PEACE ON EARTH AND GOOD WILL TO MEN.
VOL. II.
WADESBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1896.
NO. 22.
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OLDrPAllTY HARMONY.
A DEMOCRATIC PAPER ROASTS
THE GOLDBUGS.
SI
orons Kick AcalnU Ldloir Head
i Oxi
of tte Party Btcauio of Alierrl-.
fcao to the Came of Free Silver
! ratj Lics Rest Looselj.
1
j pTh&row. in the democratic camp
I- I feeenk to be getting no Letter fast.
' ; Thatf ia to say, there seem to be come
,Mhat!are unwilling to give up their
allegiance Ho tbb cause of free silver;
and nbeg pardon of the gold-bugs In
order to promote harmony in the party.
i Among those who earnestly, and we
might say, almost vehemently, protest
egaisnt such humiliation is the Mem-
phisCqmmereml Appeal. In a recent
.issue; it takes- cccarrion to make the fol
;!lowiiglviKorou? kick:
; 'rf;e should be very glad" to know
wnaf someor our esteemed goia stand
ard vfeontempOrarics really mean by
theirfprbfoscion of desire for harmoniz-
i ing the democratic party. Their whole
rourkejarid line of conduct has been
th.atjof peo'p-le who earnestly de?ire t
: J make I democratic success impossible.
"l Theyihavef from the first .adopted a pol
: icy: if treating democrats v;ho believe
f-"! te frdc,coinao of silver with ri--;!..
baldly, -insult and often with the most
r?J-. RCurfUousf abuse. Editors and politic
; i lan;:swho a little more than two years
; I ego ffere howling for the free coin'age of
-I eilvejFrandho changed their opinions
'between the setting arid the rising of
the sun have. not hesitated to - order
'e free sliver democrat to pack- up
his1 uuds and get out of the democratic
parftf.; The editors who are also post-
V raasliCrs and. whisky raiders are par-
'l 'ticttjjirly. foul-mouthed and offensive.
EJuring- the last presidential cam-
fcaign Harris and Patterson in Tennes-
arlisle and Blackburn in Ken-
, Catphings and George in Missis-
CIaik and Morgan in Alabama,
Smith and Crisp in Georgia were
5 juals etfong for the free and un'lim-
i"T 4 f ". A y I n r: r ' eilirfl n I flirt f Irt s P 1 i
j. . eee,f.e
; t tucky
,M elppl
Ubttoke
,' VU1UC MIL GUVC1' ai LliO IUUU Ul JU
Ao T Now Harris, Blackburn, George,
V? jIoran. and Cri3p have ceased to be
"j demlihcrats because . they have not
'r:- najfgd. their opinions, and every lit
:4 tie Jditor tif a third-class pctofneo and
ji -fdurib-tlas3 newspaper feels .- privl
jl ' Iqd.jte to fbawl 'Populist' at them. Up
!' ,to tfie year, 18,93 the democrats in con-.
greis had; always cast a practically
solid vote for the free coinage of silver.
No it a nian is net a gold monometal
llsthi3 net a democrat! To prcve his
heliefs o.I "at least a large oody ot nls
fellow democrats; he must" not only
heap, insult on men who have grown
gray in. the party service, but he must
hold up to Ecorn-,the;unbrOken record of
the.Mcmocratic party for twenty years
I anieitc in terms1 of extravagant ad-
: . if -. - T i ' a ' . -tsj a a.
miration ,tne , contrary paucy oi-na
grelt adversary! There i& yet another
tespof aepiocraey that is to support a
forfebillv republican for governor or
forithe Urrlte'd State3 senate rather than
a Jfemocratic nominee whose mind has
. noi; -undergone a revolution on this
money question. Under euch cireum
stage's the man who votes for the re
ipufljean..' 'is'l a 'democrat.' The man
, whMvotes for the democrat is: a 'Popu-
'jrierp are many democrats who can't
Btaksl tha;e new tests. They cannot
; prTounce the new shibboleth of de
i inoiac-y or understand, why they 'must
;be;ilaugbtered"at the passages of the
Ldelicratic Jordan. .
f ; IlKit in this way that our gold stands
rnVirf'tf''? A fpw- rl.1:va n p-n n nnmhr-r n ?
