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er. Vol. III. No. 3 8. TATLORSVILLE, ALEXANDER COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEEBER 20, 1888. i$l Per Year. i a c m 1 0 0 V y 0 LOCAL DIRECTORY. CHURCHES. PRESBYTERIAN. qstor Preaching every second and Elrth Sunday, at 11 a. m. and at night, mver meeting every Wednesday night. Snday School every Sunday at 9 a.m. C. Mcintosh Superintendent. ""v'etHODIST, Rev. T. J. Dailey, or. Preaching every third Sund y vil a.m. Sunday School eery Su -5y at 9 a.m. W. T. Nelson Superin- telprisT. Rev. L. P. Gwaltney,pa t . Preaching every fouith Sunday ?3 30 m. Sunday School every Snn iv t9 a.m. E. A. Womble Super Sender i. Prayer meeting Thursday : BirfltS. SOCIETY MEETINGS. . F. & A. M. Lee Lodge No 253 jucets the first Saturday of each month . jt l o'clock p. m. COUNTY OFFICERS. Sheriff, B- M. Sharn, CJerk o". Co- , .T; Mcintosh; R. of D. J. M. Oxfc Treasurer C. J. Carson; County C r missioners, J. B. Pool, W. R. 1 , V. .W. Teagiie; A. C. Mclnto n . . .jjJuib,' W. W. Teague. o b. cation; J. -J." Hendren Sch ! Sup:.. tendent, Z. P. Deal. Cor . . CORPORATION, OFF CERS. Mayor W. G Bogie. Comroisor frs J. Mathesorr, W.D. Deal, l .os. Peden. Town Clerk W. D. Deal. Chief of Police THE MAILS. Statesville and Wilkesboro, daily. Jfetter for either of these mails shou'd he in the office by 9 p. m. Lenoir LeavesTuesdays and Friday it 6 a.m. and arrives Wednesdays anJ. Saturdays at 6 p.m. Xewton Leaves Tuesdays, Thm -days and Saturdays at 5 a.m. and arrives same d?ys at 8 p.m. Boomer and Gohen Arrives Wed nesdays and Saturdays at 12 in. and leaves same days at 1 p. m. . Bently Arrives Tuesdays and Sat urdsys at 12 in. and leaves same days 1 p. m. Hamptonville Leaves Monday, Wed nesday and Friday at G a.m. and an Ives Tnesday,Thurs(lav and Saturday at 6 a. Tock Cut Leaves Tuesday and Fri day at S a.m. and arrives Vednesday anil Saturday at 4 p.m. Brushy Mountain Arrives Wednes days and Saturdays at 12 iu. and leaves same days at 1 p.m. "DIEDMONT MR LINE. i RICHMOND & DANVILLE R.'R. SOUTH CAROLINA DIVISION. Condensed Sc'jedule i ett'ect June 24. Trains run b loth Meridian Time.J Vjhth No. 51 No. 53 . BOUND. D.." -. ' Daily. viaS.C.R.R. LrCliHilesfn o.lOpm T.OO.'.m " Augusta. 7.00 ' S.CO 14 GranitVe............ 7.53" 9.09 41 " Trenton....-....-.-... S.30 44 9.45 ' " Joliust'iis........ 8.47' 10.02' " ColumlV 11.25 " 12.15pm "Win'sb 1.10am 2.13k 44 Che. ter 2.17 44 3.23 44 "KockUHL.-.. 3 10'4 4.0S" Ar Charlotte..- 4.20 44 5.15 44 " Salisbury............ 6.22 44 7.05 44 Gr'ns b'ro.-. 8.00 44 8.40 44 " Richm'nd.-.. ...... 3.3C m 5.00am Wash'gt n S.23 4 7.00 44 Balti more.-... 11.25 44 8.25 4 " Philad'a...... 3.00am 10.47 44 ewYo.k............ 6.20 44 1.20pm south No. 52 No. 50 bound. Daily. Daily LvXew York............ 4.30om 12.". .'n't ' Philad'a-. 6.5744 7.1 Jam 'Baltimore.-.. 9.42 44 9.,.; 44 u Washgt'n........... 11.00 44 11.24 44 Richmond , 2.30aa 3.10pm u Gr'nsboro. 2.4S 44 1 10.44 44 " Salisbury 19.23 44 12.37n't u Charlotte............ l.OOpm 2.10am Rock Hill..... 1.02 3.10 44 14 Chester.. 2.45 44 3.52 4 41 Win'sboro....... 3.47 44 4.53 44 Columbi . 5.43 44 6.55 4 " Johnsto. 7.45 4 9.GT 44 " Trenton.-.- 8.02 44 9.18 44 " Granite'le S.31 44 9.46 44 Ar Augusta...... 9.10 44 10.30 44 Chai-rst'n............ 9.45 44 11.00 44 viaS.C. " A., T. & O. R. R. No. 52. fiOUTHW'RD STATIONS. 1,-0RThw'RD 8.25 a. m lve j- Statesville -! 7.55 pm arv -Troutman.." 7.39 44 44 ...Shepherd.- 7.21 44 4 -Mooresville.. 7.09 4 4 44 Mi Mourne- 6.58 44 41 .D'n College.! 6.49 44 44 ...Caldwell .- 6.37 4 - jlluntersville.: 6.30 44 4; .Sec'n House.j Cr.'l 44 .C.C.Junc'n.j 1 4 44. j...Charlo.';ie.i 5.45 44 ? e MO 44 ' 8.S8 S.C9 9.19 H.28 9.39 - 9.47 '10.01 -10.H 10.27 10.30 a bTERN R. f 1 r mix-: iNo. 1. , mi: .Daily. ! Southw'rd I STATIONS. ed. Daily. 'northwr'd 5"5 am lve 'I'aylorsvillcl 3.40 pm t7.09 4t 4v j.. Hiddenite ! 9.21 44 arv 4k 44 41 1 '.. l-i " i Sloan ! 9.04 7.o0 44 -u ...iredeP j 8.40 i - !- Statesville .. 8.15 41 it it .Trains .on the Westsrn I orth C "a road pass Statesville for the east i D.m fri fho Timcf - to on , ta imln Palace cars between Augus- h,T uvle on jnos. 50 and Urnan Palace Buffet (iars betw tligusta and Wash; tlnn.V??", 0 and 51 make close connec- "to; lumDla Wlti c-&0- Oiv. Snarf , u co ana from points west, via Partdnburg,Asheville and Paint Rock ARlD.wELL, D. P. A., -olumbia. S. C. b0L 1LVAS, Trafii" Manager. J? ARM LOANS. I am prepared to negotiate loans on improved farm lands in sums of $300 and upward, on long time and easy terms. For further particulars apply to E. B, JONES, Att'y, Taylprsville, N. C. JRASTUS B. JONES, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. t " Practices in the courts of Alexander, Catawba, Caldwell, Iredell and