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1 M4 100. Suffolk. farboro. at t ltocky A train ' t to ot. Nor SOS, Asm. ! blk V. cjte; UP 3- i -. morning L to plao tut Jnawa- a private rnaratiori bilged to clique or 1 DT UJ The o'wnar ta treat ! . . . is here to hat keeps I uoyoa. s you tht ' county, r nation t for your r i tat de- lieat. pure r r - OUf CUlId- want a m j sound, ?Y-jry day -atesttje jKxtremiat T ie heat ana ie State to . be ure to hir'ncw enter hcl IB l Virf'ATK eroibr the hi nfr IB v. Adv.rtiM tm thin. i 0 .linm -throat" lie. what J0T2 I , 'j t ' , . . . ' - - VOL.2.-NO. 2t ; k . . TABBOROVN ;NXwSEMBEjat;-: : . ' PRIE, FI CENTS f i : 1 - - -- - I . - - , .-l . . . .. . t . tts r 1 1 , . .i-1 i t - i BRIEF OPINIONS. STATE NEWS. lExPLOITKiw"' and "nrtmiok iwue bond and mortgage tbe f utnre ' labor of sons of toil. Why should Happenings not the people loan. ' capita! tj labor i - I itaelf npoB iU Wnd. I ! - t rut i ne a vonnz wmte .UOlNlfS' OF OTTTt : PRrtTPT.TT liiilKfJuV - AND PLAIWLVTrtT.n or ' THE ; DENKEJ. Week Cox Onk day subsistence; frt acceis i3 t jo? Cleveland countv, was w ypur uimue aim a uajiy biiud while at work in a field market lor its product, i all ibor my.J rceu tlv. Hhe wasj wand etribken iff ir Hrili her way Home, m u iuum; v pp naa gone to look' tor wsr iouua uen iieibv lieviete.. need to ihake it independent, not off alf,,lt trJin capital, hut of capitalists. ( VHr should labor, which produces all wealth, grovel in abject poverty "7" T reui,i.ce,:w.nHe hm recutlv given birth1-to iix the drone, who toil not,'-car sunvpt- ttlitn, all bvi, Thevl weieh nonaij aim are ciau in parpie aua fineuneo? one ring thejeople are compel leVlbyrre.i6jJ of debt, to pay a higher n& of luterci-t for their medium of exchange than the percent, made bv fcheui in purauit of their cnlliii!5?Kx. , Tub real right to -dav' h within the x ne w re or una3. liiiiinff, a moor mountaineer, Jiving in Ashe cointv. hil- rom lour and a naif to rime pounds fach, anf renil alive. Mrs. JJillmza'bas all i four Either rhildrpn lmf the wla ol How can the.vnation thrive" when hWfn flino-lvi;,- -f V -1 . -.. A terrible t'clohtf Visited tor of Granville, Northahip'ton'acdolal- ifax counties Tuesday week. ' Great aim timrjer. ine tents at one o convict fanna on the Roanoke XvncQtfform Uf. . Thkuij are two UinUes of prat'wtive tariff men. rOne kind -is ''determined u work., tue vesae prolHHiixo the The doi l)lown Jtwav. the ovcruHi Li11vl I intra! It ti I .iwl '.S . .1 I .. 1 ' 1 ? " . . 1 . v " iivii. , v.ifijn..i it3 i feyenvi-convicts wonnoeu.- Hx. ome hired men very high salaries ior no otner service than ., to beat uon otner nireujnen m Uuir w.is, and boi nd from Daflen. (Ja t fc , . fT .l i.iova .'ona, i put i'rntb More Cit v Friday on - accouiit of sicli among her crew, , whicS was "-el .oi stc xiion. Tw4 had to protect money if it take-i despot-1 a"d two were sick, leaving onll ism to do it. The other kind is de termined to protect .-man hood and n free joverh men t if it'taVcrs thr; b:tl- ioi 10 uo it. Aoncot form;?!. .I'- . V . , Scauce money means cheap labor; plenty of money means highci'in-icv i fop labor aud its products.1 If you are a producer you do not u?fd' a map to show which of these propo sitions you favor.Miasou! i World. The first donation of land The sehooner C J leaner, of St. Johns x- i 1 1 . ... . I . I ao a vMiorni, loaueu .witn lumDer i.; i i . - to lead uess torn- lied two tors Kor nv'r-ie er iiid there .t it.Z disease swamp is i no nnJeasi- The .Market llor.se, for which (tdzffieits been iiirhtiug so longJ ioonbea rt-ahty." 1 ho j bonds floated and the contract made It is beJioved it will 15tH girl ions the were and HE A f ALiniTT C0T7LCStM Tke "nneste4' OIJcctLesM. the will are to f93. .much.-earlier. The land was made by democrats. There were about 30,420,927 acres given by democrats prior to 1 80 1. The .Union Pacific grant' the largest '-ever made, were given by the republicans, but1 "only two democrals voted a.inst them iu the house. tircat W-t- . DkLEOATLri to. the Ht, Yjuis coh i fereuc wilj reihember the f air treat uieut we received at the handii'mf the bt. Iouis Chronicle, It ha recently hoisted the Weaver'aiif Field ticlet jiud will lljjht for the people's party. The CUici u nut i Post hs also flopped over, and the ;DetruikrKveniujf 2&w. baa Joined t be .people's party irre; Clerelaud Press hoists the pooplefe' party ticket,; These are all metro ' politau city papers and have a-, com bined circulation of 1 00,00) Wiu field V Press. Thk New York Vi'"says:. ' Two states only of the solid South do not appear to be effected by a disorgaiii tiogaud disentegrating tendency'' The two exceptions, the Snn uays, are Maryland and Kentucky, In the Jatter state, theiS" declares, Henry AVattersou "ha3 addressed himself to the task of quelling all disturbance by the familiar and approved 'method of drowning il in noise." : Henry Watte rson may split his lung 3 and then may not d row n ; 'the uist Hi bance' ; in Blue (Iras .State: Missouri World. ' j- ' i be; conmleted old markkit is hei u g torn -down.-. ".Sheriff Ilougea ! took Mis3 Ella fJradeless,' the inbane woman wuo nas ixjen mcarceratefl in jail for aiune days, to .'Ilaleigh Moo- .biv4-" ashington Gazette. : . j :".J' .'""' '-'! :f' : f" : Trie last annual report of the Ntate superintendaiit of public Sinstruc tion allows that t he receipts were $775 450. The ex pcndUn "resj $761',005. 