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a r nl.ii: m VOL IY LINCOLNTON, N. ft, FRIDAY, APR, 24, 1891. NO. 50 Professional Cards. ATTORNEY AT LAW, LINCOLNTON, N. C. Jau, y, 18yl. ly. Finley & Wetmore, ATTYS. AT LAW. LINCOLNTON, N. (J. Will practice in Lincoln and surrounding counties. All business put into our Lands will be promptly atten ded to. April 18, 1890. ly. SURGEON DENTIST. OFFICE IN COBB BUILDING, MA.IN ST., LINCOLNTON, N. C July 11, 1890. ly DENTIST. LINCOLNTON, N. C. Cocaine used for painless ex tracting teeth. With thirty years experience. Satisfaction given in all operations' Terms cash and moderate. Jar, 23 "91 ly Uas located at Lincolntoti and of fers his services as physician to the citizens ot Lincolnton aud snrrouud in: country. Will he round at uight at the res idence of B. C. Wood March 27, 1691 iy GO TO BARBER SHOP. Newly fitted up. Work away& neatly done. Customers politely waited upon. Everything pertain ing to the tousorial art is done according to latest styles. HeNRY Taylob, Barber. A LITTLE GIRL'S EXPERIENCE IN A LIGHTHOUSE. Mr. and Mrs. Loren Trescott are keepers ci the Gov. Lighthouse at Sand Beach, ilich.,and are blessed with a daughter four years old. Last April she was taken down with measles, followed with a dread ful cough aud turnin": into a fever. Doc tors at home and at Detroit treated her, but in vain, she crew worse rapidly, until she was a mere '-handful of bones." Then she tried Dr. King's New Discovery and alter the use of two and a half bottles was completely cured. Tney say Dr. King's New Discovery is worth its weight in gold yet you may get a trial bottle free at J. M. Lawicg's drugstore. Baby Carriages, $7.50 Baby Carriages, 7.50 Baby Carriages, 7.50 Baby Carriages, 7.50 EM ANDREWS, FURNITURE FIANOS & ORGANS. I itade tne largest purchase of BABY CARRIAGES this season since I bave been in business. Bought over 75 CARRIAGES At one single purcha-e: I can sell you a beautiful RATTAN CARRIAGE with wire wheels at $7.50. Did you ever see any of tiiose $12.00 Silk Plush Upholstered Carriages Of mine ? Thnkofit! Silk plush at $12. I have something new to show you this season. They are beautiful styles in Rattan carriages, finished 16th century, for from $15 to 125. The BAMKOO is something new also, and is having a big run. I can furnish you CATALOGUES of all my styles, and 1 guarantee to sell you carriages lrom 15 to 20 per cent, less than any other dealer in the State. IParlor Suits. 1 have an endless variety PARLCK bUITS to suit all tastes and e verybody's pocket. I can sell you anything from the Wool Plush Suit of Operas in Walnut Frame, for only $35 00 to the handsome Suit of 5 pieces lor $250 00. This is a suit that retails in New York Gity for $32-5.00. My stock i3 more than complete in every respect. Ot the finest, most reliable makes sold at lowest prices for cash or on easy payments. Write for my new CATALOGUE. II- M- ANDREWS, 14 and 1G West Trade St. Charlotte, N. C. IMtpM- for Infants and Children. l'CaMoriakvtJladrMtocMklrrtht I recommend it m superior to any proscription known to mo." II. A.. Archxr, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. " The use of ' Castoria ' is so universal and its merits so veil known that it seems a work ot supererogation to endorse it Few are the intelligent families who do not keep Castoria within easy reach." Carlos Marty. D. D., h Va.w r- Late Factor Bloomingdale EeXormed Church, Tn CTAo CAN'T SI.EEl' NIGHTS Is the co.nplaint of thousands Buffering from Asthma, Consumption, Coughs, etc. Did you ever try Dr. Acker's English Re medy ? It is the best preparation known for all Lung Troubles. Sold on a positive guarantee st 25 cents and 50 cenU. For sale by Dr. J M Lawing, Druggist. In Lapland dress fashions uot changed for 1000 .years. have electbic BITTEES. This remedy is becoming so well known and so popular as to need no special mens tion. AH who have used Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise. A purer medicine does not eiist and it is guaran teed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt Kheuni and other affections caused by impure blood. Will drive Malaria from the system and prevent as well as cure all Malarial fevers. For cure of Headache, Constipation and Indigestion try Electric Sitters Entire satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded. Price 50 cents and $1.00 per bottle at Dr, J. M. Lawing'9 Drug store. WE CAN AND DO Guarantee Dr. Acker's Blood Elixir, for it has been fully demonstrated to the people of this country that it is superior to all other preparations for blood diseases. It is a positive cure for syphilitic poisoning, Ulcers, Eruptions and Pimples, It purifies the whoie system and thoroughly builds up the constitution. For sale by Dy J. M. Lawing, Druggist. There are about 120,000 hairs on the head of a man if he is not bald- A DUTY TO YOURSELF. It is surprising that people will use a com mon, ordinary pill wLen they can secure a valuable English one for the same money. Dr. Acker's English pills are a positive curef or sick headache and all Liver Trou. nble. They are Email, sweet, easily taken and do uot gripe. For sale by Dr. J M Lawing, Druggists. . Wli Is Your Het Friend? Your stomach of course. Why ? Becaus if it is out ol order you are one of the most miserable creatures