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" " Admit Failure.
The strike leaders in New York, according
to reports sent out, admit failure. 1 hey tail
ed to secure enough people who wanted to
commit suicide. The intelligent miion jabor,
man did not see why he should jump into the
mixed up street car strike ,. where ; both -sides .
had violated their contracts. He could not
see why he should leave his happy home to
throw bricks at defenseless and moftensive
passengers. He could not understand why a
walking delegate should come m and start
something when there was no occasion for
starting it Accordingly he failed to respond.
Had President Shonfs given up the ghost
like Congress gave it up when a strike was
threatened all' would have been different
Shonts simply called a bluffdecided he would
run his own works and the result is that the
great industrial army of seven hundred and
fifty thousand people who were to parade with
banners and stop work kept on at their knit
ting and all is well.
Union labor is some of these days going to
put the calf weaner, on the professional labor
leader and agitator. It is going to intelligently
deal with the men for whom it proposes to
work. Arbitration will settle its disputes and
its misunderstandings. The strike will be a
thing of the past because labor and capital
understand that it takes both to make things
go. ':. ;;: 'A; -M;
The walking delegate ; the nian who .wants
to carry the banner and start something has no
place in commerce these days. Each labor
union has its officers and they are intelligent
arid arc capable of maintaining their honor and
dignity without calling in some loud-mouthed
anarchist who, for pay, wants to disturb the
commercial peace and bring hardship to those
who toil. . " .
It was a great day for union labor and all
kinds of labor when the loudly proclaimed
New York strike fizzled. Because there was
no occasion for a strike. There was no'reason
in the world why men remotely interested
should join in the wild hub bub.
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A State Wide Citizen.
In the death of Mr. John C. Drewry, of
Raleigh, North Carolina loses another distin
guished man. Mr. Drewry was prominent in
many things and was a successful business
man and good citizen. His departure will be
mourned by many. He was high in the
Masonic fraternity and his brothers of that
order buried him.
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We would like to hear a little of the Sixteen
to One dope along about now. Not but what
money is plentiful but w-e need a little more
free silver to meet the advance in all prices.
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- A Milk Shortage.
. The farmers are now holding out in New
York - state for what they think their eternal
fights. They want a certain price for milk.
The distributors will not pay it and the result
jsa milk shortage that threatens the health
of the city. Funny old world. From one
thing" to another. Last week it was a threat-
iiiri ctrik-f -of men whn wnrlf'm fartnnps 'ann
V rtkieriwwk a 'strike-the tillers ef the9dtl--
the men who have milk to sell. Truly the man
who observed that life was just one grand
thing after another was a philosopher of the
?N-ohl school.
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But It Doesn't Pay.
ve nave just Deen rcaaing 1 ne ivgitator,
published at North Ben, Oregon, and see where
the editor has been fined $500 because he print
ed an article exposing the horrible conditions
'' of the poor farm told how helpless women
were inhumanly treated; how crippled men
were beaten like unrulv beasts iust turned
the light on a sorrowing and sickening mess
of official corruption. And the tax payer ap
. plauded. He read and was ready to pat on the
back the editor who waded into the murky
ground and threw on the light. And now the
editor explains that he hasn't with him the
five hundred; that he will have to go to jail
unless his subscribers and friends come across
and lay down enough of the long green to
pay a fine that should never have been impos
ed. All of the other papers of the county ex
plain that the Agitator editor was right. One
opposition paper has made the Agitator's cause
it's cause and subscribed $25 and the men
working on it subscribed another $25 and it
..appeals to all the honest people in the county
cumc across ana neip raise the hne.
The newspaper whicb undertakes to hp tWp
defender of the people's rights if a ring of
politicians is in control, might just as well un
derstand one time as another, and many of
them understand it, that the "populace" which
applauds the utterances of the brave editor
most always takes to the woods when the acid
test is applied. Better for the editor to quietly
go to enough citizens and demand an investi
gation of the books ; insist that the poor house
be cleansed or what not and keep the dope
out of the paper until the fact is established
yhen the paper assumes the responsibility
alone it generally goes to jail or pays a fine.
t A veteran North Carolinian who has been
living under our strict prohibition laws asserts
that to him it is incomprehensible how a work
er in a brewry would go on a strike.
Says There Is No Joker.
. Tt bf freely charged that the Keat
ing child labor law contained a joker which
niade it really a warehouse law instead of a
child labor law. President Wilson warns all
who undertake to violate it that they wiil be
punished that the law means what it says and
contains no joker.