1 O :. the 'latier, :3o 6,0.00 'were for white t tion an l $59,000 for their school ho ises, and ,.$181,000 for colored; tition and r,000 '.for their school .nouses.- The lvk eipts were the largest j on re ord, Ivurg 61,000. greater than last ; ;sear. The report chows that there aro i 86,- 'C00 white and 212,000 colored thilr dreii of school ?ige, a total of 5981,000 The lvalue of school property is $92. 0ir and 0.980 schols were in oper-' Mt- ken tjWw j. Urown.ou tlie streets of irv. a few weeks aro, was if . . - r cth tlie county jai! at uooaon mod d'a niL-lit week bv about 20 mafeked " a i -t r - . O J..I . nr-jii aiu: ivncnea.,....in oiwkeu county last week ' J..'S..-Sniith,.'a moon shiner ivi:l desperate character isnoi and liiortally wounded George 4lall,t a n ell-known farmer of. the coihty. 'The difficultv occurred at i Smith 8 b'.o.kade distillery. KinstbiV Fre r On Monday a negro lwy with a roat enri; ran over a buggv containing a .wiilw lady and., her two i chiljlreii, pug r. J. bther rred. the axle of thJ badly' Wrenching pv. Tiie Jadv was in frontof A! T- 1 Jail's selling grapes and fruit wneii I' orUiiiaielv no iSr.cli recUiocS raid tlv accident occi HI AnH ct t(f s-je m.'U take if lit the Thk most pitiable Homestead trouble is easrer to work that they "'..'--..I V bread from the months- of tbeir fel 1 low-men, thev enter iutoignomii)ii,?,s contracts .with 5 the employers lvo ' treat them like so many h"ed c?;.- tle; they work under liw.- that would i diirace-a penitentiary. The riiit pitiable? Yes-X The mi n wh si1!)-!-mitted to a lockout rather than "to accept unjust .conditions of '4ork.: . 'the families that have been turned homeless oil the hills of 1 Vni;.-Iv- vuuia; the nutrdered of'IT-j.?ii4tead'. in their graves, and . he widows aud orphans who mourn fur them all these are less to be pitied -than the men whom pressure pf want ibas lriveu.to accept,the places of the locked out workiuiriiieu. ..VfY'w mie was. careless and.negligeifce'of the. safety Old ahuihi Iv punished. The hot l api'li ;'by Vuntiiug his -team out out o'f'toWh?v...;.Theivare i,546 moieun- ip.arriod; woiiien in North Carolina iha.i there are unmarried' men. ii. . . .. i .. ear lean vear -is mu oiuy i lie hidieli have a chance to db the 01! gh bt be ccurliii. aud as there lifter liioa n go around would it n wicc for. 'the Luhes to use the epor tunUv which. the year of grace aSioVc5.; ihout? .'.This is merely -A iop....i...'i here u ill be a re CtYoIsHKS.ny A. -IGth Uegiment '. Car )ii;ui State troops in the poera hoiein. Kinston oti V'ednfsday. 1892. Ail the Ue ber .6i .tbi-r lfh. nr'ired to attend. v- ii eceipts in KiJistoA oiilv about vij!) oaies yVaichoutn. I. in far this eea 1 - -" -'eait" tvventv-five -.tombled in Uie ireil driving thers es- This year knem- . Cotton - At id red IH vW: era') tob.ii co l ardhouse jyesterdjay af teven- froia holel bv I'istinguished citiaens of A UKRCHAXT Cpe!lS Stock of goods worth force of circumstances pelled to sell at alittlen allthe time. liXie!3es. go on, ; hopes agai is t hope, lie -musi iit a store with a 10.00. hy he ii cosn- tlvln cosi it b'.islne- I- .make an assignment npn sooner or later. Aow every Iarmi.o the UniUl States is doing btvsi- tertioon fto hearlloiu A. x- o mus sneech. He was cscortet bi North Carolina iu i-:is '' prWCSalOil Ot tUOUUteu i'rem the country adjacent to carriages ville. Cfiu ral Stevenson w3 m- troouccd bv liosti. 0,T, Kawlds as crandsou of di.stin'guiahii-d ii. iii -. :r.id when iie arbsei to Jivak then; was loud ipplauiS jbon. tiuiihig several' icimiles. ;:. , rh. which was frequently la rt'pted byta'ivpianse. i pai i mu tual attention to4carpi cuuei M rule in tho south and new on the same plan. You are tinir iKwrer every year: vour ...i . '..ii .... . .i.j : - , T.UX'liV j a., i - " - value until you cannot get more than JT :i to !wbich as much for them. This is the- state jt. . - Hall took the pisto r land, j t.v.,.A' fatal shooting j scrape! iatetl in i' county are hav- on. h unarm anu a I men A she- North a n nis iuter- btefreuson the foijce bill occur- esterday had a Smith i away I home of affairs in the New Kn gland States If rem Snilthwho then went! whre the farmers are in hearing dii-J.anu reportel the trouble to h& fath Unc.offactoriesaudcitybolhomel-H jnarkets.) Jt , is tbe same in me him U1 tlld neck. the lull coming out Oreat West Iti the.sameiirthe South Umder the chin., Smith is still at 'Cattle nuseTs' ure in J the sacio. boat i large ,;..;ir. 13. AV. liergerori,f of the '- irContinentjil. 'who runs- the Yam viui lulluu iai.-n.io iuv t-.ov i - i raising sections of Virginia, Tennes see, Kentucky and Ohio arc financi , ally ruined, and aH because the peo ple have no money Era, Ind. ' . to buy. Xeio Farta, Iirs placed on jour ta le, the first -aud the finest second crop Irish potato of the season. ! It is is Jarge as a hen egg. and it has only six weeks since the crop was Asheillc Democrat. been latitat BY JOHW BBISBXV WALK EE, Ojnt OF THE EDITORS Of THK COSMOPOLI An affair like that at Homestead educates the public mind rapidly; mere rapidly in a month than ten years of books and pamphlets. In the face of death men stop to think. What led to this? What does it mean? What is the remedy? And when the dally journal gives in one uytuuiu ine picture ox uiuny tattle, or the magnificent pile from which the Lyttont have- gone out to admit partner rnipps from the Homestead mills, and in another sketches show ing the dead and dying upon tho banks of the Monongahela, the con- trast is so sharp that one draws qnick breath of discomfort, and even the most con seryatire. -hrm nn. nooa is stronger thn. his lore of dol lars, admits that something is wrone. LrCTniuau anau ceniarrsiro toe -1- i n -r-r . . ..