living. Give it a fair honorable chance and see if it is not the bestfriend you have in the end. Don't smoke in the morning. Don't drink in the morning. If you must smoke and drink wait until your stomach is through with breakfast. You can drink more and smoke mure in the evening and it will tell on you less. If your food ferments and does not uigesi rigni, u you are irouoiea witn Heartburn, Dizziness of the head, coming cn atter eating, Biliousness, Indigestion,or any other trouble of the stomach, you had nahimp fJrpen's Aliiriict. Flnwor aofa Ttn person can use it without immediate relief A CHILD KILLED. Another child killed by the use of opiatas given in tne rorm ot boothing Syrup. Why mothers give their children such deadly poison is surprising when they can relieve the child ot it3 peculiar troubles by using Dr. Acker's Baby Soother. It contains no opium or morphine. Sold by Dr. J M Law ing, Druggist. It costs the Americans about $1,- 000,000 a year to plug their teeth. IS LIFElYORTH LIVING? Not if you go through the world a dys peptic. Dr. Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets are a positive cure for the worst forms of Dys pepsia, Indigestion, Flatulency and Com eumption. Guaranteed and sold by Dr. J M Lawing Druggist. IF Tom BACK A.CHES, Or you are all worn out, really good for noth ing, it ia general debility. Try BROWS' H IROX BITTERS. It will cure you, cleanse your liver, and giva a K.iod enDctite. Parlor Suits, $35 Parlor Suits, 35 ParlorSuits, 35 ParlorSuits, 35 CMtoria cures Colic, Oowrtfpatfon, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, yuu Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di- Witoutmjurious medication. M For several rears I nave recommended your Castona, ' and shall always continue to do so as it has invariably produced beneficial results." Ed win F. Pardm, M. D., M Tbe Winthrop," 125th Street and 7th Ave., New York Citj. Cowjjct, 77 Murray Strut, Nw York. A STRONG SPEECH. On Question ot the Day by Ben Terrell. The court house was full. Every section of the county was presented by men of all occupations and all calliugs. These were ineti from wall to wall, ot both colore, anil sev eral ladies -were present. Outside of a hotly contested political con vention, a bigger crowd has not been seen in the court house in a long time. Captain Charles McDonald, in a few well choseu remarks, introduced Hon. Ben Terrell, of Texas, and the lecturer of the National Aliiauce. Mr. Terr ell ia probably not more thau 45 years of age, of low stature heavy huilt, bald, uo beard except mustache, a splended coantenauce and a man of very fine bearing. Among other things and in tsiib stauce, Mr. Terrell said : I am here, ladies and gentlemen, to discuss matters and conditions from the tanner's standpoint. We want to discuss the conditions that confront us in a plain and practical way and without any feeling as to classes. The object of the Alliance is not a complicated one, it is plain and clear. The object is to discuss matters and conditions which effect us as agriculturists and thereby effect others, for all are directly or indirectly depeudent upon the farmer. To remove such conditions as are hurtful and to fortify and nourish such as are good and useful. When you thiuk that the Farm er's Aliiauce is here to pull down ibis government and to wieck our political institutions, you are sadly aud tearfully mistaken. Who ever heard of a move on the part of the farmers that damaged the govern ment of any countiy f Such is not possible from the very nature of tbe conditions under which we live The farmers, generally speakings are a very intelligent class of people, and certainly they are very conser vative in all their actions, both in State and church. Indeed the farmers are a great part of the population, and by right have much to do with tbe condi tions ot this couutiy, and they, too must assist iu keeping up and sup porting this grand civilization of ours. Farmers must organize, but they have done but little of that thing in this country, up to a few years ago llave tbe farmers ever laken any position that worked in jury to this or any other country? Have tbev acted so as to effect damage to this coontry, morally or otherwise? It seems not from tbe records we have before us. Iudeed we have been very quiet all along, leaving nearly all matters to others to adjust. We are thoroughly amazed that there should be any opposition to the organization or farmers, especi ally when it is a known fact that we have never done any damage. But there is opposition and it can not be doubted at all. Tbe speaker during bis address quoted quite a number of times from J ell or sod. Said he : "Men who control the cur-. rency control the property, I know this to be true.'' As it is in most cases the men who do not plow, hoe and mow are generally the ones that have the power to dictate and they generally nse it to their ad vantage and we can not blame them, for that is human nature. We are not satisfied, the country is not satisfied, aud the age is not satisfied with the condition of af fairs in ihis coontry. No patriot coutd be, if he but give a few honest cartful thoughts to the conditions that now confront us. Just think, seven-eights of the farming class are tenants. Tbe ownership of the laud is getting into the hands of a few. He who owns your land cer tainly owns you. This is worse than Africau slavery. There is dauger when the land gets into the hands of a few. When Rome went down 2,800 men owned the land. When Greece went down 550 people own ed the land. This same state of affairs is seen in the history of every country that has gone down. The Alliance demands that no foreigner shell own the land in this country. 