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IT MAY TAKE A GREAT
WAR TO BRING GREATER
PEACE TO THE NATIONS
OF THE WORLD.
LET US ALL SEE THE
BRIGHT. SIDE OF THE
GREAT CONFLICT AND
TRUST IN GOD.
BY AL FAIRBROTHER
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 A YEARi SINGLE COPT B CENTS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1914.
ON SALE AT THE NEWS STANDS AND ON TRAIN
ESTABLISHED MAY igoa.
CITIZEN J. B. DUKE
CHESTNUT OF AGES
FACTS IN THE CASE
A DOUBTER REBUKED
SAYS NEW PARTY
But Of What Country
Cuts No Ice.
E CANNOT agree with
the Granville Enterprise
which has the following
to say concerning James
Buchanan Duke the
modern wizard of the
financial world. The En
terprise says, without
mincing matters in any
way, and apparently regardless of how it feels
to be suck in the back with a stave :
"If James B. Duke has established a resi
dence in England for the purpose of avoiding
the National Income Tax, we say let him stay
there and take his medicine like a man. More
than that, we would like to see him pressed
into service. So, also, as to those who are
trying to get him back. A man who makes his
wealth out of Americans and under the pro
tection of American laws and then flees his
country to avoid his share of the government's
burdens is not a desirable citizen. The tobac
co farmers mav need helo. but we are of the
opinion that they are too patriotic to make any
concerted effort to aid in securing the return
of one who has expatriated himself to avoid
the discharge of a common duty to his coun
' try.''. .
We are very glad that we cannot consent
to an endorsement of this preachment. We are
glad that we can say that if Mr. Duke or any
other man wants to leave this country he
should have the same right that men have to
; leave other countries that it is purely a mat-
ter of business. Mr. Duke has made some
steen or more millions, a river of gold flowed
his way but he first dug the ditch, turned the
Etream to flow in it, and it was his genius and
his ability that made the millions he went af
ter. If he found, after giving his services to
his country that its laws were oppressive,
manifestly he had a right to seek a more pleas
ant clime. We regard Mr. Duke as a benefac
tor to his race. We regard him as one of the
most remarkable men the financial world has
produced. We regard him as one who has
materially helped every business enterprise.
He might have formed the tobacco trust, and
if he did he showed the world the possibil
ities of the tobacco business. He never grew
a pound of tobacco. He had no monopoly on
the crop, but he bought it, often at his own
figureshut he created such a demand for the
weed that millions consume tobacco who nev
er would have consumed it, had it not been for
Duke. He made tobacco respectable, and it
was invited into the parlor, wtiereas, without
publicity, it had been a back kitchen loafer
with a dirty fancy vest.
It seems to be a matter of doubt as to
whether Mr. Duke has really sworn alleg
iance to the British lion but tastes differ
and if he would rather worship at the shrine
of a British lion than the shrine of a Durham
Bull, we take it that it is his business.
As we understand the situation Mr.. Duke
never objected to paying ah income tax be
cause across the pond it is equally as' expen
sive to live, even in-times of peace but what
he objected to was the continual interference
or ine irusi-Dusiers wnu want 10 ucsuujr an
big commercial enterprises instead of controll
ing them. Buck Duke's brain cannot see six
' per cent. Like Harriman he is no ten per cent
man. Duke sees the big things the great
things, and is constructive His dream to oc
cupy, as the chief figure, the tobacco world
was the dream of a white haired, bare footed
1 boy in Durham and he made his dream come
true. He is a wizard-r-a genius-a wonderful
1 man. He does not want to be restrained, ana
he simply hiked to a country that encourages
trusts and monopolies instead of building pal
aces of gold to be torn down by vandal hands.
