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OSce hours from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to 1 o'clock, p. m. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. I, A. DUNN, ATTORNE Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices wherever his services are required. UVID BELL, Attorney at Law, ENFIELD, N. C. Practice in all the Courts of Hall- lax and adjoining counties and in the Supreme and Federal Courts. Claims collected in all parts of the State. R.W. J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, Enfieij, N. C. Office over Harrison's Druf Store. pWABD L. TRAVIS, IS Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. 19 Honey Loaned on Farm Lands. IpTAUD ALSTON, Attorney-at-Law, LITTLETON, N. C. M. FURGERSON. ATTORNEY-at-LAW, tr T TP 4 V XI 11 ' JR. C A. WHITEHEAD, 0mm DENTAL isSilili viirironn Tarboro, N. C. New and Pretty Sil verware We and h ii rtjceivea ine jargesc atew snipment ot silver- Banflo? CveJ offered to our customers, d ILiV7, Spoons; Oyster, Frui? CU r! Forka Tomato, Jelly and tvt n V ' "usr xonga; jream, , ajnvftSf8tr ad Soup Ladles, with -oy other pretty things. TO III II II I l-Q II ,11 I I I 1 1 I 1 1 II II I I I V-4 II II lf I E. E. HICL.IARD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XTTT. New Series Vol. 2. THE EDITOB'S LEISURE EOUES. I Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. Tammany Hall seems to have been losing ground in its hold upon some of the stmng men of New York. Colonel William L. Brown, publisher of the Daily News, has resigned us a member of the Tammany Hall executive com mittee. Other members of the organ ization have resigned, giving as their reasons that the organization has sur rendered all claims to true democracy, is corrupt, and is the .agent of certain greedy corporate interests. f We have recently read some ol the essays of Benjamin Franklin. In one written in 1784 on "Luxury .Idleness and Industry," Franklin quoted some one else as saying that "if every man and woman would work four hours on each day on something useful, that labor would produce sufficient to procure aU the necessaries and comforts of life ; want and misery would be banished out of the world, and the rest of the twen ty four hours might be leisure and pleasure." We are of the opinion that the es timate would hold good even now, with all our extravagance. The idlers in this land are truly legion. A dispatch from Washington says : "The police have recovered what they believe to be the pistol with which Guiteau shot President Garfield, and have put it in the cabinet at Head quarters for safe keeping. It is an ordinary British bull dog revolver of 44 calibre and of cheap make, the handle being set with pieces of tfood, instead of bone or ivory. Property Clerk Sylvester said that it had been obtained from a citizen, who had had it in his possession for a number of years. The pistol was taken from police headquarters July 2, 1881, the day President Garfield was shot, by Col. George B. Corkhill, then district attorney. Subsequently it disappeared, and trace of it was obtained only re cently." Mr. Robert Ransom who was private secretary to his father, Hon. M. W. Ransom, while he was minister to Mex ico, made many interesting'observations while he was in that country. ' We greatly enjoyed a conversation with him at Halifax a few days ago. He said that the man who has to la bor for his liviDg will find a hundred chances to starve there to one here. It is a fine country for some things, but the laboring man has a better chance here. He says Mexico is not a great cotton country, as some have supposed and written. The country, he says, consumes annually only about 120,000 bales of cotton, and half of that amount imported into the country. Cotton is watered by irrigation, there being no rain at the proper season for The climate is all the time as an ideal October day herecool in the shade and warm in the sun. People use very little wood, haye no fires except for cooking, and wear light clothes all the year round. The ordinary laborer gets about 18 cents a day lor his work, and has a hard time to live on that. There are many beggars, some hon est and some professional beggars. Mr. Ransom says he was especially struck by the attitude of the inhabi tants towards the old and the very young. He says he has never seen people so universally kind to old people and children. Mr. Ransom- told us many other in teresting things about that country, and it was all the more interesting from one who had been there and lived long enough to learn the facts about the country and the manners and cus toms of the people. BUCKLEN'S ARNICA bALVE. tu i,t salve in the world for Cuts TTleers. Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, r.kHKi0i Corns, and all SKin x.rup- AAAfc'-M-'J " tions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guarantee -Llf. .oaft.ion or money refnnced. ok At. t-r box. For sale by : . . .