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HERE SHALL THE PRESS. THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN; UNA WED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." VOLUMN XIV. MOCKSVILLE. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 1912. NUMBER 12 What Is What. A man buys a thing for $1.00 ami sells it for $2.00 without add ing a duru red cent to its value, aud that's profit. fellow with more cunning air acrity, brutality, superior acumen or pnre fool luck runs across a val uab'e something and claims to be its rightful sole owner, simply and solely because he beat somebody else to it. That's discovery. Au estate is bauded down thru generations. Tne original owners Way have either tjltn, cheated, gwiudled, grabbed, ground, lied or wheedled to ge, it. But now it's inheritecce. A man "holds stock" and itsor lies in the shade and earns nary a nick, but lives on the fat of the land, aud only benefits the world like a fat hog by dying. That's .income. The man who has an "income" lives without earning a red cent or doing a solitary useful act. That's a gentleman of leisure. Another man has no income and does nothing useful. That's a hobo or tramp. A poet or musician composes a masterpiece aud sells it for bread to keep from begging or stealing. Alter he is dead, another man copyrights it and gets rich, while the author in his humble grav-e gets fame. That's genius. A skilled worker takes a little straw worth 2 cents, a few feathers worth 5 cents, a nickel's worth of ribbon, a few artificials worth from 2 to 5 cents, and conjures, up a combination cf indescribable and useless form which serves for a lady's headgear. That's art. A hat or frock goes out of style and wifey or daughter wouldn't have it as a gift. Next year it comes back into style, and father sells a cow and calf and buys it. That's fashion. A man invests his money in the right thing at the right time and gets rich, He's a financier. Another man invests in the wrong thing at the wrong time and hits the ceiling. He's a fool. An uneducated Irishman or Ital ian labors ten or twelve hours a day for 81.50, but earns $8.00 or $10 00 lor the stockholders in a railroad. That's labor. The official exercises lordship over a nation, and that's statecraft. Trie soldier fights for it, and that's patriotism. The priest pays for it, and that's divinitv. The attorney pleads for it and thai'? law. The producing masses make eve ry red cent of the wealth and foot ud the whole durned bill. That" 8 production. Fool Killer. Waiting Justice Sleeps. The miscarriage of justice in the case of State against Bobert Leo nard in Davidson court last week was a stigma that cannot be wife 1 a ay. The murder of a good cit zea goes unavenged, and his blood cries from the ground on which it was spilt. No wonder we have so much lynch law. No wonder re spect for the courts is gradually lessening. Lawyers may earn their fees and smile at their smart work, but when they outrage justice, no matter what thev are paid for it, they are adding strength to the Hrm of the mob and kindling the hies of anarchv. Every citizen o Davidson county: has good reason to blush for shame, and the impor tance of our Davidson courts to punish the guilty furnishes the best ofrjeason fori the establishment of the proposed hew county with Higdntas i(s capital andin which it is hoped that twelve men could not be found who would ren der such a verdict as that which stained the court records at Lex logtou last week. -Charity and Children. More Pay for Carriers. Washington Dispatch, 1st. Under authority conferred by the postomce appropriaiion bill. Postmaster General Hitchcock to day increased the salaries of rural etter carriers on standard routes rom $1,000 to $1,100 a vear. thus ' v j effectiug 30,000 men, with propor tionate increases to carriers on shorter routes. The order will be come effective September 30. This will mean an increased dis bursement of $1,000,000 a year. It is the second salarv advance for ru ral carriers made in the last four years. At the close of the last fis cal year on June 30, there were 42,031 rural mail carriers, the ag gregate pay being $10,655,740. When the rural delivery system was instituted 16 years ago, 83 carriers were employed at an an nual cost of $14,840, the maximum individual pay being $200 a year. The increase provides rural car riers adequate compensation for additional burdens to be imposed by the parcels post system, effec- ive January 1. "The parcels post system on ru ral mail routes can be conducted practically with no extra expenses to the government, except the in creased salary allowance to car riers," said Mr. Hitchcock. In my judgment this additional cost will be more than offset by an in creased revenue, thus insuring the maintenance and, from time to time, the extension of the rural delivery system as a self support ing branch of the postal service." Mr. Hitchcock has directed, also hat rural mail carriers, on the completion of the 12 months ser vice, be Granted " 15 days' leave with duv. This will require the additional expenditure of $80,000 a year in the payment of substitute carriers. TO THE POINT. asked Marie to marry me, My heart stopped beating