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PEACE OK EARTH AND GOOD WILL TO MEN. VOL. II. WADESBORO. N.C;; WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12. 1896. NO. 27. PACIFIC RAILROADS. NOW BELONG TO THE UNITED STAT ES GOVERNMENT. i i. 'oueilonHhoQl(l na Takea at Onco - i . , .Over 8140,000.000 Ouinir It Thm& ItaUrbads to th United States hy 2?Qt Frocetd to Torecloe? me bonds issued by the 'United states to the Pacific railroads are fall- ffcg-duc. ' JlyU. 1852, congress voted bonds in . &Jof tho Union Pacific. Central Pacific, Kansas Paolflc. Western Pacific, and ; otoux City & Pacific railroads to the ex ' 0nt ofj sixteen thousand dollars per -. imio in. the level districts, and forty ght thousand dollars per mile In the ktfipst mountainous districts, the' govern- ana rolling stock and other appurte nances. ;to cecure the repayment of the hond3 and interest. , The bonds, were : -i . i- . . maao payablo thirty years after date 'p&l fwcte issued as the roads were con structed. . . 'ilOjjears later cdngrccs passed an .-act authorizing the companies to give a ';it .mortgage to private parties for an ;wrani equal to the government aid .ui-LjijoiaKing tne government's claim a . ..ceqnd lien. . , .; -v'CpO. apt provided that in caso of dc iHn! payment oi tho bonds when tS-3 por.eff.in of the roads for the use benefit of the United States. ?y .'a -peculiar '.wording of the act de- fttilt in' the payment of interest did , nof work aforfclture. J Jonde to the amount of $6 1,623,512 "efe issued by tho government and de ; . )lvred to the companlea. ' 'fhe government haj paid interest-ory aito uupas to me amount ci siu.bua.- '. rr- I. ' . . . . 1 . r me coinnan en nnvc nmri nr.ne.vir- -r t-pbrincjlpal ; they have paid only about r;ncf hundredth of the interest in cash. Y i: naye-.recciveu a credit on account - of?ransportation service' for the gov .' kbent of $27,954,714. tj-the account stands as follows; . ..TPt - 4 . - s- V A r T v T r ' t? a t t r? n a n c: nr bpadi S C4.C23.512.00 To iiterdst pafd by U. S.. .105.C03.926.00 ?170,322,433.C0 cn. ash L'S I.l03.fil8.oo Cy trans- . r. .p.oriation .Z7,yof, 714.00 . -. a. $ 21,038,333.00 S141.264.105.00 t. ne hundrd and forty million utUs owing by tisi roa;s.;;xcj ,tnc TJnlte.d States. . - i:;Th first. installment of interest- on menls twenty-nine years ago. This euouiu have been repaid oy the ran- - ! 1 A At H L 11. . J 1 J 4. A. roauET. at mat time, cut tuey uiu uut.ru - rpay it, and in the government's account . -.Tv'itnfiho roads no interest upon inter- ?st Is charged to the roads. . j: AVoro they charged with interest up- ''lldoni'rffiunded'J the amount duo the KOV- " ;;-pmnnt- would figure up 340 million dollars. Governor rattison. of Tenn- V r-h'lvajiia, who was on tho Pacific rail- f .,Tpadi;investigatlon committee, reported . . lv"TVi faflt tVio low rli.-l nnt oro.-If"ir sfanitcd interest should bear Interest was worth to the roads one hundred ; '-RY'fJ fiinptv-niTift million rlnllrrft PjSIfSj railroad project got from the :;..pg0ycri'ment' In "bondsi and lands nib re i tian lnough to construct the roads. actual 'cost is fixed by Gov. Pat ; :--";ti's,onat $95,000,000 The value of the ' i -. T mre a a AAA fT'l.: .1 i i a. jtisuaiiwaB 3oo,uuu,wv. mis aauta 10 ' 'thoiblnds made $120,000,000, cr $34,- . WJ.v'.fJ more nits rouud uciuaiiy - j . Th actual net earnings of the roads ' t1i ?ft 1q rfpSntK from fi'pijrht nnrl una- II amounted to the stupendous sum of i1278,0l)0,000 at the time Gov. Pattison madefhis report, some eight years ago. t )' tr . . .... ... -. IflSEQ roaua iuuu-ju lue peoyie ichafsis, notwithstanding the people's L money built and paid for every particle : of. th4 roads. Wayfarers w.ith little or . ! no mlney have become worth tens 'of . .; milllcns after living in kingly splen- dor fhr thirty years, all out of these - r o rl a it ' ' j, : Tne bonds are now falling due , and roads go to the government under the law, and the secretary of the treasury rhas -the Tight without suit or delay to Yako. possession.. , 1 Let-; it be done, and let it be shown that Lncie bam can run a ranroau and. niake It a great public blessing as well as he can a postal system. Mis- ''ffirtiTtiWffria.1 St. John, of Kdnsas, utters the Mlowing view of the Venezuelan . trouble: . . . ; J. v'Itijis shallow Jingoism, pure and ; j mess&ge was merely to touch Ameri i can patriotism to draw' their attention ' . from-Jfinancial plundering going on. ' And the gold-bug republicans and Wall etreet',; democrats are :cheek-by-jowl wlth iiim. Theidea of;all this furore ; over, f boundary dispute between Ven- ezueli and England 13. tho veriest bosh. "THo Idea of sounding 'tom-toms over-British boundary dispute between ' Venezuela!. and English comes with bad grace! from those who encouraged ac quisitions right in our own country, by .. Englip.' syndicates, realities aggregat ing rraore in' acreage than, six of the New England states. "Why, even within the past few t week?," said the . governor, "British - iuiub iuuve ucquireu wnoio counties in . area' jn Indiana and Illinois and the ' ; westf -They own our bonds, they own our railroads, our principal industries, arid -dictate our financial policies. And .' ill ExjGov. the very men who are crying ''fire are the ones who knuckle and truckle most to British demands in our monetary system. They don't want war, i they have no Intention of precipitating war, It's jingoism." . j INTEREST A THIEF. It Power 7 wealth IS early Unlimited. The power of Interest to accumulate is not appreciated as it should be. When it is, there can be no question but that an intelligent people will re fuse to continue a system fraught with euch a terrible danger to the progress of civilization .and the welfare pf hu manity. The following table will demon strata the terrible rapidity with ( which compound interest accumulates as the rate per cent increases: f $1 100 yrB. at 1 per cent, $2.?5 7.2S. 11.75 19.25 S1.25 50.50 81.50 131.50 340.00 868.00 " 3 w 84 " 4 " 44 " 5 " C " 7 " 8 it it ti u n 2,203.00 5,543.00 ip;so9.oo - 84,675.00 1,174,405.00 12.145,007.00 2.351,77D;404.00 u 9 " 10 "12 " 15 "13 " 24 Another practical illustration! is to compare the man at work ith the dol lar at Interest. At flr.t thought It would ceem ridiculous to make the comparison v:ith even one man but we ehallmake it with all the producers of the iwcrld pitted ogainst one dollar. ; In '1890, after almost. iOOyears jet la bor of many millions of people, the total accumulation of wealth of tho na tion was about $62,500,000,000. This in cluded . a large amount cf v.-ealth brought to this country by immigrants; it also included the vast value of lands, j foresta, mines, "etc., which we did not i produce, but found ready for our; use. . j With the great shrinkage in values j that has since occurred -tho total ac cumulation would probably be less than $50,000,000,000. M - Now suppose that Christopher Colum bus when he landed in America had started a bank on a capital of one dol lar, loaning the money at the rate of ten per centj compounding at the end cf every three montHs, as is the usual cus tom with banks ' where they do not charge tho interest In advance. I The capital would double every eeven years, and by VjO would have accumu lated ?143,0q?,198;813J228,032. As a weah accumulator the dollar proves farS,jperior to the most ingenl- fi? i Jtriou8 people; occnpyinB the ai03t fertda f.nntrr cn arfti i crit are the United stateB o! America, Great f! are the American people. f j But 2.872,0 J4 times greater is the Shy lock dollar aten per cent. Interest. Another corJWrison whfch will come closer home wiibe to anticipate 'the re sult for the future by comparing the power of the h&nkfi to accumulate through production. . HovJong can tho people keep ah.ead of the banks? i How ong until the banks own the people and the nation? We will take as the bapis of our circu lation the average increase of the wealth of the nation during the period from 1SS0 to 1S90 as per census reports, and will ignore the great shrinkage 0f values already a fact. - Assume (an assumption not warrant ed by the facts or prospects) that the nation will enjoy the same degree cf prosperity as in tho past decade, with an annual increare of three per cent per annum and no financial depressions, panics or set-backs; the producers with a full head of steam on and sails set to a favorable breeze; the drones quietly and placidly clipping ten per cent, in terest coupons. . From the report of the comptroller of the currency for. 1892, page 45,jWe find that the national bankshad loaned out at interest (including stocks and bonds) $2. 