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Vol 3
MEBANE, N. C.. THUBSDAY. AUGUST 8 1912
NO ?8
personal and lqcal briefs
PK0P1.S WHO COME AND GO
Items of interest Gathered by
'.)ur ReDO'*^“r
Mrs. L« J. Kee won the Ko.iak of
fered by J. F. Terrell for furnishing
tl e most appropriate name for his
birbsrshop. Mrj Koe selected the
name “Tonsorial Parlor.” The Kodak
was purchased of the Mecca Drug
Company.
Masonic Picnic
Park, Burlington
1912, gates opened
N. C.
at S
Miss Johnson of Columbia S
i has been spending some time
Eunice Fairchild will go to Sal- ' home of Mrs. S. G. Morgan,
wt'ck.
uila '-i't
l.r K. i’- Beaman spent Saturday
„- ^ht in
Rev Glenn of Greensboro was
in last Friday.
llnlp'' lU'lmes was the guest of J.W.
Nicholson Sunday night.
Wliitley of Greensboro is the
of Miss Alice McFarland.
Mrs. H- Slack and children spen*;
«ev-:ai '.lays in Winston last week.
Pr. i harles Hodge of Atlanta Ga..
at the White Horse Tuesday.
Mi:;., Flora White spent Saturday and
Sunday in the iountry with relatives.
Mr. J. D. Hunt is off on a trip to
Danville and Lynchburg Va..this week.
Mr. John Holmes spent the day in
Lexington Sunday, on business we pre
sume.
LittU' Miss Bess Nicholson who has
C. who
at the
will re-
t rn to her home Saturday M.iss
Johnson has made many friends in
Mebane and leaves with most kind
impression of the people'here.
Alamance Fair
We acknowledge receipt of the pre
miums list of the Alamance Fair As
sociation. The twenty fifth annual
fair to be held at Burlington on Oct.
1st, 2, 3, and 4 of October.
It would be a possible miscaridge of
justice if Frank Gladden now on trial
for his life in Cleveland Co., for the
killing of Mrs. John Dixon did not share
with John Ross the terrors of the
electric chair. We believe them both
equaly guilty with extenuating circum
stances very much in favor of the
negro John Ross.
Mrs Daisey^Opie Grace accused of
shooting her eusband in an attempt to
been sick for several days, is much im | murder him was acquited of the charge
Harden’s
August 22,
o’clock
PROGRAM
10:30 a. m. Welcome address,
Hon. W. H Carioll, Burlington N.C.
10:50 a. m. Introduction of speaker
E. S. W. Dameron, Burlington
11:00 a. m. Address
Hon. Locke Craig, Asheville. N. C.
12:00 m. to 1:30 p. m. Barbecue
2:00 p. M. Concert
Oxford Orphan Asylum Singing class
3:30 p, m. Stump Speeches
4:00 p. m. Base ball
6:30 p. m. Joy ride on street cars to
various points for supper
8:00 p. m. Burlesque by Bula Lodge
No 409
10;00 a. m. Adjournment
Arrangements Committe, J. M. Coble,
H. F. Mo(r ', C. A. Walker
Don’t mis3 this Annua! Masonic gath
ering, everybody is invited.
Advice to Judge Clark.
(From The Thomasville Davidsonian.)
Judge Clark is a mighty fine man—
there is no doubt about that And he
is smart too and wise. But this is not
exactly Judge Clark’s time and place
He already holds the highest place in
the judicial realm, and thit ought to
satisfy his abition. There are hundreds 1
' of lawyers whose mouths are watering
for the Judge’s place. He ought to be
content and let well enough alone.
Better go back home Judge and save
your money. You are right good
looking bu‘ you can’t come in.
And if the Judge is determined t^
mess in stump politics he ought to
i-esign and pull off his judicial robe.
provtd,
Miss i)lga Ji^ng returned Friday
afterr niu from the teachers institute
at Grnli .m.
Miss Eibel Freeland of Whiteville
Tenn., is visiting the family of Mr.
J. A. isley.
Mr. .\rthur Scott left Saturday after
noon to attend the Primitive Baptist
Assot'i^tion.
last Saturday,
much like an
justice.
