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"TRADES IffiS? COUNCIL'?
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 26. 1906.
The Shame of the Press.
Newspaper editors responsible for
the wholesale butchery of negroes in
Atlanta are attempting to explain the
conditions which brought about the
rioting of Saturday and Sunday, but
not one word comes from them of
their part in Inflaming the public mind
to that point where nothing short of
a lust of blood would satisfy the half
mad populace. John Temple Graves
undertakes to speak for his people, to
defend the south, and to show the
causes behind the attack of the mobs.
Mr. Graves, however, makes no refer
ence to his incendiary editorials, to
the fact that he, with his neighbor,
The News, urged the white men to
organize and shoot. The Journal,
which Is likewise sensational, had
sense enough to discourage the klu
klux movement, and the one newspa
per which must not be blamed for the
uotbreak is the Constitution, But the
News and the Georgian axe on the
rack.
The south, of course, must bear the
brunt of the abuse which will be
heaped upon it, yet we must remember
end endeavor to have our friends and
enemies in the north remember that
Atlanta is not a southern city in the
strict sense of the word. It is the Yan
kee metropolis, as the Richmond News
Leader remarks. Its newspapers glory
in the fact that it is the New York
of Dixie, and its newspapers are even
more depraved and more yellow than
the yellowest of them in Manhattan.
They began to rant about lynching be
fore a single crime had been commit
ted In that city. They laid stress upon
the affairs in the Carolinas. They
praised the mobs, calling upon white
men in every community to lynch at
wilL Naturally the negroes resented it,
and they retaliated, seeking to show
their contempt for the vicious writ
ers by attacking white women. There
fore, we must see that the yellow
journals of Atlanta were responsible
for the crimes by negroes and respon
ble for the crimes of the mob. We
cannot see it in any other light.
On the heels of this Mr. Graves says
we must separate the races, an Idea
so theoretical and impracticable that
any man with brains must realize at
once the Impossibility of it. The races
have got to live together in the south.
The blacks cannot be sent to Africa
or Liberia. We must make the best
of a bad bargain and try to live in
peace.
There might have been some excuse
for the slaughter if the negroes who
were guilty of criminal assaults had
been killed. But innocent men were
dragged from street cars and shot;
decent negroes, working quietly In
barber shops, were murdered when
begging for mercy; others were hacked
to pieces in the street. The mob was
thirsty for blood and that thirst had
to be satisfied.
When respectable negroes were mur
dered It was the most natural thing
in the world to find their friends ready
to assassinate Innocent white men.
. Governor Terrell was among those
In the mass meeting who condemned
the newspapers, and yet the chief of
Governor Terrell's staff la supposed to
be the owner of the Atlanta News, the
red-headed newspaper which has
championed the cause of the mob.
The News and the Georgian cannot
escape the blame. They Inflamed the
negroes by preaching about mobs in
nearby states. The brutal, resentful
f nature of the black man asserted it
self; he wanted to show that his motto
was "The Newspapers be Damned."
fthat was the first step. The accom
plishment of his purpose was not dif
ficult, and it ws still easier for the
new spapers to organize the mobs.
The white ' women who have been
commending, the News and the Geor-
ifian must iWt forget that they incited
misi'nknM"--!SHni's--primes far worse
than the crimes of the mobs.
the Evening Times Leads all North
Carolina Afternoon Newspapers in
Circulation. VY ?
EVfUNION
ttnioiual Ownership Taxes.
While the chammjaaa jff J'B
oWsVship are very loud in their claims
3cf eapiai pitptfaj f&f n fw"Pf
el water WulW, tfon advocates are
unusually silent when the rate of tax
ation on the people and their property
in municipal ownership towns is men
tioned. The truth of the matter Is
that water rates in these North Caro
lina towns are only a trifle, if any, less
than the rates In private ownership
towns, and when the taxes for water
bonds In municipal ownership towns is
added to the water rates, the cost of
water to the consumer there is much
less than is represented. , An exami
nation of the record in North Carolina
will expose the deception and injustice
of the system. Nearly every one of
these municipal ownership towns in
addition to the charges for water only
a tiine, if any, less than the charges
In private ownership towns In order
to pay the interest on water bonds
and provide a sinking fund for the
payment of the bonds themselves at
maturity, levy taxes on all the people
and al the property. For instances:
Lumberton, levies a tax of 25c on
the $100 of property and 75c on each
poll.
