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W. F. HABSBALL, Editor and Froacieter. _ DEVOTED TO THE_
VOL. XXIII.■GASTONIA. N. C.. FRIDAY, OCTOBER IQ,
BOOSEVtlT Alfl MOtOAJI.
Clash Between Thant Likely to
ha Compromised by AllewinJ
Marian to CsnUnna (a rnn tha
ConnJry.
YotStUIi Rsqalrtf. aa.
When the stories of a clash be
tween President Roosevelt and
J. P. Morgan—the opposition of
Morgan to Roosevelt—first be
gan to find their way into circu
lation, there aemed to be ground
for suspicion that there waa more
or lesa buncombe in them: that
they were intended purely for
campaign purposes. It is well un
derstood that the great honest
mass of the American voters do
not stand for the ambition and
methods of Mr. Morgen: bat it
is a well-known fact that the
Republican party has been but a
pliant tool in the handi of thia
man for a number of yean past,
and there was reason to suspect
that the stories of Morgan's al
laged opposition to Roosevelt
were manufactured for the pur
pose of arraying the masses ou
the side of the president and de
ceiving them into doing the very
opposite from what they really
desired to do. But so far as we
art able to judge, we would aay
that Morgan and Roosevelt are
really enemies.
J. P. Morgan is undoubtedly a
power in tbe land. He is the fi
nancial king of America if not of
the world. He was not the orig
inator of tbe trust idea in this
country, maybe; but be is the
leading exponent of it. He has
organized more combinations of
capital than any other man liv
ing. and has made these combi
nations larger and more power
ful. He is as great in the finan
cial world as was Alexander,
Caesar, or Bonaparte iu the po
litical world. The operations of
the combinations of which he is
the head, extend to even' nook
and corner of this great country,
and as their complete success
depends in a large measure upon
the conduct of the government,
it is natural that he should de
sire to have a paramount influ
ence in politics as well as in
business. Of course, it can be
readily understood that Mr. Mor
gan cares nothing about plat
forms or parties. What he is in
terested in most is a friendly
government, and he does not
care whether that government is
Democratic or Republican so it
is friendly to his interests. Backed
by the trusts, or rather with the
use of money contributed by the
trusts, be helped to elect Cleve
land, and after Cleveland was no
longer available, he used the
same means to help elect Mc
Kinley. The McKinley admin
istration waa friendly rather than
otherwise: but Roosevelt is head
strong and stubborn, refusing to
do as ne is told, and Mr. Morgan
is displeased. The fight is evi
dently on, and it is beginning to
look like it is a question as to
who is the real bead of this gov
ernment—the man who holds the
financial reins, or the mao chos
en by the people aa their duly
accredited representative.
The position of President
Roosevelt has all along been an
extremely difficult one. Because
of his strong individuality and
well-known disposition to act in
accordance with his own convic
tions, the lenders of his party
hod never considered him avail
amc tor tae presidency. Whether
Democratic or Republican, party
leaden are averse to Andrew
Jscksonlsm in the presidential
chair. With a president who
knows, or thinks ne knows, par
ty leaders can have but little in
fluence. He does not do as they
think, bat as he thinks, and
nothing galls a would-be boss
mott than to be prevented from
doing as he pleases. ' Ability to
manipulate a president, for in
stance, is second only to being
president. Roosevelt has never
been looked npoa as a man who
could be manipulated by the
P«rty ieader. Although
a politician, of course, he has
bat little in common with the
class of politicians who have
been In control. Because of Mr.
Roosevelt’s popularity, ability,
and well known ambition, after
tbe Spanish war tha politicians
became certain that he was a
factor to be reckoned with, and
they made him vice-president,
not because they desired to hon
or Mm, bat in order to get rid of
him; ia the hope of burying him
so to spmk, and had it not been
to* *h* f«*h of licKinlcy, the
probability is that be would have
bees buried. This new develop
1 meat locrttKd tb« embtmti*
meat of Ms portion. He found
himself at the head of a machine
that was constructed of antagon
istic materials and which stented
to be absolutely independent of
Mm. The construction has been
largely that of J. P. Morgan sad
Ms colleagues, and there seemed
to be nothing (or Mr. Roosevelt
but to submit to previously out
lined schedules or be crashed.