- - : ' ' Business. SCOTLAND Written ,or THIC CoMMOKW'AIB THE TRUE CHART. Individual' Liberty the Cohesive Power of True Republican Government. BY JNO. D. THORNE. The strength and seminal principle of all true government lies in the un fettered individual conscience. No government has ever long re mained prosperous and progressive without this basal element, and it be hooves us, my countrymen, to pause and ponder upon the rapid decadence of true republican government and the swiftly ebbing liberties we onceenjojred under the 'Magna Charter' of our early history. For fear of the cry of pessi mism being injected right here I will give reasons for the portrayal of my un attractive, though truthful picture, my conclusions being reached from a strictly non-partisan standpoint. None of us are so untutored as to be ignorant of the- fact that we occupy a great country, a domain blest by Pro vidence in all the exuberance of his kindness with every variety of soil, climate and production, and so expan sive as to be able under just and equa ble laws to shield and render comforta ble and happy a ten-fold population of its present existence ; yet, under the mercenary and venal domination of the iniquitous few, and the fostering spirit of concentrated capital, and financial brigandage, the masses are groaning under burthens so oppressive that two dangerous and antagonistic elements are in evolution factors of certain de struction ot life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness the errors and dogmatism of a combined plutocracy is forcing a socialistic element, either of which un- trameled, will arrest, if not entirely subvert, the boasted civilization of this marvelous nineteenth century. So stealthily has this painful situa tion crept into our national life that a knowledge of its existence, is the prop erty only of the observant and thoughtful minority. It had its inception in our late fool ish civil conflict, where the spirit of speculation was so rile, and the insane desire to ride rapidly into power was so strong that it submerged all patriotic impulse, and engendered an army of cormorant syndicates, who so arro gantly controlled the productive capac ity of honest labor, that a painful paralysis of effort ensued. Through its class legislation, and corrupt public life, inequalities of for tune are being venally created, and all outside the limits of this venal ring have been left to gaze with amazement at the fertility of our resources, and the rapidity with which its fruits are being garnered by the rapacious few. To illustrate the extent of the perfidy, and the high sources affected by it, let us revert to a recent session of Congress wherein a few patriotic spirits viewing with dismay the crippled state of our finances, zealously labored to provide sufficient revenue for the existing needs of the government and saddled alarge part of the taxation where it justly be longed, upon the wealth of the country, which the shylocks fought day by day, with bitter invective and as a dernier resort fell back upon the Supreme Court the 'lex suprema' of our sys tem, who to court the favoiian breezes of the autocratic plutocracy, unjustly reversed the righteous decree of Con gress, thereby increasing the burthens of the poor and so clogging the ma chinery of the government that future progress is a matter of painful appre hension. So sensitive are the plutocratic forces of thS country, that the cry of impeach ment was recently raised in Congress, because one of our Ambassadors under the noble and patriotic impulse of his nature saw fit to analyze and forcibly express his views upon the effect which the decadenc of individual liberty had upon American prosperity, , and the advancing civilization of the age. This would not have been so griev ous, had it not so fully unmasked the errors and injustice of the protective policy of our system, and the venality engendered thereby. All honor to this grand American Chevalier for his bold defence of truth and equity, upon the hill tops of Scot land, and in the classic city of Edin burgh, before the liberty loving Scotch theseprimal truths which will live to the end of time in all bosoms wno cherish justice and equality before the law in amazing contrast to the iguo- ble and obscure individual, coveting an unenviable notoriety, and plutocratic favor, that suggested the impeachment of one of the grandest characters in modern history thereby illustrating tho deceneracv of the so-called American statesman. It is a sad period in our republican system when freedom of expression is sought to be squelched ; especially when it covers the ground work of "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. NECK, N. C THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1897. truth, and in the interests of the toil ing millions, who should have some advocate, in their badly treated, mori bund condition. Had Mr. Bayard made the grand speech which he did, omitting the scathing exposition of protection, and its attendant evils, no hue and cry would have been raised against him, but this pet measure of the plutocratic autocracy must not be exposed, eveu by an Ambassador. It is painfully apparent to the stu dent of American history, that our freedom is being fetteied in the halls of our national legislature, especially so in its lower branch, where, through the adroit finesse of the