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THE COMMONWEALTH. I
li JG. KlLTilAIW, fcditor
rublif.Jivv Every Thursday.
J. E. CEUTCIIFIELD,
Local and Mews Editor and Business
Manager.
Kntt-rcd nt tin po-stoHicc at Scotland
-.!-Cl;';--s Matter.
Thursday, May 23, 1007.
THE COTTON FARMER'S RIGHTS.
Perhaps no region or section of
any country on the globe is attract
ing more attention to-day in matters
f progress and development than I
the Southern States of this country.
The South is to the front in almost
everything. In agriculturejit is won
derfully prosperous and commend
ably progressive. The cotton crop is
sjreat and its value enormous; but it !
is easy to conclude that its value to
the producer is not what it ought to
be.
Ihe farmers of the South are com
ing into a position which will enable
ihem to make demands for their
great crops. The Manufacturer's
Record in reviewing the cotton situ
ation makes the following interest
ing and instructive observations:
"The margin between raw cotton
and the finished goods is unusually
large. It would have been possible
for the cotton manufacturers of the
world to have paid to Southern
farmers an average of one or two
cents a pound more than they have !
?aidforthe present crop and still :
have had a legitimate manufactur
ing profit. No one can blame the
manufacturer for seeking to buy his
raw material at as low a cost as pos
sible. In doing this he is but follow
ing the universal custom of mankind.
But the r '' oducer has an equal right-
to strive to secure the highest pos-!
sible pideo for his product. Holding J
ine vori: monopoly on tins the
most important crop raised on earth,
this section ci
ight out of its cotton
crop to make
than any othe
far greater wealth
r country makes on
any crop. Cotton ought to command
such prices as would
make the South
she richest agiicultural
region oi i
the world. It ought to give to this j Governor Glenn had spoken elo
section such a wealth that we would quently in Scotland Neck, and in be
have the best roads, the best schools ! half of the ladies Mr. Kitchin, who
and the best comforts of living j was then quite young, presented a
throughout the entire cotton-grow-1 bouquet of flowers. He soared
ing reg:c:i. j rather loftily in his remarks, indeed
We may well rejoice at what hap' was not able to descend at all. Final
been accomplished as iihistraied in ' !y he said to Mr. Glenn, "Take your
the $750,000,000 to $600,000,000 secur-1 ilowers, I can't come down."
;d for the present crop, but so long j In presenting Governor Glenn
as the world's prosperity continues Tuesday Mr. Kitchin said: "Ladies
unabated a.id r,o long as English
spinners are mak'rg 30 per C3i:t. or
more profit on the manufactured
article, the South has a right to
struggle for a higher price for its
cotton. The world's increasing con
Kimptive requirements promise to
lully tax tho ability of th- South to
l.ierc-a-.e t-xo crop rapidly enough to
noet increasing
n- I-? rV-'1 i -t1 r-
these conations, instead of being
satisfied with nine or ten cents for its
cotton, the South ought to receive a
considerably higher price, and it well
behooves the people of the whole
South, the bankers, the merchants
and the manufacturers to do all in
their power to bring this about."
YOUR DUTY TO THE SWINDLER.
Swindlers in these days have be
come so numerous and the commer
cial spirit so prevalent that the fol
lowing from the Saturday Evening
Post is well worthy any one's time to
read and reflect upon:
The cry of the get-rich-quick vic
tim sti U arises. W e wish a few basic
principles could be more universally
understood.
The concern that sends you a cir
cular, inviting your money and prom
ising to pay five per cent, a month,
or any other far in excess of the or
dinary return upon capital, is almost
necessarily a swindle. A man hav
ing a proposition that will pay five
por cent, a month doesn't need to
advertise for capital. By simply em
ploying his own money and com
pounding it at this agreeble rate he
would soon become a millionaire.
Gentlemen with infallible schemes
for beating the stock or grain mar
ket or winning a horse-race would be
fools to admit strangers to a part
nership. If any one had such a
scheme he could become rich beyond
the dreams of avarice on a capital of
a hundred dollars.
Don't be taken in because some
other investor has received a few per
cent, a month dividends. Those di
vidends were probably paid out of
bis own money.
When you receive a get-rich-quick
circular do not throw it into the
waste-basket. Turn it over to your
postmaster with request that it be
forwarded to the inspector for that
district and investigated.
GOVERNOR GLENN AT HIS BEST.
Speaks to a Large and En
thusiastic Audience.
CLOSING OF THE GRADED SCHOOL.
'
School !
The Scotia::
sloped Tu&j-.fc
Keek Graded
udit'.'rium at I
! the school building bn to small to !
