PEACE ON EARTH AXD GOOD WILL TO MEX.
VOL, II.
WADESBORO. N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1896.
NO. 24.
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'ttNVADED BY PRODUCTS OF SIL
VER COUNTRIES.
W." Devlnc f-hawi How tho UeTOorie
tlzutloa of Silver ,11a Oicraicl Against
ft Our
Heme
Manufacturers Flooded
y ltli I'rotlucts of.tlilua auU Japan.
f; The recent invasion of t ir,.o market?
fiif ithe United States', by 'the nnnufae-.
j?;':u.r63 treat -Japan edto-fronts'-the; Araeri
;feannaiiufacturor of like articles -with
'J.-ll&e.. alternative- of solfms-fca cheap &3
.T?he Japanese articles are onYd ed or sur
;f:il?.Tilri4hi market to the. invaders.
' v' TLe advent of manufactures from
V'i-'1'7'111 frcc the manufacturers
Mnd laborers o the United States to iar
Lre'stigate the cause and when discov
ered, it will be a niost terrible awaken
ing;. 'The fact- that through, their own
Indifference and credulity they have
.y. )ctn "committing industrial suicide, will
X"4fr;o.t'. modify their wrath against the po
lhicians and: presG that have deceived
he nV or raltfsate the terrible concc-
fSfue'rtc'es that 'mutt follow. . . .
'fc When the bimetallic standard of
cljroofeey was destroyed by the dehionet'
l-izaijou oi reiver m ioo iuuo ucv-amc
"'fc.tvoo.' clone t-?ry. standards in the world;
Ifthe gold 'standard for the more highly
Jrdvilized,' manufacturing and commer
cial nations of Europe and America, and
the silver standard for the Orient. The
Coinage ratio between silver and gold
.urdertho 'biinetalli'c' standard fixed a
r"Vgbar r ct exchange between gold coins
' llhd cilvOr coins, Uv all the world,
1 fti il nrti'tnrr.irl.Hrn lh pithPTV-hllf With
he closing of theminta of America
Europe to Ibe coinage of silver.
0wa standards werf created, a geld
; i tnnflqrrJ for the Wttern world
J lilver e for the-rn wor
n 'bo111 Cais by any one
i
t coiSsrci,al nations, afford
g house through which ex
change cn such nations as made their
!rbih!j: of gold . alone,
or silver alone,
ligature was cut
' -ffild pass,, the legal
I ,tvfc.t had hitherto estiablinhcd a par of
i:rKchano between cobis of each metal
wheresoever coined.'
I Silver thus becahifj a commodity in
;jold standard countries, andi gold a
llmiiiodity in silv.oP" standard countries.
i;Thc ccmmodiiysilv4 in gold standard
puntrio3 had its quotations in terms of
liicliey units made oE gold. The com-
i: ti'ioditv olfl in nil'ver standard coun-
;rtrie3 jMcf'iCS'. quotations in terms of
rmb Ley. units made of 1 Silver., .
i ; ' JJLbe adju5t,bec.isrnai!onal
' ! jfi'ade relations in go?J, stanAlard coun-
Vftl-4"s.'' . silver '. cxchanjge' rises or falls' to
' Hi' ertespond.with the fluctuations of the
I' I commodity' silver : anl in silver stand
H Card-countries gold . exchange rises or
I'i1'!-;;'tl1 'to ."correspond wih the fluctuations
oT tie commodity gold.
