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twiL.IGH( N. C, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 30. 1911.
no. 47
EDITORIAL BRIE
Government in South Carolina
reel a reform school for 1U
Cta p Clark says be Is ready for
ft- -sing of Congress. But what
JJJ l" gOt
to get ready
Governor KItchin does not seem to
making much headway running
,,. Senate on his "Individuality."
i: jr.ay bo that the Democrats hare
Suited" Hom of the trusts, but if
f3 it was pullisg them for campaign
Why is H that the Raleigh News
2j observer no longer refers to the
Greensboro Daily News as the
fidlzed News"?
'Sub-
The Haleigh News and Observer
co longer refers to the Greensboro
Daily News as the "subsidised news."
Thf-re is a reason.
I'r.less conditions soon change In
South Carolina, it might not be a bad
Idea to Bend some of our missionaries
to the Palmetto State.
The football season ends to-day,
but wonder if the Democratic poli
ticians will note the fact and stop
kicking the public schools.
This promises to be a hard winter
but the most of the Democratic pol
iticians have feathered their nests so
they won't feel the pinch.
Italy was early In. getting its
Thanksgiving turkey, but there are
already signs that she will have trou
ble in digesting that piece of dark
meat called Tripoli.
Champ Clark says the Democrats
are in perfect harmony, still Mr. Bry
an continues to severely criticise
Clark. What is Democratic harmony
anyway?
The Baltimore Sun asks why not
omit party names. Well, if they were
to do that in the South the Demo
cratic party would soon be out of
business.
Mr. Bryan is quoted as saying a
man can make a million dollars hon
estly. We are a little curious to
know if Mr. Bryan has made that
much on the Commoner?
The Supreme Court of South Dako
ta has ruled that rich wifes must pay
their divorced husbands alimony.
South Dakota is destined to be the
popular home of the worthless hus
band. The Democratic officials have not
enforced the antitrust law, they have
not enforced the prohibition law and,
in fact, what law have they enforced
except that you shall pay increased
taxes?
The United States Commissioner
of Internal Revenue reports that il-1
licit distilling is on the increase
in North Carolina. And this in the
face of the fact that all the Demo
cratic sheriffs are required to help
enforce the law.
Attorney-General Wickersham con
tinues to prosecute the trusts, but
some of the Democratic politicians
re not satisfied because the trust
Magnates are not made to wear the
ball and chain. Still it will be re
membered that when Judson Harmon
was Attorney-General not a single
trust was prosecuted.
We notice that a number of the
North Carolina Democratic papers
have begun to advocate Governor
Harmon for President. These pa
pers, no doubt, approve of Governor
Kitchin's anti-trust policy, and want
a man in the White House who will
do no more to enforce the Sherman
anti-trust law than the Governor has
flone to enforce the anti-trust law in
North Carolina.
Missouri has a Republican Gover
nr, and he seems to know how to
enforce the anti-trust law of that
State, equally as well as the Repub
lican President at Washington knows
how to enforce the national Sherman
anti-trust law.
many ai axi wocxiei.
State That Fit Hundred
Were Killed and Wounded Sunday
3 lunue
Between Italian and
trks.
ii Italians and Turks fought an
important battle near Tripoli Sunday,
with the result that the Italians
drove the Arabs out of the oasis and
entered the Italian front
A Cable dispatch from Rome Mon
day says:
"The Italians found 500 dead and
wounded in houtes in the Oasis after
yesterday's battle at Henni, accord
ing to special news telegrams re
ceived here. There were also seventy-two
dead found at other places
scattered about the oasis.
"The Italians also captured 300
Turkish and Arab prisoners, includ
ing several Turkish officers. The bat
tle was very severe, especially Jn the
vicinity of Henni, fwhere a series of
bayonet encounters occurred.
"General Caneva's plan of battle
was carried out to the letter and the
Italian troops are now, In possession
of Henni and Fort Meesri."
Mil.
BARRETT MAKES STATE
MENT. Tlie President of the Farmers Union
Says That Cotton is Being Held.
President Charles S. Barrett, of
the National Farmers Union, gave
out a statement in Atlanta, Ga., Sat
urday relative to the advices from
New York that banking Interests had
agreed to finance a cotton movement
to the extent of $50,000,000. He
said: '
"I know personally and esteem
several of the gentlemen participat
ing in the conference which, it 'is
said, looks to the placing of $50,000.
