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fl t':' mm r 5 r:,' '.J '5. i''- Wl? y j i. m f l the attorney? for; the vptiiu. 0 ljTkey - were desperate -in tbrdethands and : - . positive ; in : their . newspaper intCTyiew " fffcoirne -!say hgave this law firni every oppor- . . rushed; in and were willing to put. Osborne' to U ';V I:.all. sorts of trouble to humiliate him ; to scan- -.. tiahze him and the hope possibly, was a ver diet that some hysterical jury might dishonr J .. cstly render. :.; -: . ; Once in; this white man's town a lawyer :f explained to a- fellow lawyer that he knew, the defendants were not; legally liable for a - Claim lIldL ;WdS ; aucu iot , uui, -.. ,aiij,v : v may be able to get a verdict against them. we That lawyer stands hieb. He. thinks he is all right, and perhaps he is but so long has fie been in the business of going after things, that he. had made himself : believe, as doubt- less Slade and Slade made themselves believe, that if he could get a verdict against a man, ' innocent 6r. "guilty, -it would he all. right. ; : There are some. and . many honoi able' men .:V. hi- the profession bf "the law. - And there are i Jr some conscienceless . and: abandoned creatures who take every advantage and. who should be . called by vigilance committees organized for, - the protection of unprotected citizens. , We - are glad Mr. Osborne, has been fully vindicat d; . He is an old Charlotte man, and has-many fiends in the South. - , - -. A Bad Law. - - ' :.s; In Wisconsin, where they have, the Eugenic . law there were 4000 less-marriages in a year, than formerly. The examinatipn : feature", of j the law made-inany :. conclude not-to 7 try, to pass muster; many just went, to Jiving.togetn- i irr and many l'efjt the state to gft;m45f& ; The world is fad-mad It isn't doing" much .i to get things better but it has allowed every man with a theory, to get it on the law booia. In a hundred years we wilt get back normal. The man in the insane asylum - has many S theories he is just a little bit ; more radical x than his neighbor outside the mad house. We adjudge a .man crazy when he shocks; us-all. He may be all right just Hying a; little too" far. ahead of his time.- : Bryan was called a wild ; man and yet today 'all parties and all people fcave adopted many of the views he advocated - Had he been a little bit "more so" Jhemight &ave been adjudged insane.- f " - " ' ' -'' -Men in lunatic i- asylums . advance ; great 'theories but we lockve jfttst as absurd ideas, but not, quite so radical are sent to the Jegislature and give- us new laws. ' :v ;:,,K-v ""l '::V. It is a.great world, my masters! ; ". :";' ''"V ."' :f '.April." ' . ; V' This is the. first month of the second quar- ter. Three months'of the Glad New-Year but so recently, born have gone, and forever gone. What ! have you b eeri doing: for yourself ; for i;.Vyour neighbor.; for the world? We must hur .'.. ry.up and not procrastinate. As we grow old- r the years' haVe greater speed. - If we nave r xa mind and good deed let us perform it. now.! 'rp: Todays because tomorrow may, find us some- Tngviiien are resoluting for the impossible, and there is no use to waste time in .such ak man ner, v. . . .; ; y . . ' ,-. ; " In Raleigh. . v The city election in Raleigh is much warm er than thev city election in Greensboro. -The present commissioners are accused of wasting money in the water plant of a" great many -things. - . -' . ; :; v But it is politics in Raleigh. There are two v well-defined factions in the city and to fight is their business. Mayor Johnson has doubtless made good. He is being opposed by the same crowd, that fought him before. . Mayor John son was in the way of the other crowd and it changed the plan of election TrvVin enn nrrvf ' busy, and was elected For this he has never been forgiven. Here is hoping that again , he will put it oyer the; Outs. Johnson is a first class citizen. As Mayor of Raleigh he has rriade good, and the chances are that the citizens will see to it that he is re-elected. '-; ;-: : ' -i: A Great Report. - ; - - - . The Vice Commission of Richmond has pre pared a five hundred page report, and in it are' spme' frightful revelations it is said. Rich mond has a Vice Commission that is doing things. The city had been wide open until this Commission got busy. Now there is a cleaner atmosphere. The workers in the. mor al, vineyard must keep everlastingly at it. Sin is like the weeds in the garden. , It grows faster, than the flowers--but a good gardener can : keep - the weeds down. ' And so - a good Vice Commission can do wonders. . . - . . ; V - - An Old Friend. ; . ' A business man in Richmond, aged 53, rent ed a room and in it housed a young girl who had come in from the country.'