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gap Bill " f i III T Till If I j Sulzer now knows how Lazarus felt the trial of Barton in the District MIL LI InNul when he was "licked by the dogs." .Court came to a rather unusual end. flLLM-l UUU NIHIL Published in Two Sections, every Twaday aid Friday at Ho. 40 Pollock B. J. LAND PRINTING COMPANY PROPRIETORS. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Two Months - -I .20 flwt eMonths Qjs .25 Six Months 50 Twelve Months- 1.00 Only In advance. Advertising rate furnished upon application at the office, or upon in qulry by men. Entered at the Postoffice, New Bern, N. C. as second-class matter. Do early. your Thanksgiving shopping Hobson will, probably find Under wood a tougher proposition than the Merrimac. Only ten more days till the great Eastern Carolina Fair. Are you coming? In order to make its passage sure, Uncle Nelse Aldrich, of Rhode Island, has denounced the currency bill. Mr. Buyer, don't waste your money with the man who doesn't advertise; if he had a bargain to offer you he would let you know it. Those who went to see "The Girl of the Uhderworld," expecting it to be full of immoral suggestions were doomed to disappointment. Each day's developments vindicate the president's judgment in refusing to recognize the Mexican cut-throat Huerta. No use of so much quibbling abou; admitting Sister Pankhurst. Let her int she's not going to tear up the whole United States. straighten out those greasers. Those of us who don't have beef steak now care very little how high the price goes. It Was the irony of fate for Sulzer to be convicted of graft by an organize ation that lives by graft alone. Some scientist is out claiming that the color red makes for energy which probably explains the antics of people tanked up on red liquor. Editor Saundrrs, of Elizabeth City, is another who is continually in hot water because of his religious beliefs. They keep him in the courts about half of his time. We don't think much of some of his beliefs but think he should be allowed to espress them if he wants to His last case resulted in a mistrial and will be tried next here in New Bern. : m The News and Observer urges all to study the proposed constitutional amendments well before the time comes to vote on them. It goes without saying that this is good advice. It is a serious matter when it is proposed to change the basic law of commonwealth and one that snoum not De gone into without mature thought and reflection. Too many people will vote for anything new that is proposed without giving it the least thought. And on the other hand too many vote against every thing because of a dislike for change and not because they are convinced that the propositions are not good ones Nothing like this should be done in this case. Those amendments should be thoroughly discussed that all may have a fair knowledge of their merits and vote intcllieentlv when election day is at hand. the only information we have to offer congress on the currency question la that we are needing some awfully bad. The joke of the New York mayoralty race is that McCall claims to be inde pendent. A paper starts an editorial by saying "We have great confidence in the in telligence of the American people' which means that the editor is to be a candidate for something. If currency reform is needed congress should pass the bill and cut out all this wrangling about adjourning. If it Is not needed then congress should adjourn at once. It is up to congress. If the reform is needed it will do no good to put the matter off. Just ten years ago this month Wilbu Wright was making the first short (fights in the aeroplane, at Kitty Hawk, N. C. Since then marvellous progress has been made in the science of aerial navigation. The toll of human life has been great but perhaps it was worth the sacrifice All great advances in the scope of human knowledge have their price and it must be paid. PROHIBITION SAVING. Our friends who say that prohibition has not done wonderful things for the State will have to sit up and take no tice. Mr. Stringfellow, of the anti-saloon league, says that we are consuming about three millions gallons of whisky now, whereas before the law went Into effect we consumed over twenty million At 2 per gallon, Mr. Stringfellow points out, we are saving $34,000,000, which was formerly expended for liquor. The Statesville Landmark suggests that some of this money has been put into an automobiles. Maybe so, but what is still more interesting to us, is the fact that men who used to go home without any thing except a jag and a desire to beat his wife, now go home with a sack of flour and a pair of shoes. Clinton Democrat. And still there are those who insist that prohibition doesn't prohibit. If such were the case they wouldn't be saying a word because they would be entirely satisfied. GO SOUTH. A year or so ago a number of the leading men of the nation began ad vising the young men to go South and grow up with the country. These men professed to see an era of great industrial development in store for the South, hence the change from the old cry of "Go West.'' The facts and figure show that these men were right in their belief that the South was undergoing an industrial awakening. The annual report of the Southern Railway, recently issued fur nishes a striking revelation of the grow th of wealth in the South in the past decade. The report shows that in the nine state traversed by this company's lines the value of (arm property in creased 103.1 per cent. jjs value of farm product increased 10T per cent. This is a greater increase than any other section of the nation snow along these and Is truly remarkable. With uch a showing a this we feel that the South I truly the land of promise and that the injunction of "Go South, young nma" is good advice, indeed. : i Barton, who defended himself, saying If the weather man will only keep j he was regularly admitted to the practice this up till after the Big Fair we never . of law before the Pittsburg bar, was again intend to doubt his