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Present, Past and Future.
Some one has figured that there will
be a tremendous rush in the spring to
wards the Alaskan gold fields. One line
of vessels from San Francisco has al
ready engaged 80,000 prospective pas
sengers. "
Mayor Van Wyck, of "Greater New
York," has a vast deal of power centred
in his administration. It is the most
important municipal office in this
country ; and there are few, if any, in
the world of more significance, taken
in all its bearings. The whole world
will watch with interest the administra
tion of the first Mayor of "Greater New
York."
Among the many problems that pre
sent themselves to the people of the
South for solution, is the land problem.
Too much of the land in the South is
dragged over with poor cultivation
with as much expense as if it were
highly improved and well cultivated.
The small farms well cultivated pay a
much greater profit than the larger
farms, whether well or poorly cultivat
ed. One reason for this is that when
small farms are well cultivated it is
generally done with less hired labor.
A milk trust has been organized
which proposes to control all the milk
sold within 300 miles of New York
City. It makes stipulations with the
milk dealers for a period ot twenty
years, This win nave considerable ei-
fect on the milk interests in the radius
mentioned, perhaps ; but it is quite
sure that it can not affect the farmers
of North Carolina. This is one trust
at which we of the "Old North State"
can tbrip our fingers and attend to our
own cows and calves just as if no such
trust had been formed.
The Winston Sentinel and the Wil-
son Advance nave recently priniea
creditable illustrated editions, showing
the business interests of those towns in
a very attractive way.
We like illustrated editions of local
newspapers, and they are an evidence
of the prosperity of the towns in which
they are' published and also of the
papers themselves as a valued medium
through which the business men choose
to make known their progress. If more
money were spent through the local
papers for such work the towns so
spending it would stand a better show
ing tor attracting outside capital.
In the South there prevails a false
idea about education, which is working
great harm to the cause. That idea
is that an education is a life-long ex
emption from labor. And this idea
prevails amongst both white and col
ored. There is no reason or sense in
t. The fact that a young man goes
to college and learns something about
mathematics, the figures in geometry
and trigonometry, learns Latin and
Greek, the sciences, &c, ought not to
unfit him tor labor. The truth is, if
he would look at the matter in its
proper light he Is all the better prepar
ed for labor manual labor at tnat.
To his strength of body and muscle
he can add the strength of a trained
mind, which enables him to do certain
things yes,'' almost- all things at a
great advantage over the man with no
training. The average young man who
by any:means obtains a collegiate edu
cation thinks it a rare sight to see the
aim rise. Indeed we have heard young
men say as much. It was said half in
fun, perhaps, but there was more truth
? it than thev intendeds
To desire education simply tor ine
soft and easy, place it will give, is the
lowest plane on
Viih to reckon its
value. This world
neflds men and
women who are willing to work with
bands and head and heart together.
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THE NEW YOBS CONTEST
- REVIEWED.
Some Rambling Thoughts.
BY
(Copyrighted by Dawe & Tabor.)
The hero's last despairing cry.
Falling for faith and liberty,
Re-echoes round the world ;
And,in dark dens where failure mopes
Among the wrecks of ruined hopes,
Fresh banners are unfurled !
This "Thought" is for myself, writ
ten a few hours after the close of the
historic "Citizens' Union" campaign in
New York City. Though wearied with
out-door speaking ; heart-burdened be
cause a self-evident public need has
been waived aside by party ' greed ; dis
traught by the backward step of a mu
nicipality to the fiercest form of fierce
partianship, yet only hopeful notes will
be sounded in this column.
V
Since the "Citizens' Union" moye-
ment was never called into existence to
perish in one campaign, it is perhaps
wise to enlist the interest of the open-
minded of all parties the country over,
so that its future career may be hope
fully watched. A few words concern-
ng its purpose are also needed because
partisan papers have here and there
striven to show that it was merelv a
heartless conspiracy to destroy the old
parties. This new organization, less
than a year old, and yet honored with
the votes of 150,000 men who could
neither be driven - nor led, set out to
maintain and will continue to maintain
this self-evident truth : that a large
city or a small one, for that matter
is a business concern. Its details of
ight, cleaning, paving, ventilating
(with parks etc.) and general sanitation
are, in effect, "municipal housekeep
ing." Just as with a business man
seeking an assistant, or a housekeeper
seeking a servant, the inquiries are not
as to the color of the hair, nor as to
views on theology, but rather as to past
experience; so the test-questions in
selecting a Mayor are or .ought to be
exclusively confined to those relating
to the welfare of the city. The "Citi-
zens Unioijs. was lurttier encouraged
to its non-partisan stand by the tact
that the new constitution of the State
of New York recognized the mayoral
ty absurdities where the choice was
made on national lines, and " expressly
provided that cities of the first class
should forever hereafter have their
domestic elections on "off" years, when
there was neither a State Senator nor a
President to elect. Furthermore the
"Citizens' Union" expressly disavowed
any designs on national parties by
showing clearly that the line of cleav
age in a local contest must necessarily
be different trom that in a national
one, whence it follows that in local af
fairs a black Republican (whatever
that may be.) could safely have deal
ings with a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat
(also a dubious expression !) when the
health, welfare and education of his
amily were totering in the balance of
an election, and beyond all this, the
statement was clearly made so clearly
that a wayfarer, though a goose, need
not have erred therein that a national
party did not lose its existence when
ever its legitimate field was empty. It
simply lay quiescent until national
questions aroused it again.
