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10 ttBi CJ'' III 1 J n n hi i i i t i i i i W JMo. lfe a Year, In Adranc. "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH.' VOL. XXII. PLYMOUTH, N, C.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1911 NO. 21. SOUTH'S HI TO TRUTHFULJISTORY CRAVEN COUNTY VETERANS ASK RIGHTEOUS DEMAND OF THE PEOPLE. WANT NO UNFAIR HISTORIES We Owe It To Ourselves and Our Children That the- Truth Should Be Revealed to Them And Taught In the Schools. Raleigh. A special from New Bern 3tates that the following letter sign ed by leading Confederate veterans Df this county addressed to General Jarr, head of the Confederate Veter m Association of North Carolina, :ouches upon the heed of the North Carolina schools securing text-books n history that teach the truth of his ;ory and that are fair to the Souh: New Bern, N. C, Oct. 3, 1911. 3 en. J. S. Carr, Commanding the U. C. V. of North Carolina: Dear Sir: The undersigned Con "ederate veterans, members of New Bern camp, desire to ask your atten lion to the accompanying article. We believe it expresses the opinions and sentiments of the veterans. It is upon in important subject, and deals with i subject which has been too much neglected. As you will" observe, it sails attention to a condition of senti ment pervading to a considerable ex tent in our schools which is most hu miliating to the survivors of the ar mies of the Confederacy. The patron izing declaration of our former foes, "They believed they were right," from the lips of our school children :s the result of untruths, and half truths "which have been allowed to insinuate themselves into history teaching and text-books". We respectfully ask your influence in securing the publication of this ar ticle. Your fellow veterans, I. I. Wolfusiee, Commander Camp, 1162, U. C. V.; S. R. Stout, lst.Lt. Com.; J. W. Biddle, 2d Lt. Com. 1st cav.; J. F. Clarke, Adjt.; W. N. Pugh, Paymaster; F. S. Emul, Q. M.; J. M. Harget, W. R. Barrington, D. H. Brinson, Daniel Lane, M E. Whitehurst, F. .T. Weathersbee, S. B. Porker, E. K. Bryan, II. C. Whitelmer, F. M. Armstrong, J. F. Heath, G. W. Latham, D. L. Roberts, L. S. Wood, J U. Smith, L. E. Duffy, A. Lee, S. G. Roberts, I. K. Land, Ed S Street, C. F. Harget, R. W. Pugh, Hardy Whitford. ' To Supreme Court As Test Case. It is probable that one of the 61 cases brought by the last grand jury at Wilmington against as many per sons for selling whiskey will be car ried to the United States Supreme Court as a test case. So far as known the exact legal point involved has never been carried before the Su preme Court of the United States Court and many of the foremost law yers disagree in their opinions as to the constitutionality of the law. The point argued would be that when Congress, under its power, passes a law permitting the issuance by the Government of a license covering the sale of spirituous liquors as a means of raising revenue, it is unconstitu tional for a state to pass a law mak ing the holding of such a license pri ma facie evidence of intent to sell J iquor. Had Miraculous Escape. That passengers on the Seaboard Air Line Florida Limited which was wrecked at Merry Oaks, N. C, in which 18 persons injured, escaped more serious casualties was pro nounced miraculous. Steel cars, it is said, prevented the loss of life. The entire train, except the egine was de railed, the express car being over turned. Express Messenger Lindal escaped with a slight scalp wound. Thirteen were seriously Injured. , A New Charter Granted. A charter was granted to C. A. Lyle &. Co., of Raleigh, florists. The au thorized capital is $25,000; subscrib ed, $15,000. Scout Cars Reach Raleigh. The scout cars of the Atlanta to Richmond tour were in Raleigh, com ing a day behind the schedule time, hut the gentlemen in them were full of enthusiasm over the prospects for the big run to be made in a few weeHs over the same route to the meeting of good roads forces to be held in Tlichmond. The delay in reaching Haleigh was because the party was a day late in leaving Atlanta, thus rrpf by lha delay in the arrival fv "v" "s.j' cars used In t.1 Ghdden M FOR RAILROAD BOND ISSUE Commissioners of Forsyth Asked to Call Election on $100,000 For Ran dolph and Cumberland Ry.. Winston-Salem. The county com missioners of Forsyth will be asked to call an election for the purpose of voting bonds of $100,000 to be applied towards the construction of the Ran dolph & Cumberland Railroad. A de cision will be made at the commis sioners' meeting within a few days. This action comes as a result of vigor ous and earnest effort locally, in