THE OBSERVER.
FAYETTEVILLE; N. C.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1806.
E. J. HALE. Editor and Proprietor.
E. J. HALE, Jr., Business Manager.
THE DOCTRINE OF MIGHT.
Referring to Governor Altgeld's lucid
and satisfactory explanation of his action
as Governor, of Illinois dutiiisr the Chicago
riots of 1894, the New York Times says:
"The East made up .its mind long ago as to
who was right and who was wrong: in those
sad and disgraceful July days of 1894. Mr.
Altgeld cannot possibly change the verdict
bv his pettifogging and tedious talk.
What Mr. Altgald did on Saturday night that
is of real significance and value in this: He
made it perfectly plain what Mr. Bryan would
do in a like case wero ho elected. Mr. Bryan,
as President, would not protect the mails or
inter-State eomnierco against violence and
riot. He would not enforce the decrees of
the court. He would not execute the laws,' as
by his oath ho would be bound to do. He
would apply the notions and follow the lead
of Mr. Altgeld himself."
But Mr. Bryan WOULD execute the laws.
Thftt is precisely where the shoe pinches
the Times and all of its centralizationist
followers.
Nor, on the other hand, would he vio
late, the supreme law of the land, the Fed
eral Constitution, and his oath of office, as
the Time's hero, Mr. Cleveland, has done
without rebuke from the Times or its fol
lowers. High Federal appointments would
not bo made in the very teeth of the Con
stitution's prohibition, nor the laws against
trusts go unenforced, nor obsolete laws of
the Alien and Sedition brood be iuvoked
for suppression of the freedom of the
press.
No, the war is on betweon the false
Democrats who, like the Times and its
mugwump kind, have put on the garb of
Democracy only as a passing expedient
and the Bryans and Altgelds, who
believe in the fundamentals of Dem
ocracy and intendwherever tbey have the
power, to practice them.
On the vastly greater stage which this
huge American empire of to-day presents
in contrast with the straggling common
wealths which made up the Union of Mr.
Jefferson's timo, the sarao battle is being
fought over again that wa fought and won
by the Founder of the Party which Bryan
represents and which the Times and its kind
pretend to represent, It is the battle be
tween centralization and State Rights, and
it will this time be fought to a finish.
And may the God of Battles defend The
Right!
A HOME LESSON OJS COMBINES A TEL'
LING DOCUMENT.
We are permitted to publish , the sub
joined correspondence between The Cape
well Horse Nail Co., of Hartford, Connec
ticut, and Mr. B. R. Huske, Secretary of
the Huske Hardware House of this city.
The reason given by the former for ad
vauciug their prices goes to the root of the
whole question of Trusts and Combines,
against which the Democratic platform
takes such a strong stand. There is no
appeal to the law of supply and demand,
the natural law, as a justification for ad
vancing the price, but to the obligations
of an "agreement," a human contrivance
which, if the Democrats win, will be forced
to givo way to the old fashioned ono.
Mr. Huska's reply bristles with happy
hits, as well as with an astonishing array
of facts unknown -to the layman. It ex
poses the workings of the system of com
bines, loses no interest from the fact that
it is of domestic manufacture, and makes
one of the most telling campaign docu
ments that has come to our notice.
Here is the correspondence:
Hartford, Conn., Oct. 12, 189G.
Huske Hardware House, Fayetteville, N. C:
Gentlemen: In reply to your favor of
the 10th inst., we will say that in conse
quenco of an agreement among Horse
Nail manufacturers, the price of all cheap
nails has been advanced to 8 cents per
pound, freight prepaid. So, we shall be
unable to give you a better price.
W have never sold you uails at 51 cts.
per pound; we formerly gave you G cts.
per pound, f. o. b. cars Hartford.
Very truly yours,
The Capewell Horse Nail Co.
Fayetteville, N C, Oct. 16. 1896.
The Capewell Horse Nail Co., Hartford,
Connecticut :
Gentlemen: On 10th iust. we wrote
complaining of an advance, without no
tice, of 33i per ct. in the price, of "Black
Prince" Horse nails. We have your reply
of the 12th to the.same in which you say:
"We will say that in consequence of an
agreement among Horse nail manufac
turers, the price of all cheap nails has been
advanced (from G cts.) to S ct$C per pound,
freight prepaid. So we shall be unable to
give you a better price."
Is this another trust a child of the Gold
Standard government? Is there to be no
end to these children of monopoly?
