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BY AL FAIRBROTHER A YEAB, SINGLE COPY S CENTS SATURDAY; JULY 15, 1916. ON SALE AT THE NEWS STANDS AND ON TRAINS ESTABLISHED 74AY, .igoa. NOTHING DOING s a lustful fiend wonder 'about him WE SOON FORGET IT Would be joke - ;-.JV 11.00 The Campaign Is Yet a T''" '' " Ar . ft 1 ame sijjair HERE is nothing to re port in things political. The campaign hasn't op ened, and when it does we do not suspect much to be doing. There are rumors that Wilson is to be assailed on account of several things personal but our hope is that the mud geysers will not be set in action. The American people do not need this to refresh themselves. They do not need it in any sense, and because ther,e are insistent rumors that do not sound all to the merry is no reason why a dirfy campaign should be on. There are questions of National importance to be decided. We-ihold and shall always hold until otherwise convinced that the tariff is par amount. We. want to knowad ten million other toilers want to know why the free trade dogma should be preached by democracy. We are not for the republican party in any sense, except we believe in tariff for a revenue. The democratic party has said it believed this, but it never gave it to the people, and it never will. Right now we are paying a Hundred Mil lion dollars a year to keep up expenses and foreign nations are dumping into these shores their goods without a duty. Democracy can not explain this, and it must explain it before it finds us advocating that particular plank of its platform. Give us a revenue a tariff tc get it, and all will be well. But to take from the few who have ; to levy tolls from the Amer ican peppieaot.thesajme; time, e.nrich. thos of other countries is not an American idea Tariff for revenue arid enough of it to meet all the expenses of the government is our motto. We do not believe1 in a tariff that piles high a surplus, but we dobelieve and have al ways believed in a tariff that will pay running expenses. And where, under the flag, is there a man, who at heart, does not 'believe with us ? Should Be Careful. A young man of Danville went to Richmond and having a roll of money on his person was offered an automobile at what looked a bar gain, and he bought it. As he was joy-riding on a street an officer stopped him ; saw the number of the car was what he wanted and the young man was arrested. He told his story 01 now he had bought the car and all to no avail. The Law had him. He promptly tele graphed Danville friends and they went on his bail and when the trial came up he was releas ed in two minutes by the watch. He had Char acter and Character set him free. But it was one of those cases of circumstan tial evidence a kind of evidence that would never induce us to find a man guilty, that seem ed absolute. A car had been stolen. A stranger was found in possession of it and he couldn't tell from whom he had bought it. The story that he saw a man with a car and the man sold it to him wouldn't go with even an inmate of a feeble minded institution. It wasn't the kind of a storv that would "wash." So the young man was held and was guilty to all in tents and purposes. Haviner many friends in Danville, they knowing him to be a man of his word and a man of excellent character they went to Richmond and their testimony cleared .mm. . :, . . I 1 . '""' cut suppose the young man had been a stranger in a strange land. Suppose ,he hadn't happened to have any friends or suppose that some time in his life he had erred. There wouldn't have been a iurv in sixteen counties Inn what would have found him guilty of the larceny of that car in a minute by the watch. there he would have been absolutely helpless nut absolutely innocent. And yet the great law-givers insist that cir cumstantial evidence is the best provided each link in the chain is self-supporting. In this case, and it might happen a hundred times. Here was a man with a stolen car and he had bought it and paid erood money for it. and the real thief had ?one for narts unknown And the evidence would have "been strong and the presumption great" as the lawyers write it that 1111 innocent possessor was a thief. . o- ' , Uncle Joe. If Uncle Joe Cannon gets here the 29th of this month as annnnnrpH wp will fniarantee a full opera house. Uncle Joe is a favorite in f-'uilford the county of his birth and a rous- ,nK crowd will greet him. It will not be a political meeting. It will be a reunion. : o r . Nothing Doing. a sensational report was sent out from l'ieensboro that a hundred or so people who undertook to celebrate on July Fourth had inen discharged from the mills because of their-taking a. day off.