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OPINIONS. y The coal barons have added an other 25 cents to price of coal and some of the plutocratic papers are kicking against it Ietup,; gentler men, let up, these are private affairs' and government has no right to in terfere! Oh, no, let; the coal barons xaj hwu mi nie price is one dollar a pound and thousands are perishing with old. It isun-con-sti-too-shnn-al,-you know, to interfere with pri . , vate affairs." ' "Lay on, McDuff, and " damned be he who first cries, enough" Upakota 7eroW. Athe London .Statist of September 17opens.itban article on the in--ternationa. monetary conference " " v . w uv nopeu mac the iittV government will have the courage even now to withdraw from the international monetary confer ence." The writer says that neither jm. uiauaiuiic, a.a premier, nor tne 'chancellor of the exchequer, has any sympathy with ithc object of the con ference. They know England will not tain per with its monetary system ' and thfey must feet therefore, that BRIEF they will be in a false position in go ing into thecoufereiKe. They must beware, oo, that it was proposed - only as a moan of tiding over the elections in the United States, and that it was accepted by the Euro ropean governments simply out tof courtesy to that of the ITnited States." It would seem from the foregoing that even iu England thenterna . tional monetary conference is under stood to be merely a r ruse to post pone the settlement of the silver question until after the "presidential lection. Ex. ' I ' ; ' :- There is nothing new to report in the strike situation in Homestead. The advisory committee is confident uiiu iitugus ui uw iuhmiuj yaponugs of the Local News, which published an editorial declaring the strike was lost. Fort Kick is the scene of mncjh quarrrelling and lighting. Whiskey 1 1 U.-i.lU.. ! if. 1 at tne bottom oi it., -. me non-union men get drunk and go out prancing around the streets. Some get full of r. ,-Ui. ...! i i i ' a it. UUL U11U Ul UII UU IWAlllg XU1 lb Many go armed. Several ha've been so insulting that citizens have ac conVmodated tliem, and one or. two in stances Uiave occurred where a uon- I nion'mtin Ims mef "his dpsArrci nnd got pretty well hammered. . Then the , .mill officials and newspapers make them out as poor, iimoc-errfr; in offensive aiigels, set upon by terrible monsters. Many of -these men "are lost to all, ''.sense of decency,- and seem proud of their dcspieable'action J in. taking another man's job, and then go around and add insult to in jury. Ex. " One door in Wyderbilt's mansion cost $50,000." What did yours cost? Voice of the People. : We , wish it had cost 500,000, as then more money would have lieen paid out to those who furnished the material and 6old their time, skill -and labor to make such a , work -of. art. We ' are always glad when a person of wealth goes out and buys things with his niouey, and thus adds" tothe volume oi circulating legal tender. It would not b a bad idea, nor adetrimeut to; . thje country, were the Vunderbilts to nav out S5.000.000 for doors,, win dows, floors, food, pictures, horses," butter, flowers silks, cottons, mnsi cal I instruments, . books, carnages, furniture, etc., etc., as this putting of their money into circulation en ables others to sell something which they have for the-monev the Vander fbilts have, Hut don't. Jet any one have a chance to invest money in ITnited States bonds, as. they are' the bedbugs that suck- the blood from over-tax ed lalnjr by taxation. lytnery s Advance J hoiiqut. . In af recent lecture in Chicago j Robert Ingerfoll gave lit term ice" to 1 those fundamental truths on the so- &al coin pact we denominate civiliza tion: "And let nii tell you to-nighlf avhat I mean bv the : iibertv of the body.. It is to give to every- man what he earus with his hands. And tins great question ot iu vision j. nas got to be settled oven iu the United States." Capital takes to "miich; labor gets too little. Labor; will not always live in a hut, V,witli ciipital living in a palace, : Flesh aud blood are more . sac red than gold, ami the time will come when the law will see that every man has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit, not only of happiness, but tlw right to catch ; some of it before he dies. I. want to live until J tind an uristocracy of houeit,of geiiorosityj and aristocracy of intelligence; an arisifccraey of heart and brauu. I ain sick of the -old'kind. I want liberty for -every -man. I do not K'liove in the law of supply and demand as applieil to nesn ana blood. If tbey who toil cannot have some of " the good things of this world, then I do uofc want huvbodv to have them." STATE HEWS. ITTTM x . ... iS.4:u'-VF OCT. PEOPLE t r"" ' Hen ry 'Ifogers "hits lifr-n O 1 lii wed oy a conimjss.on ot Durham caantv. 1 ;. 1 . - : i- '-tat .IrnU'S is m i'buror- is tiiding nitiie wooUi jti'u- 1) Lr. . - . t TheStatcsville L ceivexi froni Prof. iias re io I son of Moorcsvillo, a ed from a in e ow W. JJ. Mo ft, i ear 22d Ex. . if e cjio -rv til" fr . m : looresville if Dr. on the ; Mr. Mike Paifty of (hih.wn, cle of 3Ir. D. G'-R:ifty.:cK S'a has sold, to r.arii.