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ine Ked Cross seals will soon be on and
every man woman and child should buy a
book The fund goes to aid those ill with tub
erculosis a grand work and it should receive
all sorts of encouragement. V -
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Growing In Grace.
As an evidence that the countrv is paying
afU?ntlon to its spiritual welfare, the
wonderful success of Rally Day at the differ
ent churches throughout 4e "couru ve
ample evidence. y h
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11 omnt snow, but a little encouragement
would have brought it on. S ment
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Watermelon Bill.
There has been andLs on atrDurham a casein
in the Superior Court that reads more nice a
Bret Harte short story than anything happen
ing in i real life since the Outcasts of Poker
Flat wer "driyejp ther mouHlain death-rpx
since Mliss pjkyed her partiin the shanty
theatrer Watermelon ,43ill is-t farmer near
Durham! For years he' has been a trucker
worked early and worked late--and GolJ was
his only god. So miserly was he that hetook .
his scant earnings each day and placed them
in a sugar sack, it was alleged in court, and
made his boy follow his through the field, car
rying the money, through fear that his wife .
might get a part of it if left at home. Water
melon Bill he gained this soubriquet because
of his success in raising the melon finally got
together arid now holds some fifteen thousand
golden gods worth one dollar each coin cur
rent with the merchant.
It was alleged in court that now and then
his wife would have an -altercation with him
and she was called by him the endearing name
of Red Devil. Now and then,' in playful fancy,
it was alleged, he would furbish up an old re
volver, and like Ouilp, of old, point it at her
and threaten to snoot. In other moods he would
raise a chair over her head and threaten her
with immediate destruction. The descending
chair never fell upon the brow of the so-called
Red Devil because the members of the house
hold would appear just in time to save the im
pact. It was recounted that in twenty-three
years Watermelon Bill had purchased for his
help-meet but two articles of apparel one a
pair of shoes and at another time, in reckless
liberality he bought her a calico dress.
Mrs. Watermelon rju had to rustle for .'her-,
self. For herself and for fifteen children who
had conic into the -world through the love pact
of this eccentric twain.
These and other things were recounted in
the court house, according to the printed re
ports sent out,-and Mrs. Watermelon Bill had
asked the court for a divorce ;fon alimony and
such other things -as a court, in justice might
bestow.
If all these things recounted in the story else
where printed today" from the News and Ob
server are true, they certainly go a long way to
prove that truth is stranger than fiction.
George Eliot in her wonderful presentation of
Silas Marner drew a character of a miser that
did exist and Dickens when he created Quilp
did not much overdraw the real thing. Bret
Harte had made some wonderful human be
ings in his short stories yet they had had ex
istence, but we do not recall in fiction any
thing that approaches Watermelon Bill for his
miserly qualities or the Red Devil, as he lov
ingly named his wife, for loyalty and self sacri
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Handed It Them.
Taking off his gloves President Wilson
handed the republican parly a dose last Satur
day that alsoMnight come in under the head of
"skin 'em alive." He used all kinds of weap
ons, wit, sarcasm, facts, iogic, rhetoric and it
pleased the democrats to know that there was
$w spjue ginger, left:.:
And all this arerues that vou can
talk about
"dignified'' campaigns; insist that there will be
no personalities ; that the "living issues" will
; be left to appeal to the "intelligence of the
j voter" but behotd,' before the campaign is
I over you sec 'em all into it up to their knees
throwing volley after volley of all kinds of
stuff. Politics can never be dignified. It is a
dirty mess no matter who tries to handle it.
This month will witness a great many things
that it should not witness. There will be some
surprises sprung there will be dirt in this
campaign as there has been in all campaigns.
And both parties will participate.
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The Successful Big Business.
The Standard Oil Company was declared a
trust and the court ordered that it do certain
things ; that it be dissolved ; that its subsidiarv
companies must act independently of the par
ent company, and immediately the 1 a w's de
mand was met. But the Standard Oil Com
pany and all the others continued in business
and conducted the business in a lawful
manner. And last Thursdav, on the curb in
New York city, the boom" in Standard Oil
stocks carried the price of shares in the Stand
ard (Jil Company of New Jersey to more than
$2,000 per share the highest price on record
and more than three times its value per share
at the time of the famnn? HiccrJnt;-
years ago. On the day that the decree of
dissolution was handed down Standard Oil
sold at $675. On the. basis of this valuation of
his holdings in the cdmpanv, with his immense
interests in other lare rnrnomtinc vt-
j Rockefeller is a full-fledged billionaire. '
j Speaking of this the Columbia Daily Rec
i ord, a conservative paper and not one owned
j by "predatory interests" says it this way:
! ( As a matter of fact the business of
j trust-busting" has never amounted to
j anything much except by way of furn-
! ishing sound and fury to the politicians,
j Business combinations, however large,
j which are soundly made to meet prevail-
i ing conditions of trade will invariably
i succeed if their operations are directed
along efficient and economic linPe ,-,,1
will eventually meet disaster if they are
unsoundly or dishonestly , managed. Small
competitors can be crushed down and
kept out of business for a time by a
crooked trust, but a situation of that sort
can by no means be perpetuated.
