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wave keeps up even 7 f 7VyT vsrf"7ns) "O n I T PI FYT TT r
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DID YOU EVER TRY TO
COMPREHEND THE SUB
LIME INTEREST A POLI
TICIAN HAS IN THE
VOTER'S WELFARE?
BY AL FAIRBROTHER
,SlB8CBIPTION $1.00 A YEAR SINGLE COPT I CENTS
SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1914.
ON SALE AT THE NEWS STANDS AND ON T BAINS
ESTABLISHED MAY 190a.
TO THE STUMP
FIGHT IN DANVILLE
HE DOESN'T LOOK IT
VERDICT FOR IVIE
IT IS A BAD LAW
Said Wilson Will Tab
Stump This Fall.
E DQ not often predict
entertainment for our
readers unless we have
what we deem a suffici
ent reason. But we are
not at all in doubt about
the gayety of the nations
this fall. In fact never
in the history of the
United States has there been booked, by Fate,
uch a campaign as will be pulled in the
United States.
In the middle west there is doubt in many
districts, and President Wilson it is under
stood will take the stump and go out to show
why the democratic congressmen must be re
turned. In the meantime the stand pat repub-
. licans will be looking for material to bost
their cause, and beyond , all this Teddy, who
' lias already assailed the policies ofi Wilson will
te found figuring with the Bull Moosers.
The campaign will not only be bitter, but
it will be interesting and it will be the most
furious of any campaign ever held in America.
The tariff must go to court in many states. It
is indicted for false pretense while its detend
ers insist that it is guiltless. Teddy wants to
get his party in motion for the next presiden
tial campaign, and that, he and his retainers
will make dismal music of all kinds cannot be
doubted. It will be a sublime spectacle to see
- President Wilson out asking people to return
congressmen to Washington. It would seem
that if they, had made good and the Wilson
policies were all right it would be unnecessary
lor him to take the stump, tsut it is said he
will take the stump and' that means that the
best all parties have in the shop will also take
. the stump. So our readers may look out for
ihe most entertaining time they have exper
ienced in all their lives in the way of things
political. :- .;' "V
In the Tenth district the republicans in
North Carolina think they have a fighting
chance and they will pehaps run Mr. J. J.
Britt, and he is a good man an able man and
clean. In the Fifth Mr. Holton will run, but
they are not counting on a victory. But it is
worth while to note that the tariff and the
Wilson policies are. really going to be passed
on and he has been in office less than two
years. This is hardly a fair shake.
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f5iti'1-ir Of Tnann
Judge Parker is quoted as saying thai
Roosevelt was guilty of treason when he pro
posed to send troops in defiance of law and let'
the people impeach him for it afterward. We
commented on this a few weeks ago, and
while we didn't think the Colonel was guilty
of treason we say we thought such a man as
that had no place in the councils of the coun
try. To defy the laws; to take all the power
of a King of the Seventeenth century well,
if that isn't worth thinking about what is?
Closed.
The insurance investigation has closed. It
lias been proven beyond any doubt, if the
printed evidence is all of it, that the fire insur
ance companies in North Carolina are giving
people insurance as low as possible.
; It costs something to run an insurance busi
ness, and especially when there is no law
against keeping combustible material all over
the premises. They say in Germany they hard
ly ever have a fire and insurance costs about
one twentieth what it costs in this country.
The Trust Bill.
President Wilson insists on the trust bill
going through, and when it does it is said that
' it will hurt many a business that is not oppres
sive in any way. . The interlocking directorates
. and a ; few things will cause much . loss and
do no good : In some cases it is wise in oth
ers unwise. .
:,.'; j Landmark Improves,
The Statesville Landmark improves its me
chanical plant-rbut it can't improve the intel-
lecjual works. " A perfecting press has been in-;
stalled to get the paper, out.on time to serve
the growing list of satisfied subscribers. Glad
to see such progress. Judge Clark has' always
made an interesting paper.
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Well, We're Glad. ' . . ,
Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey, who was said to
le a candidate for Governor because he suc
cessfully prosecuted the Frank case, comes
out in a signed statement and says he will not
tea candidate..'.. - We are truly glad df this. - If
i ' ad gotten to be that Governors were made !
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The Post Office Scrap Getting
Very Lively.
T SEEMS that Danville is al
ways up against something in
politics. We may yet be oblig
ed to start a paper there in or
der to straighten things out as
they should be straightened.
Maybe DeCroix will do the
job. Just now the people are
up in arms about the post-master. Mr. Law
son we think in the old days they called him
"Bud" but perhaps Andrew Jackson is his
name was endorsed and his name sent to the
Senate.
. Lawson is competent and capable, and no
charge sustained has been made against him.
