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4 "X 1 OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER. P. M. PINNIX, Editor and Owner. ONE YEAR . . . BIX MONTHS ... . $1.00 . .50 Entered through Oxford, N. C Post Office as mail matter of the second class, in accordance with the Act of Congress March 3 1879. THE SENATORIAL CONTEST. The senatorial situation is begin ning to be very warm and the "You did" "I didn't," is being too reck lessly bandied about to promise any good to the democratic party. The press and the people ought to keep a close tab on the state ments that are being and will in future be made and see that all charges have something real back of them. These are the sort of things that ruin a , party. They are the causes that lead to disruption, sec tions being formed, enmities creat de, and other direct consequences. We sincerely hope that the friends of the various candidates are not going to wage their respec tive campaigns upon the cussed ness and unsuitedness cf the other fellow, rather than by showing the merits of their man. If a man has no further recommendation that the unsuitability of his opponents he himself has no claim for consideration- Of course, wherever there have been acts committed by any candidate, that should be exposed, it is perfectly proper to bring them to light. But useless, personal rows are bad things, and when anybody "starts something" he should be made to prove that he had some reason. The four candidates for the sena torshop are all men of distinction and character, and their supporters ought not to compromise them and their party by any unseemly con duct. The state cannot be much hurt by the election of any of them, but it can be hurt by the precipitation of a general rumpus. The fifth district congressional cam paign of three years ago speaks too eloquently for further comment. THE HEALTH OFFICER. The meeting of the board of commissioners last Friday night which promised rather a stormy ter mination has, the Ledger is glad to record, seemed to have the happy result of clarifying the situation. Those immediately interested had the opportunity of relieving their minds and took advantage of it, ant now the sanitary ordinance was never in a better condition. The people have in every way shown that they are in sympathy with the strenuous attempt to at tend to Mr. Fly and do everything calculated to promote the general health. There are some,' of course who do not like the law, but they are vastly in the minority. The citizens who made talks at the com missioners meeting were all on the side of the ordinance and the Com mercial Club as a body has heart ily endorsed it. It is maintained by a number of citizens that the law is crude and needs revising. That might pos sibly be true; but, be that as it may, the screening feature is un questioned, and whatever changes that time and experience may bring about will in no wise weaken and will certainly strengthen it. As to the enforcement of the or dinance, the Ledger thinks that the health officer has simply done his duty as he saw it. It has been charged that he has been too has ty and impetuous in some cases, and certain citizens have undoubted ly felt that such was the case in their own experience- But they and the other citizens should re flect that the function of the health officer is an unpleasant one, in which there is no financial con-r sideration worthy of mention,and that it is in every respect a thank less job. The Ledger predicted when the ordinance was pass ed that there would be hard feel ings to follow, and these are really fewer than was anticipated. Now that the storms have pass ed away, there is no reason why the sun should not shine brighter than ever. The people have signi fied a perfect willingness to obey the law and plenty of time should be given them to get in readines. It has been proven that the ques tion of securing carpenters is a most difficult one, but the citizens ought to make their best efforts to comply as rapidly as possible. .Those who are in doubt as to how to have the necessary arrangements made and are fearful of not pass ing inspection, can obviate any dif ficulties by turning the carpenters over to the health officer who will see that the proper methods are pursued. For Sale Fresh Cows, 25 Berk shire pigs, at low prices. W. J. Brummitt, Oxford, Route 5. (2pd). Raleigh has decided that the honorable Mr- Fly is not a reputa ble citizen and is conspiring to rid the city of his pestilential pres ence. Scientific methods and a general scrutiny of his business and habits have brought out such damag ing evidence against the villian that he will have to migrate to a less sanitary clime or find his business and life brought to an unwept end. The editor of the Ledger finds his heart beating in unison with Mr. T. T. Hicks. He too, dreams dreamy dreams sometimes, and his imagination runs far afield. The article written for the Gold Leaf by Mr- Hicks and copied by the Ledger will be found in another column. Let everybody read it, ponder over it, resolve to help make some of the things come to pass, both in Granville and in patent medicine folks, fake food manufacturers, and malefactors generally who vend poisonous I things for men's stomachs are after Dr. Wiley's scalp with a vengeance. His scrutiny has been too much for their methods and they are trying to oust him. But he seems to be too firmly entrenched in the confi