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PROTECTION- ! INDUSTRY ! ENTERPRISE ! PROSPERITY I
VULUME 30.
HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 17. 1898.
HTOIBEB9
WASHINGTON i LETTER.
The President Busy The New Spaalsh'Mlnls
ter Presented Saturday.
(IlepuIaT Carres ponrlent.)
Washington, March 14th, 1898.
President McKInley b one of the
came prevalent that England was try
ing to make use of the probability of a
war with. Spain to inveigle the IJ. S.
into an alliance offensive and defensive
with her. It is all very pretty to talk
about an alliance between the Eng
lish-speaking people being strong en-
BUSINESS
.REVIVAL.
THE SITUATION CRITICAL.
A WORD IN 3CAS0N.
XsvsJ Officers rerbUdea te FuraUtT Any U
loraUa tt ta Press.
WAsnxsQTOs, March 14. Evidence
that the Administration is anticipate
ough to dominate the world but the Statistics StooW Hany Proofs Ot ing hostilities in a very short time was
hardest worked men in the countr? f.t in the dominating business. Prosperity ill Past Year.
just now. He has not abandoned hope
tliat peace maybe preserved with hon
or, but he is working night and day
to place the country in a position to
wage a successful war against Spain
just as though he were certain thai
and has no idea of going Into it Be-
sides, it has many and growing com
mercial interests that are necessarily
directly opposed to those of EnglandT
and other European nations. Having
successfully played a lone hand for
Chsrlette Obssrver Calls tke TtsMS-Mercary
a Fal aa4 a Liar.
The following editorial appeared in
the Charlotte Observer of March 15th,
aud speaks for its self:
given to-day in the isiaance of an or- t uv
der by Socretary Long forbidding offl- Mercury, a paper which we never see:
war is to come. His head has not been : fc" i J,
. .1 . ... I make more progress than auv other
nation on earth, it lih't likely that the
cers on duty at the Navy Department
TALUE OF - XI YE STOCK arnih any information to the press
without hit consent. In explanation
of this order, a prominent officer said:
'Matters are now so critical that it
GREATLY ENHANCED.
turned even a little bit by the extra
ordinary confidence reposed in him by
Congress, in putting by unanimous
vote $50,000,000 in his hands to be us
ed jor national defense. He is cool
ami deliberate, just as he has been
fronijiie first. Ire calmly ignores the
sensational reports of this or that Eu
ropean nation being about to form an
alliance with Spaiji, and is as fully de
termined as ever to maintain National
honor at afl hazards. I
Notwithstanding various contrary
assert jons, it is a fact tliat neither the
President nor the Secretary of the Na
vy lias received from any member of
the Maine Court of Inquiry, a single
ucird intimating what the report of
the Court will be. They have, of
course, like all other intelligent men,
funned an opinion from the evidence
that has appeared in the columns of
respectable newspapers, of what the
probable nature of the report as far as
it concerns the explosion, will be, but
tHey have no inside knowledge of what
the court ha done or will dd, and ex
pect none, anyone than they would
peel advance intitnatiou of what a de
cision of the U. S, Supreme Court
would be in any iven cast; it might
have under consideration. There will
b. no (l !ay in acting asi seou as the
report, which the President will ac
cept linul, i.i made, ami' Spain will
' not be allowed to delay responding to
: the deina ids of this government, if it
be bhown that, the Maine ., was blown
tip from the outside, and of that there
is now very little doubt. While the
I're.-idont is keeping hi. si own counsel
.. . .u to the '.demand that will bo made
upitii Spain, it can 'be M.t down as cer
tain that it will be one that will be in-
' dorj-ed by the entire 'American people,
jut as the lresidents policy has been
up to the present time, and it is gener
ally believed that it will include a pro-
i. portion for a delinite 'Settlement of
" the trouble in Cuba. There are al-
-ready j-trong indications 'that Spain
has adopted a policy of delay, which
! will .eek t( carry out, -but it. will seek
iti vaiii. -It will. -either '.'have.'" to meet
i our detuands promptly or fight.