! accommodate ihe audience, the exer-
use. were held in Mrs. Bowers' grove
at the Dr. Wood place. Seats were
arranged in the yard and the front
porch served as a rostrum. A large au
dience of the town people, together
with many from the country, gather
ed at 11 o'clock. The stores in town
were closed in consideration for the
occasion.
mienaent L. i .
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Wilson an-
nounced that tho audience would be
led in prayer by Rev. G. W. Pnelps.
After the invocation by Mr. Phelps,
Superintendent Wilson made some i
brief statements concerning the work
of the school, the hlp rendered him
by the patrons of the school and the
progress mande by the pupils.
Mr. E. E. Hilliard was called upon
to present some prizes to members
of ihe ninth grade. Miss Ferrell,
teacher of that grade, gave a prize
for the highest everagj in History,
Rhetoric, Literature Algebra and
Composition. The prizes were suit
able and valuable books, and were
awarded as follows: For the
highest average in Composition, to
Miss Annie Cherry; for highest aver
age in History, Rhetoric, Literature
and Algebra, to Miss Eula Shoulars.
Superintenden Wilson, in well
chosen remarks, presented diplomas
to the graduating class from the
ninth grade.
The class consisted of Mess. Frank
Moore, Frank Cherry, Misses Eula
Shoulars, Annie Cherry, Mary House,
Fannie Lewis, Kathleen Tillery and
Hattie Leggett.
MR. KITCHIN INTRODUCED GOVERNOR
GLENN.
Superintendent Wilson announced
that Gov. Glenn, the speaker of the
occassion, would be introduced by
Hon. Claude Kitchin.
Mr. Kitchin presented Governor
Glenn in his usual happy style, say
ing in part:
"I consented to introduce Govern
or Glenn on the condition that there
should be no flowers." Mr. Kitchin
doubtless had in mind one evening
A ' 1 1 - 1? J ? 1 - l O,
m me political campaign m isvz.
and gentlemen I take pleasure in
introducing the speaker on this occa-
sion.
happy
We should
count ourselves :
that
are bore to-day. I
honored the town :
in selecting the I
Pro
and co
speaker. Go-
his figure, fac
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and service is not a
stranger to this
people, in times
that tri
d men's souls he did ereat I
work for the good of the people of
North Carolina, and is well remem
bered in Scotland Neck. He is the
only Governor in North Carolina
since Governor Vance whose admin
istration, after two years of it have
transpired, has not received a single
criticism by the opposite party. No
Republican has offered a criticism
against his administration.
"Governor Glenn is the most dis
tinguished orator of all the States of
this Union. Since he has been Gov
ernor of North Carolina his elo
quence has played upon the hearts of
more people than that of any other
Governor in this nation. I present
to you Governor Glenn as a great
statesman, an eminent orator and
one who loves his State with a holy
devotion, a gentleman of forceful
power and magnetic personality."
GOV. GLENN'S GREAT ADDRESS.
Governor Glenn, the very picture
of perfection in physical strength
and power, and with the bearing of
a statesman, scholar and thinker,
arose, bowed gracefully to the audi
ence, and said in part:
"Teachers and pupils of Scotland
Neck Graded School, ladies and gen
tlemen: It is with feelings of pleas
ure and regret that I greet and
speak to the people of Scotland Neck.
It is with feelings of pleasure that I
contemplate the assistance the peo
ple of Scotland Neck gave in lifting
from North Carolina the dark cloud
of oppression. I speak with feelings
of regret at the absence of some
whom I knew in former times."
Here Governor Gleen referred to
the late W. H. Kitchin and the late
W. A. Dunn and others as his friends
whom he loved.
In reply to the probable question
by some as to why he should be going
about the State delivering public
addresses, Governor Glenn said
that he regarded it his official duty
to do what he can to help the people
of the State to higher ideals and as
pirations. Said he, "My only object
In coming here is to try to instruct
the girls and boys to live higher and
nobler lives. Any man can make a
living, but that is not making a life."
Three features of proper develop
ment were taken Up and discussed
Kt-raratelv nhvsical. mental and
moral. All three of these attributes
0f one's life are needed to riiake the
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covers effective. Boys and girls and
all need the development of body,
mind and soul in order to make the
most and best of life possible.
The speaker told the boys and
girls how to make such development.
He said that if play at school does
not give them sufficient physical de
velopment they may well take a turn
at helping mother and father at
home the girls in helping mother
in the kitchen or at the wash tub,
and the boys in helping father cut
wood and work in the field. To
parents who have sorry children he
gested the helpfulness of hickory
20rdial Of Sassafras tea;
The girls and boys were appealed
to and urged to develop their minds
by proper and persistent study in or
der thatthey may be the better pre
pared in after years to bear the re
sponsibilities and duties of life. The
reading of poetry and other good
literature was urged a3 a means
of rising to higher thoughts and
finer feelings. He begged that boys
and girls and men and women would
stop reading papers and magazines
that make heroes of libertines and
heroines of harlots.
