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VOL. XXX.
RALEIGH, N. C. THURSDAY, rVOVEIVieER 28. 1012.
Mo. 4G,
EDITORIAL BRIEFS
The election is over and you can
c0 look for that penitentiary "sur
plus" to dwindle considerably.
A New York heiress has eloped
with an organist. And she will prob
ably have to pay for the music.
It is even possible that Governor
Wilson may yet decide to knock Mr.
Bryan into a cocked-hat.
From the present outlook there
will be an overproduction of Demo
cratic office-seekers.
An exchange notes that if Sim
eons is a Progressive that he has
eaten up the tag.
An exchange thinks the Democrats
will have to "buBt" the country or go
back on their platform. They may do
both.
Wonder what make of bicycle
President-elect Wilson rides? He
should be careful not to use any
"wheel" made by the trust.
All the Democrats have seen President-elect
Wilson's photograph, but
there are a lot of the office-seekers
still short on his autograph.
If President Wilson doesn't carry
out Mr. Bryan's ideas he may as
well look for Mr. Bryan as his oppon
ent for the nomination in 1916.
In the beginning of his lecture at
the Auditorium Mr. Bryan stated he
was too full for utterance. And to
think Raleigh Is a "dry" town, too!
The Democrats are talking of al
lowing a . President to serve only six
years. They needn't worry, for Mr.
Wilson will serve only four years.
Senator Tillman is one continual
eruption, but what has become of
Senator Jeff Davis? He hasn't erupt
ed In nearly six months.
The Baltimore Sun says there will
be no radical revision of the tariff
by the Democrats. The Sun should
give its definition of the word "radi
cal." The New Hanover County bar
wants a shorter form for mortgages.
Further evidence that they are pre
paring for hard times under the Dem
ocratic administration.
North Carolina is asking for three
Cabinet positions under President
Wilson. If every State is demanding
that many Cabinet jobs President
Wilson will find it necessary to create
more than one new Cabinet position.
Speaker Champ Clark passed Hon.
W J. Bryan on Pennsylvania Avenue
in Washington a few days ago and re
fused to speak. Still some may term
that as further evidence of Demo
cratic "harmony."
The Lumberton Robesonlan says
that two and one-half bales of cotton
to the acre is not unusual In Robeson
County. We will, of course, take the
Robesonian's word for it, but that is
"some cotton."
Some of the North Carolina Demo
crats have come to the front and de
clared that the pledges of the party
ia the nation will be kept. If they
keep their pledges in the nation it
ill certainly beat their record in
North Carolina.
The Washington Post has mention
ed a prominent Democrat from the
State of Washington for Secretary of
the Interior under President Wilson.
Doubtless the Washington Post will
ho longer be welcome at the Ral
egh News and Observer office.
The Wilmington Star says there are
a hundred Democrats to every office
to the country. What a pity there
are not enough jobs to go around,
tot then you know the Democratic
Politicians have a way of creating
new officers to reward the faithful.
Some of the Democratic papers
ant President Wilson to send Mr.
J. Bryan to some foreign coun
try as an ambassador, so he can't
meddle with Congress. But, these
Democrats are mistaken if they hope
to get rid of the "Peerless One" In
7 such way.
A MILE-STONE IX HISTORY.
Two Wonderful Occasions The Con
federate Monument at Arlington
and the Bine and the Gray at
Gettysburg Trft'a Great Speech
to the Confederacy.
(Washington Post.)
"What the Washington Post said a
day or two ago in a leading editorial
about President Taft's great speech
at the Lotos Club, and also about the
President being much stronger with
the people of the whole country now
than before the election is very true,"
said former Senator Marion Butler,
of North Carolina, at the Willard,
last night. "But there are more peo
ple who are praising and commenting
upon the President's speech made
here last week welcoming the United
Daughters of the Confederacy to the
National Capital. Every expression
that I have heard about that speech,
and I have heard many from both the
North and the South, agree that it
was the greatest speech that the Pres
ident has ever made. It was a won
derful occasion in the history of our
country, and it was a wonderful ad
dress that met fully the occasion.
