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i 'HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN; UN A WED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." V0LUMN XIV. MOCKS VILLE. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 28. 1912. NUMBER 8 Letter to Wilson. yellow Jacket. Mr Woodrow Wilson. Goveaor of New Jersey, Candidate on the 46 ballot of the Donkey Py. for the Residency, Dear Teacher: Perhaps you: have never heard that there is a little Kepublican paper published doffn hero in the huckleberry hills f Xorth Carolina which was found back y0mler wheu this country va9 drinking free soup under Cleveland and the Wilson-Gorman tarifflaw was playing tbunderation f ith thi3 eouutry. Well, such is the case. We are here, and one of our chief diversions is to preach Bepublican gospel and poke the Donkey under the ribs. Well, Woodrow, we notice that you have selected the tariff and high cost of living as a paramount to work the public with. And no doubt this will do just as well as anything else you could use. But hoffare you going to reduce the cost of living, Governor! Don't you kDOW that the people who you are appealing to for votes are largely to blame for the high cost of living. You know, Woodrow, there was a time when the labor ing men or some of them were will inr to work ten hours a day for a day's pay. Ask a farmer how a days work by a larin hand com pares bow with the amount of work a farm hand used to do and he will tell you that the difference is near ly half. The average laboring mau only wauts to work about eight hours and do six hours work and he wants all the wages and profits in the business, and G over flew afle out of ten girls that get married nowadays don't know a friendly prune from a bar of soap and would hold up her lilly white hands in holy horror at corn, beef and cabbage and therefore the family has got to live on canned and package goods and the result is they are paying for the package and can and not for food. One other trouble that ails the country is the growing dishonesty of the people in general. The growing desire to get something for nothing and get it as quick as possible. Sow take yourself for instance, louhave picked out the tariff and the high cost of living as your cardinal principles to secure the votes that you may get fifty thous and dollar a year as President. Kow, are you honest, Governor! Morgan says he is honest, but he's liar. Carnegie thinks he's hon t, but he's a thief. It isn't necessaiy for a man to steal in the rk of the night to be a thief, be Muse the man who sells a pound muy prunes for 15 cents that &Iy cost eight is as much of a rob ber as the hold-up man. bots of your Democratic friends me arouud us and ask us to tell them what we think you will do &en you get to be President, We toll tderu you will fix it so the rmer can get 50 cents a pound ,0 his butter aud can buy his gar at 3 cents and leather at 5 ceut9 aod coffee at 7 cents. That's aout the way you aim to average ltuP ain't it, Woodrow! And tlj laborer will get $2,000 a year au'l 6ix hours for a day. We have to tell them that to keep the fools m aU going over to Debs. You See he is offering niggers and hites $2,000 a year ai d six hours r a flaw fx- ci r 6 "terally tearing off their shirts ! j men- vote aou mey trott lng over to the Vocalists. uen again, we have heard that yon frere going to bust the trusts hen you get to drawing fifty thousand dollars a year. But, Woodrow; if you could not ddany th"g tothe trusts in New Jersey hat in the name of the steam rol ler can you do with all the trusts a11 the states! You know that e Jersey has been the incubator a'Hhe usts in this country Tu. alized at millions wit& two dollars paid iu. Have you done anything to them, Woody, old socks! Oh you say busting trusts is the business of the President, Fiddlesticks. Fudge. Texas and Missouri didn't wait for the Presi dent. Now. Governnr in'f if a fact that before pou were Gover nor twenty minutes you wanted to be President! Your friends tell us you are a learned man, a student and a fight er. What battles were you in, GOV.! YOU dou'fc Cftll tnrnintr down your friends Harvey and Col. Watterson, a battle, do you! And they say you are President of a great college. If you are you must be good at figures and if you are good at figures you can tell us how much your nomination cost, who furnished' the boodle and what deal you made to finally secure the nomination of the 46 ballott. But all jokes aside Governor, we take this method of serving notice on you that we are going to oppose your election with all the fight that is in us. You are a free trader. If you were elected and your fool tariff ideas put into practice then this nation might as well prepare for going into bankruptcy. So you may look out for something hot from this corner of the woods and what we propose doing for you will make them Jersey Bkeeters feel like soothing syrup running down your classic back. The peo ple of this nation don't like to have their employment taken away from them aud given to the people in foreign lands. They don't like to have their wages diminish or dis appear. They don't like to lose their bread and