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m daily mm W. S. HERBERT, Editor and Prop'r. fatered at P, o. as. second class mail matter For White Supremacy. National Democratic Tioket. WM. Fob President: . J. BRVAN, of Nebraska. FO Vi C "-P" KSl t ESTT" ADLAI K. STEVENSON, of Illinois. Fob Firrv-SEVENTH Congress, CLAUDE KITCHIN, of Halifax. Fob Presidential Elector, T. C. WOOTEN, of Lenoir. State Demooratio Ticket. Fob Governor: CHARLES B. AYCOCK, of Wayne. Fob Lieutenant-Governor: WILFRED D. TURNER, of Iredell. For Secretary or State: J, BRYAN GRIMES, of Pitt. Fob Treasurer: BENJAMIN R. LACY, of Wake. DR. For State Auditor : B. F, DIXON, of Cleveland. For Attorney-General: ROBERT D. GILMER, of Haywood. VO COMMISSIONER OF LABOR AND PbWTWO : H. B. VARNER, of Davidson. Fob Corporation Commissioners : FRANKLIN M'NEILL, of New Hanover. SAMUEL L. ROGERS, of Macon. For Superintendent Public Instruction : THOMAS F. TOON, of Robeson. Fob Commissioner or Agriculture S SAMUEL L. PATTERSON, of Caldwell. County Democratio Ticket. For Senate Eighth District: J. E. W. SUGG, of Greenej T. D. WARREN, of Jones. For House or Representatives : V. W. CARRAWAY. For Sheriff: JOHN C. WOOTEN. For Register Deeds : W. D. SUGGS. Fob Treasures : JOSEPH B. TEMPLE. Fob Cokoneb: R. W. POPE. Fob Surveyor: ELIJAH P. LOFT1N. For County Commissioners i B. W. CANADY, A. W. WHITFIELD and D. W. V WOOD. THE 1008 OBJECTION CONSIDERED. Quite a number of voters object to the amendment on account ol the fear that it may diafrancbieo some white boys who become of age after 1908. The best answer we have seen, and it is conclusive to our mind, is from the Democratic Hand Book. We copy it as follows: . The fifth,, section of the amendment reads as follows: "Sec. 5. No male person, who was on January 1, 18G7, or at auy time prior thereto, entitled to vote under the laws of any state in the United States wherein he then resided, and no lineal descendent of any such person shall be denied the right to register and vote at any election in this State by reason of his failure to possess the educational qualification pre scribed in section 4 of this article: Pro. Tided, he shall have, registered in accord ance with the terms of this section prior to December 1, 1908. The general as sembly hall provide for a permanent record of all persons who register under this section, on or before November 1st, 1908; and all such persons shall be en titled to register and vote in all elections by the people in this State, unless dis qualified under section 'J of this article: Provided, such persons shall hav paid their poll tax as required by law," Under the provisions of this section ail persons who were entitled to vote in any state in this union on the 1st day of January, 1867, or who are the lineal descendants of such persons, can register any time before the 1st day of December, 1908; and when so registered they are qualified voters as long as they live. To entitle one to register under the provis ions of this section he is not required to read and write. All that is required of him Is that he shall have been entitled to vote on the 1st day of Jannary, 1807, or that be shall be the lineal descendant of such person. It is admitted that this will include all the white men of the Btate.'whether they can read or write or not, and it may include a few negroes, and that under its provisions all white men can register and vote whether they can read or write or not. Brit in order to register under this section, the persons desiring to avail themselves of its liberal provisions must present themselves for registration and be registered before the 1st day ol December, 1908. Then it follows, as a matter of course, that those who come of age alter the lit day of December, 1908, can not ro-V.r cu'es t.j are able to read an i writ, ad tils sm" to be a studlir;: tlxkia t way of many who woclJ el': -rn :. ? "r; ort t!-e ar.vnint. TVy r.-f r 1 O.-t rr.-y r.ct t-e atleta ft:! their boys to school, and they are, there fore, unwilling to vote for anything that may exclude their sons from the ballot box. At first blutdi this objection seems to have something in it, but we are per suaded that upon a more careful study and investigation it will entirely disap pear. In the early part of this century such an objection might have had some force in it, but in the closing year of this most wonderful century, it hardly seems possible that any father who loves his boy and wants to see him become some thing in the world can urge this as an objection. lathe early part oftbecen-i tury there was not a steam-engine, a steamboat, a mile of railroad or tele graph or telephone line anywhere in the world. Now they are everywhere. In the early part of the century there were but few poHtofflces apd post-roads or newspapers in North Carolina or any other state, and it took days to get the news from one county town to another, and weeks and months to get the news from one state capital to