But it didn't suit the politics of the state to
give the place to Lawson because ex-councilman
Michcll, or he may still be councilman
wants the job and Mitchell, in the old days,
was a "power" in politics on the North Side.
Swanson and Martin, who should be states
men instead of post-office peddlers, have held
up the nomination. The indignant citizens
headed by such square men as the Honorable
Eugene Withers, have proposed an election.
They claim that if Lawson is not the choice of
the democrats of Danville then they will with
draw his name. But even this, it, is said, does
not suit Senator Martin.
But we don't blame Senator Martin. Who
is telling him what to do in Danville? Who
is it saying that Lawson cannot be post-master?
Wonder if our old friend the Hon. R. A.
James has heard that there is a contest on?
Wonder if he does hear about it couldn't he
influence Martin or Swanson? These are
things for the Danvillians to ask themselves.
Don't go to Martin but look nearer home and
convince the man on the spot that Lawson is
the man and he'll be named before you can say
jackrobinson. And this is the sort of pea nut
politics that your Uncle Woo'drow with lofty
ideals allows to be put over every day in the
week. ' '"'''
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Glad To Get A Letter Like This.
Greensboro, N. C, June 19th, 1914.
Mr. Al Fairbrother,
; City. ,
Dear Sir: ' '' .
The article titled "Is Blood Money;" ought
to appeal to every fair minded, humane citiz
en in this and every other state. I do not know
of any reform that could be put into effect
which would be more far reaching in benefic
ent results than this. Our debt to the unfor
tunate class was clearly defined by the great
Brother of mankind, nearly 1900 years ago. In
no way, do we disregard this debt more com
pletely than in our penal system. Not only is
it a duty we owe humanity, to correct this evil,
but it would be good economics.
The State can have no better asset than a
productive citizen. The system that says that
the man who is convicted of crime shall enter
into a life of disgrace and hopelessness, and
shall forever remain a criminal, a charge upon
the commonwealth, and a clog in the wheels
of society, can have no defense. As we claim
to be living in an enlightened age and to have
our civilization permeated with the spirit of
Christianity, we should lose no further time
in righting this great wrong. Just keep up the
agitation until people begin to sit up and take
notice. . -
Yours very truly,
J. NORMAN WILLS.
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t , McReynolds.
Attorney General McReynolds is the one
man in the cabinet at whom the papers keep
throwing mud. McReynolds does not - eat
trusts alive, but all in all he is a greater trust
buster than Wickersham.
Good Enough.
. Colonel Martin of the Winston-Salem Jour
nal has this to say: .
It is announced that the State Convention
of the Socialist party will be held in Greens
boro on July fourth. Our old friends, Initia
tive, Referendum and Recall, . should have
smoother sailing in that meeting than they
have experienced in some other gatherings
that have been held in the State recently."
That is hitting' the nail on the head the first
attempt. . ",
Big Business.
Senator Simmons thinks the cry of hard
times is a bluff. , He wants the people to un
derstand that Congress is going to remain at
the switch until it passes all the bills the pres
ident wants passed, -v- 1 . '
It may be a bluff, but we do not think it is.
There are too many idle men and money; isn't
as plentiful as it once was. People down here
are not remitting to' their wholesale friends'
as rapi.fy as they should and are asking the
tns fo"sn t lorc 1. e a
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"Well, he doesn't look it" that is what
most folk say when they see Old John D.
Rockefeller, the richest man in the world. He
doesn't look it but that makes no difference
he conies when you call him John. It is not
his fault that he doesn't look it perhaps he
never intended to be the richest man in the
world.
Wonder what the Furies had it in for him
for and wonder why his punishment was giv
en in this world instead of in the next. Old
John D. is not a happy man. He has the bas
ket and he has it full, but has been a bur
den that he would have shaken off when it
first started had he known what it was to bring
him. it has never brought him happiness, be
cause a self respecting man couldn't remain
self respecting after all that has been said
about him and proven against him and if he
wasn't self respecting he couldn't be happy
anyway.
We like Old John. We admire the bull dog
tenacity with which he holds on to his bone.
We admire the great system he established.
We admire him because he did better than any
other man in the world in doing what nine
tenths of humanity is trying to do get all the
money possible.
Old John got the goods, and , carried them
home. And he keeps some of them and mil
lions he lets go. He has helped many people.
His charities have been wide but nobody has
any charity for Old John. So far as we know
we are his only friend in North Carolina, and
we insist that he has a clean bill. He made the
dough and he is entitled to it. He has been
worth while, and we regret to see it stated
that he grows weaker that his candle is
about burned. When he passes young John
will perhaps be harder to deal with than Old
John. Young John seems to have the situa
tion well in hand aud if he goes after a bil
lion, just for the fun of the thing, nothing can
stop him. The old man put wheels on the
money horse and young John knows how to
ride it. Get up!