High Point and other communities which would be benefited by the construc tion of the line. The road would ex tend from Winston-Salem to Cameron, 84 miles, and also from this city to El kin, a distance of 45 miles. The issuance of the bonds is con ditioned on their exchange for $100, 000 of the capital stock of the Ran dolph & Cumberjand Railroad that it be begun not later than January 1913. Engineers estimate that the road would cost about $20,000 a mile. The Winston-Salem board of trade special railroad committee has con sidered the situation thoroughly and approves the movement. A petition is now being circulated asking the commissioners to call the election and it is being generally signed with fa vorable comment. Other counties to be affected are taking similar action. Monument To Cabarrus Black 'Boys. A movement has been started in Concord and Cabarrus county to raise funds for the purpose of erecting a monument to the Cabarrus Black Boys, a band of patriots from this county, who performed . one of the bravest deeds of the great fight for independence ever recorded in this section by destroying a British pow der train at a time when they were practically unarmed - and greatly out numbered. It is the purpose of those behind the movement to perpetuate the memory of this brave band of patriots, whose daring deeds are yet unheralded and have never been ac corded the conspicuous place in the history of this state that they de serve. From their deeds grew the spirit of liberty that blossomed forth into the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence of May 20, 1775 Much of the history that is recorded of the men who composed the bands of Ca barrus Black Boys were gathered by Messrs. W. A. Foil, C. E. Boger an3 J. P. Cook, especially'the former from whom many of the facts are secured Issued Strict Quarantine Orders. The Department of Agriculture has issued strict quarantine orders be cause of the prevalence of cattle tick, The counties of Moore, Harnett, John ston, Wilson, Northampton, Hertford, Bertie, Gates, Chowan, Perquimans, Pasqoutank, Camden, Currituck, Edgecombe, Martin, Washington, Tyr rell, Dere, Hyde, Beaufort, Wayne, Pitt, Sampson, Cumberland, Scotland, Robeson, Bladen, Carteret, Jones, Duplin, Onslow, Pender, Columbus, Brunswick and New Hanover . are quarantined. From the counties in the state of North Carolina quaran tined for splenetic, Southern or Texas fever, cattle shall- only be moved, or allowed to move, to interstate points outside of the quarantined area in ac cordance with the regulation for Im mediate slaughter. Dr Pratt Speaks On Good Roads. Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, state geoto gist and secretary of the North Car olina Good Roads Association spoke on good roads in the court house at Concord. Dr. Pratt is the recognizee leader of the good roads movement in the state, which has done and is doing much for the betterment of the state's highways. Dr. Pratt came here at the earnest solicitation of Cabarrus citizens who felt that a good roads association should be formed for tht county. He is a live man, thorough ly awake on the matter of good roads Wake Teachers Hold Meeting. There was a large attendance upor tho meetings of the Wake count j teachers held1 in Raleigh and manj interesting topics were discussed Tho meeting was held in the higt school. All present manifested a spirit of unity and co-operation and the meeting was both pleasant anc profitable. Liquor License To Drug Stores. The question of granting license to drug stores in Salisbury to handl liquor on prescriptions from physi cians will be presented to the Sails bury-aldermen this month. Two years ago soon after North Carolina was voted dry, a tax of $5,000 was named for such privileges and at that time no drug store wanted to handle whis key. It is now stated that at least one 'druggist desires tobell whiskey on prescription. The Result will b watched with interest throughout the state. ' GOVERNORS' PUN DECRIED BY BANKS EASTERN CAPITALISTS CRITICISE GOVERNORS' SCHEME FOR MARKETING COTTON. IT WILL HELP THE BEARS cumulation of 2,000,000 Bales May Have Bad Effect on the Market. New York. Bankers and cotton men here are skeptical as to the practica bility of the plan approved by the re cent conference of Southern govern ors for handling the cotton crop -with the assistance of an unnamed foreign syndicate. . The plan is for the pur chase of about two million, bales of the cotton ..crop and its warehousing at central points for distribution when cotton prices have been put back to satisfactory levels. It is declared by financial experts that if