Goldsboro, levies a tax of 12c on
every $100 of property and 36c on each
poll.
Winston, levies a tax of 15c on every
$100 of property and 45c on each poll.
Concord, levies a tax of 35c on every
$100 of property and $1.05 on each poll.
Rocky Mount, levies a tax of 15c on
every $100 of property.
Monroe, levies a tax of 20c. on every
$100 of property and 60c. on each poll
Tarboro, levies an annual tax of
$2,000.
Greensboro, when Its plant Is com
pleted will levy an annua' tax of about
$11,00.
Charlotte, levies an annual tax of
about $22,850.
In nearly every one of the municipal
ownership towns the special tax for
water works is levied in addition
to the regular charges for water,
but In many of them this spe
cial tax Is so mixed with the other
levies that It is hard to ascertain the
exact rate levied for water works
alone. For Instance, In Hickory, the
Joint taxes for water and sewerage Is
40c on every $100 of property and $1.20
on each poll, the amount of taxes
levied for water works being about
$5,000 per year.
These taxes are In addition to the
regular charges for water, and are
levied on all the property and on each
poll, and are levied on the people who
do not use the city water as well as
on those who do. In other words, the
poor man who does not use the city
water has to pay for his more fortun
ate neighbors.
Not a one of these municipal plants
gives a rate cheaper than Raleigh's
rate to the poor man of one and four
tenths cents per day for all the water
his family can use.
None of these municipal plants pays
any state or county taxes, and hence
that much revenue is lost to the state
and to the county. Each day a munici
pal plant is operated the city owning it
runs the risk of being sued for damages
by reason of accident as occurred in
Winston, when claims of more than
$90,000 were presented against the city
for damages by reason of the break
ing down of the municipal ownership
reservoir.
The Birmingham Age-Herald points
out a number of bad points in the rail
road law which it says are hurtful to
southern shippers, merchants, cotton
brokers and others. This same com
plaint has been heard from other parts
of the south. Even North Carolina,
so anxious for radical measures, fee's
the Injury especially in the movement
of exhibits. The Age-Herald goes on
to say that the plans for entertaining
Mr. Bryan were defeated because ex
cursion rates could not be granted
from the points desired. We had that
same thing in this state. By and by
the howlers may find that the law will
have to be considerably amended be
fore it will be satisfactory to the pub
lic generally. The queer part of it is
that senators and congressmen who
grew so violent when discussing the
measure have about the same knowl
edge of the law that we would expect
to find in a school boy's brain.
By all means let us have that audi
torium. Raleigh needs it every hour,
but if the citizens are not willing to
produce the wherewithal it will be the
easiest matter In the world to have
the board of aldermen issue bonds.
A municipal ownership auditorium
would be a thing of beauty and a joy
forever, and we would have evidence
of how the plan works. In a word,
we could try it on the dog.
If the New York Sun had reference
to Mr. Jerome when it declared that
the next governor of New York would
be a democrat and that the next gov
ernor would be the next president of
the United States,' It must think mighty
hard of the quitter.
If the republicans of New York
could nominate Elihu Root for gov
ernor he would be the man for Bryan
to beat two years hence.
The legislature might throw a little
common sense Into that Watts law.
But we must remember that Atlanta
always was a scare-head town.
The South Must OerWv. -
Unless the South ets soeedtlv and
with peremptory resolution thJpVeachj$
ment of .government ownership will
surey be Intrenched as the paramount
issue In American politics, and the bat
tle of 1808 will be fought on this line:
Shall the government acquire the rail
roads and operate them? This is the
thing the people are thinking about,
the subject they are debating, and It
depends on the decision the South
shall render whether it will live or die.