- Run .to headquarters l,Irv seems to be nothing in the story. - Charities Are Looking After Him, They Say. TRANCE old world. If a nigger or a poor white man does some thing out of the way he is pulled and generally sent to the roads. We understand that here in Greensboro a prominent business man from a neighboring town has been making it a business to go to the .Southern depot and pick out women fair to look upon and tell them that he had a fine Wear; that it was tedious to loaf there and if Irthev wanted to eniov a ride to come with him. Women and girls have complained about this treatment and they say Mat the man is under the watchful eye of the police and one of these fine days he will be caught and handled. But if these stories are true, and they come to us authenticated, the populace should sim ply resolve itself into a committee of one and select some woman to accompany him. And the populace should meet the gentleman some where, designated before hand, and give him a ride on a rail with tar and feathers accompan- ients. When such a fool undertakes to despoil womanhood in this way, and he has tried to do it, the manhood of a community should s'.e him through. Tar and feathers and a ride on a rail the sharp side of it, would be none too good for such a brute. The hope is that he will be caught red-handed and then the law can handle him. To say he- meant nothing wrong will not go with people who under stand. .' O She Passed On. A woman driving an automobile through this state orr hers way from 'New Orleans to Maryland, ran over another woman, break ing her legs and arm. The woman wno was thus mutilated was a street car passenger and had just stepped from the street car and found herself in front of the passing automobile. The woman who owned the car promptly stopped ; came back to the corporate limits of the city ; explained what she had done to the proper officer and after it was ascertained by the of ficer that the owner of the automobile had in no manner violated any law; that she was peacefully proceeding within the prescribed speed limits; that the victim 01 xne acciueiu had voluntarily placed herself in front of the car and was necessarily run over, allowed the driver of the car to proceed. And naturally enough folk want to know how about it? They cite the fact that if a man runs in front of an approaching locomo tive and is killed he "sues the company and often recovers, although no negligence or carelessness is proven. But that is not be cause of justice but because of years of rail road baiting. There may be a law to cover the case in point, but we do not see wherein the woman who ran down the victim was in any way to blame. Indeed, inside the city there is a law that compels drivers of cars to stop when the street car stops, and that law is made for just such circumstances as were presented in this case. The street car passenger stepped off the car and before she knew it and before the driver of the automobile knew it tte collision had taken place. Was the driver of the auto mobile to blame? She didn't know and wasn't supposed to know that the street car was to stop where it stopped. She was in a strange country. She had a license which gave her the privilege of the highways. She was within the lawful limit prescribed concerning her speed. She unquestionably had a right to drive the car she was driving and where she was driv ing it. The woman who stepped from the car also had a right to step from it and occupy the ground whereon, she stood. But the mom entum of the automobile was great its speed was such that it was impossible to stop the machine. Therefore it would look to us that the accident was wholly unavoidable. It ap- pears as a fact that each person was within her rights. No law was violated. 1 here was no possible way to prevent what happened. And if purely accidental why hold the wo man? These are the questions that will puzzle the layman's mind. Most any lawyer will find you a thousand cases to show you that the woman should be held, while most any other lawyer will show you another thousand which will insist that there was no need to hold her. Therefore we pass up the unpleasant duty of rendering judgment, the while deploring the ; terrible tragedy. '- o We do not know just how long this Hot Spell in July will last, but it has been on plenty long enough to suit us and discolor our Palm Beach Suit, Limited. o And now that Mr. Lansing assures Mr. Car ranza of his most distinguished consideration for his note and his whiskers, let us hope the .bloody war has been averted.- ; " f. Hi man who dropped out gone glim 1 mering, but not until he attracted atten tion of all the United States and then some. Tom Lawson was once a mighty power he wrote advertising and ; attracted people- his way. He claimed to jhave split with the gas company he saw a chance and if. he didn't milk the general puUi hen we have another guess coming our way. we haven t nearu 01 Tom'for many moons. We print his picture because Ave regret to'' see. such a character sink into absolute oblivion. We try to hold him up to sustain, him. To make it appear that there was once such a man. But Tom had Hired Men who worked fur him it is said those vho even did his literary chores. But Tom is not like Teddy. When he goes into eclipse he goes alone. He doesn't come in and hang onto the coat tails of other men as Teddy is now doing in the Hughes campaign. . . . - Parson Burroughs Dead. Parson Burroughs, who for the coin that was in it, married runaway couples from Vir ginia who crossed Over the Tennessee line, is dead. He was eighty-three years old, and had to his credit the... record of having married 5,142 couples most of them elopers. I he law of Tennessee did not require any age limit, and this old priate this consummate scoundrel op ened an office to provide for the youthful cou ples who didn't really know what they were doing and it is fair to presume that he tilled the land with woe. We have known in our somewhat lengthen ed life many runaway couples who stood hitched until death did them part but the ma jority of the elopers we have known" of the youthful kids who made the world-wide bar gain thoughtlessly, turned out to the bad. Just why Old' Man Burroughs was allowed to ply his vocation so long we do not know. It would have