509,000,000; (page 5), state banks, loan and tru3t companies, savings banks and private bank3 (6 per cent not reporting) the amount-was $3,145,000,-. 000, or a total for the banks of $5, 654.000,000. The result by seven year periods would be as follows: Nation's Bankers' Wealth. 1892 $ (56,306,250,000 1S99 82,188,953,986 1906 101,082,036,427 1913 124,318,167,160 1920 152,895,675,383 1927 188,042,405,297 Wealth, f 5,654,000,000 11,308,000,000 22,616,000,000 45,232,000,000 90,464,000,000 180,928,000,000. 1934 . 251,256,847.013 361,856,000,000 When we take InW consideration the, fact that all valueslhave decreased fully 25 per cent during the past three years instead of increasing at the rate; of three per cent per annum, and the further fact of the vast amount of interest col lected, by insurance companies,1 land loaning syndicates, dividends' pf; rail roads and other corporations, it Is evi dent that. the nation cannot sttand the strain for another twenty year?. Interest must be abolished 0r we per ish as a nation.Dakota Ruralist. t Increasing the Dose. The dose is" growing larger. Two years ago the legal thieves were "al most afraid to issue even a ; small batch of bonds. They feared the people would not 6tand it. They knew it was an im position, an uncalled for, unnecessary, fraudulent proceeding and expected a great roar, but they ventured a $50,000, 000 issue. The people roared.! When that wore off a little they tried 'another 50 million batch and the roar was weak er. Then we had to swallow; the 62 million -steal, and now they venture a $100,000,000 purse. The people are getting used to it, and in a short time will be expected to submit tcTa $200, 000,000 yoke and then $500,000,000 and so on, until the $1,000,000,000 program' is completed. Well, who . blanies the money power? The people are; oysters and go on voting for it. Iowa Tribune. If the war was as sure as the bonds and taxes somebody would get whipped. UNCLB SAM WILL us M.iS Xmk : JJl Ml I. Jr 1 tt . 1 Hi lllT'l s- r9 tr r - iTI 1 ,:., ATraco'CTM-ion netn aoeee o mi COUHTa,Y MOef 1 . 1 mmm i nil. .li ft Uncle Sam is very foolish to bewail bo small a matter as the loss of his sil- iver leg. He does not seem to be posted In "sound" finance. He is actually so NATIONAL LEGION. An Appeal for a More Perfect Organi sation. With the dawn of the New Year I again remind those who desire reform; who want the restoration of silver coin age; who want to preserve the sacred greenbacks; who want to free the na tion from British dictation and deliver the people from all similar entang ling alliances with foreign governments and potentates; who want to curb tho usurped powers of the courts; who want to prevent the president from combin ing all authority of a mikado, czar ..or emperor in his person'; who desire to overthrow the dominion of the banks and corporations over our land; who want to save their homes, see labor em ployed and happiness and content reign in place of gaunt, hollow-eyed despair and desperation, and who hope; to bring about this glad result, and all who are earnestly seeking the enthroning of an era of prosperity, that they must organ 4ie at once,Na another moment must tiaiu CoiaiT mence to do our duty. over two million voters should give ft day" and a dime to the cause, victory would be ours in 1898. It is useless to seek a wiser, and better plan. Tho Le gion combines all of the machinery that 13 needed for the work of h campaign. It enlists the recruits, it drills the vot ers, it allies the women and young peo ple, It guards the ballot box; it forces a fair count; its members stand by each other and uphold the honor and glory of the party. All of the hundred ways of organizing simply divide and ena ble tbe enemy to conquer. ; I think our people are thoroughly j convinced that the Legion furnishes the method of work absolutely needed. The little book of J. D. Botkln I have commended shows exactly how to do the work. We want an organized band of zeal ous missionaries seeking converts far and wide on a definite and con certed plan. It is too late to de vise another plan. If each recruiting officer already appointed and furnished, with supplies would go to work, the