-s iy C'and :;n uif- i'Stllle. iui,- a gold mine thni: he discovered i nis place about two oars airo, ! I 'll r - '-,'1- . ". " rt . states briags vine jsinnuuirr. - - News from Ghtpel 1 1 111 the sad anuouncemt'nt of IheJ death at that place of- tr. J organ, n his, Dr. Morgan was nvomntent profession and popnlar wiUi all Classes. jJurham Globe. "he Winron (,'!iauilor oil Com merce has adopted resolutions' Ask ing the State Jx-giilaiine amff Con gress to, favor the estaMishnieijt ot a national park in Western Korflh Car? olina a projected by editor Bui-bank.. Ex. i v - ' . ..! " There is a glut of cotton at the Raleigh compresses, and the rill ways nave reauy more tnan Uuy twiUiuiiule Hundreds7cxf c; t loads' Jare tbifc and Hamlet waiting on Uic .congresses. Cotton is -iciug'inarketcTrvervlrfrrid: ly.-rSe. '7T ' i News corner to us thet last. rA eek a colored man was foend ik ir the: U al- bridge across He iini inost senselofs c-owdit! on. ifi was abetotell. that :iten wn him - Hie win r; 1 rs afterwards he-dieil. np i mi- . jxiijijig 1 1 re." l ! . cc u r ret d this Euly o oked city and . .-. ction last w ek. risers report that thV -ground as ji coverea wj.tlt Ji-nt. snoic. At Griffith's ice wn.i .cji irtc so Heavy frost's-at 'V'ltiTf Ore ban-' The tomato vines ait1 a thing of tli 3 past. Charjjolte Oh wvcr. j Farmers inJVirake conn ty say nearly all the. cotton has nwn rick4d.' It is being put on he niarl;et hpidly, as the farmers donot beuevel i there Never ket so lyr It ai-s. will be a rUc in the price. i ' - has a croi) teen iuit on vt lie ma early in t he pearou' and so raj)! is tne sn2rnte:t crop m many yj Ex. Mrs. II. 11 Cotton, ot thel World's rair Loniiris-iio;),' is now ington, D. C., haviiig.. a .at iiejk vVah- mude ttrees Vatter tanoke u the ing at e the build- one or the mwa of 'vaiou found at the place '.vhrre Sir Raleigh's co'Jcmy -andctl on ' Island. This d-k will I;d Virginia Dare the World's i'. name of fhe .. 'is r. ' iiui ii i orth C.V.ndina ing- -Ex. Sunday .about 1 o'cloek" MrJ Whithead" discovered that so waa burning at the depot. IT Mr. Jj. M.. Pilf mr.n hurried and found: several l.-nlcsi o co fire near the corner 'of tjji house and very near a .car with, cotton. ' They succecaed stopping it, but a little V'ay would have caused a big fire.. It "was tliought one dropped firo there from a! j&gar or a cigarette. Scotland Necli JJevi- ocrat. . We noti--c week's apers an account ot br u-iiiet- ffn at the Carrol Ho:) jio.tei in Daliimore bv theNorih 'ai-ollna ' students of the John Hopkins University," m - . . j whiclj the name of Mr. Jas.'H I'ridv le list' gen, ot tnis i;iice, appears m t. of Caroliua students. Aiier t le sup per a committee was appointee to ef- feet a. permriheut ortmizat on oi the, Carolinians f.t Hopkins.- Kin- ston Free JTers. , M.r. M. ('. Si n cdton hs prdsented us with a bunch' of lAiutifpl red June apples from st se(ouI cijop on the same tree... ....Several porpoise have been seeu this week in tlie river opposite the town. It is rare U) see them sofariiom the souud... i..Mr. l our o va- W. S. llur bank has placed o table a potato vine that has t-x rieties of potatoes, ehtircly different ou the same ioot....l.Xol. McCarthy has built a well at; - airfielc more he.r t&an 200 feet deep, and ; w that water has" been found ns d ood as there is iu the State....... J. K. & Co., bought aP' Pnd? in two davs for shipment. Vvhne bffish Other firms also made purchases. T lie fisli business is- ouite an riem liere. Washington GaztHc. Oiir Enfield conesnor.dont writes that a colored man tlie iv.hif o Hale Wilkins, who was :;bont Jthirty years old, w us murdered r.otir iii field hist we-k. L'he facts were r thes-: Wilkin lived in !Eunold toviaship but was at workf at M'hitakerii lie returned to Enfield Saturday night but was decoved back. lie was ...1 ..-..il.v .1...- 1" VI.-.-, ',vl-.ll t a short distance from the railiiad in Nash county. Herald, toiir negroes iumned ou him, chokiusr a:id!sta:b- bing him with a Knife. Thet ; then examined his pockets for moripv and one of then said. "We have kdaved h 1, we killed the negro " bit did not get - anvthing." ile was j taken to Eufield but died ou the waL' . Mr. Ik F. Gary, corner, held an minest l and the above facts we're dev lopetl. It seems that i woman had sni ethiug to do with th9 afTair, Dill I has been imiriicated in the 1 1 int erline, and arrested. Koanoke yacsi j. . 1!.. :thing i and down Bton on i, ware mx.M In GEVERIL XSTl s. Japan has 550 ne we japi-rx The -world has 4500 pa;ei' mills. Mndon shelters ,5,00-"t00 pie. .. , . Sweden has 5:000 f.chout g New York has litUvn 2 banks, v. , ro- den ' : J' California rcsorio for thewinter. 