North Carolina Newspapers

'. ' 1 .(.l. I - j i ' ' V- :"s-":-iJ.:.,i r-:"i''." ;. V peace on earth akp good will! to men. !-' ;:r:;':':. ' 7 V-' H ' - " - . ' : " " ; ' ! '"'V'V " - "! " ' .; i l A ,:. ; J . , - 1 ' ' - - ;;- y ' -J : . , ; : , : ' ! 1 1 1 : " 1 1 1 1" : T" ': '. . x J VOL. II WADES BO RO. N. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23; 1895. iNO. 11. t : WADES BO RO. N. 0.. WEDNKSD A Y, OCTOBER 23, 1895. ! i I ' . ! if .1 " 1: i f i- RICH ANARCHISTS. 'tHERE IS AN.. UNWRITTEN "AW THAT EXEMPTS. THEM. thy Can Do body Daret SB They Plea and Jio to Prosecute Them for Violation of the Law ; Courts. They Own tfaa From Chicago Sentinel: gome two or three years ago it was dis covered that a comparatively poor man had tapped a city water pipe in such a manner that he obtained all the water he wanted without paying. Of course, 'he was duly prosecuted according to law, just' as. he ought to have been. , ..Now the startling discovery has just been made that the g?eat packing - houses of Chicago have for years been getting water in the same way--a six- , inch pipe, tapping the water main and conducting water around the meter, in t he case Qf the Nelson Morris company. The Armour company has been Dro- vided In the same manner, so it Is said, and several other nrominent nackine ' nouses in the stock yards district still to be heard from, with the good work of investigation still going on. It is estimated that more than a mil lion dollars in revenue has been lost to the city in this manner. .The Civic Federation has stirred up this hornet's nest, and the authorities aro .compelled to take some action So m - ' i far, they are simply trying to stop the j leaknothing is said about prosecuting Phil Armour, or Nelson Morris, or any omer or those highly respectable gen tlemen of the stock yard3 distrlct,;.who are making so much money every year and devoting a little of it to the cause of education and religion. IHj&es without saying that no crint irial proceedings will be instituted. - And WbV? Sfmnlv- Wanaa thn r lenders are so wealthy and influential as hot to be amenable to the laws which apply to poor people. In England there wiincu iaw wnicn exempts mem- bers of the royal family from prosecn- iion ior crimes other than murder, and there seems to 'he air nnwHttpn ' law in this emintr fenses of any kind. klnrl. , r I Prosecute Phil .Armour? The great pig-potentate, who refused to appear before a. United States senatorial Inves tigating committee, and nothing was done about it! The idea is prepos terous. ' ; . v The man who makes United States senators' would not obev the biddinsr of United States 'senators, much less, would he heed the summons of a judge whom he or his confreres havexplacd on the. bench. 1 Phil Armour, Nelson Morris, and other Chicago millionaire packers, may have stolen millions from the city if Chicago in evading water taxes, but they will never be called to account fpr the offense. 4f the city can "stop the leak" it will ue more than satisfied. ; There don'Kseem to be any law in this, country which rich men are bound 7 to "respect. s But there is a growing public senti nient . in this -country that men wealthy enough to defy the law and live, unmindful of law are na less an archists than those who advocate the abolition of all law for the poor as ! well as for the rich, for the pauper as well as'for the plutocrat. .1 Anarchism is a dangerous doctrine and its advocates, especially its practi cal advocates', should be properly "pun ished. , 1 The anarchist who practically advo cates'the abolition of law so far as it ap plies to the wealthy classes is more dangerous to society than he. who car ries a red flag. , The gret anarchist breeder of this country is the unwritten law that the wealthy culprit shall go scot free for an offense that sends a poor man to the . .workhouse or penitentiary. , Now let Chicago inflict the same pun- j ishmtnt upon Phil Armour, Nelson j Morris, and the rest of the stock y-brds,.; water-stealing millionaires who have stolen a millionthat it did upon the poor man who stole $28 from th$ city treasury in the same mannerpiping around the water meter. If Chicago does this, we will take back all we have said about TUiFlionalre anarchists. ; , f- That Chicago will - do this, there i is Just as much prospect as that John Sherman will join the populists, and ment. -In himjBro. Coxey has an ex no more. I ! cellent coadjutor, the people an editor The San Francisco tCall, the grat Pacific coast daily paper, owned by Claus Spreckles, the sugar king of the Hawaiian islands, proposes to erect the grandest marble and etone building in America for use as an office. It should be cemented', with dead men's bones mixed with ; the tears of women and children whom the great sugar king has robbed, murdered and starved in the process of accu bating his blood stained millions.