harvest would be great. It is folly to wa.it arl look ' for another way, or to try to revive the dead. If the people will not at once, without the loss of an hour, go to work with energy, victory will be postponed until 1900, It will be criminal to dally longer. We must en courage a spirit of self-sacrifice. If we win we must have our. best workers give time and energy to the work. Any live man or woman an organize any where. The people are ready; but they wait for the sluggish leaders. - With a per fect organization in all the states, we need never fear the wiles of the enemy. We can resist every assault if we are ready for the fray. We have a vast ma jority' In our favor. The ranks of la bor alone could win. Farmers could sla the iostile hand at the polls. The stay-at-home i votec discontented and disgusted, could overthrow Wall street. Our divisions in a multitude of discordant bands render it easy to whip us in detail. I firmly believe all the elements deslringreform will unite, but they;will not if we offer to surrender our organization and betray our plat form in advance. We can overcome the world and annihilate the flesh, and de stroy 'the devil if we have sense enough to organize the Legion. It is hard to wake the dead. In this work it would need 10,000 Gabriels with trumpets that could be heard round the world to arouso the sleeping people. They act like Sampson after Delilah took away his strength. They do not know their power. W fear when they' do awake it will be too late and they will only de stroy the temple. We invoke the aid of every patriotic, of each high-souled man and woman, who wajats to bring back the spirit of the fathers, who wants' to-give liberty and work to all, who wants to turn back the tide of ignorance drifted on our shores by the enemies of free govern ment, who wants to overthrow forever the foreign vandal hands that seek to destroy the land our heroic ancestors gave us, who would rather die-than be enslaved, and Is willing to give all his or her time. If need be, to bring back honor, love, prosperity and patriotism. I -also desire to give notice that I have accepted the position of editor-ln-chiel SOON BE ALL RIGHT. '-ji r t1 i 1 g - i Ignoran: as to thinlt that It would bo better for him to use hi3 oth silver than to borrow gold.- National Bi metallist. . of the Nation, a monthly -magazine, published at Omaha, Ner, by the Union Publishing company, vi-::b will publish for the information of the Le gion all orders and circulars. : y 'sil ver article" alone for January will be worth the cost of the magazine. It will have articles on all phases cf reform and will teach true patriotism and love of country. It will bo the organ of no organization, but will have something good for all. It will he sent for one ($1.00) dollar per annum. Liocral com mission to agents. It will b invalu able for all members of the Legion, as I have already arranged for articles from all our leading writers. Address me s.'t Omaha, Neb. PAUL VAN DERVOOPvT. NOTES AND COMMENT. Well, Grover wants to sell some more bonds. The farmers and wo'kingmen will, of course, hall this news with Joy. This affords another opporV-inity for them to make; a profitable investment has been losing sleep ah accouat of being compelled to deposit his savings in a bank that might break or suspend at any time, now has. the opportunity to invest them safely. Of courso the loan is only for $100,000,000 and will be quickly taken up by the farmers, so if you want to get part of it iou must be in a hurry. As the denomination of bonds are as low as $50 any farmer or workingman can afford to own several of them. If you haven't get the money right handy to take a $50, bond you might sell two or three horses, or three or four hundred bushels of "corn. The United States is richer in. nat ural resources than any other nation in the world, yet it is in the market borrowing money to sustain itself. If there was no other evidence against the two old parties who have had the ad ministration of affairs fcr thirty years than this alone it would be sufficient to convict them of incapacity, if not dis honesty. Any man who. has the man agement of a fertile farm or Well stocked store, with all the advantages of seasons and trade in hi3 favor, and who has to