dence of the people to need fear trouble. In a copied article from the New York Evening Mail it will be seen what Editor Hays thinks of the situation. The newspapers are circulating some wonderful heat statistics and the man who wants to compete with some of these wonderful sto ries will have to go direct to the headquarters for heat, where folks tell each other to go when they get mad, for their data. Distiller Gooch's business was not in full operation for several days last week and the terrible drought that ensued for about three days almost equalled some of the news paper tales, "and caused untold suffering among those whose whist lers have a predisposition to keep dried up- Says the Wilmington Star: "One reason some men get classed as liars is that they do not speak in a way to make themselves plainly understood." The Star evidently j overlooks a much more potent rea I son, to wit: They are not particular ly anxious to have their blocks knocked off. The Durham Herald remarks: "'Heyburn will perhaps keep it up as long as the newspapers will print it, even if he can find no one to listen to him. A mistake was made in paying any attention to him." Right. Go head. DEFENSE OF WILEY- Attack Brought On by Persons Whose Interests Have Been Af fected, Says Editor Hays. New York Evening Mail. That the attack on Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the pure food expert, has aroused the resentment of some of the leading publications represent ing the drug interesst was plainly evidenced today by the freely ex pressed opinion of Francis B. Hays, managing editor of "The Druggist's Circular," and editorial writer for the '"Oil, Paint and Prug Reporter." "I know Dr. Wiley," he said,"and Dr. Kebler, of the Department of Agriculture, and Dr. H.. H. Rusby, who has been employed here as a government expert, has been my friend for twenty years- I know the man and his work,and I know how he has won the enmity of many large drug importing houses by his honesty. "Most of the crude drugs brought into this country comes through New York, and so Dr. Rus by's position has been one of wide influence- He is not a man with whom the big firms engaged in frau dulent practices can do business. Has Offended Interest. "The whole attack on these men has been contrived and brought to a head by people whose interests have been affected by the honest execution of the pure food and drug law. "If the recomendation of the con gressional committee, which providei for the removal of Drs. Wiley and Rusby and the curtailing of Dr. Kebler's power, is put into effect by President Taft it will not only be a political mistake but it will be a disaster of the most serious nature to the ultimate consumer. Lost Money Through Work- "Dr. Rusby has actually lost money through his devotion to the welfare of the people. His work is not to him something which will bring him to certain salary; it is a duty that must be performed. "He is a poor man, but he could have made money if he had been dishonest or even if he had not devoted himself so completely 'to his scientific work." Besides Building material of all kinds, we can furnish shop work, and shop jobs- Mr. Wesley Hart is with me and knows this business. C. D. Ray. MRS. L. F. SMITH HAS TAKEN the O'Conners Cottage at Ocean View, Va., for the season. Mrs. Smith is now established their and is prepared to accommodate a few boarders. Address her as above. Miss Mary Pride Jones is visiting friends ia Louisburg, N. C, MR WALTERS COMMENTS. Takes Issue With Senator Hicks in His Attitude During Last General Assembly. Mr. Editor: Now that my farming operations permit a little leisure, will you allow space in your valuable paper for a few comments upon some pub- lie transaction which occurred some months since? I wish to call at- tention to some things which were done or attempted in the recent legislature: First. As to the Sikes Road Bond! Bill. I considered this the best and most progressive new measure introduced during the session. No valid argument was produced against it, for none could be. It seems' some people just will oppose everything that is really progress ive. Senator Hicks is large re sponsible for the defeat of this bill; for it was defeated in the Sen ate by a very small majority after having passed the House. I am very sorry that he saw fit to op pose it. Now a few words as to the merits of this scheme as I un derstand it: It provides for the State to bor row money at 4 per cent and loan it to the different counties at 5 per cent interest for the purpose of building good roads. The State would take no risk; for the taxes for paying the inter- est would be levied by law and collected from the people for whose benefit the proceeds of the bonds have been spent. The difference be- tween the two rates of interest would in the term of years for which the bonds would run, pay the principal. By this plan the people could have good roads built by simply paying 5 per cent interest on the cost of them for a number of years and never have the princi - pal to pay at all. There is no ques- tion that the State can borrow mon- ey at 4 per cent. The National Government can borrow readily at ! 