another. Now the postofltee is found in every neighbor- lmnrl and the mail passes within short distances of every home. The news paper has its habitation now in every town, carries the news of the world to cvnru mnn vvlm deniree to receive it. In thww papers one may read today ac counts of buttles fought yesterday in the interior of South Africa und in the far-off inland of the seas. In the early part of the century there were no free schools in the State and bub few of any other kind vw tlm liniversitieH. the colleges, the academies, the hih schools and the private schools are numerous, and are sending out their trained thinkers and workers into every section of the State to join the great army of preachers and teachers and workers who are giving their time and means to the education of 'the children of the State. The graded school is rapidly making its way into every town alid the common school is in every neighborhood and within reach of every child. To these the children of the rich and the poor may go and learn to read and write without money and without price. They are free .and open to all. In the early part of the century there were but few churches or preachers and to thousands the Bible was a sealed book. Now the church and the preacher reaches and blesses every section and the Bible is finding its way Into every home. In the early days of the century men and women lived almost entirely within themselves and upon their own produc tions. Their tastes were simple and their requirements but few. Their business firtorAtinriH were confined to their own little circumscribed neighborhood and they could get along if they could not read und write. But now conditions are changed. Men and women are no longer content to live upon their own produc tions. ' They have been brought in touch with the outer world and their simple tastes hare changed and their wants have been multiplied. The old spinning- wheel and theold family loom have given way to the spindles and looms of the great factories, and the plain homespun dresses , to the beautiful calicoes and ginghams produced by skill, and machin ery. In the beginning of the century the farmer had no market or trade. What he could not consume he wasted. Now he has easy access to a market and there is a demand for everything he has to sell. Trade and traffic is brisk and competi tion is sharp, and the man who can not read and write finds himself at a great disadvantage in the midst of this busy, bustling age. We have made this brief contrast be tween the past and present conditions to impress upon every father and mother, whose attention may be called to the matter, the absolute necessity of sending their boy to school till he can at least learn to read and' write. We are ItfHy persuaded that when the parent fully un derstands the character and conditions of the progressive age in which the rising generation must live and contend for suc cess, he will see the disadvantage bis boy will labor under if be baa no education. Conditions have so changed that any thoughtful parent must see after a mo ment's consideration that he will be do ing his children a great wrong to allow them to grow up without being able to read and write. This much, at least, every parent owes to his child. To do less for them is doing them a great wrong. No father or mother can afford, in this day of schools and opportunities, to start their boy or girl out in life with out the rudiments of an 'education. No During last May aa infant child of our neighbor was smZericg from cholera in fantum. The doctors bad given en all hopes of recovery. I took a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar rboealleroedy to the house, Ulllr? tbern I frit sure it would do good if ned accord ir x to direction. In two dfi time ths cL.li tad fully rovered. ILe cL.U l cow T'Tousac j bofi-l'.by. I tar reora ir.es J i tt:s r;e-'y rrnft.t'y ar. i lvt r"r-r iriiwn it nfall. 1 ' l". " trs I . v r, C - '. . r 1 l y J. 11 I..- J father or mother can afford, in this day of churches' and Bibles, to let the boy or girl grow up without being able to read the word of God. There is a solemn duty resting upon every parent, and it is no answer to this call to duty to say "J am afraid 1 will not be" able to educate my boy, and therefore Can not .vote for the amendment," when , there is a free school within, reach of that boy. No parent has a right to harbor these sense less fears. They should be made to give place to a fixed determination to send the boy to school. . If the parent orgnau dian say ther are poor and not able to j pay for the tuition of their children, we reply that the State has provided a free school, where no charge is made.'' If they say they need the services of the boy at home, we reply they can surely spare him, if they will, a few hours each day while school is in session. It will only require a lew nours aauy ior a lew months for any ordinary boy to learn to read and write. Is it possible that in