- And aten. It should be haunted forever by 4 cries and groans of his victims. kicking democrat nereraolts u cannot pass a natfonai bank note ! at the st-offlce: A DEMOCRAflC PAPER'S OPINION 'Of the onoernatorlal Candidates In r ;rl Kentucky. The following editorial appeared in ! the uauy Evening Post, of Louisville, Ky., (a strongj Democratic paper)i a few days ago. j j ; ; ; "Mr. Hardin (Democrat) Is trying to steal the thunder of Mr. Thomas S. Pet tit, Populist! , j. "Mr. Pettit has a higher claim to the support; of so-called free silver demo crats than has Mr. Hardin. "MrrPettit is a better democrat than Mr. Hardin. ; He is loyal to the princi ple of representation in the conduct of party affairs. ! He left the democratic party by the front door, because he pe lleted the party wrong. He had the courage! to surrender, the hope of polit ical advancement rather than surrender his convictions.! "H9 preferred to leave the party to having the party leave him. We may differ with Mr,. Pettit, but we must re spect his firmness,! his loyalty to prin ciple and respect fpr fair play. "Mr. Pettit, moreover, is "a 'better speakerthan Mn Hardin.-and a far bet ter debater. ; j 1 j "If the committee desired to have Mr. Bradleyjs (republican) arguments in be a. 80un4 currency answered, they k n nil in n o tv . m i. ifM unrim should have named not Mr. Hardin, wno Knows nothing on either side ot the question, but Mr. Pettit, who has .j the arguments of the populists at his i tongue's end. i i ! "Still further, Mr. Pettit would make a betterl governor than Mr. Hardin. His judgment is! sounder; his views are clearer; his reasoning powers stronger, and he knows how to express himself so his auditors can understand him. "Give Mr. Pettit a chance. He has had great experience in legislation and knows enough to know that many of Gen. Hardin's vagaries are utterly ab surd. ' ; J "It is true that Mr. Pettit is the can didate of the populists, but he Is not their victim; no one has hypnotized him, and he would lead his folowers and not: surrender .0. them. "Mr. Pettk is a man of, many ideas; man of one. Mr. Pet- jur. narain is a stands by his platform; Mr. Hardin Mr. Pettit was the choice of the party; Mr. Hardin was forced on the party against its: wish. j. Mr. Pettit bows ;irity; Mr. Hard to xne win ui uic ma n's own will is a law to him. Mr. Pettit at Frankfort would be prudent, cautious. Dainstaking, itfdus- A . . . . . n. nnA niVmt. be faf better for the state ana foi- the democratic party to elect Pet- tip than ta elect piardin. , j H ' ;l '-' J- ! " '" ' ! , A MONSTER TRUST, j Three Billions of Capital in One Grand ! Combine. " The biggest combine on earth is now being foraged by the railroads of this country. the great trust forma- tion which C P. Huntington, the South ern Pacific magnate; advocated some years ago in the North American Re view, is now, ir progress of organiza tion. The Hon. William E. Chandler, writ ing 'to the interstate commerce com mission from Concord, N. H., under date of Aug. 17 says that niie combi- nation will be he greatest association of capital which America, perhaps the world, has ever the American known. It embraces an lines between Chicago and New York and the and ths west, east, and also the Grand Trunk railway of Canada, doubtless covering ?3,000, 000,000 of organized money." , Three billions of capital in one grand combine: Just jthink of.it! Who says now that the transportation -question is a matter of minor mention? Mr. Chandlerj goes on: "The object is to abolish competition" in freight and passenger rates, to guard against any possible lowering of prices, and to ac complish as soon as the traffic will bear it, a raising of the present charges." Mr. Chandler quotes the New York Tribune as- say hg that the counsel for -the companies will, see that the agree- ment "complies with the laws of all the suites as well States." , j - as those of the United The people's party have a remedy for such ons as r-e have de scribed; ! But neither the democratic nor the republican parjfy 'propose any cure for the evils ot railroad monopoly. Nevada Director. Henry Vincent is making Coxey's "Sound Money" hum. It is among the best reform; papers of the day if. in deed, it does not lead them all. Bro Vincent is a; bVoad visaged journalist and is thoroughly, schooled in the various, branches of the reform move- who Is forever right. "Sound wedded to the cause of Money" is .doing grand work all over the country as well as in Ohio, It may not succeed in electing Coxey governor of the state, but it will succeed in making the people's party a fixture in Ohio. Next year wo will reap the results of. this year's campaign. The democratic papers of the South "strive to keep each other in counten ance by-repeating with variations the tune "Populists-reJ)ylng." But none of them, ever venture an argument a gainst the j principles of populism. To win, .U the one glorious 'object of the j old parties to be right never troubles their mino.3 ior a moment. A'ermo t has Increased In population twenty-five ;years. Cy but 2,000 , - rrr-r. v c, jv ji ; n i . - , '-)fck ki j . ii- vfcsjjt - i '5 TTZ ' m . -1 ' WILL WE SUCCEED? ; - ' - 5 i : "" " ' '. ' ! i " ' ' ' ' 1 APPEALS TO REASON. THE SILVER CAUSE THE CAUES OF HUMANITY. 