3 per cent. This would be very ; ty, however, plausible the plan ! much better than the people of I might seem. The State lacked I Granville, have done. After paying ; $337,000.00 of having a cent in the jthe interest on the $100,000 of ! Treasury on Jan. 2nd., 1911, the ! road bonds, for 30 or 40 years, we day I started to the Senate, and j shall still have to pay the principal- i we tried honestly not to contract ! tJuder this plan the State would al- , more debts but to pay the floating ! so receive a great indirect benefit . indebtness then due, created in our ! from the increase in value of taxa- ' efforts to care for the poor unfortu b!e property because of the good : nates of the State, roads. I am very much in hopes j As to his charge that I voted that this plan will be enacted in-; against the farmer on the Anti to law by the next General Assem-Hrust Bill I will leave it to a gen bly. : erous public to say how the mat- Next, I wish to say a few things ter stands- We have always had j about the attempt made in the late . some prosperous candidates for con j Assembly to enact an anti-trust law gress from a Strawberry, Huckleber f It will, doubtlessly, be remembered ry or Cotton Growing county to in I by many that what was meant and troduce an Anti-Trust Bill to ride j acknowledged to be a genuine and into congress on. The people all effective anti-trust bill, or one know that the Sherman anti-trust "with teeth," was passed by the lawhas been in effect for ten or House, every Democrat voting for i fifteen years and the trusts can be it. In the Senate this bill was de- indicted under it by any one who feated as it came from the Hpusfes;res, and that all a State law by a very small majority. It wasjjjjyr do would be to indict the then enacted into law with some tobacco buyers who buy for big con amendment which under it inef f ect- ! cerns, and no one wants to do that, ive. Senator Hicks was . one of I voted for the Senate bill and those who opposed this bill as it thought I was doing right, came from the House and was on j Mr Walters is mistaken in say the community which had charge of ing tnat the gikes bill had a unani lt and amended it. He also took ; mous YOte in the hoUse. I am in a prominent part in amending it and f0rmed that Mr. Thomas Taylor in. passing it as amended. I am i of Vance County an experienced satisfied no one expects that any ; Legislator and a financier of mark prosecution will even be attempted ! ed ability regarded this as one of under this law. Now, a very natural i the most dangerous bills before the question for the farmers of Gran- j legislature and did all in his pow ville and Person to ask.is: Did noter to preVent its passing. It never Senator Hicks take side in this, would iiave received a respectable contest against his constituents and hearing but for the fact as above with their most powerful and oppres stated that the representative of sn e enemies the American .To- many counties, weak financially sup bacco Company , and other ported it at the request of its trusts? It really seems that he 1 promoters hoping it would enable aia. iior twenty years mis corpora them to borrow money easy to work tion has fleeced the tobacco grow- the roads- I might be excused for ers until many of them have been saving that the Senate passed this reduced to poverty; and I v sup- biij providing for a civil engineer pose, most of them to more or less so that any county in the State straitened circumstances. It is a might call on' him to locate roads disgrace to the Government, both ; without permitting the enormous state and national that such a con-; Dond jssue and when it came back dition has existed so long. I do not ; to us from the house the State know what motive prompted the : engineering feature was left out Senator to his course in the matter, ' and the enormous bond issue insert and I do not accuse of him of any ed t wiSh I bad the time and wrong one. , space to tell of some of the other But this I do say if the farmers . schemes before the Legislature like of Granville support him for of fice i the million dollar public building again I shall think that they are 1 SCheme, the Torrens Land Title Hi siets f or the exPioitatin of ; scteme of wMch it was said by the trusts. W. R. WALTERS. MR. HICKS REPLIES. CJes His Reasons for the Stand He Took as Representative of County- To the Editor: Mv attention has been nallArl t the sharp criticism of my conduct as State Senator by your correspondent j Mr. W. R. Walters,appearing in this ! issue of your paper. He says I i ought to have supported the Sikes j Road Bond bill, and the House Anti- j Trust bill. j The Sikes Bond scheme, as I re j member it, provided that any coun- i ty without a vote of the people, might issue 5 per cent bonds of the ; county, practically without limit.and I take them to the state treasury.and get me iace vaiue ior tnem . m money and that the State should borrow the money at 4 per cent to lend the Counties, and this was to go on until sixteen million dollars Card of Thanks. I desire to thank all the good peo ple for their sympathy, and kind ness during the recent illness and death of my wife. Parham Vaughan. DONT FAIL to see Dr. N Rosen stein, the Eye Specialist of Durham at Oxford next Tuesday, July the j 25, stopping at the Exchange Hotel, j ior me purpose or examining eyes and fitting glasses in any style of frames steel or gold from $2.00 up, including examination. Don't forget, Tuesday, July. 25 th,.. was borrowed by the State to carry j the Road Bond debts of the various ! counties- ! This silly bill presupposed the fact that the State could always Dorrow as mucn as $it,uuu,uuo at four per cent interest