Wilkes. Prompt attention given to the collection of claims and all other business entrusted to hhn. T B. BURKE, ATTORNEY -AT-LAW. Having been granted license by the Supreme Court, I have located at Tay- o.svttle for the PRACTICE OF LAW, and bespeak a share of the publ'c pat ronage. I will attend the Courts of ad orning counties. C. MCINTOSH, Jk., ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, TAYLORS VILLE, - - N. C. Will practice. In Alexander and p.C'o'i'. ing countic. Sp?cial attention given to collections, conveyancing, suits for part: ion, and settlements of executors, administrators and guardians. P. HEDRICK, HOUSE. SIGN AND ORNAMEN TAL PAINTER, TAYLORS VILLK, N. C, PAPER HANGING 'A SPECIALTY. MATERIALS FURNISHED. I Write for estimates. jyjTTRASSES. I wish to inform the people of Alexan der, Iredell, Wilkes, and other counties that I have located at TAYLORS- VILLE, and ean now supply them with MATTRASSES of any size and kind desired at LOWER 'PRICES than they can be bought for elsewhere. J. D. MULLACE. LEWIS LIPPAI1D. PROFESSIONAL BARBER, has removed to Taylorsville and opened a first-class BARBER SHOP, and bespeaks a liberal patronage from the general public. Does hair cutting in the latest style. Shop adjoining Brick Store. C. W. flAKRtf, DEALER IN FURMT.UUE, TAYLORSVILLE, N. C. Cojfins and Caskets a Specialty. Prices to suit the times. Call and see me. HEADQUARTERS II. O. L.INK, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Grocer and Commission Merchant CHARLOTTE, - N. C. Those having produce -to shin (and especially country merchants) will lit Ji it to their interest to ship to tins bo -I will buy all kin of produce, or the same on con; :on . Highest ces guaranteed and prompt returns made. SALESMEN WANTED TO HA;:' ' our ;l : roughly reliable Niv - ock. We gage men on liberal cc n sion, or on salary and expense 1 arantee permanent employmen'. - recess. FaciMties requr'ef'. Pr'ces very reasonable. Outfit free. , Decided advantage? to T:ginners, Write at puce. KLLW ANGER & BARRY, Rochester, N. Y. CLEVELAND'S LETTER. The following is the President's letter of acceptance: Washington, D. C, Sept. 8. Hon.Patrick A.Collins and Others, Committee, &c: Gentlemen. In addressing to you my formal accaptaucs of the nomination to tte Presidency of the Uunited States my thoughts, persistently dwell upon the im pressive relation of such action to the American people, whose con fidence s thus invited, and to the political party to which I belong, just entering upon the contest for its continued supremacy. The world does not afford a spectacle more sublime than is furnished when millions of free and intelligent American citizens select their Chief Magistrate and bid one of their number to find the highest earthly honor and the full measure of public duty in a ready submission to their will. Iu follows that a candidate for this high office can never forget that when the turmoil and strife in cumbent shall be heard no more there must be a quiet calm which follows a complete and solemn self consecrat;on by the people's chosen President of every faculty and endeavor to the service of a confiding and generous nation of freemen. These thoughts are intensified by the light of my experience in the Presidential office, which hp" solemnly impressed me with the severe responsibilities which it imposes, while it has quickened my love for our American institu tions and taught me the priceless value of the trust of my country men. It is of the highest import ance that those who administer our government should zealously protect and maintam the rights of American citizens ac home and abioad, aud strive to achieve for our country her .proper piace amonr the nations of the earth; but there is no people whose home interests are so great and whose nrme cms objects of domestic eon- curu deserve so lnucn - .warcuiui- ness and care. Among these ae tue regulations of a sound finan cial system suited to our needs, thus securing an ethcient agency eeueral of national wealth and prosperity: the construction and eqaipmentof the means of defence to insure our national safety and mail tain the honor beneath which such national safety reposes: the p1 o eeiion of our national domain, still stretching beyond the needs of the country's expansion, and its preservation for the settle and pioneer of our marvellous growth; a sensible and sincere rec ognition of the value of American labor, leading to a scrupulous care and just appreciation ot the lntei ests of our workinginen; the limi tation and checking of such mo nopolistic tendencies and schemes as interfere with the advantages and benefits which the people may rightly claim; a generous re- flmwl oiul 'ova rT inT surviving soldiers and sailors and the wid ows and orphans of such as have died, to