"Colonel William Jennings Bryan,
who was here, and who delivered
the principal speech at the laying of
the corner-stone of the Confederate
Monument at Arlington, has express
ed the same opinion. Colonel Bryan
went from here to the capital of my
State to deliver one of his noted pre
pared lectures. He went outside of
his manuscript at Raleigh to say that
President Taft's speech on that occa
sion was the greatest he had ever de
livered, and that it was well for the
Democratic party that it was made af
ter the election, for it would have
had a profound effect on the elec
tion." When asked what he meant about
it being a wonderful occasion. Sen
ator Butler said:
"The Daughters of the Confederacy
were organized to care for the old,
needy Confederate soldiers and their
widows and to help educate their chil
dren, to build appropriate monu
ments, and to keep straight and pre
serve Southern history. When Presi
dent. Taft was Secretary of War he
granted them permission to erect a
monument to the Southern dead bu
ried in the Confederate circle at Ar
lington. The Daughters have now
raised the money for a very hand
some and imposing monument, and it
was peculiarly fitting that President
Taft should welcome their national
organization to the National Capital,
the first time they have met out of
Dixie, to lay the corner-stone of this
monument.
"There will be another important
history when next !
milestone in our
year this beautiful Confederate Mon
ument is unveiled. This will occur
on July 3, 1913, the day before the
fiftieth anniversary celebration of the
battle of Gettysburg. Thousands up
on thousands of old Confederate sol
diers, who will be present at the un
veiling of this Confederate Monu
ment at Arlington, are arranging to
go in a body from here to Gettysburg'
to attend the fiftieth celebration of.
that great battle, the greatest in the
history of the world.
"There is nothing in all history to
equal what occurred here in Wash
ington last week and what will occur
at Gettysburg next year. This is the
complete proof, if further proof was
needed, that we are again and forever
a united country under the Stars and
Stripes."
Rockefeller Invests in North Carolina
Sand Hills.
Charlotte Observer.
The Thomasville Davidsonian thinks
the recent purchase of 27,000 acres
of sand hill land near Hoffman, on
the Seaboard Air Line, by John D.
Rockefeller, means about as much for
North Carolina as Flagler's first pur
chase in Florida meant for that State.
However that may be, The Observer
feels sure that it spells something
good in the way of development In
the Tar Heel State. The Davidson
ian welcomes Rockefeller in the prop
er spirit. He has it in his power to
make the dreary waste between Ham
let and Sanford "blossom as the
rose," and that Is no doubt his idea.
There are a few natural born carpers
in every community there were
some in Charlotte who wanted to
keep out the Dukes but on the
whole; Mr. Rockefeller will find North
Carolina a State of hospitality.
Wilton R. Dillard, representing the
Carrol Adams Shoe Company and
traveling out of Lynchburg, was
found dead in his room at the Mc
Adoo Hotel in Greensboro Thursday
mofning. An empty carbolic acid vial
and the burned lips and tongue of
the dead man told the story. An
opei letter, lying on the table, stated
that business reverses were the cause.
He leaves a wife and two children at
Lynchburg. He has two brothers:
Jack and A. P. Dillard, who travel
North Carolina. Another brother
was killed in jumping through tho
skylight of the Hotel Richmond, Va,,
a few days ago.
THE "WILSON TARIFF
Will ProbaDy be as Great Hodge
Podge as the Bill Twenty
Years Ago
CONGRESS MEETS MONDAY
Many of the Senator and Members
of the Houmj Are Now in Wash
ington Already Apparent That
There is the Greatest Diversity of
Opinion Among the Members as to
the Policy the Democrats Will Fol
low Under the Democratic Admin
istration President-Elect Wilson
Having His Own Troubles Pros
pect for an Income Tax Sim
mons and Daniels.