- . " leopieoi xne : vinitea Ktates were comparatively poor and the wealth of the couutnr dUtrihtrted with near approach to equality, less than a dozen individuals having fortunes approaching the million mark. The laws had been made for the existing con unions ox laoor, ana were, as whole, of a .satisfactory character. No one had yet dreamed of the mar velous inventions and discoveries of natural wealth which were to : upset an cue conditions oi production, and 1- - iL. mane me uucceeuiug liny year? a wealth-giving period, unprecedented in the histoiy of the world. An thracite and bituminous coal, pe troleum, tne cotton gin, the reaper, the steam and electricity, and with their thousand marvels, were sudden ly emptied upon a community whose jaws naa oeen made for conditions the vefcy opposite of those now -exist ing. r . ; -, -.. ; - "j It Is not to be wondered at that the American mind should seize upon the possibilities which old law gave to individuals for grabbing these new-found treasures. They would have been more than human if they could have resisted the temptation, and besides, it must be recollected that the Christianity practised was of a perfunctory character, formal and nominal rather .than real, and civilization just beyond the period of wild beast skin and wearing. In fif ty years the creation of wealth has become prodigious; the distribution of wealth has become frightful in its inequalities. The laws, which were beneficent for an agricultural and pastoral people, worked ; degradation 1 and lutamy in a man u fact u ring com munity. They permitted the few to grab the greater part of' this ' new v-aXTfcSAV- If tliU " gSi w m ws ' mmmmt coming upon the scene an unparal leled luxury upon the one hand, aud a poverty upon the other, scarcely sur passed in the days when production did not equal one-tenth the present output. In the strife for wealth the law-makine power1 was found to be a useful auxiliary. Judges '' were bought, senatorships were sold in the interests of railways and the great corporations; and within the last ten vears-we find wealth not con tented with the advantages which the laws, confessedly in its favor, give it-rrhiriug private armies to give force to edicts allotting to the labor er a leaser share of the product. V i Lovers of the Republic may well tremole at this exhibition, so closely resembling the evil days .when rich Romans surrounded themselves by hired bands Of fighting bullies. True, our modern rich man does not pa rade the streets, surrounded by his gladiators. He sits in a secret office removed from danger and, in - com munication with the telegraph wires. orders his armies concentrated from mkny states by j jrapid transit and move it unexpectedly upon his pri vate foes. There is lacking that personal cohrage which gave a half way excuse to the Roman who sword in hand, shared the . dangers . bf the light. But the risk to the Republic is all the greater from these modern methods. For if a man may hire 300 poor devils already to shoot down their brothers in misery, there is no reason why he may . not hire ! 10,000. . . :, ; 1 There is another side to this mat ter. Raised up under the system which declares that any man has a rizht to control without limit the earth's surface and its productions, or the labor of his fellowmen, Mr. Frigk doubtless feels that he is per suing a sacred duty in protecting his property at Homestead by auy means that the law permits. xnousanus of good men held r the ; same thought regarding their slaves, be fore and during tne war. reaiiy seemed to them a divine right ; of property, and all classes of the com munity to-dav. learned ministers, and professors, intelligent merchants and high-minded men of all ' profes sions hold that our system of distri bution is not only legal, but fair, and authorized by the teachings of the gospel. . - i' r ;: There is only one class to dispute this proposition. They are the toil ers, whose labor is the immediate cause of ther production of pur wealth, Y mav sav that there must be intel ligence to direct, and that to the in telligence which takes advantage should come the gains. But Jlr. Car negie and Mr.' Frick are proofs that in the ranks of labor itself there is intelligence to direct. jMany Carne gies and many Fricks would spring up tomorrow if opportunitT permit ted. ;" If one would study tie justice of a svstem of political , economy let him surrender - his Tested rights of property and take his place among those whom the system : crushes, whose labor itdeTonrsand whose re ; ward for is a bare, joyless existence. We who have-the money can : reason sTonslyJegsrding' the. jnstice cf osrlawr, the-exrellence of .bnrj sys tem of government : '.JlTie Jaiibrfng man can only rroan in spirit He mu not hitherto had the power of his rote, notwithstanding our boasted representative svernmentJ, because his brothers in the agony- which pov erty brings, in their effort to relieve the hand-to-month miseries of their existence, have sold at each . 