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Vol. HI. No. 43. TAYLO RS V 1LLE, ALEXANDER COUNTx', N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1888. - 1 Per Year. LOCAL DIRECTORY. - CHURCHES. PRESBYTERIAN. ostv Preaching every second and fmith Sunday, at 11 a. nu and at night, priver meeting every Wednesday night. Sday School every Sunday at 9 a.m. A C Mcintosh Superintendent. "YetKodist, Rev. T. J. Dailey, naStor. Preaching eve y third Sunday fiia.s. Sunday School every Syn ay at 9 a.m. W. T. Nelson Superin- a((ant pAiTJST. Rev. L. P. Gwaltney pas ror. Preaching every fourth Sunday it 3-30 p.m. Sunday School every Sun day t a.m. E. A. Womble Super intendent. Pra3rer meeting Thursday nights. SOCIETY MEETINGS. A. Fv & A. M. Lee Lodge No 253 meets the first Saturday of each month, t 1 o'clock p. m. COUNTY OFFICERS. Sheriff, R. M. Sharp, Clerk of Court, J. T Mcintosh; R. of D. J. M. Oxford; treasurer, C.J. Carson; County Com missioners, J. B. Pool, W. R. Sloan, V,ff. 'Vague; A. C. Mclnjosn A. T. Harsb, W. W. Teague, Board of Edu cation; J. J. Hendren School Superin tendent, Z. P. Deal. Coronor. -CORPORATION OFFICERS. Mayor W. G. Bogle. Commission-ers-X M. Matheson.'W.D Deal, Thus. Peden. Town Clerk W. D. Deal. Chief of Police THE MAILS. St&tesville and Wilkesboro, daily. Matter for either of these mails should be in the office by 9 p. m. Lenoir Lea vesTuesdays and Fridays at 6 a.m. and arrives Wednesdays and Saturdays at 6 p.m. Newton Leaves Tm-sdays, Thurs days and Saturdays at 5 a.m. and arrives same days at p.m. Boomer and Goshen Arrives Wed ncsdays and Saturdays at 12 m. aud leaves same davs at 1 p. m. Bently Arrives Tuesdays and Sat- urdsys at 12 m. and leaves same days lp. m. Hamptonville Leaves Monday, Wed nesday and Friday at 6 a.m. and arrives lue8day,Thurday and Saturday at 6 a. Kock Cut Leaves Tuesday and Fri day at 8 a.m. and arrives Wednesday and Saturday at 4 p.m. Brush v Mountain Arrives Wednes days and Saturdays at 12 m. and leaves same days at 1 p. m. 11IEDM0NT AIR LINE. X RICHMOND & DANVILLE 11. R. SOUTH CAKOCIM DIVISION. 0ndensed Scirdnle in effect Mm 24 Trauisni7i by Tvth Meridian lime. NOHTH No. 51 No. 53 BOUND. Daily. Daily. ViaS.C.R.R..- LvCliarlest'n 5.10pm 7.00am 44 Augusta..... 7.00 44 8.30 44 " GranitVe.-.v.. 7.53 " , 9.09 44 ' Trenton. .............. 8.30 ,9.45 44 Johnstons 8.47 44 10.02 44 4 Columbia..-.. 1.25 " --112.15pm 44 Win' sb'ro...... 1.10am! 2.13 ' j. 44 Chester 2.17 44 3.23 44 ' 44 Ro k Hill 3 10 -4 4.08 4 Ar Charlotte..-.., 4.20 44 5.15 " Salisbury.. ..... 6.22 " 7.05 44 44 Gi'ns b'ro.... 8.00 8.40 44 44 Richmond. . 3.30pm 5.00am" "Waslfgtn . 8.23- 7.00" 41 Balti more.- 11.25 8.25 44 44 Philad'a-..- 3.00am 10.47 44 , 44 New York 6.20 " I .20pm south No. 52 No. 50 bound. Daily. Daily . - Lv New York 4.3opm !2.15n't u Pliilad'a ... 6.57 44 7.20am 14 Balti more..........:. 9.42 44 9.45 44 44 Wash gt'n 11.00 44 11.24 44 44 Richmond 2.30am 3.10pm 44 Gr'nsboro.-... 2.48 44 'l.44 44 Salisbury..- 19.23 44 12.37h4t 44 Charlotte....... 1 1.00pm 2.10am 4 Rock Hill..-.. 1.02 - 3.10 4 44 Chester ... 2.45 44 3.52 4 44 Wiu'sboro 3.47 '4 4.53 44 44 Columbia.- 5.43 44 6.55 44 44 Johnstons- 7.45 9.01 "4 . 44 Trenton.......... 8.02 44 9.18 44 44 Granite'le.- 8.31 44 9.46 44 Ar Augusta 9.10 4 10.30 44 44 Charl'st'n 9.45 44 11.00 4 via S.C. R.R A., T. & O. K. R. No. 52. V- ? Vn. 53. BOUTHW'KDj STATIONS. jjjoRTHV'C'llD '25 a. in Ivt j- States ville ..! 7,55 pm arv 8.40 Troutman..': 7.39 14 8.58 9.C9 9.19 9.28 9.b9 9.47 10.01 . 10.14 10.27 44 l...Shepherd...! 7 21 44 i-Mooresville.-! 7.09 4' !-Mt Moiirne-i 6 58 44 j.D'nColI.-ge.! 6.49 44 i... Caldwell...! 6.37 44 illutitersville.i 6 30 44 ! Crr.fr.1 6.14 14 44 .She'll House.! 6.01 44 .C.C.Juncn.S 5.48 10.30 4 a-vj...CharIotte... 5.45 -4 lve frATEsviiXK-& wEsi'LTiN r7r 18, mix ! ;No, 17, mix en. Daily STATIONS.: ed Daily. 