(Special to The Caucasian.)
Washington, D. C, Nov. 26, 1912.
Many Senators and members of the
House of Representatives are coming
Into Washington every day for the
short session of Congress, which will
open December 2. Most of those ar
riving are Democrats. A number of
progressive Republicans, however,
have alsoarrived, while the stand
pat Republicans are very scarce.
It is already apparent that there is
the greatest diversity of opinion
among the Democratic Congressmen
as to the policy that the party will
follow under the Democratic , admin
istration. Nearly every one that you
see has a different view as to what
their platform pledges meant. Some
are in favor of slashing the tariff
right and left knd going to practical
ly a free trade basis. Others declare
that they are for the old Democratic
slogan, "Tariff for revenue only," but
this class of Democrats are as badly
divided among themselves as any of
the others. Each one of this class
wants the tariff taken off of products
in the other fellow's State, but not in
his own State.
There is still another class of Dem
ocrats who are practically for pro
tection as a principle. They declare,
or at least admit, that this country
can never permit competition with
the cheap pauper labor of foreign
countries. There is the most prom -
ising outlook imaginable for an old-
time Democratic row, with forty-sev-: "Thousands of ambitious young wo
en different varieties of Democrats ; men come to the cities, hoping to inl
and with practically nothing done. prove their condition and gain an
If any tariff bill is passed under j honorable livelihood. But their ln
the present administration, which ' experience, a lack of funds and a
may be known as tne "Wilson tariff,"
h win yiuuoui; uo ao gicav a uvufec- mg uuiut; aiiu ciu milting vneir laiiuro
podge and a fraud as the "Wilson ; makes them an easy prey to unscrup
tarlff" bill under the Cleveland ad- ulous men and women who are al-
ministration.
President-El ect Wilson Taving His
Own Troubles in Far-Away Ber
muda. While all of this kind of trouble
is brewing for President-elect Wll-
son's administration, the news
patches tell us that he is down in
Bermuda feeling nervous and with a
severe attack of indigestion, which
has caused him to decline a number
of entertainments prepared by the
representatives of the English Gov
ernment in charge of that island. We
are also Informed by the press dis
patches that he becomes very much
irritated when a reporter or photog
rapher approaches him, and the last
report is that he threatened to whip
a photographer who took a snapshot
of him. It may he that Governor
Wilson, at that distance, realizes the.
trouble brewing in Washington and
over the country for his administra-j
tion, which is, in fact, an accidental ;
administration.
President Wilson was not elected i he was obliged to call on the Republi
by a majority of the voters of the 'cans for aid to enable him to carry
country. He received fewer votes than out his program for stopping further
Bryan received at 'any one of the silver dilution of the currency. A
three times that he ran for Presl-j majority of the Republicans prompt
dent. The fact is, that Mr. Wilson is ly went to his assistance, and thus
a minority President and that his pol
icies lack two million votes of receiv
ing the approval of the American peo
ple. The Prospects for an Income Tax.
Much interest has been aroused
here among law-makers by the fact
that the Income tax amendment to j
the Constitution lacks only the en-
dorsement of two more States to be-
come a part of the organic law of the .
land, it is mongni mai ai iewi nuui
five to ten States that will have
Legislatures assembling this winter
will endorse the proposed amend
ment to the Constitution, which will
make the adoption of this important
amendment certain.
Several progressive Republican, In
cluding Senator Borah, have already
announced that they intend to tender
their services to make speeches before
the Legislatures of all of the States
that have not yet endorsed the In
come tax amendment which hold ses
sions this winter. In fact, it Is clear
that the progressive Republican Sen
ators are determined that the in
come tax proposition shall become a
part of the Constitution this winter.
so that oar Democratic friends may
not dodge the issue but have an op
portunity to enact a Just and whole
some income tax law.
Simmons and Daniels.
Many people from the State here
are asking how did radical (?) Jose
phus DanieU and stand-pat F. M.