And that is what we have always claimed.
Big Business is simply a ponderous affair
andjiot necessarily dishonest business. There
are hundreds of great concerns and the bigger
they get the richer of course-and the spell
binder goes before his hearers and denounces
them not because they are illegal but be
cause they are prosperous. There was a time
when the voter heard. But now he sees that
come if the men who handle it are honest men.
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Tennessee On.
Tennessee, a little laggard here of late, re
deemed herself yesterday as being a sister
state ot Georgia when some of her leading
citizens took two negroes from the ja'l and
lynched them. J
The Higher Cost.
The disoatches brinp- us word that the cbsl
of Jiving still soars ' up wardY and there is ?no
particular reason for all this except' that
prices are advanced and the average American
citizen, feeling that he should continue to
live, stands the raise and hopes for better
things which never come.
Some articles of consumption have advance
r ed fifty and even seventy per cent., and the
wages do not climb with the things necessary
for existence.? It- seems that we are a nation
drunk and staggering under a temporary pros
perity under a wave of prosperity that must
recede the moment munition factories stop
paying the enormous wages now paid on hurry
uo orders. Everything entering into the
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equation of living advances a strip ot oacon ;
is as costiy as diamonds were when we were a I
boy. Indeed, bacon now sells at about forty
cents a karat and still goes up.;In the other
and happier days we could buy a slab of sow
bosom as big. as a tombstone fo a dollar and
a half, and now a little shoat pig;costs as much
as a race-horse cost fifty years ago. Milady's
shoes are priced, around nine and ten and
twelve dollars, whereas, when she was a lit
tle girl with golden ringlets hanging on her
bare brown shoulders her mother bediked her
self in foot gear for a dollar and a half and
one pair went through the four seasons.
Recently we bought a pair of shoes on the i
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installment plan, paid seven hundred dollars
down and gave forty-three promissory notes
for fifteen hundred dollars each, bearing six
per cent interest, and put up nine pounds uf
bacon as collateral security. It takes money
to do things and the money is floating. Mun
ition makers who expcci to be blown up in a
powder mill before they collect their wage arc
offered twelve dollars a day and some of them
escape alive to tell what they did inside the
works. The most of them are keeping the un
dertakers busy who also have received the
hunch and advanced prices accordingly.
We have made arrangements with a New
York syndicate to float a loan whereby wc ex
pect to piece our short sleeved undcrvest
and hope to get through the winter. If the
Spring is backward, we shall be lost but the
hope is ours, and we falter not upon the way.
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Southgate.
Durham hsm buried many of her loved ones
but not one more beloved than James H.
Southgate who will tomorrow be laid in the
narrow house.' All day Thursday Mr. South
gate was in town attending to his .many busi
ness duties Friday his soul had left its tene
ment of clay and all Durham spoke in whis
pers. In that sudden death the whole coun
try lost a yal liable citizen. AYe had known Jim
Southgate for over ;a quarter of a century he
Wjas oue of... the nrsmen. to call upon us on
October first twenty-six years ago tomorrow
and he gave us the glad hand of welcome
and for all those years a friendship speedily
formed has remained unbroken. In all our ups
and downs and downs and ups Jim South
gate believed in us as we believed in him.
.When' we were an ardent advocate of legalized
whiikqft Jv Syh f , sf ng prohibi
tionist and he said he would not quarrel with
us that eventually we would see it as he did.
Wherever we have been we have exchanged
letters with him ; we "have kept up the friend
ship so early formed, and to us his death
comes as a severe blow. Men form few friend
ships after the fifty mark has passed; the
friends made in. the (lays of youth and dreams
and ambitions are the real friends and to see
them go one by one; to pass out of the pafli
of life brings sadness to the soul.
Mr. Southgate was a most exemplary citizen.
