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THE HERALD. PUBLIHHKII tiVKRl FiUllAV MoKNINO. BRATY. HOLT & LASS1TER, proprietors. Bnteit-il at the Poitofftre at Smlthfleld, Johnston Oonntv, N. C.. an wcoajmlw Batter. UATK8 (IF HI'HBCKIPTION: Jne year, cash In advance, - - ? #1.00 tlx months. rash in advance. - - .50 Friday, April 20,1606, A TIME TO BE DESIRED. We make no apology this week for beginning our editorial col umn with a paragraph from the peroration of Senator Bailey'* great speech on the Railroad j Kate Bill. If every person who reads these lines would try to live up to toe standard set there in a new day would soon dawn upon us. ' "I pray for the time to coxnej when we shall have a new stand ard to guide cur children; when we shall teach them that justice Is better than power, and lead them in the ennobling fuith that truth shall conquer falsehood in eyery home where peace abide: , and in every land where men are ( free. Under theinfluence of high er ideals and more unselfish as pirationH an bate ami envy will vanish from our minds, and the only evil thought which still must vex us will be the malice which the bad shall forever feel toward the good. When con duct instead of fortune is made the rule by which we judge all men, every boy in all the land, no matter how humble his paren tage or how limited his oppor tunity, will feel the thrill of hope and the carpenter's son will know that if ouly he is just and brave and honest he will be more re spected than the son of any mil lionaire who ever wasted his father's fortune in idle dissipa tion or soiled his father's name by gross excesses." ===== Last Tuesday President Roose- j velt tendered Ex-Goveruor Ay cock an appointment ae a mem ber of the commission to attend the l'an-Aroe.rican Congress at Rio Janeiro, South America,this 1 pgmtjjer. jt was a high cooipll- ? ment but Governor Aycock could not accept. The position carried j a salary of about $10,000, and expenses. A ? ? ? 'the people of the entire coun try will sympathize with the city : of San Francisco in her dire dis tress. The once magnificent city is today in ruins?shaken up with a powerful earthquake and devastated with flames. Her City Hall, costing seven million dollars, her fine wholesale houses, | her capacious hotels, her palatial mansions are today a heap of j debris and ashes. Many of her inhabitants are dead, injured and homeless. No such disas trous seismic disturbance has ever visited this country before, and the great loss of life and property appals one in its vast ness and terribleness. Elsewhere in this issue of The Herald we publish Congress man's Pou's speech giving his reasons for supporting the Fast Mail Subsidy. Following it we publish extracts from the News and Observer, Charlotte Obser ver and the Wilmington Messen ger, criticizing the Congressman, the Raleigh paper against him and the others friendly to the course he pursued. The Herald, published at the home of Mr, Pou, regrets that it cannot side with him in this matter. We have not space this week to pub lish an article showing why we oppose the Subsidy, for that is what it is, pure and simple. Later we hope to give our read ers an article showing them what the Subsidy is. We would like to give Congressman W. W. Kitch id's able speech here but have not the room this week. WHERE ARE THE ORATORS? In a recent article in the Wash ington Post, that able and fear less journal speaks of life as one horrid grind in the present House of Representatives. It says there have been words but no sparkle. Where are the great orators that have enlivened the Halls of Congress in the days that are gone? Are there none now to shake the Old Hall with the thunders of their oratory? Are there none to illumine the galler ies with the lightning flashes of their wit? Are there none whose silvery tongue of eloquence, whose sharp tongue of wit, whose laughing tongue of humor, whose quick tongue of repartee, whose quivering tongue of satire thrill and enliven the auditor? Per haps, they are there, but they are silent, their oratory, wit, hu mor and satire is sleeping, wait ing to be aroused. Occasionally a muu risesabove mediocrity aud for a few days his name fills the newspapers and be is bailed as the coming ' orator, and then lapses into silence as before. We do not be lieve the days of oratory are ov er. There will yet rise men whose eloquence will awaken the nation. The orator of fifty or an hun- ' dred years ago would stand no show to-day. So far as we can MRP if thp ruuunn thcit t ho nro " . * ? c* ( torn of these days fail to arouse the people as iu the early days ( of the republic, is bec ause the people are better educated, bet ter informed, and last but not least, because of the materialistic tendencies of the ace?the wild race after the almighty dollar. Hut we started out to tell about the orator that the I'ost discovered. His name is George L. D.ykeman and he lives out in j the State of Washington. That's about all the I'ost knows about the gentleman from whom we ijuote below: ( "R. L, McCormick is the next mayor of Tacoma. Everything points in that direction. "\ou can go to yonder eternal moun tain, whose brow has been kissed by the bivt'n of every dawn and bathc-d in the glories of all sun sets; go to your long line of coast where sounds forever the cease less thunder of the mighty deep; go to your forests where the flrs tall and dark moan in the breath of the passing breezes; gaze at your ywu cQosciypwe whose Jepth no one can fathom but yourself--thpn listen. Hack from It all will be borne this message; McCormick is mayor by the largest majority ever given to any man in Tacoma." SENATOR BAILEY'S GREAT SPEECH. According to the press reports the speech of Senator Bailey of Texas in the Senate Tuesday of last week on the Railroad Rate Hill is the greatest speech deliv ered in that body in recent years. The Senator spoke for four hours and held the closest attention of all the Senators, the reporters and the occupants of the crowd ed galleries. At its close he was loudly applauded despite the rappings of the Vice-President for order. Senator Bailey is con sidered to be one of the greatest Constitutional lawyers in the country and in his great speech he not only substantiated this claim, but