in the face ' of the fact that the State utterly i failed to sell last year $315,000.00 i worth of bonds, although we called on all the money lenders to buy, and finally the Governor called the Legislature together to allow five" ! per cent bonds to be sold. Then the patriotic sons of the state.at a private call of the Governor, sub- scribed the amount, and saved th- ! State credit, and I have been told I since by a citizen who took a j large part of the bonds, that they j are worth less now than when he i bought them. ! A simple calculation will show that the proposed Sikes bill pro vided for fifty times as many bonds as those "we failed to sell last sum mer. This looked like a good scheme because it looked, like it would help the Counties with poor credit to borrow money. Mr. Wilson of Caswell originated the measure mainly to help his County to bor row road money. It was no better scheme however than that of . Col. S. A- Jones to have the State to indorse $4,000,000 worth of bonds of the Transcontinental Rail Road Company to aid in building a Rail road across about five or six coun- ' ties in Western North Carolina, ; or for the State to endorse the bonds of the Mattamuskeet, Swamp Canal Company to drain a swamp ' and make a few fellows who owned j the, land under the water rich.But ! we could not listen seriously to the scheme of such dreamers. We were sworn to obey the constitu tion, prevent the looting of the State Treasury and protect and save 1 the States good name and credit j I was not sent to the Senate to issue State Bonds, or squander its money, nor to indorse or guarantee : the bonds of any town, city or coun one of the wisest men in the State that it should be entitled an act to furnish employment for lawyers and to stir up strife among neigh- ! bors' .and which JUr h"mbl seJ" villi U iu a oyecyu. lu tuo gcuaio said, '"that he was willing for the next legislature to pass it, but hav ing investigated it and ascertained ! its burdens upon the people, he "was unwilling for a legislature of which he was a member to pass it." There were others too numerous to mention but most of them and their promoters will be back when the legislature meets again, and they will be glad like Mr. Walters to see that I am not there, Excuse so long a letter. I am not a Candidate for any office, Thanks to a generous people they have given me all I have ever ask- ed for, and all I want- I hope they will nominate Mr. Walters or some other good man. for the Sen ate, when our time comes again Yours very truly, A. A. HICKS. Services at Methodist Church. There will be Sunday School in the Methodist Church next Sunday morning and night, the night ser vices to be conducted by Rev. J. B. Weatherspoon, the pastor of the Baptist Church- Want. to Buy Home. Note the add of the Granville Real Estate and Trust Company in another column, offering a desirable home place for sale- WANTED Oak Slabs. Apply, to Ledger. Office. THE LYON DRUG STORE We take great pleasure in announcing to our pa trons and the general public that we will have with us for the following days only Aiicjostt 2otil and 3rd, an Expert Optician, representing .. the celebrated firm of. HAWKES CO ATLANTA, G A. The largest and' most favorably known optical es tablishment in the South. He Will Test Eyesight and Fit Glasses. REMEMBER that we have arranged this engagement and secured the services of a man of ability and reputation, and that we, personally, guarantee his work. All examinations free, and only regular prices will be charge! for glasses. You Can Save Money and obtain the highest class of professional service in this line by taking ad vantage of this opportunity. Bear in Mind the Dates, AUG. 2ND and 3RD. EAST CAROLINA TEACHERS TRAINING SCHOOL. A State school to train teachers for the public schools of North Carolina. Every energy is directed to this one purpose. Tuition free to all who will agree to teach. Fall term begins September 26, 1911. For catalogue and other information address ROOT. H. WRIGHT, Greenville, IV. C. You can save Twenty Dollars and more on a Bug gy if you will get in a hurry. They are going rapidly, but we are also getting them out with a vim. Orders rolling in from every lucky corner. Mail orders, ver bal orders, and P. O. money orders. You caji buy them now and sell them for a profit later if you are much of a trader. Make yourself some easy money. You can do it if you will get in the game now. We have a hundred or more to sell. Styles varied. Cash only. Oxford, N. C. 1 For Sale Ami ExceMeett Home Place in North Oxford No. 170. Two story 8 room Dwelling, Electric Lights and City Water Connection. Large lot fronting 180 feet on popular street and with a depth of about 400 feet on side street. Splendid garden, stable and barn, smoke house. Owner has other property requiring his attention and has placed this property in our hands for im mediate sale. This property at the price asked is worth the consideration of investers and offers a rare opportunity to anyone wanting a home place. If you want a home this is your chance. We sug gest thar you investigate at once. We will be glad to show this property to parties interested. Granville Real Estate & Trust Co. A. H. POWELL, Prcsl. J. A. NILES, Sec'y-Tres. NO. 30 MAIN STREET. OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA. TELEPHONE NO. 88, THE LYON DRUG STORE 3 ur -i v.
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