H-;proanent democrats gathered in Nash-.
rt viU i o take steps for the organization
h of ie free silver element in the demo
crate party with a, view to having the
! .dej?bcracy of this state properly repre
sefeid in the next national coriventron.
.Th,r action, has provoked a storm of
v W'tltl - and intemperate denunciation;
th have been accused of plotting the
diuption of the democratic party and,
i; st?ligely enough, of introducing a dis
: itirllng element into the politics of the
vfjp?: - So far as, we i can understand
sc of these criticisms they are to the
: .eeit; that the money question should
" be let alone. By this they evidently
nfti only that, the bimetallists must
r let ft alone. The gold men are continu
; afj telling. ug that the next national
denfo-cratic convention must declare for
. gol monoaietajlism. Mr. Carlisle has
repeated this declaration again and
agqin. He has even asserted that John
Shetman is no't strong' enough on the
.gold side, and that the democratic
v parly in convention must out-Sherman
Shopman: t The Tennessee delegation
mut A-ote on that proposition. Do our
friends who raise the belated cry for
har&ony mean that the complexion of
;thej delegation with reference to this
qucl-tion shall be left to chance or ac
cident? Or do they simply mean that
th.il bimetallists shall promote "har-
mtfiy" by standing aside and allowing
the! gold, men to run the concern ac-
cprjeing to their own eweet will ? We
'sholild be glad to have light on this
-brfihch of the question.
; J- ;lrLe question of state issues can cut
'nojpgure. in the choice of delegates to
ibei national convention. ' These dele-
gatls. will not be chosen with reference
r tfiiihVif opinion of the fee system, of
'.v :l4t)lbl$-taxat'io.n' an,i of criminal-cotirt
. clouts. We believe, as strongly as any
on4 cfln In giving prominence to stte
isiies in our state campaign; But Ten
; nesseo must take a hand in the national
r enrivention and must cast her vote for
ot against the policy of gold monomet
- allfsm; We are very, firmly of the
. Vpfnlon that the democratic party can
no j undergo such a. sudden change of
' wtmosnhere as our Kold friend3 would
4 Bafject it to without deadly peril to its
K constitution. We believe that as be
:twfeen two gold monometallic parties,
v the party which has always been stauch
monomctalIism will be chosen in
preference to the party which borrows
the platform of its adversary."
There is a strcng probability of the
liveliest kind of a ro-vin the democratic
national convention, but wo do net an
ticipate any bolt "'on. the part of the
leaders. The leadcr3 are for the most
part men who are drawing salaries and
.their bread and butter depends to sbmo
extent on the succes3 oftheir party. In
other word3 since their salary depends
upon the success of their partyj they
have greater interest in that than3 they
do in the success c! principle. -,
But this is not true of the rank and
filo of the party. The success of fail
tire of the silver caus? has much to do
v.ith the income of every wage worker
and poducer, Irrespective ef party suc
cess. . If the party succeeds and the
principle fails their lcr' fs as heavy as
if both had failed. ' But If their party
failed and'tbe cause of frt?e silver was
won they would be benefited thereby.
The rank and file 't.-rve begun to see
this and never before did party lines
re3tvs,o loosely on the people as they do
at the presort time, in the meantime
the populists while being ridiculed by
the gold-bug", are steadily gaining
grounds and the people's party will -be.
the only free diver party in the nld
next year. If all free silver advocates
would flock to this there would be no
question as to its success in completely
dethroning gold-bugipm in thi3 coun
try. ,
ROCKEFELLER'S MILLIONS.
-Scientific Name Wanted for the Way
They Were Gathered.
The following open letter to Prof.