We were bold enough fifteen years ago to in
sist that the trust was the greatest labor sav
ing machine ever conceived by man. It put
- cut a few men in the competitive field but
they were men who didn't want to do big
things. The" tobacco market today in this coun
try, because of the British buyers the Dukes
on the other side of the pond, is kept up and
always, the British and export buyers are the
, ones who make the market lively and who
pay the prices. : Duke is a desirable citizen,
and if we have lost him we are sorry. He
did nothing that was not within the law., If
the law made was so severe that it proposed
to restrain his wonderful creative forces if it
was to say to him, ,"No use to build your mag
nificent structure here is no field for con-
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cduntry where talent such as his is appreciat
ed and where his wings could unfold them-
. selves. ,'":-, ...
The politicians made us think the trust wad
a fearful monster the original Trust Buster
. of the world used it only to. popularize himself
taking care never to bust a trust because he
knew the trust was the back bone of the com
mercial fabric; of America but the trust; its
i wonderful products, whether in tobacco or
: what not, has given us what we wanted in
better goods and cheaper goods. - . i"
.Mr. Duke is too old a man to be pressed
Is Sprung By The Charlotte
Bull Mooserites.
HE PAGES of history furnish
much amusement, if the careful
searcher Jor fun wants to wade
in and reach down to discover
things. We have a great and
ponderous volume in our library
which is called the "Politics of
Nations" and in this volume are
all the platforms ever uttered by ambitious
Americans. The Greenback party; the
Whigs ; the Know Nothings ; the Grange ; the
Populists; the Socialists; the Democrats; the
Bull Moosers ; the well there is a list so long
that there is no use to occupy space telling
all about it.
What strikes us as peculiar and funny is
the fact that each one of these sets of plat
forms all sound alike when it comes to pictur
ing oppressed and heavy laden man. There
have been more tears and groans' in political
platforms than have been seen or heard on all
the battle-fields of all the world. And no
matter how far we advance in what we call
civilization; no matter what we do the spell
binder is always in evidence when it comes to
writing a platform. We are particularly struck
with this when we read the dope read by our
old friend Jake Newell, of Charlotte, to the
Bull Moose Convention assembled there last
Saturday. Jake recited, and the crowd adopt
ed the platform as a preamble this wonderful
chestnut:
"We, in public meeting assembled, being
cognizant of the perils of our country now im
pending and grieved at the unnecessary hard
ships and burdens resting upon the producers
of our land, and being determined to use our
best efforts and sincerest endeavor to correct
them and to re-assure to our people the bless
ings of liberty and thcright to pursue life's
calling profitably along pleasant paths, here
by declare our principles and purposes as fol
low." Think of the unnecessary hardships and
burdens resting upon the producers of our land
that a crowd of professional politicians want
ing office, would relieve. Think of the unself
ish patriotism of these immortals, in the shad
ow of the Mecklenburg Independence plate on
Tyron street, proposing to lift the burden, if
the people would but come in and elect a bull
moose to office. Go back and read the other
utterances of other days. Go back and read
the Greenback propaganda and then read
what a wonderful Nation we have builded
here, and took pot luck in doing it, but by all
means read again the preamble to the Satur
day convention and see if you can't help do
something to lift the great burden that rests
upon the producers of the world. It's to laugh.
But still the grim visaged men meet and re
solveand some folk yell "me too" and the
bands plays Annie Laurie.
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The Republican Party.
The republican party in North Carolina has
practically played out. There was a hope
that at the state convention in Raleigh there
would be a grand rally; hoped that the hatch
et would be buried; hoped that those who, had
wandered from the fold would come in at
least under a flag of truce and ask to be for
given or propose to forgive.
But it didn't happen. Not over two hun
dred and fifty delegates, were present some
said but One hundred and eighty but that
wasn't enough. In a state which not long ago
cast nearly a hundred thousand votes; in a
state which has intimated that many of its
democratic voters believed in tariff ; in a state
where the dominart party stands indicted for
lack of business methods andhas run the state
into debt almost a million dollars for current
expenses that handfull of men did not meas
ure up to what might have been expected.