butter. You run ning on a platform that threatens the wages of this country. Your tariff plank is exactly word for word like the one that Grover Cleveland used to knock the socks off Prosperity 17 years ago. You may think this letter a little previ ous but we couldn't hold our ton gue any "longer. A pary that will dare to hold the same old club over the heads of the people that brought long bread lines all over the United States doesn't elicit much respect from this corner of the moral vineyard aud we just wanted to remind you of the fact. County Election Boards and the Size of the Ballot. The State board of elections has named board of elections for each county in the State, the appoint ments being on recommendation of the county executive committees of the respective counties, two Democrats and one Republican. The board also fixed the size of the ballots to be used in the gener al election. The State ticket will be 3 1 2 by 12 inches, the presi dential ticket 3 1 2 by 8 inches and congressional ticket 3 1-2 by 2 inches.. The board consists of Colonel Wilson G. Lamb, chairman WiK iiamsron; J. C Clifford, Dunn, secretary; J. F. Bay, Franklin, Democrats; and W. L. Davis, Hn dersocville, and Clarence Call, Wilkesboro, Republicans. Ray and Davis were not at the meeting. The Doctors. The Shelby Star. An outrageous oppression of the people are the new rates put into effect by the Mecklenburg County '-M-oirAti Snnintv this week. 'At a JJJLVJVi .ww meeting the dectors there decided to change the regular fee of $1.50 for day calls to $2.oU ana me uigut fee to $5, with double these a mounts for visits to patients hav ing contagious diseases. There is more sickness from contagious dis easeJ among the poorer people and thllerates are extortionate. For tunately the doctors of Cleveland county are more reasonable. Meck lenburg folks ought to protest and rebel against such excessively high rates for medical attention-en absolute necessity. " A Groom's Mistake. A few nights ago on the train for Morehead City there boarded the car at Greensboro a younthful looking couple, evidently a swain right from the backwoods of Guil ford or Orange county and his re cently wedded bride, bound for the "city by the sea" on a honeymoon trip. The loving manner and coo ing ways soon attracted thev atten tion ol every one in sight or sound of hearing. They were assigned to their berths iu the sleeping com partment, the hubby taking the taking the upper. After the train left Greensboro and the porter had made up the berths all of the pas sengers began to turn in for the long night ride before them. In a few minutes the car was still and quiet except for the snoring of some soundly sleeping passenge-s. The young husband however, making a law unto himself of every slightest wish of his better half, had recourse to go to the end of the car for a glass of water for his turtle dove. Accomplishing the first part of his mission success fully and with no mishap he began the return journey with the water. In the dimly lighted and swaying car he made the terrible, but oft common mistake of confusing berths, and instead of coming to the one occupied by his wife went to one where lay a tired and sleepy traveling man. Pulling aside the curtain just a fraction of an inch, he began: 'Honey!" There was no answer. Again he spoke, each word fraught with the tenderest love and solicitude: Honey, here's your water!" No response. Becoming a little anxious he pulled the curtains aside and ten derly and caressingly: "Honey" By this time several of the occu pants had begun to take notice and were peering cautiously through slight apertures, when suddenly the curtains were thrown violently aside and the youthful husband was confronted with the irate countenance of the awakened sleep er who exploded with sufficient emphasis as to be heard the length of the car: "This ain't no bee hive, you dam fool, this is lower seven." Gastonia-Gazette. Don't Get Excited. Marshville Home. It has always been a strange thing to this writer why human beings can become so intensely in terested in a particular candidate for some political' office that they lose all sense of reason and pro- nriet v and roll ud their sleeves and co To flinfirinsr mud iust as o o though the safety of their own lives and the country at large de pended upon the election of a man who probably cares nothing for anything except his own personal inteiest and political ambitions. Wilson in Favor of Local Option. Sea Girt. N. J., Aug. 11. Gov ornnr Vi Ison indirectly took a hand today in the political situa tion in Maine, where the guber natorial elections in September are expected to reveal the strength of three presidential nominees. In response to numerous letters from Democratic leaders in Maine ask ing Governor Welson for his at titude on the liquor question which is a prominent issue in the guber natorial campaign, Governor Wil son has declared in favor of local oDtion and agaixst having the question made- an issue between political parties. v CASTOR I A For Infant!1 and Children. The Kind Yea Haf 0 Always Bought Bears the Signature of -J7 w WW . The High Heel Shoes. Monroe Enquirer. x A lady, an enthusiastic