1 Bill Arp, Goldbug Writer, Gets ) Con verted by "Coin Up to Date" and . Telia His Friends that They Cannot ; Meet It with Argument. i I have, just finished reading Coin's last book "Up to Date." If somebody doesn't answer it and prove it a lie will shake this country from center id .ciajjafereaccLJriie.baiikerB andsp.cr thrown and the danger is that the masses Will go too far in revenging (their wrongs and, like Samson pull down the temple and crush all ; alike. When he shows up the inequalities of taxation and how the rich escape, it makes the blood boil with indignation. Aside from the silver question, he gives a certificate of David Gore, the auditor of public accounts for the state of Illi nois, Which shows that all mat tne bankers and brokers of Chicago were assessed for taxation was only $44,000 of money, while farmers of that county j were assessed $84,000 for agricultural tools and implements. Think of It! The farmers' tools are assessed nearly twice as much as all the money credits and Securities of all the banks, bankers and brokers of that great city. And all the diamonds and jewelry in Chicago were assessed at $17,750, when it is known that single families live there; who own diamonds and jewelry ten times that sum in value. The money of, these banks amounts to hundreds of millions, but through the manipulation of muni cipal politics the rich control the as sessors and escape taxation. Can this be true? If it is false, why doesn't Eli Perkins say so. I see that he has taken the field against Coin, but I can't tell ex actly from his last piece whether he is lying or joking. He closes it by saying that after he had shown Coin his;errows and fallacies Coin gave it. up and tears rolled down his . cheeks and he dis missed his school and declared he wasn't gwine to teach any more. I like Eli. I like any lie that is funny and harmless. I used to like to read Baron Munchausen, and I like to read Ell now. I confess that it strains my credulity tq believe what Coin writes about the Chicago banker's tax, but there; is the certificate of the state auditor. Surely there is some explanation of all this. We know what Solomon, and Paul and the Savior said about rich menj but I never believed that our rich men were that bad. We poor folks whose income was under the mark, believed that to tax large" incomes wras the right; thing to do, but it seems that we can't do it. We are taxed all the time on the outgo through the operation of the tariff a tariff for revenue only, with incidental protection. It is the incidental that gets us. An American sewing machine r a mower or reaper can be bought in London or Brazil 30 per cent cheaper than we can buy one here. There comes in the incidental. It is protected here from foreign competition and the profit is so great that Mr. Singer or Mr. Mc Cormick can pay the freight acrpss the ocean and then sell It for less than he will sell to us. Isn't that funny? Har per's Magazine sells all over thig coun try for thirty-five cents, but sells all over England for twenty-five cents. An j American Cedar pencil of the beait qual ity sens nere ior a nickel, out you ran I buy the very same in London ior a copper. And just so it is with huh dreds of other things that at made In this country. This incidental is not accidental, but was done on purpose at Washington and our law makers say we must stand it. . ... r Boys, let's fight. No, I dont mean that exactly, but let's meet and pass some resolutions let's do something. Now, the Chicago gold-bugs have called a meeting to see if they can't stop all this rumpus about silver, but 1 they might as well try to stop a torna do. I wasn't taking much stock in these financial affairs, for I had read so much on both -sides that it made my head swim, and scf when a friend sent me Coin's first book I took it up with prejudice against it, for I supposed tnat Mr.Harvey was a Chicago Yankee and was paid by the Inter-Ocean to write on that side, and so I fortified myself against being seduced by his book. I read it rather hurriedly, watching for traps jand triggers, but I didn't 3nd Mm;atYvtea Mk miwh Inform L'tticif Tiraa narnrci iA ma that T -rtm A mvA :rrffiillv the second time, and I came tn thfl cnncltifilon that Coin was a vervMmd 1 nave not changed my r man nv T wna n vpvv trvoal fnnl ! one or the-other. His last book is bet- ter than the first, and if these two lit tle books are made up of fallacies the gold-bugs had better get somebody else beside Eli to expose them Eli's forte is fun, not finance though I'll bet a dollar he was opposed to the income tax. Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. FARMERS AND BICYCLES. Vaya in Which Profits of Agriculture Have Diminished. The extension of the trolley and cable systems of traction for street car lines has greatly reduced the demand for horses, and as electricity and steam power has been substituted for horse power, the market for the cheaper grade of borses has grown worse. Recently the. farmers who deal in horses have met with still another disaster which has diminished the demand further the bicycle craze. This strikes at the horses of the better quality, ordinary carriage horses, and not those devoted to the humble and laborious task of drawing street cars for their board and lodging. Livery stables throughout the country, and more especially in the smaller towns, are now feeling the sin ister effect of the bicycle craze. In coun- ry hotels or boarding houses where in previous summers it was the custom of . . , , . A1 . has been very little demand for car riages, as bicycles have furnished an adequate substitute. Not only have tho livery stables suffered in respect of drive" over green hills and through winding valleys in the country, but the regular ; customers as well have gone over to.the bicycle contingent very largely. Country doctors, as a rule, have been among the best customers of livery stables, ! but they are so no more, for many country physicians now use bi cycles for their professional visits, and this is true of many other former pa trons of livery stables. The big bicycle factories are turning out hundreds of machines every day, and up to a few weeks ago could not supply the demand. As the number of machines increases the demand for horses falls off, and one of the results of this has been the cheapening of good carriage hordes and the reduction of the number of such carriag horses raised by farmers. In still anbther way the farmers of many states have suffered from the effects of the bicycle craze, the wheels need no fodder. The fewer horses, the less de mand for hay and oats; and it is be lieved in many quarters that a shortage in the .New York-hay crop this year is all thatj prevents a big fall in the price consequent upon the decrease of the de mand. If the fiat of bankers is good as money ment. Why why not the flat of the govern- not hire England by the year to manag our finances? SENATOR PEFFER ON BONDS. Will Introduce a Resolution Advlslnc Re pudiation. Topeka, Kan., Sept.! 13. "If another issue of bonds is made, without the au thority of congress I shall advise their repudiation." j These are the wordsj of Unites States Senator Peffer, used to-day in speaking about the probability 1 of another band issue. Senator Peffer has kept his eye on the figures which tplbox the condi tion of the gold reserve. None have watched it sliding down below the $100,000,000 mark more anxiously than he, It was he who objected very em- Iatlcally in the Unitjed States senate "I consider the bond issue fraudulent, position govern- nce ine- Still thinK tne ""i"" "u ctULiluw w BOUC wiinout tne concurrence oi congress, said he. "I am satisfied that there will be another bond issue (before Oct. 1, be cause the syndicate has been given te privilege of taking all the bonds Issued before then. There is only one thing which may prevent !a that is the fear that it democratic strength. bond issue, and will weaken the They are mak-' iug heroic efforts to strangle; the free ? silver sentiment in all the states, and have to a considerable extent suc ceeded. Look how they squelched it in Kentucky, Arkansas and Iowa, and nearly all the other states where a test has been made. They are compelling the silver men to go outside the demo cratic party if they desire to adhere to i that principle. The leaders thing that the voters can be whipped into line, and if they find out that' they can, then look out for another bond Issue before Oct. 1. The people will bp given all they will stand, and no questions are sup posed to be asked. j : "At the last session of congress I was called impertlnentl because I asked to have the names of the bond purchas ers made public If there be another bond isue without authority, of con gress I intend to Introduce a resolution advising the repudiation of the bond?. i . - j, f . i ney were issued- without author i! . ', turn are irauauienc, ana the people UWV VUUlJIQIipU tl PJ li'V .j. This may not sound well, but therr i. ho use of allowing the people!:to, fie im posed upon any longerl When the first j bond issue was proposed Secretary Car lisle came to both houses of congrcr and asked legislative authority for tho issue. He Went SO far as -tr nrpn?ve a bill for that purpose and presented it to the committees of both the senate and'! 1, tt I . - , j uuuse. vAmgress reiusing to aci. the secretary gave notice that if he were not authorized by special act he would issue bonds without 'such au thority, and he did so. I -called atten tion to these facts at the time; charged tnat tne nonds were issued illegally. and also introduced a resolution in structing the judiciary committee of the senate to examine and the secretary had such report. whether authority under existing law, and the committee dared not report because they knew there i no such law." j The gold men bolt their party all right but the silver men appear to bo too confounded big cowards to declare themselves ! indenenden t 1 God grant that the' two old gold-bug parties may unite on Grover Cleveland as a candidate for president. Then wo can kill two snakes with ine club. ! wnen col Forney of the U. S. marine corps steals supplies and has them sent account it! is called "negligence." England is ' now buying silver from both America and.