speaker, the will of the chamber is being guided by his dictum he being 'per ee' its force, and expression its 'ipse facto'. Should ever the chafferers succeed in their unholy crusade oi fastening their pet policy of protection upon our na tional system, then adieu to the free dom, prosperity, and happiness of the masses) the will of the few being the curse of the many. This ill-balanced policy has already destroyed our merchant-marine, de pleted our treasury, and invited fraud and corruption. Mr. Bayard very truthfully says, "It has perverted taxation from its only true justification and function creat ing revenue for the support of the gov ernment of the whole people into an engine for the selfish and pri vate profit of allied beneficiaries called trusts.' Under its dictation, individual enterprise and independence, have been oppressed, energy and invention debilitated, and discouraged, and poli tics placed upon the low level of a mer cenary scramble." A condition running parallel with aD ignoble paragraph of early Jewish his tory wherein the prophet, with right eous indignation declared, that "Judg ment had been turned away backward, with Justice standing afar off ; Truth fallen In the street ; and Eqity unable to enter." Dating our appreciable decadence back to those fateful years 1871-72, wherein two of the strongest pillars in our financial fabric were torn asunder, the repeal of the income tax (a most radical departure from rectitude and equity) and the equally untenable pol icy ot demonetization of silver ; a metal recognizable in the reons past as being a twin companion of its richer brother gold, thier mission of usefulness run ning m parallel lines, in the ratio of value, one to the other, as the wisdom of its users decreed, subject to slight variations, with the march of the as cending centuries. Its entire elimination or divorce ment was never a scheme, or dream, of our financial fathers, but the venal product of the oae sided brain of our maladroit, up-to-date Solons. But for the unwisdom of those years' action in Congress, our country would have been spared the humiliating, and lamentable, spectacle, of playing the role of suppliant to private enterprises, and 'running to cover' at the instance of every recurrent reserve depletion. It is the most anomalous, and strange- y paradoxical condition ot affairs that a country with the largest material re sources, should be the weakest in its financial relations destructive as it is, oi the weal of the masses, and confid ence in her fiscal policy. Admitting the premises as set forth, there can be but one conclusion : either, the imbecility, or venality of Our fiscal, and law-making agencies. The interminable and ill advised scramble for the adjustment of our metallic currency arises , from the ex cessive cupidity ot the few, and the uncompromising hostility of sectional diversity. Let wisdom, patriotism, and true statesmanship, adjust the balance wheel, and v matters will once more move smooth y in its orbit; as in the days of our ante-bellum history. As. illustrative of the defective and venal legislation of our latter day Solons look at the immensity of our resources our productive, annual ca pacity. As estimated the crop of 189o ag gregated the stupendous amount of twenty hundred million of dollars, (2 billions), yet through peculation, sub sidies, and unnecessary appropriations, we are reduced to that strait the only propulsion giyen the wheels of Govern ment is through the issuance of bonds, which fattens the plutocracy, pauperises the masses, and saps the vitality oi our system. - Bond issuance is an indefensible, and untenable policy under any republican system of governmentadmissible only in time of war as a military neces sity, and salvation of the republic. The last few years of bond manage ment had well nighengulfed the country, and but for the patriotic zeal manifested by our leading newspaper, and the searching investigations an alysing men and measures, and throw ing the calcium light in every crevice, to expose the pervading rottenness, the coils of the anaconda would be past unfolding. Disguise it as they may, under the mask of philanthropy, public necessity, or patriotic purpose, it is clearly ap parent to the well informed, that major part of the appropriations made in and for the interest of party urging the appropriation, the are the and even our marvelous pension growth is but the outcome of politics and engen dered in the interest of the party catch ing the soldier vote its end mercenary selfishness and not patriotic impulse or sympathy for the soldier so solicitous are both parties for this advantage they haye allowed the pension system to be so expanded that it takes nearly one half of the annual revenue of the Gov ernment to satisfy them. What excel lent marksmen those ill-fed and badly armed rebels must have been to kill and maim two-thirds of the Federal army ! The honest, deserving pensioners should be provided for ; but it is sheer lunacy to assume, that the larger, and better equipped army, should lose over one half its forces, through the meagre facilities possessed by its weaker ad versary. But there is no appellate court to which it may be referred, and so long as there is money in it to the Con gressional shylock, the tax-payer must submit to his unhappy environment. This invasion ot personal liberty, which is so truly subserying the in terests of enemies of true government, begins in the primaries, enlarged at the ballot box, and consummated in State, and National conclave. A mer cenary scramble from the primate, to the 'lex superma' of our system. The past freedom of the individual has brought our country to its present hign standpoint its waning liberties like the unfortunate Roman may be even more rapid in its declension than in its ascendant. 