1 ti.ug uj i . , The receipts of wheat for intern- Uer were the largest on record. T,. .1..: .1 .. ' f . . mmv aouw yv, t js,uy Lxperimenttationu asiKc-s. The British Cabinet decided not to occupy and annex L agenda, Af - rica. vj " " - ; About $100,000,000 is in.e?ted in'! . ... . , i railroads. " '-', . There ii a feearcity of corn :n,.ks icoaud the people-tlirea Mi to revolt in consequence l Another mill, for grhilipg only American corn is t.o start up in Ilain burgTtrermany. n . , ' :- y:- - United States four per cent are now selling at 115, which lowest price since 1831. i bonds is the The drought in New great that the United ?.lexico is o troops at tort Stanton ar? iiotTclloww'i to wash. ' . ' J J . A liussiau mail tram Was h'dd up by robbers near; .KrowkV r.nd .'50,- 000 and much valiT.ble stolen. nggage The Georgia cotton csop will i, be about seventy; per c-t. of the average. The acreage- ilias been re duced ti is year. ' ..- Secretary Rusk oTicidlly" J eel ires that. the United States is fice'Croin the disease kuowu as coutaLoTis pleu-ro-pnenmoliia., v ', L News from Denns Sca is that nearly all the seal Well ing ii being done bv British ves ie Is, tlirertening the destructing of th indnstry. J The Kokjomo .Daily C;v::eLte-Tri-bit'ne has moved into a new homd of its own, it being one of th? finest offices to be found in Northern In diana. " " ' V The side-bar -on a 13 ig Four cn gine broke near Warsaw, smashing the cab and injuring r Jones- Scott, who wa3 numg on tne seac-witn tne fireman. .Louis Feltz," 13. years old, of I3rookville, was accidentally, and fa tally shot in the grew by his brother while they were gathering grapes in the woods. . . i : Kobert White, aged 1G, son ot J. White, of ' Walnut lievel, Wayne County, was fatally mangled by a freight train at the L. 'E. & W. depot in Muncie. . ! f At' Crawfordsville. th.1' .Monon paid a indgnvent and cast-- in asuit lor a horse ithat killed itself by run- i ning mto a tram street at Iadosa. : standing on i. Sisrman Wei in it z, a prominent business man of Whitini, committed suicide.' His wife had left him, aud be had made ah, attempt at af, recon ciliation, .which' was u us ucce.?sf u 1. ; Some of the Scotch" iiicmbers j-or, the British 'Parliahieutare threat ejiing to desert Gladstone if he. does not devote more "attention to their affairs aud less to those of the lrih. A public reception was given to Lieutenant Peary, 'Mrs- Peary and the members of the expedition and of th relief party at the - Philadel phia Academy of atari; I Sciences. The father - of a boy at Luglish, where the lad was suspended by the neck by a piick-t'emi ered sehoor- teacher, will apply to tae tate au thorities to have the teacher suspen ded. p . ; -, . j. ; ' Jamea W. Barcock,of Ann Arbor, Mich., ,'was Villed several million dollars thre years ago by an uncle oil condition that he marry within five" years. Mr. Babcock fias just taken a wife unto himself. . This Year's of sugar beets in Bohe una is expected to be fifteen to twenty per cant, less than that Of lblH. Ileavy rains have somewhat bright ened the prospects, but the. prices of raw sugar are still ter. u ing high er.'' ' -. . i :' -v ' '- Assistant Seci eta. y Neltlelon has. informed an inquirer tha; i,nt.of ifa issi;e of 400Q .-. teu-thoiad-;ib!la r legal-tender notes lh:re U but one note now outstanding, ana Umt there ar? but three fivc-rhcufaail-doilar notes outstanding out of w io4al is sue of $20,000,000. - ' ), '-X ' . A whaling steamer has jrti rived in San Francisco, Cal., from a'Hwoahd lialf years' voyage. Her -ttch for the cruise was thirty-eight whales (the largest ou record,) whose bone and oil' represent $10 T0iLi;" She was two years housed in th? ice, and lost several of her crew f rem drown ing and other causes. ,j 5 In several locaUtit'S LnTuLiiigton there are animals running wild which have descended from domes tic ancestors. In Pacific, Cliehaliis and Mason Counties they W a rem nant ofra herd of wld cattle, which have roamed through the . wockIs and over the prairies of that portion of the State for years. " 1 Nora Standish was thrown a bug gy at Coldwater, Mich , and fell on her head, dislocating her neck- It was thought' that she was dead.' The attending physician summoned two stronguen. " One Sei;.cd her by the feet and the other ty the head, and at the word pulled' as hr.rd jls they could. The bones-sprang into place with a snap, she soon recovered cn ciottsness and will lire. v ARADCATED Llt)JlE TAX. It woaltf Place the Barieis r Tax i alio rpn Thse Best AkleU: Bear Taro. Now that the people are awakening . to the appalling fact that a "few thou- 1 : rapidly absorbing the created wealth of the conntr. th-auction arises is there a l-emedv? We believe there is an adequate reinj&d v. 4' we uo not toinciaewuu tne iews of thoe who would arbitrarily limit (tiie accumulation to 1,000,000 or $0,000,000.. Nor would we suggest ;ay course that would hav the effect of crushing out that spirit of ; enterprise and go-ahead which has I done so much to put the United Htatf inJhe frontrank of the world's irreat nations. One of the remedies that we would suggest is this: Limit the life time of cor porations, say to twenty-fi ve years, with no power of renewal. This would put a quietus upon those creatures that "have no souls and never die." Corporate wealth would then become dissipated aud be scat-, tered among