80UTHW'RD: : NORTHWR'D b.oO a.m Iver Taylorsville.l 9.40 pm arv .uy " j- Hiddenite ..i 9.2 1 44 44 J.26 " !..i.i4Sloan 9.04 44 44 7.50 44 j.... In-del'.....: 8.40 44 44 S.lo ' arvi.Statesville J 8.15 4 lv Trali)gon""the"WeS road pass Statesville for the east at if Vm,; ,or thewest at 12.20 p.m. I ullman Palace cars between Augus w and Danville on Nos. 50 "nd 51. uuman Falace Buffet cars bat ween Agusta and Washington on Nos.52 and 53 ios. ou and 51 make close con nee- tou at Columbia with C.tG. Div. Nos rna ol to and from points west, via --iuunrg,Asneville and Paint kock ri n L- TAYLOR, G. P. A. D -CARDWull, D. P. AM v olumbia. S. C. 0L HAAS, TrEffl?, Matter. NORTH CAROLINA DEMOCRACY. Platform of Party Adopted in State Convention at Raleigh, 1888. We again congratulate the peo ple of North Carolina on the con tinned enjoyment of peace, good government and general prosperi ty under Democratic administra tion of the affairs of the State which has now been unbroken for so many years; upon the just and impartial enforcement of the law; upon the increasing efficiency of our common school system, ana the progress made in popular ed ucation; upon the improvement and enterprise manifested in all parts of the State. We ' again challenge a comparison betwwen this state of things and the out rages, crimes and scr.ndals which attend Republican ascendency in our borders. We pledge ourselves to exert in the future as in the past our best efforts to promote the best interest of the people of all sections of the State Af firming our adberence to Demo critic principles as heretofore enuueiated in the platforms of the party, it is hereby Resolved, That no government has the right to burden its people with taxes beyond the amount re quired to pay its necessary", ex penses and graduilly extinguish its public debt; and that whenever the revenues, however derived, exceed this amount, they should be reduced, so as to avoid a sur plus in the treasury. That any system of taxation which necessi tates the payment of a premium of $270 by the government on each $1,000 of its bonds, taken up with the millions that would oth erwise lie idle in its vaults, and paid to bondholders who pur chased in mauy instances, at less than par, is undemocratic, oppres sive and iuiquitous aud should be reformed. The course of our Dem ocratic Representatives in Con gress; in their efforts to give re lief to the people from burden some internal revenue aud tariff taxation, meets with the approval of the Democratic party of this State aud we respectfully recom mend that if they find it impossi hie to give to our people all the releif demanded, they support any just and practical measure- pre sented iu Congress that wilt af ford a partial relief from such existing burden. Resolved, That while the de tails of the methods by which the constitutional revenue tariff shall be gradually reached are subjects which the Representatives of our people at the national capital must be trusted to adjust, we think the customs duties should be levied for the, production of public revenue, and the discrim- inatiou in their adjustment should be such as will place the highest rates on luxuries and the lowest on the necessaries of life, distrib ute as equally as possible the un avoidable burdens of taxation,and confer the greatest good on the greatest number. Resolved, That we, as hereto fore, favor, and will never cease to demand, the unconditional ab olition pi the whole internal reve nue system, as a war tax, not to be justified in times of peace; as a grievous burden to our people and a source of anuoyance in its prac tical operations. We call the at teution of the people of the State to the hypocritical pretensions o the Republican party in their platforms that they are in favor of the repeal of this onerous sya tem of taxation, enacted by their party while the Republicans in Congress are taxing their ener gies to obstruct all legislation in augurated by the representatives of the Democratic party to relieve the people of all or part of this odions system. Resolved, That the course of the Democratic party, in further ance of popular education.is a suf ficient guaranty that we favor the education of the people, and we will promote and improve the preseut educational advantages so far as it can be done without burdening the people by excessive taxation. Resolved, That to meet an ex isting evil, we will accept, for ed ucational purposes, from the Fed eral government a pro rata share of the surplus in its treasury; Pro vided, that it be disbursed through State agents and the bill for the distribution be free ' from objec tional features. Resolved, That the United States being one government and ours a national party ,we denounce the efforts of the Republicans to force sectional issues in Congress and elsewhere, and to . promote dissension and ill-will between the people of the different sec tions of our common country. Resolved, That it is due to the 1 people of our eastern counties, who have so cheerfully borne their