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ssin the Gastonia grows greater, not Us*. -- - Published Twice a Week—'Tuesdays W. r. MAI SHALL, Mttw —< Fr»»ri«w. - DEVOTED TO THE P10TECTI0N Or VOL. XJCIV. _GASTONIA, N. C.. FRIDAY, JANUARY 33. -' T ^1————————— _ BILL Airs LETTER Ha lacalla a Speech Made by lain Cbaata Party-eight Yaara Ado AtUate Couuutloo. The Constitution says there is a growing sense of jnstice in the north that will hereafter be heard from in putting negro officials over southern communities, that the New York Herald has opened a rift In the cloud by re buking the president etc. We hope so, hut now that Roosevelt has appointed a Boston coon to high office, the Herald may change front and say he is con sistent. _ That growing sense of justice is a chameleon of many colors. It was quite visible a lit tle while otter Grady mode his (Treat speeches in New York and Boston, bnt the preachers with ered it and McKinley made more appointments and kept making them as long os be lived. This growing sense does not seem to nourish in many places. The fact is, we hove almost despaired of ever seeing justice grow at the north. Irately f have received three letters from np there that indicate the growing sense, and 1 have read and reread them witn com tort. L>ue of these is from an old Mexican veteran who says that of the 2,700,000 soldiers who fongfat against us, one million were from the east, fighting to free the negroes, Grant . included one million from the west fighting for the anion and the other 700,000 were the riff-raff and scum, the flot sam and jetsam of all nations who joined the army for bounty and booty and beauty, and they were the element that Sherman employed to make war hell. He apeaka of the war as nnholy, un righteous, and unjust. Another letter is from Portland, Oregon, and says the writer receutly got hold of one of. my letters which said that General Grant was a slave holder and faired out his negroes up to the close of the war and lived off their hire. He says; "I didn’t believe it. but was induced to examiue his biog raphy and I found if was so.” He says nobody in that country ever beard of it and it is amazing and astonishing that Lincoln would appoint a slave-holder to be tbe head of the anny. The writer of this letter was brought up to believe that the south brought all of the negroes from Africa. Another letter is from a New Hampshire veteran, who •ays that be and seven otner of of his town' joined a company in 1862, and only one besides him self got back. Ever since then he had been reviewing bis folly and the folly of the war and is ashamed of bis people and says that I do not score them in my letter as hard as they deserve. He has Hinton Rowan Helpers’ famous campain book, in which he aaya: we are going to free your . slaves and arm them with pikes and torches and batcher yonr families and burn up your homes." This book is endorsed by six* ty-seven members of congress, including John Sherman. Ap pletfm says that 167,000 copies were sold in three months and it precipitated the raid of John Brown, at whose exeention all the church bells of New Bngland tolled a requiem. * And so 1 have found three Northerners who have this grow ing sense and I have heard of one more who is a growing sns peet. 1 am keeping a tally sheet and aa soon as I hear of any one growing more sense 1 will record ft. My Oregon friend’s genera tion came np siace the war and never had time to bother them selves about the history of the war or slavery. The South was ontside of tbeir concern and Jell Davis was the arch traitor told about in history. That Is all he cared to know. But he says your late letters have excited our cariosity and if when your book is out von will let me advertise and sen it my own way, I will sell 100.000 copies north of the lina. This man la a big adver tiser with headquarters in Chica go and sent to me a big lot of Hie cards and literature. W#u. Mr. Byrd will Me about that, but to my opinion hit Northern customer* don't care a banhaa about me or Grant or his nigger*. They remind me of two fellow* who want off to camp meeting, tad aa they were standing by a tree one of the brethren came up aod invited them to go np to the altar and jine 'cm?* gettin’ religion. The man aeetned aomewhatlndigaaat and replied: " You mutt • sense •a, sir, we don't live in the .But 1 did find a rift ia the clouda that gave much comfort. Is the twelfth chapter of John Lord’s "Beacon Lights oi His tory" 1 find a sketch oi Robert K. Lee by Benjamin Andrews that is a loving tribute to that great soldier. Such a glowing tribute was hardly to be expected from a Northern source. Es pecially from one born in New Hampshire, educated at Brown University and who joined the army when 18 years old and who lost an eye at Petersburg. As an educator he rose rapidly in hia profession and became presi dent of bla alma mater. Next be was called to Chicago to take charge of her public schools and later on was chosen as chancellor of the University of Nebraska, where be now is. Since the war be has frequently championed the cause of the Soutn and became unpopular with our malignant enemies. Of conrse as be joined the army so young and lost an eye. we must let him keep bis convictions, but be it a big hearted, brainy man or he wonld not have dared to have written that tribute. 