'election this birthright . for, the, merest taste ------. -'-. .- -j J- - f rryOTe knows that this has Uttk erne, that the labor vote has never been a unit, that; its i pnrchasebillty has been one of the well-nnderitood factors in ward politics, that there has been no eombuiation, no united effort, no - intelligent directtoa, "no willingness to submit to .leadership, and that there is today no probabili ty of the vote of these people being cast at an early election for the ob ects ,i wtich they inrV m, deeply concerned. The issues U- srt ' be fore the publio in either of the great' fwinicM jmruca xor wnose caaoioaces the votes will be east, are ery isi ge ly those which cencern the people of means and influence. Platforms are dictated with reference to Wall street and the great corporations and the ncn men woo supply the - sinews of political war. Nevertheless there: is . a around current steadily moving across the continent. Workmen,' who -were wholly ignorant thirtr vents ao. are partially educated today, within bfteen years a highfy intelligent class has sprung np among t the workmen themselves, and there are a few real ly able men who have - been making efforts for their advancement' -That man Powderly, for ' instance, is a statesman of a high order. " He has capacity for organization, he has singleness of purpose, he hasdetermi nation and he has courage. And he is only one of a number. They have oeen educating their followers, and teaching them to unite upon certain simple propositions. It is like the fencing master who put in the hands of his pupil the siuglestick be fore he confides to him tie glitter ing rapier There is talent enough among them to organize a movement more formidable than that of Sparta cus. Thank uod, they are men who love the Republic and who hope for the elevation of their people through me evolution ox tne law. r Two things must always 1 he . borne in mind: first that the laboring meu have the majority, if thty choose to exercise it, not only of votes, but ot physical strength. Intelligence and cunning wer; once upon a v time fac- tors upon which the few rich could count to keep in subjection the many P00! ,?!,?m;", P!a!rohr There is a prevailing thought that 1 this must . be a republic Jndeed, where all men shall be . equal before the law; where the law will 'carefully guard the, industrious man against the greedy man; where cunning will not place labor at the greatest of dis advantages; where labor will become honorable and idleness contemptible; whereeffort will be expected from every citizen in the direction of hi best talent, and where tne neeus ox the unfortunate through disease or inheritance will be respected; in a word, the , model government in which a near approach to the ideal republic will be attained, an exam ple set which the countries of Europe that .it will cause iny own" class, who nave power and aathonty, .to stop and reject that perhaps it will best to ; concede ; eontething in the wayofi law;; tot regnlate this , one sided distribution ot' wealth, lest should be regulated r through blood shed or, what is more horrible stilL www iou power, tnrongn sheer brute' force elements t which will bring our Republic to anarchy. If there could have been pointed . to the nohlcs of Louis. xvx. tne things wxuen were liable taetr arrogance, tne rcniiaren . of these French rich wonld have;; caoso - for, congratnl- MVU WUBT. . - , . ' , , - - t . The factis : we hare too separate i worms .in. wis - country, Tne man wbu uvea in -w nas is Known as tne world ox. aocietv has ao conftnton oi what the , world of labor is think mg. . .Tteir worlds are almost as dis- h net and'as completely cut off from each otlsr as if one , had its capital t KartehsthL,ansl: the lother at uaerra oei.irae ... , j ; , i. ae por no injustice to toe Kindly, hearted people whose minds have warped by the teachings of inheri tance ana by their environment 1 of wealth; and the rich do not dream of the thouffhtswnichfill the minds of the poor. H It is adangerous . ignor ance. These two factors are like the nitre and the cnarcoal of gunpowder. Any stray spark mar produce disas trous results. - The laborer believes now that the law. is srraduallr heinr ll J i tL I 1 t - I . . aiureu o snictwnaK oe consiuer tne equities of hi, position. 1 Let, him become j fairly convinced : that 1 the government is for the few, that, the military i but a means of carrying out schemes of .aggrandizement by the rich,' and that votes ; are bought -i- i. i . ur uiajuriuea couueeu out ju toe same interest,' and the crucial hour of the Republic will at once have arnyed. Can science do nothing, towards the solution of these difficulties? Statistics show us that if we were all to labor no one would want. for, any thing, neither the necessities of life nor. reasonable pleasures nor enjoy ment. Again, is there any inteili- geat rich man who would not wish his sons to labor? .Who does not be- leve that labor in moderation brings happiness, if only , that it gives a keener zest ' for recreation? Who does not believe that idleness brings mental and '- physical . injury? Who then would wish for his children ex istence in a commuuity where idle ness ia to be their lot? Is