North Carolina Newspapers

' " SSSJ jJLL JLL ,J I 4 - - - - - X VOL. XXIX. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1911. no 40 DITORIAL BRIEFS j:.-.:-v! of helping the farmer to x, - his Income, tbe Democrats !o -.;hJfd his taxes. -rr ville reiorts the granting of r;. -iivortes in one day, which is n to Greensboro's record. Wr y doesn't Attorney-General Bic kc: ,-xanjine North Carolina's antl- r.-i law and see If it really has any Had you noticed that the public rtool system in this State, under Democratic management, Is top- fctay? Tho State officials set a bad ex amile by deciding to buy the granite for the new State building from an other State. It seems that many Democratic officials in this State are either In competent or that they are winking at lawlessness. Now honest, have you heard or seen a mocking-bird since Aycock an nounced that he would again be a candidate for office? If you could cut the politics, out o fthe public school system In the State the children might be able to ec-cure an education. An exchange says children should bo taught to think. And there are some grown-ups that should be .aught the same thing. Mr. IJryan says that no Democrat cares for office. That may be so, but some of them get awful hungry for the salary attached thereto. Webster's Weekly says that law enforcement depends upon educa tion. Then it is time to turn out the illiterate Democrats and take charge of the State. The Democratic politicians claim that the tariff is responsible for the high cost of living. There is no tariff on coffee and why does it continue to soar in price? The Democratic Governor of Mas sachusetts spent over $16,000 to se cure his election. He must have a good income from some other source than his office. An exchange says that Georgia passed many hours without a Gover nor. That is nothing strange -South Carolina has been without one for many months. If the Lumberton Robesonian does not stop telling the truth about the Democratic mismanagement in Robe son County, it may expect to be read out of the party. Mr. Bryan says the next session of Congress will materially effect, the next campaign. Most especially if the Democrats try to pass more legisla tion to destroy the industries of the country. The Supreme Court has ruled that you can't borrow whiskey except for snake bites. And just think, this decision has been handed down in the winter time when there are no snakes! The Democratic Governor of Mas sachusetts has filed a sworn state ment showing that his election cost him over sixteen thousand dollars. As the salary is only $8,000, it is not ex actly clear what he wanted with the office. Webster's Weekly urges that Sim mons should be returned to the United States Senate as in all prob ability he would step into Senator Bailey's shoes. But hasn't a major ity of the Democratic papers in this State declared Bailey unfit to be a Senator? $ North Carolina's Commissioner of Agriculture says there is no over production and that cotton should sell for fourteen cents a pound. And U would be selling for. even more than that if it were not for the threats made against the cotton in dustry by a Democratic Congress. . PARMA! ; t . ' uirj mentor Window Smahin;r Campaign ar.d Were Arr-te! f,y Police. A cablegram sent out from Los 1 jdon. England. Tuesiay night, say: 1 ! "The suffragettes fare! bally at ) the hand of the police tonight. They j had tried to force their way into the! House of Commons and make a pro-! test on the floor of the House against J the Prime Minister's refusal to oled? j te government to a bill giving equal suffrage to both sexes, but they failed! even to reach the entrance to Par-j liament. , l Thwarted by the police, who made! 223 arrests, the suffragettes resorted j to a campaign of window smashing, f Driven from Parliament Square by j the police. 1,800 of whom were on duty, the w omen, accompanied by sympathizers and gangs of rowdies,; proceeded through White Hall armed! with bags of stones concealed under! their coats, and broke windows in public offices, Liberal headquarters! and the National Library. j I The militant tactics of the suffra . gettes followed a statement by Pre- mier Asquith that the government j was unable to Introduce a bill to en franchise women, as the Cabinet was divided on the question, but would allow an amendment to be introduced to the proposed manhood suffrage bill, leaving it to the House of Com mons to decide whether women should be given a vote. CIIINKSK REBELS TROOPS. MASSING Revolutionists Worst Battle is Now PendingPreparing to Attack Nanking Former Viceroy of Can toii Flees to Europe Mohamme dans Figure