jt'-ft'litis' ii will be sten that the de-
: IjKtiniction of the bimetallic standard,
Mil 't'hougn the) derail cement ot;' the ex
' ';;f r liange "market, introduced new eco-
nomic problems with which economists
V xvero unfamiliar, and fraught with con-
;ccquencep' which we charitably assume
t , I .i.-iriat.. ine- aumors oi uie crime oi ae-
. monetlzation did not anticipate or im
I Jlcrstahd.'i
The Oriental nations
'J.-;'tiju't'-o:nj6 Jthousand millions of people
f hae.from time immemorial been on the
: filVer: etindard to which they still ud-
: hQrc. The general price level in those
n : countries, has undergone no change
;laion3, the demonetization of silver by
't hev Vrestern werld hjas had no per
'Cptibie effect. But not so in their in-
jij. yViia-ilonal trade relations. Uhder a
'"JgW policy oi exclusiveness, during
-thousands , of years of over-population
he Struggle for existence always at the
niaxihium iof human endurance, the law
-jllr . of flie survival 'oj the fittest, developed
t ft. race capable of subsistence on a tithe
V "rik-'2,a tne average worker of Europe
- - :or Trka requires. But the Orientals,
' Y ,itf-rfxed habits, the .result of ages of
; ,XQlusiveness, did not share the spirit
!' 'rf progress and invention that charac-
erized the pec.rj.le of the Western world,
J ;, whose onward career
I? turbed, till now, by
has been undis-f
ompelltion from
.j.fr.?iTi;at quarter,
; '''M ?Labof:saving machinery, telegraphy,
- .If praitways and the ocean steamship
til irr.iipfrf in f Vieir h-ain rifirnloviri o- r-rSi"!i-
lems jo the more5. progressive nations,
;' ,whp now form integral parts 'of a gi
gantic industrial system.
rhe. solutions these problems were
progressing v,i thout p. enace to a ' con
stantly L advancing civilization and
eachtep. in advancl continued to add
to -the sum cf human happiness, 'when
the creditor interests of the world,
Peeking 'unjust gain? struck what may
I : prove ;the fatal blow, by outlawing sil
er . inus oesiroyjri,?
standard of money.
the bimetallic
- .Under bimetallism all the gold and
silver of the world coined and uncoined
Was potentially monev at the legal
'ratio, and whenever exchange on coun
tries eoining gold alone, 'or silver
ftlone.departedfrom tlie coinage ratio
sufficient to profitably transport coin to
rr from countries confering equal mon
etary rights on both metals, automatic
adjustment took place.
. . JBut with the destruction of the bi
ir.etallic standard all this was changed.
" The rapid and constant rise in the
price ; Of gold exchange in silver stand
ard countries soon doubled the price of
cc'mmodities imported from gold stand
ard countries. The effect of this was to
force the Asiatic countries where the
wages, of labor and prices in general
have .been foivceniuries and still Con
tinue at a lower. level than ever known
among any other people, to manufac
ture for themselves. The price of gold
exchange having doubled had tho same
efec.t In increasing tne price of im
porta from gold standard countries that
:,fcn import' of one hundred per cent
'would have. j I. '
WhllA lodlft tad Jan an u&der the
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Cleveland- This blasted wheel wobbles too much. I never can catch that fellow ahead and you miht as -well eavl
your breath. I am in a perp
exing and
stimulus thus afforded were developing!
tneir cotton mills until tney now sup
piy tho Asiatic demand for cotton yarnj
England was purchasing the wheat and
cotton of India paying the same price inj
silver as, before 1873, and laving the
same down in Liverpool at ai cost tq
them in gold as much below the price!
of 1873 as silver bullion had fallen be-j
low the mintypjaMaefiVnlnnge. j
It mjist fcfrIn tlie c0
oWii VA M tuyateriaU
IabiTand.vTand intereon capi
tal together with the profitsmust he
reckoned in tho money of the country
where the goods are produced, and that
ttey are always pafd for in current
money of the country where they are
sold.
If goods are produced in ths United
States and sold in Japan sufficient sil
vei must be received for taem, that
when exchanged for gold it wjill cover
the cost and the profits, likewise that
if goods are produced in Japaniand sold
in the United States, they can be sold
for just sufficient .gold, that when ex
changed for silver it will cover, the cost
and the profits. ' 1
Under bimetallism it was shijjwn that
neither country was benefited or In
jured because of the metal comprising
the current coin, but it will be readily
seen that under existing conditions, the
advantage is on the side of Japan' and
pgainst the United States to the extent
of the fall in silver .exchange below the
late that prevailed prior to demoneti
zation in 1873.
With thousands Of years behind, us
during which the Mongolian! nations
manifested no 'disposition toward com
mercial exploitation, but on the con
trary resisted every innovation upon
their long established modes j of life, .
content with selling other nations the
few articles of manufacture, peculiarly
their own, and such products as soil and
climate gave them a natural monopoly,
there is no good reason lor believing
that this sleeping Giant of the East
could have been aroused from hjs'sluni
bers by. conditions less extraordinary
than were presented by the exchange
after the ' manufacturing ' nations
adopted the gold standard.