'Facilis averno descensus.' Dry as it is, permit me to glance at a few statistics. It is the estimate that the aggregate real and perishable interests of the United States is 65 billion of dollars, that in the past three decades we have squandered one-eighth of this stupend ous amount in war debts, unnecessary appropriations, pensions, subsidies and venality, and although our gold, silver, and copper, and iron mines have been yielding handsomely, and Providence having blest us with abundant harvests throughout this period, we still find our National treasury at the mercy of the money sharks, whose combined strength, could easily crush our finan cial system. Allowing us only one half of the eight billions we have squandered in thirty years, on what a majestic base would our country now stand, -had it been judiciously appropriated ! Our merchant marine would have covered every sea, our invincible frowning bat tlements commanding the respect of alien systems, and our fleet of monitors, the envy and fear of British arrogance, we would be free from the insolence and aggression, which the poverty of the situation so temptingly invites. On two occasions have we taught British insolence a salutary lesson, but she still growls, from a knowledge of the fact, th?.t our financial system is deranged, and our seaporta exposed. Still there will be no war, for the burn ed child seldom jumps into a fire from which it has been twice extricated. The Monroe doctrine is a cardinal principle of our Republic, and will be enforced at all hazards by every govern ment on this continent, against the combined powers of Christendom, a fea ture which our president in his wisdom and vigorous foreign policy, has re cently enunciated, so that all whose sentiment runs counter to it, may know the Gibraltar of our system. The leading idea in Mr. Cleveland's Venezeulan message, was to dissipate the error into which alien systems had fallen, that the Monroe doctrine was a mere sentiment with our people, and by way of removing any mist, obscuri ty, or further misconstruction about it, boldly enunciates that with his people it is a cardinal, inviolable principle that although it is a 'lex nonscripta,' it is no less cherished than the written code that it is one of the bulwarks of our system that it neither seefcs, nor will it permit, any foreign interference with this inalienable, reserved, right of our American sovereignties he seeks no war, but will receive all comers with mailed hand, and unyielding tenacity. But to avoid war with its attendant horrors, our defences should be streng thened, and our navy enlarged. To perpetuate the privileges be To prevent the hardening of the subcutaneous tissues of the scalp and the obliteration ot the hair follicles, which cause baldness, use Hall's Hair Renewer. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $i.oo. NO. 43 queathed us by our fathers, each citi zen of our country should labor with intelligent zeal for the promotion of her best interest, both in social, and civil life for the suppression of the venality which has furtively crept into our system ; and lend aid and counten ance to all who labor on the lines of social, civil, and moral reformation thus only can individual libeity be preserved, and the assured inheritance of succeeding generations. Another fatal raid is being made on individual freedom by the unust sys tem of taxation. No taxation is fair, and equable, unless levied on the idea that each one should be assessed in the proportion of his holdings. Under our system the burthen rests heaviest up on those least able to bear it, bnt how can we expect any improvement, so long as jobbers and chafferers are tak ing the place of statesmen? What chance does the great army of laborers have in the struggle for exist ence, where the combined wealth ot the country is allied with the law pow er, to depress prices and minimize the fruits of their labor? The natural alliance whichshould exist between capital and labor is be coming daily more divergent, which will ultimately produce a war of ele ments infinite, and bring to a shamelul close, the boasted progress of the nine teenth century. Great Britian has ever acted upon the assumption that whosoever com mands the sea commands the trade : whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world ; and consequently the world it selfwhy have not we with our boasted intelligence, and infinite variety of re sources, more tenaciously grasped this idea, and worked it out to a happy