Under similar circumstances,
previous vice presidents who
nave become presidents have
submitted and sank into oblivion.
It was because they coaid only
be mere figure head* in submis
sion, and they did not feci equal
to the gigantic task of asserting
their independence. But Mr.
Roosevelt baa not been content
to submit. He has preferred to
fight for it. There are cases
where he has apparently com
promised; bat it la not fair to
claim that he has not stood hit
ground in others. He has shown
more or leu oppoeition to the
trusts and to that extent at least
has antagonised Morgan and the
powerful financial interests of
Wall street.
There is undoubtedly a great
battle on. The iuue seems to
be between 1. P. Morgan and his
immense financial interests on
the one hand, and the great mass
of the people of the United
States on the other. President
Roosevelt seems to be leaning
toward the side of the people as
against Morgan. He is not quite
as outspol&n as be might be in
the light. His position Is one
which seems to be snrroanded
with loopholes far compromise.
It looks, to a certain extent, like
a kind of personal rivalry, with
the president hoping that Mor
gan will finally yield and be
friendly. How the thing is go
ing to end, of course, cannot be
Cedictcd. It is not likely that
organ is going to surrender.
Without hurting himself except
comparatively, he can plunge
the country into financial panic
and distress. It is probable that
he would do this before he would
yield any part of his tremendous
precedence. Then, as to wheth
er the president would force him
to such an alternative is also
doubtful. It would certainly
ruin the president to do so, be
cause on him the masses would
fix all the blame. The most
probable development is a com
promise of the whole matter on
the basis of Morgan's continued,
control of the country.
Not a Ooad Baak.
Clnclauti Commercial Tribanc
"A wop an opening a bank ac
count for the first time is a
peculiar creature," said one of
the clerks in a national bank.
"One came in a few days ago,
and glanced around suspiciously.
Then she ambled up to the win
dow and said:
") If you please I want to de
posit some money.’
" Yes’m. Just go to the next
window.’
" She stepped over in a careful
way, as if she was breaking
some rnle or other, and almost
in a whisper said;
"'Is this where they deposit
money?
"‘Yes, ma'am. Do yon wish
to open an account?’
"'Oh, no,' she said; I don’t
want to have anything charged.
I just want to deposit money. Is
this bank really safe?’
"She.was assured that it was.
This bank is as firm as Gi
braltar, madam. Yon have
come to the right place. We
will have.to have your autograph.
Just write your name right
there.’
On, I can’t write without a
stub pen. Haven’t you got a
stub pen and some nice violet
ink?’
"She was fitted out, and in the
most careful way imaginable
she wrote out her full name.
Then she was provided with a
deposit book, which she looked
at in a most inquiring way. She
produced her money, hang on
7 /f ■ and then
banded it in, all rolled up and
tied with a thread. The receiv
ing teller counted it in a rapid
way, and threw it in with the
other receipts.
"‘Now,’ she sold, 'this ain’t a
good bank. You’ve just gone
and thrown my money in with
the rest, and you can never pick
it oat again. Take your old
hook and give me my money
•nd scratch my name off that
mg autograph album. Mother
said you could not tell anything
•bout a bank.’
"8he waa given her little roll,
^/vTr*** acratched ofi
«id the deposit ticket scratched.
She Bounced out In a decisive
way, as much as to say, 'They
can’t cheat me if I am a wo
man.’ _
Mecklenburg Presbytery, of
the Synod ot North Carolina,
convenes in tbe Presbyterian
church at Albermarle next
Tuesday. This chnrch is st
present without s pastor, but
the members of tbe church are
making^p^Hon* to entertain
UAL CAUSE OP THE STIIKE.
