THE GAZETTE Friata tbo Itewa Ami Telia the Troth. Twhce a Week, flJt a 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.” Subscribe for Tim OAtarra. R< VfcL Baking Powder MorT^MS! Safeguards the food »"» autumn display op I t£n of new sad exclusive styles. We hew tad Children's Hesdveer. * Furs of which we cany a choice and most beautiful selection of the Afferent styles. Unde, and prices. Walldatf Sldrtt la nar aad Hack «l mv *o «* aai * *g •carer. Dress Goods ■ . .#■ JAMES F. YEAGER. LADIES’ FPRN1BHIN08 A SPECIALTY. More Good News. ——————————- *_:_,_ We have just received another car-load of nice Te '' Hoe* j -j 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. BIG VALUES MEN’S SUITS AND OVERCOATS FALL AND WINTER, 1M2-1M3. Charlotte Private Hospital, If RmA Chardi Sir—(, Charlotte, . ■ . N. C. * W J • *AIPPWWfcdPRp—ah— ». j .ft \ Medical aad Sef|fc«l ceaes—Mad. Trained Nonet. • Modem Bqalpncat. X*Bay Machines aad Vriwn v rleo far fivin* Electrical Trie—at, HoaerrAL Stant: JOHN R IRWIN. M. D. C. A. MISBNHEIMKA, M. D. HOST, L. GIBBON, M. D, • - ' ,v* T: ■'•£r%F/«iA *-5& ijf

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