Laughlin, of the University of Chicago,
from Henry D. Lloyd, recently appeared
in the Chicago papers:
"Prof. Laughlin, University of Chi
cago: You are reported in the press to
have said at a public meeting Novem
ber 5, in Kent hall, university of Chi
cago, to the students and others present,
that whatever might be charged against
one of the founders oi the oil monopoly,
no one could say that he had accumu
lated his millions in any -way. that in
terfered with the accumulations of
others. '
"In 1835 the supreme court of Ohio
found, as reported in volume 43 of the
Ohio State Reports, that the monopoly
had a freight contract with the Lake
Shore railroad, 'to keep the price down
for the favored customer, and up for tho
other,' and the court said: 'The inevi
table tendency and effect of thi3 "con
tract was to enable "this company" to
ruin all other operators and drive them
out of the business.' and -the court -an
none? ne contract aei?rawtft,
i . .- ... i
xne neip ox Bucn umawiui con.T.rrw;i.s v.u
capital of the monopoly has increased
in thirty years from nothing to hun
dreds of millions of dollars.
"If this were not a public matter, you
would not have discussed it at a public
meeting. Allow me, therefore, to ask a
question of you, as the head of one of
the most important departments of po
litical economy in the country. If this
way of accumulating millions by the
help of unlawful contracts, to ruin all
other speculators, is not an interference
with the accumulation of -others, what is
the 'scientific' name for it, and for the
kind of political economy which com
mends it for imitation to the young men
and women of the country:
. j 1 What It Means.
The result of the recent elections
Means down with humbug democ
racy;
It means that the bankers cannot run
the government.
It means that Cleyelandism cannot be
palmed off as Jeff ersonianism.
It means that the Monroe doctrine
must be enforced.
It means that English bondoeracy
cannot run this country.
It means that toryism in tho white
house is not popular.
It means that this government can
make jmoney,' and will do it.
It means that the people know when
they hive had enough of a bad thing.
It means that death awaits any party
that deserts the masses for the classes.
It means that party bondage is
broken, and that the: people, will here
after vote independently.
It means that a political revolution
is coming in 1S96, and that the people's
cause will win.
It means that the people will not
Jonger submit to a dictator in the whiU
house.
It means that, the people do, not wanl
the treasury of the United States turned
over to the Rothschilds.
It means many things that the lead
ing men of the country should studj
and understand, for the people are here
after to control.
It means that there is public wrath it
store fora party that defies the peoph
and robs the laboring and wealth pro
ducing masses. Let all future admin
istratiohs take warning.
"Felt tho Pressure."
The Atlanta Constitution report)
that Cleveland performed an astonish
ing feat of hand-shaking on his recen'
visit to the city, and fully 30,000 peo
pie "felt the pressure of his magnetb
touch." It was this same hand with I
"magnetic touch" that vetoed ever
measure In behalf of labor while thr
man was-governor of New York. I
was this man with a "magnetii
hand", that sent troops into Qhicagi
in 1894, exceeding his powers undei
the law) to protect the property o
tyrants like' Pullman. This was thi
man, too, with a "magnetic hand,'
who assisted a bond syndicate to. hel
themselves to ten millions of profit
In a few weeks and saddling the peopL
with, a burden of debt, in the face of i
constitutional declaration ' that "con
gress shall coin money and regulate thl
value thereof." Coming Nation.
The only place a strike will sueceei
permanently is at tbi'TO0 hox.
Cleveland Behold my sound money;
policy! Bonds, offices and good things:
for the faithful. The headsman's axe
and veto for all who dare to oppose me.
GREAT SIN OP USURY.
IT OVERTHREW ROME, AND
THREATENS AMERICA.
"Money Is Not Property It Should, and
' Trao' Money Does, Bear the Same Re
lation to Property aa the Merchant's
Scales Do to tha Articles Weighed
(By Rev. D. Oglesby.)
History informs us that old Rome
waa 300 years dieing. It also tells us
that usury was the disease that killed
old Rome. The reason why it took
Rome so long to die was, it took that
long time for Usury to rob the wealth
producers and concentrate the wealth
in few hands. But when pld Rome did
die 1,800 men owned about all, we are
Informed. Usury works touch faster
now. In the last thlrty-lve or forty
years, half the wealth, of ur country
- fiitnffiW -' TFontsiT'
ii m q fiT'iiiufi inirv i ri t- r i 11 ! 11 -. 1 i i t
our country ($35,000,000,000) .thirty-five
thousand million of dollars equal at
least to half the value of tlae property
in cur country. The f ehson why usury
works so much faster now than in the
days of bid Rome is in consequence cf
labor-saving machinery and perverted
socialism, or monopolies and trusts.