the various natural -or legal heirs, in about the same time it does the property which belongs : to individuals. Jn tther words, limita tion would play, havoc With individ ual accumulations. ; Another remedy, and the principal one that we would depend upon, is this: The adoption of a graduated income tax. Exempt all rei annual incomes less, say, than $2,000. Levy a tax of 5 per cent, oh ineonies from 2,000 to $10,000." When $10,000 is reached increase the tax to 10 per cent, on all aboVe $10,000and up to, say, $30,000. On $30,000 up to $30, 000 increase the. tax up 15 per ceut. On ail incomes ftm $50,000 to100, 000 make it 20 per cent., and on all incomes overhand above $100,000 make the tax 25 per cent. The above rate of increase may be susceptible improvement Our hg- i ues are, priuciply for illustration though our judgment is that the rates we have given are not far out of the way. I v "" . ; . . .The system then -would, work some thing like this: JoEu Smith, who. is a merchant in a small town of a few thousand inhabitants, seldom makes enough in his business, over and above all bad debts, rents, local tax es, wages to employes, living expenses, etc., (all of which would be deducted Lirom. nis gross income;, to lay asiae as net income $a,000 peE year. Uut suppose we find here and there one who makes $3,000, why such "a one would have to pay 5 per cent on all over and above " $2,000 which amount is exempt or, in other words, 5 per cent, on $1,000. This would be simply $50 out of his net incomes $3,000. He would have $2,950 This $50 would never be missed by a man w ho has made $3,000. ' Suppose we find a man -who has made $37,000 -clear net profit in a single year. Deduct the $2,000 which is exempt, and it leaves $36,000 sub- ject to taxation. On the first $5,000 ! levy a tax of 5 per cent., making i fr250: on all above $10,000 and less jU;iri 0,000 (w hich is $20,000) levy i a tax of- 10 per cent., making $3,000; I on all over $30,000 (which wpnld be i$5000) levy a tax of 15 per cent, making $750. The total amount of taxation would be the sum Of $250, and $2,000, and $760 -or, $3,000, This $3,000 is the amount which, a $37,000 net income would pay. ' It would be quite a large.tox to be sure, but ho would still have $34,000 left, and certainly uo man ought to complain who has a clean net income of $34,000 in a single year. t He could spare that $3,000 better than a man -w ho works for $2 per day can afford to pay even 5U cents 'i tax on what sugar his family uses in a whole year. And the payment of this $3,000 into the public treasury would takej;hat much off the shoul ders of thd poorer classes who pay their taxes in 'small amounts. It would be like giving the small ox the long end of the yoke. , - Suppose agaiu, that we take a man who has an income of half a million. As we have seen in the above calcu lation, there would be $2,250 on his income up to $.30.00. 1 hen ou tne excess of $30,000 and up to $50,00fr there would be a tax of $3)00 ; on the excess of $50,000 up to $100,000 there would be $10,000 (the rate being 20 per cent.;; and on the ex cess of $100,000 up to $500,000 there would be $100,000 the rate being 25 per cent. The total amount then would be "$115,250. This is what a man who made $500,000 in a single year would have to pay in to the pu b fic treasury, Well, of course, such a man, un less he was a natural born patriot like Peter Cooper, would squeal. But if he squeaied just take him by the ear' and say : See here,' Mr. Hog, you have got $384,750 left, and if you are not satisfied to liFe in a country whose business opportunities will enable you to clean up that amount in a single year, then you had just better! emigrate to some other country where you ,can do bet ter.: : " r : ;' ""' ,- ' Not only would such a graduated income tax take the great burden of taxation from the backs of those least able to bear ,t and put it upon tbe shoulders of those best able to beiir it, but it would serve to equalize the possesion of wealth or rather Drevent the vast accumulation of wealth in the hands of a few. " Of Course taking one dollar from the pocket of one man and putting it into the pocket of another bring3 those two dollars nearer together. If 10.000 corporations and inividuaWf - . ' . . -. - , ! had to pay $100,000,000 per vear into the public treasury of the people's government it would briDg the 10, 000 corporations and individuals $200,000,000 nearer the people. r cme Yanderbilu ana Goulds wouid I find themselves weighed dowi. the'cr saine aa tne trotting horee with a Ught-weight driver is handicapped. in a race. Take 25 per cent from their .incomes everr vear and thevi would find it a much longer road lQT,?nt f . J-w uc uau at uauu w - r- aggregate tax would be from in - comes, but we venture to say that, ' ,m tree cb.