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I Tj ' . MOCKS-VILLE, N. C WEDNESDAY APRIL 4 1900. . " " The Davie Record, .-rc-iro EVEHV WEDNESDAY. B. H. 3IOBRIS, Editor. terms subscription: $1.00 50 25 One copy One copji One copy. One Year, - - -Six Months, - . -Three Months - - K0CK8YILL1, Jf. C., AFRIL 4, 1900. BSPCBL1CAN TICKET. For President 1900. WILLIAM McKINLEY OF OHIO, Por Vice-President. JETER C PRITCHARD OF NORTH CA.KOLIXA. For Governor. JAMES E. BOYD OF OUILFOKD. If For Congress, 7th District. If WILLIAM A. BAILEY g OF DAVIE. 18 Amendment. Poil Tax Feature. Icitor of the Gazette: If I'm designed poor lordling a Stove. By nature's law designed. Why as an Independent wish E'er p'cvd ir my mind! If not, why aui I subject to Eia cruelty or scorn! Or why has man the will and povei To make his fellow mournf Were it not for the serious eon ;i;enceH possible iu connection ithtbe proved constitutional j :ecpirut it would beamusiug to i-!e the puerile argument resorted by its advocates in support of the proposition embodied in its ;ii;i..grao!- provisions.; ia spite of i'l contemplated outrages and 'ro;igs one ia sometimes irresisti t iy auiawl I j siote the strafts to bH'b th cor.s pin-tors aaintt i-Wfy in Jorth Caroled asfou-ed to r.,,rt forargunieut in defence of the wicked' provision of the diabolical measure. The list of the kind was the eiiort of the Momin? Raleigh Post of a recent date to parry the sledge hammer blog of Senator Pritehard's speech iu the United States senate, aimed it tbe oppressive noli tax provis Wiieadin? that a negro who ii-ji ray Lag poj! tax should not i re iu the sc.j ol fua 1. If you il take time to examine the pro ed amendrneut you will be forc- into the irresistabie conclusion tutu is hot the purpose of the !'eudmeut to raise revenue to airport the schools but to prevent u.epoor txjth whit and black a '';e -from exercising the right to v";e. The toilowiug is the propos es amendment: , "Sec. 4- Every person present ing himeelf for registration shall be '-'t to read and write any section Oi !lie COUSt it n!inn in tho. VnrrHcV, --.' A U , U V JUa-Ia. aOAA wigua'T and before h shall h on hUd to vote he shall have Ktionor before the 1st day of J1-rchof the year in which he Eposes to vote his il tav as jPrtgcnbed by law for the previous pr. Poll tax shall e a lien only f " assessed property, and no pro saall issue to enforce the col C;il0nJof the same except against sseised property." U anything can be certain in world of broken pledges and 1 .promises one of the things cer- ' P IS that monPV tn annnr. tho, jwooa schools of the state was - m ana least thing in the mind ae legislature that conceived s vicsed measure. IUas not how nmch money will UK proposed amnri,f F Ppvrt puthc schools that sway- i.w l"c iciBiature, uui ""uate, freeman ;n u the ballot box. d fnn. u. .mf,ney mey want- uPoiiUx of the poor nr. " i'ryv ,tea eome method Wk r J COllection from tllf Can nf . -,v i",r mcui, jii- Of Drovir . Rhirk us payment. It I 11 BTT . . time to ?Pnth8 PaV it in f).a fi,r. j , w lY MTV rst davr.f VV US oeiween tne loltU the state 'tion, by vMl eh extension the 'n could nve mid hia noil. go, gireri the The ioor taY niver the beneht of the eight months between the first day of March and the presidential elec tion to raise the paltry sum to pay his poll tax in November. It was not money they wanted to educate the poor children of the state, but what they did want and what they are now trying to ac complish, is to get rid of the votes of the pcor men of the state by the methods proposed in the amend ment and like the ghoulish fiend that feeds on human flesh they wanted to gorge their greedy ven geance on the poor man's liberty by cutting Lim off from the ballot box, because he ras not able, by reason of his misfortune and pov erty, to raise five dollars or what ever the sum might be to pay his poll tax eisrht months before the election. It is all right w ith those who conceived this wicked measure if the poor laboring m in is forced to take his last dollar to buy broad for his starving children on the first day of March, if by that means they can only rob the ballot box of a freeman's joy his right to vot eight month thereafter. What a spectacle to behold in this 4 'Laud of the free and the home of the brav," a poor man a grandson may be of a brave, patriotic fore father, who sacriliced his blood, perhaps his life, at King's moun tain or Guilford Court House, that he and his defendants might be free, turned away from the bal lot box. that cost the blood of his patriotic