Maybe not but it looks
other miscarriage of
It is said that Sidney Allen and
Wesley Mdwards had been seen in the
vicinity of Seattle, Wash. Now mird
you, it is said, we are unable to tell
you anything more specific.
Mr. O. D. Hooker of Hillsboro is
speiiiing a week at the home of Mr.
(\ Harris,
There is quite a crowd of our young
peoplr attending the meeting
anoi; this week.
Rev. B. T. Huiley will be assisted
by Rev. Culbreth in his meeting at
Lebanon this week.
Mr. Richard Paidue of West \a., |
was a visitor at the home of Mr. W. T. ■
Bui'bitt Sunday last. |
•Mr. R. Stevens of Winston-SaUm ^
»;i3 a pleasant caller at the Leader!
Oiftce Saturday afternoon. [
Misses Bessie Scott and Margaret
Goley of Durham are visiting Mrs
J. Mell Thompson this week.
Dewey Bobbitt had a number of his
little friends on Monday evening to:
help him celebrate his eleventh birth
day. i
I
■ ‘ur venerable friend, Mr. C. S. '
Harris attended the Soldiers reunion
at Winston-Salem Wednesday of this
W! .,-k.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Vincent from
Pleasant Grove spent a few hours in
M jane Sunday evenir.g with Mrs.
Ella Viticent.
Mrd. George Johnson of Tenn., and
Mi.'r Frankie White, sister of Mrs.
Juhnsun, are visiting their many friends
m M' Oane this week.
M : T. B. Pettigrew after a sev
eral V eeks stay on a visit to her hus-
banc near Washington D. C. returned
to her liome Thursday evening,
Mr. and Mrs J. C. Cates and child
ren, Walter Allen and Misses
Solphia and Susie Cates of Person Co.
viiitfd Mrs. A, P. Long last week.
Mit Minnie Bright will leave the
latter jjart of the month for Baltimore
Md., and other Northern Cities to
purchase her fall and winter stock of
Riiillnfcry.
Your patronage is respectfully so
licited, is the instruction of the ad-
veriisrn. n" of the H. E. Wilkinson and
Co’s. They treat you right, and if
you bej?in with them, you will stay
^'ith tliem.
Will Be Here Wednesday
Dr. S. Rapport will bo at Mebane at
the Mebane House, Wednesday August
14th. If your eyesiglit is defective
have it rectified with suitable glasses
at Leb- as your health and comfort demand it.
Consulation free.
Lost a Horse
The Mebane Bedding Company had
the misfortune to loose their draft
horse last week, by death from lock
ja ,v.
Will You Please
The Durham Herald makes a rather
poor feint at being fair to its cbmtem-
poraries who do not agree with it, in
this paragraph:
^ We do not believe that Mr. Simmons
or the interests could buy the opinion
of any paper in the state, yet some of
the papers are friendly to the interests
and these, without exception, are
friendly to Mr, Simmons.
Now, in order that nothing may be
left to surmise, will you niiBe the
papers and cite the proof of instances
in which they are friendly to interests
that are not legitimate? There has
been enough of insinuation. Will the
Herald please specify what it means
by “the interests” and name the
classes of business it believes should
be crushed out of existence, and for
which the newspapers ara charged by
it with holding a friendly attitude
against the welfare of the people?
If you will prove your case we will
join you in prssecuting it. Have done
with insinuations. Out with the proof.
—Greensboro News.
Cool Wave General
The weather report says: Cool weath
er prevails over practically all parts of
the country. There are no present
indications of warm weather. There
have been scattered shower.‘i in the
south Atlantic states. During the
next thirty-six hours the temperatures
will remain about the same east of the
Mississippi.
There is a Reason
The Kinston Free Press says: If tne
governor is under the i*. preasion that
because an advertiser buys space he
can buy either the editorial or news
servic? of a p.^per, he is sadly mistaken.
A man. might possibly be able to thus
influence a few, but only a verj’ few,
papers.