- Mexico but the gold-bug papers don't mention the fact. ; YOUNG MEN OUR HOPE. THEY HAVE COURAGE AND AM BITION AND WILL WIN OUT. They Possess as a Dlrthrlght Tha ' Healthy Independence VThlch Desplaaa Traditions and Queatlont the Highest Accepted Authority. Young men are the hope of new ideas. They are 'sincere, earnest, unpreju diced seekers of the truth. They have the energy, the courage, the ambition and determination to do something in the world. They pine' oyer no. regrets and fear not the untried future. Their lives are before- them. They long to conquer the world. . Their ancestors have been swallowed up in the whirlpool of competition, and many fathers have become reconciled to the lash and; the blind of party and giv en up the struggle. But these young men will not give up without a fight. These young men may not now be statesmen heaven knows there are too -many of what the world calls "states men" already but they have human hearts and manly aspirations and op portunities to pursue the right. They may be hooted at by their el ders, but they were born in a fortunate age, and will live to manage the affair of the nation long after their elders, with all their egotism and prejudice, are under the sod. The old men who have had their po-, litical eyes opened just at the physical age .when nature stands waiting to close them again forever, have learned by a life's experience, and we should respect them as teachers but upon th young men of to-day will fall the work of practical reform. w r The principles of right have always existed but to this generation is th revelation of the progress of all ths past ages and this or a future genera tion are the only hope of utilizing the wisdom of the ages, It is but natural that .the great West should lead the reaction against tns encroaching restraint of liberty which looked upon an unbounded prosptct. Imitation of the East grows fainter as people scatter westward and away from the centers of . custom and tradition;" bold strokes of nature assert themselves as man is thrown upon his own resour ces, and Isolation shows him the mean ing of liberty ind independence. He forgets the fashions and methods laid down in the books and conditions force practical ideas into his head. He learns simplicity and directness. He sees that he complications of "fl- . nancial legislation" are composed prin cipally of formulas to enable "finan ciers" to squeeze a living out of labor ers without toiling themselves. The young man growing up in the West learns Nature's laws first they are a part of bis being and no peda gogue in the world can persuade him to exchange real ideas for artificial ones. . , The young man of the West possesses as a birthright that healthy Indiffer ence which tries things on their merits, and accepts ppthlng until he sees what kind of stuff there is in it. , Call him a savage if you will, buths sees through your flimsy ceremonial, and scorns them He is tied tof no formality. only facts fairy, stories Give him don't go. The young men of the East are sur rounded by environments the justice ot which they will not question as long as they are well-fed, well-clothed and edu cated in aristocratic schools but the jtoor among tliem are born with their eyes open to tlie glaring injustice of the situation and as they hear the hope ful voice of the great West and South proclaim the coming day of "equal rights to all and special privileges to none" the cq'u rage of youth and "hop responds: "I ing." urrah! boys, we are com- CORPORATION ROBBERY. i The Cor pom t ion Unite Against th private .Citizen. A well-to-do farmer residing neai Denton tookj several baskets of peaches to the boat last week to send to friends in Baltimore as a present. When he ! offered to pay the freight he was charged 15 cients a basket. The farmfT was thunderstruck for the regular rates are but 8 cents. When he asked for an explanation' he was told that he was not shipping to a commission merchant but to private parties; and that rates to consumers direct without passing through the hands of commission mer chants were higher. Talk about the despotism of,,the czar of Russia! The despotism of this steamboat line in compelling the farmer to deal with the commission merchant is as tyrannous as any despotism in the world. Where is your democratic or republican form of government when you are such slaves to monopoly. It is time to limit the power lof this trust. If you agrer with us why not be men and vote with ns?Peninsula Farmer (Federllsburr, Md.). Don't accept national bank notes. 4 la : j - V-, . ..