A man always temperate in his habits, in his
mind and conduct, he was ever an inspiring
force to youth. Clean morally and mentally:
a Christian gentleman endowed by nature
with many talents, wherever Jim Southgate
went his presence was felt. When he invaded
New England a few years ago at a national
insurance gathering he delivered a speech that
made Boston talk. The big daily papers were
quick to his hotel for photograpris and every
daily paper in Boston played him up as a
Soirthern gentleman who had charmed the
city by his eloquence and his learning. As a
trustee of Trinity College he materially aided
that institution of learning, v
As president of the Chamber of Commerce
of his city Mr. Sorthgate was always progres
sive always as iic expressed it stood "for
I construction, and- not destruction" .H harf no
; patience with the demagogue. He stood with
i every window oi r his purposes open to the
i public he was fair ruinded; he was liberal
I and he loved Nature. His intense love of wood
ana neia ana Dira ana nower was wnat caused
j him to build his cabin on the highest peak in
j Orange fcounty. There in his solitude he
j spent his evenings and his mornings commun
i ing with Nature enraptured by :ne manifold
j myteries and miracles of a living God. It
seemed that in his early youth he had caught,
i as a personal revelation direct to him the mcs
; sage, "Peace on earth good will to men" and
J that was the platform upon which he uncom
! promisingly stood.
r When such grand characters go out from
; us when we feel that never again will their
voice be heard for the betterment of the race;
j for the upbuilding of community; for the ad
vancement of education and religion and mor
; als we must, perforce, feel that wc all have
j sustained a loss so great that it cannot be
i estimated.
Wall Street.
Henry Ford, not long a star in the bright
galaxy of money grubbers, says the reason he
will support Wilson is because Wall Street is
against him. W'e had suspected that under
the trust-busting Sherman law and then under j want money. And he had more in that splcn
the new bank jaw Wall Street was about out did character than some men have in their un-
of the buccaneering business. And if great
v.auu J j YliaviVll,' 1 UIU 15 dlldlU Ul 11C 3UUUIU
employ an attendant to accompany him. The
way his product multiplies,, and the way his
millions roll in, pretty soon he can buy Wall
Street and make a garage out of jt. We can
understand why Wall Street vvould be afraid
of Henry, but can't understand why Henry is
afraid of Wall Street, Jt certainly didn't inter
fere with him either immaking or controlling
his many millions.
And They Speculate.
!'Thk!republitaris?are' insisting 'that Teddy's;
skin 'em alive' speech delivered at Battle Creek
last Saturday will bring back to the fold at
least ninety per cent of the recreant moosers
so many of whom had gone far astray. If ever
an ex-President employed epithet and sarcasm ;
satire and fish-woman's language to abuse an
other man, it is not a matter of record. But
Teddy didn't care. He didn't warm up for
the occasion. The big crowd in the great tent
wasn't his inspiration. Because the speech had
been prepared and printed and sent out days in
advance by the Associated Press. In the
quiet of his room at Oyster Bay Roosevelt had
nrenared the scathinsr talk. It was with dehb-
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eration and premeditation, it wasn 1 as inougn
he had warmed up Decause 01 a migmv
tion "rose to the occasion ' as they say bu
ut
like the hangman or the executioner who goes
down to decapitate his fellow brother, under
an order of the court, Roosevelt went to Bat
tle Creek and in cold blood and with method
ical neatness and dispatch handed out a roast
that has not been equalled on the stump in any
campaign. Truly it was a "skin 'cm alive
speech" and the question is: Will it bring the
boys into camp? The republicans say yes, but
we do not know.
It appears that Michigan is in doubt or was
in doubt, and if the Moose people loved 1 eddy
for his sanguinary and belligerent exhibitions
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of other years surely the hero of San Juan
Hill never displayed more stage blood or made j
more stage thunder than at Battle Creek. The
dispatches say he had the speech pretty well
committed, and while reading it he dotted it i
with all kinds of gesture and grew tragic at ;
times. He was at Battle Creek with his Battle !
Axe he had on his war paint and he didn t
: care where the chips fell. He went after the
President's Mexican policy, his German policy
! and when he got to the Adamson bill he
; made mince meat out of it for his hearers. And
they say he has in keeping five or six more
' shafts of the same kind of thunder and light
! ning he proposes to paint the whole west
! clear to the calm Pacific, a lurid hue. He pro
j poses to leave no shred of Wilson. So far as
1 Teddy's man-eating propesities are concerned,
he has just sharpened his teeth. He is going
', to consume democracy he is going to elect
' Hughes if he has the power,
j And if the wild west and the rugh riders
the men who applaud the heroes of buck-skin
! and carbine the citizens wrho followed Teddy
! in 1912 still find in him their beloved, he will
i accomplish his purpose. The republicans have
i only to keep their erstwhile members in line
democracy to win must make at least three
i million converts. Question?
