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PROTECTION I INDUSTRY ! ENTERPRISE I PROSPERITY ! fULOHE 30. V HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1898. HilUBEB 9 W l U f VOTH V I T rivppn (Ilegular Correspondent.) Washington, Feb. 14. 98. ' ifi(l the confidence reposed in him by the American people to a more niark- ed extent than since the publication of 4 the growdy insulting letter written by hy bringing about a vote that - will In order to learn definitely whether MAJOR ROLLINS TALKS. the time now betas devoted to the discussion of the treaty for the annex ation of Hawaii is being thrown away, the Committee on Foreign Relations will, this week ascertain the full strength of the treaty in the Senate, REPUBLICAN PROSPECTS NEVER BET TER THAN NOW. rienor de Lome, late Spanish ' minister .to the UJ S. In the letter. Senor de i ... Louie personally Insulted the Presi dent, as well as his own government. When Washington was in a ferment serve as a test. Should the vote show Ihiat the treaty is shot of the neces sary two-thirds, it will at once be abandoned, and the efforts of the Farmer rtero than SatlsfieJ'CTlt ftfdCto '." ley ProitrityTne SUto Ca bm Ucli If Um LeoUerAet With Common Soo, i-, Afthertlle EegUter. v, ; , A reporter of The Register ran, up committee be devoted to pushing a of excitement and men of promince JW,ut wuuou providing ior auuexa- Major W. V. Rollins at the who are usually cool headed were ad- tion to a vote. Members of the Com- Farmers Warehouse Monday evening vising all sorts of hot-headed steps on mittee have not the slightest doubt of and had a long talk with him about the part of this President McKinlev annexation at this session of Congress; never for a moment lost the coolness OD? thev desire to bo absolutely cer- lt eUv Tne Major takes great de light in spending all his leisure time I Sraslblo DocUIoas. Hon. Perry Health.; the First Assis tant Postmaster General, Is distinguish ing htuiself nowadays hy-som very sensible and S commendable ' rultnra touching matters of (public interest. Ve took occasion Friday morning to compliment him on his opinion in the case of editors who have been appoint ed postmasters, and now we find fresh cause or approval in a! decision he has just rendered in that; always absorb ing matter of offensive partisanship.1 YELLED TMEMSt LYES tlOARSE. CoagTrcma Ptarsoo Stirs tbo Boy Up at Up in Grand Rapids, Mteh., the Lincoln club planned its annual ban quet for .Saturday night. The man agement of the affair, it appears, was not thorough, for when the crowd was turned into the banquet hall it was found that there were more than could be accommodated. The .doors were closed until the. outsiders xuld be Some time ago John L. Manning, singled out and given seats. Some of which has always marked his acts at rritical periods, although there isn't lain mat it cannot be secured by a 'ratification of the treaty,' before start- the tightest doubt that his blood ng urh the other route. fairl boiled at de Lome's insults. Like the patriot that he is, he sunk his Individuality and acted only as the country's executive. He merely re- 80UTHERN BUSINESS BRIOHTENINQ. quested through the Spanish government, the American Minister at Madrid, to recall de Lome. ! Senor de Louie had anticipated that and cabled his, resignation, and it; was accepted The Advance In Cotton His Imported flore Cheerful Tone to It Brd$treet Report New Yohk, Feb. ll.-Bradstreet's tomorrow! will say: A number of fa vorable circumstances and events present themselves this week. Per- by his government before the request uaPs the most notable of these are the for his recall was presented. The wis dom of this moderation on the part of the President is dally becoming more apparent. There was another impor tant feature of do Louie's letter, in which he declared that! autonomy for Cuba, and negotiations for a reciprocity n-aty" were only 'shams. Had this letter bden made public in a legitimate manner its contents would have jns- tilied the most extreme niea.su res upon tins government, but it and. that fact was not mit igated in the least by 1 the acknowl- th! part of t was stolen, a renewed activity ana commence in the iron and steel market, accom panied by even prompt and rapid ad vances in several grades of crude pig iron and steel, and the advance in the price of raw cottont long predicted but unrealized until the present week. Wheat might bs regarded as a minor feature in the business situation though at the same time conveying much that is hopeful to the interest involved. Quite a general improve ment in distributive trade is reported; opening in good shape. Less favora ble features of the week are the slow- MUfinent of its authorship' by de Lmiio JTh irovernment of Snain. bv "ess of spring trade in dry goods to I develop at New York and other Eas-i rI itvi this Government of the disa- grt'.ib! contingency of taking official -rogniance of a stolen letter, and at .the hauie time has placed, itself" in a position from which it cannot escape without renouncing responsibility for the conteihrsof the letter and apolo gizing for irs having been written, ' without