be constantly increasing his indebtedness to keep the farm or store running, would be called a bad man ager. But there is a sentimentality or pre judice in politics that seems to cover up all these deficiencies. Tho United States is the only government in the world that uses gold a3 money, that will furnish it for export. To make gold the standard of payment and then to throw the treasury open to the sharks who export it from the country is a piece of folly so palpable that a blind man ought to see it and every honest man ought j to repudiate it " The congress of the Halted. States Is in a pretty mess.. It mighjappropriate ly be divided up Into a, nreral classes. There are those who cacv do and won't do: those who would do but can't doj those who could do but are afraid to, do; those who never try to do, and those who don't care a straw whether they do or not. The house is Repub lican by 135 majority over ail The eenate has 41 Republicans, 38 Demo crats and sis Populists, with the or ganization in the hands of the Repub licans. The white house is tory, of course anything for the bankers and his friends. The house has not been charged with any intentions to pass any good measure of relief for the peo ple. The senate has made a feint or two In the right direction, but if some gcod measure should run the gauntlet it would be killed In the house. If, by any chance! of good fortune it should pass both houses the president would veto IL Summing up the situation, it looks now like the present' congress would do nothing but talk and draw its salary. It is well for the, public to remember that the Democratic administration is Issuing bonds . under a Republican made law. - ! The cuckoos and goldbugs,' like the money they advocate, are so "good in Europe" that America would be better off without them. FOOLED THEM AGAIN. CLEVELAND AND CARLISLE'S CONFIDENCE GAME. The President and Secretary ofj the Treasury Are Traitors to the Rett In terest! of the Country Betraying Ci to Bondholders. i Just as all foresaw, Cleveland and Carlisle are about to issue more bonds and this time it is announced that tney do not propose to stop at less than 1200, 000.000. ! . For weeks they dickered wlta..thcj Morgan syndicate and allowed j items to escape, to tho papers In order to feel tne publb -pulse. , , f oa the Issue last year was to he re- peated. .. - J !. . - But the people were beginning to -see that Cleveland and Carlisle's bond schemes were barefaced steals j, ; The New York World .denounced the syndicate steal In unmeasured terms, and offered to take one million of bonds, while it demanded- that the American people'be given an opportun ity to take tho boncl3 instead of ped dling them to foreign money sharks. The row became so big that the pup pets in tho white house and the! treas ury department took water and Carlisle issued a circular asking for a popular loan. Th9 people were to pay for the bonrls In gold. The only people in ihc cbuntiy who have gold are the big banks, and' the' will get the bonds, but not ihe people. Why issue bonds at all? , We have about $800,000,000 lh the treasury of he United States, j ! Daring Cleveland's Sr3t icrYi k called attention in a message to the large sums in the treasury and that this vast amount was a "constant menace." Yet within the year the Clevseland Carlisle confidence operators k have added nearly $100,000,000 to the pile in the treasury unnecessarily, have helped a syndicate steal $12,000,000 from tbe people, and now propose to 1 do it again. j Why borrow money at all? ! In the first place the gold in the;treas ury need not be drawn out, as the lav does not require it. Every bond and every government obligation outstanding is payablo hot in gold, but in coin. Silver is j coin. Why not give these money kings whit the law provides, silver coin? Load them down with silver, and their rob ber raids on the treasury will-j ECon cease. But it will not cease ai long as they have their " confederates In that requires retaining $10j,000,b00 m gold in the treasury. j The law simply provides that the sec retary of the treasury is authorised to Issue $100,000,000 in londs for the pur chase of gold for resumption purposes. Does that require, as the gold i thugs agree, that all this should be kept in the