Simmons get so close together in this
campaign. That is a question that
will continue to be asked for some
time, if not longer.
MYSTERY OP THE LOST.
5'00 pr80f ItoPP in the U. 8.
Each Year.
Fifty thousand people disappear
every year in the United States, ac
cording to the government reports.
Some return after-a short absence;
some after many months, or years;
some never. Where do the missing
ones go to? What is the secret of
their lives?
In 1911 there were 3,500 report
ed missing in New York city alone,
many never located. The total num
ber that disappeared from 1906 to
19 li inclusive, and not located was
4.934. The case of Dorothy Arnold!
is the story of many another girl who I
does not gain the same amount of
publicity. Their cases are Just as!
baffling. They make no preparations
for departure, and leave no clews
behind.
It is the city that hides most of
them. All through the country the
cities are continually swallowing up
the thousands who are lost to kith
and kin. Next to the citv is the wild
open country in the northwest. There
they go to hide and forget from
all
over the world.
But what of the girls? Their rel
atives arp mnr roHonf nf thalp rlo-
appearance. It is often not until!.
-w - v . -w w u , w U U
too late that a tardy report is given
. aAr, i a
to the police and newspapers. There
are sixty women reported missing to
the New York police every thirty
days a rate of two a day. The dis
appearance of many more is never ro
Dorted to the nniirA from rfooi
the relatives for secrecy. Some re- fTd ,ver8lon" in tend t0 chan
turn of their own accord. Some'116 d ?tIon ofPulDlt PJer. which he
within a few days. Others are never
found and never heard from. And
among these there is a large percent
age df girls of tender years wholly
inexperienced, many of them home
loving and domestic.
"They simply drop out of exist-
jence,"
sioner
said former Police Commis
Bingham, of New York.
foolish pride that prevents their go-
ways in search of unprotected women
and girls." Union Republican.
Wilson May Have to CaU For Aid.
CSt. Louis Globe-Democrat.)
As Mr. . Wilson reads history as
dls-jwell as writes it, he remembers the
brief and inglorious career which the translation of the Hebrew names, j maws in posting obscene matter con
Democrats had when they ran the! tne Garden of Eden is left in and pre-irning the Federal penitentiary In
Government for two years about twoi6entI" Adam and Eve appear under
decades ago. He wiU start out, llketnose names.
Cleveland in his second term, with a
Democratic Congress on his hands.
Very early in that term Cleveland
got into trouble with the House and
the Senate on the silver question and
with the Senate on the tariff, and
from that time to the end of his ser
vice he was a President without a
party to almost as complete a degree
as was Tyler or Johnson. The Cleve
land example will probably be
brought to Mr. Wilson's attention by
somebody, even if he overlooks it
himself. That Democratic Congress
gave Cleveland so much trouble that
permitted him to push to enactment
the greatest measure of his second
term. Mr. Cleveland had a robust
ness of fiber which the newly-elected
President has not revealed thus far.
Republicans will watch with consid
erable interest the doings of the Dem
ocrats in their return to power after
twenty years exclusion from it.
What Do You Think of It?
Southport New8.
Does the prohibiten law prevent
the sale and consumption of liquor?
The consumption of whiskey in the
United States increased 450,000 gal
lons, beer increased 320,000 barrels,
and cigarettes 1,000.000 from July
1 to October 1, 1912. So says the
report of the Commissioner of Inter
nal. Revenue. There were more cigars
and cigarettes sold than ever before
in history. What do yon think of It?
Usual Reason.
"He used to be a straight enough
young chap. What made him get
crooked?"
