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Gl&ta Library 111 T I ' t in n - ' ' - - PROTECTION! INDUSTRY 1 ENTERPRISE! PROSPKTilTV ? yOLOME -29. APPEAL FOa ANNEXATION. HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1897. AMERICAN PATRIOTS IN MAW All FOR ACTION. CALL Sons of the American devolution. Member of the O. A.' R. sud Son bf Veterans. Warn Their Comrade In This Country That the Time for Quick Decision , Has Arrived. Washington. July 11. An interest ing addition to the literature respect ing the proposed annexation of Hawaii to the United States has just reached here, in the form of an address by the Hawaiian branches of the Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of Veterans and Grand Army of the Republic, to Their compatriots in America. The document was drawn and adopted by the Sons of the American Revolution on May 22 last, and subsequently was adopted by the other organizations, in each instance by a unanimous vote. The total membership of these bodies is about 150, and the titles and names of officers follow: Hawaiian Society of the Sons of the American Revolution Peter Cushman .Jones, President; Chief Justice Albert F. Judd, Vice President; John Effinger Secretary; Prof. William De Witt Alexander, Register; William J. Forbes Treasurer. George W. De Long Post 45, G. A, R. Department of California R. J. Greene, Post Commander; Fred Sher man, Post Adjutant. Capt. G. C. Wiltze Camp 4, Sons of Veterans, U. S. A. Camp Council: L K. McGrew, Captain; John W. Short, Second Lieutenant; George Dilling ham, Chaplain; James F. Hilbus. The address says: "These islands are the meeting place of the East and the West, of the American and the Asiatic forms of civilization, and a few years will wit ness the triumph of one or the other. Few of our countrymen are aware of the rapid changes taking place in the condition of the Pacific Ocean. Australia is becoming a mighty com monwealth; Japan is plishing her way to the front as. a naval and commercial powrer; China is beginning to awake out Qf her long .sleep, while Russia Only awaits the near completion of the Trans Siberian Railroad to compete for the control of this ocean. "The prophecy uttered thirty years ago by William H. Seward bids fair to be fulfilled, viz.: 'The Pacific Ocean its shores, its islands, and the vast regions beyond, will become the chief theatre of events in the world's great hereafter. "The position of these islands show that their relations are naturally with the American continent. For that reason they properly fall within the sphere of the Monroe doctrine, and it is certainly for the interest of their people that they should be kept aloft from the politics of the Old World. It has been remarked that San Francisco Honolulu, and Unalaska form an equilaterieal triangle. The relation of these islands to the Pacific coast of , America is very similar to that of the Bermuda Islands to the Atlantic "coast." The iutlueuce of American citizens upon the history of the islands and their preponderating ownership are mentioned, and the address continues: "This is not the place, nor is it necessary to vindicate the revolution of 1803. It may be truly said that it was the same element that had pro cured for the Hawaiian people their lauds and their civil rights, that had saved their independence, and had borne v ith the Hawaiian monarchy long after it had become a demoralizing sham, and at lust was forced in self defence, to put an end to it. The revo lution was not the work of filibusters and adventurers, but of the most con servative and law abiding citizens, of the principal taxpayers, the leaders of industrial enterpries, who had en dured the rule of carpet baggers and palace parasites until forbearance ceased to be a virtue.' There is ample wealth and intelligence here to carry on and to pay all the expenses of territorial jrovernment under the broad agis of the Union. ' "It may be said: 4 Why not continue as you are for an indefinite period?' We reply that we have arrived at a turning point where things will not long remain as they are. The irrepress American civilizations is becoming more intense and will not be decided in favor of America except by annexa tion. m "An active movement has been on foot here for some time to abolish the system of contract labor, and to seek white workers from the United States, under a system of profit-sharing whhh is Already in operation on some of our plantations, and has been successfully tried in Queensland. Special efforts have also been made by this Govern ment, with a gratifying degree of suc cess, to attract industrious farmers from the United States to develop our coffee lands. But'if our overtures for a closer union with the mother country are spurned, if our products are dis criminated against in American markets, and we are treated as aliens, it is certain that neither of thete undertakings can succeed. The un