-t: , with the public debt wipetl ont and ' tif d..f,nir u. the interest stopped, it would pay thej .r,')' e,, !M' entire expense of the genend govern-1 :, . meat. We believe that a carefurHgtream d:ishe ODnsideration ox this subject wni conviace-any candid mind thai a graduated income fax . would , be a rational, f equitable and 'effective method of preventing the vast ac cumulation of wealth in the hands of the few. The system is not an experiment. It has teen tried (though not the graduated.' feature of it) in this country, but because it was a poor man's law it was repealed during the memorable ' period when a waTe , of oeialcofrnption and plunder twept like aq epidemic over the country. It has' also been adopted and is now in use, in other countries. Chicago Express. . The Jews and Pale stne That most distinguished of -' Jew-ish-Ameriean philosophers, Rabbi Wise, does .not welcome the new Palestinian movement, iu so far as it involves the repeopling of the Holy Land by the Jews now scattered over the world, including those in the United States. He ; holds that the Jews who are now here should stay here instead of going to the coun try ,ionce held.by their race and try ing to. set Up there a Jewish State like that which existed before the Christian era The Jews have mul tiplied in the United States till they number over a million; they enjoy privileges here such as they cannot obtain in Asia; they are constantly becoming more powerful; and theyl are aecnmmu L-tting wealth more rapidly than the pecple of any other race in the country. Thaugh in their synagogues they are perpetually praying forthe. restoration of Jeru salem, in the opinion of ltabbi Wise, who considers New York far pre ferable to Jernf alem as a place of abode, they could nofr be made to go there. : , We are assured that the great nia jority of the thousand rabbis in the United States hold views like those held by Rabbi Wise upon this subject and that only the Russian and Pol ish rabbis who" have recently come here take any other view, or believe that the prophecies of restoration are to be literally construed. The recent discussion, of the new Palestinian . movement in The Sun has called out many expressions of opinion thereon from our Jewish contemporaries; and we have been struck with the fact that all of them which haVe fallen under our notice are of one accord. We do not know of a Jewish-American paper that "favors the migration to Palestine of the Jews in the United States. We quote here but a couple of brief ex tracts from two of these papers as specimens of mauy that might be quoted: from other papers The Jeici&Ji Tidituts of last Friday Says: V "The conditions m this country will have to change mightily before the Jews will forsake it for the land of the prophets. , As for the Jews of the United States, it can be said that Palestine has no inducements for them." "' The Jewish Messenger of the same date gives its judgment in an elabo rate article: : "The" utterance of the Rev. Dr. Kelt of the. Episcopal Church, that Palestine will soon be ready for the Jewish race, has absolutely no weight nnless he can show that the Jewish race is ready for Palestine. Jewish public opinion on this subject is not difficult to ascertain. The great majority of Israelites who share the civilization of the day and are ac corded civil and ; religious equality; give no thought of returning to Pal estine. If the traditional view oi the final Jngathering aud the rebuild ing of the Temple is still repeated in the prayers,vit is held as a theory like that of the millennium among our Protestant brethren, who are in no hurry, however, to abandon Wall street, the,. Standard Oil Company, and Western ihortgagea " in conse quence. So Israel is not returning and does not want to return. It looks no longer backward, but ahead and around!" Though the Jews of this country are thus nearly unanimous in declar ing that they will never go to Pales tine as settlers, it is certain that a good many of the Jews of Eastern curupe are going mere. x.s we styled a few days ago, the Jewish population, of -Palestine has more than doubled within a short time, and those of the Russian and Polish Jews who have been prevented from comiug to this country are turning their eyes toward Jerusalem. If the Czar continues to maintain his anti Jewish policv, millions of his Jewish subjects , will be compelled to find homes somewhere outside of Russia; and there is no doubt that since the Turkish Sultan now favors their settlement in Palestine, they will make homes for themselves there. . While the Jews who are in this country will slay in it, there are enough Jews in Russia alone to give Palestine a larger population than it ever had in any past age. We shall be pleased to see a powerful Jewish 1 i . . I 1 j.1 1.1k. State there, all the people thereof en joying .those unalienable rights among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. C0OD S0I1IS EDIT ATE . Prfl!ni ri1I bo C1riiml i1 t m t nw wa.ii t ill OO f or ber-s tbe Uoajaaklar Era-Berima. . j A couturv r,.jd. )rt-rhead the, r!ti- 6.,.,; ..fj t, t tojpi5t.r hare :icross, like fhoot ;' . ' I,i:r.' '.;.....!. ,.i ii. ,1, k nock oi (warilv or ith tht ir a iflaiV t. hi rid urns u rin, i iv 1 a-. i,.. . Htv" a.A t iere a fa!-; contributed one one ceut. to t Le snp Vt ;--! ; rt,:;i, ;:nd mar-f ! jrt of hU local jt. j lr W. !