But the governor is correct in his
assertion that the newspapers, as a
rule do not support his aspirations in
the present contest. And for this there
is a reason, and money paid for adver
tising space is not the reason.
The newspapers of the state are its
sentinels. It is their business to be
watchful of the state’s interests and to
view critically any proposition that has
a bearing on the state's development.
They realize that the bestowal of a
United States senatorship has a very
important bearing on the progress and
development of the state. They know
that an efficient senator will do much
more for his state than an inefficient
one will do.—Kinston Free Press.
This is the whole matter in a nut
.=hell, and it is very aptly put, and it
ought to satisfy Mr. Kitchins longing
for the truth of the situation.
Will Be Snowed UnJer.
President Taft’s intention tc slaughter
all congressional efforts to lower tariffs
seems a set purpose.
For this reason the old guard Republi
cans did not endeavor to delay action
on the steel and iron bill. In like man
ner the senate will speedily come to
terms with the house upon the wool
bill and probably, upon the sugar and
cottor measures. The President will
veto these measures also.”
Let Mr. Taft crack his whip and go it
blind, during the remaning days of his
administrat’on. There will however be
a man in the White House after the
fourth of next March that will not
veto a reasonable tariff. Mr. Taft has
fooled the people for the last time.
He will be snowed under next November
by the heaviest popular vote ev^?r
polled in this country, and he deserves
to be.
it is All bosh.
It is all bosh for the Governor to say
that the papers of the State are
alligned against him, the statement is
not in accord with the facts. There
are a number of papers that come to
our exchange cable each week whose
columns are not only burdned with a
bitter tirade against Mr. Simmons in
Mr. Kitchins interest, but that exhibit
a bitter partizanship not in harmony
with equity, and fair dealings. What
inspires these assult upon Mr. Sim
mons, we do not undertake to answer.
Looking at this matter from an
Simply A Civilian
General Julian S. Carr, who was
invited to deliver an address at Caro
lina College Rally Day, at Maxton,
accepted, made a fine speech and when
the hat was passed to lift a contribution
responded with a check for $1,000.
The news is traveling fast and General
Carr may expect to find in his mail
during the next few weeks, many
urgent invitations to “be present and
deliver an address.” A speech with a
thousand-dollar check attachment is a
mighty popular thing.—Charlotte Ob-
sei'ver.
General Carrs gift was simply that
of a civilian to one of the Institutions
of his State, but how large it looks
when compared with the insignificant
sum that the great W. J. Bryan
contributed to a National Democratic
fund for the success of the party. It
looks pitiful this “sir oracle” this
wonderful windmiU. Only $1,&K) did
Mr. Bryan give.
A Soldier of The' Legions,
Not Dying At Algiers, But
Alive And Kicking at Fort
Bayard, Fires Back at The
Suffragettes.
To the editor of the Sun—Sir: I con
gratulate “A. W. O. T. W. C.‘” for
she has put up an argument instead of
throwing brickbats, like her suffragette
sisters.
I will admit that we have among us
VINDICATION OF SIMMONS.
impartial view it seems to us that the greatest abundance of book learned
papers that are friendly to Mr. Sim
mons have been quite fair to Mr.
Kitchen, may be Mr. Kitchin does not i
read the Yanceyville Sentinel, the f
girls, that are able to get the prizes at
the expense of their male classmates;
but have we not all seen the man who
a college
Reidsyille Review, the Durham Herald, diploma and yet fail to earn his little
Judge it is Up to You.
Judge Clark says in his article in
Wednesdays Greensboro News that he
would resign if Kitchin and Simmons
would. Governor Kitchin told me
personaly he would resign if Mr. Clark
wouid. Judge it is up to you.
Major A. Butt Uied On A
Raft in Mid ocean
A message found in a bottle washed
ashore at Black Ireland, R. I., proves
that Major Archibald Butt did not as
was thought perish with the ship “Ti
tanic,” but that he died on a raft
several daj’^s thereafter. The message
is as follows:
“April 16, midocean. Help. On
raft. Titanic sinking, no water
food. Major A. Butt.”
James G. Cannon, president of a
large New York bank, has advised
young men seeking a career to locate
in the South and engags in mixed farm
ing near some large city. That bank
president knows what he is talkihg
about.