there any thinking man who can' feel reason ably comfortable when only . a few blocks distant thousand are eking out a dark existence by. labor .that extends in many case over double j the allotted number of hour, who hare few pleasures and fewer still of , , what we . ca 1 1 the mm farla nf Uu? of this in the brief period of one generation. Lighten the burdens of taxation upo the poor, by ; letting those whose wealth i protected by the state; chiefly furnish the means f subsistence for the Stote, at the same time offering a discouragement to the amassing of great wealth. The wellknown expedient of income tax would be a step in this direction. Take out of the control of private ia dividnals the power to amass great fortunes at the expense of the . pub lic," through the nunsgemcot . of functions like railway, express and telegraph, which are purely of a pub lic character. Establish a system of i currency, self-regulated by means of ? . i -r'j till a profoundlr dissatisfied with-the ex isting conditions. We sit at table, they say, and everyone is satisfied to wait patiently until served, knowing snax tnere will be enough for alL No one man wishes to have twice as much put upon his plate as he can eat, simply because he may. v There is no grabbing, no hoarding up, no contention, noiutterness. Our civi lisation may be regarded ' as having reacoca tner dinner table stage. But it goes no farther. The morning after the feast the same men go to their offices on Broadway or Wall street, and instantly the game ofgrab begins.. Everyone u ready to take what his neighbor has, if he can do so without interference by the law. The kindly gentleman bf the dinner table ot the night before becomes fierce, determined, grasping creature in his office. He does not care ho many: must suffer, if he accumulates. His acquisitions are not gauged by ms power to consume., ue wants end takes; and when, he has obtained all to desired his wants grow- And ;4L . -.IV F L1 " wnn oaca aooeaaion vney grow again. l Know personally so many of these men. ana they are naturally kindly, naturally generous. But they live under a system, and their environ ment takes away their natural incli nation. If it were ! not tho fashion of these men to engage in this chase tor wealth, they would . become dis tinguished in the fields of science and art and letters. . They have bright minds whichVequire labor and they would nse them for the benefit of all But instead, under our peculiar in stitutions, these minds are warped auu unven into narrow cnanueis. They are engaged in piling up moan tains which leave deep valleys, in ; whose shades thousands must daily i S 1 i . -a .a - oe cnuiea to death. The two en couraging signs are the tendency to thought among the rich and the ad vance of intelligence among the poor, i may imitate. We have : the oppor-1 postal savings banks; tax highly the tunities here, with out rich territory, our great natural resources : and our population yet uncrowded, to ao tms. unimproved properties which are held for purposes of speculation. Finally, let it be n recognized pnn- If we fail, the idea of a republic may ; ciple that when . men. employ many well be abandoned for the. next 2000 1 laborers their business ceases to be rears. That was a curious interview tween the commandant of the litis, the gentlemen born and bred 1 mbmitted, not to with an inheritance of belief regard- ao many Pinkerto ing the rights to accumulate proper- ' to arbitration. i purely a private affair, but concerns be-: the state, and that disputes between mi-' nronrietor and ; workmen : - must be the orute xorce ox inkerton mercenaries, but ty even if in so doing crowded) If anyone would.hold thatit is not one's fellow mortal to the wall and reallv the business of the foUte to the iron workers who constituted the . bring about the settlement of. labor Homestead committee. Gold-spec idinlculties, he has only to recall the tacled. practised in the art of snub- circumstances which mark the two bine aud sure of the " physical ; labor disputes prominent in the hus- . ii. !. it. i. rtt. 1- .U strength at, nis oacat tue uuiurr was - torv ox I'litsourgo. . luruiu uio more than a match for the laborer, who in his turn was awed by hi m- hented respect for wealth and power. Chilled and overawed, the reptesent atives of labor went , down the hill from this unequal interview. The general in charge had neither the grace nor the will to recognize a la- . ' i- V. Dorassociauau wuiviLi ouuwu . membership large enough, if pr6er-j ly organized, to sweep out of exist ence the entire army of j the - United States. They must 'have reflected, as thev went down the hill, these representatives of labor; that is a mi litia organisation carried such weight, permitted such freezing dig nity upon the part 8 ot a citizen to ward other citizens, it might possi bly be well for their Interests to have i w s a a few tnousanas ox zneir own men en rolled in this same militia. There is nothing to prevent a body of Amer ican citizens from organizing them selves as a militia organization with nrooer arms and equipments. There are enough workmen in Pittsburgh ana vicinity no give uuuureu rai ments of the full complement ox ten companies of seventy men 'each with as many more left over for on lookers at parades. Six r months of hard drill such as the enthusiasm of those men