treasury? ; There are dark days before us when our mortal enemies control our laws and our executive. "Eternal vlgilanco is the price of liberty," and never "have our liberties been in greater danger. Advance. THE OLD CHESTNUT. "forty Acrca and a Mul" Hipped Tp tho Back. One of the taunts which the old party papers take delight in throwing at -th-i' Populists, and all labor organizations is that they favor a paternalistic gov ernment They are charged, to use an old chestnut,, with wanting to give to every poor man who wants to farm and who .'is not properly equipped "forty acres of land and a mule." They profess to be shocked by any such a proposition, and i! such a measure would pass congress it would give them a fit of jim jams that would send most of them to the saloon around the corner to "take something" to brace their nerves. Now, while no labor organiza tion has ever' made any such demand, or anything similar to it, there is no disputing the fact that tho government has done much more than that lor each and every man connected with many corporations. It has given to the railroad corpora tions alone 197,699,697 acres of land. This divided up into 40 acre tracts would make 4,942.492 farmers. Nov, no one pretends that there were that many people interested as owners of the railroads " receiving these! gifts, hence each person got not only 0 acres of land, but many times that mtch. But how about the mule? if- , In addition to these lands the gov ernment has practically given" to the Pacific roads alone, in in:erest and principal, $135,000,000. Since the adoption cf our gold standard base, mtiles are cheap; very good mles c:oi be bought fcr $50 each good eneup',: to give away. At $50 each $13,000,000 would buy 2,700,000 mules. Net quite enough to furnish the 4,942,492 farms of 40 acres each, but fully enough to fur nish as many men mules as would avail themselves ot the "forty acjes and a mule" offer. j. Here, then, the government stands convicted by the official recorda'pf giv ing to the railroad corporation aione 4,942,492 forty-acre tract3 of laid and the equivalent in value of 2tOO,000 mules in money and bends. By the so-called Credit Strengthen ing Act of 1869 it changed the terms cf payment of $1,500,000,000 of bonds, so that $600,000,000 in value were' added to them practically making the bond holders a present of $600,000,000. Fig uring the government land at the price it sold in the market at that time, $1.25 r. ! per acre, 40 acre3 would be worm $50. Add to this, one mule worth,' $150 mules were worth more then and we have $200 as the value .of "forty acres and a mule." Since the bondholders re- Celved $600,000,030 at one fell awoop, it was the equivalent of 3.000,000 mules and 3,000,000 fcr:y-acre tracts present ed to the bondholders in that one deal. Since that time thev hate received ben: ses in the way of increased value of their bonds, prepayment of Interest, etc. .to fully as much again, but we will noi take-that Into consideration. The s average amount of national bank notes in circulation during tho past thirty years has been about $200, 000.00). Thesa have been loaned at an average rate of not less than eight per cent. The government gave them to tho bankers for one per cent. Tiie banks had a bonus of the difference, or seven per cent. In one year this would amount to $14,000,000.- For thirty-years it would amount to 1420.000.- 000. At $200 yalnation for the afore- eTaitwi y t& j.iQd.eoQ j ;: rortycr. tracts or land and 2JL00.QOO taules. We shall not go Into details ct what has be clone for r other corporations, trusts and syndicates, and what it would amount! to In forty-acre tracts and mules. It is sufficient to say that enough has been given away to make a preeent'to every head of a family in the United States the value of "forty? aeres and a mule." ' Let us recapitulate. Of forty-racro tracts the rail- reads have received Bondholders have received.. Bankers have received 4.942,432 3,000,000 2.100,000 Total .10.042.4S2 The camo corporations have received vah'e in mules as fellows: Railroads 2,700,000 Bondholders .'. . 