The Chicago Record -Herald suggests
that Woodrow Wilson slept sixteen
hours hand-running, so nobody can
catch him napping after the campaign
opens. Nc, he slept sixteen hours just
to show the public how steadly his
nerves are and how calm he will be
after his transfer to the White House.
The Birth of the 3rd Party
The moo ol the,moose mingled with
the melody of the battle hymn of the
republic at the ColiseuTi in Chicago
Monday afternoon as the progressive
party was formally ushered into being.
Theodore Roosevelt heard all about it
at his room at the Congress hotel but
he took no part in knocking the skid
from under the new ship of state. His
will be the duty of putting her into
commission with his21,000 woid speech.
Twelve hundred delegates and 7,000
spectators witnessed the beginning ot
the progressive party and helptd in the
service and in the cheers for Senator
Beveridge’s keynote speech. But
while the Coliseum was not filled with
members it was more than filled with
enthusiasm. When at last the band
played “America,” with a pistol shot
■iccompaniment, the crowd got up and
howled. The report of the flashing
firearms in the hands of the snare drum
mer seemed to them exrctly to typify
the explosiveness of their srntiment.
The Carolina Democrat. Now if these
papers are not bitter enough to suit
Mr. Kitchins tast, he has a perverted
tast. Possibly Mr. Kitchin can pur
chase as much space in the News and
Observer as he wishes, but there are
some Kditors in North Carolina that
Mr. Kitchin can not buy.
a I
or
How About It
in
Mr. Kitch-
Mr, and Mrs. West Warren, Mr.
snd Mrs. Walter Malone, Mr. Joe
Vincent, Miss Mary Ed. Scott, Solphia
Long and Sam Long attended the pic-
ri f'at i^aynes store Thursday, they re-
quite a nice time.
Hu-ti r Brown has an other resolu
tion :‘(;r the Holmes-Warren Co. store
thi.s v. ^ek. They have a great reduc
tion on, and are cutting prices to
tho ;;k. Don’t fail to see them.
Tncy will treat you right,
iJepriest, Editor of the Shelby
Hi^lilander has apologized to Mr. Sim
mon, for the article appearing in his
paptr r*'flecting upon the latter char-
churaofer, “Corn Cracker” indeaverfl
*'X|ilain, but its a poor explanation.
•'-e Ir. Rapport at the Mebane
Hi;'i Wednesday August 14th Dr.
l''Hl , rt is an expert in fitting glasst b
and lii \ work is of the best. He mak( B
I'harge for examination and his
chaif»-(-i f r glasses are moderate infi
deed.
Don’t forget the ice cream
su|)}jfcr on the Leader square
^'riday night, August 9th,
Governor Kitchin uttered a broad in
timation last week in a speech to the
effect that Mr. Simmons had subsidis
ed the newspaper of the state. Mr.
Simmons answers this charge by de
liberately branding it as false. He
could not do more. If Mr. Kitchin has
not aubsidised sonre papers then the
situation is funny. How about the
Carolina Democrat of Monroe, Beasleys
paper, and I might ask how about a
half a dozen others? Ofcourse as
Governor of North Carolina, if Mr.
Kitchin wants to do a specific favor
for an Editor it is alright, because as
Governor, Mr. Kitchin has many fav
ors he can dispense, and why not de-
spense them in a way to help his race
for the senatorship, for really was not
that why he wanted to be Governor?
List of Letters
Remaining unclaimed at this office
in the week ending Aug V, 1912
1 Letter for Mr. S. A. Bowman
“ “ E. S. Coats Esq.
“ “ Mr. Vance Gramby
“ “ Mr. Harrison Kersey
“ “ Miss K. S. Ward
P. C. for Miss Pearl Crawford
“ “ Mias Novella Hicks
“ “ Mabel Vincent
“ “ Mr. Rufus Woods
These letters will be sent to the
Dead Letter Office Aug 17 1912, if
not called for before.
In calling for the above please say
‘Advertised” giving date of ad. list.