1 We want the lauds owned by Amer icans American citizens, it you please. We are not alarmists. We have gone aud studied these ques tioos and we find that 61,000,000 acres of laud in thii country are owned by alienists men who have not even seen this country. Cor porations own 150.000,000 acres, in surance companies owu 150,000,000 aud 154,000,000 are owned by for eigu corporations. This looks like the farmers have spoked too soon' Iu i860 seven-eights of the farmers owned the land on which they worked. Iu 1890 iseven-eights of the farmers are tenant. What does this look like T Have we commenced to thiDk too soon and to act too soon? Certainly not. When the constitution of this country was framed, ..he idea was to make nobilities iu the ownership of land. It was not inteuded that laud owners should become laud sharks- It was not provided that a few men should get the complete control of all the laud over which its influence acted. Itsspintwas uot to encourage monopolies in the ownership of anything at all ; it was devised to give protection and do the greatest good to the greatest good to the greatest number of people, indeed to do justice to all. That is what we demand. There is a difference between the private ownership and that found iu a cor poration. The large landed estates owned by a citizen will eventually be divided between his sons, aud again it will be subdevided and so on ; but a corporation never dies. A man may die but the busiuess is uot closed, the concern goes on and on. The death of a member of a coi3 poration does not effect it. We violate the spirit of the coni stitutiou and betray;, our trusts wheu we allow the laud of this country to get into the bauds of foreigners, men whose interests are not identical and iu sympathy with ours. Foreign corporations getting hold of the laud does not mean good lor us or our interests. The mission of the Aliiance is not to fight the merchants, the banders or any other class of citizens. We are 51 per cent, of all the population and pay 80 per cent, oi all the taxes. But does this not meau that it is our duty to study the question of the day ? It is our duty to do it and by so doing we have discovered some things that are not so whole some for us or the couutry; The question of transportation is oue that concerns us uo little. We claim that transportation lines ought to be owned by the govern ment to such an exteut as to coni trol them. The railroad corpora tions are in a great degree but trusts, but Blaine says that "trusts: are private matters that the coun try has nothing to do with." That is strange. The government has created them, has given them life and existence. Can a created thing become too big to be controlled by its creator ? Is the created greater than the creator? Certainly not. The object of this government is to protect, but not a few to the ad vantage of the many. A railroad is a public highway and the governs ment ought to have controll cf it. We can not afford to insult your in telligence with a long recital of the manner and shape in which the rail roads take advantage of the people. You know those things well, indeed to your injury. hey have com- bined against you in many ways. They have succeeded iu bleeding you. vvhat man could dare oner himself for Congress or any legisla- tive body and favor aud endorse the measures and practices of tbe railroad trusts ? Could the people afford to support the mau that up holds the robbery that is perpetrat- ed unon the masses bv gigantic monopolies and trusts ? If you do not want the railroads and monop olies to own you,thenyon had better commence controiuug tnem, tne soouer the better. The Farmer's Aliiauce is here and here to stay. This, please, remember, for it will be to your ad- vantage. It is not democratic, it is notrepublican,and it is not partisan, and it is not in the interest ot any Ia Kansas, Dakota and ia man. the South the people have Itarne.l by sad expei leuce that something must be doue at once. Aud before the railroad commission began to operate, the people along the cen tral Western States had to pay two dollars to ship a bale of ccttou to New Orleans and only fifty cents to Massachusetts. This has been rem edied. The railroads have almost absolute power the way it now stands; they can make or ruin cities they do it. It has been discover ed that most of the grain elevators belong or are under ihe coutioll of stock-holders in railroads. They bleed you with heavy freight charg es and then dictate the pi ices ot graiu at their owu pleasure. The history of the Standard Oil Com pany may be weil known to you. It has stood iu with the railroads ; indeed it is a part of them. Such coperatious influeuce legislation and generally cany things to suit their owu convenience- Some claim that if the government owns the rail roads that it will work injury to the public. This cannot be. It the goverumeut owns the railroads,will that hurt