losing the respect of this and fvery'other civilized nation." Iu fact, the Spjanish government has either .got to Call de Lome a liar or acknbwH edge itself ob both liar and -hypo-j crite. Surely there' is nothing in thL? situatioi to call any jwitriotie Ameri can to jfeel otherwise Uian proud of hi Prudent, i ; No stateincnt or apology from Spain novo the ellect 01 its ministers oris concerning autonomy and tern centres, except Boston, and the; mild weather in the 'North west, ren-j dering it likely that retailers' stocks carried over will be larger than ex- aoout the warehouse talking with the farmers. Ashevllle is a market for all the surrounding counties, and It is the tobacco center of all of Carolina west of the Blue Ridge; and farmers by the score can always be found about the market place at this season of the year. The Major perhaps knows more fann ers by name . thanv; any other man in Asheville; talkswith them more; un derstands their condition better; and better understands their feelings and sentiments. At the time mentioned the Major was found in the center of a group of Haywood county farmers of the Democratic persua3ion. He was talking enthusiastically; they were intently listening. He discussed the great advance in price over a year ago of everything. the farmers have to sell, and was laying special stress upon the fact that Irish potatoes were sell ing in Asheville at j SLlOfa bushel in 1000 bushel lots. Under Democratic rule it was worth as much as the price received' to haul them to market. To the.reporter the Major said that the farmers were more than satisfied with McKinley prosperity. Not only have they received a dollar a bushel for all the wheat they have had to sell but they now have a market -or every pected. cotton has can re assert i recipro cit v therefore i ctor i likely to bo a fa the. ftu tire reTatio in inent doubt have t brou Lome's letter determining onsi-ot tins govern- toward Cuba, j There is lit t 'e that President. McKinley would akvn ste.ns before how to have Tit the war in (uba to a close, had it! not been for Spatii' m'hente, A'though u did hot bly hive more faith ini the autonomy proba- success of autonomy than the average man fa miliar1 with the. situation in 'Cuba, President McKinley felt bound to ac cept tilt? '.claim of Spain that it was honest in its oiler tt autonomy, ami to allow isufiieient time ito demonstrate i ... ts suvess or failure to . elapse' before taking action. Regardless; of -.what j Spain! may do or not I do, r de Lome's letterjhas changetl the whole situa tion, and it is not how thought in Washington that "anthing short ; of Spain's developing ; an unexpected ability.to bring the war in Cuba to an eiiil lierself will "prevent early action on the i;irt of this government. Con ' gress deserves credit ior having kept quiet; and allowed tho President to manage this affair, : L . ; The majority reixrt of the Elections Committee of the House in favor of heating Thorp, the republican con testant from the 4th Virginia district, contains a hcathiug arraignment of the election laws of that state, and of the methods employed in that particular district, which was designably made 'cverwhelmihj;ly by a jerr)mander made by a democratic legislature. There is no doubt about the seating of Thorpf j The House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce will this week give public hearings on the Hepburn bill for the establishment of a new ex ecuuve uepariment, lo be Known as the Department of Industry and Com merce, the head of which shall be a member of the Cabinet, and upon the Although the advance iu been claimed, to be tooj rapid, it lias undoubtedly imparted a. .much' more cheerfuitone to the South ern business situ itidn, and with the advance of iron and steel has done much to add. to the Confidence 'with which the trade outlook for 1S03 is re. garded. . . r Business failures continue to make favorable comparisons with previous weeks and years, the total for the week justlendihg being 278, against 29.j last week, :0l in the corresponding weeK oi o3i in mis weeK oi is'ju, 200 in 189 and 233 in 1804. Canadian. failures for the week num: ber 51, against 42 last week, but com pare with;54 in this Meek a year ago. and TO in the corresponding week of 1807. . - - r ' - . ". r Wheat exports fall slightly below last weekjS reducetrtotal, .aggregating tor the week '3,419,004 bushels, against 3,05,000 bushels last week, 2,051,000 in the corresponding week of 1807, "2,718,- 000 in I80o, 2,572,000 in 1895, and 2,005, (.00 in 1894. V Corn exports show a gain, amount ing as they do to 4,508,000 bushels agarnst 4,104,000 last week, 4,lC9,00p in this week Iat vear, S, 143,000 in 1S9C and 502,000 in 1895. j , Bank clearings continue to po'nt to an immense business doing in the country at large, in a total aggregat ing ior xne weeK i,4-4.lho,uuo, less than 2 per cent, smaller than last week; 53. ir cent, larger than this week in ISpO; 74 per eenL larger than n 195: 82 ;per cent, larger than in 1891, and'G.3 p?r cent, larger than this week : km i r IU AC Cow item of produce they can put on this market, and the prices are largely in