Respectfully,
S. Arthur White, P. M.
The great voice of America does not
come from the seats of learning. “It
comes in a murmur from the hills and
woods and the farms and factories and
the mills, rolling on and gaining volume
until it comes to us from the homes of
common men.”—Woodrow Wilson.
Apologizes
Senator Simmons Thursday received
a telegram from Editor DePriest, of
the Highlander, published at Shelby,
apologizing for an article which
appeared in that paper recently severely
criticising the senator. Mr. DePriest
j assures tne senator that had he been
! at his office the article never would
have appeared. His telegram is as
follows: “Objectionable article ap
peared while I was at Morehead. W’e
apologize for and- detiounce article
today. Crept in through local editor’s
I inadvertence. Highlander not for
Kitchin, Independent, but favors you.
Columns closed to no one. More
contributors favor Kitchin, more voters
Simmons.. “Corn Craker” has apolo
gized in letter we publish today.
Senator Simmons did not say whether
he would drop his suit for libel or not.
In fact he refused to make any comment
further than to give his consent that
the telegram be published.
It Goes to Show.
A man is not a crook because he
sympathizes and votes with the big
interests yet when he does this he
should not expect the support and en
dorsement of the common people,—
Durham Herald.
And it all goes to show that because
a nej(rspaper publishes stuff, it may say
something that should be interpreted in
order that people may get straight as
' to their meaning insinuations. Ae well.
The extreme povetty of thought,
imbecility, and degredaiion of character
are all manifest in the gutter snipt s
who are eternaly making some mean
insinuation about their superiors. There
mouths are a sewer pipes, and their
brains are rank festering filth. They
are too common to be recogniz3d as
humans.
Mr. Kitchin is so modest that he re
frains from lugging his own record in
to his speeches.—Greensboro News.
Thirty Miles of Warships
Great Britain has been the scene of
some remarkable nayal mobilizations,
of which, until this summer, the most
notable was that held during the cor
onation festivities last year. In point
of size, however, that review was sur
passed by the one held at Spithead last
month, which 239 warships, big and
little, were drawn up in six paralled
lines, if strung out in simple, would
have extended for 30 miles. The sig
nificance of this display will be appre
ciated when it is remembered that
Great Britian is building warships at a
faster rate, and is building nr.ore of
them, than at any period in the history
of her navy.
Instaling a Waterpipe
Protection.
The Meban*- Bedding Co., has
arranged to install a system of water
pipe protection against fire, which
includes a net work of water pipes over
their entire plant with all of the safety
appliances. The system is satisfactoiy
to the fire insurance companies,or else
thoy would not reduce the insurance n
this plant from a five per cent rate to
a one and a quarter rate. They how
ever get back at you by requiring that
YOU very materialy increase your
insurance which puts back in the
insurance company a sum equal to two
and a half per cent on the original
amottnt of insurance.
The instalation of the water P*P®
system will cost the Mebane Bedding
Company approximately eight thousand
I dollars.
Loneliness of the City
A Selt-Y Prolector
Omaha Chancellor.
The dapper little traveling man
glanced at the menu card, and then
looked up at the pretty waitress. “Nice
day, little one,” he began, “Yes, it
is, ” fhe answered, “and so was yes
terday, and my name is Nina, and I
know I’m a little peach, and have
pretty brown eves, and I’ve been here
valued at $7,875,373. Of this large qm|.g while, and I like the place, and
Nearly 70,000,000 Gallons
Sold in the United States
In 1911. Valued at $7,=
875,373.
In 1911 67,527,822 gallons of mineral
waters were sold in the United States,
amount 63,923,119 gallons, valued at
$6,837,888, were of domestic production
and 3,604,703 gallon?, valued at $1,-
037,485, were imported. The average
Knoxville Sentinel. price of tne domestic water at the
A New York newspaper has printed! springs was 10.7 cents a gallon and
a letter from a woman who complains j that of the imported water was 20.8 ^ .