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The Defensive.
State Treasurer I-acey, takes seriously, Mr.
I.inncy's campaign joke concerning corrup
tion in the democratic partv and proceeds to
' read 'to Mr. Linnev the riot act, in which he
incorporates the words "deliberate falsehood.
We had presumed that Mr. Lacey had been too
long a politician to allow the placid waters to
be disturbed by the rocks thrown into them
by a republican spell binder. Truth is if we
take the two grand old parties and sift from
the campaign thunder tUe . falsehood... lher.c
wouldn t be enough lett to
throughout Oranire count v. In
reverberate
fact there
wouldn't be any thunder at all.
Mr. Lacey has been state treasurer a long
time ; his books have been audited ; his method
of book keeping is perhaps as good as any
other method, and Candidate Linney is just
having a little fun in stirring uo the animals
and because the prod he uses has to do with gets the boys stirred. He puts the fire in them
money Lacey jumps out of bed and hands I and they get busy to bring out their friends
! down some red hot stuph fashioned into words i and do the election day chore.
I and sentences. But there is no use. The j The young man who intends to cast his first
; democrats are not going to get excited. They j ballot has about as hard a job as he. ever en
are not going to be stampeded by campaign counters in all his life. In the matter of sc-:
speeches.
The people who intend to vote the demo
cratic ticket have already made up their minds,
Those who intend to vote the republican nciwcc
have likewise reached a definite conclusion.
The campaign oratory ; the red fire; the stuffed
clubs; the stage thunder; the charges of fraud
and corruption simply constitute a job lot of
campaign effects delivered solely to get the
boys in line on election day. The election
is most always lost or won by people remain
ing away from the polls, rather than going to
them, paradoxical as this may seem. So it is
the intention of the campaign orator to en-
thusc the voters to get them excited in order
that they will vote early and often as the day
Passes-
Were we in the shoes cf Ben Lacey we
wouldn't care a doughnut about what Frank
! Linney says. Frank understands that to put a
; man on the defensive is good politics to have
; iiini Miiari unaer cnarges ana get him to cx-
i plaining his conduct when in fact no cxplana-
j tion is necessary is a good play. That is what
! the republicans are doing and thev are havimr
, great sport. 1 ne aemocrats tried to get the
republicans in the same hole by pi a vim uo
I -Marion sutler out no republican has under-
i taken to explain Butler's part in the play he
! is just left as he is without one single plea. No
I excuse for Marion. No attempt td-rriake it ap-
! pear that he isn't in the game. Rather a rigid
silence, and the effect of the Butler abuse is
lost. Ben Lacey should sit steady in the boat.
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j Was Worth While.
! Wc went over to Durham to the Southgate
j funeral, and to see the church running over
: with friends who wanted to pay their last tri-
I bute; to see hundreds turned away and to
i know that Jim Southgate was noor in thr tnr
j mcn call gold, but rich in Character, suggested
j lhat after all a man doesn't have to have
j money to maKe mm popular. Southgate could
! have had all kinds of riches but he didn't
counted gold. Durham to a man mourned the
loss. As Bishop Kilgo said: "Durham has
been hit and hit hard." And rrptainltr ttio.
j will be no one to take the place of the remark-
aoie man who died and died too soon.
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Thc automobile multir lies over a million
and a half made this year. And gasoline
lingers around the two-bits a gallon and men
owing grocery bills joy ride to beat the band.
Let joy be uncopfined.
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Give The South A Chance.
ij tcsliJ Weekly .has .the following to av
:. concermog the South and its politics, which
j we endorse all the way through:
Unnecessary! It is unnecessarv to raie
a sectional issue in this Presidential cam
paign. Let the dead past be buried. If
the South is the controlling factor in the
present government it is because the peo
ple voted to have it so. The solid South
is the mainstay of the Democratic partv
and under all the rules of the game it is
therefore entitled to dominate in th coun-
cils of the administration. Nor should it
be forgotten that the Southern States
have made it a rule for years to return to
Congress their representative men and to
keep them there so that they might be
come trained in the practice of legislation.