About 00 per cent of the labor
of f our country and the world i3
performed by machinery. By usurious
methods a class of men called capital
ists .have accumulated money, and they
own the labor-saving machinery. They
can take a small proportion of the wage
workers, and by the use of machinery,
manufacture all that can be sold in the
markets of the -world, and the great
majority of wage-workers are left In
idleness to starve, or oteal, or fight.
The capitalist demands a certain per
centage of interest,' or usury, on his
capital. This usury must come. or the
mill stops. In order to augment the
volume of interest or usury, capitalists
combine and form, trusts and monopo
lies. By so doing the old rule of de
mand fixing prices is swept away.
These combines among capitalists is
perverted socialism. It is socialism
among capitalists. All evil is pervert
ed; good. Every good can be, and has
been perverted; and when a good is
perverted, it becomes corresponding
evil. If it is a great good when rightly
used, it becomes a greaVevil when per
verted. Let us apply these principles to
the methods adopted in our country:
First, labor-saving machinery justly
used, would be the greatest imaginable
blessing. If 80 or 90 per cent of the
labor of the world is performed by ma
chinery, it follows as a logical sequence
that, if all shared a: just proportion of
its benefits, no one wpuld need to labor
more than from two to four hours a
day. True socialism in society would
put labor on this basis. But true so
cialism is perverted, and false socialism
prevails. A few get all the benefits of
the great inventions. Perverted social
ism robs the toiler of the world beyond
computation. Look at it. With true
socialism,- each laborer would, have all
he j produced, while the labor of two
hours a day would yield to him more
than the drudgery of ten hours does
now.
Second, take the -money question.
Civilization requires the exchanging of
commodities produced by labor. Some
thing is necessary to show the relative
value, of articles to be exchanged. The
value commercially pt any article con
sists in the amount cf labor required to
produce it.
Justice demands f some . method to
how the value in labor of articles to
be exchanged. We call that something
money. Hence, the true function of
money, and its only function, should be
to express the pricer value in labor of
articles to be exchanged.
But its true function is perverted.
Money is not property. It should, and
true money does, bear the same or a
similar relation to property as the mer
chant's scales do i to the articles
weighed. The scales don't make an ar
ticle heavrer or lighter, but they ex
press its tnie weight. Money never
created a dime's worth of property. La
bor does that. Hence money should ex
press the amount of labor in any arti
cle to be nought or sold.. But' money
Is perverted. It Is reckoned to be prop
erty and so used. It Is bought and sold.
Usury or interest is' the price of money
MY POLICY.
The mother country approves my work
and I am rewarded. "And when ha
said these thing3 all his adversaries
were ashamed; and all the people re-
for a stipulated time.. Instead of ex
pressing prices already fixed by labor, it
sets and fixes prices en labor ' and all
the products of labor. We read every
day about the price, of money. What
a perversion. The ' price of a price.
With equal propriety we might say the
length of length or ttfe weight of
weight.
It is owing to this perversion of
money that the usurers ; and money
mongers cling so tenacipusly to coin
money. Coin money is property money.
So long as the masses can be made
to think or believe that money is prop
erty, coin will be used for money. But
if the world can be made to see that
money is not propertj this money of
barbarism, coin, will o; rejected.
Another great evil growing out of
this perversion of mo:iey is, it causes
it to be a personal thirte. i Money is not
an individual thing. Individuals don't
make money. It is thp creation of so-,
ciety. It is made by jeoeiety (govern
ment) for society. But toeing considered
Ttfopertyr-tris'fc'JlT't tsdfYlduHs ' aa J
property. Money Is -.ade to use, not
hoard in order to sell. l is made to do
business v,rith, net to deal in. About
all the debts in the wrld have been
caused by money-mongers, men who
deal in money.' Give .e world true
money, and there would be no money
mongers, or men who deal in money.