of loneliness and asks for suggestions cents a gallon to which must be added i the hotel, and he weighs
how one in her position can get a bit! for the imported water freight, com- pQu^ds, a'nd last week he wiped
of social intercourse “sufficiently | missions, and import duty,
stimulating to change my thought and The domestic production in 1911 com-
refresh my braiii.” She lives and j pared with that in 1910 showed an in-
woiks in a room in a.i uptown apart-j crease of 1,892,994 gallons and $480,-
ment. She thinks she is able to hold 1298 in value. The product in 1911 wes
up one end of a conversation^ but the derived from 732 springs
people she knows are not in the habit
of entertaining and are not able to
gather about them interesting,
ing people such as she has been
ing all her life to know. In conclusion
she says that “neither religion nor the
practice of religio-therapeutic system
will take the place of common human
joys.”
New York
State led in the quantity of water
s( IJ, with 10,145,261 gallons, bringing
think- an average price of 9 cents a
hop-
gallons,
or a total value of $939,003; but Wis
consin, with an output of 5,716,162
gallons, produced the greatest value,
namely $955,988, or an average of 17
Cints a gallon.
don’t think I’m too nice a girl to be
working in a hotel; if I did. I’d quit
my job, and My wages are satisfactory
and I don’t know if there is a show or
dance in town tonight, and if there is
I shall not go with you, an I am a
respectable girl, and my brother is a
200
out
the dining room floor with a fresh
$50-a-morth traveling man who tried
to make a date with me. Now,what’ll
you have?” The dapper little traveling
man said he was not hungry and a cup
of coffee and some hot cakes would do.
Then there be those who say wcmen
needs protectors. Such a tongue is
sufficient.
dollar a day?
But, lest we forget, woman has put
man in the “also ran” class by “her
d* vine-given creative genius, and has
built and equipped every man who ever
went forth to conquer.” elc. If I
weri a mother, I would not pin medals
all over my chest for building a man,
because God Almighty should get at
least part of the credit. I am afraid,
also, that if the women put their time
and energy on politics there woald be
no more Panama Canals and wireless
telephones, for the equipment of the
boy would suffer.
God fashioned man with the elemental
dt.sire to fight to conquer, to overcome;
and woman with the desire to minister
to soothe, to caress. God is satisfied
with his nandiwoik. If we take from
our children this birthright, what will
we provide to fill the vacancy? They
claim that politics is rotten. I agree
but it will take a bigger thing than the
votes of women to eliminate the graft
and grab and rottenness from political
life. Colorado, I believe, is rated by
them as their model State. A State in
which for years the women have taken
a large part in the framing of laws.
Will some one kindly publish in these
columns some of those laws that take
good care of the women and children?
If they will, I will also publish identical
laws from a State in which the women
do not vote which will make Colorado
look like the proverbial “dirty duce in
a new deck.”
Men would never have led all the
professions nor have accomplished the
world’s greatest feats had it not been
for the women who inspired them and
urged them on. But when the women
become so masculine that they wear a
man,s collar, hat, tie, shoes, shirts (and
in one notorious case) his trousers,
smoke his cigaretts, drickshis “hooze’
and vote; in other words, when the
power gives up its place behind the
throne, the whole kingdom will come
to grief. Are the dear old women of
50 vears ago to be a myth to future
generations?
If we ever have universal suffrag3,
the women will have to play the full
and entire part of man. It will be
forced on them. They will forfeit
I many rights they now have and seldom
aprreciate. Let them serve in the
army and nayy in time of war! Let
the men walk all over their feet in
the crowded cars, and scratch their
faces with superlongated hatpins
When a ship sinks or a crowded theatre
burns to the ground, let the cry be
‘ ‘Men first!” And erect the monnments
to the women who died! Let the wife
pay the alimony! When a wife owns
property, give half of it to the husband!
Reverse the laws and make her
responsible for his debts!
Sounds awful, doesn’t it, girls?
Women are famous for getting in the
last word, and I guess 1 am a fool to
ague, but I intend to keep on until 1
run out of facts that offset their
“boneheads” arguments and “fairy
tale” estimates of the future.
J. A. M.
Fort Bayaid, N. M., July 7.
The State and National
Democratic Conventions
Make the Work complete
(From The Lumberton Robesonian.)