Cleveland went to the waH solely be
cause the South deserted him; Bryan
will cease to Interest if the South
should repudiate him, for the South Is
the butt cut and the upper crust of
the emocratic party now, as it has been
for more than 100 years.
Mr. Bryan is a generalizer, but the
man who makes the public ownership
of the railroads of this country a gov
ernmental policy must be a master of
detail. It would stagger the transcen
dent genius of Napoleon the Great to
adjust it without advantage to one
section and to the ruin of another. As
yet Mr. Bryan has given no evidence
that he has a speaking acquaintance
with detail;in this respect he is not
half the mar. Bourke Cockran is, and
men do not o to Mr. Cockran for
things like that. Under our present
civilization, railroad ownership and op
eration are purely business affairs; Mr,
Bryan proposes to turn them Into that
lion's den politics. At present rail
road expansion results from the ablest
business sagacity. and a certain
amount of net earnings is set apart
for extending old lines and constructing
new lines, as business reautreS; Mr.
Bryan's plan would make this thing a
matter of political
There are fivers and harbors a pork
barrel. We have unworthy rivers and
harbors Improved In this country that
should never have been touched; there
are other worthy rivers and harbors
neglected because they were not re
presented In Congress by stout and
persistent log rollers. That would be
the way with the railroads; those sec
tions would get most railroad expan
sion that had most Influence in Con
gress. The weaker section would go to
the wall. The stronger section would
hog the persimmon. He that runs can
read that.
It Is an infinitely bigger question
than 16 to 1, and infinitely more vicious
In principle. It is as momentous a
question as secession, ami the South
knows what that was. What should
be required of Mr. Bryan is not voice
and verbiage, but fact and figure. Let
him give the details of bis vagary.
The South has nearly two years to de
cide. Tell us how you are going to turn
the trick. Mr. Bryan, tnd the probable
consequences. Washington Post.
THE LUNCHING OF
THE "NORTH CAROLINA."
A dispatch to the W 'mington Mes
senger conveys the information that
the new United States cruiser North
Carolina will be launched at Newport
News on October 6. and that the event
will be one of the greatest in the his
thirty thousand visitors will be pre
thldty thousand visitors will be pre
sent, fifteen thousand from North
Carolina and as many from Virginia
to see the new cruiser take the water.
The Secretary of the Navy will be
present. Governor Glenn and his staff
from North Carolina, and Governor
Swanson and his staff from Virginia,
and a shipload or two of naval officers
from Washington and Norfolk wil
witness the ceremonies. The sponsor
for the cruiser will b the little daugh
ter of Governor Glenn, and she will
christen the warship with champagne m
accordance with the best usage on all
such occasions. After the crulset has
oeen launched there will be a banquet
in honor of the sponsor, at whicn
covers will be laid for four hund red
persons, and after the luncheon.hich
will be presided over by Mr. Watter
A Post o-eneu-1 manager of the snip
Puling company as
there will be speeches of congiatuia
""When completed." we are told," the
for service, it V' . , ,.os,.nt
?er wl h some appropriate tcsUmon
cognition of the coivrplimen wh.
ten
has been paid tnat nor H(
nasbeen paid that State
me snip "r, '
Governor Glenn to make
faith, will be accep ted b J
ton jfSfSSS&wlH be most
that he and all h pen u,ston.
heartily welcomed to M'
Charleston News and Courle..
,hQ tn two minutes;
Oil, monarch over pain.
The lowest:ped-paper in North
Carolina with the same news service
as The Raleigh Evening Times Is J
Th Times may uuu ,
per ami-""- --7" m,
at the old price, 9 per ,- n.,
subscription is paid In advance , for
one year before October 1st. Afte.
the 1st the price will be $5 per year.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION.
Having qualified as admlnistrat c.
t a of Emilie West Lee, deceased,
this' is to notify all persons having
claims against said estate to present
them to the undersigned on or be
fore the 13th day of September
1907, or this notice will be plead in
bar of their recovery. All persons
indebted to said estate will please
iMn,Ainid RAt.tlement.
maKe iiimiww. .
john david LKEi, 1
Administrator c. 1. a. r
Emilie West Lee, Deceeased. .