The perversion of mney, making it
property, has destroyed all the great
governments of the world. It does it
by. usury. It concentrates the property
in a few hands, enslaving the masses,
producing poverty, vice, crime and bar
barism. Yvre are traveling the same
road old Rome and all t'lePgreat govern
ments, Egypt, Greece, Persia, etc., did,
and but for the diffusion of knowledge
among the masses by the printing press
we would soon land where they did.
If in thirty-five or forty years half the
wealth is gobbled up by thirty or forty
thousand families, how Icong will it re7
quire to get it all? But the printing
press has so enlightened the masses
that they cannot be permanently en
slaved. The schoolmaster has been
abroad in"the land. "You can fool all
the peopl part of the time, and part
of the people all. of the itime, but you
can't fool ill the people all of the time."
This is one of. Mr. Lincoln's proverbs,
and it as true as Solomon's.
Perverted socialism is the cause of
our national unrest and troubles, and
true socialism is the remedy. There
can be no settled state of society until
the brotherhood of man is incorporated
into commercial law. The human race
is one family.
Every man is
"We be brethren."
"his brother's keeper."
"An injury to one is the concern of all."
All the civil governments of earth
are in the hands of the class who be
lieve in and practice perverted social
ism. They delight in it. .Why do they?
Because by it they can rob the wealth
producers, grow rich, live in luxury,
enslave the masses and the masses not
know it. But, O, how they hate true
socialism. Why? Because if true sor
cialism was applied this favored class
would stand'bn a level with the masses.
They would" have to work or starve.
For this reason they fight socialism.
They say it would ruin society. They
tell the people that it is. anarchy. They
move heaven and earth (and the other
place principally) to destroy socialism.
The great newspapers' are enlisted
against it. School books are doctored in
its interest. Dictionaries are made to
lie or suppress the truth for them.
Even the church' is cowed 'down, and on
its knees before this enejmy of God and
man. Perverted socialism may, and in
all probability will, produce violent
revolution; but out of that ordeal will
come a true system of money, and a
government "of the people, by the peo
ple, and for the people" or true, and
not perverted socialism:
Richview, 111., Oct. 31, '95.
Few Gold Standard Men "Are Honest.
A. K. Ward, secretary and treasurer
of a barrel factory at Memphis, is one
of the fellows who had that "sound
money" aggregation of goW-bugs to
meet in convention in that city and
declare against silver the people's
money. He is gone. Before he left
he forged notes and checks to the
amount of about $200,000, secured
cash for them and is now safe inSon
duras. Yet some people read and be
lieve gold-bug papers and speakers.
Progressive Farmer.
joiced for all the glorious things that
were done by him." Luke XS: 17.
From the Silver Knight, published by
United States Senator Stewart.
THE ONLY REM E
Enough Money to Enable the
People to
Do a Cash Business.
Harry Tracy, in a talk at Labor Hall
in Dallas, had this to say,1
upon the
unlimited
money question:
"If we had the free and
coinage of silver alone it would give
us no substantial relief; on the other
hand, it would produce the most blight
ing money panic the jwcrld has ever
witnessed." ! This is deducible from the
following facts: 1. The people of the
United States owe not: less I tnan ?32,
000,000,000, the interest on Which can
not be less than 5 per cent per annum,
cr"?l,600,000,000 annually. It must be
paid every year out of the amonnt of
money in circulation, iand it must go
into the hands of the creditor classes.
"The creditor classes are ii a position
to withdraw from circulation that
amount of money in the shapo of inter
est. The result is, these creditors can
contract our volume of money to Jhat
extent without calling in a iTingie Jp-an.
This; can he repeated each year If' the
creditors decide to do so. The people
under" bur present system aro powerless
to extricate themselves from this condi
tion. We therefore see clearly, that the
masses have been legislated into this
condition and are completely at the
mercy of the money power, j They can
crush them whenever they desire to do
so. There can be no reliei until the
laws that have produced present condi
tions are changed. ;
"Now let us see what would result
from stopping at the free and unlimited
coinage of sjlver. The people's credit
ors would contract the volume of money
?1,600,000,C0Q inside of twelve months.