conclusion? With every advantage we have failed to embrace the situation, and been sadly left in the rearguard of the world's race for naval supremacy. Without a proper appreciation of the advantages we enjoy, and a right application of them to existing circum stances, we can not keep step with the progressive improvement of other sys tems unless we allow the largest indi vidual liberty consistent with public safety, enhancing as it will, that love oi country, and zealous interest in her welfare, which will be to all an ele ment of great strength. It has been most truthfully affirmed, that the greatest bulwark of freedom is the doctrine of limitation upon hu man authority, and the essential per sonal rights which are beyond the ju risdiction of the community. Make any infraction upon these cardinal principles; invade this sacred realm yea, cut but one thread of the cord that binds these inalienable birthrights ol liberty, to that extent you weaken the faith of its possessors in its future lease, enlarge the margin of human incredu lity as to the success of this hitherto untried experiment, resulting in mon- archial glee, and reversing the course of the progressive spirit of civilization a civilization, which has been our boast, as being its successful pioneers, and defenders for over a century. Con tinue then, my countrymen, to guard with zealous interest the basic prin ciples upon which our system rests, lest we all become involved in one common rum and evoke the mock and derision of future ages. Our fathers after appealing to heaven for the rectitude ot their intentions, and risking their lives and fortunes to achieve what they believed to be the inalienable right which every one bad to life, liberty, and the pursuit of nap pi ness through great tribulation did achieve and bequeathed to us this priceless heritage, coupled . with a well devised, and carefully guarded funda mental law. And in illustration of the fruits of their labors it may well be asked where in the aeons of the past can the chroni cles of events show such marvelous re sults, as has been mapped out in American history? With her short life-story, (a mere parenthesis in the cycle of time) she stands out to-day, pre-eminently, the richest, grandest, and most progressiye of all. Starting out a few decades back, with a little group of petty sovereign ties, scattered along the Atlantic sea board bound together for mutual de fence, in one organic Union, with Titanic effort, she has so expanded her segis that she has become the admira tion, and wonder, of systems already FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by mil lions of mothers for their children while teething, with perfect- success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind collie, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little sufferer imme diately. Sold by Druggists in every part of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure anil ask for ''Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup," and take no other kind. l 21 ly. o Send Your Advertisement in Now, hoary with age. The car of her pro gress rolled on with wonderful celerity, and was only arrested by the great nat ural boundaries of oceans, lakes, and gulfs. With an almost boundless con tinent for her domain, her future possi bilities are unlimited it she be true and steadfast to the counsels and admo nitions of that immortal band of 'Patriots' who initiated a new era 5u human government a government by the consent of the governed, thereby assuring equity and justice. Now, my fellow countrymen, stand ing as we are on the threshold of a new century, and glancing back with proud emotion at our past wonderful achieve ments, iet us catch a new inspiration, and resolve to make the new century one of a still broader, brighter and higher type of civilization, and a more radiant Christianity or shall we basely turn crusader, and in our blind party zeal and inordinate thirst for wealth and power pull down the pillars of our edifice, and bury In indiscriminate' ruin all future hope for all for which life is worth living the unfettered consci ence of the living bou! ? The Christian to maintain a high spiritual standard must oft revert to the love and sufferings woioh achieved his liberty. And ho the pa triot to avoid shipwreck, must oft times consult the 'Chart' of the toils, priva tions, and sufferings of that band of heroes, of whose virtues past ages have furnished no trace or parallell. Therefore, as one says, 'Evolution and not revolution is the quiet, master ful force now leading the progress of civilization, and the peisonal con science and the living soul of the free individual are essential to the inevit able changes in its onward journey. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail? Electric Bitters. Electric Bitters is a medicine suited to any season, but perhaps more gen- erlaly needed when the languid ex hausted feeling prevails, when the liv er is torpid and sluggish and the need of a tonic and' alterative is felt. A prompt use of this medicine has often averted long and perhaps fatal bilious fevers. 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