in Situation. San Francisco, Nov. 21. Revolu tion troops are assembling In great numbers outside of Nanking, accord ing 'to a cable dispatch received to day by Chinese Free Press, and the attack on the city Is expected within a few hours. The troops are com manded by General Cao Shu Chung, former general under the Manchu government. The revolutionists are well supplied with arms and am munition. Hong Kong advices to the Chinese daily papers say the former Viceroy of Canton, Chong Ming Chi, has cut off his queue and gone to Europe. The commander-in-chief of the re publican army in Canton is sending the regiment north and will lead the other troops of his command in any attack on Peking. Cliang Continues Iefensive Prepara tions. Nanking, Nov. 21. General Chang, commander of the Imperial forces within the city, continues his defense preparations, indicating his deter mination to stand a siege. The rail way has not been interfered with. The heights commanding the city are unguarded. General Chang seems to consider the walled city im pregnable. In revenue for the desertion of General Shu, who went over to the revolutionaries, General Chang has beheaded Shu's relatives who re mained inside the city. Reports of Massacre of Foreigners. Peking, Nov. 21. The killing of foreigners at Sian Fu, Shen Si prov ince, has been further confirmed by two Chinese students who have ar rived from that city. During the fighting in Sian Fu a mob attacked the China Inland Mission, located outside the city. They murdered Mrs. Beckman, said' to be an Ameri can, and five of the mission children. Mr. Beckman was wounded, but es caped, saving an infant. The surviv ing foreigners were sheltered by Chi nese Christians and subsequently de parted outward toward the railroad. Mohammedans Responsible. The Potal authorities here express the opinion that Mohammedans, who are numerous in Sian Fu, are re sponsible for the outrages. Famine in Russia Causes 8,000,000 to Go Hungry, A cablegram sent from St Peters burg, Russia, states that eight mil lion persons are in need of immedi ate relief owing to the failure of the crops in twenty Russian provinces. The Russian Preimer explains that the crops failed completely in twelve provinces and partially In eight oth ers. Of the 12,500,000 inhabitants of the affected territory, 8,000,000 were in immediate need of relief. The necessary measures would re quire, the-Premier said, the expendi ture of $60,000,000, of which amount the Imperial exchequer would have to find $44,000,000. Half of the to tal was necessary at once, to defray the cost of supplies already dispatch ed. M. Kokovzoff added that actual famine conditions were not wide spread yet, but the sanitary situation was a cause of great anxiety. isri FIl.MJKTTK STORM I MP. NT. U till 1 Ulll mml Ilftff - ? 4 . j DCt WCCI1 the NCW CommCrCC Court and the Interstate Commerce Commission Commerce Court May be Abolished ' TfM ,Ur ,Unk' tMl TranwntinmUl JUilm wU Combine to Defeat .... , ., t f lull.Iig f rt Mnhi Through the Panama Canal Mr. i it.. I,- t i,i..,J , . if I Laker of Ikiltimorc Make a Moi i Interesting Statement Ilefone a Senate CVminltfrc Will thr ;,( eminent Have to Huild tiw Steam, ship Line and Also a Transmit; iUh nent.il I la H mad? Soim Atonl Ing Frtlglit Hatefi Will nilna He.; come .e a (irvat Republic, or Will M IMvi.ixi. " H He lopeciai 10 me Caucasian, i Washington, D. C. Nov. 21, 191ll!has or W,JI raIs lh- i)o5nt that T!k citnatinTi in phinr. hf. irrnxn so serious that our Government basiorSanie a company, and no felt called upon to order several war- ships and some troops to Chinese wa ters. It is understood that our forces will co-operate with other Eu ropean forces that were associated together to protect the lives of for eigners during the Boxer movement several years ago. It looks as If the present revolution will result either in the establishment of a republic or a constitutional monarchy somethingl8Ucn a steamship line have, one after .... ... . . . is possmie, nowever, tnat tne coun - . . . . ' try may be divided Into two govern ments. China May be Divided. It is known that over half of the States In China have, through theif State, governments, declared square ly for a republic. There are nineteen States in all, and ten or eleven of those in the southern part of China seem to have been co-operating to - gether to this end. There are, hesrt m3.