seemed that irate parents wOuld have gone and seen him and tarred him and feathered him and ridden him on a rail. But it seemed they didn't. For many years the old man conducted his clearing house of what morally was lawlessness and was undisturbed. But he has gone now was given more of life than is vouchsafed man and the hope is that beyond the grave he got what he missed in getting here. 1 ; ... o War Averted. It appears that Carranza is willing to listen to reason; that he isn't as sanguinary in his desires as many supposed he would be. In other words. he understands that a war with the United States would mean only destruc tion. He seems willing to have all questions settled in the'proper manner, and-now it is up to us to treat him with consideration. The fact remains. that some day we will be obliged to enter Mexico and take charge but it may be delayed for some years. Let us hope that such will be the case. If President Wilson succeeds in averting war this country will cer tainly, owe him a great debt of gratitude. For war, no matter what the cause, is undesirable. Old Man Villa. It appears that Old Man Villa has taken a new lease on life; t at he is still directing his forces and that Uncle Sam's army has failed to fill him with'fear. The news today looks like thf- Old Man was again on the war path and determined to start something. Wonderful how he comes back with his legs gone; his lungs shot out and his head missing and on top of all that having been killed and buried three times. But he is there. S -.'- Many Forget Record of The Two Candidates Out EST we forget, and possibly we won't but it should be re membered that when Hughes was running for Governor of New York the "common rpo rle" were for him because he was against many things. He had just run the insurance com panies under cover he had made them show wherein the treasurer of the republican party had claimed big sums of money and gotten it. After he-was Governor he was for the peo ple and against the gas combination made the price of gas come down to 80 cents a thousand as against $1 and then he got after all the gamblers and race track people and beat them to it. In those days Hughes was worse than Bryan -to hear some people talk. Now he comes, the same man with the same ideas and prin ciples and the democrats are telling that he is with the plunderers. And along comes Woodrow Wilson who dipped in in New Jersey and cleaned up things. A bright star he was as he shot athwart the horizon across the heavens, and everybody saw him as a possibility. But now they are sizing him up as an entirely different man telling how he has vacillated; how he has tried to carry water on both shoulders and it all is to laugh. Roosevelt holding onto the coat tails of Hughes and yelling "Me too," and all sorts of strange political bedfellows. So far as we are concerned one might as well vote with his eyes shut. There is not much differ ence. Wilson says the Tariff Commission will take - care 'Of -the oire-rrrrportant Truest roi what s the use to worry while it s hot? Maybe when the weather gets cool ; when the pumpkins ripen and turn to gold; when the fodder's in the shock and the election is about on we all can warm and get busy and say something. Right now there 'is certainly nothing doing but guess work. Why? The Danville papers contain a news story which is to the effect that a county officer, whose little brief authority does not extend within the corporate confines of the city ac costed a negro who was running a store and a quarrel ensued. The story is interesting. We print it in full because we want to ask a question. It reads: The evidence showed that the police officer, whose Jur isdiction is in S-hoolfield ami the county, u--osteiI two lit tle boys who were in the i:irk grounds selling cigarettes :iiid IoImmto for Vnssnr. who operates :i siimJI store in front of the park, aixl told them that they hurt no right to he peddling produce on the streets. When Vnssar beard of it he approached the officer and rem-irfceri that he did not think that he had been treated ripht, Thornton testi fying that the negro objected to the officer meddling with his business. This nettled the officer, who replied by saying. "Thats all right, you're selling whitikey anyhow." or words to that effect. This charge was reeated until Vassar retorted somewhat hotly, that "Anybody who said tliat was telling n d lie." Thornton then closed with the negro and struck hint twice on the head with his billy, Vassar trying to strangle the policeman. Bystanders in terfered and separated the combatants. Ianrille police officers who are in charge of this beat which ends a few yards from where the difficulty occurred,, stated that Vassar was a pea-eable negro and that they had never suspected him of selling whiskey. Thornton stat ed that he had good reason to lelieve that Vassar has sold whiskey recently and also said that the negro was impu dent to him. The testimony showed that the officer struck the first Idow, whereuitou the mayor imposed a fine ou c.i li man. Now what we want to know is: Why did the black man have to pay a fine? He was attending to his business. He was accused of a grave crime and the officer struck him and naturally he had a right to defend him self. But the Mayor imposed a fine on the un offending citizen and did not rebuke the of ficer who had exceeded his authority. It is too often the case that men are brought into court, found not guilty and always, or most always we read