Tf- T ,,'CiTY PROP!,
By virtue of the powers contained In
fa Judgment of the Superior Court of
Wake County. North Carolina, entered
on the 2nd day of July, 1906. in a
special proceeding therein; pending, en
titled Mary C. Walker et als. ex parte,
and being No. 1310, Special Proceeding
Docket of said Court, I will offer for
sale at public out-cry, to the highest
bidder for cash, at the Court House
Joor in the City of Raleigh, N. C, on
Monday the 1st day of October, 1906,
the following described lots of land,
to-wit :
Two certain lots of land In the
Siorth-eastern portion of the City of
Raleigh, Wake County, North Caro
lina, being known as lots Nos. 5 and
13 of block 4 in the addition to the
City of Raleigh, known as Idlewlld, as
lurveyed and mapped by A. W. Shaf
:er, which said map Is recorded in the
iffice of the Register of Deeds for
Wake County, In book 112, at page
153, and is hereto referred. Said lots
ire more particularly described as fol
lows: Lot No. 5 of block 4, situated
m the East side of Seawell Avenue,
being a parallellogram In shape, front
ing 5214 feet on said Avenue and run
ning back East 200 feet to an alley,
bounded on the North by lot No. 13.
mil on the South by lot No. 7, in said
block 4. Lot No. 13, of block 4, sit
uated on the East side of Seawell
Avenue, being a parallellogram In
shape, fronting 52V, feet on said Ave
nue, running back East 200 feet to an
alley, bounded on the North by lot
No. 11, and on the South by lot No.
15, In said block 4.
WILLIAM B. JONES,
Commissioner.
This 25th day of August, 1906.
These Arc a Few Bargains
31b. tomatoes 10c. can. Scotch her
rings 30 to 40 box 25c. Arbuckles cof
fee 16c. pound. Burkhadt U.rd. Cream
heese 15c. pound. Roe herrings 25c.
lozen. Mackerel 5c. each. Table
peaches 31b cans 12Vic. Soda 3c. pack
age. Meat 10c. pound. Standard gran
ulated sugar bic. Breakfast strlf
l7Vic. Codfish 10c. pound. White fish
Sc. pound.
These are a few bargains that J. B.
Green Co. arc offering. It will pay you
o trade with them.
J. B. GREEN CO.
All 'Phones.
NOTICE !
By virtue of the power contain 3d
in a mortgage dead, executed June
23, 1902. by L. H. Smith and wife
M, A. Smith, which said mortgage is
registered in the offics of the. Regis
ter of Deeds of Wake county, Book
No. 204, page 64, the undersigned
will at 12 o'clock 111., on Monday the
29th day of October, sell at public
auction for cash, at the court house
door in Wake county, the following
tract of land in Middle Creek town
ship, bounded and described as fol
lows:
First Tract Beginning at a stake
at the bridge on Kennie's Creek, the
corner of Lot No. 3 of the dower
land of J. K. otewart, and runs as
the line of No. 3 East 11 chains 50
links to a stake and pointers, the
corner of Lot No 3 in the house
tract, thence as that line South 5
chains to a stake and pointers, the
corner; then as another line of said
house tract East 18 chains 35 links
to a stake, the corner; thence as an
other line of said house Lot South
35 East crossing a branch 7 chains
70 links to a small pine, the corner,
in R. P. Stewart's line; thence as his
line South 60 West 14 chains and 25
links to a small pine, his corner;
thence as another of said Stewart's
lines South 25 West 10 chains to a
stake and pointers in the Harnett
and Wake county line; thence down
the channel of Spring Branch 3
chains to its mouth, R. P. Stewart's
corner on Kennie s Creek; thence up
said creak with .lames Stewart's and
Malcomo Holloway's line to the be
ginning, containing sixty-three (03)
acres more or less.
A. C. HOLLO WAY,
Assignee of Mortgage.
This, September l!Hh, 1906.
HOUSE AND LOT FOB SALE.