...(" No Quaker cou!d profess greater
; brotherly iove for the United States
than doolthe new Spaniel Minister,
;. who va presented President Mclvinley
r Saturday. He talked af though peace
wer a--iirel aud that his greatest au-
xiety s "to complete a rec "procity trea
! ty with us: That talk isn't throwing
any sand in anvbodv's eves.
The contUlvMiee felt by' tngres in
' the President- is "du plicated by that
i reweit wy. the President in his Secre
; taries trf War aiul Navvj and bv that
"t placed In tlu!r Bureau Cliiefs bv those
Secretaries. Aa istanct f this conn-
; denco in the ca-e of ienFIagler, Chief
: of Ordnance..- who has bven authorixed
r by Secretary Alger to place; orders for,
.ius iJucl'i war. material as he may deem
:. ." iieettss.ry under x'i.isting circumstau
; ivs, C en. Flagler h directesl all
makers of both gutis and ammunition
to run their estaOlishments to thrir
IMPROVED TRAFFIC BU5LNES5 PR0VE5
RETURN OP GOOD TIMES.
The Semi-Weekly Chat lotta Obser
ver is being sent out to men who hav
not subscribed for It. Some belleva It
is a trick of the goldbugs and railroads
to send out literature that will edu
cate the people to oppose any co oper-
UJS. would care to hamper itself with
a partnernow.
The building of three new battle
ships, to be us good as the best now
afloat, and one of them to be named
Moine, is authorized by the saval Ap
propriation Bill.
A Good Day's Work.
"My brother was in such a condition:
that he could not walk but a short dis
tanco witnout resting. tie naa no
strerigh and his blood was very poor.
He has been taking Hood's SarsaDar-
..... . i'. ' . . .4
ilia ana can now uo a gooa day s work
on the farm. We feel he owes, his
health to
this medicine." Miss Eva
Moss, Whitehall, Ya
GOOD BUSINESS IN THE SOUTH.
Brdt"eet Reports Activity In. Nearly All
Lines of Distributive Trade. '
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NkwYork, March 11. Bradstreet's
to morrow will say: Continued activ
ity in-nearly all lines ofl distributive
trade, but more particularly at the
larger cities of the West, South; and
far Nor t Invest, is the most favorable
i
feature coiiiing under notice. Other
favorable features include the heavier
foreign demand for wheat and Hour,
as indicated by increased exports over
last week and last year, and bank
Clearing heavily exceeding correspond
ing periods of previous years, though
smaller than ;" in receut weeks. Less
fayorable features are few. The vol
ume of busjness in the iron arid steel
trade is reported very large, with rela;
tively best reports coming from the
Wet. Pig iron production shows a
further gain and stocks a slight in
crease. Large sales of copper are a feature,
and rices are rexorted higher for the
week, as arj also quotations for Iudian
corn, and wheat Hour. The industrial
.) -
situation sejems likely to be improved
by the ending of the New Englaud
National Bank Reports IodlcaU Restoration
f ConOdeuce and Flow of Honey Into
Trade Bemarkable FaUlaff Ofl In
Number of Failures and Amount '
ot UabilltUs.
Special Dispatch to the Globe-Dsmocrat.
Washington, D. C, March 8. In
reply to the question how far the im
provement which has taken place dur
ing the last twelve months in trade
and agriculture was capable of statis
tical demonstration. Statistician
Hyde, of the Department of Agricul
ture, stated to day that nothing could
be more significant than the official
statistics bearing on this subject
which had recently become available.