- 'a -! 'through WhatdcH-s the editor get. lie .' . i.i:..;;;.e adioiu- left. From the Midddletou n'a.) e :-.luv AliWle over the road in wet it glides away. In dry reasons here is an ugly and inconvenient furrow left by its overflow. The road would seem to have been left to such way fare&as gray equirrels who after all choose theelevattnl niilway of tree boughs and wild creatures of surer foot than man. - . The rains have washed deep and rough gullies; the rocks , stand up bare and-ebarp of tooth' otroue side, and. deep.'.mndholes on the other en trap even the cautious. " If tvo Ve hicles meet, theie is no room to pass; although unused, laud ou either side stretches to the edge of vision. If the drivers are respecti vely man and woman, the man, wifli instinctive gallantry, drags his vehicle out of the way,-backing, turning audJak ingall risks himself; if two men, they settle the matter with much strong language. f The battered and broken vehicles tell the story, with their long succes sion of rude . mendings; the harness tied together,. with bits of rope or roughly patehed, the horses tired and thin aud melancboly with hard pul ling. Truly the gray spairrels Tiave the best of it. - Tht-re i fev houses along the road. A population remains sparse and. scattered where there are no roads, and there, too. are found those path etic households of the old and help less. The young men aye, and often young women are gone to the towns gone anywrhere there is a chance for them. If they had raised good crops, fine fruits, how transport ,them to market? If. thev had gooI f horses, the hard wear and tear of the roads used them up.. If they were ingenious or tnnity there were no neighbors to give a word or:' two of whdlesome praise, to keep up a friend ly competition, to trade the barter ideas with; the're was worn out think ing in the old grooves as .well as worn out harness. And in the short winter days and long winter,, nights the house was drearily isolated from other houses by long stretches of muddy and rought ways, and the sight of a human face at the door was startling, A r Do you wonder that old supersti tions and prejudices and old feuds survive in lonely country districts, and old despares and fears cloud the brain? It has been said that the Salem madness of witch murder was greatly doe to the . slow and. infre quent communication between th;e towns of old days." There was tinie for unhealthy brooding. We don't hate our neighbors if there is a brisk intercourse;, if we have cried Over' their dead and rejoiced, at their good luck and been helped by them on days of worries and hurries. We don't doubt' "the divine kindness when we see it revealed in the kindly faces of men and women about us.' . The loueliness and. isolation of country places where nO . roads, of jtrorse than none, separate not con nectplaces, this is the secret' of human "overflow into large towns, aud when those who go are mentally and morally uneducated, Jof crowded slums and tenement houses and even viler places. Man needs man. The best part of education is not. in naV ture, not in books it is in hnmaJ intercourse, lhe ree shows ot the streets and bulletin boards, word flashing to meet' word, the continual presence xf here news is made, where life is acted getting knowledge at firs hand this is a part of the city. raining. .. But yon will say truly - that'1 it 13 but poor stuff manv of its scholar get profanity, voice, all manner of vileness and that they ought not to need to come to town to get its better elements, f Well, give them, theu, a wholesome country intercourse, neighborly talk set in clear air, the spectacular play of shower , and sunset with others beside them to look, too a' country with roads and they will itay content. A nation of roadmers is a nation of educators, of civilizersTand the day when a hearty - ., , . interest ii roau matting spnoga up iu the country will be the day which marks the beginning of the solution of some of our most -serious social aqd political problems. Ella F. Mosby in Kate Field's Washington. What The Eiitor Gfts. When a child is born into the world the physician is presented and gets about $10 for officiating at the important event. The editor her aids .the advent of the stranger and gets a cursing for making a mistake as to the sex and date of arrival. .- After a while the child becomes a nan, the minister is called to per form the cereknony and walks of with a ten dollar bill) in his pocket for his trouble. 1 The editor is again called upon to V chronicle this event by drawing on . his imagination to make the bride and groom the best and most reep-ectable - people inJ the county. Hit; only pay is to be asked for "a few extra copies of his patter to send to nae abseat frienda. ? Jn time the cae baby, once happy grobm, but now man well advanced in years, is brougl it down by death Again the . phya ician is called in and mke his bill, j the undertaker . id nregeiiL mid oificialv-a at the fnn- I f.irmine thtf lastsS?