Where could we obtain a Substitute?
The entire output of our silver mines
does not amount to more than $75,000,
000 annually, if we coin this entire out
put it would take twenty years to re
place the $1,600,000,000 contracted in
one year. The important question just
here is how can we get along without
money for nineteen years? Besides our
population will increase: 60 per cent dur
ing this time. These creditors can
throw the country into a Continuous
panic under :the free coinage of silver,
because they can in one; year retire our
entire present volume and then absorb
the entire sijver and gold output of all
the mines in the world five times as fast
as it is produced. j
"If our. people were out of debt and
the products of our mines furnished a
sufficient amount of money to enable
our people at all times to transact their
business for cash, there woild be wis
dom in the argument of our free silver
friendsrbut as these conditions do not
exist, the remedy offered is no remedy
at all. People may expatiate upon this
or that expedient until the heavens fall,
but of one thing all may rust assured
and that is, until the national govern
ment furnishes the people a full legal
tender, non-interest bearing volume of
money, equal to the demands for its
use in the transaction of business, their
slavery will intensify until revolution
will close the ghastly scene in blood."
Diversified FarminL.
The siren song of the; sidewalk farm
er led the people into diversified farm
ing this season, which is a good thing,
for it has shown what fools they are
to continue the present system. In the
place of a broad expanse of wheat
fields, which we are told had ruined
the farmers in years Ipast, we have
beautiful celery plantations and ir
rigated gardens, millions of cabbages,
thousands of acres of I potatoes, and
corn and oats and barley in profusion.
And what a waste it all is. !l know one
Brown county farmer who has 2,500
bushels of onions. They Hie rotting in
heaps on the ground no market at any
price. In the whole list of farm prod
ucts only wheat and flax, the despised
crops, are salable. Cattle and hogs are
dropping, in price every week and will
snon oe on a level with the other stuff
the farmer produces. But taxes, inter
est, railway fares and freights and the
prices of : kerosene, coal, nails, lumber
and other trust products arp as high as
ever. Dakota Ruralist.l !
We are willing to wager a Jug of
buttermilk that if the Democrats nomi
nate a "good Western man' for Presi
dent, that the money power wBl dec
orate him with Eastern trimmings.
A PLUTOCRATIC LIE.
PROF. LAUGHLIN AGAIN TAKES
THE STAND.
VerUr Tlto Ox Iino-retU nu Master's
Crib," And tha Wily Trofesfor Standi
Up Flat-Footed and lies for ills
Matter.
Prof. Laughlin cf the Chicago Uni-
venity aid U,. other df y that Booto-
feller had made his millions without
interfering with any one ejse making
money. Prof. Laughlin is either mis
taken or wilfully lies when he makes
the above statement. ' The history of
the Standard Oil company is full of in
cidents, where the Standard has forced
independent refineries to suspend busi
ness and in many instances ruined the
owners. The plan wae to secure entire
control of the oil product. To do this
it was necessary to secure all the re
fineries. If a refinery refused to put
its plant in the deal and join the con
spiracy, the Standard would put down
the price Of oil to such refineries' cus
tomers until it was either ruined or
driven out of the business.
Regarding this giant octopus through
hich Mr. Rockefeller has made his
uiiilions we quote some very interesting
matter from Morgan's "Impending
Revolution.":
"Some very interesting Information
of the Standard's tyranny and the ex
tent of its profits were recently bought
to light by the United Stales Senate
committee. Mr. B. B. Campbell, an oil
refiner of Westmoreland, Pa., testified
'That the Standard Oil Company had
been built up at the expense of inde
pendent refineries, and by rebates and
special privileges given it by railroads.
"Eighty per cent of all the oil produced
in the country at this time had to be
sold to the Standard, who thus con
trolled the price.'