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The High Cost Of Living.
According to the Raleigh papers Police Jus
tice Harris has announced that hereafter the
man who appears before him' found guilty of
drunkenness must pay $25. This is an increase
of over fifty per cent, and shows that the high
cost of living is interfering with our personal
liberty. ; "
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x , Danville Drunks.
Danville for a prohibition town didn't do so
badly might have done woise, but should
have done better. For the year ending April
30th, report just made public, there were 2,401
arrests made and about two thirds of them
caused because of whiskey. That is to say,
678 were for drunkenness ; 279 for disturbance
and many other violations of law that a sober
man would hardly do. . :
An average of two drunks a day isn't much
for Panville. . "
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Violating The Laws.
. A Raleigh concern which, had an alluring of
fer has been indicted for using the mails frau
dulently. Just what defense the concern will
make is not known. One farmer who was to
have a job as superintendent of "icing cars"
and who never got his job and who claims to
have paid in $2,000 for stock is one of the wit
nesses against them. In these days the man
who attempts to use the mails for a graft game
had better never been born. For Uncle Sam
soon gets him. ; '.. '
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; . : Not Constitutional :
The Kentucky tobacco pooling plan has been
declared unconstitutional by 1 the Supreme
court. The idea was to hold tobacco and de-4
mahd a certain price but the court held that
you can't do that. Sort of a "con-spiracy"
and while this is the land of the free and the
home of the brave there are some things pro
hibited. . ' t
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Durham And The Blue Laws.
1 1 Durham has much sport every year or two
about the blue laws.'; Just now there is agi
tation. The members Of the council are about
e ii rJ tlie c1 - nces are (' ; que ,tion will, not
be s- V -1 ur..,l i; is fpu . t at the polls..
King, Of Leaksville, Assessed
$1,500.
OOK.S like the latitude and
longtitude of the freedom of
speech were being' established
at last. Tt has before been men
tioned in these columns that
Mr. D. F. King, of Leaksville,
handed out a few columns of
specifying adjectives addressed
to his neighbors in particular and mankind it.
general, and the particular persons mentioned
didn't propose to stand for that kind of abuse.
Inserting his views in a paid advertisement
which was printed in the Leaksville Courier,
the editor of the Courier was also made a par
ty to a suit, and King and Betts, the editor,
were sued for some great amount of money.
It was a hard fought case. Eminent lawyers
appeared on each side; Senator Ivie bringing
the suit. After much consideration the jury
found that inasmuch as Betts inserted the dope
as an advertisement and afterwards retracted in
his newspaper, he hadn't damaged the defend
ant but that King had damaged him to the
amount of $1,500 and the story is that de
fendants will go to a higher court
King had it in for the lawyers. Unlike the
democratic platform there were no "glittering
generalities" in his talk it was specific
charges and directed to the man for whom it
was intended. Another case against King
comes in our court next month A. L. Brook
suing him for a large sum for defamation ot
character. The next time King "writes a piece
for the paper" is would pay him to employ a
censor and let him tell him what to blue pencil.
Paying fifteen hundred dollars a column for
giving expressions to your views shows indeed
that the democratic administration has not re
duced the high cost of living.
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Burns Dismissed.
The national police association in annual
meeting the other day dismissed Burns as an
honorary member. Burns had roasted them
alive and they retaliated in this way. Burns
may have made a "bust" in the Frank case,
but he didn't make a bust in the dynamiting
cases. That was a wonderful piece of detec
tive work. Thomas Edison, the world's great
est wizard, now and then makes a model and
throws it away. Burns is human and a hu
man sleuth, and . he makes good most of the
time. He is our greatest detective, and be
cause he got some black on his hands in At
lanta, is no reason for attempting to discredit
him.
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The Dryest Yet
Next Wednesday, which is the first of July,
the new prohibition law of West Virginia
goes into effect. Prohibition carried by 90,000
majority and the people are behind the law.
But it is a hummer. It prohibits making whis
key even for your own use; it will not allow
clubs or druggists to handle it ; it makes it un
lawful to give away whiskey and you'll be sent
up if you advertise it in a newspaper or post a
handbill telling the glad particulars of the lat
est blend. "
There goes with it a state superintendent to
look after its enforcement, and if ever a prohi
bitionist saw his dream come true it has ma
terialized in the West Virginia law. Such a
law as that will be worth looking at. It will
pay all real reformers to keep an eye on West
Virginia. Because if the law stands if people
observe it and respect it, it means actual pro
hibition. In our state newspapers are allowed to
flaunt three and four column wide advertise
ments in the faces of the thirsty; clubs are
allowed to handle it as personal property; you
can give the stuff away and druggists in many
towns let physicians prescribe hundreds of gal
lons of it each quarter.