Christian worker, stood within a church packed full of people. She read a paper on the "Chinese Womeu." She told how the feet of the poor heathen Chinese women are bound, how they are crippled thereby, and she plead for money to send the missionary to teach the Chinese women a better way. The good lady who read the paper had on a pair of 6hoes that pinched her feet, heels great, high, Blender ones that were placed just under the hollow of the foot that made walk ing both painful and dangerous. She could not breath freely so tight was her waist lacing, and yet she sympathized with the poor Chinese woman who bound her leet. Of course you will not like jr H to be written here, but hon estly the well educated American womon, with the knowledge of physfology tbat she has, or has the opportunity of having, to say the east of it, who wears the abomin able stylish high heels on her shoes, the bottom of the heel being about the size of a dime and put right under the hollow of her foot, throwing the whole foot into mis ery, placing tne weight ol her body right at the spot under the foot where uature intended that no pressure should be, and thereby putting legs and back into a strain to keep the body in poise and then in addition to that pulls a lot of lacing around her waist so tight that it is difficult to get enough air into the lungs and makes the breath come in short, quick gasps, is committing a greater sin in God's sight than is the yellow wo man over yonder in China who, in her heathendom, binds her feet. The American man who sends his money to China in order that the American missionary may teach the Chinese woman not to bind their feet and then spends money buving the abominable high heel ed, forward pitched shoes for hie wife and daughter to wear, is blowing out money one way or the other. Do vou expect to make American women, reform their mode of dress by writing thes arti cle do you ask! Not one bit of it. rhe only thing it will do will be to make these high heeled women make some fling at the writer be hind his back. It will take about two hundred more years of train ing to make the American woman quit punishing her body with her dress. She has inherited from her hair-covered, cave-dwelling ances try, who punched holes through their noses and their ears, in order to put ornaments in them, a pro pensity to punish the body in or der to ornament it, and it will take a long time for that old nature to be wiped out. The writer, who has never been away from his home land, ventures the assertion that he has seen more suffering on the part of womeu because of un comfortable footwear than any mis sinary to China ever saw, in China comparatively few women bind their feet. Here the cement sidewalks of our towns are pound ed hourly by women suffering as they walk, all of 'em from the nigger cook to the society queen, are squeeziug their feet and walk ing on the little old spike heels and every Sunday there is a row after row of those same little spike heels we can barely keep t from writing it with two ll's iustead of ee's--lined up under the church pews, the wearers suffering by wearing 'emT Now if any of you snike heeled' wearers do not like this you just don't like it all you please and keep on wearing 'em as long as you can it. This writ ing has not been done to please you, nohow, but just to give vent to a mean feeling that's got to be worked off some way or other. . Apologizing for Their Position. Professor Wilson, the Demo cratic nominee for President, and all ot the Democratic politicians and newspapers are now busy try ing to assure the country that if there is a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress that they will, in changing the tariff, do it so as to hurt business and prosperity as little as possible Their confessions and declarations are enough to convince the people at once of the great danger tbat awaits the country lrom another Democratic administration. In this connection, it is well to note the declaration of the Demo cratic platform on the tariff ques tion. It declares for ' a tariff for revenue only," and further de clares that any other kind of a tariff, that is, a tariff for protec tion, is ''unconstitutional." If, tbat platform declaration means what it says in plain Eng lish, then a Democratic Congress would withdraw all protection to American industry and to Ameri can labor, and would proceed to raise revenue enough to run the Government by simply putting a tariff on articles not made or raised in this couniry such as tea and coffee. It is easy enough to raise all of the revenue that the Govern ment needs on 6uch articles and withdraw all protection to everj industry in this country and leave us on an absolutely free-trade basis. That is what the Democratic platform declares for, yet we find Governor Wilson and his man agers already trying to explain to the people that they do not mean exactly that. They say they are going to cut down the tariff grad ualy and hurt the country as little as possible. The question arises, Why should the country be hurt at all! Cau casian. Youngest Mother in History. Iowa City, Iowa, Aug. The youngest mother recorded in Iowa medical history is