certainty that will hang over the fate of this country will deter the most desirable class of setttlers from coming here. "On the other hand, Japan is quietly pouring in her people for the purpose of making a peaceful conquest of the islands, which is a perfectly legitimate ambition. We can restrict or exclude Chinese immigration, for we have no treaty with China. But, unfortunate ly, our treaty made with Japan in 1871 contains the 'favored nation' clause, and under its provisions we cannot prevent her people from com ing as free immigrants. Five immi gration companies are at work with their agents in Japan, who resort to every artifice to drum up recruits aud to evade our immigration laws. "The recent enforcement of a law intended to exclude paupers has led to a serious controversy between the two Governments. The native press of Japan, and many of her people resid ing here plainly avow their intention to possess Hawaii. It would not be good diplomacy to admit officially that any such intention exists, nor is it necessary for Japan to use any force to accomplish her ends. "But the republic of Hawaii would then be run by loyal subjects of the Mikado, its markets would be filled with Japanese products, its industries carried on by Japanese planters and manufacturers, and its ports filled with ships carrying the victorious flag of the Rising Sun. And if, when the time is ripe, Hawaii should proceed to ask for actual annexation to Japan, who would have a right to interfere? Certainly not the United States, after having so long refused ail offers of an nexation. The 'dog in-the manager' policy will not succeed in the long run. "Believing that no half-way measure will meet the case, and that now is the time for the United States to secure this outpost of its western frontier, not only for its security and the development of its commerce, but for the take of maintaining and extending American principles at this central meeting place of races, we request our compatriots to give this subject a care ful and calm consideration, and to exert their influence for the cause of freedom, either as individuals or officiallv. as shall be deemed most proper." LABOR FIGHT IN ENGLAND. THE GREAT STRUCK LE FOR THE EIGHT HOUR DAY BEGUN. WASHINGTON LETTER. It Promises te Be the Leafest aaS Meet Bit ter of Recent British Later Wars Shipbuilding la All Branches Involved-Toe Men Have a Strike Fan4 o4 $i,7So,ee. London, July 10. The troubles in the engineering trade, which have j been pending for a long time, will probably be fought to the bitter end in what threatens to be the greatest of recent English labor wan. It is taking the form both of a lock out and a strike. It is nominally a struggle for an eight hour day. The men, who are members of the ten trades unions comprising the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, made a demand in April which was to be enforced by a strike in the London district. In anticipation of this the London employers joined the already existing Employers' Assoeiation.which replied by the discharge of 25 percent, of the workmen in the chief engineer ing centres, in order to embaras the unions and put an intolerable strain upon their funds. The unious have replied by calling out the other 75 per cent, of the men and issuing stringent directions to their pickets to keep within the law. Both the strike and lockout are spreading throughout the country and wilT probably become general. The eight-hour-day battle does not mean what the average man thinks. The men do uot assert the right to work eight hours a day only or forty- eight hours a week. What they claim is that all time over forty-eight hours a week should be paid for at the extra rates which belong to overtime. The men have a strike fund of $1,750,000. The employers declare that they must win this fight or surrender their business to foreign competition. The struggle is likely to be long and desperate, and as shipbuilding in all its branches will be completely para lyzed American yards will probably be among those to profit. NUBBEK 21- STATE NEWS. SPAIN'S TROUBLES THICKEN. It Is Admittec at Last That Gomel's Forces Are Near Havana. Madrid, July 12. A special de spatch fcom Havana to the Heraldo says that two of the princibal bands of insurgents are now in the province of Havana, and that arms and ammu nition have beeu landed at various points along the coast. Upward of 28,000 Spaniards are sick, and there are 7,000 patients iu the Havana hos pitals alone. There is also a great scarcity of provisions, owing to the delay of the authorities in making pavments to contractors. The state meut of the Official Gazette iu regard to the affairs of the Bank of Spain has caused a great deal of comment. It is shown that the notes iu circulation ex ceed the amount the bank i author ized to issue by 130.000,000 pesetas. Fact About North Carolina. From many sources the following in teresting