1 wonder how it happened that auch men as Andrews, and away back, auch men as Webster and Haw thorne and Emerson and Story and Choate, could grow up and mature among tue noxioni weeds of New England. I still recall with much pleasure a good speecb 1 beard in 18*4, at Amherst College—a commence ment oration by Rufus Choate, who was regarded as the most brilliant, eloquent, and im passioned orator of America. I had a schoolmate there, and my Boston uncle said be wonld go with me, for he wonld have to look after Mr. Choate, for be was an intimate friend. I didn’t know exactly what that meant, but found out later. The great hall was crowded with the best people of New England. My uncle was with others seated upon the platform. Mr. Choate's face was all nerves and muscles, his large eyes and mouth conspicuous. For half an hour his voice was almost a monotone with every word care fully and distinctly uttered, but this was but the breathing of a gentle wind before the storm. Soon he seemed to lose control of his own emotions and soared away among the stars and liis features took on an unearthly glow, his arms responded to every sentence, his frail body swayed to and fro and his audi ence unconsciously swayed with him and beld their breath for fear they would lose a word or a .motion. No, I will'never forget that speech. He stopped because he had to stop, for with the last eloquent sentence be became exhausted and was bodily lifted by my uncle and others to the ante room where he was stripped and rubbed down like an ex hausted race horse. In an hour »° he was renewed and re vived. This was Rufus Choate— a bundle of quivering, passionate nerves—whose eloquence no audience could calmly listen to and no jury withstand. Br. Llaney DUa’t Won't The Job. wuhlaatoe Borcis) to ChuMu Ofcacrm. As the omnivorous appetite of the average politician for Feder al patronage baa long sinee be come traditional the credulity of the lay mind may be taxed some what when it is stated that fre quently good governmental posi tion* *t> * begging. Sach an instance developed here during the week, which came especially under the observations of Nortb Carolinians. A nnmber of Sen ators, Mr. Pritchard among the number, were advised that there were several vacancies in the Navy Department, and it was stated that recommendations would be gladly received. Sen ator Pritchard sent in the name of Remains Linney, son of ex Congressman Linney, and the young man in question came here promptly to file hia application in a format way. ’'What, are you the son of my old friend, Romulus Z. Linney? Well, you can rest assured of a Axed nlace to my good were the word* with which Secretary of the Navy Moodv supplemented the glad band of welcome to the young North Carolina physician. Dr. Onney was then proffered a position ns assistant surgeon in the Navy at a salary of $f,900sn nnally, with a prospect of a much better position at the end of tana years of satisfactory service but 1m dodined, Dr, Limey was told that he would be as signed in nl! probability, to sea doty, and that he might be aep anted from hia home for two or three y vara. In the light of this hootingency the position loot its attractiveness. Sand at this time there an tblr ■ •*ch places, and no onacsn fennd who cans to 111 them. MONETARY VALUE OF NIA6A1A Natanl Beauty al Or eat Falla Marred hy Utllisaiioa al Ita Power. WuHlaitoa Po«t This ia a practical age. It ia no longer a question whether Niagara Fails ia a thing of beauty or a marvel of nature or a wonderful cataract which at tracts visitors from all parts of the world. Niagara baa passed that stage. The time bat come when Niagara ia looked upon as a great machine, capable of pro ducing so mnch power, which, in turn, can be sold for cash. Some interesting facts as to the monetary vflne of Niagara have just been made public iu a report submitted by Harlan W. Brash, the United States consol at the Canadian town of Niagara Falls. This report shows that the company which inaugurated the production of electric power at the Falls soon found ita original development of 50,000 horse power utilised, and ia now constructing a tunnel providing for a discharge of water that will develop 100,000 hone power. But even this will not meet the demands of the manufacturing industries, and so a new plant is being constructed on the Canadian aide which will develop iiu.wAj none power. The dynamos are to be the greatest machines of their kind in the world, and will have a capacity of 10.000 horse power each. In addition to all this, a third com pany baa been formed which proposes to do business on a gigantic scale. It is interesting to note that while millions of dollars are being expended in developing these various power plants.