"Trying to make both ends meet,
I believe." Toledo Blade. s
A BIBLE WITHOUT HELL
New Baptist Chsrth Versaca e(
Holy Writ Uses Tern
"Underworld"
JONAH AND THE WHALE
Controversy Over the Whale Gaasee
Baptists to Use Term 'Big FUh
Alo a New Vmloa of the Lord's
Prayer Claimed That Revised
Version U More Kally !U(
After IUptiie" Follows the Word
"Immersed" in Parentheia,
A complete Bible for Baptists with
no hell in it and the Jonah and National American Woman Suffrage,
the whale story modernized so as to j Association was opened la Wlthtr
be In keeping with modern knowledge ; poon Hall this morning with dle
of the sUe of a whale's throat has Kates ia attendance from every State
been placed on sale by the American In the Union.
Baptist Publication Society, says a The features of the opening bnsl
New York press dispatch. It Is call-i ness session were the rreetlne ex.
, provea eamon ana eon-
08 many chane8 ,n text nd style
from lhe King Jamea and Doay ver-
Aaam ana fcTO PPr onlytoe carried in this State by 19 IS and
as
the man and "the woman" in
early verses of Genesis, although they
get names later on
Jonah s whale
becomes a "great fish." there Is a new
reading of the Lord's Prayer and
there are radical changes in the word
ing of the Second Commandment.
A large part of the new Bible was
Phed many years ago when the
uiuie union Degan ine wore, out
many of the books of the Old Testa
ment appear now for the first time.
In the New Testament where the Bl-
. . m
... n ven"on replaced "baptize"
; D "immerse," the newer edition
keeps the "baptize," but places "im
merse" beside it in brackets.
Dr. C. Kinglsley Rowland, Secre-
tary of the American Baptist Publica
tion Society, is of the opinion that
lthe simpler language used in the "im
described as "sixteenth century." He
said:
"The scholars who have perfected
the translation for the Baptist Bible
have aimed, so far as it was consist
ent with strict Interpretation of the
thought, to eliminate obsolete Eliza
bethan words and replace them with candidate for President; Fed. D.
those in general modern use." j Warren, editor of The Appeal to Rea-
To this end "loveth" Is replaced by!son. a Socialist newsDaDer nuhii.h
"love" and "leadeth" by by "lead,"
and in the second commandment
"graven image" becomes
Image."
'carved
Jonah's whale was changed to
big fish, it was said, because so many
had found the whole story a stumbling-block
in the way of belief in
the Scriptures after learning that a
whale, at least as known to moderns,
would have choked before he had
hardly begun on the prophet of Nin
eveh. While Adam and Eve are replaced
on their first appearance by "the
man" and "tne woman" as a direct!
The new version of the Lord's
Prayer is as follows:
"Our Father who are in heaven,
hallowed be Thy name. Thy King
dom come. Thy will be done, as in
heaven, so on earth. Give us this
day our daily bread. And forgive us
our debt as we also have forgiven j
our debtors. And bring us not Into
temptation, but deliver us from the
evil one."
The use of "immerse" to conform
to Baptist teachings is Illustrated In! Donough. of Kansas City, formerly a
Matthew, third chapter, and thir- prisoner in the Leavenworth penlten
teenth verse. tiary, was a Government witness. He
"Then comes Jesus from Galiee to testified that the defendants had paid
the Jordan to John to be baptised Ini $200 to go to California and not
(immerse) by Him." testify in the misuse of the malls eaae
In the commandment the changed)
reading visits the iniquity of the
fathers not upon the children as in
the older version, hut only on sons.
The many changes in this command
ment make it read as follows In the
Baptist Bible:
"Thou shalt not make to thee a
carved image or any likeness of what
is in the heavens above, or of what Is
in the earth beneath, or of what Is
In
the waters beneath the earth:
thou shalt not bow thyself down to
uicui uur.eeiie tueiu, lur l, jeaoTau, f w ,.Avur iuai lue la
thy pod, am a jealous God, visiting dlctments would be returned and Mr.
the Iniquity of fathers upon sons, up-i 0608 made arrangements to go as
on the third generation of them that
hate me, and showing mercy to the
thousandth generation of them that
love me and keep my command
ments." Dr. Rowland says that the reading
"showing mercy to Jhe thousandth
generation" was held to be more
forceful and comprehensive than the
King James version, which reads:
"Showing mercy unto thousands."