facts about North Carolina have been gathered. It will be well to keep these for reference: Number of counties, 90. State area, 52,280 square miles. Extreme length is 503$ miles. Extreme breadth is 187$ miles. Number of electoral votes 11. Length of coast line is 414 miles. Land surface, 48,500 square miles. Water surface, 3,620 square miles. Area Dismal Swamp, 150,000 acres Number of miles of railroad, 3,579. Indian population (census of 1890) 1,571. Inland steamboat navigation, 000 miles. Total population (census of 1800) 1, 617,947. Average mean annual rainfall, 52 inches. White population (census 1890) 1,049, 19 1: Colored population (census 190) 507, 170. Total water power, 3,500,000 horse power. Western boundary longitude 81 de grees, 42 minutes, 20 seconds. Average winter temperature, 43 de grees Fahrenheit. The highest point is Mitchell's Peak 6,868 feet. Average arta of couuties is 507 square miles. Number of varieties ot inral dis covered. Average umiuer teiuerature, 75 tie grees Fahrenheit. Aw rae elevation of State above fa level i 040 feet. (From oar aVgvlar Corrpo .de. Washixutos. July 12th, 1897 Al though the secrecy maintained by the Senator ami Repreentativ- ou the conference committee which it at work on the tariff bill Med b the Senate lat wtt-k is agurnvatit.g to the news gatherer, it is considered absolutely neceary to avoid del y in the final disposition of lite bill. If each agree inent reached by the conference should Le announced, there would be no peace for the tucuiWr of the commit tee, owing to the objections of tboee who are interested. It has a'sD been determined, to avoid delay, that no partial reports shall be made to the House and Senate, everything being held back until a final agreement has bden reached. Experience has proven that partial reports are productive of much delay, especially when the measure under consideration is of such a complicated nature as a tariff bill necessarily is. Although there is nothing official on the subject, I have excellent reasons for saying that the republican conferees the democratic conferees will take no part in the con ferences until the republicans have reached an agreement ex ject to com plete their work this week. President McKinley has indicated quite plainly to a number of promin ent republicans that he has aout de cided to modify Mr. Cleveland's orders for the extension of the civil service rules aud the President's order may be expected at any time. It is not yet certain how far this modification will go, but it is the impression of those who have talked with Maj. McKinley on the subject that deputy collectors of internal revenue, who have charge of the distribution of stamps, and deputy collectors of customs, who are in charge of sub-stations, will be among those placed outside of the civil service rules. As was stated in this correspondence several months ago. Mr. Cleveland's consolidation of Pension Agencies, an nounced to go into effect Sept. 1, 1897, will not go into effect. The Cleveland order will iu due time be officially re voked by President McKinley, a thor ough investigation having shown that the government would save nothing by the proposed consolidation, and that it would greatly inconvenience thousands of pensioner?. The report that Japan will file an additional and stronger protest against the annexation of Hawaii excites such very little interest in W'ashington that nobody appears to care whether it turns out to be true or not. Hawaii will be annexed in due time, and Sen ator Morgan, a dyed-Iu-the-wojl democratic member of the comm ttee on Foreign Relations, says that if President McKinley wishes the treaty to be ratified at the. preseut session of Congress, instead of at the regular session, next winter, he has only to say so and it will be done. The death of Senator Harris, of Tenn., has once more made Represen tatives McMillau and Richardson, of that State, rivals; they both want to go to the Senate, just k they both wanted the miuority leadership iu thr House, that went to Bailey, of Tela. Secretary Alger has awe p ted an in vitation to deliver au addre at a G. A. R. reunion at Spirit Ike. Iowa, on the 21st int , and troiu there te will go to Chicago to be present at the unveilinc of the Ican statue on the W. B. Davis, of Lynchburg. Vv, died suddenly on a railway train be tween Danville and Greensboro Sat urday. Heart Disease. The commissioners of Craven county adhere to their determination not to order the August public school elec tion. The8tate will force them to hold It. The Charlotte Observer has put in a new press, capable of turning out 5,- 0(0 complete papers per hour, and has changed its form from a V column. 