an ll-year old girl from near Davenport who gave birth to a healthy 81-2 pound child at the University hospital today. The hospital authorities did Lot make public the girl's name. Disrobes to Escape Arrest. When detectives tried to arrest Annie Currie. twenty-two years of age, of Providence. R. I., on a charge of the larceny of a diamond ring valued at $75 she held them at bay at the door of her room in a house on Broadway all day by re fusing to don any clothing. The young woman, as soon as the inspectors began questioning her, bolted into her room and started to undress. The officers tried to take her in charge, but her actions be came such that they desisted and blushing, left her room. For several hours, at varying in tervals, the inspectors in turn asked the young woman to come out. She refused. It was not until evening that a young woman, a friend of Annie, succeeded in persuading her to dress. The people who make hay while the sun shines have to get up be fore daylight to do it. Jack Johnson has agreed to fight Torn Langford and Sam MacVey in Australia provided they will give him $10,000 and $5,000 for tiainiog expenses as well as three round-trip tickets to Australia. It is reported that snow fell on a Henderson county mountain dur ing the "cold snap" last week. Fires were lighted in all Hender sonville homes, but not much faith is put in the snow story. "Were all medicines as meritorious as Chamberlain'o Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoe a Remedy the world would be much better off and the percentage of suffering great ly decreased," writes Lindsay Scott, o Teinyle, Ind. . For sale by all dealer. Apple Crop in The Brushies. Charlotte Observer. 10th. "The best apple crop in 10 years and one of the be3t if not the very best that the Brushy Mountain ap ple region has ever known," was the report that Col. Tom Itowland brought down from Tayloreville yesterday. Colonel IJowland, who has been deeply interested in the" develop ment of apple culture in this pro ductive section for years, was very much elated over the prospects for a record yield, declaring inciden tally that he expected to realize not less thau 25 per cent on his in vestment this year. The trees, he said, were bending with the fruit and that the indications are that the grade as well as the quantity will be excellent. Last year these apples were sold on the trees for 50 cents a bushel but a new method will be followed this season. Practically all of the owners of orchards have entered into a stock company for the mar- eting of their product, somewhat after the fashion of the Georgia peach growers, who several years ago organized the Georgia fruit exchange. The apple growers have entered the Western North Carolina Fruit Growers' Associa tion, which concern will supervise the gathering, packing, shipping and marketing of the fruit where ever necessary and otherwise dis pose of the product to the best in erests ol the growers. This as sociation will exercise a general supervisory control of the market ing of the apples, in order that tho very best prices can be secured. This is regarded as a decided im provement over ' the system last year where every orchard owner sold his own product. Colonel Rowland adds that there is market activity in all sections of the apple growing country. From New York. A North Carolina Kepublican living in New York, writes the Union Republican as follows: "The indications here 'are tbat Roosevelt will make a complete failure in his own State. The fight in New Yoik State will bs between Talt and Wilson with odds on Taft. The conservation voters fa vor Taft as well as the old time Republicans. The belter class of foreign born citizens are strong for Taft. Wilson will get a good vote but Roosevelt will draw some of the radical voters of both parties to nis side and this will hurt Wil son, l have been here over a mouth and talked with a lot of people, and the above is the way the po litical . situation looks to me. I heard Roosevelt's name hissed in a big theater the other night. The newspapers beie are practically all against him." 210 Are Slaughtered in Mexican Prison. Mexico City, Aug. 11 Two hundred and ten residents of the little town of Puruandiro, Michoa- can, at least half of whom were boys, were slaughtered at the be hest of the Jefe Politico in June, according to a story brought to MexicoCity by a commission which called upon the Minister of the In terior asking for guarantees. 3Ien bers of the commission declared tho jefe politico caused to be post ed on the gate of the town ceme tery a list of the dead which was added to from time to time. 103 miners were killed in an ex plosion iu a coal mine at Bochum, Germany last week. Four womeu have been duly elected members of the natienal committee of the Progressive party. Are Eyer at War. There are two things everlastingly at war, joy and piles. But Bucklcn's Arnica Salve will banish plies in any form. It sron subdues tfce itching, irritation, in flamation. or selling. II gives comfort, invites joy. Greatest healer of burns, boils, ulcers, cuts, bruises eczema, sclds, pimples, skin eruptions. 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