Agriculture in - gold standard coun
tries suffered first. The wheat and cot
ton from India in the Liverpool ! market
keeping step with the fall in Rupee ex
change soon cut the price of theSworld'.s
crop in two and destroyed the profits
and depreciated the property of- the
producers in all gold, standard coun
tries. 1
The only reason. why the manufac
turers and laborers in all gold standard
countries- have not suffered aj worse
fate than has overtaken the wheat and
cotton growers, is. that the Asiatic na-
ftions did not have competing articles to
offer. -Ky I
Silver in the Oriental nations con
tinues' to purchase raw material and
labor as cheaply; as at I any timei in the
past. These over-populated ' Cations
containing one-half the human family,
perpetually, on the verge of famine, the
frequency and fatalities of which have
developed and intensified a universal
system of hjoardingj constantly drench
ing upon the, coin in circulation, has
had for thousands, of years and still con
tinues to have 'a wage rate barely per
mitting continued existence to the
teeming millions of toilers.
Before silver was outlawed in the
Western world fifteen and a half j ounces
of silver in the Orient paid for com
modities that cost an ounce of gold la
the Occident, hut at . the present time
it requires thirty-one ounces ot silver
to purchase the product o an ounce of
gold. . .-''-' ,'' '" J
Upon a wage in silver barely suffi
cient to continue life the alternative to
tho toilers of Asia was to manufacture
for themselves the articles formerly
i imported from America and Europe or
j forego their uae altogether. ; '
delicate predicament as a result of ill
These extraordinary and exasperat
ing conditions awoke the Japanese
from the sleep of inactivity. The recent
Invasion of our markets by manufac
tures from Japan is perhaps the most
threatening and direful in the chain of
calamities resulting from that ill-conceived!
and totally (wicked effort of the
world's creditors to plunder and en- -I
slave the world through the demoneti
zation ;of silver. . j '
, Upon tv gold pkniH, the present,
rate of exchange jgives Japan an ad-
vantage over the j manufacturing na
tions of America and Europe equivalent
to a protective duty of one hundred per
cent and-an expert bounty of the same
amount. This is the premium that the
devotees of the gold standard In the
United States have! put upon the de
struction of the civilization of the West
ern world. Who among them will con
tend that when factories are estab
lished in Japan, bhina t and India,
equipped with the latest improved
labor saving machinery and operated
by labor paid from two to three dollars
per month that the era of colleges,
schools and churches is not doomed?
. I j J. M. DEVINE.
NOTES AND COMMENT.
Flashes of Thought , from independent
Thinkers.
During the past seven- years 134
American heiresses have, married for
eign titles and hate practically trans
ferred $200,000,000 of wealth td foreign
lands. Mhcb of this wealth is in
stocks and bonds, and draws dividends
and interest from American enterprise.
LWe are fast, being made the serfs nnd
supporters of the j pauperized nobility
of foreign lands, j
The telegraphic imonopoly has made:
$100,000,000 in twenty . years. In 185S
the capital stock of the Western Union
was only $358,700. It is now $150,000,
000. Its entire plant could be dupli
cated for $30,000,000. The other $120,
000,000 is waten Yet there arehou
sands and millions of people in this
country who pretend to think that they
would rather continue to pay prices for
telegraphic service (that yielded mil
lions of dollars In dividends on watered
stock than for the. people to own and
operate the wires as they do in England.
.
If Cleveland had; been as great a suc
cess in managing the finances of the
nation as he was in managing his own,
the country would: be quite prosperous.
But while making a fortune for himself
"he has, bankrupted pretty much every
body else. Perhaps the two things are
counterparts of each other and if the
first hadn't taken place the last would
not 'have occurred Nonconformist.
Of course to do j this 'he would have
had to use some other nation to have
skinned, and to come to think of it we
would like to have had him try his hand
on old John Bull's people. If Grover
could have made as complete a success
of skinning them, as they, with flis as
sistance, have in skinning us, we would
now be flying.
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The opinions of Grover Cleveland,
who, with undisguised self-conceit,
poses as" the' Moses of the financial ques
tion, are entitled tp no more considera
tion to-day than when, as sheriff, he
acted as hangman at Buffalo, N. Y.