. He was spot tedby the police and has been arrested. He 'stands high in the business, community but he-ought' not stand high in court. - Just what the law is for such "an offender,-if guilty, we do-rnot know but it should be 'life torture. ; That is. -what he inflicts on ' his victim, and " he "should receive the 'same kind; of medicine. In The Hard Times. " " : .Asheville painters do not care for hard times. They have been getting $2.50 arday " and now come in and demand $2.85 and insist. ; that they will not work unless they get what i!they"demand.t"This is z. whole. iptf nerve when over three million idle men are seeking something to do for iust their bread and but ter. But 'tws ever thus. C "'-'r v "t , .Some Better. . "." ; - ; Greensboro bankers tell us that business conditions are growing better. Nothing very swift ; about it but perceptibly things are-get- - ting better in the.finahcial world. It appears that: all are Agreed - that ; tHe :, war -cannot last longerthan six months some think-" three : months, and thislhas a tendency ..tb get busi- rftessjmore.iniinVi People generally concede that the Commissioners now doing duty will be con tinued. And this is pretty generally agreed. Now and then you find some belligerent, some fellow who has a grouch or a kick, but for the most' part the "expression is general that the 'Commissioners we have have done about as weH as any other men would do, and the idea seems to be to keep them. Personally we think this by all means the thing to do. We have no reason to put them out. - We have the machinery to oust them at any time we are not suited. We have ma chinery under our charter to pass any laws the majority desires to passr and it does seem that inasmuch as the present board has gained much valuable experience; at the expense ''ol the city, we should keep themi and receive the. benefit of that experience. This is com mon sense. r Think They Have Him. r The Durham police, without a - clue, have finally arrested a negro they think guilty of killing-Burkhead N. Mann, the merchant so foully killed a few weeks ago in Durham. A negro named Willie Belt has been arrested. The evidence is around him it looks like he cannot get away. He is up against a -proposition that generally confronts the murderer. He can't show where he was when, the deed was committed. He had been in the store. He had -carried a part of a billiard cue as a walk ing stick. Other negroes swear he told them he' struck Mann. t He had money on his per son. He had given' money to others to keep for. him. . ' . ; : ' ' The Durham police force is to be congratu lated upon its detective work. It may be that the right man is vstill missing, but theevidence so far in points so strongly to the negro Bell that we. wouldn't give much for his chance of escape. And so it is again to appear that mur der will out.. ... --. . Worthy Effort. The Negroes of Greensboro are planning for a public library. This is a worthy effort on the part of. the colored man. "By the -way, Colonel Joe Reece brings out the point that a Negro doesn't like to be called colored ; claims he was born black! and therefore isn't colored;. If black is a cardinal color and a man is born black, if he isn't born colored what is he? Cer tainly ;a red man is colored; a black man is colored and there is no-way to get around it. Sonie men are yellow' without being colored.- -o- -. - ':y "'A- Great Trip."- -, '- . ' - : .; .5 Senator- Lee S.- Overman, along . with a Congiessional r. party of some twenty-five or thirty people, and as ; the guest of the Dele- ' gate from the- Hawaiian Islands - wil " visit Honolulu in April.:- He leaves about the.last ,of j April and-5 will r have that splendid ocean - voyage in May. . JThe representative ' in Con gress from: those Islands is a gentleman with plenty ofTnohey: and he' wants to pay the ex pensesof some of the American; law makers to. look over his possessions.. y:y!-. - . towns 1 ing. on the trec u big rc-lf pluju- body is reaching tor it just yet. There be those with long penaslready filed; there be others with a watchtui eye but the plum still dangles in the sunlight and will continue to dangle until Mr. Douglas hands over the office. Mr. Douglas has made a good post master and there is no one wanting him cruci fied. It is said that if Mr. Wayland Cooke wants the post-office he is going to take it just for the mere asking. If he concludes he had better stick to law and let politics alone then Mr. Leon Brandt will be adjusting things and Mr. Charles Hines will send in a petition and relate a few facts connected with his sojourn on earth. . '. . But there is no scramble. There is no fight. The golden plum just dangles there in the sunlight. No hand is reaching for it. .Let it dangle