-! rite, while the editoi is exicted to romphte the di-anu bv holdm up Irhv decked - ...ntim,in knA on ml at presem is cviuiT! up me jroiaen ' stairs. -The prolbilities are at the I san.e tin.e t hat the Jwb tha groom l aud the Jead man have J beeu m in- f.ruall V tingor ib,t lttf had ucvtr Adtxcate v , ! rrlrate Rlrhrs Ike Opprees&Ive rwer Ef rerjwaere. It is so plain tht private riches and combinations f private ojju leuce, are the oppressive elemeut in hnman society, that it ought to Ik? manifest to evcrv preflectiug mind; and tne laws and governments of all pretect and foster this oppressive element as though it were pu rely beneficieut afd in no way detrimen tal to the rights and I well-being of any class of people. f However tyranical and overbearing any man might be by nature and dis position, he canudjj no great and ex tensive dauiagiugto the; community or the natiou or without the Vd van tage which wealth can afford, lie cannot command the rv ices of nu merous laborers aud artizans un less he is possessed ot the renumer- aiiug vnem. ne; uuunui uu.uc large tracts of land without the j meaue of purchase; he cauuot gener- j ally secure special ! privihgea and j franchises without large , sums ot money, or endorsement by others who control money or mohied influ ence. In order to be a monopolist or oppressor, or usurper- 6t the cpial cnauces and nghts of the people, h must have- either actual riches at command, or the influence ot ricn per t eous vj uats umi. k v..v, : then, in these cases, mat to oe a ty rant, a monopolist, a despot, and op pressor, a usurper, r'one must have command of the power which wealth always carries with itj aud without that power no. man is' to feared more thau another. An individual might be a giant in size," or a Sampson in physical strength, yet a. very few others ax-tine" in combination, will : o ' oe able to over-master : mm, aim h- feat his assumption in the roll of a tyrant or oppressor. L ; , But clothed with the ower which money or riches, gives a selfish- or an ambitions man is not only ena bled to command the services of many others, even to the number of many huudredspr thousands,- but be is in a position to invoke the oient tion of the laws in his own interest this the poor man is seldom : able to afford, and thus riches' is made the means of oppression iWhere there would be no oppressioir but for the fact of accumulated riches. It is further the fact that the laws of a country and the United States i forms no exception to the rule arc made by the wealthy class. Or at the oiuuiug oi mat ciass, anu are inoi ; z - i i r .1 . .. iu ; 4 . . t . iiivanuoiy iiauicu iu mo muticoi. ui i the rich, and to the disadTaiitage'of '. the poor. j : The operation of these unjust eco nomic principles that is, the accu mulation of unlimited, wealth by private individnals has been going oil so many centuries and ages, aud is so strongly lutrencbed in the Jaws and constitutions of nations, that' weal th ha3 become to be on oppress ive element without reqard to the good or bad ch&r&ter of Us owner. HiVealth, riches, opulence, in other words, is always oppressive in its ef fect upon tne community, wiiemer the possessor of it desires it to be so ot not - The laws are framed so that they favor the riches of the rich, and those laws act without the attentien aye, even in spite of the ' wishes of the proprietor. Consequently, pri vate or corporate wealth, or wealth massed in sufficient amount to be ex erted aa social or political force, is invariablyan oppressive force in so ciety, under - modern civilization, however good its - owner' might oe, or might have been, had he nolfbeen rich. . x"x ' - If there be any truth in ths reas oning, it will not be easy ' to under stand whr it was that the Jews was so hostile to private riches and rich people. This feature is the disting- uishine peculiarity of his Gospel. If the Sermon on the Mount" and other sa vines of his uttered m the same vein, bad not been uttered, or had never come from the Holy land Aji a hart of the Gosnel of Jesus, it fs hard! v conceivable that the remain-. der could nave survived longer tnan a generation or so, and we should in that case nave never nearu oi jesus or his G os oel. for there would be do Uoepel witnout inoee lmraorui jrairi- n " . L. 1 A Those remarkable sayings respecting riches and poverty, oppression of the poor, the "beatitudeaf the denunci ation of the nch, the commendation of the poor, promises of eternal life and happiness to the oppressed and down-trodden, and so on, these con stitate the yenr essence of tha gospel of Jesus, and withont them alt the rest would be a worthless mass of theological rubbish, which would, if lef to itself, have passed from humaa remembrance a thousand tears ago It was the perception of econo mic principles at work, and of the inevitable result of their operation, that enabled Jesus to declare with so much rigor and emphasis the moral consequences which follow the accu mnlation of private riches. He per ceived that the unduly rich were the worst of criminals, because, it is they who are responsible for the social conditions which 'make all otbeV crimes possible or necessary, and therefore, he could not JhelrJ saying heviusi hii IlOll .1 to h? anil t tie it;:..