It could not be questioned, he said,
that the farmers of the United States
have received for their cereal crops of
187 something like $1SO,000,000 more
than for those of 180G, and 80,000,000
more than for those of any preceding
year since 1802. The hay crop, not
withstanding that it was the largest
with one exception ever raised, com
manded an increased price, per ton;
wool is higher.and considerably high
er, than at any time sidcc 18S3, and
cotton is the only important product
with regard to which there is not a
substantial i improvement over the
conditions, pre v(U Mng. 3rea ago;
A X1 .1 i!.
Dim more signincaut are tue nans-
tics of farm animals, which show that
during the veaf 1807 the. farm' horses
would be unwise to allow any of our I atlon on silver as marked out by
plans to be made public Heretofore I Bryan and endorsed by Jones, and to
we went ahead in preparation for any keen tne PP18 1 rom
- ... . lin the 8tate airainst the railroad 00-
emergency. ow we are araid that l ,M . . ,
the emergency may not be avoided, passenger rates. If this is a trick of
and are determined that bur prepara- the goldbug Democrats a ud it looks
tions shall be kept as
ble. New York Sun.
secret as possi- I tnat wa Nvm have the same ten-
dency we warn . the ieop.e against
this trap into which they are being
SOTTVTi lUlKTNFRSi STTTT1TTAV t ,et, purposely.
j.imuK.ui mo vniz.eu tor uie ivinuiy
NO RESTRICTIONS OR HINDRANCES.
cotton mill
Business
strikes.
is generally active at the
West. Southern and ' Southwestern
buyers are nore active at St. Louis.
i
Kansas' City jiacking houses report de
mand one tiiird larger than last year.
A perceptible improvement in distri
bution is iioted.in Chicago in many
lines of trade. An order for 10,i.KK
tons of steel rails is a feature of the
weeks' business at that citv. Trade is
of a satisfactory volume at the 3North
west.
Export biisiness in flour and Avheat
fr)m theacitic coast shows a cousid-
. Boat, building inactive
account. A good business
is doihg at the South.
The business failures in the United
States this Week number 247, against
232 last week, and 227 in the corres
IH'mding wH-k of 1807. The business
failures in .'tilie Canadian Dominion for
erable!' gaii
on.'" Alaskan
t h is week n(i m oer 31, ag:ii ns t 27 last
week, and 35 in lt?t7. . 1
larger wheat and flour, but smaller
full caiMcitv untt. further orders, iiut corn bipunts are a featuJe of export
iu wate or citravdgaiice is . to be trade this week. The total exports of
countenanced in e,i'therj the War or heat, flout included, from the United
Naw Department; everv dollar spent States and Cianada this week aggre-
will be uixn estimates, lapprovM not CTte 4.41,71 bushels against 3,22,002
onlvliv tbe sWretjirvl but bv th bushels last week, 1.01,4S2 bushels in
of the country increased in value oyer
$23,000,000, the mules oyer. $0,000,000,
the milk cows over f 03,000,000, other
cattle over $104,000,000, sheep over
23,000,000 and swine over 8,000,000
a total increpse of value daring the
vear of over -23. UOO.WU. Tins re
markable increase in value is well dis
tributed, there Jbciiig 'not a state or,
territory in the" union that does not
report an increased average farm price
per head of cattle .and sheep, and but
few where an equally satisfactory re
port is' not made as regards all other
farm animals.
There is scarcely abetter index to
business conditions, he continued,
than is afforded" by transportation re-
lceqts. A recently imbltshed state
ment of the traffic through the canals
at Sault Ste. Marie showed an in
crease of no less; than 17, per cent in
freight tonnage over . the ireceding
year. This was not due to the large
wheat erbp. for the '.shipments of
wheat by way of the great lakes were
omewhat less than in the ireceti(ng
year, it was msae up largely .ox an
increase of 31 jv?r cent in the tonnage
of iron ore. and there was also an lu
cre ise of 33 iKr cent in the amount of
hard coal and of 18 ier cent in the
amount of lumber transported, the
total tonrcaga transported being great
ly; in excess of that of any previous
year. '
While Mr. Hyde was not in posses
sion of recent statistics of railroad
earnings, a comparison of the, prices
Tlio Country Assured That Its Resource Are
Beyond the Reach of Any Foreign Power.