the end that while the ap preciation of their services and sacrifices is quickened the appli cation of their pension fund to improper cases may be prevented; protection agaiust the servile im migration which injuriously com petes with our laboringmen in the fields of toil aud adds to our pop ulation an element ignorant--of our institutions and laws, impos sible of assimilation with our peo ple and dangerous to our peace and welfare; a strict arid steadfast adherence to the principles of civ il service reform and a thorough execution of the laws passed for their enforcement, thus permit ting to our people the.advantages ef business methods in the oper ation of their government; the guaranty to our colored citizens of all their rights of citizenship, and their just recognition and en couragement in all things pei tain ing .to that relation; a firm, pa tient and humane Indian policy, so that in the peacefal relations with the government the civiliza tion of the Indian may be pro moted with resulting, quiet and safety to the settles on our fron tier and the cui t vilment of the public expenses by the introduc tion of economical methods in every department of the govern ment. The pledges contained in the platform adopted by the late con vention of the national Democra cy lead to the advancement of these objects and insure good gov ernment the aspiration of every true American citizen and. the motive for every patriotic action and effort. In the consciousness that much has b3en done in the direction of good government by the present administration and submitting its record to a fair inspection of my countrymen, I endorse the plat form thus presented, with the de termination that if lam again called to the Chief Magistracy there shall La the continuance of a devoted endeavor to advance the interests of the entire country. Our scale of Federal taxatio l and its consequences largely engross at this time the attention of our citizens and the people are sober ly considering the necessity of measures of relief. Our government is the creation of the people established to cairy out their designs and accomplish their good. It was founded on justice and was made for the free, intelligent and virtuous people. It is only useful when within their control, and only serves them well when regulated and guided by their constant touch. It is free government because it gusrantees to every American citizen the un restricted personal use and enjoy ment of all the reward of his toil aud of all his income, except what may be his fair-contribution to necessary public expeuse. There fore it is not only the right, but the duty of a free people in the enforcement of this guaranty to insist that such expense should be strictly limited to the actual public needs. It seems perfectly clear that when the.' government, this instru mentality created and maintained by the people to do their bidding, turns upon them, and through ut ter perversion of its powers ex torts from their labor and capital a tribute largely in excess of the public uecessities,the creature has rebelled agaiust the creator and masters are robbed by their serv ants. The co;tof the government must continue to be met by the tariff duties collected at our cus tom hqijses upon imported goods and by the internal revenue taxes assessed upon spirituous and malt liquors, tolmcco and oleomarga rine. I suppose it is needless to explain that all these duties and assessments are added to the prices of. the articles upon which they are levied, and thus become a tax upon all those who buy these articles for use and consumption. I suppose, too, it is well under stood that the effect of this tariff taxation is not limited to the con sumers of imported articles, but that the duties imposed upon such articles permit a corresponding in crease in the price to be laid upon domestic productions ol the same kind, which increase is paid by all our people as consumers of our homo productions, and entering every American home constitutes a form of taxation as certain and as inevitable as though the amount was annually paid into the band of the tax gatherer. These results are inseparable Lfrom the plan we have adopted for the collection of our revenue by tariff duties. They are not mertioned to discredit the system, but by way of preface to the state ment that every million of dollars collected at our custom houses for duties upon imported articles and paid into the public treasury rep resents many millions more,which, though never reaching the Nation al treasury, are paid by our citi zens as the increased cost of do uiestic productions resulting from our tariff laws. In these circum stances and in view of this neces sary effect of the operation of our plan for raising revenue the abso lute duty of