that they are dismissed upon payment of cost. Why the assessment of costs if the man is not guilty? Why not fully exonerate him if not guilty? Why tax the cost? It is a custom and one manifestly improper and unjust. If the alleged offender is guilty it is proper to fine him and remit the fine upon payment of costs but to put the costs on an innocent man is shameful. If the story printed in the Bee is correct Mayor Wooding should have fined the officer more than he did, and the negro with a good reputation should have gone free. That would have been but simple justice. o : With the submarine coming into port all the excitement about the Mexico trouble was bot tled. And that German Captain should be given the freedom of any city in which he chooses to become a temporary land lubber. He -is a sportsman in all that the word can mean. The hope is that while the huckleberry crop in the east is short the blackberry crop in the centre of the state will be all that we could expect. And now that Mr. Carranza has come into camp, if he will curry his whiskers all will be forgiven. If Only One Man Brought To Trial Is HE press of the state has concluded that Judge Bond did wonderful things- in binding over one man to appear as an example, and go through the farce of a trial in Greene county for murdering Old Joe Black, a defenceless nigger. . who had' done nothing wrong. It is a first-class joke for the papers to talk this way. The nig ger was murdered by , a diabolical mobr-ra fiendish mob and there were many citizens in that mob. To hold up one-man makes it a farce. The Judge went there and be was brave and bold but to monkey with one man when a half hundred were engaged in the bloody and lawless work makes it. more of a travesity on justice than to have let the matter dropped. . We want to see law and order. We want to applaud the Judge who goes in and demands that Justice be done. But to keep one "man in custody when a half hundred guilty scoun drels were engaged in the murder is to laugh. Judge Bond had better let the one man go. To send him to prison would? be a joke. , The oth er forty or fifty "first class citizens" so-callfid should be apprehended and the bunch tried to gether or the one man should be set. free. To convict him would in no way upho'd. the ma jesty of the law.- And at this writing the toa- jesty of the law has been outraged... ;f4 '.'-J ' O ; r. , Belonged In A Mad; House. ' ' . ,. J O , " - v. I i vania has iusf been sentenced . to prison. i6t five years because she sent poisoned 'caiidV through the mail to a young lady who Was al leged to be exerting an evil influence oyer hef son. It luckily happened that the i intended victim of the poisoner escaped, but the .old woman must go to prison for five years where she will have opportunity to meditate upbjt the cruelties of courts and the harshness: of the law. But in all . candor, a woman fifty eight years of age was not in Jier right mind. The presumption is that the son of a woman of that age is able to take care of himself, and if he isn't to poison the woman who was exert ing an evil influence over him was. not quite the thing. The unfortunate victim of halluci nation should have been taken care of in an asylum for the insane. She is an irresponsible atom of Society and Society should, never punish the mental cripples. It , sboyld-care for them. Because they are irresponsible. . o - The Ruling Passion. And even ' in her contemplation of death Mrs. Hetty Green. held on to her gold. -She gave to hr children and to a few. friends b.ut nothing to charity. There were nine type .writ ten pages of the document. . The wealthiest woman in the world sitting dowri and dictat ing her desires as to the disposition of jgreat wealth of many millions, .and in her raini's eye ihere arose no educational institution for women which she wanted to help; there were no worn and wan mothers toiling for bread to whom a home bequeathed ' would have been a blessing, appearing before her vision. AH she saw was the gold she had gathered. All she cared for was that her own blood, ".add no alien hand should grasp it. As Joaquin Miller said it: Grnt God! how poor a man can be, witb nothing in this world but gold ! And a woman, too! Naturally. Those convicts in the penitentiary who are writing Governor Craig that they will enlkt and fight for their flag if released from the pen are doubtless in earnest. They?see freedonv and for freedom, if once lost,. a man will prom ise most anything. But we fear that those who think the Governor will fall for iheir . patriot ism are doomed to disappointment. One rqa'n who is doing a life sentence for killing his wife thinks the alkali plains look good to him. He has written the letter and had other convicts join him in signing. The convict should re member that when he violates the laws of the land he has forfeited his rights. Therefore to prate of patriotism behind prison bars, if the blood of his brother is upon his hands, means but little. ........... O ' What He Should Do. If Governor Craig thinks it .all right to send soldiers to guard a man down east ; if he thinks it proper to send soldiers anywhere they are called for looks to us Tike he should order at least a regiment to Raleigh. This appeared in J,he Raleigh News and Observer. The soldiers will know what to do: v .; We are led to wonder if Sal of SUbory has any kta ia Kinston. who would ever wash la Washington or Cry bin to Hamlet? .
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