Kkw York, March li. It. G. Dun
& Co. 's Weekly Revie of Trade will
say in its hsue tomorrow: It is most
gratifying that no industry or branch
of business shows any I restriction or
hindrance, but some have been r.trud-
iy gniniug for the past week and
month. The railways are gaining,
even while speculators are selling their
stocks, and tbe demand for products
for all the.gre'at industries is increas
ing. More gold is coining from Eu
rope than is needed, $10,808,000 having
been ordered during the past week,
and imoney markets ! are nowhere
alarmed or stringent, though reasona
bly more cautious. 'The- country rests
assured th&t its industries, almost all
of its business, the foreign demand for
its products, and especially all its re
sources are beyond the j reach of any
foreign xiower and that its lionor and
foreign interests are inj mfe hands.
The greatest of all industries is send-
roijeut. and in writing at that.
P
Congress is very decidedly opposed
to auythlug that might be coustrued
by the world as an alliance between
the U. S. andCireat Brit iani The feel
In; against ''entaugling; foreign com-
127,000 bushels in 1815 Corn
exjvorts are ! sniaher. amounting to 3,-
25,000 bushels, against 5,054,000 bush
els last week.
S. B. Moore, of Greensbcrg, Ky.t
savs: i was very omous lor a loner
pUc:itions" is quite as strong now as it tiule. bad fiea off and getting in bad
was iu the days of George Washington, health. I had dyspepsia and tpit up
I began uirg Uomon's LIv-
of railroad stocks on March 1 with
those of the correjonding date last
year showed a most remarkable in
crease, not only In the granger ro ids,
but in the most ktable railroad prop
erties of the Eastern state.
ing grain forward as if it there were
uo limit to the supply. . Wheat ex
port3 have been 4,17i,497 bushels,
flour included, ' against l,2C8,171 last
year from Atlantic and Pacific ports.
and for two. weeks 7,402,7.10 bushels,
against 3,010,540 jlast velar. - Exports of
corn, in spite of smaller yield, have
been 7,700.404 bushels in 'two weeks,
against 9,330,095 last year, when they
far surpassed all records. Wheat de
clined 4f j;ents. but j corn did not
change during the week Cotton de
clined an eignth" sales of I fertilizers in
dicating less retluction Of acreage this
year than was expected. Exiort of
principal products in February were
S'Jl, 034,001 in value, with an increase
over last year of 50 per cent, fn bread
stulTs, iu cotton 2.3 per ccfit and 2-5 per
cent in the aggregate. '
The weekly output of pig iron was
228.333 tons, February Ut!, but 234,,0
March 1, and the increase of unsold
stocks in February was onlj 5,852 tone
weekly for export or; consumption
against 218,457 in Januarv and 215.349
in November 1805. the month of great
est consumption for railroad cars, for
vessels on the lak, for, levators and
oil pipe lines, for agricultural hcpl
xnent worhs and lor sheets, i beyond
precedent, and structural and rail
works are crowded j vrith ordrj",
though now receiving few. '" The min
or metals are generally stronger in de
mand.. - ' '; j"
Sales for wool for this iweek hare
been the smallest since the wek of
greatest alarm in Augutj 106. but
We do pot need any help from Eng
land to tight our battles, and we do
nt iuteud.to help Er gland to 'fight
ht-r battles This feeling has been
ttrougly expressed sine the Idea be-
T.
OADTOlt
tTt .'f
my food.
er Pills k Tosnc Fellets according to
the Doctor's Book, and a a tesult I
increased in ve?gUt 13 poan ls, and
feel like a new persoi.