We therefore called on the open-
minded of all parties to sink national
differences in the presence of a mutual
ocal need, and 150,000 or more re
sponded, both Democrats and Repub
licans.
Here I approach a danger point with
your readers, according to their politic
al leanings, for I must show bow our
defeat came about. Yet I do not
hesitate, tor I know there are thous
ands of Republican patriots who under
stand the difference between a machine
and a party, and an equal number of
whole-souled Democrats who have no
sympathy with our local Democratic
organization, called "Tammany Hall
Ronflf.or Thorn as C. Piatt, on the Re
publican side, insisted that Bryanism
was the issue, his candidate, General
Tracy, re-affirmed this in his speech ot
acceptance, and upon that non-existent
issue in a purely municipal election
they stubbornly went to defeat them
selves, defeated Seth Low, and precipi
tated for their party the conflict of 1900,
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On the other hand, after Tammany
Hall had passed by the Chicago plat
form as not bearing upon our campaign
(which in its way was as logically cor
rect as the citizens' attitude) the In
dependent Democrats forced by their
own beliefs and tbe declarations of the
Republicans, also made Bryanism ah
issue. Thus instead of there being but
two hostile camps, made up on one
side of those who wished the highest
good of the city, and on the other of
those who wished its vast patronage for
selfish ends, there were four ; and in the
conflict the best organized body won.
For four years a patronage of $30,
000,000 a year in salanes.idistributed
among 30,000 office-holders will rest
with Tammany Hall, whose history
has always been unsavory. ? After three
years of great change and progress in
many city departments, dot all that
the city has gained will be lost, fori
each year sees stronger and -firmer
development of the civic spirit, that is
the hope of our country-Civi righteous
ness is aroused in this metropolis of
America and 150,000 watchful faces
and warning voices will attempt to
keep the new administration in the
ways that it ought to follow. But we
tremble as to the result, since the May
or elect has at once declared that "none
but Democrats shall hold office," mean
ing thereby only "those who belong to
the Tammany Hall organization. This
is one backward step and time alone
will show how many more are to be
takeli.
And the Citizens' Union? The even
ing of the day on which this article is
written will be spent maturing plans
for more perfect .nd more ramified
organization, so that 1901 will prove us
more worthy and better prepared foe
men of all that is evil in city affairs.
With some of us, the thought has come
that tbe whole organization should at
present be, as it were, a complete set of
nerves to the body corporate, eo that
any abuse or dereliction in any portion
of our vast municipality may at once
become known at haadquarteia and
given due publicity. We nope thereby
to stir up a retrogress! v administration
tp good works if not to Zpve. Out of
this firalfcampaign .. vo coriie defeated
but not dishonored. Fronb the field of
battle we have withdrawn not to 3catter
but to re-form. About us:on every side
are the anxious faces of those who
tremble as to tne outcom of universal
suffrage. For their ealres; and the sake
of the sacred honor that holds our love
for this blood-soaked land, we gird our-
selyes for another conflict. I close
with a few strong lines iroai The Out
look :
"It self-government finally fails in
New York City, it wi)l not finally suc
ceed in any American city ; and if it
ails in the American cities, it fails in
America. If, on the other hand, it
succeeds in New York Citv, success
there will set an example to be followed
in every city, and as go the cities, so
goes the Union."
An Old, Paper,
Warrenton Record.
A good lady of our town hand
ed the editor last Saturday a copy of
the Tarboro Press, printed at Tarboro,
Edgecombe county, N. C, dated Satur
day March 14, 1840. It is quite an in
teresting paper, well printed and full of
politics. It was in the days of Presi
dent M. Van Buren. Among the ar
ticles it contains, there is an extract
from the Warrenton Republican, and
a notice of the completion of the W. &
W. R. R. Among the advertisements
we notice that the jailer of Edgecombe
county gives notice that he nas a ne
gro man in jail and after describing
him, demands that the owner shall
come forward, prove his property and
pay charges. Cotton j7arns are exten
sively advertised showing that people
in that day did most of their weaving
at home. Thi3 paper- strongly advo
cates tbe election" of Hon. Romulus M.
