a big one. Everybody wants them. But how, when and by whom is the ques tion. Farmers have been fooled by politicians so much that they look with suspicion on everything they champion. They don't know how these men by riding from town to town on trains or automobiles, and holding their meetings with towns people, can really know the condition of the roads, or what it will take to build them. "A burnt child dreads fire." They fear some, they know are more concerned about getting good paying jobs, than they are get ting good roads. Those Democratic Taxes. Clinton News-Dispatch. Say, beloved, have you been around to the sheriff's office and in quired about the amount of tax you will have to pay this year? Well, we happen to know one man whose taxes last year was about $65 and the same man with the same prop erty will have to pay $110 taxes this year. He will have to pay $65 for county and State and $45 for Demo cratic good (?) government. Rats! Asheville and other cities of the South are to be represented in mov ing pictures by the Vitagraph Motion Picture Company of New York. The idea is to have a view of ten cities in the South on one film 1,000 feet long, giving 100 fee"t for each city. VISITORS TOI rn I " " " 1 . ITT ran y im If Tour Suit and nvercnot K- spent Berwanger Clothing "makes good" thL Ll iJ?T money with critical eye and rigidly tested before flnallv tl of - which It permitted to have a hand in the fashioning V"!l 'woIkman8nIP ily convince you. and the style of a garment bearing tT lotUn &e fit is perfect as a try-on will rew and good taste. Bearing the Berwanger label Is marked by character, diitlfictio THE RIGHT SUITS THE BOYS Young America may be fitted out here for the fall , $4.50 for Boys' Double-BreaRtiU Tr,-v-7e and winter for the smallest nossibl outlay lar 5 values. 5 An extensive line of Suits fashion, best materials. Regular 1 Have you seen the line of E. & w. ShirtTwX J! , ther Suits and Overcoats at from $2.50 to fit absolutely guaranteed. wve to our line? They are beauties. Quality fl . Every style of NEW HAT can be found hereon I Swelldom in Neckwear are shown in auV2n 11 modestly priced. here only. . m !UJ 8how cases 25 cents to $3.00. Many new ttjle-89 UNDERWEAR of every reliable description"" tt t f heavy weights. Buying direct from the mifl SulU r "o-pleee garments, in light, media COME See the line. Ton are welcome. enabl as to give -you close prices. the wmi Tim ojrrorsk If pepl eo!4 eat cotton the f- prelt t& re4see the eost of lists, Albemarle Chronicle. If Wood row Wilson Is the only Moses the Democrats have to S4 tfcesa oat. the chances are they tU remain lav the Wilderness for to, these many years. Clinton Sews- DitpaUh. Dissipation and tice rss&i&s rasa- pant. Drink and dm&ks epon every corner. The law and order lesgne la the tall Umbers? Who are to pro - :tect the weak and htlples. Burling- ton State Dispatch. j rrtt& will Uvru;4y Sflkf - I thai is a deploraMf casux t U Cotton has dropped below the 19 State to bm in. ' cent mark and a few more sessions off With1 tfce prn! , a Democratic Home will bring it fairs stistlag it b Wmutt down to the Cleveland & cent notch. like one of two tM&c ? 9 When Democracy , rules, the country ce Is that lUltie J. wtn u,. u suffers. FiMt experience Terifies the 'pone his election saul liu T'T' claim. Union Republican. otbtr is. we will causs e,1 1 Jo,rwr course u&tu n;.u. U Farmen are talking a hack-home will find the horrible t. . movement with their cotton after' days of Cleveland ri J having it ginned. After fifteen years 4 many people be akrt,r j "04 of unparalleled prosperity they are of tblr doty, and cruc in position to hold for better prices 'end to such whta th tf9 U tuu umj am UUiClUlUg U it Mt may not. But another season like this will put the farmers in as deep a hole as they were the last time they got "a change." Albemarle Chronicle. DEMOCRACY AND IXW PIUCKS. Failure of Democratic Good Govern ment to Enforce the Laws on the Statute Hooks. Editor Caucasian: We And that many everywhere are becoming ery dissatisfied with affairs as they exist at the present in State and Nation. The party to which they have clung for years is still on the down haul, and in every attempt it makes at any proposition it ends in utter failure, to the great dismay and sorrow of Its advocates, butalways a great finan cial aid to the authorities In power. It seems that if there was ever a time in ancient days when kings and priests usurped authority, exacted tribute from their subjects and ! brought the people under constant ( fright, and fear of destitution, there is a period of similar distress under every Democratic rule. And very much to the regret of all fair think j ing people, we see nothing else in ' sight but another such period, if the Democrats remain In power. Of course there are great .numbers of fair-minded and well-read Demo cratsln every section who are begin ning to see the situation as it really is, and who will act according to their conscience. But we have an other class everywhere who sit at the cross-roads store fronts and oth er public places and endeavor to keep the minds of the illiterate and unin formed stirred up and prejudiced to ward their party. They claim that over-production is the reason for the low prices in cotton and good many I other equally fallacious arguments, j Of course there is policy in war; and ! these little fellows must to tb4 mark and be ready to hand out such goods as are sent down to them by the "big fellows." They know if they don't do all they can to pro mote Democratic wickedness that they will get no pie. next campaign. But in regard to the cotton situa tion, everybody knows that under Re publican rule prices were high whether the crops wefe larger or smaller. This year the cotton crop is not large, but as soon as the Demo crats gained Congress prices fell right down until now it Is very little better than half of what It was last year. The reason for all this is the Democratic inability to guide the af fairs of Government. There are plenty of other evidences of their inability. Here in North Carolina they can't even carry out the laws as they are on the statutes. There never was a law so universally ignored as the late prohibition law. Liquor is being sold in every part of the State; and instead of checking it ARE CORDIALLY INVrrrn jr AND V. m ' SUITS k ,uocr ults. all wool; two-pair Pants with each SuIt- and Overcoats for k V 16 valm. oi, ?y?T"5 10 18 years cut and made in the i J: ' one CLOTHIER tmsss tfe $u; u , law wms Cris i crease ail er th mm. euatf Ue Uh j th tw, the fsitmr Utu tfty U ?&UM&c U rtr 4i.lw? are try aear as t&aay prison as there are e.-'? crUse tarresai&g all tU Bst soure h3 j l , PQP ke to ? 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