High ideals of morality were held
up before the young, the speaker
declaring that "to be truly great is
to be truly good." Pleading for
pure and holy living, the speaker
exclaimed, "Young men and young
women, the great God has never
shortened any one's arm in power
who followed in his footsteps.
"Thank God, the day has passed
when a low, corrupt and contempt
ible man can long hold office amongst
us."
Here the speaker referred to such
Bible characters as Moses, Samuel,
Gideon, Joshua, Samson and David,
and held them up to young men a3
models for any vocation in life.
Queen Victoria, said he, in all her
glory was not ashamed to say that
she was led by God, and Gladstone
prayed three times daily in order
that he might secure God's guidance.
Lee and Jackson never went into
battle without a prayer on their lip?,
nor failed to give God thanks for
victory.
Eloquently and forcefully Govern
or Glenn pleaded for strong men and
women, who are true and noble and
brave.
He reviewed some of the achieve
ments of the world in the past, noted
the great things which surround i?s
in the prezesent and predicted great
er and more wondeful things in the
future. Said he, "The boys and
girls of the present are tj bring
the-:e things to pass."
The contrast was drawn between
this country one and two and three
hundred years ago and the present.
Also the contrast between North
Carolina forty jears ago and the
nresent was empi
l-ii'.iifrJ find ie
great sources cf
our State were
rprrmntfl'l. find STideifll enrlnhasia was
u- tv,af mofa..
ucation North Carolina has made
wonderful strides, and here Govern
or Glenn paid high tribute to ex
Gove.rnor Chas. B. Aycock, saying
that Aycock was the greatest educa
tional Governor North Carolina has
ever had, or perhaps ever will have.
But with all these favorable condi
tions, said Governor Glenn, we are
living too fast. Commercialism has
taken such a hold upon the people
that they are drifting from many cf
the better things.
Drawing towards the close of his
great address, Governor Glenn said
that he could not be true to his own
convictions and the interests of the
people of North Cai-olina without
saying something about the curse of
the liquor traffic in our land. He
counseled the boys and girls and all
his hearers against the evils of this
the greatest curse of our time.
During the year 1906 the people of
North Carolina spent sixteen million
dollars for whiskey and beer, and
only two and one half millions for
humanity.
Of prohibition, he said that a man
will not go a hundred miles or send
a hundred miles for a drink as quick
ly and as surely as he will go around
the corner for it. He declared, with
out reservation, his purpose to fight
the liquor traffic until it shall be
driven from North Carolina, and in
this purpose he has no regard to the
question of office. He will not stifle
his conviction or cease his efforts
against the evil for the consideration
of the office of justice of the peace or
a seat in in the United States Senate.
Said he, "If any one here hates me
because I am trying to save his boy,
let him hate me."
The speaker called upon his audi
ence to sympathize with him in the
discharge of the duties of his office
as Governor of the great State of
North Carolina.
Argo Red Salmon comes from the
icy waters of Behring Sea, Alaska.
Deep red in color, delieious in flavor.
For lack of space only a small por-
tion of Governor Glenn's great
speech has been given. He closed
with the declaration again that his
only purpose in coming was in the ;
hope of doing some good, and that
if what he h:d said should be 01 ,
help to any boy of girl his coming!
would not be in vain. He feelingly
invoked the blessings of God upon
all and bade good-bye.
The people of Scotland Neck heard j
Governor Glenn years ago during the.
neatea political campaigns m uiu
State, but they had not heard him
as Governor before. His plea for
civic righteousness and his appeal to
the people for high and noble living
was worthy the great and good maii
and Governor that he is, and can not
fail of great good wherever heard
by the people of North Carolina.
Many said freely that it was the
greatest address they had ever heard .
Superintendent Wilson, in behalf
of the town, thanked Governor Glenn
for his great and timely address and
thanked the people for their pres
ence".
Thus ended the best year of the
Scotland Neck Graded School.
President Harvie Jordan, of the
Southern Cotton Association, and(
Mr. Walter Clark, president of the
Mississippi Division of the Southern ' Mrs. J. W. Blackwell died at Dur
rw AccinHnn h.ivep-nne to ham f rom lockjaw. Some ten days
a -mA wOT
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national Cotton Congress. The meet- j
ing these gentlemen are attending is
the most comprehensive deliberative;
body on the cotton interest in the
World. Matters will come before it
pertaining to the Cotton interests of
all nations; and it signifies much to
the South that it is so well repre
sented in that congress. The agita
tion of the Southern farmer's rights
will yet bring to him his proper re
turns for his toils.