000 in the South to promote the hold
ing of cotton until it reaches a figure
that represents Its value to the
world. But I am apprised of the plan
which must necessarily affect several
hundred thousand farmers only by
newspaper reports and not in the in
tricate details essential to so tre
mendous a movement. It would
therefore be unjust to all concerned
to express a definite opinion in ad
vance of full information."
Mr. Barrett stated that reports
show that cotton is being held and
will be held. He said he was just
in receipt of a letter from C. E. How
ard, Secretary of the Southern Cot
ton Buyers' Association, saying "far
mers are now holding a greater
amount of cotton than ever before."
REBELS ENTER NANKING
A Fierce Battle Fought in and
Around the Chinese
Capital
Revolutionist Behead Prisoners and
Engage in Other Forms of Bar
barity Hearts Cut Out of Victims
AVhich They Roasted and Ate
Nearly Four Thousand Killed
Missionary Women Seek Safety.
Cable dispatches from China an
nounce that fierce fighting continues
at Nanking near Shanghai, and that
the rebels have captured Tachingmen
gate and hold all the defenses in that
part of the city. The Imperial troops
captured Han-yang, though the re
bels expect to recapture the town.
A reporter at Hongkong says:
"At Wuchow the revolutionary sol
diers are avenging the recent massa
cre. They have already beheaded
sixty prisoners, some of them the
sons of aristocrats. Afterward they
held an orgy, cutting out the hearts
of victims, which they roasted and
ate.
"Some of the missionaries from
up-river stations have sought refuge
at Hongkong."
A dispatch from San Francisco
says:
'Terrible slaughter has marked
the fighting at Tankin, according to a
cablegram to-day to the Chinese daily
paper. The report says 3,500 regular
soldiers and 300 civilian volunteers
have been killed."
Ready for a Compromise.
The revolutionary leaders are ex
pressing a desire to negotiate for a
compromise and" suggesting ,some
slight changes in the government
program.'
The government is endeavoring to
secure the immediate cessation of
hostilities at Nanking, where the fall
of the city is imminent. 1
The Democratic party has done
this country more real harm than
all the trusts, combines, smallpox,
yellow fever, hookworms, cyclones
and tornadoes that ever afflicted the
American people. It's getting time
for the people to dissolve it. Clin
ton News Dispatch.
THE MESSAGE IS READY
President Tatffs Anootl Mes
sage to Congress is in the
Hands of the Printer
ANOTHER rmOCOATIC ROW
Committee Appointed by the Demo
cratic Congress to Investigate the
Steel Trust Has Developed an Ugly
Fight Between Themsel vea Rock
efeller and HJa Pastor Placed fa a
Had Light A Political Mix-Up
Colonel Roosevelt Will Not Support
Any Candidate for Pmltknt
Mr. Pinchot and the Insurgent
Movement Speculation a to Why
Judge Pritchard and E. C Duncan
Should Announce Simultaneously
That They Are for Taft. ,
Wasington, D. C. Nov. 28, 1911.
(Special to The Caucasian.)
A Republican from the western
part of North Carolina, who was here
Monday, says that there is no little
speculation in Western Carolina as to
just why Judge Pritchard has sud
denly come out in favor of the re
nomination of President Taft. He
says that it has been generally under
stood for sometime, judging from the
way that a number of Judge Prltcb
ard's friends were talking, that he
and they were opposed to President
Taft.
It is interesting to note that thej
declaration of Mr. Duncan for Presi
dent Taft was made about the same
time that it became known that
Judge Pritchard had come out for4
him.
A Row in the Steel Trust Investigat
ing Committee.
The committee appointed by the
Democratic Congress at the last ses
sion, to investigate the steel trust,
has developed an ugly fight between
the Democratic members of that com
mittee. ' ; . 4
When the committee met this fall,
It seems that Mr. Stanley, the Demo
cratic Chairman, wanted to proceed
with the investigation on certain
lines, while Mr. Littleton, Democratic
Congressman from New York, op
posed continuing the investigating
while the steel trust was being prose
cuted in the courts under an action
brought by the Attorney-General un
der the Sherman anti-trust law. This
brought on sharp words between the
Democratic majority members of the
committee. One side charged that
the other was defending the steel
trust, while the other side charged
that those who were insisting on in
vestigating the trust now, were do
ing it to bear the stock market, to
help certain stock brokers in New
York.
Jt looks as if the committee will
have to stop investigating the steel
trust and proceed to investigate each
other, who are resting under these
serious charges made against each
other.