Are the agricultural sections of this
country to pay tribute to every industry of
the manufacturing sections? Even down
to the nuils to put the shoes on their horses'
feet? And then when they cry out for re
lief and seek to make a change in the con
dition of things are we to be termed,
"thieves" and "anarchists," "wild asses'
colts" and repudiators? Fifteen or 1G
months ago we were buying nails at a
price that enabled us to retail them for
1.65 per keg for lOd from our store, and
make a reasonable profit, viz: 25 cts. per
keg, then we were paying 1 ct. per pound
base on bar iron. To-day "in consequence
of an agreement among nail manufacturers
we have to pay 3.27 per keg for the same
nails delivered at our depot and if we are
to add our percentage as shown on the
others they would require a retail price of
3.87 per keg a price impossible to get.
Have the materials used in their manufac
ture advanced? Bar iron we can buy at
1.35 per 100 lbs. base price. Then again
a few years ago our farmers got from 4 to
6 cts. per lb. for their hides, and we bought
sole leather nt a price of 1C cts. per pound
average. Now they can get about 2 to 2
cts. per pound for hides, and all have to
pay, "in consequence of an agreement"
among Tanneries 23 cts. per pound for
same grade leather formerly sold at JG cts.
To-day "in consequence of an agreement"
among the Lime producers we are paying
10 cts. more per bble. for lime than we
paid a year or two ago, when there was no
agreement between the kilns.
Not very long ago Ames' shovels were
sold at a discount of 20 per C2nt. and 10
percent. To-day "in consequence of an
agreement" among the shovel rranufac -tarers
we have to pay a discount of 5 per
cent, and 6 percent., or in other words
the agreement advances the price from 16
to 20 per cent.
Last tail gunpowder cost us about $2.63
per 25 lb. keg delivered here but this
year "in consequence of an agreement"
among powder factories it costs us about
$4 per keg 25 lbs.
Are our farmers able, "in consequence
of any agreement," to get good prices for
their produce.
I saw one of them who got, during the
season just past, from a northern commis
sion merchant 21 one cent stamps for re
turns from sale of 21 crates musk melons.
You can buy in Fayetteville a barrel of
sweet potatoes for about 75c.
A bushel of corn brings about 40c. - here
and very much less in the west.
The gross receipts from the labors of an
industrious hen, who works all the week
and rests on Sunday, is 5 cents in this
community.
You can buy a spring chicken for 10c.,
which when we go north and dine the
Henblien is on" the bill of fare at $1.50,
and a farmer gets here about 4c. lb. for
his beeves when dressed and if he goes to
one of your fashionable hotels is asked
$1.50 for a porter-house steak.
Oats are selling here at 28c. pervbushel
raised in the west the raiser getting
about 10c. per bushel, the railroads by
"agreement" the balance.
In a few weeks the producers will be
marketing pork at well about 4c. per lb.
No "agreement" of the swineherd is paid
any attention to by the consumer.
Will this advance of 33 per cent, on
your products levied on your customers
by agreement not of the customer but
of the manufacturer without the knowl
edge or consent of the customers pay your
assessment demanded by Mr. Mark Han
ca? This will not take long to bring you in
enough to make up the s of one percent,
of your capital will it?
How can we manage our end of the line?
If your customers should "by agree
ment" say we will pay only two thirds
the price 3'ou charge you would call us
thieves.
Most of your people call us "repudia
tors, "simply because we desire the mon
ey of the Constitution restored.
But how can we keep out the campaign
fund of the "Anarchist1? Our produce
don't bring any money.
Connecticut can manage its Js of one
per cent, by "agreements." We down here
can only contribute tar, pitch and turpen
tine and our votes. But why vote? Your
orators up there say "they will not abide
by the result" if Bryan is elected.
Very truly yours,
Bkn.t. R. Huskk,
Secretary.
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perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price
25 cents per box.
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James L. Francis, Alderman, Chicago, says:
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WHETHER
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Grots X31eotedLy
. . . WHETHER . . .
WE HAVE A
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AND THEY WILL ALSO
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District Manager,
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MARRED
At the Flat River Association of tliuAp,Up.
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August 12th, a young lady had such n severe
Headache that she was compelled to goto
bed. A friend gave her a dose of
Stfiiman's Head-Easy,
and in less than thirty minutes she had en
tirely recovered and'was as gay and happy aa
ever.-
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THE - FAYETTEVILLE -
Furnish Ice at their new quarters, Welsh
Building, Franklin Street, and at
Cook's Drug Store, Hay Street.
ICE DELIVERED AT ALL HOURS.
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Coal and Wood.
All kinds of WOOD-sawed any length.
Hard and Soft Domestic COAL,
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Office: Green street, opposite OBSERVER
Office, on site of old Dr. Benj. Kobinson
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Telephone No. 37.
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