THE GKEENVILLE INDEX
ANDEEW
Ecato' Sc JPropriejtor.
GHE K N VIL LE, N. C, MARCH 30 1894
Published Every Fkiday
AT 5 CKNT 1 A YEAR,
Entered iu the PostOffieeat Green
villo, N.. C, as Second-Class Matter.
Bravely Done-
good citizens, of the town may awajv?
to the necessity of providing a school
building. Will not some one help
in this laudable undertaking,
enator Colquitt Dead.
We rejoice greatly at the brave
manly confession of sin and wrong
doing made by so many of our young
men at the reviyal meetings conduct
ed here by Mr. Schoollield, and aid
ed so greatly by the earnest work
and prayers of the christian people
of the town.
It takes a brave man to openly
confess afault, and an honest mau
will always feel th benefit of his re
nunciation of sin. These ymng men
are in earnest in their professions of
penitence and their determination to
lead a pure'-, nobler life. Uod will
help them, but they must alo help
themselves, and further, whatsoever
their hands find to do, they mast do
jt with all their might.
We suggest to the business men of
this town, to the officials of the
churches, that enquiry be m:de il
these young men all have regular em
pioyinent and if any are so unfortu
nate as to be out of work, that woi k
be secured- We feel sure that all aiv
willing aud anxious to be employed.
We feel equally sure that not one of
them can successfully frgtit the devil
with idle hnnds and idle brains.
In a reform wo k of over two years
rubbing up with 500 irieu all the
lvlapses to sin aud dissipation came
from thoe who would not give up
o her bad habits or those who could
not get work. We have appealed to
the Y. M. 0. A's, Churches aud bus
iness men iu a dozen different towns
iu Virginia and North Carolina, to
give our men work, whenever they
failed to respond the man was lost.
Voluntary idleness is bad, but en
forced idleness is worse, both have
more to do with populating hell and
disorganizing society than profanity
or drunkenness, because they breed
both. Fellow christians help these
men by your prayers, yes, but also
by substantial encouragement and by
work.
Alfred Holt Colq-iitt Seuatoi fiom
Georgia died of paralysis at tiie Cap
ltol in the 70th year of his age, the
12th year of Senatorial service.
After appropriate services in the
Senate, Tuesday his remains were
taken to Macon, Ga., for interment.
Governor, Senator, a le.iding minis
ter in tl'e Methodist church, at all
times a power for good in religion
and politics, the loss ot this pure
statesman must be keenly felt at this
crucial period, when the people need
such men for protection, from the
encroachments of selfishness and
grejd and avarice in the dominant
powers.
He was true io his p;irty, true to
his country and to God. A consist
ent christian and patriot. He stood j
for integrity in the discharge of pub
lie or in private duties. He faith
fully adhered to the' solemn pledges
of his 'party made to the people and
was a true deiiiocr.it.
' Georgia will miss him, the nation
will miss him, the world is better for
his life.rf ,
amended or smiek bar, on the floor
of the Senate. The income tax is
believed to be doomed, unlets it can
secure republican votes enough to
inke up ior the loss of the eastern
democrats who will support a motion
to strike it out of the bill. When the
debate opens on the bill April 2
it will haye been two months from
the time the Dill was passed by the
House, aud conservative men esti
mate that the debate will run at least
three months.
Every hour brings out a new sto
ry as to what Piesident Cleveland
will do with the Bland bill fo" the
coinage of the seigniorage. While
he has until the 29th of this month
to make up his mind he may an.
uounce his decision any hour. It is
bel iewd by fair minded people that
the reports of a bargain made by
President Cleveland with the silver
men is as unjust to the President as
it is to the silver men. Great influ
ence, both political and business, is
( spending of that money at Pearl Hr
j bor. The day that' the American
flag is raised ovei Pearl Harbo.
the world will regard Hawaii as be
ing under American prelection'
Ah There !
ProgressmgJBackwards.
Every sincere Democrat in the land
must feel humiliated when he reads
the great majority of the changes
made in the Wilson bill. Of the mi
nitrous changes but one only was in
the line of Democratic principles
and policies, and in the interest of
the revenue the placing of sugar
on the dutiable list.
The dissatisfaction and indigna
tion felt by loyal Democrats every
where, at the attempted mutilation
aud emasculation in the Senate Fi
nance Committee of the Wilson Tar
iff Reform bill formulated by the
Committee of Ways and Means and
paesed by the House, are rinding
prompt and vigorous expression
through a variety of channels.