advance of what they were under Democratic rule. 1 There has been a gieat rise in the price of cattl. Farm ers now receive more than double the price given under Democratic admin istration. He claims that the farmers' will, appreciate their trreat blessing. and show that appreciation by an in creased Republican vote throughout the District this fall. All that is nec essary to carry the county this fall is to nominate a ticket of clean -men who know how to manage tfie business of the county. All these Democratic hopes he regards? as premature, and Jwill be shattered by the votes of the people in November. ! The Major said, in discussing the Democratic Congaessional candidate, that ex-Mayor W. J. Cocke was far in the lead in the contest for the nomi nation, and as matters now stand Will be nominated. ; The State can be held, if the leaders of tne Republican and. populists con sult the interest of their people and act with ordinary common sense. The people do not desire a return of Demo cratic rule, and will stand firm if they are not distracted and led astray by the leaders of the party. Speaking of the last Legislature, he said some mistakes had been made but he could show ten blunders equally as serious made by Democratic Legislatures to one of those made by this one. He Is not afraidof a free, fulland fair discussion of the acts of that body. The Major intends to go to the ew "Berne fair and ; will leave j soon for that city. While in Eastern Carolina he will do some fusion missionary work President of the Union Veteran Club. oil Chicago, addressed a communication to the local postmaster, asking for a definition of the limlta within which government employes would be ac corded freedom of political action and opinion. This was referred to the de partment, and in a Chicago press dis patch we find the following indication of the department's verdkst. I "Chicago, Feb. 7, Postmaster Gor don to daylreceived a letter from First Assistant Postmaster General Health in regard to what action employes of the postal service would be allowed to take In political questions. The com munication stated tllat the depart ment had no special rule in such mat ters, and that: they preferred not to make any Mr.; Health said, however, tuat tnere would be no objection to the employes asserting their .political rights, but that there might be an ob jectiou to the manner in wbicn these rights were asserted. He stated that it was the object of the department to do everything possible for the good of the department, and that nothing would be done to hinder the' carry ing out of that object. If this means, as we assume it does, and as the content suggests, that the McKinley administration intends to free itself of the hypocritical ' Mug wumpery which has characterized sone of its predecessors, the country is to be congratulated and, Mr. Health to be felicitated. The Post has always and energetically antagonized the rid icolus theory that an American citizen must forfeit his political rights and skirt the responsibilities of citizenship because he. accepts . an office nnder government. We have never; been able to see why a postmaster, or any other Federal official, should be ex eluded from all participation in cam paigns why he should be regarded as less fit for political activity than when he was In private life. ; Moreover, we have never known the system to work usefully or equitably, for while subor dinate officers have been muzzled un der its operation or dismissed for dis regarding the injunction, the country has been scandalized by; the spectacle of members of the Cabinet' and other high functionaries abandoning the public business and campagnmg like any ward heelers in, the interest of their chief and his ambitions. 1 It is a pernicious system, both in theory and practice. It is un-Ameri-' can, undemocratic, hypocritical, and unjust. We rejoice in the knowledge that the Posf-o.Uce Department does not intend to ierpetuate it. Wash ington Post. ! the crowd got hot, of course, and the fact that Senator Mason, who was ad vertised to appear, did not do so was not calculated to cool them. Finally, the banquet turned into a smooth channel, and there were sev eral speeches, among them one by Congressman Richmond Pearson of Asheville. A Grand Rapids paper says of Mr. Pearson's speech: 4Speaklngof the ' feeling between the North and South today, he said he could assure his hearers that it was -the warmest that could be. He would have been willing as a testimonial of respect to- the dead hero in' whose honor the banquet "was given, to have brought u bouquet of flowers and pre sented It at the banquet. Here the speaker grew humorous and declared tnat if you' fellows up here ever take a notion to secede, we have enough men down in our blare to come up here and drive you into Lake Michi gan, Lake Erie or into that other lake whose high Hashing flames are bluer ' than the waves of the other two bodies of water.1 He had learned through tradition, he said, and, too. It was the . last to surrender. He said he was proud of the record and hoped he would be pardoned for referring to the incident upon this occasion. Here the