--fa1 ... - . ....... ever, few people who realize thatThe cJocrnment Will Have to Build even If China was divided into two! - fit..muin t i nations or governments that each government would still contain more population than any other govern ment on earth. There are no doubt a number of the larger European powers who would like to seize this opportunity tween themselves, as already been done in the case of Africa. has ! ery large European country, except; Italy, has already gotten its slice of Africa, and now the remaining pow ers are winking at Italy while she grabs Tripoli as her slice. It Is un derstood, however, that the American government will not favor or submit to the dismemberment of China in the way that Africa has been par celed out into colonies under the con trol of European government. A Clash Between the Interstate Com merce and the New Commerce Court. Within the last week there has de veloped two most interesting situa tions, the results of which will be of very great importance. The first is the action of the Commerce Court just created by the last session of Congress in issuing an injunction to stay the orders of the Interstate Com merce Commission in making a gen eral reduction of freight rates where upon investigation ,they have been adjudged too high. It will be remembered that the last session of Congress passed a law strengthening the hands of the Inter- j state Commerce Commission by di recting that the Commission should not permit any rate on a short haul to be higher than the rate on a long haul. The only discretion given to the Commission was that where man ifest injustice would be done on ac count of peculiar conditions, then the Commission might use this dis cretion and make exceptions to the rule. , After, long and patient investiga tion, the Commission has announced its reductions of rates under this law and under the general law. The rail roads, of , course, ran at once to the Interstate Comerce Court for an in junction, but it was not thought that that court would grant an injunction in such a case. " The action of the court has caused a great deal of crit icism not only among legislators here in Washington, hut by business peo ple and public men all over the Unit ed States. An Effort to Abolish the Commerce ' Court. ' Already Senator Cummins and Senator Borah and a number of the other leading progressives have de clared that a bill will he introduced to abolish the court, and that there will be enough votes in Congress to pass the bill. They further say that jf the President should veto the bill. i fcMl IS !4tl 5Wf j third KiJor'.ty to px tfc bill over! au tto, that tfcejr eosSd iifeJu&s! j eotirt at of etltttsf la that ar. j I I tat AgalctM; a l ?Cfaaihjp Utr j to Carry l-Yrigftt 4 Parfi 2rr Through the Pntuj Caaal, The country or or j startled a few day ago by a stale ! meat made by Mr. it. N. Hikrr, f Haitimore. exptainlnic why m ba t i 'd to organ! a conipaay of af-S 7 a ... ficlent capital to build a steA5jhUi to ply from u AtUnte pa j dflc Cca&ls through the Canal. f Mi Baker U himself a man of ton-1 ... , . . i tiderable means and has been a lead- ing captain of industry for many fea? He organled the great At- jjianuc iransjK)rt ssaniEhip t oapjny j i land was its active manierr for at j and ! numlMr of ar- i! haB organized qmany other imiortant enterprises ; and ajj ot tQem turceiisfully. Mr. Baker has been at work for sometime to t rv in nrpan!r n tinnm. ship line to transport passengers and tereU Uhit,S lhI 8Jrtem hl freight from one coast or ocean tohulred lhe IU1:iRh nd ou the other through th rni . h f fcas met with signal failure. Nobody j i . . ... . .... ... . tm ! aKer was not a eomnetpnt nan tn .. . capitalist wbo has refused to take stock in the enterprise has Kiven such a reason. The remarkable Information which Mr. Baker has given to the inter- state Commerce Committe in ix plaining his failure has been that a number of bankers and financial in- stitutlons which had earlier encour - atrpd him trv Pn ahQ,i nft rt Itanother. air withdrawn their sub - frtntinn ennnnrt ir ; 1 ' c fiM hani-intr tnHttinnc that are, of course, closely connected with transcontinental railroads, and their action has unquestionably' been!0 the rioJmont gect,on of Norlh infiuenced by these transcontinental Carolina- railroads not rlpslrin onx. ,nmnan.i ! ws reported that the Durham tlon of any kind. He sa4d he found! i01" that ships should be built to It, is well-known that the freight that is not perishable and can be carried by a slow freight Is not desir able to the transcontinental railroads and they seem to be willing that such freight should be carried bv water, t surprise at running against riiiinn thinirc it a t o- - v this con : ne naa every connaence or succeed- g he no idea that he should run against this formidable and apparently well organized opposition against the building of such