sire to establish, upon the flimsy pretext that he had not been able to support his starving family and pay a poll tax eight months before! The bare thought of such an act of cruelty and wrong is enough to arouse a sentiment of resentment and sympathy in the heart of every liberty loving patriot in all th laud. If anything could move the 'stareyed goddess' ' of liberty to an emotional impulse of sympa thy, because of t he outrage and wrong inflicted upon the oppressed freeman of earth, this spectacle would cause her to veil her face to hide the blush of shame and to conceal the uuwiFi;ig tears of cou- trition over this act of "raau's in humanity to man." Siartiu out with the bright pages of history that reflects the 1 ight of liberty in the face of -a civilized world, and stumbling over the debris of na tions crushed to ruing beteath the iron heel ot depotism, back into the dark saadows of the uncertain past, where history fails to record the cruel dee Is, we will ie ircu in vain for an act of oppii s.on to his feilow mn oommea Pirate with that contemplated iu the proposed amend uieut. Draco, the Allien ian de3pot, who . flourished in the seventh century before the Chris tian era. who wrote his laws -.n human blood and plaeed them on a tower beyoud the reach of hum an vision, and punished with sav- age glee the unfortunate violator of its unknown provisions, is justly stylel the m-st couusn:nat?tdespo' and tryant of all ages, and still that bloody coiie, emanating from the depraved heart of the most cruel tryant that ever live I, pre scribing Ihe same penalty lor mur der and taespass, did not exclude a single poor Grecian from the bal lot box because he had not pai his poll tax. That species of cru I elty seems to have been overlooked by despotic and savage nations as a reservation of oppression for the special benefit of the North Caro lina iegislature of 1899 as a new and unthought of torture to op press the poor. Notwithstanding the liberty of mankind was then iu its Hwadling and that the bloody code of Dranco did not deprive the poorest Greek iu all Athens of a single right, not e. en the right to vote because of his poverty, such a storm of resistance was raised a gainst Draco's depotisin that it re quired the intervention of a Solon to "hush the noise and soothe to peace." If such a storm of opposition was raised by Draco's despotism by a people who knew little of blessing ol liberty, what may be expected of the hundred thousand freemen in North Carolina, half of whom have known nothing bat liberty all their lives, wuile the other half knows the course of slavery, neith er of whom will ever consent to be slavfzs again or surrender their liberty without a struggle to pre serve it as an inheritance from heir forefathers. Why this cruel and unjust thrust at the liberties of the poor? Heretofore criminals, men convict ed ot crime felons were disfran hised, not allowed to vote because they had forfeited that right by the commission of a high crime, and this refusal of the ballot was a punishment, but now under this cruel provision it is proposed to punish the poor white man, not because he has been convicted of a high crime, but because he is poor not able to pay. his poll tax on ! oae section mignt :e more question -the first day. ot March and lc.;ra:i- i able Wan a yield of fortv bushels ed to the level witu. a eoii. ieted , in another.- iecj tne division felon, who has stolen a ehecap or xaust fix in advance what i the ournc a nouse; punished because some worthless negro failed to pav his poll tax and claimed the right to go to school. It is a faithful saying and worthy of all acception, that 'Every tub ougnt to stand on its own bot. trrrt ?? -. rl i m wm uu. ou ougnt every man answer for his own misdeeds, and a man can and will not pay his pon rax, xnen he ought to suffer tor the neglect, but, for conscience saKe, don't punish a deserving poor man who cannot pay his poll tax uecause some undeserving scamp has shirked the responsibili ty. ' or the first time in the historv AT a 1 ,- - V oi iiortn Carolina the last legisla lure advanced the proposition to make poverty in the state a crime. jiuuwuauie wnu iiKe penalty as the commission of a felony. Think of it ye poor men of North Caro lina; men with whom it is a stru gle to keep the wolf from the door: think of what you are doing before you cast your vote tor the pro posed amendment, It may be the last vote you will ever cast. It may not only entail degradation on yourself, but degradation on your sons after you are dead and gone. Think of the