then; She did not answer "yes" but gee! How quick she gurgled "when?" YoungstownJTelegram. asked Toinette to be ray bride, I Hid not hone to win her: But she, dear girl, straightway replied; "Right now, or after dinner? Johnston Democrat. When I proposed to Annabell I thought my speech would fetch her; But my romantic notions fell, When she replied "you betcher!" Detroit Free Press. Winnie I wooed in wondering mood, But when I asked her wheter, So sudden was her "Yep!" you could Have floored me with a feather. Boston Transcript. When I told Flo 1 loved her so, And wanted her, fair creature. She said in accents sweet and low, "Call ud the nearest preacher." Chicago Record Herald. And when I asked my Jessie May, If she would wed me some sweet day In accents sweet I heard her say Oh do not wait, let's wed today. Union Republican Leonard Goes Free. I.pvington Dispatch. 28th. The iurv in the case ot totate vf . Robert Leonard, the Thomasville man accused of shooting his fir.-t cousin, Chailes Lee Evtibart, last fall, after being out thirty hour?, last Thursday returned a verdict of "norguilty." The jury cook fhp ruse Tuesday afternoon at about six o'clock and returned the verdict Thursday at noon; nobody was much surprised, for it baa oeen predicted "I r o m me u.ug, that the result wouid be a verdict for acquittal or a hung jury, fr levers for the delense had the iurv under their thumbs all the time- It is unaersioou man held them for the thirty hours that they were out, in the minds of the public he-is the only one thatever had any credit in the af fair and his final surrender has stripped him of that. - Maine Relic the country is still safe. This so ber second thought business is, a great thing. Ex. . Raise More Cattle. Atlanta. Ga.. Sentember 1. With the view of encouraging the Southeastern farmer to put the whole farm to work by iutroducing beef cattle iu the system of farm ing and to give practical aid in this work, the Southern Railway Company has just issued an attrac tive booklet giving valuable, in struction on the feeding and man aement of beef cattle. The book let calls attention to the fact that only about forty per cent of arable land of the Southeastern states is being used, and declares that by the introduction of stock raising the remaining sixty per cent could be made to return handsome profit and the land greatlv enriched. Prof. R. S. Curtis, of the North Carolina experiment station, and Prof. Dan T. Gray, of the Alaba ma Experiment Station, both emi nent authorities on animal indus try, contribute articles to the book let which set out in detail the me thods to be nursued in feeding and handling cattle to secure the most profitable results. The Southern Railway desires to give this book let wide distribution throughout the South, and copies will be glad ly mailed to those interested on aDDlication to F. L. Word. Live Stock Agent. Atlanta, Ga. Chrence Call Says Taft Will be Elected. Ex Sheriff Clarence Call, of Wilkes, was a passenger on train Thursday morning. He was re turning from a trip to Washington aodJNew York. While in the lat ter city he visited Republican head quarters and carries home with him rosv views of the situation. He nays the tide is fast turning to Pre sident Taft: that Roosevelis Bull Moose party won't be in it and that his followers will discover before the National election in November that they are only rainbow chasers. Mr. Call expressed regret that a few Republicans in Norlh Carolina were leaving the old partyjind go ing off with Teddy. He expressed the opinion that they would see the error of their way ana come back into the fold. Winston Jour nal. "PLAYING THE GAME." Truly, President Taft Does Not Follow System Politically. That is a criticism often heard of President Taft. It Is the professional politician usually who voices it, but often it is repeated by those who are accustomed to take their estimates of public men and their political opinions from others. Playing the game has been the occu pation of time serving politicians from time immemorial. Men who regard politics as a game like to see it played deftly. Other men without fixed ideas on the subject parrot the criticism passed by the experts. Playing the game In politics neces sarily has deceit as its fundamental principle. The public man who sees develop ing an Issue that might prove embar rassing to him personally, and who manages, by guile, to divert public at tention to another, a lesser, but a per fectly safe, issue, plays the game. The public man who makes public protestations of his enmity toward swollen wealth and thenholds secret conferences, with the representatives of that wealth, plays the game. The public man who preaches one code of political morality and prac tices another plays the game. TJifl nublic man who utters sounding but empty phrases, no matter how de lightful his diction or how superb his eloquence, playa the game. The public man who makes promises Impossible of fulfillment plays the game. The public man who puts the ac quirement of public favor above ideals of public service plays the game. Truly, President Taft does not know tn nlnv the Era me. He has been reared in an atmosphere nf aprvipi rather than polities, as we have come to know politics. The thing that ba3 always concerned him Is the doing of an act, not the spec tofiiinr staring of it, nor the exploita tion of it, nor, on the contrary, the concealment of it. Tn sprve has always been his ideal not merely to acquire the appearance of serving. It has been Impossible for him to look upon public service as a game. The public's business, as he regards it la serious business. There Is reason for the belief that the American people as a whole share with him this view. The growing intern gence of the nation is rejecting the idea that the selection of their public servants Is merely a sporting propo rtion.