' The Bull Moose party didn't rally the
crowd, either. The republicans are disgusted.
They are not taking part. They are willing
to wait and see but they are not in; evidence..
Were Roosevelt to side step the jiarty could
get together. '
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Big Home Coming Week. . .
Concord, which always does things right,
will have a big home coming week and crowds
from all over will fill the town. - The hope is
that the big white, way will be on by that time.
The tobacco buyers will not be on the mar
kets until September 15th, and farmers will do
well, everywhere, to hold on to their .crop un
til the buyers get ready to buy. Otherwise
the price cannot be satisfactory. '
into service as a soldier but as along headed
financier, one who can help the. country he
wants to help, if i financial difficulty, there is
not his equal on the globe. We hope he re
mains a citizen of America but do not blame
him if he doesn't, V , ' , '
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IT ROM an address delivered by Judge Rob
1 ert W. Winston, in South Carolina, report
ed in the Columbia State and printed by the
Government printing office, having been pre
sented to the Senate by Mr. Overman, we take
the following extract which is well worth
while;
"The average American citizen looks about
him and finds evidence of thrift, dispatch,
promptness, and efficiency in all departments
of political and economic life save and ex
cepting the administration of the law. If he
goes into his banking house, he finds that
there are no delays in the prosecution of busi
ness. If he markets his cotton or tobacco,
eager buyers are on hand to purchase his pro
ducts, and in the mercantile and manufactur
ing world there are no long and tedious wait
ings and no lost motion. When the mellow
rays of the sun warm his broad acres, the
farmer's seed are deftly and promptly put in
the soil, and when the time of harvest has
come the fruits thereof are garnered into his
barns but not so with the administration of
justice. In the average courthouse there sits
upon the bench a law ycr, wearing the ermine,
respected and oftentimes beloved, who is but
a kind of moderator, a mere spectator of pass
ing events. The witnesses are examined, cross
examined, and re-examined at great length.
The speeches are long and prolix, long be
cause the other side will, likewise make long
speeches and must be met on their own
ground. The speeches are not only long but
numerous, every lawyer must speak either be
cause he desires to do so, or else to impress
some juror who is known to be his friend.
Meanwhile the case drags its slow length
along and, the docket, like a turgid and swol
len stream, after the spring freshets when
the logs are caught in the narrows is choked
and dammed up, while suitors and witnesses
wait, and brother lawyers fret, and hundreds
of men are kept from their usual avocations,
and the county and the unfortunate suitors pay
swollen bills of cost, until the Bill of Rights
itself is nearly, if not quite, violated because
a delay of justice has become a denial of jus
tice;, :
"Add to the situation the tardy judge, who
opens court on Tuesday instead of Monday,
who lets the local bar know it would be high
ly agreeable if he could have second week of
court at his home and the judge of like kidney,
who continues long cases upon insufficient
grounds, because he wishes to get away, and
we have a picture 'behind the times,' an
achronistic to a degree. When Napoleon in
Egypt was about to charge the formidable ap
pearing batteries of the Mamalukes he look
ed through field glasses and saw that their
guns were stationary and could point and
shoot but one direction. Flanking the bat
teries, he captured them without the loss of a
single soldier.
"Then we have to deal with another class
of judges. The rank, fresh reformer. He holds
court with a brass band. He thinks that the
whole world is looking up to him and his
court. He will not wait a case until the law
yer can get from the front door to the bar of
the court, before he enters a nonsuit. He is
nervous and full of lectures -he clucks on the
nest. He jails one or two men who have their
unfortunate hats on their heads in his pres
ence. He now and then preemptorily orders a
lawyer to take his seat in order to show his
power, and he takes offense at the slightest
inattention to his dignity. He impresses the
crowd immensely, but the lawyers naturally
will have none of him, and when he comes to
hold the next term of the same court, he finds
no civil calendar arranged. All cases have
been continued by consent and he leaves be
hind him such an unwholesome record that the
cause of geniuine legal reform is set back a
full generation.