limiting the rate of tariff charges to the necessities of a frugal ana economical adminis tration of the government seems to be perfectly plain. The con tinuance upon the pretext of meet ing the public expenditures of such a scale of tariff taxation as draws from the substance of the people a sum largely in excess of the pub lic needs is surely something which, under a government based upon justice and which finds its strength and usefulness in the faith and trust of the people,ought not to be tolerated. While the heaviest burdens in cident to the necessities of the government are uncomplainingly borne, light burdens become grievous and. intolerable when not justified by such necessities. Un necessary taxation is unjust taxa tion, and yet this is our condition. We are annually collecting at our custom houses and by means of our internal' revenue taxation many millions in excess of all le gitimate public needs. As a con sequence there now remains in the National treasury a surplus of more than $130,GC3,C00. No better evidence could be furnished that the people are exorbitantly taxed. The extent of the superfluous bur dens indicated by this surplus will be better appreciated when it is suggested that such surplus alone represents a taxation aggregating more than $108,C33 in a county containing 50,CC3 inhabitants. Taxation has always been the feature of an organized govern ment the hardest to reconcile with the people's ideas of freedom and happiness. When presented in a direct form nothing will arouse popular discontent more quickly and profoundly than unjust and unnecessary taxation. Our farm ers, mechanics, laborers and all our citizens closely scan the slight est increase in the taxes assessed upon their lands ana other pro perty, and demand a good reason for such increase; and yet they seem to be expected in some quar ters to regard the unnecessary volume of insidious, and indirect taxation visited upon them by our present rate of tariff duties with indifference, if not with favor. The surplus revenue now remaiuing in the treasury not only furnishes conclusive proof of unjust taxa tion, but its existence constitutes a separate and independent men ace to the prosperity of the peo ple. This vast accumulation of idle funds represents that much money drawn from the circulating medium of the country which is needed in the channels of trade and business. It is a great mis take to suppose that the conse quences which follow the continual withdrawal and hoarding by the government of the currency of the people are not of immediate im portance to the mass of our citi zens aud only concern those en gaged in large financial transac tions. In the restless enterprise aud activity which free and ready money among the people produces is found that opportunity for labor and employment and that impetus to business and production which bring in their train prosperitv to our citizens in every station and vocation. New ventures, new in vestments in business and manu factures, construction of new and important works and enlargement of enterprises already established depend largely upon obtaining money upon easy terms with fair security, and all these things are stimulated by the abundant vol ume of a circulating medium.Even the harvested grain of the farmer remains witnouc a marRec unless money is forth coming for its move ment and transportation to the seaboard. The first results of the scarcity of money among the people is the exaction of severe terms for its use. Increasing distrust and timidity is foilowed by a refusal to loan or advance upou any terms. Invest ors refuse all risks and decline all securities, and in the general fright the money st'll in the hands of the people is persistently hoard ed. It is quite apparent that when this perfectly natural, if not inev itable, stage is reached depression in all business and enterprise will, as a necessary consequence,lesseu the opportunity for work and em ployment and reduce the salaries and wages of labor. Instead, then, of being exempt from the influence and effect of the immense surplus lying idle in the National treasury, our wage earners and others who rely upon their labor for support are most of all coucerned in the situation. Others seeing the ap proach of the danger may provide against it, but it will find tho :e depending upon their daily toil for bread unprepared,helpless and defenceless. Such a state of af fairs does not present a state of idlener.s resulting from disputes between the laboring man and his employer, but it produces an ab solute and enforced stoppage of employment and wages. In reviewing the bad effects of this accumulated surplus and the scale of tariff rates by which it is produced we must not overlook the tendency toward gross and ccandalous public