- V'- CLAPTRAP BY UNDERWOOD larilf Duties Hot Paid by Users of American Goods. HiS ADDRESS SHOULD BE READ Workers Will Recognize His Distortion of Figures and Facts and Will Not B Beguiled by It Shows How Hard Pushed the Democrats Are For an Argument. It is to be hoped that every Amerl can worker in the various Industries protected by the tariff will read the address of Mr. Underwood, Democrat ic leader In the house of representa tives, in which he sets forth as taxa tion the tariff duties on articles in ordinary use. There Is nothing novel in the Underwood distortion of tariff figures and facts. It is as threadbare as free trade, as threadbare as the American workingman would soon be if be should allow himself to be beguil ed by Underwood and other votaries of the late Confederate constitution into the surrender of Republican pro tection. It is true, as Underwood says, that the tariff taxes he describes are im posed on articles such as he describes woolen clothing, shoes, the tin pail, window pane, carpet, etc., but he is wholly and deliberately wrong and misleading when he says that the du ties in question are imposed on or ad ded to the cost of these articles, as used in the ordinary American family. The tariflf tax is imposed' on goods manufactured abroad and imported for sale iu competition with goods made in America by American workers earning American wages. The man or woman who Is satisfied with the product of American labor and nine-tenths of the American people are so satisfied has no tariff tax to nay. and this is shown Jby the fact that the American article, 'with its manu facture fostered by protection, is often cheaper in price than the imported would be without paying tariff duties. The tariff duties prevent excessive imports, which would flood the mar ket, as imported goods flooded the market under the tariff reductions made by the Democratic Wilson bill of 1894. reducing not only the tariff, but reducing also the demand for American goods and for American labor to make American goods. Mr. Underwood's statement is cheap claptrap. We had supposed that style of talk too moldy and cobwebbed for further exercise, and the fact that it is again dragged out of the discard proves how hard pushed the free trade Democ racy is for something to bolster Its waning cause. FAIRNESS TOWARD NEGROES. Taft's Attorney. General Stands For the "Square Deal." Attorney General Wlckersham re flects the broad American spirit of himself and his chief. President Taft, In his splendid fight against the dropping from membership m tne American Bar association of his awe colored assistant, William H. Lewis. It is needless to say that every sup- nnrter of Woodrow Wilson and every sympathizer with Theodore Roosevelt in his refusal to recognize the citizen ship of the southern negro, is opposed to Mr. Wickersham In his Datue ior equal rights and fair treatment for colored Americans. The action of the executive commit tee of the Bar association In revok ing the election of three colored mem bers, gentlemen of spotless profession al standing and excellent personal character, by their local committees, was outrageously, cruelly unjust ana ought to be repudiated by every reputable lawyer in the United fctates. It was a concession to that southern Democratic prejudice which seeks to crush the spirit of manly aspiration in the negro's breast and to tolerate him onlv as a laborer on the planta tions and for the households where his ancestors were slaves. It amounts to an attempt to nullify the constitution of the United, States, as amended after the rebellion, by men whose sacrea obligation and welcome duty it should be to support that instrument in their every act as lawyers and as citizens. In their resolute backing of Assist ant Attorney , General Lewis against the assaults of rank Bourbonism and racial prejudice. President Taft and fcis attorney general have the god speed of every American who believes tn the principles for which Lincoln died, and who is determined that the sacrifices which the nation offered up on the altar of freedom and equal rights for all shall not have been made In vain. Despondency Is often caused by indigestion and con stipation, and quickly disappears when Chamberlain's Tablets . are taken. For sale by all dealers. .. ''EVERYBODY'S DOING coccccccocco 4 Buying their drugs, toilet articles, 4 patent medicines, cold ting their prescriptions filled at 3 GEO. F. TYSON, MANAGER. w v v m Not Libellous, Anyway. uAn elegent time is said to have been had," painstakingly wrote the able editor of the Polkville (A.rk.) Weekly Clarion, "on or a- bout last Wednesday evening, npon which occasion Mrs. Gladys Brown (or Browne,) who claims to reside on Pardee street, is rumored to have given a reception to the la dies of the Buzz Buzz Club. A goodly number of the hostess' os tensible friends are said to hava been present, and it is claimed on seemingly reliable authority that all felt that it was indeed good tu be there. It is stated that dainty refreshments were served, to which it is asserted all preseut did ample justice. It is further alleged that harmleFs games and iriendly con verse followed the repast, and it is claimed that the occasion was one long to be remembered." 