4 Iapr to 8 paxree of C columns each. Governor Russell has a letter from Charles Broadway Rouss, of New York, saying he wants to give 1250 toward the monument over the North Carolina dead in Stonewall cemetery, at Winchester, Va. The Marion Messenger says John Holland, of McDowell, was handling an nnloaded (?) pistol. The ball lodged under the right jaw bone of his 19 year old sister but the physician extracted it and think she will recover. The News and Observer says a down east Populist farmer has applied for a positiouof weather observer at Raleigh he belntr under the impression that that the job was controlled by the State Agricultural Department. It belongs to Uncle Sam. Editor Webstor of the Reidsvill Weekly, and Prof. Synnot, superin tendent of Reidsville graded school. craped a little Saturday. Nobody hurt. Pistols were flourished but no shoot iug. Col. Webster says Synnott is a drinking man and therefore unfit for the position he holds. He has been writing editorial paragraphs of three or four columns each week about the matter and this is what caused the rucus. The residence of Mr. D. Schenck, Jr., of Greensboro, was burglarized Thursday night and Mr. Schenck's u it of clothes taken. In his pockets were $46 In money, a watch and two diamond stones, Mr. Schenck was awakened just as the burglars were leaving the room, chased them and shot at them, but without effect. The same night the residence of Mr. T. B. Mangum, of Greensboro, was entered and Mr. Mangum's clothes taken. In the pockets was $5. The clothes were found next morning but the pockets had been rifled. Abram Davis, colored, and wife were on their way home iu Charlotte Sat ur day night when they met two white boys. Davis was drunk and he aud the boys engaged in a wrangle. Davis stooped to pick up a rock when one of the boys shot and killed him. The ible contest between the Asiatic and J boys escaped. Thr- l)-dly Ksttl-soakr. ii I tmrxiav morning wini aiiliier Rvi w.is cradling rye his mu Burton, ad f.treeu. vva following him, bind ing. Tue lather cut over where a large r.itttrMiuke vkm lying, and when the mjii came to bind the grain the nake sank its fangs into him. V bis key wa given Hie boy, but only a pint was at hand, and a messenger was seut for a doctor. When the doctor got there the boy was uncon scious and died about 5 o'clock. Hen dersonrille Times.; NO COON IN THE PACIFIC. t Forty thm 5n F read see Asveatarera Sekif e Paretflse Give Up the ScWeae. San FuaxcisCo July 10. The party ofonehuudred men who sailed re cently from this citj on the brigantlne Percy Edwards for some A dam less Eden in the South Bess, where pretty native women yearned for spouses. and where there was no harder work than picking up coenanuts, have come to grief in the Fiji Isdanp. A letter from one of the colonists says that all their dreams were Ului ions. No Islands eould fo'iud that were not preempt ed by Ktigtmd or Germany, and most of th" td land was already in the hand- f large corporations, which have fenced their possessions with barbed vrir- and" put up warnings anin-t tr papers. Forty of 'the oolnit decided to abandon their dream of a coral ilnd Eden, and thev eured land near Suva, Fiji, and hich 22nd iu.t. President McKinl.y u v.ry ""I P'-t it to bananas , which are a piayinir crop, rmij v - - - turer decided to work the brigantine to Auckland. New Z-land. from which plac the vrd will return here If no suitable Uland is found. Most of the eotonUt on the ve el are single men, who became wrary of regular work and bot-d to find ome South Bern prdi where lei U re wruld be stupU and food easv to get. One hundred dollar was the price of a share in tb colonv and the round trip. anxious to be present at the latter event, aui it Congress adjourns this week, he will go. There is a trong probability that Coutcre will adjourn as boot) a the tariff bill ha been agreed to, as it is unlikely that there will be any t-eriou attempt to secure action on the President's currency commission recommendation at this esion:at leat not in the Senate. The Hou.e may act upon it. Present indication are that the tariff bill will le completed aud signed by the Presi dent before the end of the week. President and Mrs. McKinley have decided to nend a greater itart of their vacation on Lake Cham plain. which luakewit certain that they will not be able to make their contem plated visit to the Pacific coast this summer. They will not give op the idea, however, as the President is very HollaaS Weals Prea. A ietition I b-iuf rirralatrd ir Charlotte, pray ing president MeKlnUr for 4 he pardon of one J. R. Holland, who woe convicted In JW for embezil ment of the fonda of the Merchants and Farmers' National Bank of Char lotte, and sentenced to seven years In the Albany rriaon. The plea for his nardon Is based on the fact that the embexxler ha coo traded on Incurable coo linemen t constantly dlsMsa. and anxious to see that section of tbecoun- fj ft!ini by Uwyert, doctors try and wilt go at the first opporton-1 4 other leadinjr citizens of Charlotte ity, probably next summer. says the Observer
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