It would be infinitely better if the West
and North were to follow this excellent
example instead of changing their repre
sentatives at Washington at the time when
they are beginning to be useful. There are
sufficient issues in this great Presidential
campaign on which to make an appeal to
the votes without seeking to divide them
on sectional lines. The South is prosper
ous. It has marvelous riches undeveloped
which arc attracting capital liberally from
the North. Itshoughtful men arc chang
ing their opinions to some extent regard
ing the need of a tariff to protect Southern
industries and of an adequate ship subsidy
to give the South facilities for the trans
portation of its cotton and other crops
which arc sought for in the market of the
1 world. Give the South a chance.
It has always seemed to us triat a faithful
servant' should be retained. That is the cus
! torn in all other kinds of business except mi
j umiMjg iwv; &yj ti nun-Hi. c icei mat con
gress is a great body of men entrusted to con
duct the business affairs of the biggest busi
ness concern in the world. Then why everv
year talk about running some new man? If
you send to Congress a representative it takes
him two or four years to get in line. And about
the time he learns the ropes, becomes familiar
with rules and usages and gets to a point wlure
j he can really render service to his constituents,
; some other aspiring statesman bobs up and dc
' mands that he shall represent the people,
j North Carolina has in Congress today repre
1 sentative men. Her senators and her mem
! bers of the lower house have all made good.
; And for this reason, this newspaper, strictlv
independent in its politics, is of opinion that
! all of them should be retained.
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Shaw's Talk.
Ex-secretary of the treasury, Leslie M.
Shaw, spoke to a goodly sized audience at the
Municipal theatre, and his speech was clean,
strong and decent. He didn't abuse people
he said he was there to attempt to" tell the
voters something about their responsibility.
And he proceeded to tell them and as the
audience was for the most part composed of
republicans he was liberally applauded. Shaw
makes a first-clas'talk. 'Mr. S. G. Bradshaw,
in his introduction said that Mr. Shaw was
held to ut the best political orator -in Amer-
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Tonight Congressman Tom Heflin will
speak. He will take the other side and the
Municipal theatre will be filled with , demo
crats, and the applause will be for Wilson.
And this is the story. r-
We have always had an idea that political
spcaKing maae no 0ter5. -o tew at least thev
! are not worth counting. The speaker simplv
lecting his wife he is inflamed with the pas
sion of love which men call divine, and he
isn't long in reaching a conclusion if pretty
face or pretty ways hold him captive.- He is
the Sir Johnny on the Spot and he proclaims
himself he announces that that election has
gone unanimous.
But when he assume's the responsibility of
citizen, if he pauses to consider the great re
sponsibility which it is, and alone undertakes
to decide whether he is for protection or for
free trade ; whether he is for Preparedness and
possible bloody war or for peace with honor;
! whether he is in favor of adontimr any of the
j issues ofa certain party or of opposing them
he has a great struggle with his mind aye,
i with his soul, because he realizes that it will
j be only until tomorrow when the first voter
: will be the onlv voter.
! So he doesn't go out tonight and hear the
orator of -None partv and sav: "By jrinrer. that's
so I'm for all he said and then go out the
next night and hear the orator of the other
j party and use the same exclamatory sentence.
Not on your life! cThat young man has been
i thinkingfor a year or two. He has read -a
I he passed along and every now and then he
! reached a conclusion. Not a definite conclu
. sion, but a conclusion, nevertheless, and fm
I ally the chaff was sifted and the conclusion
; cryslalized and that is the way he will vote.
W c know a dozen young men in this town
j who during the past two years have 'insisted
that they' were going to vote against Wilson
' and vote for him.?. They were undecided
out air the time they were getting nearer the
! nonic plate. On election day they will vote
hut n W'1J not be according to what some
spell-binder has told them it will be becaue
; Kfaduallv they assumed the responsibility of
I citizenship and reached a conclusion. Aud it
thc' keep-out of politics they will alwavs vote
I or tne s3me principles they adopted the first
t
time. If- thev become politicians thev will
bend with every straw; they will seek new
gods and false gods proclaim them old and
real and undertake, because of their desire for
pic or glory, to make the average voter bow
before them. And so runs the world away.
o
Good Enough.
North Carolina progresses. This fall she
will hold forty fairs. Twenty-five years ago
and you.rould count on the fingers of one
hand theJairs that were to be held. True'fa
state should progress in twenty-five years. bJt
back of fhat were a couple of , hundred ycax
when thcjfc was nothing- much doing. rj
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