extravagance which a congested treasury in duces, nor the fact that we are maintaining without excuse, in the time of profound peace, sub stantially the rate of tariff duties imposed in the time of war, when the necessities of the government justified the imposition of the weightiest burdens upon the peo ple. Divers plans have been sag- i gested for the return of ttrs accu mulated surplus to the people and and the channels of trade. Some of these deviees are at varience with all the rules of good finance, some are delusive some are ab surd, and some betrav by their reckless extravagance the demor alizing influence of a great sm plus of the public money upon the judgments of individuals. While such efforts should be made as are consistent with - public duty and sanctioned by sound judgment to avoid danger by a useful disposi tion ot tne surplus now remaining in the treasury, it is evident that if its distribution were accom plished another accumulation would soon take its place it the constant flow of redundant income was not checked at its source by reform in our present tariff laws. We do not propose to deal with these conditions by merely at tempting to satisfy the people of the truth of abstract theories, nor Dy alone urging their assent to political doctrines. We present to them the propositions that they are uujustly treated in the extent of the present Federal taxation; that cs a result a condition of ex treme danger exists, and that it is for them to demand the remedy and that defence and safetv pro- inked in the guarantee of their free government. We believe that the same means which are adopted to relieve the t easury ot the present surplus and prevent its recurrences should cheapen to our psople the cost of supplying their daily wants. Both of these objects we seek in part to gain by reducicg the present tariff rates upon the necessaries of life. ! We fully appreciate the impor tance to the country of our domes tic industrial enterprises. In rec tifiication of the existing wrongs their maintenance and prosperity should be carefully and in a friend ly spirit considered. Even such reliauci upon the present revenue arrangements as have been invi ted or en: uraged should be fair ly and just'y regarded. Abrupt and radical changes, which might endanger such enterprises and in juriously affect the interests of the labor dependent upon their success and continuance, are not contemplated or inteuded; but we know the cost of our manufac tured domestic products is in creased and their price to the con sumer enhanced by the duty im posed upon the raw materials used iu their manufacture. We know that this iucreased cost prevents the sale of our productions at for eign markets in competition with those countries which have the advantage of free raw material. We know that confined to , the home market our jnanufacturing operations are curtailed, their de mand for labor irregular, and the rate of wages paid uncertain. We propoce, therefore, to stim ulate our domestic industrial en terprises by freeing from duty the imported raw materials which by the employment of labor are used in our home manufactures, thus extending the markets for their sale and permitting an increased and steady production, with the allowance of abundant profits. True to the undeviating course of the Democratic party, we will not neglect the interests of labor and our workiugmen. In all efforts to remedy the existing evils we will fu nish no exense for loss of employment or reduction of wages of honest toil. On the contrary, we propose in any adjustment of our revenue laws to concede such encouragement and advantage to the employers of domestic labor as will easily compensate for any difference that may exist between. . the i standard of wages which should be paid to our laboring men and the rate allowed in other count ies. We propose, too, by extending the markets for our manufacturers to promote the staady employment of labor: while by cheapening the cost of neces saries of life we increase the pur cias'ng power of the working men's wages and add to the com forts of his home, and before pass ing from this phase of the ques tion I am constrained to express the opinion that while the inter ests of labor should be always sedulously regarded in any modi fication of our tariff laws, addi tional aud more direct and effi cient protection to these interests would be afforded by the restric tion and prohibition of immigra tion or the importation of labor ers from other countries, who swarin upon our shores, having no purpose or intent of becoming our lellow-citizens, or of acquiring any permanent interest in our country, but who crowd every field of employment with unintel- Cov.cludzd on Eighth Payc.
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