infallibil- given his choice between spending the ity. j twelve months in jail or the peninten- ' - , tiary. He chose jaiL Barton was con- Perhaps Uncle Sam can induce Sister victed of having left his post of duty at Pankhurst to go down to Mexico and the Beaver Dam distillery, permitting raud to have been practiced in keep ing the government out of revenue. In the case of Frank W. Harper proprietor of the Beaver Dam distillery at which Barton was stationed, the Court imposed a fine of $500 and gave eighteen months in the Federal peniten tiary at Moundsbille, W. Va. Robert H. Talley, counsel for Harper, announed ed that Harper expects to take an appeal in his case. Harper was convoked of having defrauded the government of revenue. Both men were sentenced in the Federal District Court yesterday morn ing, and were returned to the Jienrico county jail as United States prisoners. When Judge Waddill asked Barton itjhe had anything to say as to why sentence whould not be passed upon him Barton entered his plea. He de clared; "VI all cases which ever came before you, your honor, I think this is certainly one in which sen tence should be suspended. The tes timony has shown merely that I have been guilty of making mistakes, and surely there can be no very vulner able crime in making a mistake. Let ters, of which I could have produced a thousand, have shown my previous good character. The mayor of Pitts burg himself, who has known me all of my life, has testified to my good character and I have shown the Court other letters from people equally prominent in my home town. "I have never been accused of a crime before in my life. From this moment I am done with the liquor business, and I desire to say that the liquor busi ness is the rottenest and most damnable in the world, and has been the ruination of thousands of men who would have otherwise had a chance for a better life." In passing sentence Judge Waddill said: "I am well aware that the fact that the Government derives revenue from the liquor business is not con ducive to the principles underlying civilization, and while it is my personal opinion that it is wrongful for the gov ernment to get revenue from this source, I must also take cognizance of the fact that it does, and of the laws, applying to it. "You have been guilty of negligence in the performance of your duties as an officer'of the goernment and for this a penalty is prescribed. I Cannot do otherwise than pronounce sentence. However, since the jury has recommend ed leniency by asking for the minimum penalty, and has convicted you on but three of the counts, I will suspend sen tence on the first count and impose the minimum on the other two counts. I therefore sentence you to twelve months in eithertthe jail or the penitentiary. You are at liberty to choose which you prefer, the jail or the enitentiary. I leave the choice with you, so that you can take whicn will be most congenial to you. alibi is being prepared for use just after November Sth and 6th. An exchange suggests old time re ligion as an excellent fire escape; The trial was a political lynching says Sulzer. Well, it must be admitted they made a neat job of it. If you should go into a man's house and swear before his wife and daugh ters you would most likely make con nections with his boot, yet this man will go to the theatre and cheer the pro fanity louder than anything else. The Wilmington Dispatch disclaims any knowledge of Doc. Cook's where abouts, but is of the opinion that he ought to be in a climate far, far warmer than the polar regions. We don't think the brother would go back on an old fnendj that way. Next week Thos. E. Watson, ( time candidate for President, goes on trial, in the Federal court, for an alleged sending of obscene matter through the mails. Watson's offense is not against the United States government; it is against the Catholic church and the Catholic church is really the prosecu tor. We don t believe in putting our nose into church affairs, but we think when a church devotes its time to hound ing a private citizen it is time to call a halt. Such as that is a long way from Christ's injunction to turn the other cheek. It is admitted that Watson has said some pretty hard things about Catholicism, but this is supposed to be a country of free speech and to hatch up an indictment in the courts for the purpose of silencing him should be resented by every red blooded man, whether he be Catholic or Protestant. Sulzer went the way we expected him to go. The high court of impeachment found him guilty of high crimes and mis demeanors and he will be removed from office. The matter has been nothing more than a mathematical proposition from the beginning. The tools of Tam many in the senate were guided as to their votes by Boss Murphy and not by the evidence. He stood guilty of defying Murphy and that was c- nough in their eyes. He would have been convicted on that alone. Nor do we mean to say that there was no evidence against him. There was evidence against him and under other circumstances we would have advocated his removal, but in this case it meant the turning over of the reins of govern ment to a crowd who are infinitely worse, in every respect, than Sulzer ever has been or ever will be. For that reason he should have been retained until his time expired and then the peo ple could have selected his successor. Instead, his successor will be the tool of the worst political organization on earth and New York can expect nothing but graft and exploitation until next election. What ever Sulzer may have been guilty of in the past, the fact remains that since his election he was champion ing the cause of the plain people and that was his sole offense to his prose cutors. The following from the Sulzer state ment to the Press is a clear, concise statement of the real reason ofhis im peachment: "When I declined to obey the 'ord ers of the 'boss' about patronage; when I refused to call off Hennessy.and pre vent further investigations of graft, and finally, when-1 set in motion the wheels of the machinery of the courts