Scranton (Penn.I Editor Says it
waa Precipitated by Miners to
Prevent Laborers KrrelUa*.
Mn> York TIomo.
Boston, Oct. 5.—A Boston
business man lost week wrote to
the editor of The Scranton
Tribune, the leading paper of
Northeastern Pennsylvania,
asking him for some light on the
conditions of the work of the
coal miners. The following is
the reply:
"Replying to your inquiry of
the 1st inst., I will try to explain
mining conditions to yon as
briefly as possible.
"The miner drills the hole in
the coal seam, inserts the
powder, fires the blast which
knocks the coal down, and
then takes a rest, while his
helper pulls the coal out and
loads it into the mine ear. A
miner in four to six hours, with
easy work, can ordinarily knock
down enough coal to keep his
helper busy for eight to ten
hours or longer. The miner is
paid by the car in this region,
averaging abont a dollar a car,
and the usual day’s work is six
cars, holding abont 4,000 pounds
of lump coal, rock "bony," and
•late.
"Of this $6 gross earning* the
miner pay* $2 to the laborer and
keeps $4 for* himself, out of
which he ranst pay for the
powder he nsea, oil, wicks,
lose*, snd the sharpening of his
picks. In some places the unit
of pay is the square yard of coal
in the seam and in others a
weight nuite of 3,750 pounds, it
being claimed by the operators
that on an average it will take
from 2,750 to 3,000 pounds of
gross coal (that (s coal as it
comes from the seam) to net one
ton of 2,250 pounds of coal as
prepared at the breaker for
market.
"The miners claim that where
the unit of payment is the mine
car the car of to-day is bigger
than in years gone by and con
tinually growing. One of their
iokes is that the mine car is
made of live oak.
"However this may be, (and
my personal belief is that there ia
just about as much honesty on
one side as on the other,) it is a
fact that the industrious miner
averages, net. per month, for
about twenty days’ work of from
four to six hours a day, all the way
from $80 to$100 a month and could
make twice as much if he would
blow enough coal to keep two
laborers employed instead of one.
To-day miners who are ‘scabbing’
work as high as ten chambers
apiece and earn, in some cases,
$20 a day. Bat it is s peculiar
fact that under normal conditions
the miner does not seem to be
ambitious to do more than one
chamber at a time, or to work
beyond five or six hours a day.
"The real cause of this strike
was that the miners' helpers,
who are mostly foreigners, had
got it into their heads that the
miners were not making a fair
divide. They were organizing a
mine laborers’ movement to
force the miner to divide even.
The operators have nothing to
do with hiring the helpers.
They ate hired by the miners
tbcmatlvM. - To avert a sub
strike among their 'butties,' as
the laborers are called, the
miners swung the general strike,
ostensibly for the points set
forth in their published demands,
bat in reality to enable the salon
to control ■ discipline snd thus
pat it beyond the power of the
laborer to revolt.
"In the mines are also many
company hands,’ men paid by
the month to ran engines, act aa
fireman, attend to the pumps,
Stc. The union's demand for aa
eight-hour day was to enlist
them in the strike. They are
gettinggood wages—engineers,
$60 to $80 s month for long hours
but light work, and others in
proportion. Nine-tenths of these
men were entirely satisfied and
mapy of them refused to go
out.
"When coni in big lumps
comes from the mine or pit it is
passed through a high structure
called the breaker, where it la
broken by steam machinery into
the various sizes and the im
parities picked out. Much of
the labor in the breaker is done
by boys, who average 75 cents a
day. They have no complaint,
for their pay ia better than that
of the average lad In a city of
fice. Bat they belong to the
union and have votes in the
calling of strikes, and the idea
of striking has developed among
there rapidly. Last year in this
end of the coal ietda there were
a hundred odd local strikes,
mostly over the pettiest conceiv
able things, and the breaker boy
and bar-room loafer element had
a good deal to do with declaring
them.
