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iCOUNTY News. The Price of This Paper is Now $1.00 per Year HE The Price of This Papei ; is Now $1.00 Per Year TWICE A WEEK Hew to the Line. Let the Chim Fall as they May. $1 00 PER YEAR 5 CENTS PER COPT. LINCOLN Vol. II. LEST WE FORGET. To the Farmers of this County. Dear Friends: In the great po litical contest that is about to close, you have had your brains so crowded with politics that it seems we have forgotten our own busi ness, especially the cotton farmer of this southland. The cotton crop is almost gathered and .over four million bales have been sold on 'the market at nine cents per pound and under. At the same time last year it sold at eleven cents a pound. Now see what the cotton farmer of the South has lost in the past two months by letting other people attend to his business. Yes, we have gathered our cotton crop, and put it on the market at a loss of $10 a bale, or a loss of forty million dollars to the cotton farmers of the South in the-, past two months. iNow this loss is not to the farmer 'alone but to every other business of the South, for we all know two-thirds of the money that handles our cotton crop must come from abroad, and the banker, the merchant and every other business of the South will suffer for the loss of the forty mil lions of dollars that farmers lost in the cotton states that justly be longed to them.. . 'By reading the sayings of our Southern press, and noting the actions of other busi ness, one is bound to come to the conclusion that all the bears of the cotton market are not on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean nor North of the Mason Dixon line. I know the farmer, in the eyes of the other business of the world, stands pre eminently as the igno ramus and fool of this land. But in my estimation the biggest fool or the greatest enemy to the South is the southerner who is continual ly beating down the price or our great' staple' crop'' below tfie cost of production, which not only robs the farmer, but every other busi ness. Our Yankey brother of the North with his business tact and power of organization, says if they had the monopoly of the cotton production that the southern farm era have, they would have been getting from twenty to twenty-five cents per pound for their cotton all these years. While the south ern farmers have been content with eight and ten cents a pound. Now the great question to our mind is, are the bankers, manufac turers, merchants, aud other busi ness men of these cotton-growing states willing to see the great mon eyed crop of the South leave its borders at eight and nine cents a pound, which ie under the cost of production, for no cotton farmer can pay day wages that other en terprises pay and make cotton at ten cents a pound. Now with the great cotton crop leaving our bor ders under the cost of production, what does it mean! It means the continuation Of the credit and mortgage system that has been a great curse to this land for forty years; it means the increase of pauper labor in the cotton fields; it means that thousands of women and children of the cotton fields must do without the proper food and clothes; it means that the children of the cotton fields must grow up in poverty and ignorance and becomes slaves -to the oppres sors of the cotton grower. And now, brother farmers, let mo plead with you to study your own business and learn business principles, so by co-operating with one another we may be able to make a just and equitable living for our wives and children. Let us not depend on any help from the Government 'till we learn to attend to our own husiness. The great Banker's Organization can get any law they want that is to their interest The Standard Oil Organization can get any law they want and defy any that is against them. The Steel and Tobacco Trusts get all the laws they want for their business. The Manufac turing Organizations "of this coun try has the great wall of protec tion thrown around it by our Government, that the gates of hell cannot prevail against. So, broth er farmer you see that it takes power to get help from our Gov ernment. Partisau politics will give you no help. Do not think that any one political party will help you. It takes power and if the farmer ever gets help it must be through organization, co-operation, aud combination. A. Hayseeder. . THE CROUSE DEBATE. Mr. Fditor: I ask for space in your paper to more fully explain our joint debate on last Saturday night, which some writer to the Times failed to explain. Mr, Witherspoon had an appointment, here and by consent of some leading Republicans, Mr. Wetmore was asked to be here. Wetmore aud K. B. Nixon met Witherspoon aud C. A. Jonas at Crousc., Academy before a large crowd, and after a parliament of- some time Mr. Witherspoon agreed to divide time. Mr. Wetmore was to lead out with a 45 minutes speech and Mr. Witherspoon to follow with a speech