to brine the criminals to justice and to stop the looting of the State, then and not until then did Mr. Murphy threaten me with degradation. From that day to this all that money, all that power, all that im fluence can do to destroy me has been done." MORE SNEAK LEGISLATION. ST. LOUIS CHOSEN BY EPISCOPALIANS. New York, Oct. 17. St. Louis was today chosen as the city for the Pro testant Episcopal convention in 1916. October 11 was named as the date i which the 1916 convention will open. LIQUOR BUSINESS IS THEROTTENEST CONVICTED REVENUE AGENT HITS OLD JOHN BARLEYCORN. Richmond, Va., Oct. 17. "From this moment I am done with the liquor busi ness, and I desire to say that the liquor business is the rottennest and most damnable in the world, and has been the ruination of thousands of men." id J. H. Barton, convicted store-keeper gauger of the Beaver Dam distillery concluding his statement to Judge Waddill in the Federal District Court why sentence should not be passed upon him. 'While it is my personal opinion that it i wrongful for the govern ment to get revenue from this source (the liquor business I must also take cognizance of the fact that it does, and of the laws applying to it," was part of the reyly of Judge Waddill he sentenced Barton to twelve months' imprisonment. With both men concerned in the case condemning the liquor business, FELKER DENIES THE THAW RUMOR THE GOVERNOR EMPHATICALLY STATES THAT HE HAS REACHED NO DECISION Our neighbor, the WashingtonJPro gress, is exceedingly "het" up over what it terms an anarchistic law passed by the legislature during the special session. The law was passed at the instance of the senator from that district and the Progress proceeds to express its opinion of him m the following: "In the opinion of this paper we believe had it not been for his wife and children and the high regard our people hold of them and her people, that he would have been met at the train upon' his arrival here by a great throng of our best citizen and told to move on, that he was an undesirable citizen for prostituting hi office to satisfy what seems to be personal grievances. As far as we know no man in the history of the State has dared to pass such a law, the purport of which must not have been known to either branch of the General Assembly at the time of its passage, and which shows how one may pass by sneak methods most any kind of local bills." The main objection to the law seems to be to section five which reads as follows: "It shall be a misdemeanor for any policeman or chief of policeman to arrest any person for the violation of an ordinance of the city of Wash ington after six o'clock in the afternoon of any day, with the exception of drunkenness." We are inclined to agree with the Progress that it is a foolsih law and ought never to have been passed. It is a matter of common knowledge that it is at night time when the crimin al stalks forth and then, of all times, is when police protection is needed. But what we want to call attention to is the fact that such a bill was ever allowed to get through the legislature unnoticed. We do not believe it would have become a law if the legislature had known what it was doing. It was evidently a "sneak" bill. The trouble wa that the members were not on the job. Concord, N. H., Oct. 17. Governor Felker today set at rest the rumor that he will decide regarding the Harry K. Thaw extraditition papers today or tomorrow by declaring that the Dutchess county officials have sent him no word since the New York at torneys were granted until October 20 for filing additional papers in the case. Felker announced for the first time today how he will make public his deision. The announcement in dicated that there will be no formali ties, inasmuch as Felker does not even consider it necessary to call the attorneys for both sides together. He will come to Concord from his home in Rochester some time after October 20 and quietly announce that he ha signed or will not sign the extradi tion papers. GHENT FOOTBALL TEAM IS VIC TORIOUS. In a game of football at Ghent Park yesterday afternoon the football team of the Ghent Athletic Association defeated the high School team by a score of 27 to 14. This game, although only played for practice, was witnessed by many an proved very exciting. And Bert Leigh will get a warm re ception the next time he comes. Always knew that the Goldsboro rube didn't know what a good show was. If the law in Guilford applied to Craven also, the disorderly house prose cution would be easier handled. We venture the opinion that many aa "North Carolina has had a special ses sion of the legislature and survived it without the least trouble, while over in Tennessee every session of the legis lature, regular or special, is an occa sion for calling out the State troops Which, as the Greenville Piedmont wouldn't say, shows how much better and safer place North Carolina is com pared with Tennessee." Rock H01 (S. C.) Herald. Personals oeorge Attmore lett last evening for a short visit at Stonewall. W. J. Blalock returned last evening from a short visit at Vanceboro. Miss Etta Nunn returned last even ing from a visit at Toronto, Canada. A. D. Ward returned last evening irom Larteret county where he has been attending to professional business. Mr. and Mrs. Morehead City, relatives. E. are H. Gorham, of here visiting Clerk of- Jones County Court, J. B. Collins, wa in the city yesterday. Superior visitor S. Barker and W. W. Barker, of Trenton, were in the city yesterday. o. M. Lindsay, of Snow Hill, was among the business visitors here yi terday. D. L. Ward, returned yesterday afternoon from a professional visit at Beaufort. t Mrs. Wade Meadows left yesterday for "Furnlfurst" Senator Simmon' farm in Jonas county where she will spend several days. Miss Sebra Griffin ha accepted a position in the office of the Gem Hotel. H. T. White, of Cove City, pent yesterday in New Bern attending to business matter. -Stop at The- HARRINGTON HOUSE While In Norfolk, 90b Ma'n Street Z. V. 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