the scheme is to follow the lines more or less successfully estab lished by Brazil in financing its sur plus coffee crop, it would be neces sary for the foreign bankers to have credit of the cotton-growing states behind their loan as well as the cot ton itself as collateral. The credit of some of the principal cotton growing states has been seri ously damaged by the repudiation of loans on bonds issued after the civil war and many of which are still held by foreigners who make periodic ef forts to collect. For this reason bank ers say great difficulty might be expe rienced in obtaining foreign capital on such security. A. B. March, former president of the cotton exchange, declares that the scheme, even if put through, would have an effect on cotton prices oppo site to that expected by its advocates. The accumulation of 2,000 bales of cot ton, he thinks, would be a great bear argument and as long as it was known to be hanging over the market spin ners could not be induced to bid prices up. Tho large carrying charges would be another factor against the carrying of ' surplus cotton in ware houses long enough to tire out the consumers who have proved them selves better able to hold out than the planters. PLEDGE SOUTHERN FARMERS Plan to Hold Cotton for 13 Cents Up to Planters. Columbia, S. C Urging the holding jf every available bale of cotton un til September 1, 1912, if necessary, for a price of 13 cents per pound and the reduction of the acreage next year to not exceeding GO per cent, of the area ble lands of the farmers, telegrams were dispatched from the office of E. J. Watson, president of the Southern Cotton congress, to each commission er of agriculture and each state presi dent of farmers' unions in the states throughout the cotton belt. The plans aim to effect an immediate belt-wide retirement of cotton from the market and follows an action taken by the farmers' convention here. In substance the plan calls for books of agreement to be opened in every county throughout the belt in which farmers will be asked to sign pledges to hold a stated number of bales of cotton until September 1 or until a price of 13 cents is reached. Other pledges are to be asked of the farmers, that they will not cultivate more than 60 per cent, of their lands in cotton next year. An assessment of 2 cents per bale is called for from cotton-growers to pay expenses of the campaign. These telegrams were sent out throughout the belt and action is be ginning in this state to carry out the plan in every communion of cotton growers. The pledges will be publish ed daily in the state newspapers. Mississippi Soldiers Refused Pay. Jackson, Mss One vote defeated i bill introduced in the lower house of the Mississippi legislature provid ing $46,000 appropriation to pay state militia doing duty in connection with the strike of Illinois Central railroad employees. Widow Charged With Many Murders. Chicago Mrs. Louise Vermilya wa3 formally charged with the murder of Policeman Arthur Bissonett'e by poi soning him with arsenic, following the report of toxicoligists who had exam ined the viscera of the dead roomer at tho widoiv's home. Coroner Hoffman announce that he will have exhum ed the bc-ifies of at least two of the other eigb l persons who have d'ed in her hem .luring the past eoihtee vcar-x aTv? J Vermilya-is critically ill I PRESIDENT TAFT ISSUES ANNUAL v THANKSGIVING I President Taft Jssued his annual ing upon citizens of the United States to celebrate Thursday, the 30th of November :next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer. The , proclamation read-as follows: - "The people of this land having by long sanction and practice , set apart toward the close of each passing year a day on which to cease from their labors and assemble for the purpose of giving praise to Him who is the author of the blessings they have enjoyed, it is my duty as chief . executive to designate at this time the day: for the fulfillment of this devout purpose. - . " "Our country has been signally favored in many ways. The round of the seasons has brought rich harvest. Our industries have thriv- en beyond our domestic needs, the productions of our labor are daily finding enlarged markets abroad. We have been free fro mthe'eurses of pestilence, of famine and of war. Our national councils have fur- thered the cause of peace in other lands, and the spirit of benevo- lence has brought us into closer touch with other peoples, to the strengthening of the bonds of fellowship and.