J share of our common burdens,taat the present or some equally effect ive system of county government shall be maintained. Resolved, That the Democratic party is opposed to auy furthur extension of the "No-fence" law unless such extension shall have first been authorized by a majori ty of the qualified voters within he territory to be affected there by. Resolved, That the Democratic party has ever been the party of the workingman, and has never fostered monopolies, nor have "trusts" or "combinations" or "pools" ever grown up under laws enacted by it. The contest in this country being between aggregat ed capital, seeking to crush out all competition, and the individu al laborer, the Democratic party is, as it has ever been, against the monopolist and in favor of a just distribution of capital, and de- mauds the enactmeut of laws that will bear equally upon all. Resolved, That as all taxation bears most heavily upon the la borer, it is the duty of the legis lator, as a direct benefit to the workiugman, to keep the expens es ef our public institutions at the lowest limit consistent with wise and efficient management. The Democratic party opposes any competition between free and con vict labor, but it insists that con victs shall not remain idle at the expense of honest labor. Resolved, That ours being an agricultural State, it is our duty as well as our pleasure to promote any and all legislation that is best calculated to advance the in terests of agriculture; and that in so doing we will most effectually advance the interests of mechan ics, manufacturers and laborers. Resolved, That the Democracy of North Carolina cordially ap prove the administration of Hon. Alfred M. Scales, as honest, pa triotic and conservative. Resolved, That the ability, wis dom, honesty, patriotism, inde pendence, faithfulness to duty, and manly courage of President Cleveland have won the admira ttou ot an gooa men: an" the in terests of the country demand his re-nomination and his re-election. Who is Your Best Friend? Your stomach, of course. Why! Because if it is out of order you are one of the most miserable creatures living. Give it a fair, nonorame cnauce ana see n it is not the best friend you have in the end. Don't smoke in the morning. Don't drink in the morning. If yon must smoke and drink wait until your stomach is through with breakfast. You can drink more and smoke more in the evening and it will tell on you less. If your food fermeuts and uoes not aigesc ngnt, n you are troubled with heartburn, dizziness of the head, coming up of the food after eating, biliousness, indices tion, or any other trouble of the stomach, you had best use Green's August Flower, as no person can use it without immediate relief. The Republican Position on the In- ternal Revenue. From the News and Observer. Wei iiave heretofore pointed out that the Republican Senate com mittee in their tariff bill oppose the provisiens of the Mills bill in regard to the internal revenue. Let us see further about the mat ter. As we have said, the Mills bill is what the Democratic party proposes to the country; and this Republican Senate bill is what the Republican party offers in place. The two measures are now before the people. When the Mills bill, after hav ing parsed the House of Repre sentatives, reached the Senate at Washington on July 25, 1888, it was reiefied to the committee on finance of that body. The ma jority of this committee, that is to say, the Radical members of it, reported on Thursday, October 4, 1888;-as follows: "Your committee have consid ered numerous suggestions for the repeal of all internal revenue tax es and the abolition of the entire internal revenue system, but they deem the adoption of this courso at present both impracticable and unwise, not only because the re peal of these taxes would create a arge annual deficit, but for the "urtber reason that the taxej lev ied on distilled spirits as a bever age and on beer, should be re tamed, and the legislation to pro tect American dairy products from fraudulent imitations should be enforced." Here fthen they . say, first, that the repeal of the internal revenue is impracticable; that is, it can't be .done. Second, they say it is unwise; that is, ii it could be done it ought not to be done; and third ly, that the whiskey tax and bran dy tax should be retained. That is the position of the Republican party in regard to these things. It is what they propose and rec