"I have lived in the anthracite
region fourteen years, and know
that in the year 1901 the miners
earned more money titan aver
before during my time. Oar
banks are fufl of thejr savings,
very little of which has yet been
drawn out, in spite of their five
months’ idleness. There is no
similar grade of labor in the
conutry which is better paid
than the anthracite coal miner,
and no workman more inde
pendent, because the law of the
State practically gives him a
monopoly of the labor of mining
by forbidding any but a licensed
miner to worn st mining in the
mines. To get a license, or
certificate, aa it is called, be
mast first have worked at least
two years in the mines as e
laborer and than pass an ex
amination to show that be knows
enough about the peculiar re
quirements of mining to be a safe
man to admit to a chamber.'*
Tart Cwair Itou.
Yofkrilto Snquirrr, Ml.
Some of the local cotton men
an complaining that there haa
been no improvement in cotton
rates since the Southern haa
come into possession of the
South Carolina and Georgia Ex
tension.
The top growth of cotton,
which came to a sadden and un
accountable halt a month or alx
weeks ago, is now progressing
finely; but there is no prob
ability. of course, that it can
help out the situation.
The Ladies’ Anxilliary society
lias been quite active in the
cemetery during the past ten
days, putting out bulbs, vines
and flowers. They have caused
a latticed arch to be erected over
the front entrance, and by next
summer expect to have the
same well-covered with trailing
vines.
The ladies of the First Presby
terian church are arranging for
an extensive chrysanthemum
contest, to be held in the court
house yard, or some other con
venient point in Yorkville,
during the first days of Novem
ber, and to be participated in by
chrysanthemum growers of the
entire county.
There was plenty of drunken
ness in town last Saturday. At
one time, about an hour before
the close of the ruin mill, the
drunk people around the court
house corner were suggestive of
bluebirds under s ebinaberry tree
after a winter Tain. There was
a large number of people in town,
mostly Negroes, during the after
noon, but the cash trade was
light.
The latest information from
Mr. G. L. Riddle, who has been
seriously ill for the past seven
weeks, is that he haa improved
considerably, being now able to
sit np and walk abootthe house.
His trouble began with malarial
fever, whkh was followed by a
severe attack of gastritis. The
gastritis left him tn a precarious
condition: but now his many
friends wul be glad to know that
he now seems to be on a fair way
to recovery.
Mr. John Jackson, who lives
about five miles north of York
ville, has added to the Buquirer’s
collection of Indian relict an as
sortment of arrow and spear
heads, including about twenty
pieces The heads are of vari
ous sixes and shapes and of dif
ferent kinds of stone, a few
being of genuine flint. With
thia latest addition the Bnqnlrcr
now has nearly a hundred spear
and arrowheads tbst have been
picked np and handed in at
various times.
The rural delivery for the
northern part of York county, as
originally contemplated by
Special Agent Howard, is now
complete with the exception of
a route to run from Baudsna ia
a loop around the Point section,
supplying the people of that
locality. The department has a
petition for the establishment of
this route, and we understand
that Congressman Finley Is
urging action; but it seems to be
impossible to get definite infor
mation as to when the matter
will be arranged.
licks it People la Ike World.
K»« Ywtt rnm
The Osage Indians of Oklaho
ma are said to have 18,000,000
cash ou deposit in Washington
and to own 1,500,000 acres of land
worth another $8,000,000. Their
really holdings give a per capita
woalth of (4,000 lor every brave,
squaw, aad papoose in the tribe.
The interest on their money in
Washington affords annually a
little over $500 to each member,
old. middle-aged, and young.
This makes the Osages the rich
est people in the world.
NEW VI001 f TIE SOUTX.
A dance at her MagaUcmt
dMPreapJ^ ^
Mttwe Aaurina.
It was Henry W. Grady, the
brilliant Southern ocatorTwhoin
one ofhia speeches delivered in
New England, appealed to the
North to aend’ber sons South,
there to Accomplish a splendid
and profitable work. Grady’s
motive was twofold. He wished
the presence of Northern blood
on Southern soil as a means of
obliterating all past sectional
fading, and be wanted an lafn
alon of Northern energy Into
Southern veins in order to give
impetus to Southern enterprise.