. "Now, between these two judges, the slow,
careless, and indifferent one with no sense of
responsibility, and that other judge with no
heart and little- common sense the veritable
martinet we find the great middle class of
judges, the patient judge and silent, with an
abiding tense- of responsibility, who keeps
abreast of the decisions, who is familiar with
the rules of the game, is conversant with the
status, and withal is firm and decided, who
A Chapel Hill Man Thinks
It Strange.
AND to make some people
believe. In His day Chri-t
was doubted and crucified.
After lie had lived and made
his name immortal Shake
speare was held up a? a man
of straw and Ignatius Don
nelly proved that Lord Bacon
wrote the Works r.t Shakespeare."-
Even now there are tho.-e trying to
discredit the immortal .Mecklenburg Declara
tion of Independence, and here comes the
Chapel Hill N'ews and swats the fair name of
Greensboro in the following reckless manner:
"Some of the papers of the State are trying
to poke fun at Greensboro for their efforts to
make it a 'flyless town.' And then too, it was
printed in the papers up there that it was
the 'dryest' town in the State, and last week
forty or fifty blind tigers were unearthed by
the officers. Gee! that is worse than 'claim
ing' forty thousand population."
Dr. Rankin came officially and declared that
Greensboro was 98 per cent, flyless which
was equivalent to saying that it was just about
free of flies. Eighteen carat gold is good
enough gold but not quite the fineness of the
pure stuph which is 24 carats so fine that it
would be too soft to use. So when you say a
man is pure gold you speak of a fellow so soft
that he is like putty and therefore there
must be an alloy to make it good. Twenty
two carat gold is all right one carat of copper
and one of silver help out and when Dr. Ran
kin was here we had a twenty-two carat fly
less town there being one horse fly and one
blue-bottle fly left to recall the happy days of
old, Maud, when you and I were young, Mag
gie. There is no use to "poke fun" or make
fun when the facts are evident, and when the
state health officer officially came and decid
ed that this white man's town was 98 per cent,
flyless. That was near enough.
As to our blind tigers we have a few but
they are like Jonah's gourd children of the
night. They start today and are on the roads
tomorrow. Greensboro once upon a time had
twelve bar rooms and today there are not
twelve blind tigers in the town, and if there
wer;, half of them would be on the road be
fore six o'clock tomorrow night.
We are not gay or proud or haughty hern in
Greensboro, but we have the best all around
town anywhere to be found, and among other
things its morals, while not all that might be
wished, are high and there are no flies on
Greensboro. A man who is living at Chapel
Hill may doubt all this and we couldn't
blame him, but people on the Main line of
progress understand that all we claim is true.
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The Goods.
Before you vot,e for a state wide primary,
politically made by political bosses who are
now out of office, but who want in, demand to
see what kind of a document is proposed. That
is honest; that is business. Do not allow the
outs to flim-flam you. We know what the poli
tician hopes to do, and the voter should swat
him for fair. Keep away from the Amend
ments, cooked up by ambitious men who have
such tender regard for the dear "pee-pul."
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The Case Of Japan.
Japan has declared war, and the question
coming on for consideration is, will 'she, when
the blood is up and she goes out looking for
German Islands and territory in the Pacific
see something belonging to the United States
resembling the Philippines, and conclude she
might as well take them along with her? If
she does, then Uncle Sam will have to put up
a sign reading: "Keep off the Grass"
and maybe go put the yellow man off the
grass. That seems to be the danger Just now.
But what's the use to look for danger when
safety is better and maybe not so hard to find.
Linney Against Doughton.