a line. He suggest ed, however, to this committee that if private capital could (not be in duced to build such a line on ac count of such a powerful opposition. that then the Government should by all means build such a line and oper ate it. A Government Transcontinental Rail road Also Needed. It has also been suggested In a number of quarters In the last few days that the Government should also build a transcontinental railroad line so that there should be competition by rail across the continent as well as by water through the Canal. The experience of Mr. Baker shows how concentrated and compact all of the great banking, railroad and In dustrial combinations are organized together, and we shall soon see whether or not they have already grown stronger and bigger than the Government. Some Astonishing Freight Rates. In this connection, it is most In teresting to notice some of the facts gathered by the Interstate Commerce Commission in their recent Investiga tion of railroad rates. The facts gathered show how it Is in the power of the railroad lines when working together to build up on business and make it an impregnable trust while breaking down any other competing business. The Commission found that the railroads made vastly discriminating charges in favor of certain trusts, of which the rates to the Sugar Trust Is a fair illustration. For Instance, they found that sugar valued at ap proximately $150 a ton Is shipped at the rate of one and ninety-three hun dredths mills per ton per mile, while cement, on the other hand, which is valued at only $30 per ton, is forced to pay a freight rate of six and six teenth mills per ton per mile. It is well-known that the rule that is supposed to be equitably followed in fixing freight rates will take Into consideration the value of the mate rial shipped per ton, the material of the less value not being able to stand a rate as high as a material of the greater valued Here we have cement, which is 4 (Cdntinued on page 5.) these bankers and financiers not so "".also been purcnased hy tne .Nor-; p"-" ' "'oa hostile to the Idea of a slow steam- tolk Southern, but one of the offlclal, ; ' ''t Cere. to a.k. It ship ne as they were of an, sugges- f the Durham and Southern ha, r llT'V IVJJ'" ! A D!S RAILCOflD DEAL! Norfolk Southern GeU Con - tro! of Three Other Roads in This State j OAT DU1LD IIOBE TOAOlAGE i a;d l!uu1iitf aa4 Ah4r mA t Ttioe !nfrrrtd ta Sotirtk fHithj rm Hta4ttim Ttml IKtrtvsm 4 ! mmi Sitiem l!a Item itchar4 j AlM-1toaI May IVe Ktrad To: C!vHotl lr War of fisnrtml ! man Not iNflnltely MatrL A big railroad deal was consul - I mated la Kaleljch Friday whereby the Norfolk Southern Hailroad or the In have ac ta port. i lue uurnain ana v.narioue ana the 1 AiwtnWn and AshetKrd Rallroadtt ana ineir suusiaiarii's. Th Raleigh and South port, rx- s urn i;nir i riiHi tz.tiA'ikrrT ici m vfi 1 1 1 "- " ..J - " - " " . i I,ue8; ine uurnaiu ana , ilir'!,"?. Mending from Colon to Tro, N, au lfe. tolutlon of th road bttildtB ! trackae of about fifty mile, and the problem. Aberdeen aaJ Ahboru' xtendlr' Some of th speakers wer ftp from Asbeboro to Aberdeen, has a Package of about 112 mile. Adding thls new iTck f ' ! 222 mllea to ,ts PMnl trackage of. ! 620 miles, the Norfolk Southern, ; when all new connections are made,! iw,n have 3 total tracka VI r- glnla ana North Carolina between Q. ,n.,A,i ... ? b40 and S50 miles, Increasing its ! mi,eaRe 33 1'3 per ccn.1 anii RU'n it an inlet into a very large portion Southern, from Durham to Dunn, ern had not made public all of lta f plans, btrl It U rumored that It will niea mat report, ine AonoiK rrouin- i v w wuti m build more trackage and connect with ! Insur tbe maintenance of order and Concord and Charlotte. j !he "vanc of law. The Raleigh Chamber of Com-! "Ag eoon a the decUlon of the merce is making an effort to have the pab,net wa reached, ibi commander Norfolk Southern erect Its principal 1 in",n,ef of the Atlantic fleet was di- j shops in Raleigh, j : i f:uv itMvi.v& njin tTi-'ii ivti'v i Mexican General is Charged With VI - i . . ........ . j General Bernado Reye, was ar - rested at San Antonia Texas- Sa-ur" aay uy a unuea states aiarsnai on tbe charge of violating the neutrality laws. The arrest was made in pur suance of an indictment returned by the Federal grand jury sitting at La redo, Texas. Besides General Bernardo Reyes, four Mexicans of prominence and the sheriff of Webb County, Texas, are charged In indictments returned in the United States District Court at San Antonio with conspiracy to vio late the neutrality laws of tbe Unit ed States. Saturday's indictments came as a chlimax to an Investigation by the Federal grand Jury, In progress for several weeks, of report that an up rising in Mexico with General Reyes as the leader was being arranged on this side of the border. New York Rankers Offer Fund $50,000 to Handle Cotton in the South. of New York, Nov. 21. New York bankers who have been conferring here for the last two days with rep resentatives of the Governor's Con ference and the Southern Cotton Congress announced this afternoon that they had raised a fund of $50, 000,000 to be placed Immediately In the cotton belt States for the pur pose of handling the cotton crop of 1911, and enabling growers to par ticipate in any rise In the market. Cotton Increase. Washington, Nor. 21. According to a cotton ginning report issued by the Census Bureau to-day there were 11,269,986 bales, counting round as half bales, ginned from the growth of 1911, to November 14, a com pared with 8,780,433 bale for 1910. The per cent of the last two crops ginned to November 14 i 75.9 for 19l0, and 80.5 for 1909. ( Round bales included thi yea? are 76,011, compared with 93,364 for 1910. Sea Island Included 71,199 bale for 1911, compared with 52,631 for 1910. President of San Domingo Assaasi . nated by Political Malcontent. Ramon Caceroi, president of San Domingo, was assassinated Sunday afternoon by political - malcontents. No uprising followed the assassina tion, - cm. ! JZTZZ 4" ! ray04 U Attft. 4 fcftt AtwJtr 1W4 U-vi I Cc&scrrt It Rr.is, trl4at Tafl .... i. ... . . !i8s is ait3 ovias id a i tic h ra4 Ibe Wlu tt& phfsirUtS to fofti4 him to iat Was&tairt&a. T lT14rst 11 grajheJ It ttrlK MStt. "t is j3 gyrapthf U tS tsett8U wttrSs u gaJfelsur str&gta la ff BiAle In i featieo for !Ss reastrao lJoa of jraAOfll rdaift. HTfe tffm thy will U Ug th lives of th fartser a4 l&ttr j fatnlllef uch mor full ef tea fort and la ts iescral VenSl cafrTa 1 by th srrtatrr easa of tattmciaa8 1 lr.lttn thA Mt.nrr, ... ribUt Ka ..--i t mUH t u tf to utter :ay approval aad &edarat meat. Secretary of Arrfcalttir Wileoti attended aa the Preil&e&i special representative. Governor Mnn pledc4 VlrgiaU to a policy of hishway development and an&cu&ced he would snd a tpa- . . anntulirt'a wouia soa mE to in iiuatur. its favored convict labor and declare noted to national aid. and aaid tha States should carry oa this work. WARSIIII'S TO SAX IK) MINGO. I'nitetl Sfatn Haa Ordeml the Wash ington and North Caroltaa to Ito Iort for A tne H ran lrotctlott. A prei's dispatch sent out fro a Washington under date of November 21st says: "Tbe Cabinet to-day decided that j . 8" Bomlofo !mect nn? demand for the protection o: ior:,Kn uw property and lo rectea to dispatch the two big Armor 'ed cruisers Washington and North wm"m ia nipion Jtoans. -r. Kusaeii. tbe American Minls- ., ' t . , 1an, 'om,n' wai directed , to take pasfaEe on the criilr Wuh. Ington, on which ho will sail torpor- jrow from Hampton Road. There 1 nothing on the surface Indicating danger of serious trouble In Santo Domingo, but the decision to send thl powerful naval force to the Island was Inspired by adeslre to relieve any other nation from appre hension as to the safety of It citi zens or their property." TRIAIi OF THE MEAT PACKERS. Ce Against Them for Violating Sherman Anti-Trust Law Waa Be gun Yesterday. The trial of J. Ogden Armour and nine other meat packers, char gad with violating the criminal provi sions of the Sherman anti-trust law wa begun yesterday before Judge Carpenter, of the United Bute Dis trict Court in Chicago. The trial had formerly been et for Monday of thi week. Postponement wa in clgnlzatlott of the act of Judge KobUatt, of the United State Circuit Court, who. af ter quashing writ of habeas corpo previously granted the packers, withheld entry of the order until Wednesday. PROSECLTTXG THE TRUSTS. The Xomber of Prosecutions Under President Tart's Admlnl-.!. WiQ Break tbe Record. A Washington dlpatch of Mon day say: The Taft adminUtratlon promises to break the Roosevelt trust prose cution record. During the--past five month more action againt alleged Illegal combination hare been be gun than in the entire term of any other President except RooseTelt. With fifteen months yet to run, the .number of prosecutions nearly equals the total forRosstvelt's seven years. : Cabinet Met at White House for First Time In Seven Tears. - A dispatch from Washington Tues day afternoon says: "For the first time in the more than seven year, a formal meeting of Cabinet wa held In the White Houe proper to-day, Instead of the executive offices. , President Taffi cold showed Improvement but hi Physician persuaded him not to ven ture to his olce.M iUm 1. 3 ,