In an interview published after the
national Democratic platform was
framed but before it was adopted by
the Baltimore convention Senator Sim-
mom expressed his great satisfaction
with it as a declaration of Democratic
principles and purposes. And no
wonder he is pleased with it. A careful
study will show it is as much a vindi
cation of him against the attacks of
his enemies as is our State platform.
For months before the State con
vention was held it was known that
Senator Simmons opponents were
anxious to control that conventiou for
the purpose of securing some declara
tion against him. They said, “Wait
until that convention acts and Senator
Simmons will hear something drop.”
But the State convention not only
endorsed his record by a decisive
majority and “heartily, ” it adopted a
platform with a tariff declaration in
line with his contention for a tariff
which does not discriminate against
any section or occupation. It declared
against a tariff of any kind which seeks
to put the things our people sell on the
free list while providing for protection
on things they buy; thus endorsing the
Senator’s whole creed and contention
on the tariff question.
After this Jendosement by the State
convention the senator’s opponents
said: “Wait until the national conven
tion meets and makes its declaration
on lumber and reciprocity.” Well the
national convention has met arid made
its declaration and neither lumber nor
reciprocity was mentioned in it. So,
is this not a clear vindication of the
Senator’s position upon these ques
tions? He and those agreeing with
him had contended that the Democratic
I^tfoim declaraHon with reference to
lumber meant that if the Democrats
controlled they would make a tariff bill
putting lumber and tnist-controlled
products on the free list and reducing
ths tariff on all dutiable articles to a
revenue basis, and that it did not mean
that lumber was to be put on the free
list while trust-controlled products
wtr3 protected and taiiff duties on other
products were unchanged. The State
executive committee and a large
majority of the Democratic Senators
agreed with Senator Simmons that
this was the c'^rrect interpretation of
the platform; but his opponents
contended otherwise.
The Senator also contended that there
was no reason why raw materials should
be put on the free list while the
products manufactured out of them
remained on the protected list. This
position was attacked by his orponents
and it was claimed that the national
platform would declare for free raw
materials. The failure of the national
convention to make, in connection with
the tariff, any reference to raw
materials or any specific articles is
conclusive evidence that as a result of
the controyersy which has been waged
over lumber and free raw materials,
and against putting the products of one
section on the free list and those of
another on the dutiable list, that great
Democratic body reached the conclusion
that the only just tariff is one which
applies the pr nciples of a tariff for
revenue equally to the products of all
sections, all classes and occupations,
without discrimination against any;
and that in levying tariff taxation the
great fundament al Democratic principle
of equality should be observed and
maintained. So the convention said—
and that is in the line of Senator Sim
mons contention—that if it was en
trusted with pK)wer it would reduce
taxes gradually to a revenue basis; and
added: “We recognize that our system
of taxation is intimately connected
with the business of the country and
we favor the ultimate attainment of
the principle we advocate by legislation
that will not inji»re or destroy legitimate
industry.”
This omission of any reference to
free raw materials or to lumber, in
view of the agitation throughout the
country upon these questions, is delib
erate and intenional, and as such must
be taken as a party declaration not
only that the party has no criticism to
make of those who have taken the
position of Senator Simmons upon these
questions, but that it recognizes the
merits of their contentions.
Thoughts shut up will spoil for want
of atr, like bales unopended to the sun.
—Young.
How doth the busy little fly
Improve each shining minute.
And where he finds an apple pie
Plant micro-millions in it.
Judge Clark is jumping up and down
with both feet on the Soutnern Rail
way Company and shouting, “Octo
pus!” Just so. And isn’t it about
time for the Judge to reproduce that
famous letter he received some years
ago from the mountain coves, about
“them thar rale rode fellers?”—Char
lotte Observer.
Health is the second blessing that we
mortals are capable of; a blessing that
money cannot buy.—Walton.
Two things of which there is enough
for all: Fresh Air and Sunshine. Get
yours!
Mr. Kitchin declared tour years ago
that the Southern railway and the To
bacco trust were after him. It appears
they got him; but Judge Clark dois
not accept it as a warning.—Greensboro
News.