Missouri World.
That's a center shot. . A great peo
ple seem to think the moment a man Is
elected or appointed to a high position
he becomes, in somemysterious man
ner endowed with ja sagacity which he
never possessed ; before. As a matter
of fact he is not a bit smarter than he
was, and In many 'instances It makes a
fool out of a man, and he isn't as smart.
Grover Cleveland seems to be of the
latter class, and we are not inclined to
think that he is as smart as he was
- advised financial expedients.
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when hanging men in Buffalo at $50
per hang. ' i ,
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It has been left for an agricultural
.paper to solve the vexing problem of
living in a system of capitallqwnershijk
of everything. It savr; if farmers' son
will be satisfied with no! horse, no
buggy, no good cloths and !no educa-
tion, they can save uoney on a farm
even to-day. Coming Nation. J
AxVhy-nt course.' :, might 'also lee
jj mucn thfct he eat. He might lryfe
jfincipally on corn b'read and cow peas,-,
with hickory or walnuts thrown in oc
casionally for dessert. He might alsp
reduce his hours of sleeping and hi
crease the hours of labor. Why, most
certainly, ho could give half the prod
ucts of his labor to plutocracy and thett
save money. But what we started out tp"
say was that it Is not every Agricultrual
paper that is the farmers' friend or"
worthy the support of farmers. It was
Buell's Bank Circular that announced,.
the policy at buying up the religious
and agricultural papers, and when yea
see one of them dealing out such trash
as that you may put it down safely that
it has either solJ out, or don't knor
enough about farm interests to haul
out manure.
: Henry Wattersoa says: "We have
in fact, no democratic party at all. t
is merely a'n agglomeration of quiddlr
ties thrown together by the upheaval
of the times. A, monster without ftij
head, running wild through a wilder
ness of political incertitude."
Whoa, there.-Henry. Is ft that bad
Well, then, take the thing "thrum" uf.
If that's the kind of an individual it ii,
it ought to be prohibited by! law from
running at large. This, then, is the
thing of great promise, a ("monster
without a head,-running wild through
a wilderness of incertitude," j Well, v?e ,
did not think it was so bad. We rl-
member that Watterson told us the
nomination of Cleveland would be j.
"march through the slaughter house tp
an open grave." Perhaps h.e meant the
election of Cleveland, after all. In
speaking of the President's message he
said: "Nothing will come of it. Coqf
gress will not do any thing at all, and if
the republicans are wise they witl .
simply pass the appropriation bill and
go home." j -
It is very plain to see that (Henry Is
overcome with large gobs of gloom, anl
that the "star-eyed goddess" seems tp
have forsaken him for the time being
But he'll get over it unless he has
made it a profitable business transac
tion.
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In a recent sermon Rev. T. DeWitt
Talmage discussed the propensity Of
the American people to indulge in cani
paign lies and slanders, in the- follow
ing picturesque style:
At every yearly cr quadrennial ele-?
tion we have In this country great man
ufactories manufactories of lies; aiii
they are run day and night, and they
turn out half a dozen a day, ajl
equipped and ready for full sailing. r
Large lie3 and small lies. Lies private
and lies public and lies prurient. Li3
cut bias and lies cut diagonal. Long-
limbed lies and lies with double-bapc purpose toward men in the establish
action. Lies complimentary iand lip', ment of thore social, political, Indus
defamatory. Lies that some people be- trial and moral conditions expressed in
lieve, and lies that all 'the people be- Jesus' words, "The kingdom of heaven
Heve, and He3 that nobody j believes.; is at hand."' It is praying for the abo
Lies with humps like camels and scalp: lltion of those self-seeking conditions
like crocodiles, and neeks as long is that have bred our present competitive
storks, and feet as swift as an ant- strife, strife that has brought us as a
lope's, and stings like adders. Lip; nation to the verg of political, social
raw and scalloped and panned and and- moral ruin, and for the e3tablish
stewed. Crawling lies and t Jumpiest ment of that divine civilization based
lies and soaring lies. Lies with at-
tachment screws and rufflers
at 3
i if
braiders and ready-wound
bobbin'
Lies by Christian people who never lis
except, during elections, and; lies 7
people who always lie, but beat th.eC.-
selves in a presidential campaign, I ,;
TRY KINGDOM COME.