It is announced that Mr. Frank Linney will
run against Doughton for Congress but what
would that mean? Simply that Linney would
spend some of his good money because
Doughton is going back to Congress with a
grand whoop. No doubt about that and no
doubt either, but what Frank Linney knows
it. - v.-
dispatches business and makes it disagreeable
for a lawyer to talk nonsense. Fortunately
for the good of the country there are enough
of these true and faithful men everywhere
upon the bench to administer the law wisely,
promptly, and safely if public sentiment will
sustain them, if the laws are materially alter
ed so as to give them greater power and great
er responsibility and if the bar will hold up
their hands." t ,
The man who could say that and say it so
well, is worth a place in our Gallery of People
Worth While and that is why we print it and
also the Judge's picture.
Is Needed In North Car
olina Just Now.
in
F.' may come and
men may go but the
politics of North Caro
lina i.- now a little worse
mixed than for a long
time. The democrats are
J not together. The oc
casional bomb-shells
sent into the air by the
Hon. A. I.. Brooks seem to cause some peo
ple to wonder. Some sav that what Brooks
is talking is the right kind of dope; that there
should be more buMiiess and less politics
and while Brooks is not going to attempt to
get on any other than a democratic band
wagon the bull moosers and republicans and a
whole lot of democrats are getting tired of
what is what in politics. The cry of boss is
moonshine on a shovel. There is no boss run
ning anything. But the lack of business prin
ciples; the utter disregard for expenses and
the fact that the state is almost a million in
debt for current expenditure, makes the peo
ple who think sit up and rub their eyes and
wonder.
A good democrat said to us the other day
that now was the time to spring a new party
in North Carolina. He said the Bull Moose
people were ready to give support to it; the
regular old line republicans would welcome
some sort of shelter from the rain that was on
them ; that twenty-five thousand business men
who are democrats would get busy and some
thing would be doing.
But that is all talk. Suppose the case: Sup
pose competent business men were asked to go
to Raleigh to make laws what would you
hear? "Haven't time to fool with it" and
yet their property interests are involved. Now
and then a business man bobs up and runs
not because he is a patriot, but because he
sees the necessity of getting through some lo
cal measure to help his town.
The lawyers for the most part are not busi
ness men. They are full of the law, and many
of them are playing politics. What would
save the state would be a session of the legis
lature composed of level headed business men
with not a lawyer in it not a politician who
had an axe to grind. But that will never hap
pen. So the result will be that the dominant
party will go along and go along until one of
these days there will be an uprising and
then, regardless of party, the business man
will see that if he is to protect his property
interests he must take a hand.
Behold the spectacle of the former legisla
turesread the laws they passed and look
it over to see the ambitious ones politically
using the office to further their own selfish
ends. It is shameful, but it will continue to
be shameful just as long as men allow the
politicians to run the state. It is not the boss
because both the ins and outs are ambitious
to run things, while the rank and file the two
hundred thousand voters, sit around and whit
tle and cuss after it is over instead of doing
something and whittling afterwards.
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How About It?
The Commission duly appointed to ascer
tain the facts concerning freight rates said, and
the report was accepted, that less than a mil
lion dollars decrease would be fair and just.
Judge Clark has stated that the state was be
ing robbed of five million dollars a year. What
about that other four million, and wasn't the
Judge talking through his Panama hat?
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The High Cost Of Living.
In Charlotte Saturday watermelons weigh
ing ninety-one pounds sold for $4.50. That
shows two things. First that watermelons
come high, and secondly, that there are cap-'
italists in Charlotte and the money market is
easy. .
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Carter Not Guilty.
John Carter, formerly president of the
American Bank of AshevilU was found not;
guilty. Judge Boyd instructed the jury to"
return such a verdict, saying he could not be
convicted on the evidence adduced. Carter's
friends will be glad to hear this. Well, so will
everybody else.
If.
Japan concludes she-wants the Philippines,
after she gets her war paint on and her gun boats
in action, perhaps she will pick them up.
And if she does perhaps we all should be
glad provided she picks them up in a man
ner becoming a perfect gentleman. -
September 15th is when the tc1 ?-ca 1 3
will be on the market. Far'
to hold on until the chance '
possible out of their crr