- the revenue will be enormous. When the 350,000 horse power, now in process of development, ia placed on the market, the gross income of the power companies will be in the neighborhood of $7,000,000 a year. It la easy to understand bow this may be the case. There is no necessity for expensive equipment for genera ting steam, uor for the purchase of fuel, nor for the employment of engineers and fireman. One man simply turn* a lever, the torrent of water flows forcefully and continually over the turbine wheels and then the power generated by the dynamos ia dispensed in every direction. It ia no wonder that the industrial growth M the Niagara frontier has been marvelous, nor that it is expected that before long the dynamos will be grinding out one million horse power. But what of the esthetic side of the great cataract? Is it to be sacrificed on the altar of Mammon? Up to the present time, according to the experts, the diversion of the water above the falls has not perceptibly diminished the flow, and it Is doubtful whether the greatest amount of withdrawal which ia anticipated will materially affect the scenic beauty of the falls themselves. At the same time it ia quite evident that the aurronndiuga of the cataract are to undergo a great change. Enormous manufacturing struc lures win ante, inclosing tbe falls aud detracting from the natural beauty of tbe picture. This, however, cannot be helped, for in this material age, if Niagara can be turned into cash, the transferring process will proceed vigorously, no matter how completely the artistic and the picturesque may be sacrificed. Let oa be thankful that both on the Canadian and American aides there is a large park which can never he encroached upon and which will save Niagara Falls from being entirely trans formed. An Unlgne Pkllanthrepls*. Snr York Prm Several years ago I mentioned by name in tbia column what I called a real philanthropist. He was a man who took mortgage* on the bodies of the ImUgeut poor, and instead of plastering them upon the remote generations burnt them in the fire. He is doing the seme good work to-day and finds intense enjoyment in »t. He goes to the undertakers about once a month and asks lor the unpaid funeral Mils. If ■}««•*».buy for 50 cenU on the dollar be does so. if for 75 cents on the dollar he does so, if for 75 cents ha does no, If for 90 cents, b® does so. If he Is naked to pay in full ka does so. The antler taker is reauired to send a re ceipt in full to the doctors, hot without mentioning the name of the one who paid the Mil. The philanthropist understands well the hard attain it it for the poor to bury their dead decently and knows the rapacity of the under taker. , 0FFE1S TO TUBE FAKDONS. Oovaraar ol North Caralina’s Uonoal Preposition to Oovorn or ol Goergis. Chattanooga Tenn., Jan. 18.— Seeking the release of a young man from North Carolina, a member of one the oldest fami lies in the South, Gov' Aycock, of North Carolina, made the prop* ositiou to Gov. Terrell, of Geor gia, that he will pardon any man under sentence in hia own State. The man in question is Fred Chestnut, and Goy. Aycock wrote in bis letter: "If you will pardon this man Chestnut, I will gladly write a pardon for any Georgian now doing time in the prisons of this State you may designate." It is understood that Governor Terrell will investigate the mat ter and that he wilfprobsbiy par don Chestnut. Two years ago Chestnut and an associate boarded an express car atllacon, and before the train had gone many miles the express messenger looked into the barrel of a pair of pistols. The men got the money and left the train, Chestnut being captured and convicted. Lmi lirtUiy. Xicbnoad Mm. Iftfc. The legislatures of tbe South i era States acted wisely when they made the birthday of Robert H. Lee a holiday. In bis life he won all the honor a people can bestow and nil the gratitude it can express by perpetual remembrance nod dedication of one day in each year to bit memory. Aside from that, we can do nothing better: lor our people than to keep bis character before them always. His deedi in war make our hearts grow warm with admi ration and burn with pride that be was ours and of ns. His life in war and in peace, bis bearing in triumph and disaster, illustrate the very best and highest qualities of manhood and prove how beautiful and how near the Divine humanity may be. He _ was a gentleman born. That is, he inherited from a long ancestry and acquired from tbe environment of gentle people certain instincts of refinement, certain codes of ethics and honor, tbe pride of blood and race and the sense of the responsibilities and obligations of position. Yet many a man' equally well born baa lacked all the qualities which made him great and his whole life beauti ful and many a man without his advantages of birth has possessed and manifested those qualities. Character is not a thing born. It is a thing bnilt and developed by early training and by self training, by strength and purity of purpose. The roan who will aaturatc bia thought and hla tool with the spirit of Lee, who will make Lee his human model, may never be known beyond his own neighborhood, but be will be an aoaeo giory to numanity, a splendid power for good and will express the teachings of the Divine Teacher, of whom the great chieftain was an humble and faithful follower. If Virginia was a commonwealth of people who not only honored Lee and loved hts memory, bat who emulated his life and absorbed the lessons of It, we would be such a people as the world has never known and nona bat the most enthusiastic bas dreamed of. No better service can be done for humanity at large or for our own country than to keep in the minds and always before the thoughts of maturity and youth alike the nobility, the magnanimity, the generosity, the fearlessness and the geutle ucm of this greatest of all gen erals. highest of all gentleman, purest and humblest