QYKOPSIS OF A PR4CTICAL SHR- j
MON BY R. C. HARDIN.
The Dlvln IaswgiTr Commtndi
pent ace ead That TVo br Repentance
Chnce the Selfish 6ygtm All
Depends on Obedlenoe.
Good i
Text: Thy will be done on earth as
It is fn heaven.
lie first word that Jesus uttered !
when he began his public mlrfistry is ,
positive proof of the e'r of;ti'p then
existing social and mornl condition?,
and of the necessity Af reform. He s&ys '
to his hearers "Repent!" "Turn your ,
back upon the existing order; that has ;
brought -you to the very verge j
of political, social and moral ruin, i
and accept the nfw order, for the king- I
denj of heaven is at hand,"' We do, not
need to go to the musty recor.U of pro-
fane history to learn that the social and j
moral conditions of the pcopic- a: that ;
day were at war with the social and i
moral welfare of society and had in- j
curred the displeasure of Gorl. The ;
words of the greatest of all rciormers j
will convince you of that.
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Neither do we need to sei3r;;h the ;
musty records of the past to understand j
the" nature of the reformation intra- I
duced by Jesus and carried forward by j
bis apostles. Now he has told ua in i
language not to be misunderstood
"The kingdom of heaven is at hand."
A. new sociology, of divine origin and
birth, was to take the place of the old
order a sociology wherein the will, of
the father might be done in earth as
in heaven. ;
But, the objector to our vleV of the
meaning of Christ in his announcement
of the near approach of the; corning
kingdom will say: "Ah, this was
wholly a spiritual kingdom and would
be set up in the hearts and would
affect only the spiritual and religious
life of the nation, and would have noth
ing whatever to do with the political
antTsocial life of the people.
I answer: Certainly the kingdom of
heaven set up in the earth, would,
doubtless, greatly affect the religious or
spiritual life of the people, but can a
, people be morally right and at the same
time politically and socially wrong? To
my way of thinking there can be but
one' kind of right, and a people' cannot
be right and wrong both at the same
time. You cannotbe socially wrong, or
in wrong social relations with your
fellows, and at the same time 'be re-
ligiously rlaht In your relations with
God.& You must not only love God, butIIslon on llnou that crrace the ma
you must love your neighbor as your
self," Neither can you be politically
wrong and be socially right. There is
so close a relation existing between ourj
political duties that we dare not say we
may go on from day to day in a life of
political wrong doing, and yet have the
approval of our social conscience.
Hence, I agree that the coming king
dom of heaven whoso near approach
Jesus has heralded forth, calling upon
the. people to repent and turn away
from present customs and environment,
was to affect and completely change not
alone the religious life of that nation,
but the social and political life as well.
That, in its effects, the kingdom of
heaven in earth was to do away, for
ever, with the industrial, political, so
cial and moral conditions that had
u 1 ia i
robbed the nation of its life and brought
it to poverty and ruin, and was to build
Up such political, industrial, social and
moral conditions as are named, "the
kingdom of heaven,"' in which the will
of God should be done in earth, as in
heaven.
But what are we to understand by the
"will" of God? Why the mind or inten
tion of God expressed in the form of
law. We call the ten commandments
the law of God, but the real law existed
before the writing of the command
ments, the writing being simply the ex
pression of His wiil cr intent. Really
God has but one law. As there is only
one kind of right, so, also, there is but
one law. All. other statutes are but
precepts of the one great law, and that
is. the law of love. Thou shalt love
Gbd. Thou sha'lt love thy neighbor.
Hence, His will done in earth means
nothing more nor less than that his love
should rule on earth as in heaven.
Not much has been revealed to .us of
conditions in heaven, but enough to
show us that all is harmony there ? that
there is no sorrow nor tears, no break
ing tip of families, no wounded hearts,
no weary and aching heads; that jits "in
habitants live in perfect accord.; And
their principal occupation might be
described in the sentence, "They are
constantly dong the will of God."
Now His will, done in earth i as in
heaven, would be replacing our present
social and moral relations in which we
"are prompted bv a spirit of individual
ism, with those social and moral rela
tions prompted and emphasized by the
spirit or law of love. And this. was what
was.ln the mind ot Jesus to accomplish
when he besan h:S public ministry.