Honestly.
A Sad Ba!d Fact-
On the train last week several peo
pie asked us if it were possiole that
Greenville did not have even a free
school building as stated in the In
dex. We were compelled to bay that
while Greenville had the safest fi
nancial record of any town Hn the
State, not having had a single mer
cantile failure during the whole pan
ic and but one in four years she
was deplorably behind in education
al facilities. Free education being
denied her white children for the
lack of a building, although the col
ored children were well provided
for.
It is humiliating to own this but
the truth hail better be told, so that
our good people, for our citizens are
Doe3 Col. Skinner propose by coa
lition with the lepnblicans, the ene
mies of every reform called for in his
platform to perpetuate reform prin
ciples or procure him position?
Our Law Makers.
Froraour Regular Correspondent. ?
Washington, D. C;, March &7th, 94
Onfe thing is clearly apparent in
.the fog of uncertainty that sun omids
the revised tariff bill, which was at
hist reported to the Senate this week.
That is the absolute impossibility of
its becoming a law in its present
shape. It has been revised to an ex- !
tent that has aroused more opposi
tion than the concessions made have
placated. In fact, none of the Sen
ators who opposed the bill as it pass
ed the House appear to have been
placated, as it is known that there
are a number of clauses in the bill
which they propose to try to have
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ucin uoeu. ootii ior an u, against U'e
bill. Both sides claimed to get? en
eouragement from Mr. Cleveland's
telegram to the committee of the K.
Y. Chamber of Commerce which was
appointed to come to' Washington to
advocate a veto of the bill, advising
them not to come. Mr. Bland is of
the opinio!i that the President is wa
veiing aud is liable to go either way
bu: inasmuch as the influences
which have heretofore been most po
tent with Mr. Cleveland are against
the bill I look for a veto.
Mr, Wheeler H. Peck ham of New !
York, the gentleman who was nom
inated for a place on the Supreme
Court and rejected by the Senate,
was in Washingiou this week, on bus
inss connected with the Cherokee
Indian bonds, which were purchased
by a New York trust company, Mr
Peckham is tne trust company's at
torney and his business was with
Secretaries Carlisle and Smith. Be
fore .leturning to New York he call
ed on President Cleveland ana, pre
sumably, thanked him for tie high
honor he had sought to confer upon
hnr
! It is intimated by those who, are
in positions to know that the admin
istration, notwithstanding its. pro-!
nonnced opposition to the establish
ment of a protectorate over IlawaiU
by minister Stevens', may shortly
take a step that will, iu the eves of
the Jiawaiians and of the rest of the
world, be regarded as practically the
establishment of a protectorate by
the United States. Senators and
others remember that the Sundry
Civil art of August 5th, 1892 con
tained a paragraph placing an ap
propriation of $250,000 at the dispos
al of the President, lor the purpose
of establishing United States coal
ing stations abroad. It was well un
derstood at the time that a portion
of that money as to be used to fit
up a naval and coaling station at
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, which was
ceded to the United States for that
purpose by the treaty of 1887,. but
the starting of the project was for
various reasons postponed until the
present administration carae into
power. Now, however, the adminis
tration is favorably condsidering the
"Handsome Harry Skinner, the
pleasing Populist pleader," is t he
alliterative designation of a Senato
rial possibility of the Old JSToith
State. When seen last night at the
Metroplitan he expressed great con
fidence In the future of the third
party in North Carolina. Mr. Skin,
ner is of one of the most
V Democratic families in the State and'
was nimselt a Democrat of the
straightest sect until he became con
vinced that the party had departed
from its pristine purity and from the
paths of the old line Jeffersouian
Democracy. The party left him aim
he found himself defending the faith
under the banner of populism.
At least three of the Congression
al districts of 'his State he says, are
sure to send .Populists to represent
them next fall and if coalition should
succeed, as it now appears certain,
there will not be a single straight '
Democrat elected. "The Democrats,'
he said, "are tryiug to save them
pelves by conducting a campaign m
opposition to theadmi istrarion, but
a house divided-against itself can
not. stand ; that is good old JBible
doctrine and holds t-ue to-day. Some
body will be elerted to . the Senate
to succeed Senator Hansom ; if the
Democrats shonlu elect a majority
in the next Legislature, it will beex
(xoveinor Jar vis; should the Popu
liste have the majority, which is prob
able, there will be a" Populist Sena
tor." Post.
Special Offer. The Atlanta
Constitution. See Henry T. King.
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cold type at
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