taking the same time, each to have a re)ly of 20 minutes. This all passed off nicely for both sides, with the ex ception of Mr. Witherspoon being corrected several times by some one in the crowd. About the time the crowd was dispersing some one called-on Mr. Jonas for a speech. Then we had it for about 35 minutos: the Re publican p.r tyl'rom its origin Jv) the present time. Mr. Wetmore asked him how long he was going to speak and said he would reply to it if it took all night, (however, I don't think it would have taken him but a few minutes). Then Mr. Jonas said he would not agree for Mr. Wetmore to reply, aud said he would ask all to leave who didn't want to hear him speak, aud all did leave but about 11 or 12 voters. . So you can see why we didn't hear the benediction. The most of us up hero are church members and are used to having a benediction pronounced before we leave. E. C. Sullivan. Crouse, October 29, 1908. The Humerous Comedy Drama. - "Joshua - Simpkins", - accom panied by a fine band and an ex cellent orchestra, will - be seen at AJiemethy's Theatre, Wednesday evening, Nov. 3rd It is a - rural in four acts, bound together by an interesting plot and produced with special scenery carried by the company. In the third act a realistic saw-mill scene is intro duced, when a real buzz-saw is seen cutting through a real log at terrific speed upon which a human being has been helplessly bound by bis enemies and left to an evi dent death. There is an abun dance of comedy in the play, while there are many fine singing and dancing specialties incidentally introduced. ':' "' ' '"" ' " ON THE RIGHT SIDE NOV. Lincoln County News. Mr. Editor: While at Hudson the 27th inst, a man, J. F. Query by name, went to some prominent Democrats and said he wanted to make acknowledgments and beg forgiveness for voting the Republi can ticket two years ago. Said he wanted the Democrats to forgive him and he also wanted the Lord to forgive him. Theodore Wethers. Hudson, N. C. LINCOLNTON, N. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1908. ARE WE GOING INTO BONDAGE? : 11 we are restrained from doing as we wish to do we are in bondage. If by judgment and reason we are convinced that a certain actiou would benefit us in a financial way and we are "kept from doing that act by some restraint we are in servitude; or, if we are com pelled to do an act when our judg ment and reason tells us that that very act is against us in a financial way we are again in servitude. So long as the immortal part of man, and the mortal part of man dwell here together there " must be re straint over the animal part of man, but when we .analyze the word servitude we find two kinds. The two kinds are, first, service rendered to Divine Prov idence; second, service rendered to our fellow countrymen. Our na ture is so that we are ui der obli gations to our fellowmen, and our fellow men are under obligation to us. But every person has inalien able rights, and if you step over the plan of nature and take from a person some of these inalienable rights that person has had a pun ishment put upon him. We turn now to the financial rights of mankind, and particular ly to that of the United States, and here we find tie nation pun ished by a small number of per sons. This small number of per sons sought to gain power by leg islation, and through the Republi can party they have been able to accomplish that for which they sought. Writhin our realms we find two kinds of punishment: first, when a person is forced by law to suffer some unpleasantness for some wil ful act; second, when one person, for ihe sake of ain, forces another person to 40: o. act, "j The last yet, or the lorceu act, is the one we wisli to discuss in this article. 1 - When a man tills the soil for six or eight months to grow his crop, and then spends the best part of the other four months in gathering the crop and putting it on the market for sale in competition with the world, and then buys what he needs from people that have no competition, is not a free man rne reason ne aoes not buy in competition with the world is be cause the people that sell to this tiller of the soil do not sell in com petition with any person, any number of persons, or any nation but are sheltered in their business by legislation, and this legislation is what we all know by the name tariff. .r-i " ' ;; - When our capitalists can buy all of any one thing in the realm and then have Congress to pass a law that that particular goods can not land from any foreign country without having to pay a certian amount of money the capitalists can add this amount to their goods and thereby accumulate - great wealth. If the capitalists have all of any one thing in any territory and no more is allowed to come in the people must buy from the cap italists or not buy at all. If onf thing can be worked in such a way as just stated there, is no reason why any number of articles could not be handled .in just the same way, and there are many of the things that the former buys here in Lincoln county that is sold just in such a way. ' These trusts say to us you pay us such a price for this article or that article, and if you refuse to pay their price you must do with out. They may go further than this. . The officers of all the trusts can meet and from various reports estimate what per1 cent of a crop will be made in a certain section of the country and if the per cent is greater than it was the year be fore they make two more estima tions; first, how much that section spent for various goods the year before; second, how much the wealth of the country increased. They theu put these two together aud estimate again, and this time they cipher out how much they must raise the price of trust goods so they can sweep up everything that section produced that year. Theyan calculate every section of the country just as easy as they Can one section and in this manner plunder the country. By this method you are allowed just so much for a year's provisions. So, you see, you are not doing your will but the will of the trusts. From such a state of affairs how can a country ever prosper as a whole! Countrymen, the Democratic party is promising to legislate against such a state of affairs, and not have our people subject to such robbery, and we think every Dem ocrat should make it his chief cud to go to the polls and vote the whole Democratic ticket. Gae. CROUSE NEWS. I will try to give you a few items from our thriving town. The High School at this . place will open next Monday, Novem ber 2nd, with Rev. M. B. Clegg, principal; Mrs. Maggie Vance, of Concord, intermediate department, and Miss Mildred Rowe, of New ton, primary department and music. We are expecting a fine school. ' 'Quite a number of our people took in the Fair at Charlotte the past week. Rev. M. B. Clegg preached a splendid sermou at the Academy lastuight. ' ; V Misses Mittie Froneberger, An nie and Bessie Heafner aud ILrsrs. Clyde r Heafner,-Reuben Brown and Forrest Crouse visited Miss Martha Sherrill this week. Mr. J. H. Jones, Jr., of Latti more, is visiting his sister, Mrs. J. M, Heafner. Mr. Robt McLurd spent Sunday very pleasantly in Cherry ville. , Mr. C. C. Beam was in town yesterday. iRev. Mr. Kohn filled his regular appointment at the Lutheran church Sunday afternoon. Misses Emma and Lillie Sulli yn spent Saturday and Sunday visiting relatives in Crouse. Quite a number of young people from Crouse and Lincolnton spent a , very pleasant afternoon with Miss Florence Hoover last week. "Miss Emma Lee - Carpenter of Gaston College, has' been visiting in Crouse this week.""" Mrs. Hoover, of Reepsville, spent last week here visiting her son, Dr. C. C. Hoover. Miss Blanche Cloninger, after spending some time with relatives in the Reepsville neighborhood, has returned home. Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Nowland spent Saturday and Sunday with Mis. Nowland's parents near here. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hoover were visiting in town this week. Mrs. D. A. F. Ham rick, of Lat timore, visited her daughter, Mrs. G. T. Heafner, last week. Mr. Charlie Harrill, of Lincoln ton, who has the contract to build the new Methodist church at this place, commenced work on it to day with arforce of handsrTt is to be a nice and commodious edifice. ' ' Today is "cleaning up" day at the school house. The large num ber of children and parents on hand and at work is evidence of the great interest taken in the school at this place. There was a political speaking at the school house Saturday night, in which Messrs. L, B. Wetmore, Don "Witherspoon and C. A. Jonas participated. . It is said the large audience were nearly all Democrats , State tibrary and that Mr. Wetmore made de cidedly the best speech of the three. i . . There has been an interesting contest among the farmers in this community to see who could ex hibit the largest cotton stalk in town. S. C. Beattie lead off with a very tall stalk; John Harvey came second with one still taller and it made him laugh loud to know that he had beaten Beattie. But "Uncle" Noah Carppnter, like the persevering tortoise, brings up the rear guard by placing on exhi bition one supporting more bolls than either of the others; then he laughed heartily while Mr. Harvey could only grin slightly. B. Crouse, October 26th, 1908. A FEW POSEHS. When a Republican asks you to vote with him this year, make him give satisfactory answers to the following questions? 1. If the Tariff is such a good thing, why has every panic that this county has had since the war been , under a high protective tariff! 2. If you are such a friend to the laboring people, why do you allow thousands of ignorant for eign cheap labor to laud in this country every week to compete with our labor? 