The angelic announcement of his ad-
vent into our world was "Peace on
earth and good will, or God's wilh-love
to man;" hence when we pray, "Thy
mil be done in earth as in heaven, we
pray for the accomplishment of God's
on Gods one and only law of love
o tne .conditions under which wo
continue to exist a? a nation in accord
with this great law of God. Aro we,
socially, morally or politically, actuated
, in our conduct tov;ard each other by the
VJT; of love?
Ii so, we do not need
to
pray this prayer. But it is not so. Taks
up any department of our national or
i Focial life, and the spirit of competitive
individualism will be found to bo th
inspiration or err national or eociai ao-
tions. In dine form or another the same
selfish, competitive, industrial system
under' whiph wo at present' live, has
existed siate the history of men began.
We have never had any other system,
; end whatever of industrial wrong
i exists, and whatever is socially wrong
i must be charged to that same industrial
: system which it was the misson of
Jtbus to ovtcrihrow. Since there is but
cne kind of right, and lacking the prin-
cipal cf moral right, cr. la other words.
; living in di.-O'l rdier.ee to the one great
; law, our moral --ns? must pronounce
against the r :vii;z. i ion of the past and
i present the verd'rt wholly wrong. It
; is a part of the same si'stem that des
! tioyed tho national life of the Jews;
j that-overthrew th-- Roman government;
that brought forth the terrors of tho
french re vol
-iliitirtn- V f tn-ia rl rPTl iViPil
; our own :aa
- iii biood, and that fur-
i nished the incentive for the cruelfixioa
i of the Son . cif God.t ,
i I have no; sympathy with that class
of preachers who counsel submission to
the evils from which wei to-day aro suf
j fering. with iour only hope of reward in
tho life eternal., .leus exhorted his
! disciples to say. 'The kingdom of
j heaven is ait hand" not a far away
; thing, to .the view of which distance
i lends enchantment, but close by, near at
! hand. And !he tells them, "When you
prrayysay, 'Omr Father, thy will be done
' in earth' not elsewhere 'as it is done
I in heaven.' "
i It Is evident to me that the only thing
that stands in the way of the coming in
of that time lis our own wills. He said
to the Jew, Repent. Ho says to us, Re
pent; the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
But why must our present industrial
and social system b? abolished before
we can expect tho will of God to bo
done in earth as in heaven?
For the reason that there is but one
kind of right. Before men will' obey
the law the will of God they must re
pent, must turn away from that which
is wholly selfish and which- arrays
brother against brother. As individ
uals and as a nation we are socially and
industrially wrong a id therefore mor
ally wrong. We stand on the verge of
ruin. Being socially and industrially
wrong we cannot be morally right; and
being morally wrong we are in no con
dition to yield up our self love the
love of Ego to th? unselfish love or will
of God. Before tlJ; coming of tlie king
dom of heaven, to earth,, there must be
a great moral and social awakvting.
. yrt 2 4 . .u.
lucre muse Dp a-nationrii revlvarar re
terial welfare ofVhe hurian race in this
world, as well aa its spiritual welfare
in the next. There m ift be bom w.'thln
us a desire to ee the wni of God doco
in tho earth as in heaven, that ex
presses. Itself not only in the form of
words, but in social actions as well.
To little purpose do we pray, "Thy
wiil be done on earth as in heaven,"
unless we also work for that end. Our
part of the work that must be done be
fore that much, desired time shall come,
is as Important as God's part. God
works through human instrumentali
ties, and if the human part fails, Hia
part wilLnot be done.
What part have we to perform in
ushering in the new heaven and tho
new earth? Looking back along the
?!ream r.f nitr ntn fimo n-r -..
i ann.aa iUnt. i ' L
"fA''co uiai uave ueea ai wont in
1 solving the problem of national ruin,
j We can discover those political poli-
cies that have brought the curse of
j bankruptcy upon our nation and cx
j treme poverty and destitution upon
1 those who have always been its brain
j and brawn. We can trace the bearing
; of these policies upon our nation's pro
; gresa and prosperity. We can search.
out those policies that have dethroned
i the rights of a lare class of our eiti-,
j zens to life, liberty and the pursuit of
I happiness. And we can declare scl
j emnly in the sight of God that wo will
not longer support these policies. If
each of us who are here to-day would
: begin to do the will of God here as It
i is done in heaven, we would soon
S see such a revival of the religion-of
; love as would transform our part of
1 the earth into a garden of Eden. And
i the influences of the Spirit would not
stop with us, but would rpread its be
nign and life-giving power to other
communities until our state and na
, tion might be set on fire with a zeal
: whose outcome would be a new heaven
! and a new earth.