The replacing of "hell" by the very
modern chapter of Lake in this verse:
"And I also say to thee that thon
art Peter and on this rock I will build
my church; and the gates of the under-world
shall not prevail against
it-
Part of CttkM and all of lha
Psalms appear la vtree frvsa la the
new version.
The general difference ta style be
tween the Baptist Bible aad the elstr
versions is su created by the epeaiag
vers of Genesis:
"la the bedaalag God created the
heaven and the earth. Now the earth
was watte and sspty; a&d darkneca
mas ovtr the face ef the abyss; and
jthe Spirit cf God was brooding over
the face of the waters."
CHEER S UFFRA G LtTH OS.
Speaarr at Philadelphia Meeting
Predicted Cob tinned Vletorire
Forty-Fonrth Conveatkm U Opened
(Special Dispatch to Baltimore Son,)
Philadelphia. Pa.. Nov. 21 The
i
: forty-fourth annual convention of the
lenaed to the delegate by Mayor
Blankcnburg. Mrs. Blankenburgs
prediction that woman suffrae would
i the warnis? nf vir irit n
j Laldlaw. of New York, that the tup-
porters of the movement should not
be overwhelmed by successes in the
West, nor release their efforts, but
should accept the victories In four
States at the recent election as n
"danger signal sad a warning to
work harder."
The 800.000 voters of the Social
ist party and all the State organiza
tions controlled by it wtre pledged
to aid the caune of woman suffrage
by Mrs. WJnnle Branstetter, a So
cialist delegate.
The convening of the delegates was
preceded by several rallies In Inde
pendence Square, in which the speak
ers exhorted large crowds to indorse
their cause.
SOCIALISTS NABBED BY FEDER
AL COURT.
Eagene Debs and Editors of Appeal
to Reon Are Indicted.
Fort Scott. Kan., Nov. 23. On a
Federal indictment returned here
against Eugene V. Debs. Socialiif
at GIrard. Kansas, and J. P. Shen-
pard. Warren's attorney, were arrest
ed here to-day by a Deputy United
States Marshal. The indlefm.nf
a;charsed obstruction of Justice by in-
uucmg witnesses to leave the coun
try." Warren and Sheppard were re
leased on $1,000 bond each The of
fence charged In the indictment is
alleged to have been committed in
connection with the case of J. A.
Wayland, owner of The Appeal to
Reason; City Editor Phifer of that
paper, and Fred Warren, accused in
Federal warrant of misuse of the
:aicuwurifl, nansas. v
Wayland committed suicide several
weeks ago. Attorneys for the other
two men filed a demurrer In the caaa
in the Federal Court In Topeka. Kan
sas, yesterday. Judge Pollock took
the case under advisement.
Debs. Warren, and Sheppard were,
cited for contempt by the Federal
Court in Topeka three months ago on
me same charge which led to to-day's
arrests. They were discharged at that
time by Judge Pollock. At the few
of the contemot e i t
The defendants admitted payment of
me amount, but said it was to dis
charge a debt
The indictment charging misuse of
the mails resulted from the publica
tion of articles criticising conditions
in the Leavenworth penitentiary.
Terre Haote, Ind.f Not. 23. Ea
gene V. Debs left Terre Hants for 8L
Louis late to-day. His brother. The-
odore -id they were-advised
a wek aSo by Fred D. Warren, editor
soon as he was needed.
All Dotrn With Typhoid.
(From the Wilkes Patriot)
A most distressing and unusual
condition prevails at the home of Mr.
J. C. Johnson. His home Is near
Hunting Creek post-office, where ho
and Mrs. Johnson and their five chil
dren, who compose the entire fam
ily, are confined to their beds, each
suffering from typhoid fever. About
four weeks ago Treley Johnson, an
eighteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson, died of fever and within a
short time after his death all of the
family contracted the dlscaw.