Saunders for Governor of North Caro
lina, and Hon. Martin Van Buren for
President of the United States. Its ed
itor was George Howard and the price
of this weekly was $2.50 cash in ad
yance, or $3.00 on time.
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SCHOLAR IIS POLITICS."
MAN? IN OUR COUNTRY.
Mostly by Appointment
Philadelphia Record,
Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator trom
Massachusetts, is credited with the
phrase the "Scholar in Politics." In
the United States there are not many
scholars in legislative life, though they
have been well represented in our dip
lomatic history. By the scholar in
politics one naturally understands a
man whose public station has come as
a recognition of his work in science or
literature, rather than the man who
took to writing after ne had achieved
fame. Of the latter type are T. H.
Benton, J. G. Blaine, General Grant and
John Sherman, whose published recol
lections are largely autobiographical
and find their interest less in their lit
erary execution than in the great scenes
through which the reminiscences move.
Lodge himself is an example of the
former type ; for he was a lecturer on
history in Harvard University, an edr
tor of reviews and a recognized biogra
pher of merit before he planted his po
litical ladder. Another example was
the late Rev. Dr. Julius H. Seelye,
President of Am hurst College, who
served in the Forty-tourth Congress as
an influential independent, until which
time he was known simply as a teacher
of philosophy. Of kindred character is
Mr. Wilson, Postmaster General in
Cleveland's second administration. He
went from the Presidency of West Vir
ginia University to Congress, and to
Washington and Lee University on re
tiring from office. He was a potent
man in Congress from the day he took
his seat.
In a general way our literary men
have received their best public recogni
tion at tbe hands of some Administra
tion appointing them to office. The
diplomatic department has been most
generous to them, as with three gener
ations of the Adamses, of Quincy, the
brothers Alexander H. and Edward Ev
erett, Washington Irving, Motley, Low
ell, Bancroft,Whitelaw Reid,W. W. As
tor at Rome, John Hay and Rasmus
Anderson at Cipenhageu. " If tIie!-9 1
added the Consulates that havfc ;
given to literary men, as Liverpoortb
Hawthorne and V en ice to Howe',-?, or
the administrative positions in the De
partments at Washington, recalling
such names as Benjamin Pierce, Joseph
Henry, Simon Newcomb, Langley, El
liot Cones, Frances Wharton and hun
dreds of others, it will be seen that tbe
public rewards of literature and science
are very considerable in tbe United
States. Indeed, one might well con
ceive that superiority in these lines
opens to men in this country almost
any diplomatic or departmental posi
tion to which a scholar might aspire.
Yet in this respect our practice dif
fers somewhat from that of Southern
Europe although it is not unlike thsit
of Great Britain. Thus when Verdi is
made an Italian Senator for life it is
using public office in a purely compli
mentary way. Victor Hugo's appoint
ment to a liKe position in France can
hardly be seen in any other light.
Spain also has been kind to her litera
ry men ; Canovas won his place by vir
tue of his leadership of his party, but
he was an historian first. Castelar is
more the scholar tnan tbe statesman.
When one considers tbe eminence won
in France by her students one reaches
quite a revelation of the confidence
given tQ them a trust often 'justified
by their administrative ability. What
a sequence oi names n is i wuizoi,
Thiers, Carnot the physicist, Jules Si
mon, the Philosopher, and Berthelot
the chemist. And now comes D'An
nuzio, tbe naturalistic novelist, who as
pires to a seat in the Italian Parliament
on the ground of two or three unrecom
mendable books.
In Great Britain literary men receive
ample recognition in Parliament and
diplomacy ; but here these positions are
not complimentary. For nearly thirty
years each of her Prime Ministers in
succession has been a maker of booss
the Earl of Derby with his Hiad, Dis-.
raeli with his novels, Gladstone with
his Homeric studies and religious trea
tises and Roseberry with his biography
of William Pitt, the vounger. Even
Lord Salisbury might be added were
his remarkable address before the British-
Science Association in 1894 on
scientific limitations to be recKoned
rather by its matter than by its size.
There are now twenty-seven journalists
holding seats in the House ot Com
mons, best known, of whom is Labou-
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Parliament ; but of writers ot books
either of substantial historic or scien
tific value, of travels or of literature
there are over thirty authors of recog
nized authority or ability. Among
them are the brilliant Arthur Balfour,
Sir G. F. Chesner, whose "Battle of
Dorking" was a military sensation In
its time; G. N. Curzon, the Oriental
scholar; Sir Charles Dilke. with his
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professor in Cambridge ; Sir John
Lubbock, naturalist ; historian Justin
McCarthy ; John Morley, essayist and
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ist. These names all indicate men ot
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