-, good-will that link us to the comrades in the universal brotherhood of nations. Strong in the sense of own right and inspired by as Btrong a sense of rights of others, we live in peace and harmony with the world. Rich in the priceless possession and abundant resources herewith the unstinted bounty of God has endowed us, we are unselfishly glad when other people pass enward to prosperity and peace. ' . " "That the great privilege we enjoy may continue and that each coming year may see our country more firmly established in the re- gard and esteem' of our fellow nations, is the prayer that should arise in every thankful heart. "Wherefore I, William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America, designate Thursday, the 30th of November next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, and I earnestly call upon my coun- trymen and upon all that dwell under the flag of our beloved coun- try then to meet in their accustomed places of worship to join in offering praise to Almighty God and devout thanks for the loving mercies He has given to us. "In witness thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. "By the President: "P. C. KNOX, Secretary of State." - PLAN OF THEG0VERN0RS CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN GOV ERNORS ADVISES FARMERS ABOUT WAREHOUSES. Governors Submit Plans for Handling of Future Crops Met in ' New Orleans. New Orleans. The farmers of the South must withhold from the market every remaining bale of the present season's crop of cotton and follow this with a concerted and binding ar rangement to reduce next season's cotton acreage at least 25 per cent, if they hope to restore the South's great level and retrieve the losses sustained by reason of the present low prices. , This is tho plan which the confer ence of Southern governors adopted at its concluding session to secure immediate relief from the depression in the price of the staple. As a means of securing permanent relief from such conditions and to guarantee the cotton farmer in the fu ture against the necessity of glutting the market with his supplies in the opening of the season, the conference adopted resolutions favoring the es tablishment in every cotton-growing state of state-controlled warehouses and the collection and periodical pub lication of statistics bearing upon the world's demand for and consumption of American cotton. The proposal of foreign banking in terests to finance a holding movement covering 2,000,000 bales of the present crop was referred to a special com mittee for future action. "If the plans, as outlined by the con ference are put into operation without delay," said Gov. O. B. Colquitt of Texas, the father of the conference, "there is bound to be an almost imme diate increase in the price of cotton, and traders in the speculative world will be put to rout. The statistics which we have compiled showing the world's demand for American cotton prove, beyond doubt ,that every pound of this year's crop is worth 13 cents, or more, and the battle is won if the South's farmers will stand firm." Governor O'Neal of Alabama ex pressed the opinion that the compre hensive plan outlined, if strictly ad hered to, will result in securing mil lions of dollars more for the unsold portion- cf the present season's crop than the cotton planter can possibly get by continuing the present suicidal plan of maketing the staple as fast as it is ginned. "Not in her history," he said, "has the South so needed an exhibition of the manhood of her citizens, and t firmlv believe that the message of this conference will not be unheeded." Baby Emperor Seeks Sympathy. Pekin. China's national assembly voiced gratification over edicts issued by the throne and expressed belief that the situation in-'iina would be improved if the thr promist-s were fulfilled. Howe- -f It is doubt ful if the edicts vill y the effect of halting the revohstf,. fco edict? make a complete car :.to t'.! demands of the nation , v.bly anc1 even go so far as to oAn y praise to the rebels for t -ttie great rofornid v ' ' i?ed. - PROCLAMATION. Thanksgiving proclamation, call- CHINA REBELS VICTORIOUS Imperial Edict Says There Have Been Too Many Nobles in Office, Pekin, China.The demand of the national assembly for' a cpmplete con stitutional government has been ac ceded to by the throne. An imperial edict was issued apologizing for the past neglect of the throne and grant ing an immediate constitution with a cabinet, from which nobles shall be ex cluded. A second edict grants par don to political offenders connected with the revolution of 1898 and subse quent revolutions and to those com pelled to join in the present rebellion. The throne promises to organize a cabinet without nobles forthwith. The Manchu