the merchants, your doc tors, your lawyers or your homes ? To a thinking mind the fallacy of such a claim is patent. He her: showed iu a very clear way how the people were humbugged by railroad companies right at the beginning of the road's construotion. It if right that we make a solemu protest against the whole thing. It is to our interest to do so for the i4good of Katie and the baby.' So soou as you begin to question their right to so ne practice, they and their friends jump behind their charters and cry a whole bundle of torn fool ery about infringing upou their rights. The government does not seek to do for some what it cannot afford to do for others. All this "hocus-pocus'' vested rights are no more they are back numbers a dirty rag baby. We have no use for it, aud let us throw the thing away, and the Alliance seeks to do that lor the people. The speaker told of the railroad practices in Tex as aud how the people put au end to tne robbery. North Carolina had some bonds hangiug over her. She repudiated them. A corrupt legislature can not make such laws that will for ever biud the . people and cause other legislatures to let them stacd forever to the eternal injury of the whole people. A bad law can be repealed aud must be. The AUU ance does not seek to harm a siugle honest dollar in a corporation. It is the dishonest one that the Alii is after. The greatest good to the greatest nnmber is all that we are after, and that is Democracy. Tbe money question is another one that demands the attention ot the Alliance. Wheu it ccmes to the consideration of this we are called crauks, but we are houest about it, and the name "crank": does not eliect us. Not much was said about us uutil this thing began to be discussed pretty freely, and theu the opposition began to show itself very freely- The Alliance has taken a very radical position ou the money question, aud it is this that has precipitated a very euthusiatsic discussiou. Every act by Congress in refereuce to money has been in the interest of the government's creditors, the bondholders. When the fc question of any change in the currency is raised the bonunoider figures very largely in it. But lit tle legislation ou the money ques tion is made that has any direct Gearing upon tbe public generally. And to be sure when the govern ment's creditor is looked alter the people are not in it, Against such legislation we are opposed, and must fight it. We are compelled to doit;itha8 "gotten down to the grouna-nog, ana meje-s a preacu er in the house.' In 1865 the money in circulation amounted to 52 per capita, and in 1890 it was just $10 per capita. How is that ? It is true that the popu lation has increased, but there has been more thau a corresponding in crease in the production of the country. My friends, the war is over; the Farmers' Alliance is the medium for gettiDg the people to- jgether the people of the North, ot the East, of the West and of the South. We have cotten together and have compared notes. We have decided that the war is over and that its issues are back numbers and are dead. Politicians can no more raise the battle cry; we are done. They must talk about the president aud the future , these concer n u-. The debt was $2,800,000,000, which could not. be paid by all the money in the woild, for there is not enough. In premiums, iut rest and ou the principal we have paid just 1,600,000,000 already, aud we have had a tough time ar that, and yet we owe 81,555,000,000 I This thiug must stop, aud right here, because we are hurting and that bad. Iu a number of years we have lucreased the production of cotton from 3, 450,000 biles to 8,000,000 of bales, and there is less money in circula tion per capita. One buudred and sixty-tbrae thousand merchants have failed, aud $338,000,000 worth ot mortgages have accumulated on the farms. Is this encouraging? The interest last year was more thau the value of the entire produc tion of the country. Now unless you make an increase in the circula tiou ot the currency there is a de crease in the circulation going ou because of the increase in popular liou and that of production. This thing is becoming very serious, and it must be faced, 1 had the houor of being a in e Hit her of a committee that called on Mr. Harrison: He said that he was proud to see us, that he was glad that the farmers were taking so much interest in the steady of pub lic and political questions- He said that you demand one thing that is unjust : "The increase of the circus lation of money." We discussed the matter with him with little result. We told him of the great changes that had come about and tbe hard ships that wete being met by the jjeople. The property that cost one hundred dollars years ago would cost twice as mnch now. That his salary now would buy 48,000 bushi els of wheat. And quite a number of other things were spoken of which the Aliiauce was making a decided demand for. Mr. Harrison said "good bye." We demand that all money shall be the same iu value and import ance. The creditors of the United States demand the payment to be gold. The tariffs and customs are paid in gold, too. You have to take what yon cau get. Kansas, for a long time the follower of high tariff notions, has come out from that; the legislature has declared that all debts are payable in any kind of money. Aud