also strengthened it. The speech is not one filled with flowery eloquence or fervid flights of oratory, but from beginning to end is a presentment of the cold facts of law and agreement strong enough to convince even some of the great Republican Senators to his way of thinking. Among the many good things that Senator Bailey said in this great speech the following de scribes a state devoutly to be wished by every man who loves his country and loves his fellow man and wants to see exact jus tice done to all: "I do not believe that this leg islation will lead totheend which some men fear. I believe that the ultimate effect of it will be to promote a better understanding between the railroads and the people. I believe that when it has made the railroads do the people justice, the people will feel less reseutful toward the rail-j roads; and we shall deal with these questions with more of rea son and less of passion. It will take the railroads outof politics, and we will hear no more about railroad Senators. I want to see every corporation driven from the politics of this Republic, be cause corporations have no place in the politics. They are organ ized for profit and cherish no pa triotic purpose. Politics are for men of flesh and blood, made in the image of their Hod, and not for corporations, which are the mere creations of the law." THIS WEEK'S PAPER. In order to accommodate our advertisers this week and give our readers the amount of read-1 ing we wish, we publish a twelve page paper. We are not given to boasting but we think we are J - giving our subscribers a good paper this week Look over it and see if we are not right in say- i ing this. In addition to the usual amount of news local and general, we publish Mr. l'ou's strong speech against the contri butions of corporations to cam paign committees; President! Roosevelt's famous speech on the Man with a Muck Rake; a symposium on railroad subsidy; | chapters five and six of "The Wings of the Morninu;" and otb-1 sr articles of interest. We also call special attention to the Farm Department and the Kducational Column. Also the article headed "Some Business I'ointers" ma.y interest business men and clerks. < And the advertisements should 1 not be overlooked, for in them you may find something that " will not only interest you but save you some money. j We are informed that hereto- I lore every Democratic Senator ' has voted for the appropriation in the post office /bill known as j the Bpecial mail facility or sub sidy. j There are still many people in ' this county who have not jet j paid their poll-tax. Now, this is ' an important question and should be attended to at once. < Unless your poll-tax is paid by May 1st, you cannot vote next | Fall. No man should lose hie ' vote because of failure to pay his poll-tax by May 1st. Taxes ^ have to be paid and why wait J till after the first of May? Congressman William W. I Kitchin says in his speech: "Fn- " der the regular pay, exclusive of J the Subsidy, the trunk lines from Washington to New Orleans, for transportation and cars, receive from the government the sum of fl.227,437.09." Then why should Congress give these lines | an additional bonus of |142,000, wheu everybody who under stands the situation believes ] that the pay is enough? The people of Johueton coun- | ty need nave no fears that any of the rural delivery routes will be discontinued in this county, j according to an interview that Mr. l'ou had with the head of this department of the mail ser vice in Washington this week, , There has been no order issued that all routes that handling less j than 2,000 pieces of mail per month will be discontinued. All j routes will be continued if the people living on these routes show the proper appreciation of | the service. Let all the people take a greater interest in the routes by taking more papers j and magazines. It will not only show to the Government that you appreciate the service, but will add to your knowledge of I public event? and make you more interested in your homes, j your neighbors, your State and ' your nation. There is no danger of race sui- j ' cide depopulating New York city j so long as the present ratio of | births to deaths is maintained. In that city there is a death every seven minutes and a birth < every six ?Wilmington Messen- | ger.' HpAihrr Paint! Paint Now! I While nature is pntting on a new coat, follow ber p example and paint your home. A little money spent in buying Sherwin-Williams I'aints or Hammer's sp Lead and Oil 1'aiuts will greatly add to the value t f your property. Come to see us, we want to figure p with you on your paint bill for we can save you ip money. ' J | v.-.,s.... jne coiier-sievtns co. J SZZOF'? ZftJA/ZTN Forty different styles of Oxtords, Sandals, Pumps, Etc. all the leading styles of the season h'.ve been received. The largest stock and most complete line of la/Jies low cut shoes that we have ever handled. . . . Spiers Brothers, smithfieid. n. c, I * ************************** r ' Su We Are Aiming I , At You j "The Know f How" I A GOOD GUN does not make T a marksman, neither do type a and presses make a printer. J There is something else neces- J sary?the "Know How" to use f I these things effectively. We have a Job Printer k | of many years experience who can handle your j p printing in an up-to-date manner, and we have f ^ provided him with all the latest labor saving ap- L 3 pliances for getting work out promptly. We are f. f snre we can please yon. Let ns prove it on yonr i g next job. T A card will bring samples and prices. 1 | Advertising Talk $ t Does Advertising Pay?this is no longer a debate- a j able subject?it has long since been decided by the i p leading business men of the world. We have an L "ad writer" who for several years has made this a 5 branch of the business a special study, and who is 3 w glad to "take pointers" and write your advertise- p L ments. "A business that is not worth advertising \ 3 in any other way should be advertised for sale." J Put an ad in The Herald and watch business hum. * L Write today for rate card. J Books For Summer Reading | \ We have a nice assortment of books, of the very J 1 best authors. Call and see them. ? I r^r Piters I
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