possible consequences. Remember that if this poll tax pro vision is adopted there is no con tention that that portion of the a mendmeut is urconstitutional. and that if it is carried your poll tax receipt is the only thing that will keep you trom standing up in the same row with the convicted hos thief on the day of election, If the Bibel is true and Chris tianity a virtue, then ihis unrich- j eous and iniquitous poll tax pro vision of the proposed amendment is an abomination in the sight of God and humanity. It is a sin because it is an effort to oppress the poor. Our Lord and Saviour was always enjoining it upon his disciples to remember the poor. "For ye have the poor with ye al ways, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good "He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker, bat he that honoreth Him had mercy on the poor." There is no good intended for the poor i a the attempted humiliation and designation to the le el of a conviirted felon as foreshadowed in the amendment, while the attempt edoppression is a direct reproach to the Living God. Oar civiliza tiou, our obligations to Christianity, our duty to the poor, all demand of us that wo do all in our power, consistent with our obligations in this behalf, to defeat this iniqnit vm and ungodly attempt to op pre.is our fellow men because of tbeir poverty. "To your tents, O Israel!" V. S. Lusk. Fiioai Census Bureau. To build up a great office like the Census Oiiice in fifteen mouths from absolutely nothing to an eifi- cieni uiaoume, employing about three thousand men in Washington and about fifty thousand elsowhere in the country, is a didicuit ta,k, and entire success is out of the ques tion. Tue oulce uaturlly compares itseif with the stage of preparation attained at tue same period ten year ago and tried by this test, it has gained several months on its predecessor. One of the problem before it is hu .v to put in the ti ne thus secured in such a way as most to benefit the Census. In the Agricultural Division the need of time for preliminary work is perhaps as great as any where in the Census Oiiice. Farmers, as a class, do not keep their accounts sis well manufacturers, (and the returns from Farmers may occasionally in clude serious error3 which a train ed eye will at once detect. Hence the farm schedules nust be exam. ined and such errors corrected be fore the tables can be made up from them with safety. If a farm er reports that his land sown to wheat was ten acres and the yield four thousand bushels, it is clear that an average yield of four hun dred bushels to the acre is incredi ble, and must be rejected or cor rected in accordance with the probabilities. Sometimes tue trutn can be made out by an ex pert from comparison with entries in other parts of the schedules; sometime correspondence must be opened to settle the doubt. All tins ranks under the general head o! verifying the schedules, and the Agricultural Division plans togive all the time possible to the work of verifying each of the millions of farm schedules. To accomplish this in time allowed, the work of several Hundred clerks will be re quired, and they must have hard and fast rule3 to guide them. For example, they might be told: When the wheat report show a product of over forty bushels to the acre, they are suspicious and must be laid aside for an expert, to pass upon. But any such rules must vary with the section of the coun try. A vield of twenty bushels in - S J - . . - "" AVIE; range of reports in each part of the country and for each crop that may be accepted as probable on me'r tace and not requiring specia examination. To get the limits o: probability for this purpose for each co-nty in the United States. that is, the maximum and minim um yield and the maximun and minimum price which may be ac cepted without verification, is the oojecr ot an extensive correspon dence now being carried on by the Agricultural Division under the direction of Mr. L. G. Powers. Chief Statistician in charge of that uivision. Ibree simple schedules have been prepared and printed on different colored paper in order mat, they may be readily distin guished one from another. One of them covers ordinary garden vege raoies, a second covers fruits, and the third the great staple field crops. Each asks about the units of measure employed and the net price realized, and the two more important schedules, those for sta ple field products and for vegetables ask for the highest and lowest yield of each crop per acre. These schedules are beimr mailed to prominent farmers all over the