3,000,000 "Jankers 2,100,000 Thtal 7.800,000 fines? Cgures are trken from the offl-1 Cj2i statistics. I; .Lcre Is any discrepancy we are vr-iiing to furnish the mules and land to make it up. The old party papers are welcome to all they can get out of the "forty acres cf land and a mule" argument. . There are in the United States 4.564,-" 0C0 farms (1S90). If these gifts to the three ' classes - of corporations mentioned above had been dis tributed among the actual farmers iji the United' States each would. have received the equivalent in value, not of "forty acres and a mule," but of ninety acres and nearly two mules. , The above figures and comparisons also show that the three great propo sitions confronting tho people are finance, transportation and land. J This process of robber? has been go ing; on for forty years, and every act has beonpassed underUhe specious ,or th-ZAr-rar 5ucn pea.s by uiura mat uca tucj u ;vf now raised oy tno sameciass or men J T - it.. a. .1 mm A M - they may be looked upon; as evidence of another plot on hand to tob the wealth producers. Nothing less than a thorough smash ing of the old party machines and a cleaning of the Augean stables will ever restore this government back to its original purity. HOW WE HAVE BEEN ROBBED. The People's Oivn Fault They Get What They Vote For. Our government has granted to a few favored citizens known as rail road incorporators, or, railroad corpo rations, within the last forty-five years 10? (!r!7 orrfis rf ncnnla'o lenrla As much as is contained in the follow ing eleven great states of this union; West Virginia, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Oh'o, Indiana and Kentucky. And to the came favored class or corporations the government has guaranteed over $100, 000,000 of interest bearing bonds. Now! If they sold their lands at $6 per acre (which isa low estimate) it will reach the enormous sum of $1,186,198,182, and. when we add the $100,000,000 of bonds, it makes a grand total of $1,286,198482. Are you satisfied with thi3 kind of legislation? If so keep on voting the old ticket. The interstate commerce commission has estimated that the entire railroad system of the United States can be built for four billions of dollars. It is a well established fact that not a !. shovelful of dirt was thrown for the construction of these roads until they had pledged-from the people enough money to build them, and the land grants were used for private plunder. Then pledges were wrung from the people through threats, that unless therewasa special tax levied they would build the road on another -survey, and to it was, we built the roads and gave them over one and a quarter billions of dollars worth of land and bonds, and yet they were not satisfied. They have been plundering the people ever since, but the people seem to en Joy it. The greater the railroad mag nate is who becomes a candidate for office the greater is the majority for him. The people continue to vote for these results, and they get them. You get what they vote for, so quit kicking and take your medicine. Iowa Tribune. j If gold is "God's money," why are t we mortgaged to England in order to I get it? Why not draw the papers In ! favor of heaven? Give us a'doliar good in America whether in peace cr war that is the greenback. The interest on the $100,000,000 of thirty year bonds will amount to $120, 000,000. . . That 134 Republican majority in the house will likely do the party more ! harm than good , The industries of this country have been placed under the control of a gold trust. ALL OYER THE STATE COVI.NO 1 ON CON FESSES. IIc Will He Handed In Private ! Tom Covinpton, who vull be hanged I at Newton, next 'wet-k has rr.Ywio a full conftRr-ieu to the murder of Mr. Jamee Brown a'lot:t n year and i a halt jio. As will be remembered, Covington mui Elam Jotey h:ul been robbing Mr. Brown's More at Long Ishiud Cotton Mills and he watched for them and arrested the thieves, but they got hie pistol and thot him. Josey turned State's evidence and got off with eeven years in the penitentiary. The ex eontlon will be ptirate as the comtnia iouerj too no action bo the mutter'. ' The Ut j s 14 4hall private unlese utney order otherwise. rj Ml ' - Results of i. A. L. Wrecks. It i eaid that Conductor Dunn, of train No. 5 In the Manly wreck, has been . re tbe Superintendent, and has bfen di charged from the Seaboard Air Line fur inexcusable negligence: It is also said that Mr. Will Stromioh. tho flagman on No. 5 was exoiuTiitcd by the examination. He 'a said to have been rn the opposite siuo cf the siuin on whivrh the. wreck-occurred. Walter Flauai jab, iha negro tire man who wag hilled in the 3In::lv wreck was firing (or engineer Watson when he. was killoil la.