3. If the tarriff is good for us, why do the trusts sell their pro ducts to the foreigner from 25 to 100 per, cent, cheaper than home people can get it! 4. If our party is for the people and against the trusts, why are the trusts supporting Mr. Taft and the labor leaders supporting Mr. Bryan? 5. What did the peopie of this country receive for the $1,008,000 000 spent by your last congress iu five months? 6. Why did your party try to reduce Southern representation in the National House of Representa tives if you are friendly to the South? 7. What became of that$40,000, 000 paid by your adminstation lor the Panama canal route? 8. Why do you oppose publish ing campaign contributions before election? 9. Which party gave us our present rural free delivery system? 10. Which party has given the South the most cabinet positions? 11. Which paity in this State gave us four months free schools? 12Under which party did the free schools almost go out of busi ness" and close the doors of - the University? 12. Which party gave the first pension law to this State and how did the members of -your - party vote on this bill? ' 13. Which party has Confeder ate veterans on its State ticket to day and which has notl 14. Which party had over three hundred negro office-holders in this State and which party d i s franchised the negro and why did you try to keep him on the regis tration books? 15. How many school houses did you party under the admin istration of Dati Russel build in this State and why is more than one new school building erected every day? - ""-' ' . 16. Which party had to draw $227,616.60 from the State treasury to maintain the penetentiary . in four years (1897-1901) and which party made this institution earn $294,293.66 in three years (1905 1908)? .' ' 17. Which party was in power the Legislature adjourned in honor of Fred Douglas (colored) and re fused to adjourn in honor of that Confederate leader, Robert E. Lee? 18. Under which adminstration was most capital invested in busi-1 No. 86 ness iu this State? 19. Which party put Lincoln County in debt and which one paid these debts and put money in the county treasury. 20. Which party best improved the county property and built most bridges? 22. The officers of which party gave you the best service at least expense? , These are only a few that you might ask him, but you may rest assured that when you propound the above he will quickly take to his heels and not bother you any more. , The same judgement and care should be used in selecting our officers as you would use in selec ting a tenant for your land. ' You will take the one that gives you the best service and puts tbe most money in the bank for you. The Republican party has been in power and has let your property go down aud spent your bank ac count the Democratic party has improved your property and put aside a surplus for a rainy day. If a tenant had badly treated your property and caused a financial less, and you had to run him off your place, if that same man came back to you and wanted your prop erty again after you had built it up under auother tenant, would you keep the one you have or take the one you had run off a few years before? You should apply the same rule to the admistratiou of your county, state and' nationol govern ment. MAIDEN MENTION INGS. Messrs. Smith Campbell and Morgan McCashiu took in the Fair at Charlotte last week. The quarterly conference of the Methodist church was held Satur day. Farmers are busy gathering corn, some have already shucked and cribbed while others are mak ing preparations for shucking. Mr. Terril McCashiu, of Kings Business College, Charlotte, spent Sunday with his parents. Mr. Anderson, a popular young man, of Catawba College, spent Sunday night with friends in Mai den. Mr. Clayton Caldwell and fami ly visited in Newton over Sunday. Revs. J. A. Hoyle and Radish, of Gastonia, were on our streets Monday. : Mr, M. F. Carpenter has adver tised a special reduction sale for the next thirty days. The Ladies Aid Society of the y Reformed church will givean en tertainment in Carpenters hall Friday night Oct. 30. - Will begin . at 7:30 p. m. All are invited, admission 10 and 15 cents. Come fathers and mothers and bring your children, come boys ' and ; bring your best girl, I wish to say that the proceeds of this enter tainment will go to the benefit of the church. The Methodist Sunday school will give a Childrens service Sun day night, all are cordially in vited. ' Services at the Reformed church will be at 3 p. m. instead of 7 p. m. on account of the above men tioned children's service. .'..'. .: Buttercup, One of the worst snow storms in the history of the west is said to be raging in Manitoba. Drifts are ten feet deep in the cuts of the Canadian Pacific railway and many trains stuck in these banks of snow. Miss Bettie Allen, who has been a member of the force of several newspapers in this section of the country, died of typhoid fever at her home in Gastonia Saturday night
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