this we demand cf tbe National government. We do not want one money for the bond holders and another kind for the farmers. Just here the speaker made some remarks about tbe money whether it should gold, silver or pa per. We demand that all money shall have the same value. The making of money. The Gov ernment has a right to make money, because it has done so heretofore. It is said that the government can coin mouey but that it cannot make it. This is stuff, They try to make a difference in these two words, but with the government they mean tne sp.me. If the government has the right to coin money and to declare it legal, it most assuredly has the right to make money of any materia at and declare it legal tender. If tfce government can make money, and we claim that it can, we assert tlat it is the duty of the govern ment to make enough for the use of the demands. There is not euough mouey to do the business of this country. We have borrowed from Earope until the interest paid am ounts to 83,000,000. Much is being said now about distributers. There are three dis tributers only ; the y are : The nat ional banks, the gold mine, tbe hols ders of United States bonds. These do the work of the money lending. Not one of them adds anything to the wealth ot thecounUy, they sim ply distribute the values of wealth created by others. As the govern- absolute necessity. The Alliance is ujeub uuw aiauus vue Danger is an not opposed tn the banker, but it is opposed to the system. The A!li- ance is not opposed to anybody, but seeking only to correct those sysi terns and measures by which a few men gain manipulating powers and carry on a business that is not to the best interests of the country. The gold aud silver miner does not add a cent to the wealth of the coun try. If you owned a gold mountain it would do you no good unless is was stamped by the government. The Aliiance favors a chauge and a great one. We demand the riht to distribute. The farmer alone creates and rnakrs and yet has noth ing to say to the manuer aud plan of distribution. We claim that we have a right to do that, and the Al liance demands that this right be recognized. Those who coutrol the money market can at will contract the cur rency ; this is generally done when our products are thrown upou the market. When these measures are pressed you hear some meu say that they are unconstitutional and un democratic. But is it undemocratic and unconstitutional to give to the farmer as ruauy privileges and rights as given to the bondholder I It ought not to be and it is not. Wheu you have a mule to sell the price is down, and wheu you have one to buy theu the price Is up; these things are true aud cauuot be denied. We do not ask you to take our security uuleesyou think it is uood. But we want, as producers, to be on equal footing with the rest of man kind. Wheu we hav anything to sell we do not want the market brought down by speculators aud combines we seek to get it bejoud the manipulation ot anyon.'. Tbe merchant is a good fiieud of yours, but he will rob you it you give him a chance ; and you will do nim the same way on some potatoes if you get an opportunity- The Aliiauce favors the sub-tre--ury ; it does this because we ihink that it is right and because wo ihink that it i3 needed for the sake of tbe country. The opposers say that tbe sub-treasury is pattrual ; it is not, it is optional. Another class ooject to it because of its only providing for a warehouse in a few counties; This is only the bill ; that can bo and will be changed. Everything cannot be arranged satisfactorily at once. It takes time to effect all such radical changes. The bill is iu a crude shape yet, bat the principle is there and the plan l es under it to give it character. Tne bill will be perfected and made to work jus tice to all people and all counties. Some claim that it canuot be done oq account of the expense of build ing the warehouse and other neces sary buildings. This amountato no good, for the government can spend thousands of dollars for pub lic buildings where they are reaUy not needed. The cost in constructs ing buildings for carrying on tbe work of the sub-treasury plan will be a very small item. Parties from Wilmiugtou asked for 200,000 to construct a shell road out to a nat ional cemetery. This was asked to get money into circulation. Not that they had such love tor the dead Federals, bui they desired to get 8200,000 turned loose iu their midst. Tbe benefits ot this arrangement can soon be seen in the renewed life of tbe South. We want to see the cotton of this country manufactured right here, so that our products will briug the very highest prices at tbe start. And the foreigner, instead of bay ing it in a raw state, will buy it in its most valuable state. Kansas, for instance, sometimes pys three times as much for corn as it is sold for. It is shipped to St. Louis, stored away, held, prices run up, J and the Kansas farmer by some (failure is forced to buy the corn he raised at a figure three times great er than he sold it for. We want a home storage. Why ship it off, then back ? This is a useless expense This is not partisan, it is patriotic. They say that this is not Democra cy. Well, if this is not democracy, they may go to thunder with their democracv. We are in the midst of a great Concluded on last page.