-t year, in the -wreck near Hamltt. Fhnnin'n jump ed then fui-1 w.veii his life. Ho tiied to pull Fii .'i'titH r Watson out of the cab, but Wiithou ttuck to his neat and met death at his post. Tho widow of Mr. Wutsou is now, in Wake County Superior court, suing tho "S A. L.f for tea thousand dollars' tkmages. Flannigan was the - principal witness for Mrs. Watson.! : A Tobacco Factory Burns. . Tho four tdory tobacco factory, on Belew's Creek etreet, Salem, owned by Fojzla Brothers, and leaeed by H. B. Ireland fc Co., was putted by fire. Tbe origin of the fire is not known. It started on the second floor. Several hands of the IL J. Key n olds Tobacco Company were inline factory packing down leaf. That firm had over 105,00!)) pounds of tine leaf ,tobacoo in th building. .Their loss is $8,00. M est rs.' Ireland & Co lose $10,000 besides the .machinery. The factory costs abontSO.OOO and was insured for about $2,500. . ...... . Killed by a Train. Charles Smith, colored, aged nine teen, was killed f at Winston by. an outgoing freight train on the Norfolk and Western roadi Smith, with sever- i fIored boys, was stealing it rid. vr-rinht:zj:io?i tQ'Ib "STyti- I A. L i KJ IL1 A A crossing a iresue on oevenin etrber, his fett slipped, throwing him on the track. The body was horribly man gled. He lived Only ten minutes after the accident. v - The Commodore 31uy Bo Released. - The collector of customs at Wil mington has been directed to consult the United States district attorney for the eastern district of North Carolina arid be guided by his advice as to. releasing the steamer Commodore, peized as o suspect about to engage in filibustering operations in behalf of tho Cuban in fmrfrents. Tho belief . is expressed that the steamer will bo released. The Colored A. and M. College, j The executive committee of tho Ag ricultural and Mechanical college at Greensboro, have ,dtcided to call i a meeting pf the board of trustees of the college to meet on February 21et for the pnrpoBO of ; investigating the charges against some of the officer? of the college. - : t. ' " ' C K. State Convention. The State Christian Endeavor Con vention will be' bold in Greensboro April 17-19. Committees aro at work arranging a programme. Dr. Lewjn. of Western Maryland College, will b one of the speakers, j j $500,000 Cotton 31111. ! Arrangements are perfected to bnjld a half-milfiou dotton mill at Fowjer Shoal on Broad river, in -Rutherford county. The principal owner is Frank Cox. who has crreat mine interests! in 9 J Penufcvlvania. 6100,000 Cathedral. Roman Catholics of the BaleiQ'b diocese announce I that they, have de cided to build a cathedral in Baleigh It will be of eione and its cost will ip proximate $100,000, Governor Carr ha offered a reward of 3100 for the unknown person who attempted to murder W. K. Parker, of Cumber and ill Js. on the nrcrnt oi January 16th. The reward is to paid on conviction. Rev. J. W. Richardson, of Greets boro, whoce family had typhoid feer last eummer and fall, resulting in the death of a daughter, will bring suit $fsQ0O damages against' that city, or al . b Hplt municipal negligence in sanitary matter?. Wii.-ton- Fold .1,-, 94?, 201 . pounds of leaf tobacco during January. Tbifj is an increase of 51 1,90 pounds oyer the game last vear Chapman sentenced. Elverton B. ChapmaD, the New York tji ker. recentiy convicted in the Criminal court of the District of Columbia for refc.&inc; t - answer questions propounded to bin; bjy a Senate committer of ! investigation as tojal leged speculations of United States S'-natOr in stiis'ar trust stock, lias been sentenced. Thi court overruled a mption for arrest o judg inent and sentenced i Chapman to thirty l?iys imprisonment iu the1 district Jail an-1 a fho of 5100. Notice of appeal to tho Court! of Appeals was at once ;ven and Chapman was released on ball pending the resolt of the dp-peal. v
The Plow Boy (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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