'There!" ejaculated the editor, regarding his handiwork with ap proval, "if anybody can hang a li bel suit on that they are eminently welcome to do so." Kansas City Times. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of No, and You Won't. The Anti Saloon League of Mary land has notice that if Gov. Mar shall democratic vice presidential candidate and avowed local op- ijouist. comes to Maryland to tpeak as announced, the league will ac tively oppose his aud Wilson's el- election. But we have heard ol noprotect from bi other K. L. Da vis and his Xorth Carolina Anti Saloon League, to our great sur prise. Lincoln Times. What We Never Forget according to science, are the thing3 asso ciated with our early home life, such as Bucklcn's Arnica Salve, that mother or grandmother used to cure our burns, boils scalds, sores, skin eruptions, cuts, sprains or bruises. Forty years of cures prove its merit. Unrivaled for piles, corns or cold sores. Only 25 cents at all druggists. Democratic Tribute of Mr. Settle. There are few men of a hand somer personality than Thomas Seltle. Mere than that, be is a born orator, and has the knack ofenfor cing his argument by the emphasis of gestu e. A f-keltton outline sketch of bH jkvfcrm indica'ts lhat at least the metting in the coming campaign of which Settle is the htar, will be a source of enter tainment to the people, for he is a st'inip speaker of the same genuiue brand. CharlotteObserver. Coughs, Colds, Watery Eyes Cured Jn a Day by taking Cheaneys Expectorant also cures consumption, whooping coagb, droop-( pings from the nose, and throat. Bronchitis . and all throat and lung troubles. Cheeneys Expectorent a liquid preparation, tested nucanrta nf cures made iui ju jr"i. - i . 11 ! rnA Twit if oaie, sure : and satisfactory. Druggists 25eand 50c. 1i 5 DOING IT NOW! WHAT? drinks, and get- 2 K What, Ho! And 6o yonr Uncle Woodrow Wilson, in the face of pious and hypocritical democracy has an nounced himself as favoring local option. Against Bryan; against Bob Glenn; against the united and militaut Democracy of the South which pushed prohibition on the dear people, Woodrow. bigger than his platform; more dictatorial than Grover Cleveland ever dreamed of being, comes out in favor ot drunk ard making communities continu ing to make drunkards if they want to make 'e:n. By the red hot end of the eacred poker aud doesn't that iar the slats of the fa mily bedstead! Of course right down to bed rock down to the idea of Sampler when the flag of the nation as fir ed on local ootiocis nothinir more thau state's rights aud that was where democracy wore its number. State rights and the moral right to secede; for a state to do whatever it WHnted to do and why not a municipality! If local option ob tains, however, what about the South which insists that prohibi tiou universal and everlasting shall be the tuph? We await, with interest, the preachments of Glenu and Bryan and other ranUukerous prohibi tionists on this question. We want to see what holy aud eacred Demo cracy at the South will djand say since their leader, their idol, has come ont for Jersey lightning and Bum wherever aud whenever it suits the community. Ex. M"H"H t BOUGHT HIS SOCKS IN f SCOTLAND, Governor Wilson Is a free T. trader and Is so recogulzed by f the rank and file of his party. 5 The truth is emphasized a little f by the fact that he buys his 1 socks In Scotland. nis apparent Indifference to the condition of American lty to get along without being ll!ced to ent bread In the sweat of his brow. lie has been extremely fortu nate in this respect His auto cracy has been deeply tinged with aristocracy during his en tire career as an educator and dabbler in literature. lie has neither by personal ex perience or observation acquaint ed himself with the actual strug gle and needs of the ordinary wage earner. During the trying times that tbls country was under the blight of free trade In 1804, 05 and "!X. Woodrow Wilson was pnjoylng n liberal Income that was In no degree affected by the deplorable conditions surround ing the laborers in this country. Mr. Wilson Is not to be con demned for his good fortune. On the contrary, we should be i disposed to congratulate him. but In self Interest the less for tnnate should protect themselves against the enforcement of his tariff theories and policy, a trial of which has been given more I than once with deplorable effect f upon the Industrial life of tbi country. Trenton Gazette. 4- t?t
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