A LIGHT DIFFERENCE.
ringee's Towu Is Getting Cheap
i::c i
trie Ltarbt.
Milwaukee Advance; Detroit's mu
nicipal lighting plant has created great
interest among ofncials of other largo
cities, and many .delegations have in
spected it. 'Everybody was curious to
know what the saving over contract
lighting would be. if anv. and City Elo
; trlcian Dow was asked that the plant
: .when in complete operation be given a
; full month's trial before the figure?! be
: given out. The result for October
; shows that there were 1,470'" arc lamps
ju use ana incandescent lighting waa
j done in many of the municipal build
ings. The cost per lamp per month for.
Etreet lighting.lccluding interest on tho
$500,000 of bonds, is- $7.03, or $84. SC per
lamp per year.
; Under the contract system the city
paid $11.15 per lamp per month cr
$133.0 per year. At the eame ratio the
city will save $72,000 thi3 year over
the contract system. The.quality of
the lighting v;as far and away 'better
than the old system.
And yet we, have many honest pecplo.
who think we! ought to pay tribute to
nrivate cnrnHnnc who r-in our nublio
utilities !
Tbe woods may be full of Dcmocratio
candidates "for president, but they aro
away back and won't come out.
ALL OVER THE STATE
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Covington's Death Warrant.
tiovernor: Carr has issued a wurran
for the execution, Feb. 13, at Newton,
of Ihotnas Covington for the murder
of James Brown, superintendent of tho
Log Island cotton mill. Brou n owned
a f-ture rear the mill and, having !U-oer-taine-d
that it had been rubbed, went
one nigbt to watch for the thief! The
following -morning his duhter
found him ley in g on the tluor of the
store dead. He had boon shot three
time?. Covington confessed.' that . he"
lml poue to the pt'oro to" stt.nl. and
found Brown, who rus-hed at him with
a pistol. He sprang uii- Brown,
wrenching the pistvd from him, threw
him, down and $hot him three titr.es.
An cilort was maile to secure n verdict
oi murder in the second decree. Cov
ington was snporinteudeiit of' the Kj.in
uintr room in the cotton mill.
A Dividend of - IVr Cent.
The regular annual me ting of the
stockholders of tho Salisbury Cotton
Mills was held at Salisbury, -Monday."
The report of tho president was ruid
and mude a very satisfactory Fhowii..
During the year the mill has manufac
tured 1,000,000-yards of cloth and con
sumed' 1,000, 33S pound' of cotton..
The present board ot . !ir-eto. s were
re-elected with t lie exception of Mr. J.
M.'Otkdl. who is no longer a stock
holder. A quarterly dividend of 2 per
ceut. was declared ptiyable.on demand.
All the old o Sic era of the mill were re
elected. ,
$200 Resvurd OfTered.
Gov. Curr offers S200 reward lor the
eonvictiou. of tho unknown persons
who on the night of January '2, mur
dored an. unknown man in. Warren,
county. The victim was known onl.r
as the "old umbrellii mender." . IFb' .
had gme into cam;i that night quite
near the l!aci.i .v (Jnston U.uilroad,
and in. tlie eai ly morning sonic .persons
who v,.( -re' on a passing train, saw Ins
bodv Iviiii.' in tlie nshe of his tire, par
tinlly t:urned and with-liis throat cut
and :-kull e rushed. it wan tpiitu clear
tint the oil .ia:i .hud been murdered
nil-1 r.ibb.-d :i:el that then his body had
been tht v,ti in the lire in order to
'destroy il aii l conceal tho awful crime). -
A Tannery at MaiHm.