But in West Virginia it is iron clad. It is a
prohibition law in earnest, and from the fact
that the law passed by 90,000 majority it looks
as though the sentiment was there to see to
its enforcement. 1
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, Mad Dogs.
' -They are having a mad dog scare here and
there and everywhere. The average dog that
snaps and runs is not a mad dog. Now and
then there may1 be a case of hydrophobia
eminent scientific men say there is no such
thing but whether there is or not, vagrant
dogs should not be allowed to run at large
and cities should furnish drinking places for
dogs. The want of water often causes a dog
to act queerly and we certainly owe it to our
dumb brutes and beasts to furnish them water
to drink. . 1 . '
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- The powers conferred on the Inter State
Commerce Commission by the recent decisions
of the Supreme Court certainly solve the rail
way question. That Commission has all the
power it is looking1 for and then some.
Commissioners Should
Not Give Authority.
NE shudders when he
reads of the atrocities of
the long ago when he
thinks how Tamerlane
mixed men up with mortar
and put them into stone
lJ walls and one shudders
when he reads of the man
ner in which all the inves
tigated prisons are conducted but he lets it
go at a shudder, and thinks no more of it. At
Wilmington recently some convict guards
were indicted for whipping prisoners, and the
printed story was that commissioners had
passed a "resolution, which, while not speci
fying in so many words is construed to give
the guards the right to whip the convicts
when such treatment is needed." The right to
whip 'em when such treatment is needed
and it might be that some brutal, burly black
guard is to be the judge. All guards are not
brutal many of them become so.
Why didn't the commissioners say it in so
many words? Why beat around the bush and
say that a prisoner a convict, might be whip- .
ped, if it suited the guard to whip him. The
legislature should pass a law that no guard has
a right to whip any prisoner. If the prisoner
does anything wrong let a prison committee
determine and go about it in an orderly man
ner. Let us have a law that will define as mur
der, as it should, the act of a guard killing a
convict by shooting him in the back when he
is making his escape.
A law like that is more needed than the ref
erendum and recall.
But the commissioners can say whether or
not a guard can whip a prisoner beat him al
most to death, if his (lander is up and escape
punishment.
That's a pretty law in a civilized world.
The state seems to want to take these poor
devils and treat them worse than any other live
stock is treated. If a guard beats a horse like
he beats some prisoners he is arrested for
cruelty to animals. But not so if the poor devil
is wearing stripes and is denied his liberty.
The other day from Ashevile came this tele
gram, printed in the papers: ;
"Governor Craig, who is spending some time
at Asheville, stated today that at the approach
ing session of the General Assembly he will
recommend that all State convicts be taken
from highways and railroads and be leased for
road-building purposes to those counties which
are willing to pay reasonably for their ser
vices. Mr. Craig says that a thorough study 1
of the question has convinced him that it will
be best to discontinue putting convicts on
State highways gratuitously, allowing them
to work the roads of those counties that are
willing to pay for them."
Those men who are to labor are entitled to .
their wage in all fairness, and in all candor.
They are in prison for one of two things only
-r-to protect Society from their depredations or
to punish them for some crime committeo
against the law.
They are not there to enrich the state.
We have no moral right to spread our drag
nets and take up offending members of Society
and make human slaves to put them in
stripes and work them on the roads and put
the money they earn in our pockets. It is the
custom and the custom used to be to put a :
man in jail if he kissed his wife on Sunday
but we have grown broader than that. Let us ,
hope the legislature that meets this winter will
do something for humanity and not so much .
for lawyers and politicians. .r:.'.',.vv..v!v:
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Lost Its Suit
The big suit against the railroads where the
government claimed something like $700,000,--V
000 worth of oil lands , because oil is mineral .
and because oil was found on the lands after
patents were granted for it, a clause saying" '
mineral lands could not be given away;
was lost by' the government. The rail
roads won and it was clearly a case where
they should have won. To give a railroad
lands to do a certain thing and then take them
away after the railroad had done its part
well, Uncle Sam some times seems greedy.
The truth is he never should have given the ;
lands away, but after he gave them away he.
should haye stood the loss like the average"
dead game sport when he lays it all on the red
and loses. , - ' , .
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' . . Held Good.
,The state of Wisconsin passed a law th-
quires the contracting parties to a mar''
have a certificate from a physici?-'
standing to the effect that t'. "" -?'l
rto-ht. The S-r--. ,