speaker followed with a beautiful tribute to Abraham Lincoln And was cheered to the echo. Concluding, he gave an eloquent eulogy upon the union of the North and South,' which brought the entire C25 listeners to their N feet, who, while they yelled them selves hoarse, waved napkins frantic ally through the air. The demonstra tion continued for several minutes, while those nearest Congressman Pearson patted him enthusiastically on his backi Following this there were three hearty cheers "given the patriotic Southerner." Ashevillo Citi zen, i ; L0VER5 MAY KISS LEO ALLY N A Gallant aeorzU JaJse Tells Til em to CU Right Ab4. The kissing epidemic which has l n raging in society circles has reached the courts and the Vital quetiMt of kissing or not kissing passed upon ju- Vhy Our People Are Poor. !- Abcrdten Telegram We may talk about the gold stand ard and about the free coinage of sli ver, and may try both, but we will re main poor until some great evils right to our doors are remedied. We believe tat not less than $2,000 a month goes from Moore county to Richmond, Va., and other markets for meal, corn, hay flour, and bacon, that ought to stay at home. Every pound of these fire sta ple articles that is needed In the county can be raised here at. home, and should be. Just think for a moment what a dilTerence there would be in the busi ness of the county if the $24,000 (and we think this is a low estimate) that is sent out for the five articles should go into the hands of our own farmers. and from them into the other channels of business. We would hear less . cry ing about hard time.V we would have less credit buiine. and our people would be independent. We need to be more self-reliant. Moore ; county ought to raiH all of its ow n meat and bread and some to spare, and until we i Aflect'd With Hydrophobia, A valuable cow belonging to According to a celebrated anatomist cow belonging; to Mr., I there are upwards or o,ouo,ow little Thos. Sherrill, of near Troutinans. I glands in the human stomach. These died Tuesday night. It is thought) glands pour out the digestive; juices that the cow was affected with hydroV I which dissolve or digest the food. In- phobia. : A few weeks ago a mad dog I digestion is want of juice, weakness of passed through that section and bit a I glands, need of help to restore the colored woman. A madstoue (with I health of these organs. The best and apologies to the Asheville Citizen) was I most natural help is that given .: by applied to the wound and the woman I Shaker Digestive Cordial. Natural, suffered no bad results. A hog that i because It supplies the xneterials need- was bitten by the klog subsequently I ed by the glands to prepare the diges went mad and died. It was not known I tive juices. Because it strengthens dicinlly. D. A. Engesser has a pretty 14year-old daughter; Mary, and Mary I do !t we re ffoing to lie oor in spite tiA a. KpriniKt hf.n TnitrlA I of what kind of financial system the while ardently woingi her, indulged In national government may adopt. As the-luxury of kissing her ruby lips, long as we keep our barns and smoke Patwl F.nmxMPr holnnn tr th nf. booses In Itlchmond. Chicago and at the time that Mr. SherruTs cow had been uuren dui tne aog was seen on the premises and as the. animal devel oped, a few days ago, the nsua symp- toms oi nyaropnoDia, ner ceatn is supposed to be due to that cause. Mr. Sherrill i a brother of Mr. WV and invigorates the glands and the stomach, until they are aole to do their work alone. Shaker Digestive Cordial cures indigestive kissers and also believes that mary is too young to permit such familiarities on, the part of her "steady company. But Mary not only defended her lov er against the charge that be had In sulted her, but admitted his right to kiss her and claimed a right to be kissed. Cacolo declared bis intention of marrying mary, and Judge Calhoun after soundly upbraiding the father for his interference, advised Cacolo to go ahead with his kissing and love- making. Atlanta Dispatch. Kansas City, and try .to bridge the chasm with V-cent cotton, we will not only remain poor, but will grow poor er every year. F. Sherrill, of States ville, StatesviUe At druirgUts, price 10 cents to tl.CO The Cumberland county dispensary certainly at Fayettevillt made $600 c.'ear profit and permanetly.) It does to by natural j In January. For the first six months means, and therein hV th smt at lr I of its existence the profits were about wonderful and, unvaried success. I $2,400. They are equally divided be tween town and county. Ewart Sre of Coaflfmatic Ashkvillk, Feb. 11. T. II. Green of Haywood county, who was last week appointed a deputy collector In Collector Harkin's office, has retired. giving 111 health as the reason for his resignation. Henry C. Shook, of nay wood, takes the place vacated by Mr. Green. - Judge Ewart arrived here today from Hendersonrille. He said:. The last word Senator Pritchard said to me was that nothing could prevent my confirmation unless I should lie down and . expire. Charlotte Observer. aiionai unArnnr ni iiui L Landmark. I per bottle.
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