and let Peace sit the throne. Some More Expense. There, will be four amendments submitted to the people next election. One is to cut out the small bills and all the bills having to do with local matters. If all that is to be cut out then why have sixty days of the legisla ture at a great expense? Ten days will take care of state matters. So long as the legisla ture is to be in session sixty-days the mem bers should have something to . do. When they are monkeying with local bills they are not disturbing conditions. The amendment should be beaten. Perhaps it will not be fought very hard, but unless there is a pro position to reduce the number of days, the as sembly should proceed to earn its salary in fooling with the small bills. " The other three amendments have to do with restrictions about charters and emer gency judges. We do not need emergency judges. : What we need is a law requiring law yers to go to trial and the judges would never -be busy over half the time. j He Is Coming. . Saunders -threatens to come to Greensboro to see about us, and if he does, the latch string will.be found in the usual place. Saunders is all right just a "trifle ultra from- our view point. Maybe as tame-as a house cat from his view point. If we were all alike the world would- be very moriotonous-r-and .if all like us, no editor, anywhere, would use -pewter plates for fillin'. - - - ;.. o- ' 1 - Newspaper Men In Carter Case. Colonels Tom Bost and W. O. Saunders were witnesses in the Carter case) and being men- who believe in even handed justice were for Carter.- The Carter case is a bust all the way through. And -the people are going to say so. ' P: : ':''.;' The Civic League in -America has shown conclusively what concert of action will do. The Civic League is the greatest institution of the time It not "only beautifies, but it pre sents disease. It helps, all the world. ' Ccernedon th'i auesuui. v.. ... erned and the concern -which is felt by lam, . a. a. xi vuioui, is sudicu uy an nis suojects in this country." ' . v. . ' When these men look at the whiskey evil - -in this manner, it is the las,t word in favor of prohibition.- The props fall from under the man who advocates whiskey as a beverage. Perhaps His Majesty, when the time comes to clean out the evil and thus render his soldiers equal to the demands of service, will put it all out at oncey ad he won't wait to hear from North Carolina where the legislature said that this is a prohibition state, but whereas, it be ing so, each man is allowed to ship in one jag a week a pint a week so he can get glorious ly drunk every Saturday night. Russia didn't ' stop on the quart every two weeks. She wip ed it out and France cut it short. North Car olina prolonged the agony. From the above' dispatch we may look for a sweeping order, as a war measure, from England in a very short time. John Barleycorn is not a soldier. On the field of battle he falls down as he falls down wherever he puts up a bluff. ' : O A Pied Form, -The Winston Journal experienced- the in convenience of losing a page of type the other morning at two o'clock the man carrying it dropping it on the floor scattering reading matter and advertisements in all directions. The printers, although tired and needing sleep and rest got busy and by swapping pages and getting the broken one ready had the paper out on. time. . It was such an exhibition of loyalty that Editor Martin devotes" a column of editorial praise to the boys. ; But it has -long been proverbial that if a printer was any thing he was loyal. o Wants Information. . A correspondent wants to know why, if the . tariff is a good thing, we didn't build up here in America institutions that would have com manded the trade, of " the w6rld--and held it, like England. He says England for five hun dred years had a high protection law and when she got strong enough she went to free trade but commanded : trade from every where. Well, perhaps the" reason we didn't do that is because we haven't been a nation five hundred years.- We do not know any thing about the tariff, except we think it a good thing,' and we'll have it again, all right. ' " - -u "" . . :". Conquering Worlds. The British-American Tobacco Company of which Mr. JV B. Duke is prudent, 'this week -shipped to China forty m'Uion cigarettes, made at one of its factories, at Petersburg, Va. Think of that. China cut out opium and -the Celestial wants something for. his nerves and .Duke has made a conquest of China. Forty million cigarettes going from ' one Vir-' gina town to the Orient that is what we call : trade expansion. It is marvelous the vision . of J. B. ' Duke. :He conquers -worlds in the field of commerce. ' , - , 0. - - ,i V - jr
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