A Charge Against Mr. Rockefeller.
Last week, two Merritt brothers,
from Minnesota, appeared before the
steel investigating committee and
made serious charges against John D.
Rockefeller, the head of the Standard
Oil Trust. They stated that they
were large owners in a big iron ore
deposit in Minnesota, which has since j
been gobbled up by the Standard Oil !
people and the Steel people.
They say that a certain Baptist
preacher, acting as their friend and
as a friend of Mr. Rockefeller, came
to them several years ago and told
them that he could get Mr. Rocker
feller to lend them money to develop
their property, and that he did get
Mr. Rockeller to lend them more than
$400,000. They testify that, later, Mr.
Rockefeller, through this preacher,
suddenly called the loan and squeezed
them out, taking over that property
which is to-day worth over $7,000,
000. Mr. Rockefeller replies by produc
ing a statement which the Merritt
brothers signed at the time of the
settlement with Mr. Rockefeller to
the effect that they did not blame
Mr." Rockefeller for doing anything
wrong.
The Merritt brothers answer this
by saying that they did sign such a
statement, but they did it upon com
pulsion and at the demand of Mr.
Rockefeller and through the hope of
saving something. They allege, how
ever, that Mr. Rockefeller was heart
less and completely ruined them.
Mr. Rockefeller's preacher is out
in another statement denouncing the
Merritts; but there comes, at this
stage of the proceedings, an interest
ing statement that Senator Clapp, of
Minnesota, was the attorney for the
Merritt brothers at the time, and that
he intends to go on the stand and tell
of the transaction himself. If he
des, iM will sake &ml t&tee2&f
reading,
The Prvmldeat'e Me Rdy.
f
It Is understood that the PreaUeat
Sal abed his to Cosgreaa to
day, and that it la sow la the aaad
of the printer.
The evening papers H aaaoa&iw
that the President will cot oaiy up
hold the Sherman a&ti-trast law and
uaad squarely against any movement
to repeal it, but that he will go far
ther and advocate passing supple
mental legislation to farther strtsg-
then the law.
It Is also claimed that the Presi
dent will squarely large the passage
of a law requiring every concern that
does Interstate commerce business of
any kind to become incorporated un
der Federal laws, so that the Govern
ment can prescribe the terms on
which a concern can do interstate
business, and thus prevent many vi
ola tioas of law that are now occur
ring and which can only be reached
by prosecuting such concerns through
the Sherman anti-trust law after
many years of wrong-doing.
Of course, the President's message
will alao ask Congress to pass legis
lation for the opening of the Panama
Canal, arranging tolls for shipping,
etc.
Also, that the whole Alaskan ques
tion will be fully reviewed.
Also, that the question of the con
servation of natural resources will be
comprehensively treated; together
with the many other questions which
the President has discussed in his
many speeches on his. sixty-day trip
through the West.
Report of the Tariff Board.
It is stated, however, that the
Resident has not included the report
of the tariff board in this message,
but that he will announce to Con
gress that he will, at an early date,
send in two special messages; one
giving the report of the board as to
how the cotton schedule should be
revised, and another as to how the
wool schedule should be revised, with
a statement that these shall be fol
lowed by. other messages on the
tariff on steel and many other of the
most Important articles of commerce
and necessities of life.
A Political Mlx-Up:
A few days ago, former President
Roosevelt announced again that he
would not be a candidate for Presi
dent before the next Republican Na
tional Convention, and earnestly ap
pealed to everybody who was his real
friend to stop discussing his possible
candidacy. Mr. Roosevelt further
added, in a significant way, that he
had not promised his support to Pres
ident Taft, and that President Taft
knew that he had refused to do so.
and besides, that he would not sup
port any candidate for the nomina
tion. This announcement on the part of
the former President, followed as it
was last night' by a speech by Mr.
Pinchot in New York at a banquet, in
which he declared that since former
President Roosevelt would not per
mit his name to be considered that
he was squarely in favor of the nom
ination of Senator La Follette, has
caused a great deal of political gossip
here to-day. It is thought that this
means that all of the friends and
followers of Mr. Pinchot, including
ex-Secretary Garfield, will now line
up in a vigorous campaign for the in
surgent candidate. V
In this connection, it is also an
nounced by the Progressive Republi
can League managers that Senator La
Follette will soon start on an extend-
ed Western trip, covering about the
same country tnat President Taft has
just covered In his speech-making
tour.