would permit wonld leave them eaual'to the best of the. Phila delphia troops. Does anyone be lieve for an instant that if there had been a hundred such' ? regiments among the workingmen of Pitts burgh, Ueneral Snowden would hare declared that he could not recog nize the existence of such a body of men as the Amalgamated two? : ' ! - I choose to ask; this question redncbo ad absurdum, in the hope as a Tke Peoles Cattlxg, fact it jill jurtake of the nature of ... . . a circus parade; fur iu the l"rooessmn Kt .n. S Frau- wi,l bc H,j tht.1 daExamin-; 4 - jOfPawW Bill's Wild West Show- Standing on the threshold of t a This show-, which is the greatest out century flown a century freighted I door h5w on earth. with hopes and fears, struggles and the thrilling phases of wild western ill bead of ing Pom f aloes, etK, etc. There works oil week ueu Simth. play, am: this asscjj OuTl ing of th federate" cive a performance In the Fair 100 Indi- -boys, Scouts, etcy and 100 i-ve stock, -iiirlud ing Buck- . Miu lexasSkHTs. llnf- will be R diplav of I'irw Wtdncsday niglit of "Fair :r before iuaue3 iu the The 2,'ttlfri contains a program jue of this Pyrotechnic Dia- PiU Vates. triumphs and looking through the -life. open portals of the century to come, open ah every da at the we realize that the same inflnences O rounds It includes over 10C tnat aiottea from among the powers aus, Cow of the earsh the old . nations of the earth Persia, Greece and, Rome and sent them down to national de cay, are at work on this continent undermmding the foundation ot our Republic, centralizing all . wealth in the hands of a few, and rapidly re ducing the laboring classes to a con dition of pitiable serfdom. e see the .national highway on which we have been traveling for a venburj uiaracu uy ouguiru jiopes. home and fallen virtue marked bv an army of skeletons of those who have perished miserably, because of unrequited toil or toil denied. ' :'Wi see a law-favored few sitting la judgment on the life of the peo ple, intrenched on the thrones of justice, their tongues closed with sophistry and falsehood. They de grade and pollute the pew and pul pit, extol Mammon, and prouounce as a virtue that which the son of man declared co-equal with murder and idolatry. They send ami the starvation-driven wretch and ' the thoughtless boy tothepenitentiary for peculation' and exalt to the highest position ip &tato and nation - gam blers, thieves and moral wreckers of society. The men whom the 'old I prophets sent to hell are sen t by bribery and boodle to Congress to j make laws for the people. . i Society rotten, the foundation and superstructure ot out socur makej,,,, ud wa(ei H mhlcliD11 of upishoneycoiubed with fraud and , the coto , Vcreageaa a means to in- iiypocriay. lyuurcne are so roLteu t t he irugramme enpUasizes tion. . - .- . urfrJay wilfVoccui- the-lav- coriH i -lo:t of the (jpn M on u leufi . w bieh is to Cost'S15iMu. . On Frldsy there u to be a,, grand Military prize drill 'and'. Target practice; and in audition to .these attract ioas there will be lmmeious minor features of interest, inclnding -grand Dess ilemians, a ;raad Co lonial iailj soiial uxvptione, sptx'ial speakingtu'itt-too many other things to parUefclarixe. Thert- sis-ma to be no doubt at alt that the- ci miiu; Fair will be llie gn.'ud:t : tfe;- h.-U in the State- ' - leople uiav make up their tuniJs that to nii?a it will be almost crirai-" nal j 1 - ' : Auy "oae cau obtain pusticular.bv adiii-essiub -'. - . " j U. W. Ayek, SecV, lLileijh, N. C, The Price ot Coitsn. The Southern Farm, Ailaua, has mi between a cornoratiou and its employes the forts had to be cleared of their garrisons to save corporate interests. Besides loss of life, anx iety and fear or sorrow, in the house holds, and stoppage of private busi ness for weeks, there was a direct tax if I recollect rightly, imposed upon the State of Pennsylvania, of be- ween five and su million dollars, to 1 . m m a 1 il pay for the property uesiroyeu oy tne strikers. The sending of its militia to' Homestead must ; cost the same state a sum running np into hundreds of thousands; perhaps millions. The loss to the uommonweaiin oy zne idleness of those through whose ef forts the common wealth is earned will probably amount to millions more, i&very man in srennsyivania will have to bear his proportion of j the tax. Every citizen will suffer ; something in his business from the idleness of those who would other wise be; working. To deny the right ol the state to mien ere in uupuw which involve each disastrous conse- quences to all . classes oi cinzens would be asfooiisn as is were xo ae elare that quarrel between, individu als were of no concern to it, ana that it must not Question their right to fight them out in the open street. nertainlr. arbitratiou would seem a more modern method of interference than bayonets. Disinterested minds would be most likely to regard the the rights of both, and then it would not be ao costly to the general public. -; -" '-,-'; 1 , u s, :-'", . ".