"The testimony of Mr. Cassett, of the
Pennsylvania railroad, in 1878, showed
'that the road gave the Standard and
affiliated companies a rebate on crude
oil of 49 cents per barrel from Bradford
field, and 51 cents from the lower field.'
The railroad also gave the Standard
22'1& cents per barrel on all oil shipped
by people not affiliated with tho Stand
ard. The rates on refined oil were 80
cents to the Standard and $1.45 to the
public. .
"Augustus H. Tack, 'of Philadelphia,
formerly of the Citizens' Oil Manufac
turing Company, of Pittsburg, related
how his company and others had been
squec-rd to dth-iy tif Standard. The
allowance of rebates and deductions to
the Standard resulted in breaking up
all individual refineries which did not
coalesce with the Standard. Mr. Tack
estimated the capital destroyed in this
manner at ;$15,000,000 to $17,000,000 and
the amount of money which the Stand
ard had made by the rebates at $250,
000,000." The Chicago University was built and
is run upon the. rnoney which Rocke
feller made through the Standard Oil
Company's, operations. Prof. Laugh
lin and his ilk are hired prostitutes to
gull the public. No man who speaks tho
truth and possesses any independence
can hold a positionin the Chicago Uni
versity., Thus the churches and tho
educational institutions of the land, as
well as the great newspapers, are un
der the control of the wealthy and
are aiding in the propagation of false
hood. Rockefeller poses as a Christian
philanthropist, while a3 a matter of
fact he secured his fortune by force
forcing trade from its legitimate chan
nelsand has no better right to it thav
the common highwayman who present
a -pistol in 'your face v.ith the demand
for "your money or your life."
Soma Figures to File.
The following figures are compiled
from the official records and can be
relied upon as approximately correct.
They are rather under than above the
true debt statement. The figures are
given in round numbers, and shew the
condition of this country and the hold
the shylockhave on is:
Our nationll debt is...,? 1,750,000.000
The total indebtedness of
the several states.
omitiHon et o 11'
.vuuv.v, , ig. ...... -ft.,-.
The bonded and stock
indebtedness of rail
road corporations is...
The mortgage indebted
ness of the people
on farms, etc., is
That of street railways,
manufactories, etc.. is
about . . . ,
6,36,000,00O
2,500,000.000
S'O.OOO.OOO
Additional miscellane
ous indebtedness. 378,000,000
Total.... $18,009,000,000
The population of the United States
is seventy millions, an average of S250
for each man, woman and child in the
country." In the last analysis, the people
will have these debts to py-- The offi
cers of our government national and
state, and of the corporations indebted,
are but. the J business managers of the
people In this matter. It is probable
that at' least one-half of the entire
amount is due to creditors beyond the
ocean. The annual interest on this vast
sum, at 4 per cent, would amount to
$720,000,000.1 To pay the interest duo
the people of other nations would re
quire, a gol4 export of $360,000,000 an
nually, j
A Bit of Finance.
First Tramp All I have in the world
is a counterfeit quarter.
Second Ti-amp And all I have is a
plugged- dime.
Both LetS's hold a monetary confer
ence. Detroit Free Press.
The present attitude of the republi
can party reminds .one of an amateur
rope walker) at hisrjlrst public exhlbi
tion it is not sure'of its success.
NORTH STATE
j CULLItiGS.
OCCURUKNCES WORTH NOTIXU
FROM ALL OVER THI? STATE.
Can a Lease Be a Sale?
Somo months ago tho directors of
Xorih CaroUlW.W, whWk tad
been leased to the Richmond and Dan
ville Railroad for thirty years, leased
it to the SorithornRailway for ninety
nine years. Seven years of the former
leaso were unexpired. Monday there
was argument before the Attorney
General by attorneys representing the
North Carolina Farmers' Allianco to
induce the Attorney General to bring
suit to annul the lease to tho Southern
Railway and to revoke tho charter of
the North Carolina Railway on the
ground that the directors had forfeited
its charter bj making a lease which
was virtually equivalent to a eale.
Attorney General Osborno decided to
make application to the Supremo Court
for leave' to prosecute. Ho says that,
while he is of opinion that the lease in
valid, yet he considers it his duty to
institute this proceeding. Tho Supreme
Court has granted the request oi the
Attorney General.