.
nill.os Given Away
It Is certainly gratifying to the pub
lic to know of one concern in the land
who are not afraid to be generous to
the needy and .suffering. The proprie
tor? of Dr. Kinv New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds, have
given away over ten millions trial bot
tles of this gri ; medicine and have
the satisfaction f knowing It has abso
lutely cured thousand f hopeless
cases, Asthoja, Brt nchitis, Hoar-
ne&and all diM?as of the Throat
Chest and Lung are surelv cured by
it. iaii on Miuloril Drug Co. Drag-
Hood's Pill are the only pills to
take with Hood's Sarsaparilla. Easy and get a trial bottle f rfe. regulir
1 "ixe5 V. and 1. Ercrlbott!e gnaraa-
.uui j j teeu, or price riunOea.
spirit of its comment upon the above,
we have to add that the statement
that "eome believe that the sending
of copies of the Semi-Weekly Obser
ver to men who have not subscribed
for it is a trick of the goldbugs and
railroads,v is a lie. Nobody believes
it, not even the ioor fool who wrote
the above paragraph In the Hickory
Merciry. Latterly, sample copies of
the Semi-Weekly Observer have been
sent to a great many people In western
North Carolina7 though noue have so
goxie out for perhaps two months past.
It is a gratification to say, parenthet
ically, thai as a result of this direct
advertising, coupled with whatever
merit the paper may have, the Semi
Weekly Observer has increased its clr
fculatioti by about 750 subscribers In
about tix months, while the cixcula
tion of the dally, paid .for by the peo
ple fo whom it is going, is larger by
hundreds than ever before in the his
tory, of the. paper. At the present
ti; c the Semi-Weekly Observer has a .
certain contract from a Charlotte
house, calling for . a page advertise
ment once a month for six. mouths,
and for 18,000 copies of each pajer in
which this .advertisement appears.
These papers are being distributed far
,tnd wide by the firm doing the adver
tising referred to, and this statement
will explain to a good many eople "
why it is that they are receiving once
A month a copy of a semi-weekly i
per for which they have not sub
scribed. It is the work of the firm ia
question. . u
The quotation above Is of a piece;
with suggestions which appear every
now and then iu the blackguard press,
Qlited by fellows. who are themselves
purchaseable, to the effect that this
p:ier is subsidized by, under obliga
tion to. -or in some way influenced by
the goldbugs, the money iower, the
corporations and monojolists. It Is
as gd u time as any to say and this
a blanket statement, intended to
cover whoever is guilty, that the
man or paper bringing such accusa
tion aral oflVring such Intimation is a
coiicious liar. Since nobody con
nected with it wants any of the peo
ple's offices or anv public favors of any
kind whatever, this pajK-r can afford
to look the people straight In the eye,
and tell them the truth as it ee it.
The detraction of tlme-erver? weath-er-vnne
and demagogues, together
with that of a few of the honest Ignor
ant, is the penalty tliat it ia for IU
iucerity and Its refatal to change
with every wind that b'.ows; but it
rest is undisturbed by the traduction
of the vicious, since it has demon
strated that it can call iu soul (U own.
not because any mills have stopped ilH1 Jy a living, and not only a
-worj j living but a busings which Is steadily
Cotton goods have a large distribu- increasing in each of its several de-
tion and prices are generally steady, partmenU. Thank God there remain
though in ooUide dealings, print in rta Carolina enough people to
clotns are a shade low. PrinU are support It counting those bo agree
in better demand. I I with it, and those who. disagreeing
The failurea for the week have been wib vaIue it for IU news, and are
broad enough to give It ground to
stand on.
I Tell, then, with IU enemies, perse
raters and slanderers. It asks none of
them, tor the entire aggregation, any
odds.
24 in the United States against 256
last year, and 26 In CanadaJ against 61
last year. .'!:'!.'
GASTORIA
Pot Infaatx ard ChTrta
-EL SIX ' yC'yr . vr
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jlfyoa are not feeling well, why
don't you take Hood's Sarsanarilla? It
27ja. j will purify and enrich your blood and
do yoa Tondtrfol coed.