Mr Sharpe, a Chicago cajutali. t, is
in Marion looking for a location for a
large . tannery to manufacturo lino
leather for tho export trade. His
company lutdies a Hpeeitdty of what is
known in sli and leather cireb sas
t',iiAfv tip".. if oyed Wnt the jeo
pie of .Marion will encoiirago tiio-eil-terpiise
as.it will ive employment n
a fjreat manV ineii, besidcH opening a
home market for white oak, chestnut'
oak, hemlock and' other barks that'
grow in abundance and profuMOii on
the mountains and hill-ides lioar that'
town. . .
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The Flremeir.i I oiirnament.
Tho Salisbury firemen . uro now at
work raising u Kubseriptiou for the
tournatu' iit t j be given there the com
ing fall on tho occasion of the annual
m-eting of the Statot-Firemen's Asso
ciation, whi-dr willjjeheld in Salisbury
thi -i year. i hey -arc meeting with
splendid success, having so iar raised
ui-out 8500. Salisbury's tiro laildies, .
it is s.ittd, want about b'00 and aro iov
(-ertiin of tins amount. They hope to
the Sialo iiVernen a recejdion
v.orts- of the town.-
Went Di r vi lo Cuba. :
N.-wt,- irom' Wil.niington fives the
'mi iP-iii'ars ol tho removal of ft!b the
military stores iroia tlie. idb-ged
! hi -ti-n ir- steamer -('ommodore. 'lir-y
v( ! -, it is said, pbtee.l on .. board- a
schooner from the Bahamas, which had'
biou-'ht fruit and which haib-d the day
l.e.o;-..- Christ-ma", apparently only iu
i;i:!a-,t,ui:d wliich v.en't direct to Cubs.
The ' .t.'anfer CoWi l'' dore will be sold.
Kii!. l in iijeir ,;iriagc.
freight train in Hut herford eduuty
si -e.-h a car riage in which . wore M r- .
; .uitib of Oi l Fort -and her two dau :h
Mi
Kaiiij
i.i.d the ohb'-t
filter, a.td if), .went hi i led. 'I'll-
dragged from
o i nrer u.i -.a
d.t-
lis ;. r l In"- . i ..Is i:
I Ire r b to savoct
i ,i.' emria"": as rj
rushed and tie
h,,;.M kili-'d. J'liH driver jumped and
iir.v. (.': rr bus; appointed I), a.
Maxw.il, oi (.hrrflo(e. an notary pub-
iiv. ' -
d i.. B'ts':r hasHie-'-'n electr-d chi'-f
,,i ih- Concord tire b p'Htraent lor tie
eii-'ii ug Vear. -
Blv. f. B. l'ruett has resigned as
pt.stor 'A Olivet Baptist church, Char
; tt' . tr beco'me cijy missionary.
J he jir-t "MonduV of next March an
. -ctiO:i will be held in Mt. Airy for
th... purpooe of voting i2o, 000 w;orth oi
i -!i,.:.i to be used lb purchase iisyster-i
w ater w oj ks. . . , '
"i Jpj, : t-jckholderH of the Carnleigh
M'lli- Ci..memy held th ir annuil meet
ing Muday, at llaki-'h, and re-elected
the obi ofiieeifi The reports ehow
cd t:i most gratifying year in the his
tory ot the iiiSUtUtio'U.
Messrs. Moore k McKenzie, cloth
iers, of Greensboro, assigned to
M. ss.r-. A. M. Scales, o. Greensboro,
and O.o. S. Bradshaw, of Ashboro.
'::e liaidlitie.-i aro taid to be about Sb',-'
with assc ts about -83,000.
mi.
r. no
ivouu men say they were losing money
an I consequently decided to close.
Post It Cp.
The Treasury gold "reserve at the close ol
bu-in"--- S .tur lay- stood at 56,029,533. Th
j with Ira-.va!.: at New -York amounted to 55,
; 0'b - -.''..,
The Treasury has cuiplrted seoding. out
: to po.rt:na-f-r,s Secretary Carlisle's circular
liiVitiag be'.-, l.r Solids. On tho top. signed
by Postma-'ter General T'ta.. L. Wihoc, i?
priut;-J thi.- notice: '
4 .Tbe Postmaster is; hereby directed to post
thi vcireuiar in a conspicuous plaea In hi
oClce." '
As there are over 73,000 postofiloes ia tho
Ci,it' l Su: .-, the priiitiu and distribution
uf thij nuad or was no small matter.
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