W&bet this appeal hssbeen
largely answered or not can only
be ascertained by s study of the
census. One thing is patent,
however, and that is the results
so ardently desired by Grady are
fastnutkiag themselves manifest.
The Una of sectional wn«g fa
growing so very faint that ft is
almost Indistinguishable. The
°W hostilities are vanishing, the
oM prejudices are disappearing,
mod the old tm f understand ices
are being cleared away, ap
there is a rapidly increasing (low
and interflow oftmmigraHonbe
tnwen the two sections.
That Is not all. The South
has awakened to a new Hie that
ts fairly qmvcnng with enter
prise and energy. The immeas
urable possibilities of the whole
section are just beginning to be
appreciated, and the magic touch
of industry is bringing them in
to profitable fruitage. There is
no part of the United States task
.bett*T Progress than the
South. Its forward strides are
long and rapid. It is fast emer
ging from its old position of ex
clurivc agricultural ism into one
of diversified and multiplying
industrialism. Wealth is encour
agingly accumulating without
fostering the old Bourbon aristoc
racy, which was a handicap to
the section. The same culture
and refinement flourish, but they
enjoy their existence in a differ
ent form. The same families
which fifty years ago abhorred
the very name of work are now
leader* of enterprise, and are
proud generals of the armies of
energy. The devotion of their
splendid talents to development
ls T!**1 ** C4u®iag that section
to bloom with prosperity. A
movement has been started in the.
direction of advancement which
will soon make the South one of
the most flourishing sections of
the country.
The forward impetus has not
lost Its force. Bach year finds
«ome great achievement to pro
plsim. Outing the past year
there have been further additions
to the field of industry. The
record tells us that 3,454 new
enterprises were successfully
launched during the year. That
list embraces a variety of under
takings, which tend to show the
diversifying, tendencies down
there. The South's future is
certainly aglow with great hope
and promise._
Bw« Anybody Sew This Stoat?
Ktamx> (Wi^> Apr.
On our way to Portage to at
tend a Congressional convention,
our escort drew our attention to
the following notice, posted on a
board near Pigeon Grove:
"Strald Or Swiped. A young
hog aboete with the left year
erupt, and tale gone. Also blak
spot on left hand hip, an hole iu
another year. Sed hong, dls
sneered from premises of under
lined ooner at aite, ortbeTebont,
under siixamsUnsii pertsing- to
be stole. Said hoeg shoat being
a pet and not apt to go off on his
one sconL Also, this bog stole
answer to his name "Nellee"
and he will ant off of hand sn
stan on his bln legs like a dog
and is of a friendly nature.
Anybody returning said sbote.
or lettin me no where be is at, 1
wilt coosider a benefit ou a in
valid whose pet shoet was.”
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Dress Goods ■ . .#■
JAMES F. YEAGER.
LADIES’ FPRN1BHIN08 A SPECIALTY.
More Good News.
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We have just received another
car-load of nice Te '' Hoe*
j
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saddlers. Come and see our
Ue lot of we have «n
than fifty head to show yon and
they wiU be sold at prices to
seit the times. If yon want n
rood hone or mole be me to
call andaec’nsat once and oblige
CRAIG & WILSON.
Extra Trousers. I
These are extra Trousers to more
ways than one. They ate extra value
at these special prices and they am
extra fine in quality.
They are "Cut to Fit," well mode-*
jut exactly aa we want them as to
shape, si re and sewing. If you axe
stout, all right; if yea are slim, all
right; if yon are average, all right.
Every well dressed man knows the
advantage of an extra pair or two of
well pressed Trousers. They make
the old suit look like a new one. Bat
not every man knows how good a pair
of Trousers we can give hist for $1.25
to $7 JO. Come in and see about it.
J. Q. Holland & Co.
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