ommend: it is what they propose in the way of legislation. So much for the entire repeal. As to the provisions of the Mills bill modifying the hardships of the system in regard to the distil lation of spirits, the committee op poses them outright. We quote their very words from their re ports below as follows: "Section 29 to 34 inclusive, and sections 36, 38 and 40 of the House MMls bill are intended to modify existing laws relating to the tax on distilled spirits. Your com mittee do not reccommend their adoption. "The sections, when taken alto gether, cannot be construed by your committee as having any other effect than to open wide the door to fraud in the collection of taxes on distilled spirits. "Section 36 of the House bill is the chief section, and the other sections are merely tributary or auxiliary; it amends section 3255 of the Revised Statutes, by ad ding a provision which authorizes the the Secretary of the treasury to exempt distilleries mashing less than 25 bushels of grain per day from the operation of the pro visions of the law; relating to the manufacturing of spirits. "This amendment also provides that such distilleries tnay be ruu and operated without store-keepers, or store-keepers and gnagers. "The effect of section 3255 tnus amended, would therefore be to remove from every such dsitillery all the restraints and, safeguards now provided by law aginst illicit distillation. "Whatever may be the strength of public opinion where these small distilleries are nomeroua, the government cannot afford to relax the efficient and necessary safeguards throw around the pro duction of spirits simply for the purpose of relieving these people from proper supervision, which compels the payment of tsr. "Section 36 is supltmeoted by other provisions intended to shield not only these small distillers,but all distillers from the vigorous provisions of existing law. "Section 30 is a complicated section, having the, effect to im pede any process looking toward the arrest or prosecutiou of offend ers under the internal revenue Haws, by providing that no war rant shall issue upon information and belief, except upon the affida vit of collector, or deputy collect or, or internal revenue agent,thus excluding all other revenue of ficers, such as store -keepers, gaug- (, etc, who by. reason of their ofllcial positions, may have infor mation and belief which would justify them in making complaint, and no private person can make complaint, except the facts are within his own personal knowledge "It provides further, that no lees snail oe paid to either mar shals, clerks or commissioners, un less there be a conviction, or un- less the prosecution has been ap proved, either before or after such arrest by the attorney of the Uni ted States for the district where the offense is alleged to have been committed, or unless the prosecu tion was commenced by informa tion or indictment. Thus, in cases oi violations oi tne internal rev enue laws, it would be necessary for a complicated investigation to be gone through with before any such prosecution could be insti tuted. It is impossible for internal rev enue agents to hear complaints and thus be able to TOake affidavit on information and belief, as there are only twenty of them in all, and they are occupied chiefly in the examination of accounts, giv ing information to officers as to their method of conducting busi ness, etc. Collectors and deputy collectors are engaged in the de tail work of their offices, aud may be at a great distance from the place where the fraud is being committed. The section would require preliminary trial by a col lector or deputy collector before a prosecution could be instituted. The marshals, who, under lavr,are required to execute any process presented, are informed in ad vance that they shall have no pay unless there is a conviction, which necessarily implies that the mar shal, before he serves process, must enter into an examination of the probability of a conviction, or else discharge his duties with out compensation. "Section 34 minimizes the pen alty for intentional violation of the internal revenue laws. This section is a substitute for section 3176 of the Revised Statutes. "Section 34 of the bill amends this section of the Revised Stat utes, by substituting a uuiform penalty of 25 per cent, and inter est at 10 per cent, from the time when such tax is due and payable that is to say, if an illicit distiller is