There is no disguising the4fact that
these developments have put many
wise and experienced politicians to
speculating.
One prominent old line Republican
remarked to-day, that no matter how
this La Follette movement panned
out, that it looked now like Roosevelt
would certainly loom up for the nom
ination in 1916.
Gave Convicts Permission to
Christmas.
"Take
States ville Landmark.
- In Chatham Superior Court the
other day Judge Cooke sentenced two
negroes to work at the County Home,
and ordered that they be allowed a
week's vacation at Christmas. The
judge, who Is an old-timer, said that
the watermelon season and Christmas
apealed most to colored people and
so he gave the convicts permission to
"take Christmas."
Objected to Woman Jurors.
Seattle, Waste, Nor. 18. Mrs.
Sarah Costello, defendant in a suit
involving five hundred thousand dol
lars, instructed her attorney yester
day, to excuse from the Jury box two
women, and accept a jury composed
entirely of men.
Mrs. Costello said she didn't want
women sitting on her case.
TOOACCO AND will 5 KEY
Internal Revenue Receipts
Last Year Broie All
Records
noun ascLovs tadicco
This State Lewde In thm Maaafartare
of Roth Obewfag and Emr4tag Tu
ba 'Bettn MXllWn Gallon
, More of WhUkry Made Laa
Year Than la t!e Itrrioo Ban
ner Year IlUrll DUfUliag CV
Unn to Inert ta North Caro
lina, South Carols, Georgia,
Trnaww. and Virginia Tbe
Oplam Evil Inert aea.
The annuls report of Royal . Ca
bell, Commissioner of Internal Reve
nue, given, out In Washington Hoa
day, makes several startling declara
tions. The report says that the smoking
of opium Is a widespread vice in this
country and opium "joint" exiit in
every city of considerable size.
The internal revenue receipt last
year were $322,526,299, the greatest
in the history of the Government
Corporations making returns un
der the pew corporation tax law num
bered 270.202 with an aggregate
capital of $67.8SM30,519. The ag
gregate net Income to the stockhold
ers was V. 300,260, 42.
The year's production of distilled
spirits amounted to 175.402.39S gal
lons, nearly 7,000,000 gallons more
than In the previous banner rear,
1907. The production of beer, ale,
etc., amounted to 63,216,851 barrels,
nearly 4,000,000 barrels more than
in the previous record year 1910.
The amount of liquor held in bond
ed warehouses for ripening now
reaches the enormous total of 249,
279,340 gallons.
Speaking of Illicit distilling, the
Commissioner says the practice has
increased steadily, especially In North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Tenessee and Virginia, "
The double system of taxing oleo
margarine is corrupting grocers and
gross rrauas are being perpetrated
on the butter-buying public.
To remedy the oleomargarine situ
ation, Mr. Cabell suggests that fraud
would be wiped out If a single stand
ard of taxation for the colored and
uncolored produtt be established, and
If the manufacturers be required to
put their products in small sealed
packages instead of selling it in bulk.
North Carloina Leads in Manufacture
of Tobacco.
Commissioner CabelKs report ranks
North Carolina first in the manufac
ture of both chewing and smoking to
bacco. The first six States are:
North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, Ken
tucky, Virginia and New Jersey. The
production of North Carolina was 89,
430,948. The States next in line had
approximately forty-seven, forty-four
and Virginia and New Jersey both
twenty-nine million pounds.
The report goes into detail by
States and collection districts upon
the returns from the new corpora
tion tax. The total revenue derived
from this source Is $33,511,525. The
returns trpm the corporation tax are
set forth in five classes. A table of
classes by States shows that 2,592 re
turns were made for North Carolina.
The capital stock is given as $137,
473,319.16, bonded and other indebt
edness $109,907,822.70 and the net
income $11,317,129.20.
WANTED A DEATH PERJflT.
A Kentuckian Said He Was Out of
Work and Family Was Starving
and Wanted Permit to Kill Family
and Himself.
A dispatch from Louisville, Ky.,
under date of November 25th, say:
"I want a permit to kill my fam
ily and then commit suicide" was
the request made to City Attorney
Robinson this mornings by John M.
McCord, of this city. Before Rob
inson recovered from his surprise
McCord continued: "My wife is ill,
without medical attention, my chil
dren are starving and our landlord
has ordered us out of our home. I
can't get work, and I guess we'd all
be better off dead."