....
POISONED HKlt HUSBAND.
She Then Married Again and Is Now In
j Jail. . .
A special from Lenoir to the Char
lotte Observer says: Some six months
ago Foy Green, who lived in Globe
township, this oounty, died suddenly,
after having taken a glass of cider car
ried to him by his wife" whilo at work
in thy field. Within-a few weeks Mrs.
Green married one Franklin. Sns
picibn was aroused and tbo body of
Green was taken up, tho stomach be-
ing removed and sent to the State
Chemist for analysis. This seems to
have resulted in the discovery of a
quantity of arsenic in tho stomach.
Sheriff Boyd received instructions by
wiro to arrest the, parties thought to
have been implicated in tho affair.
Albert Franklin, husbaud No. 2, had
just served a six months term in the
county jail, and was arrested the
charge being murder as ho stepped
out the jail door. Mrs. Franklin was
also placed in jail, both to await their
trial at the spring term of court.
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Not. in Contempt.
Las t July tho Ashevilla Citizen for
cibly and earnestly commented on the
removal by Judge II. G'. Ewart, of the
Criminal Circuit. Court, of a murder
trial from Buncombe county to Hen
derson county. The Citizen 1 said
among other thinga'that "the removal
of tho case to Henderson is unnecessa
ry, expensive and a reflection on the
intelligence of the people of Bun
combe." Judge Ewart at onco hauled
the editor of the Citizen into his Court
for contempt and sentenced him to pay
a line of. 230 and bo imprisoned in
the counH jail for thirty days, though
the editor purged half of the contempt.
An appeal was taken to the Supreme
Court of .North Carolina and that
Court has just rendered its decision.
The opinion is favorable to the Citizen,,
the Supreme Court finding that Judgo
Ewart was in error and that there was
no contempt in tho Citizen's editorial.
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STATE NEWS DOTS.
At Enfield a fire cracker set1 fire to
tho cotton platform and forty bales of
cotton were burned.
S. W. Greer, Southern Express
Agent at Ro:;eboro, was held up and
robbed of tho contents' of the safe, in
which was a packuo containing $950.
According to a survey made by ai
legislative committee Orango county
is given a strip of Chatham county
territory two miles wide and will tako
immediate steps to secure this.
Messrs. Eccles and Uryan, who have
been conducting tho Central Hotel at
Charlotte for a number of years, have
leased the Buford and serve their first
meal there on January 1st.
Albert Speaks, a citizen of Iredell
county, near Everlin postoffice, was
found hanging t(J the rafters of an old
deserted kcIiqoI house, Christmas
morning, with his hands crossed and
tied in front of him.
Hon. Matt W. Ransom, minister to
Mexico, spent Christmas at his home
in Northampton county. He says ho
is not as well as he would like to bo
but much better than ho had been
earlier in the ye&r. Minister Ransom
has thirty tlay'p leave. ;
- A team of rnules belonging to Kelly
Woods were drowned Thursday at W.
A. Bailey's feiry on tho Yadkin river,
in' Davie oounty. The animals took
fright from tho pinaster' hollowing for
the ferryman. They dahed in the
river and were drowned in a few min
utes. .
Chief of Police Melton and City Ser
geant Sheehan, of Wilmington, have
been bound over to the January term
of court to answer for falsely arresting
and imprisoning Mr. Robt. E; Dan
iels. They had received telegrams
from tho Sheriff-of Marion county, S.
C, and from Governor Evans to hold
oueBob Daniel.
The President Condemned.
At the weekly, imeetlcg of the Baptist
pastors of New York the 'following resolu
tions were passed:; .
Il".olved, That, m our opinion, a war with
Eu'lanJ in the present circumstances Will be
s criico against Christian civilization, agaiast
the EDglish speakiog people and against
God, and
It-solved, That we regard the Turkish
ma,a?acrd of Armenians aa a very much more
arp. nt sut-ject for investigation by this
government than the disputed boundary lines
of Venezuela. ' . . '
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