If the town commissioners should
levy a tax of a dollar each on all the
dogs in Scotland Neck they -would
add mightily to the town's income;
Judging by the noise these beasts
make at night the extra amount
raised would be something like ten
thousand dollars.
Argo Red Salmon is good enough
for the tables cf the rich, and cheap
enough for the tables of the poor.
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Screen Doors from $ 1 .00 up.
Try one of the Polaris Ice Cream Freezers.
We sell them on trial. If not entirely satis
factory they may be returned to us and
money refunded. Don't forget the
Leo
Ref riq
is just the thing to buy.
ice and is easily cleaned.
them.
Our store is
Hardware.
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News Afloat.
Lumberton has voted a school tax.
The wife of the late T. P. Bras-
wejj at ner home in Battleboro
iast week,
. ,
Turner W. Battle, of Edgecombe
county, died in a Richmond Hospital
kst week.
Henry jerome Stockard has been
,ei at tljQ head of Peace Insti-
, , . Rawh
Coleman Brown shot ond killed his
brother-in-law, Elijah Owens, in
Jackson county one day last week.
Frank Dickey, Will Walker, Jim
Criss, Jim Turner and Will Carr, all
colored, escaped from the Graham
jail one day last week.
Because of the burning of Hotel
Carr-olina the North Carolina Teach
ers' Assembly, which was to have
been held in Durham, has been call-
ed off for this year.
The unveiling of the Worth Bagley
monument took place in Raleigh
Monday. Richmond Pearson Hobson
and Victor Blue were present and
delivered addresses.
The 10-year-old son of Mr. and
aS lhe by was hurt whiIe PlavinS
a splinter going into his foot
The jury at Wilson acquitted
James Bvrd who had been on trial
of Amos Butts. The same day Jesse
Lurfey was found guilty of man
slaughter of Ilenry Brown and sen
tenced to seven years in the peniten
tiary.
Ex-Senator John L. McLaurin, of
South Carolina in a speech before
the American Cotton Manufacturers
Association in Philadelphia, said that
in his opinion the present prosperity
of the country is due to the courage
and sagacity of Grover Cleveland
more than to any other one man.
After 24 hours' deliberation the
jury in the case of Nathaniel Moore,
of Wilson county, charged with beat
ing his son to death, could not agree
and was discharged. Ten were for
c .eviction. Two physicians testified
that congestion of the lungs, which
caused death, might have been from
natural causes instead of kicks.
Now is
Doors and
flies
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It uses
Call and
full of all kinds of Summer
SCOT LAND MPnK
SAVED FROM CRASH DY PRIVATE PHONE.
The following news l'tetii appeared
fl .1 7 llM 14 ITflTl lil T
Times:
The telegraph operator at Cary
yesterday forgot to deliver orders
and came near to causing the east
bound and west bound trains on the
Southern to collide,
The operator, it is said, received
orders to send th east bound train
on thrcugh.and later a dipatch telling
him to hold the train until the west
bound passed. A few moments later
the east bound train arrived and the
operator gave the engineer the
wrong orders. The train pulled out
and the engineer, thinking to make
up lost time, was giving his passen
gers the ride cf their lives, when far
ahead he saw a man frantically wav
ing a red flag. The train slowed up
find stonned and the man with the
flag hastily explained the situation.
A flagman was sent ahead on the run
while the train backed, and in less
than a minute the west bound train
swept around the curve ahead. It
was a close shave. The operator had
realized his mistake almost as soon as
the train left the station and had
telephoned a farmer near Cary, ask-
ing him to flag the train.
Dr. David S. Rowland has been ar
rested in Raleigh charged with mur
der by poisioning his eleven-year-old
son. The boy's life was insured and
the father was named as the bene
ficiary. Dr. Rowland was recently
married to Mrs. Lillian Strange
whose husband, Robert C. Strange,
had died suddenly only a short time
before. It is now believed that he
was murdered and Mrs. Rowland
has been arrested as accessory.
Argo Red Salmon is cleaned and
packed entirely by machine, not
touched by the human hand.
Can Cancer Be Cured?
It Can.
We want every man and woman in
the United States to know what we
are doing We are curing Cancers,
Tumors and Chronic Sores without
the use of the knife or by X-ray, and
are endorsed by the Senate and Leg
islature of Virginia.
WE GUARANTEE OUR CURES.
KELLAM HOSPITAL,
Ns. 1515 Wert M&'n Strict,
Richmond, Virginia.
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more to do it now than to wri-
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stock we ever had, and we hav;
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Screen Windows 25c. up.
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angry tongue, for t0; -
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lor disbelieving most of lh"
reports, for being kind to tj
distressed, for doing oo ::
all men, for speaking evil
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