this age of enlightenment and of schools and of progress there is a father in North Carolina who will stand up and say am not willing to spare my boy a few hours each day for a few months to go to school?" We do not believe such a father can be found. But some parents may say we may die and leave our chil dren orphans. , To this we reply that some people are so constituted that they are always fearing some evil may hap pen. Some men arejiopeful, while others are always gloomy and on the lookout for trouble. They never see anything bright or hopeful in life. But even in their most gloomy hours and most op pressive fears they can not ignore the fact that, if their children should be left orphans and poor, the State, the Masons, the Odd Fellows, and the church have pr6vided orphan . asylums at Oxford, Goldsboro, Thomnsville, Charlotte, Ba rium Springs, and at other points, where these fatherless ones will be cared for and educated. So it does seem to us that no parent has any good cause to fear his boy may not be able to vote because he may not be able to read and write. ; But we do not close our eyes to the fact that there is a lamentable indiffer ence in many parents as to the education of their children. To meet and counter act this indifference many states and counties have passed compulsory laws by which any parent or guardian who fails to send the children dependent upon him to school a certain length of time each year, is liabl. to indictment. We have no such law in North Carolina; but we insist that the proposed amendment, if passed, will serve a better purpose, for we assert that it will be the greatest aqd most certain incentive to father and son for the education of the boy that human wisdom has yet devised. If this proposed amendment becomes a part of the con stitution of the State, we will see no more young men after 1908 who can not read and write. Their parents will find some way to send them to school. Some men will not act in the most ordinary affairs of life till they are compelled to. It seems to be a part of weak human na ture to delay and put off. The best of men often need s'omepower behind them to push them forward. This amendment will be the power behind the indifferent parent to push him forward to send his boy to school. k But if the father should fail in bis duty to the boy, we make bold to say the boy will not fail in his .duty to himself. When the young man ofl.5, 16, 18 years of age understands that he can not vote when be becomes 21, unless he can read and write, be will find a way to learn that much. No one who baa. observed public affairs wi'l dare assert that the(18and 19-year-old young man does not take an interest in elections. The old men may fail to attend public speakings and public gatherings, but the 18- and 19-year-old boy will be there," and when be learns that be cannot go to the ballot box and vote, even after he becomes of age, till be shall learn to read and write, he will pre pare himself to meet that requirement if be has to study at night by the torch light. So we repeat that, if this amend ment is ratified, the State will no longer see any of ber young men who caa not read and write, and we insist that if it bad nothing el,in it to commend it to the. people of North Carolina, this one provision ought-to secure its adoption. We therefore earnestly appeal to all such fathers and mothers to lay aside their fears and to vote with us to ratify this amendment. It will, in our opinion, in sure the education of their boy. 1838. 1900. (if nuton tale con North Gjlroxxia.. Fall Term Begins September 12, 1900. Catalogue on application. , 4 . DRED PEACOCK, President. oooooooooooooooooooooooooo BliOOD TEliliS. Yes, it is the index to health. If you hare bad blood you are likely to learn that yon have Rheumatism, one oi the most horrible diseases to which mankind-is heir. If this disease has just begun its work, or if you have been afflicted for years, you ohould at once take the wonderful new cure. ...RHEUMAOIDB... Thousands have been cured. The sum mer season is the best time to take a rheu matic remedy. Nature will then aid the medicine in effecting a permanent, constitu tional cure. People with bad blood are ob ject to catarrh, indigestion, and many other diseases. To be healthy the blood must be pure. 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A Clack YIcI, a good shoe for only $3.50. ' Clack Surpass This is the shoe of which we have had such an enormous sale. Price $4.00, We have just received a big line of PATENT LEATH ER Shoes. . Price $ 5.00. These are beauties. Call and cte them. .-sw IWSWp . I i! OerLtQ Goods. A full line of Gents Underwear, Neckwear, CnfTj, Fascy Hosiery, Nelite and V.tlte Eiirts, Collars, SERGE COATS, Dctille and Sir-Ie Ercisted, frcn 5.00 to J3.50. rimers twula t 1 or '. tj J. 11. J to i la fict, ccr line cf Ge: and ccirrletr. O Clrcct. ts Wear fcr the Coring; will be fu!l 1
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