- . '. - - . - -. The most curious pnenomenon at tending the period ' in whkh we lire is the nnDreindiced consideration riven to these social conditions by the rich themselves. Atevery dinner table Tone mav meet men who are Ifc 'John Fleming of Pactolus is seriously sick, he has had two yel- ow chills. We hope for him 'a peed y recovery. , . ' .' ; Mr. T. U. Bryan is also quite sick rom the effects of a yellow chill. It was reported here last week that cholera was is Norfolk. For a while much excitement prevailed, busiues men looked serious when thev sneak of a possibility of its " becoming epi demic in New York. Dr. O'llagan says he apprehends no danger of its spreading from New York. Of course such a statement . from one in whom all Pitt countiaus have such n bounded confidence has to an ex- nominee for Governor passed through Greenville on the cars a f few nights ago. He was greeted at the depot by number of our people, but stated he was too tired for speech-making. Of course ex-Governor ' Jams was along taking care of him. Mr. Mason and J. o. lien deliv ered addresses here on the day the Cleveland and Carr flag was raised, they bad a tolerably fair crowd to bear them. uoi. Skinner was neara to sav over half was People's party-1 men. Bell's speech strengthened the cause of reform i very much, and Mr. Mason the peoples servant (rail road commissioner) has nothing to do but trot around over the country making Cleveland 1 speeches. Better send such as he home to follow the advice; they are .so generously giving the people to follow. The tobacco warehouses are open and having large breaks. The man agers are hustlers and expect to ro .. .. . handle their share ox this years crop. Mr.; T. J. Stancill a highly respect ed citizen of Bel voir township died last Wednesday of heart disease. He leaves ten children to mourn his loss five boys and five girls. Deceased was the father of Rev. Robert Stan cill of. Wilson. The ltmle's rtartv mass : nieetinz at Bethel on the 15 th was a large af fair, about a thousand people present. Col. Skinner and Mr. Moye made able addresses. Mr. A. A. Forbes candidate for senator also made stroug address. Much enthusiasm i ml i 11 prevaueu. xneBpeecuwi wen: wm received, and mauy converts made to the doctrine of reform. All the people need is a little more light and John J. Ingalls will have company from every section of our fair, but but monopoly cursed land. . Above all dodging, twisting, turn ing and crooking we have seen since the caupaign opened that man J. a. Bell . of Clay county takes -. the cake. Last Fall: he was here as State Lecturer of the Alliance, he advised and urged that all Alii ancemen should stand firm for their principles regardless of consequences On bis'next and last visit here as the hireling '-ot Cleveland ism his tune had changed, and his chorus was filled . with nustatements. ue naa the cheek to state publicly that he was defeated as State Alliance Lec turer ; because of 1 his adhering to Cleveland Democracy. Such may possibly be his opinion, but the gen tlemen composing that body doubt less found out the material of which Bell was made, hence hia defeat "It is the hit aog that hollers Eh! Bro. Whichaid. ! ' The managers of Mr. Cleveland's campaign are doubtless aoie nnan- ciers. but they have not shown much wisdom in selecting such renegades to make Cleveland ispceches for While the wind may turn him the masses are not swayed by dry weather whirlwinds.' ... , This letter was received too late for last issne. Elk. that were the son of man the tramp Christ to seek admission to their portal for himself aud his Gallilean followers, they would be arrested and punished a vagraut. So-called ministers i of Christ uphold false political doctrine and join with the crease th price. Njow that the acre age has Ueen reduced, it confesses that it has been uu-t by tpecnlation and nianipuUtion. Yet in tbo same column it contends that the price of all crops is regulatetl by supply und demand. This - is iircoiui.tc ut and ruand would ttd it t fhn it a triune monopoiyi: ox iauuf money j evuU io.lU v T jl( auu iraiisjwiawou is jeopardizing j Uh.u .n.vCll uuj , Ve.u me oioou-uougui uoerues oi uie j Kilorj. ii i,v., ,i, Hjopie.. rionietbiug must be doue. i,.,,i Awakeued by oppniou, stern - and . . lu thfsame -i.sne tlie Southern relentless a destiny, men': seek wis- j p,, .,.:, t- ;..i.. t,rt,t.-t it. dom in council, strength in unity and j eton is kuarketi bii v'.J,,L!-, mrmnnir lit nrrii.niZMliitr.. 4V" I e . t -t , political docinne and join with inermislcadiugj. If supply and de oppressor against preaching the ; 1 the price of cotion, it word of God. J , . never ha.tallii, ho low, at - At last has come the .awakening! i0ugbk toU.selliug for not less' ivu.4 f lirnitu '.1 1, V ft I Win nit f rtt cfmnii - . 1 . a . , ? - - "V wy wuV OVlVU DfA.tU- they say, "can t get- along without j latr. u saViJ t i)e ,.ltora &TQ j . . plutocrat aud their knaves, but; videil intJ mMtile camps," bulls and they cannot get along without us tol i-.:ir 'Fh rir.i., ,:,.- aid them in their schemes of robbery Lnfeiilat- .-k.r, ,Ur,-ot ...&.iJ And so, all over thuJroad land, tUat the i.rice would go down to iis i row cyeryoooy Knows mat vuesi; bulls a ml bears arc no moreJise to thefarnnTS than the fifth wheel on a wagon; We think that article was published bv Latham, Alexander & Co., New! York cotton merchants tTnuferaa a moveme"nTThatYs "CEe beginning of a revolution not, I trust, are volution of blood and bul- ets, but a revolution of brains 1 and ballots, that will shake this conti nent move the world, emancipate the toilers and bring redemption, not j ttUj bankers. acreage - has ' s crop is . . -. . - e rsou.tn. lownuiif to Thev sent the iRame onlv to the American people, but-.