caught, or if a distiller makes a false and fraudulent return, in stead of 100 per cent penalty, as now provided, h is only required to pay a penalty of 25 per cent. "Section 3332 of the Revised Statutes provides that in case a registered distillery, having a pro ducing eapacity of less than 350 galions'a day, shall violate the law respecting such distillery, and having been declared forfeited by a judgment of the court for a vio lation of the internal revenue laws such still, etc., shall be destroyed, so as to prevent its use for the purpose of distilling. This sec tion of the Revised Statutes is amended by section 38 of the bill, so that in ease of judgment of for feiture the seizing officer shall re move such still, etc., to a place of safe storage, where it shall be sold and that it shall be so removed without mutilation. "If the effect of a judgment of forfeiture snail only be to reqnhe the seizing officer to carefully pre serve and store the still without mutillation, it will soon renew iU work in some other convenient lo cality where the vigilance of rev- enue officers Could, for a time afc last, be eluded, as stills of this capacity are portable "and easily transferred from one neighbor hood to another. "Section 3244 of the ttevised Statutes provides that a manufac turer Of stills shall pay an annual tax of $50, and 820 for each still or worm for distilling made by him; and section 3265 of the Re vised Statutes requires such man ufacturer, before the same is re moved from the place of manufac ture, to notify the collector of the, district. These wholesome pro visions, taken together, were in tended to prevent persons from manufacturing stills or procuring them from manufacturers without the knowledge of the proper reve nue officers of the government. - "But section 40 of the proposed Mills bill repeals all laws which impose these special taxes. "These sections constitute sucli a modification of our present rev enue system as respects the collec tion of taxes from distilled spirits as will make it easy for those dis posed to engage in illicit distilling to do so with impunity, and your committee cannot but regard theso provisions as seriously endanger ing the efficacy of our entire sys tem of laws which provide for tho collection of revenue from distilled spirits." Every word of the above is ta ken from the report of the United States Senate committee on fi nance, reporting back the Mills bill to that body on the 4th of Oc tober, 1888, accompanied by their substitute bill. It will be seen from the above that the Radical Senate have ta ken ground distinctly against every remedial feature of the Mills bill in regard to" the distilla tion of spirits: 1. They oppose the provision giving the judge discretion in the matter of punishment, as set forth in section 29. 2. They oppose the provision forbidding warrants to be issued unless by approval of a collector or deputy collector, as set forth iu section 30. 3 They oppose the provision forbidding fees to be paid to mar' shais, &c, unless there be a con viction, as set forth in sectiou 30, 4. They oppose the provision re quiring warrants to be tried in the county of arrest, &c, as set forth in section 31. 5. They oppose the .provision giving the judges the power to ap point and remove commissioner. &c, as set forth in section 32. 6. They oppose the provision giving the Commissioner of Inter nal Revenue power to reduce aud remit fines, &c, as set forth it section 33. 7. They oppose the provision : dueing the penalty from 100 .'per cent to 25 per cent in case of fail ure to make return, &c, as s t forth in section 34. 8. They oppose the provision ex empting from the revenue law ail distilleries mashing less than lm bushels of grain per day, &v.., i set forth in section 36. 9. They oppose the provision for bidding the destruction of stills of less than 150 gallons capacity as set forth in section 38. 10. They opposee the provision repeali ng all 1 a ws iin posi ug tpen : i taxes upon manufacturers of stilly retail dealers iu liquors, &c, as set forth in section 40. For the truth of the above sew Senate proceedings Congressional Record, Oceober 4, 1888. - Mark the words of these Repub lican Senators who are speakin?-: for their party. They state t'nu Republican position. All the-hope our people have to have the ini j uities of this system lesseceu reista with the Democratic party;
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