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THE NEWS. CROWSON & COOK, Pbopbustobs. OGDSN F. CROWSON, Editob. JNO. M. COOK, Business Manager. ONE DOLLAR PER TEAS. Entered in the Poatofflce at Burling' ton, N. C, as second class matter. WBDNJE8DAY. - - Ma 30, 1900 IS HE PIG OB PUP. tUTLER now says that disfran chisement has not removed the negro issue from politics in Lou ieinia, Sooth Carolina and Missis sippi. Webster's Weekly says, the Populist Hand-Book issued two years ago.denounced the Democratic party for being too weak and cow ardly to stand up as men and enact laws disfranchising the negro vote, which laws would have been consti tutional." The Hand Book says : " In nearly every Southern State, except North Carolina, the negro is disfranchised, with result that racial antagonisms cannot be aroused be cause the absence of a basis on which to proceed. The same power that disfranchised the negro in these Southern States has been wielded by the Democratic party in North Caro lina for twenty years and yet no advantage has been taken of that power." Thus trie .Democratic party was abused by Butler, for not disfranch- ising the negro, and now be abuses it for wanting to disfranchise the negro. Butler is like the Pig a&d the Pup. An old darky wag com manded by his master to take a fine blooded pig to a neighbor as a pres eat. The pig was put in a sack, and slinging it across his shoulder the old man started down the road, whist ling a tune. He had not gone tor when he came to a stiil -house. It set hia sack containing the pig down outside and went in to get alitile "O-be-ioyful.'' While he was in there some boys slipped his pig out, and put in a pup in its place. Soon the old negro came out, wiped bU mouth and picked up the sack and went on. When he got to the neigh bjrs house, he told the man he had that fine blooded pig for him. The whole family came out of the house to see it. Uncle Sam untied the sack, reversed the ends and out crawled the pup. He looked at it for a moment, rubbed his eyes and exclaimed : " Dar, But before de Lord, Massa, dat pup was a pig when I started with him. I swear before the Lord, he was. Yes sab." The neighbor became very indig nant and told Uncle Sam to take his little old pup back home, that he didn't want no such stock as that. Uncle Sam turned the pup over and over and looking at it, exclaiming, " He am a pup, yes, Sir." Picking him up dubiously he put him back in the sack and started sadly back home. Every hundred yards he would stop, put down the sack and roll the pup out and look at him, or look down into the sack with one eye. But he came back to the still house, and the temptation to stop was too much for him, and he set his sack outside and went in again. Soon he came out feeling better than ever and forgetting all his trouble about the pig. When he reached Iwnie he said to bis master, "Massa Jan, I swr, 'fore de Lord dat dat pig you give me was a pup." Oh, Uncle Sam you are dreaming, his master said. Put him out here and let me see. Uncle Sam's eyes began to roll as he opened the sack, his fingers twitched, for he didn't know what that pig had changed to since he last looked, but he rolled him out and, behold, there was the came lit tie pig which he had s'arted to the neighbors with. He looked at it and walked around it, turned it over, opened its mouth, whistled to it, but it was the pig, and raising his eyes to the stern face of his master, yelled, " I'll, swar before the Lord, master, dat pig can be what he wants to be. He can be a pig when he wants ter b ' and he can be a pup when he wants ter be. I'll swar before de Lord, master, he can." So that is the way with Marion iiutier. lie can cnange nis argu ment to suit the occasion. He can be a pup when he wants to be and he can be a pig when he wants to be. State, than the Holt's in this county; there are no other men in the State so ready to help an unfortunate em ploye, nor any who are disposed to treat the people fairer than the Holt's of Alamance county. There is, as a result of this, good feeling among all the employees and employers and we are glad of it. WHITE SLAVE. N 1896 in many parts of the North the owners and managers of manufacturing e s t a b 1 i shments served notice on their employes that if they voted for Bryan they would be discharged from the positions they held. This was white slavery, pure and simple.' Because of their neces ities some white men were forced to vote as directed in order to. get bread and meat for their wives and chil dren. But the conduct of the em ployers was more dangerous to free institutions than the whip of the meanest negro slave trader who ever cracked his whip over defenceless slaves. A few days ago we printed that the Republicans of the Seventh Dis trict, had elected D. M. Carpenter, f cotton mill manufacturer of Catawba county, a delegate to the National Convention. Following close upon the heels of that announcement comes the news that this man Car penler, imitating Nothern Republi can manufacturers, regards his em ployes as white slaves whose actions and votes he can control. In his cotton mill, the operatives are white and they believe in White Suprem acy, and some of them wearing "White Supremacy for North Caro lina" badges as they had a right to do. What does this modern Repub lican, who believes in white slavery, undertake to do ? Every employe in the Maiden Mill wearing this but ton was told to take it off. The Newton Enterprise adds : " Most of them declined to do so, and we are told, the bosses went through the mills and took the "White Suppremacy" buttons off of the men, boye and nirle. and warn ed them not to end r tbe mill again wearing ''Whitf Supremacy" badges. Onr informants did not say whether or not the offending individuals were taken into the "tower" 10 make the surrender of their liberty. Perhaps they were thus dignified, but possi bly they were not given even this much consideration. "Wonder, if it once occurred to these "bosses" that it was their duty to get the consent of the White Su premacy stockholders in the mills before proceeding to debuttonize and disfranchise the boys and girls be hind the spinning frames " In North Carolina men who work in factories and elsewhere have given their work for their wages, and em ployers have not tried to control their politics. Such successful manufac tures as Thomas M. Holt and Wal ter M. Steele would have despised themselves if they had descended to such petty and mean slave-driving They and other employers have not heretofore sought to put the operatives in North Carolina on the level of a slave, and we do not be lieve North Carolina manufacturers have any such desire. It remains for a new-fledged Republican, whaj flopped in 1896 to the party of negro magistrates and negro post-masters, and has recently been elected as a delegate to the National Republican convention, in his new-born zeal, to emphasize his Republicanism by em ploying the method of Republican manufacturers who take orders from Hanna. Raleigh News-Observer. Yes, and that same political liber ty taught by Thos. M. Holt, referrep to above, is encouraged by his son, and nephews in Alamance county. And we would like to take this occa sion to say that we believe there are no more honorable men in their deal ings with their employes, in the The Postal Telegraph Company are making quite a reputation throughout the State for promptness in sending and delivering messages In the races at Charlotte, last week, an instrument was up near the grand stand, and as the races would come off they were described by wire all over the State. A week or so ago, during the progress of the prize fight, dispatches were read in Brad ley's Dreg Store from the Postal Company, as the fight progressed. Each knochout or advantage was in stantly made known and the pro gress of "the fight was kept up with almost the same icterest as if we had been present. A special 'lrom New York says: A movement is now on foot by railroads of the south to induce the Boers to settle in certain sections of the South. The general prevalence of the belief that the war in the Transvaal can last but a little while longer has given an impetous to the project to encourage the settlement in some of the Southern States of those of the Boers who will not submit to reconstruction under English dom inion. It is repoted in railroad circles that definite plans are being made to further the possible exodus ot Boers to this country. PLH!" I have the Agency for the Piano, Alii Steelfl Does away with all Cog Wheels and Gearing used on the cbeap cast Binders. Simplest, Strongest and best. All I ask for is a call to see the Binders. You be the Judge as to who has the Best Machine. The fight is now on prospect never better for Wheat att Grass Oiop. a, 500 Sections fit Walter A. Wood, Deer ing, McCormick, Buckeye and Champion Mowers, atr 5c ach.l 1000 Bags ORINOCO For Tobacco. Don't plant Tobacco without it. The Sale of ORINOCO exceeds that ot any other Guano in the.-world. Buggies and Surreys, by the Car Load. At the Soldiers' Home in Raleigh last week a veteran named House suddenly Decani e violently insane and attacked another named Davis whom he struck a heavy blow on tbe head with a Club. Davis lost considerable blood and has a severe wound over tbe temple, but is in no danger. Home had been in home some time. It is said that in his native country he struck a man who died of the blow. He was sent to the hospital for the insane. Sena r Bacon points out the cur rent expenses in Cuba duiing the past year have aggregated eleven million dollars. Cuba is about as large as Georgia where the cost $872,000, not bo large as Missouri where the cost is $1,707,137. Carpet bag rule, not counting for stealing comes high to the Cubans. DB. C.A.ANDERSON Office adjoining Bradley. Office Hours: 12 to 1 and 7 to 8 p. m Room 'Wilson House. WOOD'S COLD STORAGE Seed Potatoes For Planting in June or July. Sprout vigorously, and yield splen did crops of Choice quality Late Potatoes. The following are extracts from cus tomers tetters who planted Wood's Cold Storage Seed Potatoes last season. "Came up beautifully and yielded splendidly." "Not a single hill failed to come up." "rtade the choicest lot of Potatoes I ever saw. " "Had fine Potatoes." " The Cold Storage Is the kind to use. ' ' "Well pleased with them made a large crop." "Far superior to those kept in ordinary way." ''I have never grown finer or larger Potatoes." Place your order now for shipment at such time as vou want to plant. De scriptive Circular eivine DriceH and full information mailed on request. If you are Interested in German Millet, Cow Peas, Sorghums, Buckwheat or any season . able seeds for Summer sawing, write for prices and our special olroolar In regard to same. T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen, RICHMOND, VIRBINIA. Corn Planters, Cotton Planters, Lawn Mowers, Troxler Cultivators. Largest Stock. Biggest Sales. Lowest Priceguarauteedr N. S. CARD WELL. isiu-Hi Coffins and Gaskets- We have just added a complete audi up-to-date line of Coffins, Caskets, Burial: Robes, Etc., to our line and are prepared to do undertaking in the neatest, most careful and up-to-date manner. We have just received the last thing out in the way of an Elegant Funeral Car.and. the public is invited to call and see it. HOLT, WILLIAMS & MAY BURLINGTON, N. C. BURLINGTON, N. C. HEADQUARTERS FOR SHOES. We Lave tbe nicest lines of Shoes in town. The following celebrated Brands we would like you to exatLine. NELSON SHOES, . CARLISLE SHOES, , UNION SHOES. Nice line of :- Notions, Bate, and' Men's Furnish ing Goods. We want to see you Ot rue In and look at onr Goods.and let us shake your hand. Make our store your headquarters while in the city. Yours to please, J. D, & L. B. WHITTED Bring you Job Work to the News office, and get good work. Subscribe for a lively, newsy pa per the News.
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