-to 1 thing t Tlie Vrtoreitsive. Farmer. all theworiu. . ;- i several Meek ago. vecxioijeu tue, The united and embattled hosts J fallacies in it at the tiine. Anybody of organized labor will rescue the wth eab ktiaw that instead of perishing and send xortn tne, sain- helping i JiC cotton producer; - these tary angel of justice with the flam- chousam s of ''bulls und U-ars? make -: ing" sword of liberty to drive from fortunes out of their Lilor, without our land the miasma of poverty and returnin ' a cent). The anti-option sin, for they are analagous terms. bill, which the 148 Democratic m- A rise, m breadstuff means a tan j hority fajlea to pass," was , a direct in virtue and morality; an increase; blow at these. "bulls and bears. in the cost of living means an increase The ihiUnnri farm is published in the sum total of rice and crime, f u the centre of the cotton belt , Itn It is folly to talk of morality and gtead of advocating the passage of temperance to a hungry stomacn. anti-optSoii bills, it . simply tells the. raiment and shelter, and we would make to much, and if it ivasn't for increase poverty, vice and . crime by tending to the physical . necessities and obeying nature's irrevocable laws. College bred fool tell us that periodical famines, with their attend ants vice and poverty, are due to the infiexibleJaws "supply and demand," and a few superstitious idiots prate about the "inscrutable ways of divine providence;'' but while millions of acres of speculation-bound lands are held idle and unused in the hands of corporations, ar.d the toil-worn laborer is denied access to the earth, and is compelled to compromise with the silk-hatted sou of idleness for permission to exist, it is blackest of all black blasphemy to attribute social disorder, financial panic, com mercial crisis, starvation; siu and despair to Almighty God, and down- rignx, ODSunaie igiroraucc uu stu pidity to attribute thtm to the laws of "supply and demand. ,v Ye have shorn and bound th Sanuoa and robbed him of leanuns's light a Bat his Btanrish brain is raOTUig, hia ain- ewsbav an uusuraigut. Look well to your gatea of Caaa, your Th riant fai bUnL bat thinking, and hu - . M a. locuutKrovui uh.- The State Pair ana Ceateailal. the bnljls ami -bears' they would be bankrupt at once. . :, I: me Good Figures." A Imree four "nasre publication called the -Stat Fair Bulletin and Rrdeioh CenUnial Herald," has been received at. this office which is full of descriptions of special attractions which will be presented at Raleigh d urine the State Fair.. In the same waek UalMffb. will celebrate ner one nunoreatn annivcraarj, u -""- two cccureuces combined bid fair to make the week one of the most inter esting and attractive ever known in the State. - It is evident from the publication referred to. that Tuesday Oct. 18 th, the opening day of the Fair and Centanial will be the grandest day of the week; for on this day will oc cur a great Allegorical, Historical, Civic and Trades Procession in which will be the most gorgeous and mag nificent floats, representing yanous interesting ercnts, ever seen in the StItriH be much more brilliant and attractive than a circus parade. In Sneakers and others doing reform work shliuld not overlook the facts relating! to the decline in agriculture In 170 the average size or Ameri can farms was 153 acres. In -1880, 133acn)s. In 1890, 107 acres. The reduction in'size; with the increase of popfi'atum, improvements, etc., ought to- have increased the value per acriy but it has decreased. In 1870 the average value was $50 per acre, ill lfcyu uniy. fZP. xnat oi court e include j the high-priced farms of the -North. In 1870 the average f rice for wheat p;r acre was $12,76.4 n 18yQ, 8.63, or 33 per ce nt. leaaA In 1870, oorn er acre brought $17.75. In 181)0, .$7.03, 10.12 less. In 187'f tne average price oi oats per acre wak $10.05. In 18y0 only $G.2G. Sheep, jhogs, cattle and horoes have depreciated in theeuhw proiwrtion, while neither Tour notes nor interest, .1 - r. ..tit your tax nor me salary oi your oui cials hive decreaSvnl a particle, -in many case incrwii-f-d. Jio it is plain that itjtakvs double the arnoaut of the proiluct of your . own furm to tav yoar -obIigat"i.i: now tiiatit did lii'l 7(. t A re you going to vute for yourself or the plutocrats herealter? Proqrexic Farmer. - And re if JscLwnrprophetle TTeris i FTm Jf-kons farewi-H a5lre. The corporations and wealthy in dividuals who are eniraed in Large manufacturing establishments desire ahighjtarifl to increase their gains. Designing politicians will support it to conciliate their faror and to obtain the mean of profuse expenditure for the purpose of purchasing influence in othyr quarters. Dp not al low yourselves, my fellow citizens, to be J misled on this subject 'The federal government cannot collect a surplua for such purposes without violating the " principles of the constitution and assnming powers which have not been granted. It is, tnoreoyer, a svstem of injustice, and, if persisted fc, will inevitably- lead to corruption and"must end iu ruin. d ihiet fOfl'Cw
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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Sept. 28, 1892, edition 1
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