of allClnis linns, moat Virginian of oil Virginians. It is not only justice to the dead man, the cause he represented, and the men be led tint monuments of him stand la oar atreeta and pictures of him hang everywhere, and that tha day of his birth shall be specially Honored and commemorated as long as onr country Uvea and wt continue to be a people. It is wise for us to do these things for the sake of ourselves, our children, and the generations coming after us that all may feel and know the standard for those who hope to illustrate the highest of which human life la capable._ Julian Ralph, the author and war correspondent, died at hla residence in New York City Tuesday night. THE PICTUtK MEN WIN. I la the United States Supreme Coart to-day an opinion was de livered by Justice Sbiras, in the case oi K. L. Caldwell against the State of North Carolina and the City of Greensboro. The case involved the validity of an ordinance of the city requiring the taking oat of a license for the sale of pictures and picture frames. Caldwell, who repre sented the Chicago Portrait Com pany. resisted the payment of the license on the ground that the ordinance is in conflict with the provisions of the Federal constitution relating to Inter State commerce. The North Catalina trial courts sustained the validity of the ordinance and the Supreme Court of the 9tate sustained them. . TKe opinion handed down to-day reversed this verdict and the case was re manded to the State Supreme Court. Commenting upon the case. Justice Sbiras said: - i ranssctions Between muin factnring companiea in one State, through agent* with citi zens in another, constitute a. large part of inter-State com merce and for as to bold with the court below, that the same articles, if sent by rail directly to the purchaser, are free from State taxation, but if sent to aa agent to deliver are taxable through a license tax npon the agent, would evidently take a considerable portion of such traffic oat of the saintary protec tion of the iotcr-State commerce clause of the constitution.” IllnWlMwi <Sy.) Mm If your neighbor is prosperous let him prosper. Don't growl, gnmt, or grumble. Say a good word for him and let him go at that. Don’t be a kicker. /Yoor turn will come. No ooe is a whole show. If yon see the town is moving along rapidly feel good about it. Help thing* along. Show a little push. Try to get some of the benefit your self. Don't stand around like a chilly cadaver and waste your time feeling sore because some fellow has mote sense and suc cess than you have. Do a little bustling yourself, and if you can say a good word for your town or its people say it like a prince. If you are fall of bile and disposed to say some thing mean pnt a padlock on your mouth and keep it there till yon can get a hypodermic injection of the milk of human kindness. Don’t be a kicker. No mao ever made a dollar kicking but a professional foot ball player. No man ever got rich minding everybody’s busi ness but his own. No man ever helped himself up permanently Sr kicking his neighbor down. ive others a kindly word and give it liberally and gracefully. It won’t coat yon a penny, and remember, yon may want a good word yourself some day. Yon may have thousands to-day and to-morrow be without the price ™ a suave. uw t De a newer. It doesn't pay. Yoa can’t afford it. Thera is nothing in it. If yon want to throw something at somebody throw cologne and don’t throw mod nr brickbats. If yon moat kick go out behind the bunae nod kick yoorsdf, for if yon fed that way yon am the man that need* kicking. What ever yon do don’t allow yoorsdf to become a chronic kicker. Don’t even have an acute attack. Leteverybody posh together and well all be better and happier and liva longer. Don’t be a kicker. _. Senator George U. Vest, of Miiionri, corrects the statement recently made that be is the on ly surviving member of the Con federate Senate. Augustus 8. Maxwell, of Florida, Who repre sented that State at the Capital in Kuril snood, is still alive at the age of 83 years R«MfcL Baking Powder ItaMrtwkwJ wore bdUM. Safeguards the food against alum. —-jaarCTHaarai-. . HALT PRICE SALK Cwli. t’BtsabJsivtssasag fjs&JSTBUa ■UMIICI COAT*. .q;1!.1 «.■»«— » C«u UKp aaoBMMaam rots. „***»«»**» Pars m k*wd n(. H*r*emtth« price to ImM. ^ AJ-1. YEAGER. A I I Co.. 1.0* tknrn* Williams NOT YET : —“"HBSii Though we are |a not . havlag been aMa am Into our new quarters by this tlaa, still we are not disappointing our customers la bargalaa. The large Stack* of extraordinary ber» g*ia» Id Clothing and Men’s Farnlsklarf* which we laid In far our new qaaitm are on aale at the old ataud. Thoae gooda must move aad they.are msrlag everyday. We hove bargains far aftaed lavtte you to cosm at oace aad^es what ' matchless ottractloao we era nffwlag their geueroespatroaegedevflag the year 1902, end wish them a happy New Ye^. STAND BY THEF^PSTWFBbKjIIS ROMAN, The Clothier. Seme old Stand. Pa vis Btodu__ ■ * BEGIN TKB NEW YEAR RIGHT" * j BY PRESENTING YOURSBU* WITH A !tgtewa«n> Ide«l FounUtoTii No ettor fountain pm oa sank Is worthy to bo Mated on tho aat day «tk a WATERMAN : , s rrro Ail Write.: Poll stock to ftdact frotn at Karthall’s » 0ASTON LA ROOK STOit, 0 ON THB CORNS*. I
Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.)
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