country and in many instances re turns have already been received. Yuen the returns have been re ceived and tabulated, a scheme will be made from them of what is to be accepted as correct in each case and what is to be probed far ther. The only aim of the offic is to get what was really the inten tion of the farmer in answering tne questions. If the presumption is strongly agaiust his meaning what the schedule says, the office will try to learn by correspondence from the Supervisor, or the Enum erator, or the farmer himself what the real facts were. If the farming public will con tinue to cooperate with the heart iness already displayed, this effort will result iu a more trustworthy census of farms than has ever been token. Farmer m a class, are less able to cooperate than the repre sentatives of any other great indus try. Hence the v"enus Office can do more for thm than it can for centralized lines o.f business, which j can and do make their own inves tigate: s, and it will do its best to present a full and accurate photo graph of this leading occupation. The Director of tie Census urges every one inteiested to aid the work. 8IG INCREASE IN MINERS' WAGES A matter of the griest impor tance, not only to the thousands of m ners in this coal held directly interested, bin to the entire com munity, is tne general aovance du wages to become effective on April 1st. On and after that date miner-, will receive an advance that to gether with the in; ie.8d son months ago amounts to jo per cent . Laborers in and about the mines will be advanced 20 per cent. This is probably the largest ad vance iu wages made in any coal field in the United States. It is e3tirnitel th it the 25 par cent advance will be suffi cient to p ty the expenses of a miner with a reasonable sized family and leave him his old money. In addition to wages, conditions wages as clear the advance of are also better The ability of than ever before, railroad company to furnisn cars to meet the demand makes it' pos sible for every operation to work full time, instead of part of the time as was done several years ago. There is demand for at least 2, 000 more men to wor ic full time at the advanced wages and all who come can get work. There are a ereat niauv colored men in this field and room for more. They can establish themselves in hmes and feel seen i e that there will be no interferance with them in the dis charge of their duties as citizens. Taey can vote as they please and no shot gun menauce exists. Bluefield Daily Telegraph. National Hotel, REFURNISHED. UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. BATES, $1.00 PER DAY. J. H. Ramsey, Prop'r. Main St. SALISRURY, H. c DR. F. G- CHEEK EYE SPECIALIST Oice .over Jacobs' Clothing Storj, WINSTON, N. C I f I , . KecQRB. Substantial Fact. W. R. Clark, Pickaway. Virginia, says; I hare for several years been uing Ramon's Pills in my family with most satiaf ictory results, and ao not nesuate to reieommend them to my c isiomers as superior to any of the virions kinds kept in stock. Not only are your pills reliable but !:amon fe Relief and Nerve and B me Oil re the most satisfactory reaie dia I ever handled, and if they were more generally used, they would often make the Doctor's bill only tle. Instead of $2 00. These goods need no dusting in my stock because they are constantly coming m and going out- are Trade Win. nera and Trade Keepers.'' These' good qualities are not a theory but a substantial fact. For sale by J. Lee Kurfeea. NOTICE. By drture of au order made by A. T. Grant, Sr.. C. S. C, I will sell at public auction at the court house door in the town of Mocks- villj, N.'C, on Monday the 2nd day of April 1900, the following real estate; adjoining the lands of Lewis Harper, et al., and bounded as follows to wit: Beginning at a one, Lewis Harper's corner, W. 20 poles and 15 links to a stone in Pott's line; thence S. 70 degree1 W., 24 poles and L.. to a stone in Pott's line; thence E. 15 degrees N., 20 poles and 20 links to a stone to the beginning containing two acres, 105 poles more or less. Teems oe Sale: $25,00 cash, balance on six months time, with bond and approved security; in- trest at 6 per cent from day of sale Title reserved till purchase money is paid. This 2nd day of March 1900. Thos. N. Chaffin. Admr. of G. H. Lippard. T. B. Bailey, Attorney. - Webster's International I Dictionary of thfV. E.Cer'tPrhrtiaa fflc. th r.A. Dpwn l oari, all the fuaM - 1 use bcaooiMsxa. Cuuimcnde4 VyPtet tnserintendanM , aiRK-si wtot a amber. 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