Robinson turned McCord over to
the police, who made an investiga
tion and found his statements cor
rect. The family will be amply cared
for and McCord will be given" em
ployment, so that the children may
have a Thanksgiving dinner like
other children.
How would you like to have a wife
shipped to you like a bale of dress
goods or a consignment of cheese?
Michael White has a highly original
story In the December Smart Set.
entitled "A Wife Per Invoice," which
tells how one man felt
rttsxiau: eairrcsai cuts
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TV fe f CIS lUt
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i!fi:k?a of uu j m
day 'tUt 1IT p&tta?tr M$m
rrvifd wan sstgM te raOJ aftf
ltrJ tU!Usa. Wy th. la t&e
a at all ike rti gs a?
taeir srtur-y thu Ca!a
revolmtica? Win I tW t8aifcg ei
the truasg ? Waal 4a 1 Calar
waat?
They paai sssra taaa cse lMsg
aad o of talr waat a
tal basie,
la th first place, tatf r fSHT
of tiont:h; dowartgM a&sfry trv
4. and they want ta aai. Taa saaaf
hundred mllllea cf CUa$ fcaaw
that they Aava aot S3tta4r4 tatir
gray Uv la tdWate. Taey have al
ways worked la the pat; thy are
wilii&g to work; they da vara, 6a
they can not blame taeaset. Taa
soil oa which they aav worked aad
are worXlag U moUy rSeh and kiad.
It i trie that daring ihl year aal
the fw year past, great a4 aad
drouth have cumd the land. Dat
then, had the people Veea permitted
to receive tomethlcg of a fair chare
of the fruit of their toll, they kaaw,
beast of burden a tacnt of fata
are, that they could have gottaa
along very cicely without troubling
either the yamea or the altar of
their god and ancestor. They are
starving to-day, they aad thttr wo
men and children. Thst I a fact a
big and clear a the heaven bove and
the earth on which they ctani.
Now why why Ihl ttate of af
fair? They have not I a so keen
and a fiery a tome other people la
raising the question, It 1 true. Out
they have raised It now. They hve
raised and answered It for some year
past, In fact, ince the twenty-five
year rejgn of Kaiklng, in the dying
day of the eighteenth century. And
here is the answer: The people are
without food and raiment, because
in the China of to-day, graft, which
i a gentle art in the rest of tho
world, has added unto lUelf the rig
orous. heartlev systematic vxaettag
ness of a science. It ha donned the
robe of the ofScial, It ha turned it
self Into a tradition; It ha exalted
itself Into a veritable law, walking
about in the white light of day. head
up and unashamed. From "The Chi
nese Revolt: A Survey," by Adachl
Klnnosuke, In the American Review
of Review for December.
SENSATION AT TRIAL
Three Men Arrested for Bri
bery in the McNamara
Case
Detective Claimed That He Haw the
Money Passed, Arrested Men and
Carried Them Before District At
torncy. Where They Were Re
quired to Unload the Money Only
Eight Jurors Selected.
A pre dispatch from Lo Angeles,
Cal., under date of November 28,
says:
"The ugly smirch of suspected
bribery trailed today tcross the trial
of James B. McNamara for the al
leged murder of Charles Hagerty,
one of the victims of the Times dis
aster. "Tonight the pleased prosecution
and the dumbfounded defense took
stock of the day's work of Samuel
L. Brown, chief investigator for the
State, who arrested three men and
stacked District Attorney Freder
icks' desk; with banknotes taken from
the arrested men's pockets in Fred
ericks'presence." "Bert IL Franklin, former deputy
United States mars hall, now employ
ed by the McNamara defense as in
vestigator, was released this after
noon under a ten thousand dollar
bond, and will appear In court to
morrow to answer the charges of
bribery and attempted bribery sworn
to by Brown.
"Geo. IL N. Lockwood, u resum
moned venireman, and C. E. White,
alleged stakeholder, were arrested,
with Franklin at liberty, and, ac
cording to Fredericks, will appear as
witnesses against Franklin.
"Five hundred dollars taken from
Lockwood's pockets Is declared by
the prosecution to hare been the first
payment of the sum he would re
ceive If he should prevent an ad
verse verdict' In the McNamara case,
and the $3,500 found on White is
declared to be the balance to be paid
when the Jury should be discharged.
The McNamara case has been la
court for about eight weeks and only
eight Jurors have been secured. Mem
bers of labor organizations claim that
the fight on the McNamaras Is a fight
against them, and have contributed
large sums for the defense.
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