On Monday the 15th day of October,
1906, at 12 m., by virtue of a mortgago
executed to mo by C. E. J. Goodwin,
and registered in the ofllce of the Reg
ister of Deeds of Wake County In Book
114 at page 36S, I will sell at public
auction, for cash, at the court house
door In Raleigh a tot of land described
In said mortgage, situate In the south
western part of the city of Raleigh,
part of lot 26 on Shaffer's map, at the
N. W. corner of the intersection of
Harrington and L'-noir streets, front
ing r.2Vj feet on Harrington street and
running westward, with Lenoir street,
in rectangular form,- 105 feet, and ad
poinlng lots of L. G. Rogers and E. A.
Johnson.
MARY L. ANDERSON.
Mortgagee.
Raleigh, N. C. Sept. M, 1906.
30 days.
me. uozue 2 uoses.
Bottle .. .8 Doses
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ONE PIANO
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SOUTHEBN RAILWAY.
N. B. Following schedule figures
published only as information, and are
not guaranteed:
Trains leave Raleigh:
No. 1125:15 a. m. Dally for Goldsboro
and local stations.
No. 1177:50 a. m. Daily for Richmond
and local stations.
Through coaches to Chase City and
KkhmonJ:
No. 107 S: 45 a. m. Daily for Greens
boro and local stations.
Chase City, Richmond and local sta-
:ions:
No. 10810:30 a. m. Daily for Golds
boro and all local points.
No. 1353:30 p. ni. Dally for Greens
boro and intermediate stations.
No. 11111:59 p. 111. Dally for Greens
boro and local points; carries Pull
man sleepr Raleigh to Greensboro.
Trains arrive Raleigh:
From Greensboro 5:15 a. m., 10:30 a. m.,
5:39 p. m.
From Goldsboro 8:45 a m., 3:30 p. m.,
11:59 p. m.
From Richmond and Chase City 8:05
p. m.
H. B. SPENCER, Gen. Manager.
S. H. HARDWICK, Pass. Traffic
.Manager.
W. H. TAYLOE, Gen. Pass. Agt.,
Washington. D. C.
T. E. GREEN, City Ticket Agent,
Raleigh, N. C.
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has the best of workmanship
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has an even scale and good tone
quality.
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Fresh from the fisheries.
Our enormous trade on
these Mullets is sufficient
ly large for us to receive a
weekly shipment, there
fore, you'll always get the
freshest and best here.
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LEADING GROCERS.
Raleigh's Best Barbers
OTEY
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Yarborough House
DOBBIN
COMPANY
123-125 Fayetteville St.
The Last Grand WeeK
of an Emphatically
Great Sale.
House Furnishers have for years looked to this store
for their Floor Coverings. This being one of the foremost
of the many lines we carry, there is always found nere
Carpets, Rugs, Art Squares
of the better grades Floor Covering of a class far supe
rior than that carried by the usual store Our fame for
selling high grade Carpets, e tc, at reasonable prices has
spread to all sections, and w e do not only command a tre
mendous patronage from Ra leigh alone, butmany floors of
churches, halls and private r esidences throughout North
Carolina have been covered with
Dobbin & Ferrell
CARPETS
Carpets which give the utmost satisfaction. At all times
goods of this class are sold h ere at satisfactory prices, but
just now we are conducting the
GREATEST
Money SavingSale
Of Carpets, Rugs and Art Squares
Ever Known Here
The sale has been on for some time with a ven
geance, and scores of people have taken advantage of
this glorious opportunity to buy for less.
There is positively a marked saving in buying now,
and if you have in mind the purchase of a Carpet or Rug,
we would advise that you do not further delay your visit
to this store.
The Sale Will Last Through
out the Remainder of
September, or
UNTIL OCT. 1st.
As we have stated before ,all material used in Carpet
making has advanced considerably, like almost every
thing else, and by
Buying Now You'll Save at
Least 25 Per Cent.
Worth saving, isn't it? Remember you can make your
selections now, pay for and have Carpets laid aside for
future delivery. Our expert Carpet man will have them
put down for you later.
DOBBIN FERRALL CO.
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prepay express or freight charges on
ti. re.
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