prince, Shih IIau, president of the assembly, is permitted to re sign, the Chinese, Li Chia Chit, suc ceeding him. The Manchu, Huai Chun, minister of constabulary, has been re moved and the Chinese, Chao Ping Chun, supercedes him. MAY ABOLISH COMMISSIONS Railways May Be Controlled by Inter state Commerce Commission. Washington. Complete control of all the railroads of the country by the interstate commerce commission and virtual elimination of the state commissions from such control, is foreshadowed in an opinion handed down by the Supreme court of the United States. The court held that hereafter all locomotives, cars or oth er equipment used on any railroad which is a highway of interstate com merce must comply with the Federal safety appliance act. In its opinion, the court held that compliance with Federal law is com pulsory on all railroads which are en gaged in the transportation of persons or freight from one state to another. Elaborating this, however, it held that the cars or equipment of such roads, even if engaged in such transporta tion within the confines of a state, must be considered as part and par eel of the road and therefore com pletely under the jurisdiction of the Federal commission. Potash Worries Germany. Berlin. The report of the discov ery of extensive deposits of potash in, America has attracted general at tention here and has been comment ed upon by all the papers. The Taee- blatt says that the discovery is t'y nrsi iruiis ui jrcnuauy snon-si policy toward America, and sn" it will be equally easy for X States to manipulate its y to exclude German fer that a home supply is a Taft Makes Pessi Chicago. Presi(' a large andienc Hamilton clu1 hearers conn the possibi in the cor wa3 spp' t o l""1' ' ROCK ISLAND TRA I HELD UPBY7 LIE EXPRESS CAR WAS CARRYING A, HALF MILLION DOLLLARS TO ARKANSAS BANKS. MAI RACKS ARE RIFLED Special Train With Bloodhounds I Sent to Scene of the Big Robbery. Memphis, Tenn. Seven masked men boarded the Western express train on the Rock Island railroad at Bridge Junction, Ark., opposite Mem phis, bound the express messenger and blew up the safe, taking $200,000 from the United States Express cow pany, admitted that theria" noV''0 less than half. T"miTlion dollars in the express safe : on the' train shipped from Memphjs?banks to smaller banks in Arkansas between here and Littla Rock and Newport, Ark. He. denies the loss of any money, but railroad officials and special agents say tho robbers must have secured $200,000. At least the express agents are as yet unable to locale four packages of $50, 000 each. Postmaster Dutro admits that every, registered mail pouch was rifled and the contents are gone. The robbed train is known as No. 42. It is the fastest train running from Memphis west over the Rock Island carrying -heavy express and mail. , a The explosion of the express safe . roused passengers from the day coaches, but when they stuck their heads out of the windows the threo men guarding the train from ground fired at random. J ' 99 WAHSHtPS REVIEWED Every U. S. Battleship In Line at at New York. New York. In a great amphithe ater formed by the broad expanse of. Pthe Hudson river, the towering shore of Manhattan, the precipitous Pali sades of New Jersey and a cloud flecked sky, an awesome marine spec tacle was staged, when ; Secretary Meyer of the navy inspected the most powerful fleet of fighting ships ever assembled in American waters. Ninety-nine in all, they lay at an chor gay with colors, in six great di visions, seven miles in length. Along this line the secretary passed inthe presidential yacht Mayflower, then he boarded the six flagships, paying his respects first to the commander-in-chief, Rear Admiral Osterhaus, on tho Connecticut; then to Rear Admirals , Badger, Ward, Howard and Fiske, ia command of divisions. Perhaps two hundred thousand pe"v. sons saw the spectacle from ashore, and thousands more crowded harbor craft. The fleet as it stood included every battleship now in commission in the United States navy, twenty-four ia all, every one in fighting trim. Parson Indicted for Girl's Murder. Boston. Rev. Clarence V. T. Riche son, pastor of Immanuel Baptist church, Cambridge, was indicted ou five counts charging murder in the first degree by the Suffolk county grand jury, for the alleged poisoning, on October 14, of his former sweet heart, Miss Avis W. Linnell of Hyan nis. The grand jury reported their finding to the superior criminal court after hearing more than thirty wit nesses dur,ing four days. It is under stood that the jurors were unanw in adopting vhe indi. 3 Groverr Washingt school I?- commif lumb r