-. you t li.it arc rich:; l-tvs-e in hell the , ret ! rich fmaa ' ..i . t poor. iitu-d Aud :p Ins eve?. , -.' . ol up iur j on.-arl h. I h - Kyr. (Tov Mh. the i. r' I tt..l . . . . ' c-.4.;i.; : - ''" Mammon.' -Giv? :o vc v t a Ki-4 h. ::ut t . m j; , jr ; WOllld suti ! w Wife-C to the orioofVuv1- tnr.v jVc ilia a .a ?lld, ii ). '; . ihut 'h i, IiS ... . be re-iU i rod o. hall theie i!j.': i A . : . a'.l v.' 'oikrs): i-wii of nu' ;ue hctvilv that libor aud fvr ui' liln future yeki t iv "iil-JJOt 'r it is e y a;; a ..ill; :; .i or i'i pa.- Urt-u ib i h-' ! e a ..c. tnan tv) , c thau J r a kiogdtiu Of heaven. ( tta. The riveiv price colli to the' CtMtenpl;:n cotton is now. and 1 v put yi ar, uonormaiiv ow. ot. pronctiou iiis iw-en 'it-; - - k .. "tan. i : I S t' . the sclH.ng price lh-nttoii ri-.n.i. i i d! it' has prdiluced 'iTgrnral . :. bnsinesk "circles, :uid" nn;. .. embarrjissnieiit nd . l:?.t. - .. the pllnters. . The" result of X. ol-g these o.u . ii - is ; o 5- 1-i'- f roi.i i.tunlv bowu at y wne acrcajre jq .wl. vii. ;:c ivl'mii ; io a timatesl and the harl enced tlie purrliasi; in f.i such ail estvlit thr;V :r ported Jto.Wg're:jt!y Jv--v, last yi?ir" " -C-!Fn-i".-j--;eiit,y beeiu !.. eoUon j).,.' U!. was plijnhHl wt-f ;-f -rti : - to this the fat i th,;: llui . on the Lvfrare' Leo:: , h. 5 il:U ' I. set - i ,V imc are laiihg imich (b; tnns, aa ul tlio cerir.i reduce l.-tlyear s tit - i.. KK. je i tli. ten1. . :.- re- as ti vuv acreage ha-i been the cro if ejual - :; 'ivei y wiVi'd bv.o:T:fi I'ept.'ct l iast yt'at-r, oe n. oruy il-. aboii. t ,uoo,0uo t con d 1 1 ihti U i how i . 1 1 repor'ii . ia lit Jf ioLto.. ons.umj -nels, ainl ;o ctmii) fr;:0, ti' to. le Uiut 7,000,' u ditiou io ibid, the- im9 si lulatcd the use n:i u cotton in new c l,n: tjon 0f i the ini the pi lining dcuui ud for . ! vear. auyfni ar .near It, t..c 'Ji'pitli Will iBouii vaniMi and n -hhori t -cp coir.- mand lagn priee. .U m u,j takiig hold of cotlon like they bo-, lieved in this condition. ; Strikes are reported iii thu i'.rit:. !. mills by the daily pre I- is i. good time' for the snet ul- i c to ; t up a ffc.v btiike in the 1'. :' h utiii if he ci u, because during the, im;;. . of OeU-ber and Noveiub'r i ' cii !. x, pbiiiter markttJ tiie bulk " W.i and if trices can be kept tU.wn in the eix'culator s -tuv.; th co!U . out oft the fan h.et f a 1 bencIU tue .Tiie: in r;re nl couaUio jy A)i(AiUUiv. Hie cor.u r i i . t Q he Jne in which th 1, liiTiitinr an TneviUble ; itossibl manner, and whJ? iV-y groundj slowly, the de . tV' vll', .Iii:. by thej eiK-culator in l.o?' I! , every hule pbsifible.'. I It seems, 'therefore' that cotton must ling a bet U-i price later in ll: s season 1 but the KcononiliL uoc . nl desire to be held responsible-: fn any man liolding his cotton," ,Ti.i.t BjK'Culiitiou, and every inu.i miut epeculate on hisown jiidt,'n'.at. As a rule, farmers who .hate held their eottoii have nt m v 1 11 satisfied with their . rcsuM .a th- e who sold on the mnrkct.iis thy wr"e ready. There is, however, no d- id t that a planter able to hold his colu,n at home, with no espeiw for lier- ' est, etjrage, etc.', wlHK kep5 jostcd on the maikets and utxtk gfd jtsdg- . ment utid holds only high grade cot tons, tan make it pay hi in vvei!, ery -often, to hold eon let i nn-n for a yea . or two But when ;i muu i ? in c.l and pitying interttU or.wbfn In i coBijM.- ifed to hyjtotbc-ute.th? c'oi or mokiey to run on or. t p -nd tlien baa fctoageaijii' V .ud otlicf charges :i j ar, i veryldifferexit quv-tio.: u doubtful policy. . The prtM-p-cu uf ImjIU r cotton! are good, and it tho membired thut higii' g; " are the b-at ; to k'.-p !,; have less compctiliQU laic '., son. lit is now u rr.I uun ! , . in 1 vcr. it be re- cuiton .: thy mtellitreut co-oiM-ri-thtn ai ill- American" cotton plauU:i- if tbt surplus be absorc-U this ui.-on . ni the planters cau be mui u ol th situation for years "to coheir tiiey will ci-oierate wfth the, fc-xi wet opening short aud ; keep it ehvri ui': winte ", Thd Kcocoraiet will make as pec i fi feature of keeping the cotton jd-ii;-ters ported, and be ai vah:nblt- n tbem m nratUtrect'fl U to th.- mer chant National Economist. , AsifTlflXfor human rii'ntd consti utionaL No hsiraiug in ooh . no ski 1 aciuired in courts no bhuri ness o forensic diah-ct, no ""uutlin aud splitting of hairs can -impair thj vigor tbereoi- xnis is trie supreme law ofi the laud; auytbing iu the con- Stitutipd or laws of any istate to the contrajry notwith6UudxDg.--Cicr Sumner : - A liatun witbsixty-txre million of hiibly civili.l an inU-Ihent peopWand sit "thousand rntlbon of. natural wealth ought to hive a suf ficient! basis for a circulating mem m evetj if gold and silver were un known materials. 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The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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Nov. 9, 1892, edition 1
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